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submitted 22 days ago • 67 comments

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submitted 27 days ago • 195 comments

Ten paces at dawn

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

“Thank you for changing my life” “I’m literally Scott McTominay”

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

Huh, how come the tactile paving at this corner gets broken? (Cowley Road/Collins Street OX4) #AntisocialParking

submitted 28 days ago • 11 comments

The legal duties on the UK to prevent genocide cannot wait for a court to tell the UK Government that a genocide has already happened. I've signed alongside more than 800 of my fellow legal academics, practicing lawyers and retired judges: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

submitted 29 days ago • 121 comments

This app is living up to its name

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

oh no

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

chatGPT must be destroyed.

submitted 35 days ago • 5 comments

🚨 Datavis Job Alert! 🚨 Permanent Senior Lectureship in Data Visualization. Exciting opportunity to join us @ giCentre, London to teach & research #datavis including our £11m Centre for Doctoral Training in Visualization. Feel free to DM for informal chat. www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

CalMac ferry from Oban to Castlebay on Barra breaks down. I wonder how many people have had their holiday plans ruined and the effect on businesses in the Western Isles? www.welovestornoway.com/index.php/ar...

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

labour: we welcome the verdict that bans you from public bathrooms lgbtq people: okay you're banned from attending our party labour: wtf that's so disrespectful??

submitted 40 days ago • 22 comments

Wow Keir Starmer is a piece of shit.

submitted 43 days ago • 28 comments

As promised, here's the amazing cover image for Unstable Orbits. The cover shows four of the characters from the book. All I’ll say is that Nate, the narrator, is bottom left (yes, he does look a bit anxious). 📚👀🌈📚💙📚 #CoverReveal

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Bezos is a pussy who sold out his customers for his orange daddy.

submitted 56 days ago • 849 comments

Farage wants you to think NHS problems are because it’s paid for from taxation and accessible to all, regardless of the ability to pay. Like this post if you think the NHS problems are down to deliberate underfunding by the Tories. Repost if you are against NHS privatisation.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Programmers report that their skills are atrophying with too much use of LLMs. The problem with generating code, text, etc. is that you don't exercise the necessary repetitions to develop or maintain an intuition, awareness or taste for doing “the thing”. Without care, anything gets worse.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

what a fucking cop out. laws can be changed, as they have done on so many other civil rights issues over the decades. The supreme court judgement was far narrower than the govt is making out and hiding behind.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment