Abelian
@abelian.bsky.social
Trying to commute less these days.
DMs turned off because of the UK censors.
DMs turned off because of the UK censors.
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The children have suffered enough with this monstrosity
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The children have suffered enough with this monstrosity
Sorry, but I don't care enough about the BBC to actually watch it. Every time I turned it on, there was Farage, so I turned it off. When we moved house, I cancelled the licence and put the TV away. They send me threatening letters, but I really don't miss the Nazi bar at all.
If you care about the BBC, stand up and defend it: this could be the beginning of the end | Polly Toynbee
If you care about the BBC, stand up and defend it: this could be the beginning of the end | Polly Toynbee
Replacing the TV licence with a means-tested alternative may help disarm the right of one of its most effective weapons, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Sorry, but I don't care enough about the BBC to actually watch it. Every time I turned it on, there was Farage, so I turned it off. When we moved house, I cancelled the licence and put the TV away. They send me threatening letters, but I really don't miss the Nazi bar at all.
This is not a strategy that works well when you're coming third with 11% of the vote.
Yes: the plan is to lock the cabin door then fly the plane into the mountainside and if it somehow ends up with Prime Minister Farage, then tell the public it could never have been different. Also, fuck you.
November 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This is not a strategy that works well when you're coming third with 11% of the vote.
Well, this one is going to bugger up the line of succession to the throne, isn't it?
Ant Middleton wants people to be here four generations before they can be equal citizens + eligible for high office. (Quite a convoluted way to deliver aim of ruling most black & Asian people out)
But Middleton may have lost his mainstream reputation (with Reform unable to back him for London Mayor)
But Middleton may have lost his mainstream reputation (with Reform unable to back him for London Mayor)
November 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Well, this one is going to bugger up the line of succession to the throne, isn't it?
The latest from the front lines of Elon's civil war: someone was ignored by a shop assistant.
October 31, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The latest from the front lines of Elon's civil war: someone was ignored by a shop assistant.
"Some"
They aren't even trying to quantify the damage they are causing.
They aren't even trying to quantify the damage they are causing.
Ofcom letter to Parliamentary committees (Commons SITC and Lords Comms Com) with an update on implementation of the UK's Online Safety Act committees.parliament.uk/publications...
It's not censorship if we can badger them into doing it for us
It's not censorship if we can badger them into doing it for us
October 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
"Some"
They aren't even trying to quantify the damage they are causing.
They aren't even trying to quantify the damage they are causing.
This is the reverse of the truth. Done right, restoring trust in the state could enable digital ID. But that would require the government to be trustworthy, so we'll have to do it back to front.
'Done right, digital ID could restore trust in the state' argues Dan Howl
‘Done right, digital ID could restore trust in the state’ – LabourList
Trust is the lifeblood of any modern democracy, and the foundation of every successful digital system. And so, in the case of Digital ID, Government…
labourlist.org
October 9, 2025 at 7:45 AM
This is the reverse of the truth. Done right, restoring trust in the state could enable digital ID. But that would require the government to be trustworthy, so we'll have to do it back to front.
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"this column has described insights from complexity science ranging from the economics of solar panels to how to prevent a housing bubble. All this suggests the problem economics faces isn’t that it is too mathematical, but that the mathematics it has used is needlessly narrow."
@timharford.ft.com
@timharford.ft.com
The wrong kind of maths
Why the mathematics used in economics for decades needs a rethink
on.ft.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:48 AM
"this column has described insights from complexity science ranging from the economics of solar panels to how to prevent a housing bubble. All this suggests the problem economics faces isn’t that it is too mathematical, but that the mathematics it has used is needlessly narrow."
@timharford.ft.com
@timharford.ft.com
His what?
Starmer has avoided state-visit bear traps but has he changed any of Trump’s thinking?
Starmer has avoided state-visit bear traps but has he changed any of Trump’s thinking?
PM cannot afford for US president to walk away from Ukraine crisis and must persuade him to publicly support specific Gaza plans
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:39 AM
His what?
This is what real malicious communications look like.
Well, it’s two years since I shared this profoundly upsetting image, so I guess today is now officially Sultry Brandreth Day
Just been reminded of this photo of Gyles Brandreth wearing this sweater and what appears to be “it’s sexy time” face, and felt I should share
September 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM
This is what real malicious communications look like.
I've been thinking about the first time I saw a 1GB hard drive, which held the research data for a whole university department, back in about 1990.
