Liam
@lpfirth.bsky.social
36 |📍York, UK | He/him 🏳️🌈
💻 Work in IT. Also into cats, coffee, reading, history and gaming
💻 Work in IT. Also into cats, coffee, reading, history and gaming
There’s something almost inevitable about how reverence for the Constitution has turned it into an artefact, or just another piece of paper, now that its most basic tenets are being put to the test
January 30, 2026 at 9:39 AM
There’s something almost inevitable about how reverence for the Constitution has turned it into an artefact, or just another piece of paper, now that its most basic tenets are being put to the test
This is just 100% not true though? Our energy prices are high because of bad policy. Our housing costs are high because of bad planning policy. Stagnant wages are stagnant because of poor economic choices. This view that it’s all downstream of external events is just smug, lazy thinking
January 29, 2026 at 10:07 AM
This is just 100% not true though? Our energy prices are high because of bad policy. Our housing costs are high because of bad planning policy. Stagnant wages are stagnant because of poor economic choices. This view that it’s all downstream of external events is just smug, lazy thinking
High Blairism is the ground zero foundational myth of the modern Conservative Party. They hate it and automatically think everyone else hates it too (because of their echo chamber)
January 28, 2026 at 12:57 PM
High Blairism is the ground zero foundational myth of the modern Conservative Party. They hate it and automatically think everyone else hates it too (because of their echo chamber)
It’s transparently about ambition. What would people say if Boris Johnson did this? That it would cause the biggest by election in history and cost millions of pounds for something that one person - Burnham - has chosen to do, makes it the only sensible decision here
January 26, 2026 at 8:57 AM
It’s transparently about ambition. What would people say if Boris Johnson did this? That it would cause the biggest by election in history and cost millions of pounds for something that one person - Burnham - has chosen to do, makes it the only sensible decision here
It’s going to look bad either way. But triggering the biggest by-election ever to satisfy Andy Burnham was the worst option imo.
January 25, 2026 at 12:38 PM
It’s going to look bad either way. But triggering the biggest by-election ever to satisfy Andy Burnham was the worst option imo.
Application systems have always scanned for keywords. I think the difference is now that AI is actually bad at it.
January 22, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Application systems have always scanned for keywords. I think the difference is now that AI is actually bad at it.
Paul Atreides, after being tested with the pain box:
January 21, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Paul Atreides, after being tested with the pain box:
Honestly Europe needs to accept the chauvinism and contempt doesn’t stop at Maga
January 20, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Honestly Europe needs to accept the chauvinism and contempt doesn’t stop at Maga
It’s infuriating listening to comment/news in the UK as if this is some kind of gotcha moment and what will it mean for the polls blah blah blah. It’s all clearly mad!
January 20, 2026 at 12:48 PM
It’s infuriating listening to comment/news in the UK as if this is some kind of gotcha moment and what will it mean for the polls blah blah blah. It’s all clearly mad!
It will be 90% approval in focus groups and then the same people would complain bitterly about their taxes going up 🤷
January 19, 2026 at 3:06 PM
It will be 90% approval in focus groups and then the same people would complain bitterly about their taxes going up 🤷
I think Europe seriously needs to consider that the way out of this immediate threat is just giving him the Nobel Prize already (and rescind it in three years).
January 19, 2026 at 12:48 PM
I think Europe seriously needs to consider that the way out of this immediate threat is just giving him the Nobel Prize already (and rescind it in three years).
This was the original sin. Like putting Hitler in open prison for 2 years.
January 19, 2026 at 10:01 AM
This was the original sin. Like putting Hitler in open prison for 2 years.
It’s like, mentally noted, BUT NOT WHILE I HAVE THIS SPREADSHEET OPEN
January 16, 2026 at 8:45 PM
It’s like, mentally noted, BUT NOT WHILE I HAVE THIS SPREADSHEET OPEN
One of those fake online certificates that says he is now Lord of Greenland.
January 16, 2026 at 11:03 AM
One of those fake online certificates that says he is now Lord of Greenland.
No. Most US systems effectively have a kill switch because they rely on integrated (and proprietary) computing systems that are required to operate the equipment (see ODIN on F35s). Ironically nuclear weapons might not be in this category because their security systems are so old (floppy disks!)
January 14, 2026 at 8:55 AM
No. Most US systems effectively have a kill switch because they rely on integrated (and proprietary) computing systems that are required to operate the equipment (see ODIN on F35s). Ironically nuclear weapons might not be in this category because their security systems are so old (floppy disks!)
@shashj.bsky.social I see a lot of different numbers of death toll including up to 12,000. Is that realistic do you think?
January 13, 2026 at 6:57 PM
@shashj.bsky.social I see a lot of different numbers of death toll including up to 12,000. Is that realistic do you think?
Genuinely baffled by Pippa Crerar tying herself in knots to justify why she still uses X. “I have to use the Nazi child porn site because I get really good leads.” I guess there isn’t a line that it would cross where you would be happy to see yourself posting alongside?
January 13, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Genuinely baffled by Pippa Crerar tying herself in knots to justify why she still uses X. “I have to use the Nazi child porn site because I get really good leads.” I guess there isn’t a line that it would cross where you would be happy to see yourself posting alongside?
I’m a Labour supporter as well but I’m sure it’s within Starmer’s political capabilities to miss the open goal of “paedos are bad actually” lol
January 13, 2026 at 7:41 AM
I’m a Labour supporter as well but I’m sure it’s within Starmer’s political capabilities to miss the open goal of “paedos are bad actually” lol
The government could start by actually applying anti-competitive and anti-monopoly rules to big online retailers and supermarkets. There’s a revealed preference, but the market is also stacked against high street retailers.
January 11, 2026 at 6:56 PM
The government could start by actually applying anti-competitive and anti-monopoly rules to big online retailers and supermarkets. There’s a revealed preference, but the market is also stacked against high street retailers.