Paul Pod

Getting used to new house noises in the wind... different shaped roof is quite directional, and bed space is up in the pointy bit youtu.be/liQfRcPH9z4

fucking Adobe man, pisstakers

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

You almost have to admire the fact that her thinking is untethered to trivial things like reality

Past Me booked the monday off, after a big old trek up/down to the Lakes and back via Blackpool. Very grateful to Past Me, for this day of pottering. He is cool.

ahhhh.... websites doing the HDR for rollovers and popups? That's a blocking

I guess that's game over for those awful coupon code sites (good) but is there a business model or commercial angle that Google won't throw on the Ai bonfire? (no)

Fascinating Jeremy, now tell us about the time you cut national insurance twice as an electoral game despite knowing we couldn't afford it.

Incredible. I remember a decade or so ago being down near Chelsea on a hot, smoggy day and being very close to choking.

Saw some great work at the Potfest in the pens, Penrith this morning. Beauty in clay, and fire. No ai.

I know we do this like twice a day but this alone is among the most impeachable shit imaginable

ok but this is actually an appropriate way to honor Bacchus and i think the ancients would have agreed

It shouldn’t need to be said that you should not let these things anywhere near a bank account.

Genuinely fascinated by the explosion of modded firmwares for old music gear going on - OP1, CDJs, elektron boxes etc github.com/Lapin/awesom... www.theverge.com/gadgets/1013...

I really need to get their accountant on my books

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Oh no

Discovered today that my new GP in England cannot receive my electronic medical records from Wales. Fucks sake.

A new reason to run an ad blocker! As always, great work by @citizenlab.ca

As a Muslim who has been accused of dual loyalty and asked to denounce everything from ISIS to the Iranian state, I breathed a sigh of relief that I think I’d been holding in for like two decades watching this.

Producer: “Who can we get to represent the views of voters in struggling working class towns?” Researcher: “How about a London born privately educated banjo player who is the son of the billionaire who owns GB News?” Producer: “Perfect!”

*watches car stunt* People are more stupid than i thought. Like two bricks, thick. Wow. Gonna have very dramatically recalibrate.

The #NationalDataGuardian says: "Public and professional trust should be given substantial weight when evaluating any supplier of a system involving people’s health and care data" www.digitalhealth.net/2026/10/data... Quite different from what NHSE decided to put in their parliamentary briefing:

It upsets me that a man who stands accused of saying ‘Hitler was right’ and ‘gas em all’ to Jewish students at his college, who refuses to acknowledge or apologise for this, and more recently has made disparaging comments about ‘globalists’ & George Soros is the Jewish Chronicle’s latest columnist.

Since 1284, the wealth of Wales has been used to enrich English oligarchs, leaving Wales in poverty. And you can see the legacy today: six of the ten poorest boroughs in Britain are in South Wales - and all of them are places that generated massive wealth.

They should of course spend $0 on Claude, just as they should spend $0 on crystal meth.

Yup

One detail from that Apple Thing... this, along with the multiple new screen sizes and layouts on the Two Grand Phone make me very unhappy

4/ bsky.app/profile/jenn...

Having demonstrated successful weaponization, Musk decided to rebrand his product DeathStarLink. "It's much more than an internet service," he explained. #Tesla #SpaceX

Damn it, he's right of course, and unfortunately i realise why my current gig (partially around passkeys) has a definite dystopian vibe to it. Buggger.

Not ideal

A fifth passenger plane has issued a distress signal in the skies over Europe- reports

Quite odd reading a medical research paper covering longevity, survival rates, risk, etc when you are in the data.

Thought these weren't even yours? So they are now?

I assume the second question Andy asked when entering Downing street was if the Russians had interfered with Boris Johnson

Man who enobled a KGB agent's son... despite SIS raising concerns... says what?

Oh FFS!! Stop regurgitating press releases from AI companies and taking their claims as gospel!! Validate their claims! Yes IoT devices are insecure but can they run an AI model? Probably no. Do they retain persistence? No. Will criminals use AI models over current scripts, e.g. Mirai? No.

Blow up some more, it might make the world a better place for a long time

Might end up having my "your agile process is to deliver working software, not slice up design into meaningless tickets" rant this sprint

the caption that tells you everything you need to know

Errr.... right, so UK is having to find more money for defence against Russia... by cutting funding for heat pumps that get us off gas... thereby keeping us dependent on an energy commodity *weaponised* by Russia & international conflict. Smart thinking guys www.theguardian.com/environment/...