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@PerisMusings

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Alistair, Cyber Consultant, Ex-Astronomer, Millenial and back in London :)

London, England
Joined April 2010
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@wesstreeting Why exactly can’t this be left in the hands of the experts (I.e. doctors) why *should* a politician make this decision?
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@cabinetofficeuk Already done! Leaving the country on the 18th never to return (except to visit my sister) - thanks for ruining one of the most stable democracies in the world and putting my sister’s life at risk though!
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@kcambra13 @MissDinSD @HarrietHarman it's every american's White House
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@paul_haine @hansmollman I noticed that with the D&D film - I no longer felt like he needed to be dumped in the Thames
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@DEADLINE Yes Minister AND the thick of it
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@gsoh31 I hate this so much. They only perceive degrees that they see as “saleable” as having any value, literally no understanding that there’s value in just learning. The end goal is everyone just does something directly related to a career and never thinks outside their economic box
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@BslMartyn @crisis_uk To criminalise the least fortunate in our society for daring to exist
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3 years
@gsoh31 I don’t understand this “anti-wokism”. How has a belief that all humans are equal and should be treated fairly become political?
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2 years
@ij_ford This seems worse than the shouty pigeons who appear to have formed their own independent state on my balcony. They really do have a lot to say.
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6 years
@IanDunt Well the leavers have ensured that I’m regularly told I’m not wanted in the country of my birth and hence have convinced me to emigrate. Very difficult to care about upsetting their feelings.
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6 years
@damocrat Not sure it’s possible for me to love Carney more - perfect response
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This is going to be nearly everything going forward as these companies *need* to show massive uptake of these garbage tools to try and claw back the vast costs by selling them on to corporations (to make their services significantly worse by sacking their workforce)
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Meta says you can't turn off its new AI assistant, but if you ask the AI, it'll just lie and make up a way to disable it. Great job Meta.
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@juliamacfarlane You don't get between a Londoner and the pub
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8 years
@kcambra13 @MissDinSD @HarrietHarman so? What's that got to do with MissD's statement? She doesn't have to like the president
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1 year
@Campster Search engines following next with their generative AI pieces (and the fact that there’s going to be so much AI generated dross). Using the internet for anything at all is going to be so difficult going forward
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5 years
@JimMFelton “I can’t be racist, I have friends from ethnic minorities” - seriously, he went there
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5 years
@bbclaurak Withdrawal agreement agreed by HMG NOT Barnier Deal
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8 years
@septembergrrl @tonigo @nytopinion We have exactly the same here in the UK, rural areas blaming London which subsidises them
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3 years
@IanDunt How did it come to this? Yes, it’s sad those animals would be left behind but there’s humans there fearing for their lives likely to be tortured and worse by a brutal regime. How is this even a discussion?
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@mouldyscone @wesstreeting They’re banning puberty blockers against the advice of the cass review (which made no such recommendation)
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@DavidTreasure9 @adampayne26 Because it would likely be electorally very bad for labour to make this argument (particularly in the ‘red wall’) whereas a backbench Tory MP is unlikely to matter very much
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8 years
@politicoharry @Martinned81 how dare he speak foreign tongues?! Everyone knows you just speak English loudly and slowly at foreigners
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8 years
@RussellDutton @HarrietHarman @maitlis and therefore has no power over the HoC. Thanks for clearing that up
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1 year
@parismarx It’s very weird, especially considering we have the technology to solve it *today* what we lack is the political will and I have no clue how even the “magical” AI they’re touting would fix that
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2 years
@DoodyEleanor @PickardJE Just eat all except a spoonful and rationalise this as having had 'about half'. My approach to such things!
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5 years
@GuitarMoog The Uk doesn’t deserve to be a part of the EU anymore in my opinion but I fear for the harm this will cause to those I love
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3 years
@sturdyAlex As I always say, Cummings is a 2:1 level student absolutely convinced he deserved a 1st and only didn’t get it because his lecturers couldn’t understand his ‘controversial’ viewpoints. Literally zero self reflection.
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2 years
@eggs_horse @mrjamesob Not sure 20USD would make a huge difference to Ukraine tbh
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5 years
@chasmanu @SebastianEPayne @JP_Biz @MaireadMcGMEP @OxfordDiplomat They know it’ll be popular with the membership and get them power - they don’t care what damage is done
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8 years
@kcambra13 @MissDinSD @HarrietHarman again what does that have to do with MissD's statement?
