Andy
@andymb.bsky.social
📍Bath, UK 🏳️🌈 he/him
Web dev, WordPress, internet security, web perf
Hosting websites since 1995.
MBCS
Sing bass, brew, cook
Gay with husband & two sons.
If kindness is woke, I’m woke.
If I follow you it’s because you said something interesting.
Web dev, WordPress, internet security, web perf
Hosting websites since 1995.
MBCS
Sing bass, brew, cook
Gay with husband & two sons.
If kindness is woke, I’m woke.
If I follow you it’s because you said something interesting.
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Incredible. Grab the data whilst you can this won’t be up for long
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Incredible. Grab the data whilst you can this won’t be up for long
Time for a homemade Pinot noir?
November 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Time for a homemade Pinot noir?
Work done. Invoices sent. Nap?
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Work done. Invoices sent. Nap?
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UK billionaires added £182,000,000,000 to their wealth last year. That’s £35,000,000 every single day.
Their combined wealth is £795,361,000,000.
Their combined wealth is £795,361,000,000.
Zoe Lyons, "There's such a massive gap now between the rich and poor in this country that if you are genuinely are on lower wages, and inflation is hitting you, it's really bloody hard to survive"
"There are people in this country working full time using food banks, that should never happen"
"There are people in this country working full time using food banks, that should never happen"
November 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
UK billionaires added £182,000,000,000 to their wealth last year. That’s £35,000,000 every single day.
Their combined wealth is £795,361,000,000.
Their combined wealth is £795,361,000,000.
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It's the most wonderful time of the year: Scotland's gritter tracker is back! 🏴❄️🧊
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
November 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It's the most wonderful time of the year: Scotland's gritter tracker is back! 🏴❄️🧊
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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In highly important news from history today, it’s the 80th anniversary of the 21st birthday of Christopher Tolkien, notable now for the wording (especially the small print) of the invitation to the party
November 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
In highly important news from history today, it’s the 80th anniversary of the 21st birthday of Christopher Tolkien, notable now for the wording (especially the small print) of the invitation to the party
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Well worth a read. It’s so sad what AI is doing to students’ ability to think for themselves👇
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Well worth a read. It’s so sad what AI is doing to students’ ability to think for themselves👇
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Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
www.cnn.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
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Has the England flag become a racist symbol? Most ethnic minority adults say it has
England flag
All GB adults: 39% has become racist symbol
White adults: 36%
Ethnic minority adults: 52%
UK flag
All GB adults: 19%
White adults: 18%
Ethnic minority adults: 26%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
England flag
All GB adults: 39% has become racist symbol
White adults: 36%
Ethnic minority adults: 52%
UK flag
All GB adults: 19%
White adults: 18%
Ethnic minority adults: 26%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Has the England flag become a racist symbol? Most ethnic minority adults say it has
England flag
All GB adults: 39% has become racist symbol
White adults: 36%
Ethnic minority adults: 52%
UK flag
All GB adults: 19%
White adults: 18%
Ethnic minority adults: 26%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
England flag
All GB adults: 39% has become racist symbol
White adults: 36%
Ethnic minority adults: 52%
UK flag
All GB adults: 19%
White adults: 18%
Ethnic minority adults: 26%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
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BLOG POST: An attempt to put into words my *feelings* about generative AI and why (a) I don't like being tricked into consuming it and (b) I just don't care about things that are made using it.
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/11/21/a...
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/11/21/a...
AI farts stink up your art
Purely as a matter of aesthetics, on an emotional, instinctive level, I reject the use of generative AI in the creative arts. When people were playing with Craiyon a few years ago, I found somethin…
precastreinforced.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 6:06 AM
BLOG POST: An attempt to put into words my *feelings* about generative AI and why (a) I don't like being tricked into consuming it and (b) I just don't care about things that are made using it.
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/11/21/a...
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/11/21/a...
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Every time the shocking, perplexing tactic of “giving money to people who need it” is tried, it turns out to work.
And yet people who have more money than they could ever need remain baffled.
And yet people who have more money than they could ever need remain baffled.
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Every time the shocking, perplexing tactic of “giving money to people who need it” is tried, it turns out to work.
And yet people who have more money than they could ever need remain baffled.
And yet people who have more money than they could ever need remain baffled.
It’s cold. Taken laptop and coffee to bed.
November 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
It’s cold. Taken laptop and coffee to bed.
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Don’t buy mass-produced Black Friday crap from online outlets owned by billionaires.
Buy lovely hand crafted things from wonderful, creative people instead.
Like… 👇🏻
@gingertotty.bsky.social
@gailmyerscough.co.uk
@peculiarityshop.bsky.social
Tag anyone else you know of in the replies 🥰
Buy lovely hand crafted things from wonderful, creative people instead.
