Stew Elliott
@stewcelliott.bsky.social
British / Irish. Software engineer, amateur photographer, urbanism dilettante. 🔶 (he/him)
I have found the opposite of clickbait
November 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I have found the opposite of clickbait
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long-time followers of the channel may remember that time the bbc portrayed a tory chancellor as superman
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
long-time followers of the channel may remember that time the bbc portrayed a tory chancellor as superman
Very weird to ask Starmer whether this budget is an attempt to keep his MPs onside, I cannot recall that question being asked of a Tory Chancellor even when they were pretty openly throwing red meat to stave off rebellion from their most lunatic backbenchers.
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Very weird to ask Starmer whether this budget is an attempt to keep his MPs onside, I cannot recall that question being asked of a Tory Chancellor even when they were pretty openly throwing red meat to stave off rebellion from their most lunatic backbenchers.
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Why did the BBC think they should say that a woman in her 90s who has suffered serious injuries “was dressed in dark clothes”?
Do they think that is relevant? Did she in any way make this driver hit her?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Do they think that is relevant? Did she in any way make this driver hit her?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pedestrian in serious condition after Owlthorpe crash
The woman, in her 90s, is in hospital with serious injuries after being struck by a car, police say.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Why did the BBC think they should say that a woman in her 90s who has suffered serious injuries “was dressed in dark clothes”?
Do they think that is relevant? Did she in any way make this driver hit her?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Do they think that is relevant? Did she in any way make this driver hit her?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yes it turns out that a lot of people's economic *and* social views tend to be informed by the same underlying set of principles which means that people left or right on one axis are the same on the other *at least as regularly* as they're split, and I'd wager probably more regularly.
The thing about "left on the economy, right on culture" is it's based on analysis of swing voters. Those voters are often low attention and their politics are often not especially coherent. Which is fine for them, it's not their job to run the country, but, you know, the government is
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Yes it turns out that a lot of people's economic *and* social views tend to be informed by the same underlying set of principles which means that people left or right on one axis are the same on the other *at least as regularly* as they're split, and I'd wager probably more regularly.
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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I don't think a sticker from the police saying it's 'not allowed' highlights the dangers of pavement parking to drivers.
I think it highlights to drivers that they can do something that's not allowed, with full knowledge of the police, and face zero consequences.
I think it highlights to drivers that they can do something that's not allowed, with full knowledge of the police, and face zero consequences.
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I don't think a sticker from the police saying it's 'not allowed' highlights the dangers of pavement parking to drivers.
I think it highlights to drivers that they can do something that's not allowed, with full knowledge of the police, and face zero consequences.
I think it highlights to drivers that they can do something that's not allowed, with full knowledge of the police, and face zero consequences.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
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The training/socialization of men starts instantly and goes hard. Everything you might like is too gay, too feminine. You are required to hate yourself for being insufficiently masculine, to blame others for that feeling, and to hate everyone who doesn't "respect" your manliness.
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The training/socialization of men starts instantly and goes hard. Everything you might like is too gay, too feminine. You are required to hate yourself for being insufficiently masculine, to blame others for that feeling, and to hate everyone who doesn't "respect" your manliness.
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the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
People on BlueSky: AI is useless! A stochastic parrot!
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
arxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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"just use the AI. Try it, you'll love it. It's super useful and doesn't make you stupid. We promise. You'll be so much more efficient."
a group of people standing next to each other with a glowing t in the background
Alt: Gif from star trek: tng with the senior crew standing around Wesley, forcing the headset on him and making him play the Game until he's good and addicted, and no longer smugly superior for not playing like all the good seniors.
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"just use the AI. Try it, you'll love it. It's super useful and doesn't make you stupid. We promise. You'll be so much more efficient."
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I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
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as a society we're dealing with an AGI fraud being foisted upon us. ML and LLMs are tools that will have ideal use cases, but what's being sold is a wholesale reshaping of society, the economy, and the environment in the service of a small cadre of billionaires. that's what people are reacting to
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
as a society we're dealing with an AGI fraud being foisted upon us. ML and LLMs are tools that will have ideal use cases, but what's being sold is a wholesale reshaping of society, the economy, and the environment in the service of a small cadre of billionaires. that's what people are reacting to
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imagine lecturing the creator of Florb. imagine sending a bad faith response to the creator of Scrotetto
Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
imagine lecturing the creator of Florb. imagine sending a bad faith response to the creator of Scrotetto
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Lol congratulations to whoever briefed that the chancellor was going to axe Cycle to Work, then didn't. Whatever was going on behind the scenes, you've just done wonders for London's bike shops pre-Christmas.
If my group chats are anything to go by, Treasury briefing "we're going to end the cycle to work tax break that enables people to buy a large family-sized e-bike" has done more than any other advertising campaign to boost the uptake of family-sized e-bikes. Sales must be through the roof this week.
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Lol congratulations to whoever briefed that the chancellor was going to axe Cycle to Work, then didn't. Whatever was going on behind the scenes, you've just done wonders for London's bike shops pre-Christmas.
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and again - literally just the hobby horse of some random anonymous Twitter accounts, enraging how quickly they managed to turn their horrid posting into actual government policy and rhetoric
“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
and again - literally just the hobby horse of some random anonymous Twitter accounts, enraging how quickly they managed to turn their horrid posting into actual government policy and rhetoric
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So, like, how is the "paper of record" honourific given? Who gives it? And more importantly, who can remove it?
Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times
*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*
Receipts in thread.
*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*
Receipts in thread.
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
So, like, how is the "paper of record" honourific given? Who gives it? And more importantly, who can remove it?
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idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
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I just learned the Bugs Bunny No meme doesn't even come from him saying no. It's a frame rotated 90 degrees from him taking a drink from a bottle. I needed to share this.
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I just learned the Bugs Bunny No meme doesn't even come from him saying no. It's a frame rotated 90 degrees from him taking a drink from a bottle. I needed to share this.
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Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times
*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*
Receipts in thread.
*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*
Receipts in thread.
November 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times
*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*
Receipts in thread.
*EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025*
Receipts in thread.
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"polyworking" is the kind of newspeak that births spree killers
Workers turn to 'polyworking' to combat frozen salaries and inflation
Working professionals in the U.S. are taking on side jobs to supplement their incomes amid frozen salaries, inflation and fear of layoffs.
apnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"polyworking" is the kind of newspeak that births spree killers
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Everything they do is "More children will die"
Exclusive: Republicans plan to challenge vehicle-safety mandates, such as automatic emergency braking and alarms that remind drivers a child is in the back seat.
Senate Committee to Challenge Auto-Safety Mandates That Hurt ‘Affordability’
Republicans are questioning the value of some features, such as automatic braking and rear-seat reminders.
on.wsj.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Everything they do is "More children will die"