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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 2m

The maddest thing about this is if they simply legalised privately-owned escooters (and strictly regulated their sales to make them as safe as the rental scheme ones) people buying and using them would simply be able to fold them up and take them indoors

Paul Abbott @pablovich.bsky.social · 1h

I hate these things.

Got mobility issues? Pushing a pram? Simply need to walk down this pavement? FUCK YOU - GET IN THE ROAD YOU PIECE OF SHIT, WE NEED THIS SPACE FOR SCOOTERS

A load of electric scooters completely blocking the pavement outside the Victoria Gallery and Museum at Liverpool University.

Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 15m

I think it's also just because the consensus of mainstream parties after the endless drama of the 2016-2019 Brexit wars is "everyone has had enough of Brexit and any more talk of it will only lose votes"—just completely out of whack with where people are now

Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 29m

Given most people now think Brexit was a mistake this is the single biggest anti-Reform argument Labour can make but they're inexplicably refusing to make it

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 2h

'Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

'Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue, says Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire

www.mirror.co.uk

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 1h

OP is talking about the UK so it's a global failure of regulation we're dealing with

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 1h

If it were print media or VHS tapes doing this back in the 80s the ban hammer would've come down so fast

Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 18h

Aye. Completely different from this now—pedestrianised and full of trees

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 19h

I was mainlining Twitter for 8-9 hours a day at one point and still pretty much only used the algo. More efficient at lasering in on stuff I wanted to read

It did get horrid towards the end but I think that was Twitter's conscious choice to boost high-engagement stuff that was mostly dunks/ragebait

Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 23h

I wish it were so but (bar landmark legal cases upending everything) I don't see the genie being rebottled. The proposition of free no-skill content creation is too tempting

I do think real creators will still find plenty of work for the same reason bands/orchestras still exist despite synthesisers

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 23h

That I am most definitely looking forward to

Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 23h

But... the German carmakers

www.itv.com

Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 1d

I get the sense a lot of people think the AI bubble bursting means the end of AI. Bad news folks: after the dot-com crash there are still a fair few dot-coms

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 1d

For the second time in 24hrs I find myself asking: how in the hell has no other party leader been able to manage this

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 1d

Why in the hell have no other party leaders thought to do this

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 1d

Oh he has, but he's only posted once? OK but that's hardly "tried"

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 1d

There's a really easy solution to this: set up an account and see if it turns out you like it more. I don't think he's even tried

Sue @suescishaw.bsky.social · 2d

You're all missed over at X..

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 1d

I often wonder how Harwood survives the crippling cognitive dissonance and frequent mockery from his in-group

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 1d

Does she call herself that?

Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 1d

Despite all that it doesn't appear she really agrees with the European far right on all that much:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%...

Seems more likely she's looking for the widest possible political alliance for getting rid of Maduro.

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 1d

Of course it isn't "okay", but that's just what leaders reliant on the US have to do now because Trump is a massive fucking baby

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 1d

If she needs the US to help her she's not going to condemn it, is she?

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 1d

She's only doing what she has to do to avoid Trump taking a dislike to her and withdrawing all US help:

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 1d

Don't judge her harshly—this is sadly just what world leaders have to do to get any US help nowadays

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 2d

oh boy, i hope ukgov isn't betting the farm on AI

(handed paper from offscreen)

my APES

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 2d

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Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 2d

Play Betty you barstewards #totp

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