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4 months
@bcmerchant Bunch of new cybersecurity vulnerabilities, excellent technology Microsoft. I know that they’re doing this because they *need* to show that “ai” is a success and to push back against likely copyright lawsuits but I cannot stop getting annoyed with each new piece of nonsense
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@BobbyAllyn @sama Their reaction strongly implies they used her voice clips to train it
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@RobertJThomas1 @chandos64 @PeterSweden7 “Native born” here. Pretty happy with immigration policy thanks, live in an area with lots of immigration over the years, feels pretty great.
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5 years
@ute0761 @cabinetofficeuk Really worried about her medication - getting her to get an ETA for Canada so she can at least come visit in holiday for a few months and stay with me if it gets really bad.
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5 years
@DarrenPlymouth @SteveBarclay They seem pretty sanguine about the whole thing tbh
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3 years
@joncoopertweets No one should have to pay health insurance premiums. The US is bizarre.
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@ActualLion @wesstreeting It didn’t recommend banning puberty blockers at all
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6 years
@PropertySpot Holy fuck - why the hell would the Irish want to do this?
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@ednewtonrex @semblncestudios lol, they were ready for this particular nonsense
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7 years
@tony_nog I voted for a hung parliament paralysed by incompetence as it's the best hope of slowing/stopping hard Brexit. Will vote that way again
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5 years
@Peston What’s that? Bears shit in the woods? Really? What a scoop!
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6 years
@AdamBienkov @JXB101 How did anyone who voted Brexit not realise this?
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@DocDre @alexhanna Oh I hate this stuff - the output of those tools cannot be trusted
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@HaigAndy @BBCr4today And those making this argument aren’t old enough to have had it tough!
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6 years
@Badlydoodled @JamesMelville I am so sorry this has happened Peter - I don’t feel at home here anymore and I was born here. This helped bring home how much worse it must be for you.
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6 years
@hugorifkind To be honest it’s been going pretty much as I predicted which is why I advised anyone I could to vote remain
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2 years
@PanZ2021 @rcynic1 @P_e_rk @GergelyOrosz Yeah, none of what you’ve implied will fly in the EU nor in the UK. The courts will come down hard on Twitter.
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@IanDunt But soon there will be Christmas lights and it will all be lovely until like 2nd January when everything is bleak and awful with no hope until March
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@JarahMacfarlane @IyerC @kylascan Tbf that’s the UK that chose to set its economy on fire for “sovereignty ” or something
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@JDawgForReal @technology He expects them to work 40 hours FROM THE OFFICE. The thing that people are complaining about is the move from remote work NOT the number of hours.
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@Trudiwrites @MichelBarnier @BorisJohnson No deal then, enjoy the shortages. I’m just pleased I’ll be living in Toronto.
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6 years
@JimMFelton Can confirm - this is how astronomers SCIENCE. Space is dangerous, don’t want to point at it without the goggles.
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@SaffronOlive @misterorange @SBMTGDev Domri first! Looks like teaming up with Bolas was not the best plan
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@jamesrbuk @rowena_kay 1 of the things that pisses me off is the far-left laying into those of us worried about Brexit as it shows we “don’t care about the impacts of austerity” - do they not understand that the damage caused by Brexit to those least able to protect themselves will be many times worse?
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@WitchyMcWitch @mouldyscone @wesstreeting Did it recommend banning them? could you go find the paragraph please
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6 years
@iamhamesh Because Keir Starmer agrees with the policy voted on by members and understands the issues - can’t have that might lead to no Brexit
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@sibarnes2000 @tnewtondunn We’re sneering because the UK doesn’t suddenly get to force its choices on another sovereign state - Ireland hasn’t been part of the empire for a long time now
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@AliceAnneFaith @JimMFelton Weird episode of House that one.
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@Jim30677175 @DmitryOpines So would many of us brits these days!
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@mapduliand 1 of many things that pisses me off about brexiteers - their refusal to accept that their choice has fucked up the lives of millions
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Seriously?
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‼️Security guards who protected British embassy staff in Afghanistan rounded up in the UK, arrested, locked up and told they will be deported 😱😱😱 This is beyond the pale, even for this government. Their assault on refugee protection must be stopped
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@SpillerOfTea They are the most patient police officers in the world.
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@lewis_goodall @MartinHCroydon I guess they need to blame someone for why brexit didn’t deliver the sunlit uplands promised so why not blame the people who put in incredible amounts of work to try and keep the country functioning despite the very short timeframes to deliver something so incredibly complex
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@minerfan_14 @politico Have you ever heard of the scientific method?
