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Pete Birkinshaw

@binaryape.bsky.social

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Hat-wearing devourer of chickpeas, Manchester vegan, manager of identities, developer of obscure software, Green inactivist, Elixir & Ruby coder, watcher of K-dramas, daft-apeth. Alignment: Quixotic-Good https://binary-ape.org

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · Jul 30

I'm going to list Korean romcoms I've watched so far [copied from my old thread elsewhere]

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 4m

The applies to so much more than books, too.

Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 9m

Whichever editor used "race debate" as a polite middle class euphemism for racism in the headline (because I'm pretty sure it wasn't the article's writer) needs to be fired so they can go work for The Spectator where they belong

Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 56m

"Over the past decade, 110,000 new homes were built in the highest risk flood zones" This feels a lot like the cladding scandal

Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 1h

Yet another wake up call about the scale & cost of #climate risk. That’s why we urgently need a National Climate Resilience Plan with emphasis on local funding, nature based solutions & community resilience - pls sign & share petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 2h

There's no such thing as cheap meat, part 94

WHO @who.int · 2h

🚨Drug-resistant bacteria are becoming more dangerous.

Life-saving antibiotics are losing effectiveness, increasing infection risks & limiting treatment options.

Some resistant infections can only be treated with antibiotics that are costly, difficult to access, & often unavailable 👉 bit.ly/438Ta1u

Infographic images of various antibiotic pills. The text reads:
“Common infections now often require stronger, more expensive antibiotics.
In 2023:
1 in 3 urinary tract infections
1 in 15 gastrointestinal infections
1 in 6 bloodstream infections
…were resistant to antibiotics.”

The design uses orange and black text on a light blue background with pill icons illustrating the statistics.

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Birmingham Green Party @brumgreens.bsky.social · 4h

Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs would have killed the Labour party at birth.
The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social on point as ever.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 2h

But it has no concept of truth. It cannot stop itself inventing.

Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 3h

Master of Sun, which is leaving Netflix soon. Quite old, but by Hong Sisters. Odd, but good.

Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 20h

Yes, and in Norman French the final t was pronounced. It was part of English before what you think of as French or English existed. What’s happened is called en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfo...

Hyperforeignism - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 23h

Pipkins was on ITV and I had One Of Those Anti ITV Parents so I didn't really see it until I was older, and by then it was disturbing

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umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 1d

Fiction meats reality:

"Markets were rattled in August after researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said that 95% of firms surveyed have not seen returns on investments into generative AI."

They will improve yes, but by how much?

AI Promises Productivity. It's Delivering ‘Workslop’

Most of us have encountered “AI slop,” the deluge of low-quality content produced by generative artificial intelligence tools that has inundated the internet. But is this computer-made hogwash taking ...

www.bloomberg.com

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 23h

Definitely one of the lesser hauntings of The Haunted Generation. Nothing like The Pipkins Horror though

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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 1d

Little lungs are paying for #Dieselgate every day. This morning we gathered at the Royal Courts of Justice on day one of the biggest ever group claim trial in English legal history. It’s time the car manufacturers paid. #AirPollution #Health

A group of people stand outside the Royal Courts of Justice on day one of the Dieselgate Pan NOx emissions trial. A pink banner says “Diesel damages little lungs” and a white banner says “Diesel makes kids sick”.

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 1d

I thought the completely off-topic whine about people not liking Musk was rather revealing

Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 1d

That's surprising!

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 1d

I remember the finger songwriter

The man from 'Fingerbobs', an ancient TV programme about singing and finger puppets.

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 1d

The risk factors for me were genetics, Volkswagen's fraud and Andy Burnham's cowardice

Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 1d

So, maybe some compensation for the car purchasers from these evil liars but not for the people outside their cars who were breathing it and who maybe have had early heart attacks, etc (yes I'm taking this personally now)

'Dieselgate': Five carmakers go on trial over emissions cheat claims

The trial is the latest chapter of what has become known as the

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

It’s been more than a decade since we learned that car manufacturers like Mercedes and VW were using ‘cheat devices’.

In that time thousands have died prematurely in the UK alone. So why no action? www.whatthelawdoes.com/p/sixteen-th...

Sixteen thousand deaths - and no action

Dieselgate is one of the crimes of the century - so why no action by the Gove

www.whatthelawdoes.com

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 1d

John Atkinson Grimshaw was a master of moonlit streets and mist-draped docks, a painter who captured the very texture of the Victorian dream. His cityscapes, illuminated by the soft glow of gaslight, startled viewers with their precision and poetry, scenes where realism met reverie. Though

Shadows on the Park Wall, Roundhay, Leeds
John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893)
Leeds Art Gallery Leeds Museums and Galleries

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 1d

That Rylan person looks ridiculous. PlayStation 2 face.

Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 1d

(It’s still a great joke though)

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not a French word though. It’s one of the words people in the USA assume are French

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 1d

Pasties - Pasta

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d

"Why travel all the way to Italy when you can visit a place much closer by that is shaped like Italy?"

bigthink.com/strange-maps...

poster of great western railways visit cornwall it better than italy advertising campaign

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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 1d

I was about to tell A. something important when she came back into the room but it’s now gone from my mind and replaced with this

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that I have "Arkham" embedded in my name.

(not that there's anything wrong with that...)

Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 1d

The tea perverts could at least wait until December