CJ Bill

Don't know what it is but it has 532 hit points and ranged attacks.

Slightly unexpected turn of events. I registered for StackConnect Manchester intending to go along, listen to some test people talking and drink too much conference coffee. BrowserStack then asked if I’d like to be a speaker. So apparently I’m going to be one of the interesting people!

In other news the lad and I are now booked in for Dune 3 at the IMAX before Christmas.

When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. For a lot of people AI is their hammer so they try to use it for every problem. It can certainly be useful but it's only one tool. I blame big hammer.

Blowing a hoolie out there

Another blog post for all my tester colleagues out there... bill-watson.co.uk/2026/10/23/t...

Richard Tice thinks ITV should be investigated for their undercover report. I agree! ITV should follow Reform's lead and investigate themselves. After which I'm sure they will be cleared of any wrongdoing.

I liked Eric Idle on Cleese “Age is a difficult thing... you either become old and better, or old and bitter … A young man parroting an old man being grumpy is funny,” Idle says. “But just turning into a grumpy old man, that’s less funny, isn’t it?”" lnkd.in/etbhr_eN

Beware of anti-woke campaigners’ attack playbook www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/bewa...

Really disappointed with Tom Watson, really disappointed

This is brilliant! And so true! 😂 💀💀💀 A Norwegian consumer protection video about the inbuilt redundancy of so many modern products and apps.

This is so very funny youtu.be/SHUvSffmLIQ?...

"Sleeper cells smuggled in in small boats I tell you, sleeper cells!" "Oh, British nationals? Must be second generation immigrants not integrating." Let out on bail? Er..... got it! "Bloody labour, soft on criminals"

For those of you in the test community my latest blog on evaluating AI for test creation is up... and wow, does bsky not like the graphic there! Someone should raise a ticket. bill-watson.co.uk/2026/09/18/m...

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

This is worth reading.. darioamodei.com/post/we-must...

For those in the testing community I've started a blog series based on a study I've been running of late. lnkd.in/p/eS-HTcky

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

On BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze tonight: “Slavery - Right or Wrong?” Some people say it’s morally wrong. On the other hand, it makes a tonne of money. On the panel: Edward Colston, King Leopold II, Tommy Robinson and Matt Goodwin. Join us as we discuss one of the great moral dilemmas of the day.

this story is batshit Here is the full article, which includes all prompts, trial transcripts, the report itself. The firm hired charged more than $80,000 for the report. Also shows that AI transcripts can be discoverable and can be very revealing: www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...

@gilduran.com got my copy here courtesy of The Guardian bookshop. Bedtime reading and you can be sure I'll be recommending it and and discussing it with anyone who will listen

I've got my copy, strongly recommend anyone who works in or is interested in tech or politics or just living in a livable world to get it as well

It's me, a Telegraph columnist, taking a break screaming bloody murder about fairness in the women's sports I wouldn't be caught dead watching to wax lyrical about academic integrity in sociology, a field I consider to be fake, at institutions I consider to be communist indoctrination centers.

Well said, Count Binface 👏

It's Clacton by-election day. Or, if you prefer, Farage-Commons-standards-inquiry-reopening-eve.

Maldives sounds nice

‘A delivery was attempted today.’ From the new Private Eye, out now.

I think punk was basically politically fine until any of its participants got on the property ladder, a path which leads directly to Julie Birchall

To hell with Musk and his Grok Odyssey remake, I'm doing it with fruit

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

Om

Whelp everyone is out so I have a rare evening alone. Just me, a bottle of red, very ripe camembert and The Sentinels on the tv

Zanny Minton Beddoes, "You say things like: civil war in Britain is inevitable" Elon Musk, "On the current trends, yes" ZMD, "I live there, that is not true.. London is a much safer city than any city in the US"

Looking forward to watching the hit new Elon Musk Grok Odyssey Movie in the middle of a Mars river in my fully aquatic and self-driving Cybertruck having paid for the ticket via my bank account on X, the Everything App, as I marvel at the post-DOGE balanced US federal budget.

Yes that's how jobs work. Equally we could say "Journalist Codie Bullen was paid to write this Daily Mail 'shameless' anti-BBC propaganda"

I see it now.

Time to add crimes against fashion to the list of charges.

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Early morning press conference at the Whitehouse.

Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago! From West Tofts, Norfolk 📷 MAA Cambridge University collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/4509... #Archaeology

new metaphor just dropped

Just as a point of fact here, from Manchester you can see both the West Pennines and the Peaks.