Iain AF Fleming
@legalweasel.uk
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines
Computer scientist (compilers & networks), lawyer, urban geographer, bassist, and beer drinker.
Francophile/phone.
Quoad ultra denied
[Clackmannan, Scotland]
Computer scientist (compilers & networks), lawyer, urban geographer, bassist, and beer drinker.
Francophile/phone.
Quoad ultra denied
[Clackmannan, Scotland]
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Denver yesterday
December 15, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Denver yesterday
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Overheard in the supermarket. Two teenagers.
1: 'Where's Dad?'
2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'
1: 'Where's Dad?'
2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'
December 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Overheard in the supermarket. Two teenagers.
1: 'Where's Dad?'
2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'
1: 'Where's Dad?'
2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'
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♫ He shouldn’t have run
♫ He shouldn’t have tried
♫ They found coke in the sleigh
♫ And an old forty-five
♫ Santa Claus is going downtown
♫ He shouldn’t have tried
♫ They found coke in the sleigh
♫ And an old forty-five
♫ Santa Claus is going downtown
December 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
♫ He shouldn’t have run
♫ He shouldn’t have tried
♫ They found coke in the sleigh
♫ And an old forty-five
♫ Santa Claus is going downtown
♫ He shouldn’t have tried
♫ They found coke in the sleigh
♫ And an old forty-five
♫ Santa Claus is going downtown
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cocaine won't replace you, someone using cocaine will replace you. today with white powder encrusted nostrils, we have Steve Yegge steve-yegge.medium.com/introducing-...
Introducing Beads: A coding agent memory system
I have been vibe coding like a madman for forty days and forty nights. It’s a long story, so I’ll summarize in these three pictures.
steve-yegge.medium.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
cocaine won't replace you, someone using cocaine will replace you. today with white powder encrusted nostrils, we have Steve Yegge steve-yegge.medium.com/introducing-...
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"The UK’s politics have already changed. Our electoral system hasn’t, and it’s holding the country back"
ICYMI this is a truly brilliant, simple explainer of everything that's wrong with FPTP by @emmacampaigner.bsky.social od @makevotesmatter.bsky.social
www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-needs-...
ICYMI this is a truly brilliant, simple explainer of everything that's wrong with FPTP by @emmacampaigner.bsky.social od @makevotesmatter.bsky.social
www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-needs-...
The quiet crisis at the heart of British democracy
Our politics have changed, but our voting system remains the same – and it’s holding us back
www.opendemocracy.net
December 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"The UK’s politics have already changed. Our electoral system hasn’t, and it’s holding the country back"
ICYMI this is a truly brilliant, simple explainer of everything that's wrong with FPTP by @emmacampaigner.bsky.social od @makevotesmatter.bsky.social
www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-needs-...
ICYMI this is a truly brilliant, simple explainer of everything that's wrong with FPTP by @emmacampaigner.bsky.social od @makevotesmatter.bsky.social
www.opendemocracy.net/en/uk-needs-...
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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They should have thrown trifle, because the law would not have concerned itself with that
Four people have been arrested after custard and apple crumble were flung at a display case containing part of the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London.
(By Emma Rossiter for BBC News)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
(By Emma Rossiter for BBC News)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Four arrested after crumble and custard thrown at Crown Jewels display
The Tower of London was partially closed to the public while the police investigated.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
They should have thrown trifle, because the law would not have concerned itself with that
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As of Wednesday, and without warning, it seems Bonners, one of the last remaining fresh produce suppliers in Oxford's Covered Market has closed. This is very sad. Market needs diversity.
Bonners were absolute stars during Covid lockdown.
cc. @oxfordclarion.bsky.social
Bonners were absolute stars during Covid lockdown.
cc. @oxfordclarion.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
As of Wednesday, and without warning, it seems Bonners, one of the last remaining fresh produce suppliers in Oxford's Covered Market has closed. This is very sad. Market needs diversity.
Bonners were absolute stars during Covid lockdown.
cc. @oxfordclarion.bsky.social
Bonners were absolute stars during Covid lockdown.
cc. @oxfordclarion.bsky.social
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I think the LLM frenzy is weirdly like what you might expect if cocaine had just been discovered 2 years ago. Lots of people love it and insist it makes them productive, when it actually makes them delusional. Dealers frantically pushing free product in hopes of capturing an addicted consumer base.
I think it’s bad that leaders of companies are visibly up to their gills in stimulants now. Did nobody tell them that, contrary to how they make you feel, those things make you stupid? This is why everyone needs some fuck up friends growing up, to teach them that there’s no good way to abuse drugs.
The CEO of Palantir.
December 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I think the LLM frenzy is weirdly like what you might expect if cocaine had just been discovered 2 years ago. Lots of people love it and insist it makes them productive, when it actually makes them delusional. Dealers frantically pushing free product in hopes of capturing an addicted consumer base.
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wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
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Farage had school friends who went to a different school.
Nigel Farage says he won't release the names of his former school friends who have written to him to say he definitely wasn't a massive racist and anti-semite, because journalists will: "chase after them and make their life a misery"
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Farage had school friends who went to a different school.
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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As a disabled person, I aspire to be the person the DWP think I am.
December 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
As a disabled person, I aspire to be the person the DWP think I am.
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
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For the pro-virus folk at the FDA.
Immunity
xkcd.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
For the pro-virus folk at the FDA.
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A raytracer has been written in pure cmake.
There are lots of things that should not be done.
64.github.io/cmake-raytra...
There are lots of things that should not be done.
64.github.io/cmake-raytra...
Ray Tracing in pure CMake
A simple ray tracer written in pure CMake
64.github.io
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
A raytracer has been written in pure cmake.
There are lots of things that should not be done.
64.github.io/cmake-raytra...
There are lots of things that should not be done.
64.github.io/cmake-raytra...
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Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
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Generative AI is convenient and useful in the same way the Broad Street water pump was convenient and useful in 1854
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Generative AI is convenient and useful in the same way the Broad Street water pump was convenient and useful in 1854
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Big news: the European Court of Justice rules that all member states are obliged to recognise a same-sex marriage lawfully concluded in another member state.
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Big news: the European Court of Justice rules that all member states are obliged to recognise a same-sex marriage lawfully concluded in another member state.
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the worst people alive are now convinced they're geniuses, and recognition and admiration are just one more prompt away, if only people would listen and agree
we've built a chatbot that causes causes people to act like stephen wolfram in the mildest of cases
and hans reiser in the worst
we've built a chatbot that causes causes people to act like stephen wolfram in the mildest of cases
and hans reiser in the worst
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
the worst people alive are now convinced they're geniuses, and recognition and admiration are just one more prompt away, if only people would listen and agree
we've built a chatbot that causes causes people to act like stephen wolfram in the mildest of cases
and hans reiser in the worst
we've built a chatbot that causes causes people to act like stephen wolfram in the mildest of cases
and hans reiser in the worst
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hey does anybody want to mind some rich moron's five neglected kids while getting malnutrition in a shack full of dangerous snakes lmk. no pay
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
hey does anybody want to mind some rich moron's five neglected kids while getting malnutrition in a shack full of dangerous snakes lmk. no pay
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?