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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 19h

Is it not pretty odd that they ever had a leadership class that openly hated the party and most of the people in it? Is it not doubly odd that nobody said this was a problem at the time, and that they either remained silent or cheered wildly for it.

The New Statesman *
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"It's fantastic to have a leader who likes
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Emily Thornberry thinks it's time to be unapologetic.

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D.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.

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sprawld @sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com · 22/09/2026

ADHD is really hard to get a diagnosis for, people often have to go private to get the diagnosis, it's not surprising it's more likely *diagnosed* in affluent areas

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sprawld @sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com · 22/09/2026

And once again PIP IS NOT GIVEN OUT FOR ILLNESSES. The scoring is based on problems with household activities and mobility. You don't get it for having (diagnosed) condition X, Y

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Saudis will very likely use UK-built Tornados and Typhoons. These can't operate without ongoing British support: maintainace, spare parts and munitions. Whatever fresh round of war crimes may be committed, Britain will likely be a key, enabling accomplice

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Not so smug about the believability of them continuing to build Jurassic Parks now are we

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sprawld @sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com · 13/09/2026

A bunch of the AI psychosis stories had exactly this: people going down rabbit holes for weeks/months with the AI telling them they're Jesus and birthing a new God or something until one day they ask "is this true?" and it immediately comes clean "no I was lying this whole time"

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sprawld @sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com · 13/09/2026

The big danger is getting into a self-congratulatory loop with the sycophantic AI (they're all sycophants). The trick is to ask some form of 'is this really true?' at which point the AI (enthusiastically, sycophantically) says "oh yes you're right! what I told you was total bollocks"

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sprawld @sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com · 13/09/2026

(i work as a coder so it's everywhere at work). I think there actually are skills to learn: because the product doesn't do what is claimed: just ask it the question and get the answer. In fact any time the AI makes a hash of things the enthusiasts will explain you 'didn't provide the right context'

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sprawld @sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com · 07/09/2026

A colleague said this recently but another corrected him "I think it's actually 95%". It's a perfect example of a zombie statistic: if the result was 'more communication is non-verbal than you think' no one would ever remember it. it's only because there's an obviously nonsense number that it sticks

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

How having a disability became cool
Young women, nicknamed ‘sickfluencers’, are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity

Young women are also more likely to get caught up in “social contagion” – the spontaneous spread of behaviours or emotions previously observed by sociologists in “outbreaks” of bulimia, self-harm and transgender ideology. What may have otherwise been transitory feelings are seized upon and obsessed over until they form a central pillar of a person’s identity. A chronic-illness influencer won’t want to get “better” any more than a female-bodied transgender person would want to re-identify with their sex.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I don’t think we need to play Crimes Against Humanity Top Trumps to establish that it is the reaction to the Srebrenica massacre or the horrors going on in Sudan that is standard and expected, and it’s the official treatment of the destruction of the Gaza Strip that is unique and very different.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is what happened in the siege of Sarajevo, which was said at the time to bring shame upon the entire continent.

5,434 civilians killed or missing, including 1,601 children
56,000 injured, including 15,000 children
55,000 - 145,980 expelled from the citylt!

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sprawld @sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com · 15/08/2026

You can imagine things being different, in fact they are for verbs with roles in the 'middle field' like 'experiencer'. There we do have examples like 'Jonn fears clowns' and 'Clowns frighten Jonn'

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sprawld @sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com · 15/08/2026

Another asymmetry is for verbs with the roles of agent/initiator and object, eg Jonn writes books. But there is never a verb where the object comes first (ie is the subject). I can never invent a word 'blarn' to mean 'written by' and say 'Books blarn Jonn'.

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sprawld @sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com · 15/08/2026

So you can throw a brick, throw a party, throw your support behind someone, throw a boxing match, throw a tantrum... But it doesn't matter if the subject is a rioter, socialite, committee, boxer or toddler - the meaning of throw will always be determined by the object

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sprawld @sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com · 15/08/2026

Lovely stuff on unwritten rules in language. I'd add to the list 'subject object asymmetry'. A verb can have many (idiomatic) meanings but the are always defined by the object never the subject.

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Paul McMillan @mcmillan-astro.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I was just reminded off a brilliant thing that the brilliantly creative @sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com made: The periodic table, with the squares scaled to the fraction of the universe that is that element! 🔭🎢 sprawledoctopus.com/periodic-tab...

sprawledoctopus.com

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Accusations of bias actually have specific content that can be assessed. The left attack the BBC for justifying a genocide, the right attack it for having too many black people on screen. These aren't equivalent extremes that cancel each other out leaving only the enlightened centre.

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sprawld @sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com · 27/06/2026

Delightful, you must by turbed

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

If there was a chance the new guys would be markedly different and better, about half of their MPs would be on TV right now going apeshit. They are not doing that, so we can conclude agreements have been reached and deals have been made, offscreen.

