oldhobbit.bsky.social
Ageing hobbit, not eleventy one yet, refugee from that Other Place.
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Seconded!
K-Hole blackout chasing the machine elves into the coffee table?
King Donald XLVII and his praetorian guard?
... Melania ... !?!?!
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I suspect, if Russia nuked Kyiv or similar, it would piss off a lot of Ukrainians and make control over the country impossible, even if Kyiv fell.
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And Irn Bru was created in Falkirk, as an alternative to beers and spirits, for thirsty foundry workers. Anyone who says the good old days of mass industrial labour were good, is deluded.
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Many Scottish towns have an old pub or hotel called "The Goth" or "The Gothenburg". Years ago, alcoholism and binge drinking was normal and the Gothenburg model was imported from Sweden, to try and control drinking and put the profits back into community enterprises.
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I think he was killed and replaced by an android, now malfunctioning.
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Scots Tories have - until recently - been weirder and more UKIPpy than their English counterparts. Very little difference between them and Reform, then and now.
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The difference between the Scots Tories and UKIP/Reform was never great, even in the days of Cameron greenwashing. Those voters were always there, especially in the lousy areas where heavy industry and coal mining was never replaced, and were pretty grim even when there were jobs.
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I am told that the successful Labour MSP is old-school Council Labour, nothing bad heard about him, other than it isn't surprising that he wasn't doing interviews as he is more of a backroom (smoke filled or otherwise) type.
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And the Tory candidate was a weirdo, weirder even than Reform.
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It is the sort of place they would paint the kerbstones red-white-and-blue if they could, one of the few groups in Scotland the Tories should be attracting, the others being North East oil barons, suburban retirees, Edinburgh private school lawyers and Borders/Perthshire tweedy types.
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How much contribution was made by Labour shifting, or being seen to shift, on issues like the benefits cap and OAP winter fuel payments? Might have been different otherwise.
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The Scots Tories candidate was weird, even compared to the likes that Reform are attracting.
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There must be a pot of gold at the end of that rainbow, given the amount of companies promoting "Pride Month In Name Only".
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It is reminiscent of the popular music feud between the wrappers known as Sir Francis Drake and Sir Kenneth Lamarr.
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Can you get a little hand for the little hand?
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The Tory candidate was weird, even by the standard of the Scots Tories, weirder even than Reform.
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Their campaign office will be vacant, or a charity shop, already.
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The Tory candidate was a member of the "Carluke No Surrender Apprentice Boys of Derry" but he was maybe too weird even for those voters, or they had a wider range of "staunch" options. The Labour candidate looks to be from the usual mould in that area, old and male and red-faced.
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I am disappointed that the SNP didn't keep the seat, note that it was a narrow victory for Labour and hope that the disgraceful Reform attacks on Sarwar and Scots-Asians shifted the vote towards Labour.
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Good to see some English commentators do their research on the local area.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this...
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They will be using it to check access to toilets, at considerable expense.
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They did something right, although still a squeaky result for them.
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25 photographs taken by Bellingcat team members from every continent in the world, including Antarctica, and not previously shared online were used to test the models capabilities, with ChatGPT models dominating the results:
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Here is the link... 2 weeks time saved per person per year, not quite the revolution that the tech bros imagine (and have sunk money into) www.gov.uk/government/n...
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I saw an interesting report recently, in the UK, that estimated maybe 30%-50% of public sector jobs could be supported by Gen AI. Seems reasonable and not the robot overlord takeover the tech bros are desperately trying to monetise.
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Ah, comms line of sight. I wouldn't recommend allowing it for various reasons, ethical and practical and a combination of the two.
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What?!? There are long-established areas in the UK for military equipment testing. I guess this involves drones.
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I think crime is generally down, as people are less pissed and less violent, other than in Shit Life areas. In my Florida Man town of birth, the crimes are usually preceded by excessive alcohol consumption. Although I bet it is still lower than drunken past decades when people drank at lunchtime etc
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From extracts of this, I can see a lot of "me, me, me" and "I, I, I".
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She is a complete gammon!
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Definitely an improvement!
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The Cunt's Head
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#Barkbox is run by cowards.