Will Ross
@twistedbyknaves.bsky.social
Rather less angry than Chat GPT would have you believe. Also thinner on top.
Tries to keep up with sprogs 1-6 and all their mini sprogs. Hopelessly devoted to the Chair of Balham FC. Takes footie pictures.
Trying to get back into fencing.
Tries to keep up with sprogs 1-6 and all their mini sprogs. Hopelessly devoted to the Chair of Balham FC. Takes footie pictures.
Trying to get back into fencing.
It's a fair cop!
October 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
It's a fair cop!
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Thanks to @comedywriter.bsky.social for insidiously conditioning me back into this delightful game.
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October 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Thanks to @comedywriter.bsky.social for insidiously conditioning me back into this delightful game.
October 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
@rory-stewart.bsky.social saw this and thought of you…
I'm not going back to Cumbria though, it's cold and full of sheep and there's no bike lanes.
October 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
@rory-stewart.bsky.social saw this and thought of you…
I done a Thing!
Concerned you might be being manipulated by your Chatbot advisor? (If you aren't, you should be…) Here's a handy cut out and keep checklist of common sense risks and things to bear in mind.
Thoughts?
#PauseQuestionReframe
static1.squarespace.com/static/64303...
Concerned you might be being manipulated by your Chatbot advisor? (If you aren't, you should be…) Here's a handy cut out and keep checklist of common sense risks and things to bear in mind.
Thoughts?
#PauseQuestionReframe
static1.squarespace.com/static/64303...
static1.squarespace.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I done a Thing!
Concerned you might be being manipulated by your Chatbot advisor? (If you aren't, you should be…) Here's a handy cut out and keep checklist of common sense risks and things to bear in mind.
Thoughts?
#PauseQuestionReframe
static1.squarespace.com/static/64303...
Concerned you might be being manipulated by your Chatbot advisor? (If you aren't, you should be…) Here's a handy cut out and keep checklist of common sense risks and things to bear in mind.
Thoughts?
#PauseQuestionReframe
static1.squarespace.com/static/64303...
September 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Save Our Swans!
I don't love using "blood libel" to describe anything other than the actual historical phenomenon of accusations against Jews of ritually killing Christian children. But if anything in modern political discourse structurally resembles a blood libel, it's Vance accusing Haitians of eating cats.
JD Vance is now using the term "blood libel" to describe criticism of ICE, saying, "The Democrats and the media — because they so hate the idea of a real border — are engaging in a kind of blood libel against ICE agents."
Somewhere, our ancestors wept.
Somewhere, our ancestors wept.
September 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Save Our Swans!
@scottsantens.com , saw this and thought of you…
I care about poverty, mainly alleviating it..
When I discovered this one piece of research it changed my whole approach to understanding poverty.
"Why People in Poverty make Poor Decisions" explores this research which points to a simple solution. Listen or read at:
nonzerosum.games/poverty.html
When I discovered this one piece of research it changed my whole approach to understanding poverty.
"Why People in Poverty make Poor Decisions" explores this research which points to a simple solution. Listen or read at:
nonzerosum.games/poverty.html
WHY POOR PEOPLE MAKE POOR DECISIONS
A case for giving more money to those who are bad with money.
