Sam McGowan
@sam-mcgowan.bsky.social
22 he/him, UK
Programming in Rust 🦀, art, photography, shitposts. Probably a humanist.
🤖 Bot follows & engagement farmers will be blocked.
Programming in Rust 🦀, art, photography, shitposts. Probably a humanist.
🤖 Bot follows & engagement farmers will be blocked.
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“Starmer’s investment deals with US big tech threaten to give them priority access to our resources – energy, water & personal data – rather than using these resources to meet public need. They’ll drive a coach & horses through our climate commitments”
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🔴 NEW - Labour’s Big Tech Love Affair Could Blow Up Its Climate Promises
The government has signed vast deals with gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants.
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
The government has signed vast deals with gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants.
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
Labour’s Big Tech Love Affair Could Blow Up Its Climate Promises
When U.S. President Donald Trump landed for what he called the “exquisite honour” of an unprecedented second state visit to the UK this September, he brought along a retinue of his favourite Silicon V...
www.desmog.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“Starmer’s investment deals with US big tech threaten to give them priority access to our resources – energy, water & personal data – rather than using these resources to meet public need. They’ll drive a coach & horses through our climate commitments”
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Pleased to be quoted👇
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Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design
Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design
Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme
October 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design
Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design
Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme
Just removed 400GB of junk from my computer.
October 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Just removed 400GB of junk from my computer.
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if i try hard enough they will surely see that i am an earnest young man with joy in my soul and autism in my brain
September 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
if i try hard enough they will surely see that i am an earnest young man with joy in my soul and autism in my brain
It has been 0 days since I forgot to update the counter.
September 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
It has been 0 days since I forgot to update the counter.
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Q. Who aligns the aligners?
A. alignmentalignment.ai
Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.
A. alignmentalignment.ai
Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.
Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
We align the aligners
alignmentalignment.ai
September 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Q. Who aligns the aligners?
A. alignmentalignment.ai
Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.
A. alignmentalignment.ai
Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.
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There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man.
Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent.
We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate.
My latest piece.
Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent.
We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate.
My latest piece.
We Must Not Posthumously Sanitize Charlie Kirk's Hateful Life
Influential anti-LGBTQ+ activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday. While condemning violence is something most can get behind, sanitization of his hate has gone too far.
www.erininthemorning.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man.
Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent.
We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate.
My latest piece.
Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent.
We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate.
My latest piece.
September 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Is a hot air balloon a light aircraft?
August 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Is a hot air balloon a light aircraft?
Updated my Unicode glyph collection ☙ 𖠊
August 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Updated my Unicode glyph collection ☙ 𖠊
August 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Fantasies of Nuremberg
On justice, punishment, and the Earth crying out for vengeance. youtu.be/n9Ay5tzHIBU
On justice, punishment, and the Earth crying out for vengeance. youtu.be/n9Ay5tzHIBU
July 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Fantasies of Nuremberg
On justice, punishment, and the Earth crying out for vengeance. youtu.be/n9Ay5tzHIBU
On justice, punishment, and the Earth crying out for vengeance. youtu.be/n9Ay5tzHIBU
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🤢 How much sewage was dumped in your river last year?
📍On my map, click anywhere along a river's path to trace every spill upstream from that exact spot.
📈 Scale spills by size to see the worst offenders.
📅 Compare 2023 and 2024 spills.
👉 www.janderrfuss.com/sewage-spill...
📍On my map, click anywhere along a river's path to trace every spill upstream from that exact spot.
📈 Scale spills by size to see the worst offenders.
📅 Compare 2023 and 2024 spills.
👉 www.janderrfuss.com/sewage-spill...
July 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
🤢 How much sewage was dumped in your river last year?
📍On my map, click anywhere along a river's path to trace every spill upstream from that exact spot.
📈 Scale spills by size to see the worst offenders.
📅 Compare 2023 and 2024 spills.
👉 www.janderrfuss.com/sewage-spill...
📍On my map, click anywhere along a river's path to trace every spill upstream from that exact spot.
📈 Scale spills by size to see the worst offenders.
