James Tarry
@northamptonian.bsky.social
More a jazz and easy listening Liberal than a classical Liberal. Cricket (Northants fan), literature, economics, politics & anything that takes my fancy.
Those Starship robots were launched here. You don’t have to walk around them, they have overly sensitive receptors and stop to let people by if needed. The Co-op team who use them say it makes their work easier.
Counterpoint: Automating lowly-paid gig economy work is good.
Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
November 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Those Starship robots were launched here. You don’t have to walk around them, they have overly sensitive receptors and stop to let people by if needed. The Co-op team who use them say it makes their work easier.
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excuse me please, my ear is full of milk
YouTube video by waltermatkindhead
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November 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Drop you as a New Wave album cover here…
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Drop you as a New Wave album cover here…
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One to listen to on your way home while looking at the Christmas lights that have just gone up... One of our new Christmas songs. youtu.be/KMi-89Ueeb4?...
Christmas Bells
YouTube video by Watertown Carps - Topic
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November 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
One to listen to on your way home while looking at the Christmas lights that have just gone up... One of our new Christmas songs. youtu.be/KMi-89Ueeb4?...
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beat rachel reeves - devalue your 2 million pound house by spraying PAEDO LIVES HERE on the front of it
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
beat rachel reeves - devalue your 2 million pound house by spraying PAEDO LIVES HERE on the front of it
LinkedIn post by someone normally quite right-wing. (Information that had escaped me up until now, although I haven’t yet read @samfr.bsky.social substack today. )
November 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
LinkedIn post by someone normally quite right-wing. (Information that had escaped me up until now, although I haven’t yet read @samfr.bsky.social substack today. )
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I read one of Marchant’s books on Lezard’s recommendation – the one about the pub crawl. This is a lovely piece, and suggests I should look out some more
I receive a message from beyond the grave. It comes dressed in Nordic socks
In memory of Ian Marchant, a brilliant writer and creative smuggler
www.newstatesman.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I read one of Marchant’s books on Lezard’s recommendation – the one about the pub crawl. This is a lovely piece, and suggests I should look out some more
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Nights at Osip, lunches at Mountain, ludicrously expensive handbags and cases of delicious wine – we've got some amazing prizes to be won in our festive prizedraw. Enter now, and help us turbocharge our growth for 2026.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Nights at Osip, lunches at Mountain, ludicrously expensive handbags and cases of delicious wine – we've got some amazing prizes to be won in our festive prizedraw. Enter now, and help us turbocharge our growth for 2026.
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www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fences-fig...
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Falling migration probably won't boost support for Labour. What it should do, though, is show that our economic problems were never the result of high immigration. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Net migration to UK drops 69% year on year, ONS figures show
Figure of 204,000 in 12 months to June 2025 is lowest since 2021, statistics body says
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Falling migration probably won't boost support for Labour. What it should do, though, is show that our economic problems were never the result of high immigration. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Fundamentally every one of these posts about someone’s parents brings to mind Machiavelli’s observation that men will more easily forgive the execution of their father than the deprivation of their patrimony
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Fundamentally every one of these posts about someone’s parents brings to mind Machiavelli’s observation that men will more easily forgive the execution of their father than the deprivation of their patrimony
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the horrifying realisation that ais talk the way our bosses wish we’d been talking to them all along
November 27, 2025 at 9:41 AM
the horrifying realisation that ais talk the way our bosses wish we’d been talking to them all along
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(from ‘The Shepherd’s Calendar: November’)
“At length the stir of rural labour’s still,
And Industry her care awhile forgoes;
When Winter comes in earnest to fulfil
His yearly task, at bleak November’s close,
And stops the plough, and hides the field in snows”
“At length the stir of rural labour’s still,
And Industry her care awhile forgoes;
When Winter comes in earnest to fulfil
His yearly task, at bleak November’s close,
And stops the plough, and hides the field in snows”
November 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
(from ‘The Shepherd’s Calendar: November’)
“At length the stir of rural labour’s still,
And Industry her care awhile forgoes;
When Winter comes in earnest to fulfil
His yearly task, at bleak November’s close,
And stops the plough, and hides the field in snows”
“At length the stir of rural labour’s still,
And Industry her care awhile forgoes;
When Winter comes in earnest to fulfil
His yearly task, at bleak November’s close,
And stops the plough, and hides the field in snows”
I didn’t think I subscribed to this for cold, articulate, righteous rage-it’s the best one for a few weeks. Totally nailing my inchoate thoughts on why I’m deeply suspicious about AI.
Okay, but why *do* I feel so angry about this whole AI thing?
The Bullshit Maximiser
This week, a very quick take on what the Budget says about the state we are in; but mostly, a not-at-all quick list of all the reasons I despise AI.
jonn.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I didn’t think I subscribed to this for cold, articulate, righteous rage-it’s the best one for a few weeks. Totally nailing my inchoate thoughts on why I’m deeply suspicious about AI.