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@ambassador_view @christopherhope No, and if we were staying we could veto them
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@FinancialTimes @frankmueller101 Surprised that such a terrible idea turned out to be terrible
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@sarahwollaston Wow - really? You’ll hand over parliamentary scrutiny of the most important constitutional change in decades to an executive that has proven itself completely incompetent based on promises of jam tomorrow? No Deal Brexit is on your head
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@RobertJThomas1 @chandos64 @PeterSweden7 Again. Go do some reading before sounding off and vote in your election in November
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@LeeaCoryea @ashishkjha Described (along with a few other things) at a high level here
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@LeighBoobyer Well that sounds like a court challenge waiting to happen
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@IanDunt people still can't deal with the fact the UK no longer has an empire. I felt the country was finally growing up. I was wrong.
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@kittynouveau @VoidBurger I assume this would also be the response to actual incontrovertible proof of aliens (like an actual monolith that swallows dogs or whatever) after 2020
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@CNBCMakeIt Keep seeing these sorts of stories where people want to apply AI to roles which are explicitly about human contact. It’s nonsense and will lead to poorer outcomes for those subjected to it. Coding, consulting, banking, trading maybe AI goes in and does the job, teaching, no
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@Telegraph Errrr, surely by defying the law it's Johnson causing the constiutional crisis?
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@Charbax @IanDunt Except that isn’t happening. Ukraine was invaded by an imperialist power and is trying to resist said invasion. Other nations have supplied them with the tools to assist in that resistance because allowing Russia to learn it can take what it wants by force in Europe would be bad
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@zoe_samuel @hugorifkind There’s no one to coalesce around unfortunately - if labour had been anti-Brexit (or even pro soft-Brexit) I think there would’ve been significantly more pushback
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@RoryStewartUK @davidallengreen Thank you Rory - you did good
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@TruthorConseq12 @RachelBitecofer You watched that for 3 hours? Weird thing to do
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@IanDunt This is awful - when I worked there I knew civil servants already working weekends (some regularly). The home office certainly has issues (as do all large organisations) but the people I worked with were dedicated employees
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@WeNeedEU @PhillWatson1970 @DmitryOpines I would pay good money to see the gherkin take flight and hover over the channel
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@PJDayK @IanDunt Didn't realise Canada was in Europe but thanks for that clarification
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@youngyinpontyc2 @TheSonicScrew Oh thanks for letting me know, I’ll go make sure to do my shopping there instead of sainsbury this week
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@ActualLion @wesstreeting Could you ask Mr streeting for me whether I should continue taking the methotrexate that enables me to walk? Would be good to know what his view on it is
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@EU_Commission Wow? Really? Never would have guessed. Can't believe this is news to Brexiteers.
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@ActualLion @wesstreeting Drs should make that decision, not politicians
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@RobertJThomas1 @chandos64 @PeterSweden7 They aren’t. Happy to help! They’re being arrested for things like calling for people to set fire to hotels filled with asylum seekers or for naming a random individual as the perpetrator of a heinous crime in an attempt to incite violence against asylum seekers
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@ariehkovler Erm... he does know the EU has already rejected this right?
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@ibexsalad @tom_tomrayner Well as this is partially their fault it's very difficult for me to care
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@damienpar @IanDunt A lot of that 40% don’t care what the government does as long as they make it worse for those they dislike.
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@Independent_ie That’s not how this works at all
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@rankamateur @lewis_goodall My view as well. He’s reasonably bright, probably top of the class at school and couldn’t cope with no longer being top of the class at university likely decided it was because the lecturers couldn’t appreciate his “brilliance”.
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@thetimes @katyjon So many covid deniers in the comments. Do they truly believe every single government in the world is doing this together as part of some giant global conspiracy? Do they even realise how many people would need to be paid off for this to work?
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@Oldmantravel @DavidLammy Why should anyone be proud to be born one side of an arbitrary line?
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@HellatronDrawin @telushk The report isn’t what the headline suggests it is. Basically scientists have found a correlation between communities with lower suicide rates and naturally occurring lithium in the water. They have not suggested adding lithium to the water in any way.
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@doncollier @Law_and_policy I've read the judgement it literally doesn't say that anywhere. Also 'ceded' not 'seceded'
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@IanDunt The grown ups have given up; they’re beaten. And with that, so is the UK. Get out if you can, otherwise batten down those hatches and good luck.
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