📅 Compare 2023 and 2024 spills.
👉 www.janderrfuss.com/sewage-spill...
Bad internet today.
July 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Bad internet today.
Sign this petition to repeal the new Online Safety Act introduced in the UK.
The act is vastly overreaching, vague, and invasive.
The act is vastly overreaching, vague, and invasive.
July 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Sign this petition to repeal the new Online Safety Act introduced in the UK.
The act is vastly overreaching, vague, and invasive.
The act is vastly overreaching, vague, and invasive.
It's starting to set in for me that there is a very real possibility the UK will have a Reform government by 2029.
Fuck.
Fuck.
July 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
It's starting to set in for me that there is a very real possibility the UK will have a Reform government by 2029.
Fuck.
Fuck.
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The business secretary Jonathan Reynolds says the racist protesters intimidating asylum seekers in Epping are "upset for legitimate reasons.”
I don't remember any Labour frontbencher saying the same about people protesting the genocide in Gaza. On the contrary, they've criminalised peaceful dissent.
I don't remember any Labour frontbencher saying the same about people protesting the genocide in Gaza. On the contrary, they've criminalised peaceful dissent.
July 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The business secretary Jonathan Reynolds says the racist protesters intimidating asylum seekers in Epping are "upset for legitimate reasons.”
I don't remember any Labour frontbencher saying the same about people protesting the genocide in Gaza. On the contrary, they've criminalised peaceful dissent.
I don't remember any Labour frontbencher saying the same about people protesting the genocide in Gaza. On the contrary, they've criminalised peaceful dissent.
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The police (wrongly) inform a peaceful protestor that holding a Palestinian flag and signs deploring genocide is an offence under the Terrorism Act. This is the deranged policing environment the government has created.
Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.
July 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The police (wrongly) inform a peaceful protestor that holding a Palestinian flag and signs deploring genocide is an offence under the Terrorism Act. This is the deranged policing environment the government has created.
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Rust 1.88.0 has been released! ✨🎊 🦀
This release brings you let chains, naked functions, automatic Cargo cache cleaning, Cell::update, proc_macro span locations, as_chunks methods on slices, and more!
Check out the blog post and release notes for all the details: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/06/26/R...
This release brings you let chains, naked functions, automatic Cargo cache cleaning, Cell::update, proc_macro span locations, as_chunks methods on slices, and more!
Check out the blog post and release notes for all the details: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/06/26/R...
Announcing Rust 1.88.0 | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
blog.rust-lang.org
June 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Rust 1.88.0 has been released! ✨🎊 🦀
This release brings you let chains, naked functions, automatic Cargo cache cleaning, Cell::update, proc_macro span locations, as_chunks methods on slices, and more!
Check out the blog post and release notes for all the details: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/06/26/R...
This release brings you let chains, naked functions, automatic Cargo cache cleaning, Cell::update, proc_macro span locations, as_chunks methods on slices, and more!
Check out the blog post and release notes for all the details: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/06/26/R...
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Insta360 example footage. THE BOW IS UPSIDE DOWN
June 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Insta360 example footage. THE BOW IS UPSIDE DOWN
Woe is me. My whole family have Munchausen by proxy, and honestly I think I deserve a bit more sympathy.
June 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Woe is me. My whole family have Munchausen by proxy, and honestly I think I deserve a bit more sympathy.
2001: A Space Oddity
June 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
2001: A Space Oddity
Aliens seem very interested in abducting and probing conspiracy theorists. Someone should look into that.
June 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Aliens seem very interested in abducting and probing conspiracy theorists. Someone should look into that.
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Starmer's Labour Party expels leftwingers for the tiniest perceived infractions. Yet it welcomes people who are basically Trumpists into the very heart of its operations. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Blue Labour group urges ministers to ‘root out DEI’ to win over Reform voters
Faction influencing No 10 says government should legislate against DEI in hiring, sentencing and ‘wherever else’
www.theguardian.com
June 2, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Starmer's Labour Party expels leftwingers for the tiniest perceived infractions. Yet it welcomes people who are basically Trumpists into the very heart of its operations. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...