Wereseagulls Scare

Wereseagulls Scare

@redtim.bsky.social

Your friendly neighbourhood seagull enthusiast. Overwhelmed and moderately medicated (He/him)

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ceej
@ceej.online

is being conservative the new “punk rock”? of course not you fuckin dip shit

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KetAnthropic JoshAI
@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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flyingrodent
@flyingrodent.bsky.social

A glaring example here of “if we forever block change for the better to prop up a system people dislike, then guess what kind of change we will get instead”.

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@redtim.bsky.social

So inured am I to historical BBC noncery that I nearly uttered some cursed words there, so I shall proffer an alternative: Are you able to determine, through recognition and extrapolation, the nature of the end result of this project?

Wereseagulls Scare@redtim.bsky.social

Still a work in progress.

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@redtim.bsky.social

I mean, aside from the fact this is a fucking lie, isn't this just the American Dream manifest? This man is describing the elite capitalist class.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Stephen Miller claims Somali-Americans in Minnesota are "buying Mercedes, buying BMWs, they buy a nice house, all their kids fly first class all over the world" (This is a lie!)

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Reflector Lich 📡 🇵🇸
@eccentricks.bsky.social

Replying to @redtim.bsky.social

'Games workshop is bigger than UK fishing' is an exaggeration, but they still definitely qualify as a Big Deal in our economy. @praxiscast.bsky.social and @garethwatkins.bsky.social just covered this.

Podcasting is Praxis@praxiscast.bsky.social

🚨 Grimdark Episode Alert 🚨 @garethwatkins.bsky.social joins us to talk about the boltgun-shaped economy of Britain's last remaining Real Business: Games Workshop. Also the youth gets to work at Big Spoons and that's for sale at bargain prices! FREE: www.patreon.com/praxiscast/p...

patreon.comE458 - Wage of Sigmar ft. Gareth Watkins | Podcasting is PraxisBritain is an economic powerhouse bristling with new ideas, and so we're back to "what if the jobcentre gave companies free labour?" again.
Wereseagulls Scare
@redtim.bsky.social

The future of the UK is reliant on the immediate radicalisation of Henry Cavill.

Wereseagulls Scare@redtim.bsky.social

Yeah, it's like someone (I think Hussein?) posted about how Games Workshop makes significantly more money for the economy than the fishing industry, yet no PM wants to pose with their new band of Ork Boyz when they could be eating a chippy tea and nodding sagely at a man in wellies instead.

Wereseagulls Scare
@redtim.bsky.social

I have taken on a silly amount of personal creative projects atm, and I'm knackered, my worktop is like a bomb site, I've spent... more money than I'd planned, my brain is running on full revs like an old outboard motor held together by duct tape and ADHD meds, but I'm actually really fucking happy.

Wereseagulls Scare
@redtim.bsky.social

Now if someone could pay me a reliable salary to make Tusken Raider masks, record weird fiction spoken word pieces and take photographs of decaying seaside towns I'd be sorted!!

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@redtim.bsky.social

Oh, I'm not even getting into the LLM/sentience discussion. Might as well ask if my Tamagotchi loves me or if the microwave sometimes thinks about that especially delicious-smelling macaroni cheese I reheated once. It's simply not worth considering. To even consider it for debate is insulting.

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Spookably UnAwake
@lamentablyawake.bsky.social

Look Die Hard is a good film, no question. But we should acknowledge the heartwarming ending is a cop recovering his bloodlust and finding it in his heart to kill again.

Wereseagulls Scare
@redtim.bsky.social

Fascinating to actually read some of the information from the report, and the way that the BBC then frames it.

Mark Grimshaw@markgrimshawtism.bsky.social

A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”.

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@redtim.bsky.social

What appears to be the only vaguely substantive piece of evidence to support the BBC's shrieking headline... Followed immediately by the begrudging acknowledgement that the report also states that the data the "true" level of autism is based on is out of date and conclusions can't be drawn from it.

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@redtim.bsky.social

Incredible then, that this is what the BBC leads the article with, rather than the far more pertinent information that people with neurodiversity and mental health conditions have been *massively* let down by successive governments, and that support and reform is vital. Funny, that.

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@redtim.bsky.social

Fascinating to actually read some of the information from the report, and the way that the BBC then frames it.

Mark Grimshaw@markgrimshawtism.bsky.social

A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”.

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@redtim.bsky.social

Difficult not to conclude here that by front loading the idea of "labels harming prospects" the BBC wishes to strongly imply that it's *diagnosis* that is the cause of future difficulties faced by those with autism and ADHD, rather than the conditions themselves and lack of support.

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@redtim.bsky.social

So, let me get this clear. Labour's 17.6% drop in their majority is a "success for their progressive message", whereas Green's 22.4% increase in their vote share and jump from third place to second, almost toppling the incumbent party, is a failure which must be answered for?

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@redtim.bsky.social

Ironically, people claiming that the Greens are reaping the results of "Corbynist infiltration" aren't far off the mark, they just seem to have misunderstood what that means. Let's see what the effect of Corbynism has been on Holborn electorally, shall we?

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@redtim.bsky.social

As an adult diagnosee, whose personal, academic and professional life has been significantly impacted because it was not recognised earlier, I would like to say a loud and hearty "Fuck you" to that odious little shit of a health secretary.

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@redtim.bsky.social

I wouldn't go as far as saying a failure to catch it earlier ruined my life or owt, I do ok, but I do sometimes wonder what differences it might have made. Then I think of kids today going through the same things, especially considering our greater understanding of the condition.