mellowmark.bsky.social
359 posts
39 followers
53 following
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
John Mappin is an unhinged anti vaxxer and QAnon conspiracy crank...
www.thejc.com/news/british...
comment in response to
post
web.archive.org/web/20250618...
comment in response to
post
ecosia.co/app?referrer...
comment in response to
post
When the articles generated using ai are supposedly 'reviewed by an editor' but the headlines clearly aren't...
comment in response to
post
Fade into you? Also, Hope Sandoval + Jesus and Mary Chain is an unexpected combination - but I really like it...
youtu.be/rfEvgf2DdTQ?...
comment in response to
post
Edinburgh fringe festival line up for 2025?
comment in response to
post
Looks like a police interview room for questioning people arrested for a serious crime.
comment in response to
post
It's all over YouTube too - particularly the 'shorts'. I get it in my feed constantly despite not watching anything related.
I don't use Instagram, Facebook or Tik Tok, so don't know if it's there too...?
comment in response to
post
As Private Eye pointed out, the Telegraph really like the phrase "doomed to fail"...
comment in response to
post
UK listed company, so anyone can buy 1 share (about £11) and make their views known at the next AGM.
Like many, they say one thing and do another...
www.burberryplc.com/impact/burbe...
comment in response to
post
I had a very brief look today and the first post on my 'for you' tab was literally some blue tick account defending the Nazis (screenshot on the left).
comment in response to
post
Portugal too, for reds and Italy as well (red and white).
comment in response to
post
He is also currently in Moscow speaking at the same conference as Elon Musk's father and the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs:
comment in response to
post
Putin apologist George Galloway is also at the same conference:
comment in response to
post
Or another example, search for 'Elon Musk trading app' - the first two results are sites warning that there is no such genuine app and it's a scam/ fraud.
The 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th results are all sites promoting the scam, including an X profile and (scam) apps in the actual Google app store.
comment in response to
post
There is already an issue with accuracy in standard search results - eg search 'is xyz a scam' and you often get a page of results saying it's not, when it clearly is. (These are usually sites specifically set up to capture the search term, often generated by affiliate marketers promoting said scam)
comment in response to
post
Google AI overview for 'who owns SpaceX' says "Oops, something went wrong" at the end...
comment in response to
post
Still falling...
comment in response to
post
bsky.app/profile/mell...
comment in response to
post
These are the top 10 constituents, which represent nearly half the index.
www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/ind...
comment in response to
post
This is an ad currently on Google for an organisation for whom Farage has flown around the world twice to be a keynote speaker at their conferences.
Encouraging wealthy people to become immigrants & leave the UK to 'save tax'.
Why do people not recognise the hypocrisy of this snake oil salesman?
comment in response to
post
This website has a more recent article, but it's paywalled:
www.thebookseller.com/news/unbound...
comment in response to
post
They published this in March, but nothing since then, so maybe contact the journalist who wrote it regarding an update?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
comment in response to
post
I heard a bunch of students singing Wonderwall a few weeks ago. Was both surprised and puzzled! So if there is a Britpop revival with teenagers, I guess that makes a bit more sense now..
comment in response to
post
valuable and useful to the advertiser. (In any case buying that data from Facebook would be of no use, as using it to spam people with marketing for your cat related product/ service would be illegal).
comment in response to
post
While an advertiser cannot buy a list of cat owners in Sheffield from Facebook they can target cat owners in Sheffield using Facebook data and therefore create their own database of cat owners in Sheffield who are interested in their cat related product/ service, which is ultimately even more...
comment in response to
post
comment in response to
post
I know it's live and unweighted, but even so, 37% of Yougov responses so far saying 'both equally' 🤔
comment in response to
post
From Yougov poll today:
comment in response to
post
This property with an asking price of £3.75 million was recently purchased by the owner of a group of care homes. I wonder how much his care workers are paid?
www.onthemarket.com/details/1181...
comment in response to
post
I am educated (University degree via access course, mature student route) but left school at 16 & don't have Maths GCSE or equivalent. Also think I am reasonably well informed.
But that minimum requirement would disenfranchise me. In any case, universal franchise, is a core principle of democracy.
comment in response to
post
I have a degree (access course as a mature student) but I don't have Maths GCSE and left school at 16.
comment in response to
post
I got a mix of videos, but they included a GB news rant about asylum seekers, some guy praising Tommy Robinson, Tate and a few others of a similar nature. None of which had anything to do with the video I was watching.
comment in response to
post
YouTube full stop. Download a web browser app you have never used before (like Waterfox for example), cut and paste a fairly generic YouTube video URL, like a Sky news story and see what other videos the algorithm recommends without knowing anything about you or your viewing history.
comment in response to
post
With a similar cult like following (try posting a mildly critical comment under any of his YouTube videos.)
comment in response to
post
It seems that I agree with "Green curious Labour party voters" on lots of things (my views mostly being closest to the disagree green dots on this graphic).
But stupid shit like this means realistically I could never vote for them.
comment in response to
post
www.reddit.com/r/ScottishMu...
comment in response to
post
Got this article in my Google news feed this morning.
Wondered who the author is, so looked up the organisation that they work for.
No bias or agenda there then!
comment in response to
post
comment in response to
post
Wasn't it mainly retail investors buying the April dip and institutional investors were not?
comment in response to
post
I saw a Google ad last week offering UK driving test slots for sale. Checked the advertiser account and it was in United Arab Emirates. I assume one of those bot farms that block books and resells?
www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...
comment in response to
post
Scottish parliament elections this time next year (May 2026) should provide an indication.
This page shows polling for Scottish Parliament elections:
ballotbox.scot/scottish-par...
comment in response to
post
comment in response to
post
These immigrants who are councillors, or aspiring councillors, like the young Moldovan woman in the video, will probably do a much better job, ironically...
youtu.be/SIRkps5J-sE?...
comment in response to
post
Another one, from this month.
www.johcm.com/insights/uke...
comment in response to
post
A perspective from a UK asset manager:
www.auroraukalpha.com
comment in response to
post
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
comment in response to
post
From Reddit...
comment in response to
post
A lot of it is (was) being held up by the consumer spending of the wealthiest proportion of the population, according to data I read.
Economy was doing well, stock market booming, so spending by those with wealth was high. Now that stock market has fallen and the economy looks precarious...