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Pope Leo XIV should have added 'and it will give you false legal advice, which is also screwing up mankind's creation'.
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Pope Leo XIV should have added 'and it will give you false legal advice, which is also screwing up mankind's creation'.
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Sharing this episode of a consistently educational programme, because half way through the episode is a piece about how being discriminated against is bad for your physical health. Which stacks up, I think.
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All in the Mind - Should we be using trigger warnings? - BBC Sounds
We interrogate growing evidence that suggests trigger warnings aren’t working as intended.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Sharing this episode of a consistently educational programme, because half way through the episode is a piece about how being discriminated against is bad for your physical health. Which stacks up, I think.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Christmas is not the 'most wonderful time of the year' for many people. I wanted to take some time to explore what hospitality venues are doing to combat loneliness at this vulnerable time and drop them all into a handy directory on my blog.
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Hospitality venues tackling loneliness this Christmas
Christmas is a weird time for many. Family, friends, food, drinks and joy are presented as the Clinton Card Christmas we are all supposed to crave. So what happens when Christmas is a time you drea…
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November 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Christmas is not the 'most wonderful time of the year' for many people. I wanted to take some time to explore what hospitality venues are doing to combat loneliness at this vulnerable time and drop them all into a handy directory on my blog.
craftbeerpinup.com/2025/11/23/h...
craftbeerpinup.com/2025/11/23/h...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This month's newsletter free to read here:
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(Badge courtesy of The Poetry Pharmacy!)
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Always nice to stumble upon something rational online.
The Twitter/X account geolocation feature should be treated with scepticism (FREE TO READ!)
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The Twitter/X account geolocation feature should be treated with scepticism
And surely BBC Verify should actually... verify... things?
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Always nice to stumble upon something rational online.
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Fantastic(ally depressing) article and this rather sums it all up
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Fantastic(ally depressing) article and this rather sums it all up
A very intelligent, wide-ranging and thoughtful discussion. (Which is probably a redundant phrase for something Sam is involved with). Also very cheered by how good Jovan and Freddie are. I certainly wasn’t that sharp in my late 20s.
Recently recorded an episode of the "What's Left" podcast which is now out.
I keep thinking podcast means audio so forget they're now increasingly video things. Which is why I'm wearing a tatty jumper...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ4d...
I keep thinking podcast means audio so forget they're now increasingly video things. Which is why I'm wearing a tatty jumper...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ4d...
Reform Can't Reverse Britain's Decline - Sam Freedman
YouTube video by What's Left? with Jovan and Freddie
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
A very intelligent, wide-ranging and thoughtful discussion. (Which is probably a redundant phrase for something Sam is involved with). Also very cheered by how good Jovan and Freddie are. I certainly wasn’t that sharp in my late 20s.
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A great life, ended too soon.
Skye Gyngell, pioneering chef, 1962-2025 on.ft.com/4odLzXi
Skye Gyngell, pioneering chef, 1962-2025
At Petersham Nurseries and Spring, she brought style and beauty to seasonal cooking
on.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
A great life, ended too soon.
Presumably it’s just a coincidence that the arrow is pointing to the number 18. A number noted as a neo-Nazi symbol where it represents the first and eighth letters of the alphabet - AH.
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Presumably it’s just a coincidence that the arrow is pointing to the number 18. A number noted as a neo-Nazi symbol where it represents the first and eighth letters of the alphabet - AH.
Ian Marchant had a rare way with words, and was a lodestar of morality and decency. I was up far too late last night reading ‘The Longest Crawl’, which I sincerely recommend.
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Ian Marchant had a rare way with words, and was a lodestar of morality and decency. I was up far too late last night reading ‘The Longest Crawl’, which I sincerely recommend.
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![[Scene is a MEDIEVAL PLAGUE PIT with all the bodies inside it. On the edge of it is a young peasant woman, in a sack cloth dress, covered in boils. She is lounging glamorously next to the pit. Her boyfriend is standing a few feet away, photographing her with an anachronistic mobile phone]
GIRL:
OK so I'll sit here...
With my hair like this…
Rubbing my cyst with the corpse's hand.
[She produces a whithered severed hand and starts rubbing it on her face.]
[We are treated to a revolting close up of her rubbing the severed hand on her disgusting massive cyst.]
[Her boyfriend takes a photo of her.]
SNAP
GIRL:
OK, now write this:
"Hanging out at the burial pit, rubbing my sebaceous cyst with a severed corpse hand from
#BurtsGraverobbers…”
And then: #selfcare, #metime, #BurtsGraverobbers…
... nails emoji, heart emoji, cyst emoji.
BOYFRIEND:
Um...
Should we really be promoting this?
I mean… does rubbing a corpse's hand on a cyst actually work?
GIRL:
Look, Burt's done research, OK?
And he's paying us four groats.
BOYFRIEND:
Hmm.
[Boyfriend dutifully taps out the post on his phone]
TAP TAP TAP
BOYFRIEND:
Cyst emoji?
GIRL:
Just use a fried egg.
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