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fantasticlife.bsky.social
Pants, Manchester
@fantasticlife.bsky.social
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I make ontologies for the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. An odd job and not one I would have chosen for myself
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · Aug 15
A quick hiya to new followers. You may have come across me as Clerk E. Smith, the Mouse of Commons or indeed The Emperor Palatine. These days I prefer to be known as Pants, Manchester Pants
A little background as to my moniker
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 2h
It’s. It’s. It’s the hair maybe. And the pass
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 4h
Maybe hypertext mirroring reality is easier to understand for the physical than the metaphysical. I don’t know. It’s all quite odd
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 5h
It’s quite odd. People seem fairly familiar with a “digital twin” in the built environment world. The restoration and renewal folk all talk about “digital twins”. But it doesn’t seem to extend to anything that’s not a building. That’s just the computer stuff you do over there
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 7h
Mentioned in dispatches: @mattwadd.bsky.social, @mattkorris.bsky.social, @kelceyswain.com, @swhitla.bsky.social
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 7h
In which we attempt to explain that, whilst parliamentary open data is a solved problem, Conway’s Law is most definitely not
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 7h
A fine early autumn afternoon. Why not take a break from watching the boats go by at a riverside pub and read these weeknotes from @anyaso.bsky.social and I?

ukparliament.github.io/ontologies/m...
A mostly sunk glass of Murphy’s at a pub in Shepperton
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 2d
We have always been at war with Norway
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 3d
They are long horn. Long horn breed
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 3d
Always if it were written by a comedy writer, it would be good content
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 3d
Mung beans, probably
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 3d
Lad’s been sandbagging RH06:11 for months
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 3d
I try to stay optimistic, but pretty sure if he doesn’t get his Nobel Prize on Friday, we’re all gonna get nuked
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 3d
Bah!
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 3d
Department for Business and Trade treaty Turkey No. 2 (2025) has been laid by the FCDO https://api.parliament.uk/procedure-browser/work-packages/hxiSLvTL
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👻👻 Ben, but rationalized a reason to stay on Xitter 💀💀 @benfields.net · 4d
I think the better binary split is more along this difference between deterministic and probabilistic outcomes. Does the machine do exactly and precisely the things it was told (edge cases, weird interpreters, and all) or is a probabilistic process involved between the specification and execution
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👻👻 Ben, but rationalized a reason to stay on Xitter 💀💀 @benfields.net · 4d
I really dislike this phrase 'no code tools'. It feels like it creates a binary in the wrong place. Some 'no code tools' are visual programming environments, perhaps an application specific one (maybe a visual DSL if you're in deep), so a deterministic control system, just like a (text) coding. 1/n
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 4d
A know nothing knowledge economy. Onwards!
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 4d
Can’t help but quibble here. Mostly cos the word “tech” brings me out in hives. A great many things are technology, even books. If tech means internet connected computers, I don’t think the work is formulaic and I doubt it will be automated
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 5d
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 5d
Deciding to stay integrated. Bloody weirdos
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 5d
The current compliant appears to be the conversion of an empty office block into a children’s nursery. Very noisy, we’re told. And who amongst us has not been upset by the sound of children’s laughter?
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 5d
The current complaint does not - for once - involve parking. They are, it would seem, absolutely obsessed by parking
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 5d
That said, we have now been invited to the neighbourhood WhatsApp group. Well I haven’t. Obviously. They’ve probably seen me muttering “dickhead” about their on street parking. But my wife has. A step toward greater integration perhaps
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 5d
That said, dear daughter attended a private school in Weybridge. Not, I should add, on my public sector salary. I guess we’re not a terribly well integrated family
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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 5d
Having attended a CofE comprehensive in Oldham, I can’t say we were terribly well integrated. Though I suppose that’s not what we’re talking about here
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