Like… 👇🏻
@gingertotty.bsky.social
@gailmyerscough.co.uk
@peculiarityshop.bsky.social
Tag anyone else you know of in the replies 🥰
November 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Don’t buy mass-produced Black Friday crap from online outlets owned by billionaires.
Buy lovely hand crafted things from wonderful, creative people instead.
Like… 👇🏻
@gingertotty.bsky.social
@gailmyerscough.co.uk
@peculiarityshop.bsky.social
Tag anyone else you know of in the replies 🥰
Buy lovely hand crafted things from wonderful, creative people instead.
Like… 👇🏻
@gingertotty.bsky.social
@gailmyerscough.co.uk
@peculiarityshop.bsky.social
Tag anyone else you know of in the replies 🥰
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Hear Aldous Huxley Narrate His Dystopian Masterpiece, Brave New World
Hear Aldous Huxley Narrate His Dystopian Masterpiece, Brave New World
The CBS Radio Workshop was an “experimental dramatic radio anthology series” that aired between 1956 and 1957. And it started with style--with a dramatized adaptation of Brave New World, narrated by A...
www.openculture.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Hear Aldous Huxley Narrate His Dystopian Masterpiece, Brave New World
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We admire grit and perseverance, but surprising research suggests that giving up on ambitions in the right way can actually improve our physical and mental health
Why giving up on goals is good for you, and how to know which to ditch
www.newscientist.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
We admire grit and perseverance, but surprising research suggests that giving up on ambitions in the right way can actually improve our physical and mental health
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Microsoft has ‘ripped off the NHS’, says MP amid call for contracts with British firms
Microsoft has ‘ripped off the NHS’, says MP amid call for contracts with British firms
Samantha Niblett highlighted government’s multi-billion-pound deals with Microsoft and ‘getting locked in’
Microsoft has “ripped off the NHS”, it was alleged in parliament on Wednesday, as MPs called on ministers to divert more of the government’s multi-billion-pound computing budget away from US technology firms and towards British companies.
The Seattle-based firm’s UK government contracts include a five-year deal with the NHS to provide productivity tools reportedly worth over £700m, while the wider government spent £1.9bn on Microsoft software licences in the 2024-25 financial year alone. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Microsoft has ‘ripped off the NHS’, says MP amid call for contracts with British firms
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They want $60 for an hour at the axe throwing place? For that money I can buy a case of beer and my own axe, and throw it at whatever I want until I'm arrested again
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 AM
They want $60 for an hour at the axe throwing place? For that money I can buy a case of beer and my own axe, and throw it at whatever I want until I'm arrested again
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the bricks are alive at this day to testify it;
therefore deny it not.
therefore deny it not.
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
the bricks are alive at this day to testify it;
therefore deny it not.
therefore deny it not.
FFS. Half an hour into a book and I’ve already lost track of the characters.
November 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
FFS. Half an hour into a book and I’ve already lost track of the characters.
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#TodayInQueerHistory
November 19 (1958)
"On the coldest night of the year? It makes you proud to be British."
So said Winston Churchill after Ian Harvey MP was caught with a guardsman in the bushes of St James Park. Harvey and the guardsman were both charged with Gross Indecency and fined £5.
November 19 (1958)
"On the coldest night of the year? It makes you proud to be British."
So said Winston Churchill after Ian Harvey MP was caught with a guardsman in the bushes of St James Park. Harvey and the guardsman were both charged with Gross Indecency and fined £5.
November 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
#TodayInQueerHistory
November 19 (1958)
"On the coldest night of the year? It makes you proud to be British."
So said Winston Churchill after Ian Harvey MP was caught with a guardsman in the bushes of St James Park. Harvey and the guardsman were both charged with Gross Indecency and fined £5.
November 19 (1958)
"On the coldest night of the year? It makes you proud to be British."
So said Winston Churchill after Ian Harvey MP was caught with a guardsman in the bushes of St James Park. Harvey and the guardsman were both charged with Gross Indecency and fined £5.
I don’t get dark mode
When I grew up you only had dark mode. It was exciting when light mode became possible as it was easier on the eyes and easier to read.
When I grew up you only had dark mode. It was exciting when light mode became possible as it was easier on the eyes and easier to read.
November 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I don’t get dark mode
When I grew up you only had dark mode. It was exciting when light mode became possible as it was easier on the eyes and easier to read.
When I grew up you only had dark mode. It was exciting when light mode became possible as it was easier on the eyes and easier to read.
Do I churn out another “standard tea” or do I deep dive the freezer and see what surprises come up? 🤔
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Do I churn out another “standard tea” or do I deep dive the freezer and see what surprises come up? 🤔