Paul Sandham - formerly known as ........
@paulsandham.bsky.social
Waspkeeper & brambliculturalist. Insignificant geek, shed owner & Dad of the Ugs & Ig. Ultimately striving for the destruction of all pebble-dashed dwellings.
Recovering social media arriviste - banned by Musk after 16 years of definitively mediocre output
Recovering social media arriviste - banned by Musk after 16 years of definitively mediocre output
Pinned
A rare shot of Ifor Williams trailers early trials of their legendary ‘joscin’ caravan prototype, Corwen 1998. Dic ‘Pen y cara fan’ Bebb at the wheel.
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Whats fun is that absolutely no one has to use any of these sites.
You dont have to be on the nazi microblogging site, or the nazi video microblogging site, or the dead boomer strip mall, or the influencer graveyard.
You dont need to be on any of these places.
They need you.
You dont have to be on the nazi microblogging site, or the nazi video microblogging site, or the dead boomer strip mall, or the influencer graveyard.
You dont need to be on any of these places.
They need you.
TikTok will now be owned by the Ellisons, Jared Kushner's firm, and Abu Dhabi's state investment fund.
TikTok U.S. Sale to Close Next Month: Oracle and Silver Lake Confirmed in Buyer Consortium
Abu Dhabi's state investment fund will also be a managing investor.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Whats fun is that absolutely no one has to use any of these sites.
You dont have to be on the nazi microblogging site, or the nazi video microblogging site, or the dead boomer strip mall, or the influencer graveyard.
You dont need to be on any of these places.
They need you.
You dont have to be on the nazi microblogging site, or the nazi video microblogging site, or the dead boomer strip mall, or the influencer graveyard.
You dont need to be on any of these places.
They need you.
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Auditors and new officials have been turning over stones at the body in charge of Teesworks. Turns out the Tees Valley Combined Authority has been lending hundreds of millions of £ to connected orgs, without loan agreements, and those orgs are now struggling to repay
as.ft.com/r/ac457745-4...
as.ft.com/r/ac457745-4...
Auditors raise red flags at public body run by Ben Houchen
[FREE TO READ] EY said errors included ‘material misstatements’ in latest setback for Conservative metro mayor Lord Houchen
as.ft.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Auditors and new officials have been turning over stones at the body in charge of Teesworks. Turns out the Tees Valley Combined Authority has been lending hundreds of millions of £ to connected orgs, without loan agreements, and those orgs are now struggling to repay
as.ft.com/r/ac457745-4...
as.ft.com/r/ac457745-4...
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What better way to put together my ConP annual accounts (worst year ever!) than while grating teeth to an excruciatingly shitmas playlist. FFS Justin Bieber has just come on & Flintshire County council the cat appears to have thrown itself out of a 1st floor window.
open.spotify.com/playlist/0Uz...
open.spotify.com/playlist/0Uz...
Worst Christmas
open.spotify.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
What better way to put together my ConP annual accounts (worst year ever!) than while grating teeth to an excruciatingly shitmas playlist. FFS Justin Bieber has just come on & Flintshire County council the cat appears to have thrown itself out of a 1st floor window.
open.spotify.com/playlist/0Uz...
open.spotify.com/playlist/0Uz...
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What imaginary threats can tell us about the strategic estrangement between Europe and America blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
What imaginary threats can tell us about the strategic estrangement between Europe and America | USAPP
The US is worried about unexpected and potentially world-ending events, while in Europe, concerns center on hybrid warfare and an increasingly uninterested America.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
What imaginary threats can tell us about the strategic estrangement between Europe and America blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
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WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
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🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
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There's a cross-platform uniformity to how LLMs bullshit you.
Today I was designing an exercise for a responisble-use of-LLMs course we are designing for NIH trainees. I asked ChatGPT to complete one of Claude Shannon's original guessing games:
"There is no reverse on a __(10 letters)__"
Today I was designing an exercise for a responisble-use of-LLMs course we are designing for NIH trainees. I asked ChatGPT to complete one of Claude Shannon's original guessing games:
"There is no reverse on a __(10 letters)__"
December 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
There's a cross-platform uniformity to how LLMs bullshit you.
