Sam Vimes knows very well that all cops are bastards (after all, he is one)
but he knows even more deeply that all landlords are bastards, and that he should direct his bastardry at them
and thatβs why we love Sam Vimes
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
It's right to say that there were a significant number of Labour back benchers at Wembley. But I am sure many of those will be asking themselves the question whether they should defect to the Greens as Labour's politics move ever closer to Reform's.
Really significant, I think, that the leaders of the Greens and Lib Dems were very visible at Transmission, very happy to publicly demonstrate a commitment to the dignity of trans people. But the Labour frontbench, which still likes to cosplay respect for human rights, was nowhere to be seen.
I'm used to Duo, the green Duolingo owl, psychologically abusing me in the guise of getting me to practise my German. Even so, given the current febrile geopolitical climate, repeatedly making me use the phrase "neunundneunzig luftballons" feels unnecessarily on-the-nose.
your vote is rarely the single decisive vote
but sometimes it is! and you never know when that might be
βElon Muskβs Tesla given go-ahead to supply electricity in Great Britain.β A subheading underneath says: βOfgem licence means firm can replicate Texas setup of powering homes, businesses and EVs.β
Ed Miliband must step in and bar Tesla from holding an energy licence.
Elon Musk is a threat to our national security and clearly not a fit person to operate in our energy industry.
We canβt have the lights go out because heβs having a strop on X.
Wasn't it? I saw this video about the costumes last year, which was one reason I was dying to see this production youtu.be/dBlMIpwYags?...
In two minutes this doctor explains why anti-trans hysteria is completely unscientific and based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how transitioning facilitated through the medical system actually works
over the course of Discworld, Terry took aim at nearly everything and everyone, but I think Small Gods is his sharpest and angriest satire and there's a reason it's one of my recommended starting points
Your top speed should be inversely proportional to the mass of your vehicle.
Terry Pratchett in a blue jacket and Akubra hat holding a young owl for release.
Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always β€οΈ
"The women who changed the system so I could be here"
@greenpartyhan.bsky.social pays homage to women who fought for change in her maiden speech during the International Women's Day debate.
And it's available free on YouTube for another week!
This was incredible! Just so good. Ncuti is an absolute icon, as is Sharon D Clarke as Lady Bracknell. Wonderful production, I'm so glad I finally got to see it #TIOBE #TakeYourSeats #NationalTheatreLive
The Cracking the Cryptic channel has been testing some Sudokus set by LLMs and found them pretty bad. Solving using AI seems to defeat the while point of a puzzle
Useful! I wonder if there are any addresses to women that have the same effect, or better still gender neutral ones. I'd bet not
I kind of assume that anyone who suggests LLMs for translation work only speaks one language and hasn't really tried to learn another, because it doesn't make sense for a program to do that work.
As an immigration legal help volunteer: we are seeing people get fucked ACTIVELY by exactly this, Google Translate was more reliable (still bad). AND it's making it harder to gauge the language level an email was written with, preventing adjusting our responses accordingly to ensure comprehension!
So, uh. In disability studies we call this a "disability dongle" or a techno-utopian solution to a problem that appeals to the able-bodied imagination rather than the actuality of disabled life itself.
Deploying a LLM to translate a legal notice for an asylum seeker functions similarly.
You asked, we listened π€
Take Your Seats for our free YouTube premiere of The Importance of Being Earnest on 12 March at 7pm.
Accessible worldwide, with British Sign Language, Audio Description and Closed Caption versions available.
Find out more here π
www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/take-your-se...
quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend
www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...
Extract from a book suggesting the people who commit atrocities are not βthemβ but βusβ
Terry Pratchett.
The Great Labour Replacement Project continues!
If you want REAL progressive polices then you need to #VoteGreen: don't waste your time voting for Labour!
novaramedia.com/2026/03/09/s...
While I'm glad pieces like this are highlighting how people are waking up to the abhorrence that is a royal family, I will say that modern royals, and Andrew in particular, aren't recent phenomena. It's not an institution degrading over time, it's always been like this www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
This is genius, especially the advice segment from 3:20: youtu.be/PDkW2hcQeFc?... #manosphere #Colbert #TheLateShow
Twilight, those magical, evocative moments as the sun dips below the horizon, arrive an hour later now. John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was fascinated with the delicate light quality at twilight and captured it in his painting "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Roseβ of 1885-86 (Tate Britain).
The NHS has now stopped all medication - puberty blockers and hormones - for trans minors. For most, unless they get drugs from other sources, this means a lifetime, in an increasingly violent and transphobic society, unable to pass. Under Wes Streeting NHS policy is harm and death for trans people.
#Solidarity with @sorayaadejare.bsky.social - the @labouruk.bsky.social do not deserve her.
Drama and emotion at @hackneycouncil.bsky.social as Labour councillor joins @hackneygreenparty.bsky.social mid-meeting www.mylondon.news/news/east-lo...
And it's over: CDU's Hagel concedes defeat to Greens' Γzdemir and invites him to form the next state government.
Nothing remarkable, but a reminder that in a world of political chaos, German democracy still works quite well.
www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
