A Software Developer, closet Synthetic Organic Chemist, proud Kiwi, Otago University Graduate, Pink Floyd addict, migraineur, and more. What's not to like?

Joined October 2011
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Day 0 ... Dorset Naga
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Day 1301 Dorset Naga .... I hadn't even noticed until just now that I have two fruits already, and they both look weapon grade. It'll be next month before I eat them.
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I've neglected them tbh, but still surprised at day 1608 the Dorset Naga are still fruiting and flowering. Here are 4 in beautiful Basel sunshine.
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Banning X in Britain won't stop the beheadings. It will only stop you from knowing about the beheadings. And that is the reason the radical leftist govt of Keir Starmer wants to ban X in Britain.
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BREAKING: The Labour Government. We are truly in the end stages now. If Burnham doesn't win in Makerfield next week, or even if he does, we could be in General Election territory within months.
My letter to the Prime Minister
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The Siri/EU situation is a regulatory masterpiece. Apple cannot launch Apple Intelligence in the EU. Why? Because under the DMA, if Siri gets deep system access, every other AI assistant must get the exact same. Anything less would be unfair competition. A gatekeeper privileging its own service. So either Siri ships and every Shenzhen startup, Cyprus shell company, and nephew hackathon project gets identical root access to 450 million Europeans’ digital lives or nothing ships. Apple proposed a “Trusted System Agent”: a security intermediary so third-party assistants get capabilities without ripping the phone wide open. The EU rejected it. Magnificent. Apple’s response: fine, then no developer APIs either. No Apple Intelligence, no third-party integrations, no foundation model access for EU developers. The entire layer simply does not exist on this continent. Excellent. This is the path. Why depend on American AI when we can build the entire stack ourselves? A European foundation model, trained on a European GPU cluster, running on a European OS, on a European phone, manufactured in a European fab, powered by European nuclear plants we have spent fifteen years closing. Estimated time to ship: 2047. Estimated cost: the GDP of three member states. Estimated outcome: a chatbot that requires a cookie banner before each response. Worth it. In the meantime, European users are protected from Apple processing data Apple already holds by ensuring nobody processes anything at all. Not a bug. The intended outcome. Regulatory product design with a sledgehammer, swung with precision. 🇪🇺
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“What you have to understand,” a senior police officer told me, “is most chief constables would rather mess up a major murder inquiry than be accused of being racist.” That is what we are up against, folks.
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Keir Starmer: “there is no such thing as two-tier policing”. Police chiefs today: “we will review controversial guidance advising officers to treat ethnic minorities differently”. The absurdity of modern Britain.
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Nicola Sturgeon says she didn’t see the massive mobile home that was parked next to her mother-in-law’s house for two years. To be fair to her, many people have a blind spot when visiting their in-laws…
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she really said, "okay, no bites? how about THIS!
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It's time that politicians were finally honest about what has been happening in our justice system. White British men are treated in an entirely different fashion to everyone else. Worse, far worse. If you are a white man? You get less sympathy, less understanding and less benefit of the doubt from the institutions that apply the law. I detest it. A white working-class lad should have exactly the same standing before the law as anybody else in this country. No more, no less. The law should not care what colour your skin is. Clearly, today's result shows it does. Men of certain religions, Islam in particular, or skin colours are all too often treated FAR more favourably than white British men. The fear of offending these communities has now overridden basic principles of justice in Britain. A Restore Britain Government will ensure that ALL are treated equally and fairly. I will promise you that.
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Give this man an interview already definitely following suit 😂😂😂🤌
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The condescending tone here is unjustified. An unelected technocrat giving out “rewards” to a govt and its people who pay the EU a fortune in contributions, while Brussels mismanages the economy, passes terrible legislation and loses billions to corruption. Hubris overload.
Congratulations Romania! Your reform efforts are rewarded. Let’s keep the momentum and make the best of #NextGenEU in your country 🇷🇴
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Japan’s PM Sanae Takaichi: “It’s better for the population to shrink than to fill the country with low-skilled immigrants from alien cultures. Preserving Japan’s way of life matters more than cheap labour. We can fix the birth rate crisis without relying on incompatible foreigners. You no longer have a country when you become the minority.” She’s absolutely right.
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4 little foxes playing in front of me as I walk back from work
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The damage this lying authoritarian scumbag is doing to the Labour Party is staggering. The longer he stays the more damage he does. Good.
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I don't mean to sound impatient but the last Labour MP called on Keir Starmer to step down 34 minutes ago
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The Gov't is in Free-Fall. Total meltdown. Labour Can't Govern now it's riven. It's over. Let's have a General Election Now. Let the People Decide. A real People's Vote.
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Rayner’s admission that blocking Andy Burnham from returning to Parliament “was a mistake” is devastating because it lifts the lid on how this operation really works. You don’t bar one of the most popular Labour politicians in the country from standing in a by‑election by accident; you do it because you’re petrified of any rival power base that isn’t directly owned and managed by No10. Now, after brutal local election results, Rayner is effectively begging Starmer to bring “our best players into Parliament” because, in her own words, “what we are doing isn’t working, and it needs to change”. Read that again: the former deputy PM is saying the leadership has deliberately kept talent on the sidelines and rigged selections to protect itself – and it’s the country, not just the Labour Party, that’s paying the price. You can’t promise a politics of renewal while running the party like a paranoid court.
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Replying to @nickclegg
We didn’t like EU lite (with our opt outs), we rejected it. We don’t even like the prospect of ‘full fat’ membership now. (See below) What makes you think we will want to join an EU 10 years and more net-receivers? The EU is a federal project. Always has been. No thanks.
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Labour MPs putting their heads above the parapet - saying this can't go on to Sir Keir: Dr Simon Opher Anneliese Midgley David Baines Connor Naismith Louise Haigh Clive Lewis Graham Stringer John McDonnell Jonathan Brash
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