nonzerosum.games
September 27, 2025 at 7:56 AM
@scottsantens.com , saw this and thought of you…
In no particular order:
1. The sound and feel of rain on your waterproofs
2. Cuddles
3. A conversation that heads off somewhere unexpected
4. Being constructively silly with grandchildren
5. Writing with a ball point pen on a banana
1. The sound and feel of rain on your waterproofs
2. Cuddles
3. A conversation that heads off somewhere unexpected
4. Being constructively silly with grandchildren
5. Writing with a ball point pen on a banana
Post five pleasures in life:
1) The first pint in a pub after a week’s work
2) Lying on your back on the beach listening to the sea
3) Holding someone you love
4) A mug of tea in the sun first thing in the morning
5) Standing alone in a forest hearing the wind in the branches
1) The first pint in a pub after a week’s work
2) Lying on your back on the beach listening to the sea
3) Holding someone you love
4) A mug of tea in the sun first thing in the morning
5) Standing alone in a forest hearing the wind in the branches
Post 5 pleasures in Life
1. The feel and taste of Your lover
2. The sound and scent of Rain falling in the dark
3 The sound, sight and feel of a log fire on a fireplace
4. The Ritual of grinding beans for coffee, fixing it the way You like it, and tasting that first sip
5 Stepping barefoot on sand
1. The feel and taste of Your lover
2. The sound and scent of Rain falling in the dark
3 The sound, sight and feel of a log fire on a fireplace
4. The Ritual of grinding beans for coffee, fixing it the way You like it, and tasting that first sip
5 Stepping barefoot on sand
September 16, 2025 at 11:17 AM
In no particular order:
1. The sound and feel of rain on your waterproofs
2. Cuddles
3. A conversation that heads off somewhere unexpected
4. Being constructively silly with grandchildren
5. Writing with a ball point pen on a banana
1. The sound and feel of rain on your waterproofs
2. Cuddles
3. A conversation that heads off somewhere unexpected
4. Being constructively silly with grandchildren
5. Writing with a ball point pen on a banana
One can but hope that the Russians aren't as helpful as the Argentinians.
Starmerites taking comfort in the fact that Thatcher was in a really bad position two years into office is just funny at this point.
Like, “oh, the most successful and influential politician of the last century dug herself out of this hole, that means Starmer can do it too”
Like, “oh, the most successful and influential politician of the last century dug herself out of this hole, that means Starmer can do it too”
September 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
One can but hope that the Russians aren't as helpful as the Argentinians.
September 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Oo: an update to the Microsoft Services Agreement! I note that we now agree not to use AI to subliminally influence people with the intention of changing their behaviour in a way that causes harm.
Quibble: does this prohibit any change of behaviour which is determined independently to be harmful?
Quibble: does this prohibit any change of behaviour which is determined independently to be harmful?
September 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Oo: an update to the Microsoft Services Agreement! I note that we now agree not to use AI to subliminally influence people with the intention of changing their behaviour in a way that causes harm.
Quibble: does this prohibit any change of behaviour which is determined independently to be harmful?
Quibble: does this prohibit any change of behaviour which is determined independently to be harmful?
It's all got out of hand.
Entitled jokers in Washington, Moscow and Jerusalem appear to have decided to opt out of civilization.
I think I need to go out and stand quietly in the rain for a while.
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Entitled jokers in Washington, Moscow and Jerusalem appear to have decided to opt out of civilization.
I think I need to go out and stand quietly in the rain for a while.
:0(
September 10, 2025 at 7:04 AM
It's all got out of hand.
Entitled jokers in Washington, Moscow and Jerusalem appear to have decided to opt out of civilization.
I think I need to go out and stand quietly in the rain for a while.
:0(
Entitled jokers in Washington, Moscow and Jerusalem appear to have decided to opt out of civilization.
I think I need to go out and stand quietly in the rain for a while.
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Inexplicably, the stylishly supercilious Mlle Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com , appears to have overlooked the K Pop Demon Hunters singalongs at Vue.
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August 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Inexplicably, the stylishly supercilious Mlle Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com , appears to have overlooked the K Pop Demon Hunters singalongs at Vue.
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Just caught up with TMS. I imagine @anandmenon.bsky.social is being adorably insufferable.
August 5, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Just caught up with TMS. I imagine @anandmenon.bsky.social is being adorably insufferable.
Rather than snarking, I see this as a hopeful sign. Perhaps they're coming to their senses?
Will nobody think of the poor ICE agents?
July 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Rather than snarking, I see this as a hopeful sign. Perhaps they're coming to their senses?