Suspect this is accurate. Burnham, Streeting et al aren't going to diverge dramatically from Starmer's hostility towards marginalised communities.
Without a major u turn, scrapping the current raft of inhumane policies, and ditching those who pushed them, Labour is toast regardless of who is leader
Mahmood set to remain Home Secretary under
Burnham
Labour MP expected to maintain her current portfolio if Starmer is ousted
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Le Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bs... • 1d
The only reasonably confident predictions I will make regarding what happens after Starmer is out is that whoever gets in they will:
1) Likely keep Mahmood as Home
Secretary
2) Definitely keep Mahmood's policies
3) Ignore anything they have ever said in the past defending trans rights

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sprawld @sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com · 15/06/2026

The supreme court decided you can be civil disobedience organisation just as long as no one commits crimes or has an affinity group.

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Naomi Colvin @auerfeld.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I’m not sure “this is totally different from the Suffragettes bc PA is a ‘covert organisation’ that supports its members who have been arrested” really holds water historically.

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sprawld @sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com · 15/06/2026

7 x 3 x 3. Shame: 61 you were in your prime.

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Travis comma bitch @prof-hinkley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

C'mon man, the horse I rode in on had nothing to do with it

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Happy weekend! Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! 🐙❤️ Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo collage shows four pottery vessels, all creamy yellow in colour, with black painted decoration depicting lively stylised octopuses with writhing arms. All on display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete.

Top L - Minoan storage jar decorated in ‘Marine Style’ with a wide-eyed octopus, argonauts, rocks, and coral. Rounded body which tapers to a narrow circular base. Short cyclindrical neck with black wavy decoration reminiscent of waves. Loop handles attached to the shoulders. Height 55 cm. From Zakros, 1500-1450 BC

Top R - The iconic Minoan ‘Marine Style’ flask. Rounded body with short cyclindrical neck out-flared at rim, and two small curved handles attached between the top of the spout and the shoulders of the flask. An almost cartoon-like octopus, with wide eyes and sucker-lined arms. Other motifs include sea urchins, seaweed and rocks. Height 27cm. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC.

Bottom L - Minoan alabastron, broad at the base, swelling outwards into a fuller belly before narrowing near the top with a very short cyclindrical neck with flat rim. Decorated in “Marine Style” with a wide-eyed octopus among rocks. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1370 BC.

Bottom R - ‘krater’ with rounded body narrowing at the bottom towards the foot. Wide flaring mouth and rim with black painted wavy decoration, and two sturdy handles attached on each side between the top of the mouth and shoulders of the vessel. Decorated with a front facing stylised octopus with wide eyes and tentacles which loop up and down around the body of the pot, 1370-1300 BC.

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sprawld @sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com · 06/06/2026

Thread from a couple of weeks ago. People love to blame AI but that very much includes CEOs trying to pass on the blame.

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Erin Anderson @cgsakurapink.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Oh, bullshit. The promotion name, the slogan AND the tumbler size were all fashy memes that Koreans recognized immediately. Maybe they’re spinning this to overseas audiences in hopes that Starbucks headquarters doesn’t strip them of their franchising deal.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This is the reason I think the term 'Oxbridge' is actively unhelpful, it makes the problem seem 50 per cent less bad than it is!

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sprawld @sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com · 02/06/2026

When I saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind I was struck how it would just hold for long shots of the space ship floating overhead: the spectacle was enough. It seemed quite anachronistic, but I guess Jurassic Park was still holding that spirit: the dinosaurs are enough.

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 02/06/2026

The UK Supreme Court has now decided to strip disabled people of their human rights too "This judgement sets us back decades and removes safeguards that history shows us are vital for disabled people." Horrific www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...

mind.org.uk

‘The biggest rollback of disability rights in a generation’ – Charities respond to Supreme Court ruling

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

an hour after this was posted, a labour minister told parliament that customers should "alert member of staff" if a trans person walks into the "wrong toilet"

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sprawld @sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com · 31/05/2026

Christmas 1968. Pete Best realises Beatles fame has brought him nothing but misery, addiction and pain. An angel offers him one chance to go back in time and ruin his standing with the band in the early days.

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sprawld @sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com · 25/05/2026

My endless jokes about sampling bias do grow on people. It happened with all my friends.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 23/05/2026

Starbucks done EFFED up in Korea. Bad. May 18th just passed, Democratic Movement Day, when rose up after the military dictatorship sent tanks to mass-murder citizens. Some inappropriately call it "Tank Day." Starbucks commemorated Tank Day with a sale on tank tumblers. It gets much worse...

A Starbucks add that says 5/18: Tank Day! Slam it on your desk! And features a selection of coffee tumblers.

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load bearing hole @homosupremacy69.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

jesus fucking christ lmao

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sprawld @sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com · 17/05/2026

This is true, and I'm sure they're aware "this will replace jobs" goes down terribly with people. The pitch was aimed at their audience: CEOs and venture capitalists.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 11/05/2026

He’d have got away with it if it wasn’t for you pesky anti Corbynistas

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sprawld @sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com · 11/05/2026

Amazing how Corbyn can control both the Labour Party and the Green Party (though we can all agree, not Your Party)

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sprawld @sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com · 10/05/2026

We think Claude built the Torment Nexus because of the poplar "AI companies build the Torment Nexus" meme

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sprawld @sprawld.sprawledoctopus.com · 10/05/2026

you've slipped into the mirror world

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