In other news, I have just installed a 256GB storage card in my doorbell.
In other news, I have just installed a 256GB storage card in my doorbell.
September 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I've been thinking about the first time I saw a 1GB hard drive, which held the research data for a whole university department, back in about 1990.
In other news, I have just installed a 256GB storage card in my doorbell.
In other news, I have just installed a 256GB storage card in my doorbell.
Fortunately no e-scooters were involved, or someone might have had to do something about this:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Car crashes into stone bus shelter on Cirencester Road
The car crashed into the shelter at the weekend but the three occupants were unhurt.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Fortunately no e-scooters were involved, or someone might have had to do something about this:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Spare a thought this weekend for the Labour backbenchers, who found out again this week that their party deems them less fit for high office than Peter Kyle.
September 7, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Spare a thought this weekend for the Labour backbenchers, who found out again this week that their party deems them less fit for high office than Peter Kyle.
Trying some Canadian whiskey. Tasting notes on Reddit are blocked (Online Safety Act). According to Peter Kyle, using a VPN would make me Literally Jimmy Savile, so you will be pleased to hear that I just read the notes on one of the hundreds of other whiskey tasting sites out there.
September 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Trying some Canadian whiskey. Tasting notes on Reddit are blocked (Online Safety Act). According to Peter Kyle, using a VPN would make me Literally Jimmy Savile, so you will be pleased to hear that I just read the notes on one of the hundreds of other whiskey tasting sites out there.
I'm sure this is perfectly safe and can be fixed by banning floating bus stops.
September 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I'm sure this is perfectly safe and can be fixed by banning floating bus stops.
Poo Sticks (The Cows at Poo Sauna, 1928)
August 22, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Poo Sticks (The Cows at Poo Sauna, 1928)
Can you imagine being a civil servant who has to work every day with this level of boneheaded ministerial stupidity?
UK government asks everybody to stop using VPNs.
"everybody who's out there thinking of using VPNs...verifying your age keeps a child safe...So let's just not try and find a way around. Just prove your age."
- UK government
"everybody who's out there thinking of using VPNs...verifying your age keeps a child safe...So let's just not try and find a way around. Just prove your age."
- UK government
August 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Can you imagine being a civil servant who has to work every day with this level of boneheaded ministerial stupidity?
It seems like only last month that Whitehall was trying to recruit some people with basic STEM skills ("elite tech talent"), and people on here were telling me that it was all unnecessary and that numeracy is overrated in government.
I ran the numbers on the UK government's recommendation to delete old photos and emails to save water in data centers andymasley.substack.com/p/contra-the...
August 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It seems like only last month that Whitehall was trying to recruit some people with basic STEM skills ("elite tech talent"), and people on here were telling me that it was all unnecessary and that numeracy is overrated in government.
It has been a month since the floating bus stop debate, in which MPs highlighted the deadly dangers posed to bus passengers by bicycles. By my count nine motor vehicles have crashed into bus stops since then, with at least two casualties, and zero debates about them in Parliament.
August 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
It has been a month since the floating bus stop debate, in which MPs highlighted the deadly dangers posed to bus passengers by bicycles. By my count nine motor vehicles have crashed into bus stops since then, with at least two casualties, and zero debates about them in Parliament.
The Hamster Forum is back, and raising money for hosting and to defray the costs of the Online Safety Act. If you want to help offset the Labour government's insane hatred of hamster care, you know what to do.
www.thehamsterforum.com/ams/annual-d...
www.thehamsterforum.com/ams/annual-d...
Annual donations request
Here is our annual request for donations! This site is owner funded, supported by donations mainly. Each year, members are kind enough to donate towards the running costs. This is entirely voluntar...
www.thehamsterforum.com
August 9, 2025 at 7:10 AM
The Hamster Forum is back, and raising money for hosting and to defray the costs of the Online Safety Act. If you want to help offset the Labour government's insane hatred of hamster care, you know what to do.
www.thehamsterforum.com/ams/annual-d...
www.thehamsterforum.com/ams/annual-d...
Thankfully this didn't involve a bicycle, so it doesn't count.
www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aber...
www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aber...
Hunt for driver who fled scene of Aberdeen car crash
No one required hospital treatment following the crash.
www.pressandjournal.co.uk
August 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Thankfully this didn't involve a bicycle, so it doesn't count.
www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aber...
www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aber...