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I’ve been making my way through the Welfare Reform Bill and this paragraph on the gov.uk website is genuinely disgusting. Receiving a decent disability benefits rate “encourages sickness”, does it? Funny, I thought it just enabled severely ill and disabled people to eat.

submitted 4 hours ago • 19 comments

sensational

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

Mungo Jerry - Wizbit Theme Song [1985, TV theme] Wizbit was a creepy UK Kid's show, the theme song is based off of a Leadbelly song. The song is catchy as hell. https://redd.it/5beo78 https://youtu.be/bu4VJ8ivB34

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

God knows the National isn’t perfect. But this is class.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Quite good and includes a Keir Starmer example 💀

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

For any beer drinkers out there (like me). You should be aware that Vocation, my local brewery and nationally recognised, has started trading direct into Israel. They have chosen now, of all times, to open up this income stream. I have complained and they have ignored it.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

I like the term "semantic pareidolia". It's a very powerful and underappreciated concept.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

go fuck yourselves, bluesky mods

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

To one, to you.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Olivia Rodrigo is great, though.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

he hid my post ;_;

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

They learned lessons from Iraq. These lessons were: - Don’t seek public consent - Enforce your version of events - Enforce it via media panics and physically by police, if required - Never admit an error, let alone anything worse - Instantly forget what you did: if possible, never refer to it again

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Trump saying many unhinged things today and it’s important to remind ourselves that a democrat president would have endorsed war crimes with A LOT more decorum

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Supposed I better fill the car up before the rationing starts

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Work make us report on our (enforced) ChatGPT usage, so I use it to generate regexps, which I can either validate by eye or stick them into a validator. I still hate it though.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Just the same, except in 2002/3, and it took me a long time to work out that era was not some remarkable period of exception but was in fact permanent, and not so exceptional at all.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

We marched 1000% better than this in the Air Training Corps. Not exactly a spectacle.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

A bracingly post-democratic feel to all of this IMO

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.

submitted 6 days ago • 882 comments

This, if you know anything about the Wilson family, may make your eyes a bit dusty.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Can we please have a moritorium on the phrase "lift and shift" when it comes to programming, because in 98% of cases it is almost certainly NOT a simple lift and shift and instead involves considerable rewriting and retooling. This post brought to you by your fneighbourhood jaded PHP developer...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

This is your reminder that 'job coach' is a bullshit made up job. It's not a skilled info, advice and guidance role e.g welfare/occupational health/employment agency role. It's a low paid gig that the DWP gives to cowards who will do their dirty work.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Journalists can’t help anthropomorphising a statistical model, even when they’re writing negative stories about it. Every story that doesn’t replace “Chat GPT advised the user to” with “ChatGPT generated a statistically likely stream of words, and those words were” is working to promote them

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Some people in the comments learned some new (true) things from this article, and they do not like it.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

A requirement to be honest and have principles is not a purity test. If someone is prepared to take a job as a lobbyist for crypto, there is absolutely nothing you could trust them not to do.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Tom Jones. We don’t talk about the second most famous

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

In honor of Brian Wilson's passing, here are the four categories of Beach Boys songs: 1. surfing is great, you should try it 2. I have a good vehicle 3. I reach beyond myself into the ineffable, and that's where I find you, my love 4. sloop john b

submitted 8 days ago • 44 comments