LiberalDespot

LiberalDespot

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Likes Photography, Italy, Whisky, The Magnetic Fields, Autonomy, Glasgow, &c Je voudrais, et ce sera le dernier et le plus ardent de mes souhaits, je voudrais que le dernier des rois fût étranglé avec les boyaux du dernier prêtre. Glasgow, Yr Hen Ogledd

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LiberalDespot
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Grumpy old man rant of the day: I hate how capitalism trades on ignorance. Boots Pharmacy: At eye level £17 for 500ml branded Gaviscon. On the very lowest, hard to see, bottom shelf, an identical product for £6.90 (two for £9.35!)

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Private Eye Magazine
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Since his ennoblement in Boris Johnson’s 2023 resignation list, Tees Valley regional mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen has claimed more than £25,000 in tax-free daily “attendance” allowances from the House of Lords for 73 days when he hasn’t voted, spoken or performed any recorded parliamentary activity.

LiberalDespot
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I know people who don't because they assume their less-prepared neighbours would just come and take it.

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social

Finding some of the reaction on here to the 'stockpiling' stuff a bit odd. The Russians successfully firebombed the last prime minister's house! There was a cyberattack on a French supermarket a few weeks ago!

LiberalDespot
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Things I have inadvertently stockpiled: - lentils - beans - trays - tins of Mutti tonatoes - toothbrush heads So, mostly useful...

Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵@threadinburgh.scot

Things I have inadvertently stockpiled: 🛍️ iKEA blue bags 🪢 Cable ties 📚 Copies of The Streetnames of Edinburgh by Stuart Harris

LiberalDespot
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Made the mistake of giving The Uprising (set in 1381) a go. After 15 mins I couldn't take any more random Tudor costumes, 18thC windows or wall monuments with 19thC dates on them...

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Land of the Free (Transmission of Diseases).

ProPublica@propublica.org

7/ Price also told us she has never set foot on the property. "They're a very private bunch," she said. So last Saturday, we tracked down two of the farm’s workers ourselves. One had a visibly red eye — a symptom present in over 90% of bird flu cases in humans.

LiberalDespot
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It's flapping a bit round the edges, but the ring itself is intact. Not bad for a Glasgow Saturday night out... #stormboelo

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Radio 4 PM again. I don't know who the Friday presenter is these days but she's really unpleasant, interruptive and sneery.

LiberalDespot
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Detail of the Boxer at Rest. Hellenistic Bronze of the 4th century BC. Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome. May 2016. #Rome #Photography

LiberalDespot
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The torch and head of the Statue of Liberty, on display in the USA in the 1880s. Bertholdi completed them to form part of fundraising for its completion. Scottish connection: The island the statue stands on was the summer residence of Archibald Kennedy, 11th Earl of Cassilis. #photography #history

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Tuatha
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When it comes to archaeological landscapes, there are few places in Ireland that can compare to Rathcroghan, County Roscommon, the ancient royal capital of Connacht. At the centre of this image you can see the enormous earthwork enclosure known as Relignaree (Reilig na Rí – the graveyard of Kings).

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Jason Koebler
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

wrote about "Black October," the PHP vulnerability, and the AI-fueled dread and panic I'm seeing among almost all of the cybersecurity experts I've ever known. I think people w/ LLMs are brute forcing software the same way they brute forced social media w/ slop www.404media.co/php2shell-bl...

404media.coAI Is Changing Everything About Hacking. No One Knows What Happens Next'Black October:' The PHP vulnerabilities and a series of other hacks and bugs have cybersecurity experts freaking out and unsure what happens next.