Oh, Guardian! Covering all needs, as ever…
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June 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Oh, Guardian! Covering all needs, as ever…
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This is a great example of the importance of punctuation: that comma is critical. I wonder how clear it was in the spoken conversation.
hmmmmm informal job interview happening in the café next to me and the prospective employer just asked the woman "and do you have any children, who would get in the way of you getting to work on time?"
June 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This is a great example of the importance of punctuation: that comma is critical. I wonder how clear it was in the spoken conversation.
Have you ever noticed chat GPT begin to produce an answer and then replace it with "I'm just an LLM. I can't answer that question"?
Try "new query".
It just recovered the original response twice for me.
As always with the Young Master, YMMV.
Try "new query".
It just recovered the original response twice for me.
As always with the Young Master, YMMV.
June 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Have you ever noticed chat GPT begin to produce an answer and then replace it with "I'm just an LLM. I can't answer that question"?
Try "new query".
It just recovered the original response twice for me.
As always with the Young Master, YMMV.
Try "new query".
It just recovered the original response twice for me.
As always with the Young Master, YMMV.
inshallah we can make it happen before 2062, never give up on your dreams everyone
I regret to inform you that Matt Goodwin has been drawing graphs again.
June 4, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I disagree. But having read @columnist.bsky.social 's fabulous review of the Brasserie Lipp, I know I'm in the wrong.
#LippService
Not that I'm averse to the semicolon: there is indeed such a thing as flow.
But unless the writer is great, stupidly long sentences get in the way of meaning.
#LippService
Not that I'm averse to the semicolon: there is indeed such a thing as flow.
But unless the writer is great, stupidly long sentences get in the way of meaning.
May 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I disagree. But having read @columnist.bsky.social 's fabulous review of the Brasserie Lipp, I know I'm in the wrong.
#LippService
Not that I'm averse to the semicolon: there is indeed such a thing as flow.
But unless the writer is great, stupidly long sentences get in the way of meaning.
#LippService
Not that I'm averse to the semicolon: there is indeed such a thing as flow.
But unless the writer is great, stupidly long sentences get in the way of meaning.
No one should bother clicking on It Katie Martin's articles.
At least, not until I have.
Surprised and delighted that the article was still available after 3 hours. Great and illuminating read.
At least, not until I have.
Surprised and delighted that the article was still available after 3 hours. Great and illuminating read.
Markets: woohoo! Taco trade! (Trump Always Chickens Out, HT @robarmstrong.bsky.social) LFG!
Also markets: This is ridiculous WTH
Me, 300 free clicks
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Also markets: This is ridiculous WTH
Me, 300 free clicks
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The ‘Taco’ factor has spurred markets higher
[FREE TO READ] The notion that Trump Always Chickens Out on difficult policy resulted in a strange, shaky rally
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May 17, 2025 at 10:24 AM
No one should bother clicking on It Katie Martin's articles.
At least, not until I have.
Surprised and delighted that the article was still available after 3 hours. Great and illuminating read.
At least, not until I have.
Surprised and delighted that the article was still available after 3 hours. Great and illuminating read.
Well, the Grauniad WOULD say that, wouldn't they?
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘We can’t just talk to the right’: what will Labour do now?
Focus on Reform or reassure the left – Keir Starmer’s next move could define his premiership
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Well, the Grauniad WOULD say that, wouldn't they?
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Just back from seeing #Mickey17 with Sprog6.
Whatever you may think of Donald Trump, he has done this for Western culture:
He's made the scenery chewing pantomime villain believable again.
Great work by Ruffalo.
Whatever you may think of Donald Trump, he has done this for Western culture:
He's made the scenery chewing pantomime villain believable again.
Great work by Ruffalo.
March 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Just back from seeing #Mickey17 with Sprog6.
Whatever you may think of Donald Trump, he has done this for Western culture:
He's made the scenery chewing pantomime villain believable again.
Great work by Ruffalo.
Whatever you may think of Donald Trump, he has done this for Western culture:
He's made the scenery chewing pantomime villain believable again.
Great work by Ruffalo.