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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 19h

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 19h

The two are not mutually exclusive.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No surprise. It's where a lot of the Corbyn crowd went after he was ousted. Same people, different party. The ideological equivalent of SSDD.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As former head of Google's EMEA business and operations, and a Google employee since 2007, of course he'd support AI. Had a low opinion of him since his appearances before the Public Accounts Committee back in 2012, defending Google paying almost no corporation tax. Expect more AI shit from the BBC

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think a suitable punishment would be to strap them in a chair with PIL's Order of Death played on endless repeat.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula

Tom Hiddleston as Adam, a vampire from Jim Jarmusch's 2013 film "Only Lovers Left Alive"

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For Farage to have been warning within Parliament for months he'd first have to actually be attending in the first place.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

He hasn't been in Parliament enough to have offered any warnings this year.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

New build starter homes? That's optimistic. In fact the whole policy is optimism over reality. So Burnham believes this will give builders the "confidence to deliver the high-quality new homes the country needs". I've got a bridge he can buy...

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Culturally ignorant. Though I can well believe that he's in favour of slavery, treating women as chattels, significant Greek influences, and polytheism amongst others. Credit to their engineering and science though, but I don't think that's what he meant.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ah, Nick Buckley. A charity worker who displays distinctly uncharitable attitudes towards many less fortunate. A classic example of the ongoing devaluation of the honours system. Never knowingly right, but always Right.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Argh. I'd forgotten Owen was still a thing. And still as cataclysmically wrongheaded as ever.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh, they're charging him with not giving them his Phone PIN. Under the circumstances, that charge under RIPA could really be painful. If they use the National Security angle that'd be a custodial of up to 5 years.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It would have been braver still if he'd played ELP's version 🤣🤣

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Don't forget the "legitimate concerns" angle that keeps being trotted out 🙄

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That'd be the PoS that he was going to manufacture in Wales until he decided that rather than support British industry like the patriot he claims to be he'd instead make it in France.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My son says exactly the same. Opportunities are virtually zero, and these people should be a future. Instead of which there seems more concern over 400 workers from a dying industry. Madness.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

2023 - 2024 almost 4,000 roles cut. 2024 - 2025 over 13,000 roles cut. 2025 - 2026 15,000 cuts proposed 2026 - 2027 I dread to think Son is just finishing his PhD at Lincoln Uni, where the sciences have been decimated, with School of Chemistry amongst those closing.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'd agree with "consequential", but to label his term in office as very good relies upon glasses so rose-tinted as to be completely opaque. Repeated top-down changes causing cycles of admin confusion; cancelling "Building Schools for the Future"; alienating every union. All these are "very good"?

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It was one of many dealbreakers for me, too many to mention, but anyone who looked at that and still voted Leave definitely fitted either or (in a lot of cases) both categories.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Fully understand" is key. I use AI tools to generate JSON parsers. I understand how to do it, but the tool will do it quicker and I can review the tool's output. A torque wrench is more accurate than tightening a nut by feel, but if you don't understand why you use one then get away from my car.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Let's not forget the way he switched production of the Ineos Grenadier 4x4 from Wales to France.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's Matthew Syed so undoubtedly. Would betting a fiver that he mentions Popper at some point be the safe bet I think it is?

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

[Video background of test spacecraft crashing] Mitch McConnell, Senator, a man barely alive.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Reading the posts left me nodding wisely in agreement with Einstein regarding the Universe and human stupidity. I don't think AI will be the death of the species, it'll be too many people like hailey.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My understanding is that the latest proposed amendments (July 2026) to the Representation of the People Bill reference the Rycroft Review findings and would backdate to March 2026. That would cap both donations at £100k commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

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Representation of the People Bill: progress of the bill

This briefing tracks the progress of the bill to introduce votes at 16, automatic voter registration, tighten the rules on political donations and allow bank cards to be used as voter ID.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Or both. Malicious actors capitalising on innocent tin-foilers.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Theoretically, yes, the market is liberalised as there are numerous providers. In reality when it comes to billing practices it feels more like a cartel.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Privatisation for you. In addition to the MML, it took 21 years to electrify GWR from London to Cardiff, and places like Oxford, Bristol Temple Meads, Exeter/Plymouth and Swansea not even planned. Likewise ECML to Hull, Aberdeen and Inverness not planned.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Currently just 38% of the UK rail network is electrified. To hit targets we'd need to electrify 500km/year between now and 2050, but currently manage barely 200km/yr. That target isn't even 100%. And not just branch lines, MML electrification from Wigston to Sheffield (137km) may never happen.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Most of the dystopias I was reading a decade or so ago were more coherent and less bleak than the one we're actually living through...

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'd take brain slugs (aka puppet masters) over brain worms (which the world currently seems afflicted by) every time.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Pretty sure they weren't threatened with criminal prosecution, just denied access by relevant harbour authorities.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My memory says 18 addresses from switch to the program counter each followed by depositing an instruction. 12 switch settings for each. The addresses used to be fairly easy, mostly incrementing by 1, but the instructions... My memory could be leading me astray, it was over 40 years ago...

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Indeed. I remember thinking 16K was massive. Reminds me of when I got my first 1GB hard drive, a Digital DSP3105, the first 1GB drive available in the UK for less than £1/MB. I stared at the empty space and thought I'll never fill that... 🤣

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Blimey. I used to be able to load the RIM through the front panel on a PDP/8e. Sadly it's been so long now that even muscle memory has gone.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

ZX81 followed by a 48K Spectrum, then a Memotech MTX512 with Pascal ROM, with an Atari 1040STF with mono monitor being the last hurrah before various beige PC

Picture of 4 home computers; a ZX81 with 16K RAM Pack, a 48K ZX Spectrum, a Memotech MTX512 and and Atari 1040STF with monochrome monitor

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I hope so. Ritchie's film exaggerated some aspects, especially the action elements - it wouldn't be a Ritchie film otherwise - but on the whole was fairly faithful to the intent of Postmaster. I worry that Fortitude will play up too much to Popov as a proto-Bond, and I say that as a Cage fan 😎

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Genuinely trying to work out how I feel about this. One the one hand it looks like bonkers fun, and on the other hand I've read a lot about both Fortitude (North and South) in isolation and as part of Operation Bodyguard and fear (based on that trailer admittedly) Hollywood bastardisation.

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

40 year old (plus) Irish Mk III coaches with second hand Greater Anglia bogie, pulled by glamourous Class 66s. No amount of fancy décor would make it worth 12 grand for sure...

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's an edit, probably AI, of a Time cover from 1948 showing Harvard's ranking of US Presidents...

Time Magazine cover from 1948 showing Harvard's ranking of US Presidents

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Clive Summerfield @uktoday.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Even a fly-on-the-wall documentary of James Milner would be more interesting...

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