Today I was designing an exercise for a responisble-use of-LLMs course we are designing for NIH trainees. I asked ChatGPT to complete one of Claude Shannon's original guessing games:
"There is no reverse on a __(10 letters)__"
Today I was designing an exercise for a responisble-use of-LLMs course we are designing for NIH trainees. I asked ChatGPT to complete one of Claude Shannon's original guessing games:
"There is no reverse on a __(10 letters)__"
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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In Australia, after his team won the championship,
the football captain went into the stands to bring Sammy,
their waterboy who has Down's Syndrome, to celebrate with them.
the football captain went into the stands to bring Sammy,
their waterboy who has Down's Syndrome, to celebrate with them.
December 14, 2025 at 4:17 AM
In Australia, after his team won the championship,
the football captain went into the stands to bring Sammy,
their waterboy who has Down's Syndrome, to celebrate with them.
the football captain went into the stands to bring Sammy,
their waterboy who has Down's Syndrome, to celebrate with them.
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The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂
Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
December 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂
Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
Booking available here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...
Can i add the other ‘tech bro’ businesses: uber, airbnb, amazon, meta, alphabet, palantir andvof course, AI - none of these businesses comply fully (as per bricks and mortar SMEs) with national legislative & tax compliance frameworks. This has become their principal competitive advantage.
This has popped up on my feed again so your occasional reminder that, if your business cannot turn a profit when acting within the law, you don’t have a legitimate business
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
December 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Can i add the other ‘tech bro’ businesses: uber, airbnb, amazon, meta, alphabet, palantir andvof course, AI - none of these businesses comply fully (as per bricks and mortar SMEs) with national legislative & tax compliance frameworks. This has become their principal competitive advantage.
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Tommy Robinson and his far right goons are holding a carol service to honour the birth of a displaced Middle Eastern refugee who started a religion that explicitly emphasized a belief in universal love, peace and tolerance over earthly nations and division.
Dimmer than broken Christmas tree lights
Dimmer than broken Christmas tree lights
December 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Tommy Robinson and his far right goons are holding a carol service to honour the birth of a displaced Middle Eastern refugee who started a religion that explicitly emphasized a belief in universal love, peace and tolerance over earthly nations and division.
Dimmer than broken Christmas tree lights
Dimmer than broken Christmas tree lights
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Photographer, anthropologist Alegra Ally accompanied the Nenets seasonal migration, to show the lives of indigenous women in the Siberian Arctic #WomensArt
December 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Photographer, anthropologist Alegra Ally accompanied the Nenets seasonal migration, to show the lives of indigenous women in the Siberian Arctic #WomensArt
OK, own up! Somebody out there believes in the fact that we are in a war with a race of hidden yeti/humans and that we are all originally from easter island and ‘wait for
It’ that jesus was Polish. C’mon out you Zermatists wherever you are! #zermatism
zermatism.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/m...
It’ that jesus was Polish. C’mon out you Zermatists wherever you are! #zermatism
zermatism.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/m...
Megaliths of Sulawesi in Indonesia
The stone figures found in the valley have thin bodies, big heads, round eyes and lines to depict eyebrows, cheeks and chins. Some are standing with half their bodies buried in the vast meadow. Unt…
zermatism.wordpress.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
OK, own up! Somebody out there believes in the fact that we are in a war with a race of hidden yeti/humans and that we are all originally from easter island and ‘wait for
It’ that jesus was Polish. C’mon out you Zermatists wherever you are! #zermatism
zermatism.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/m...
It’ that jesus was Polish. C’mon out you Zermatists wherever you are! #zermatism
zermatism.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/m...
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Watching this gives me hope, he is disintegrating in front of our eyes and it is happening quickly. He’s not going to make it to the mid-terms.
Q: At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire. What's your message to those 24m Americans who will see their premiums go up?
TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.
December 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Watching this gives me hope, he is disintegrating in front of our eyes and it is happening quickly. He’s not going to make it to the mid-terms.
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A surprisingly accessible introduction to cryptographic theory in the context of... Super Mario Brothers, and the construction of a cryptographically insoluble Super Mario level by exploiting the blink pattern of flying clown cars. Yes, really. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrBe...
How the Blinking Animation of a Clown Car Revolutionizes Super Mario Maker Cryptography.
YouTube video by Ceave Gaming
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
A surprisingly accessible introduction to cryptographic theory in the context of... Super Mario Brothers, and the construction of a cryptographically insoluble Super Mario level by exploiting the blink pattern of flying clown cars. Yes, really. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrBe...