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Freedom of Movement wasn’t just a policy.
It was a simple freedom: the ability to say yes.
• Yes to a job.
• Yes to love.
• Yes to a new life in another country.
When that freedom disappeared, something subtle but important changed.
Definitely getting old. The in memoriam bit of the BAFTAs etc gets me more and more as each year passes
Forever my city even from a distance
Lost my phone in London, with four credit cards and £150 cash in the case. Returned to me within 21 minutes. This hellhole of a city eh.
When something takes you unawares . . . 🤣🤣🤣
Brilliant. Did not see that coming. Laughing very much out loud here
Read the first two sentences nodding sagely. Then chuckled at the third! I was definitely brought up to 'put another jumper on' and that has stuck
The UK was better off in the EU and Europe was better off with the UK in it.
All of this Trump driven chaos underlines that and you can practically hear Putin rubbing his hands in Moscow.
WE have deliberately weakened ourselves, our security and our region for absolutely no good purpose at all.
So many beat me to it . . . . Damn . . .
Not planning to go anywhere near the US anytime soon so . . .
This and this.
While so-called 'patriots' do everything they can to talk down the capital, a majority of people who actually live in London say they feel safe in the city 🤷♂️
🔥🇪🇺 “Europeans enjoy more free time than Americans, a higher life expectancy and lower levels of inequality – all with roughly comparable productivity.
Whichever way you look at it, this is a significantly superior economic performance.”
‘Cities need nature to be happy’: David Attenborough seeks out London’s hidden wildlife
Sounds good to me
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
Driving home for Christmas THE best Christmas song imo. Will take no questions. As this article/list says, not necessarily Chris Rea's best song but up there.
On this day in 1843, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens was published. It’s a cautionary tale, and if only Scrooge had kept his nerve Christmas would be a lot cheaper for all of us.
In what sense is Tommy Robinson a genuine Christian? None that I can see | Ravi Holy
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
I thought I had turned off my camera
Geigraphy really does explain everything
The second half of the 1980s called and want their bows back. As they say, if you wore it first time around . . .
'By design, LLMs also tend to reproduce and reinforce the most statistically prevalent ideas, creating a feedback loop that narrows the scope of accessible human knowledge'.
Ecologist and evolutionary biologist? That's my sort of interesting. Followed 🙂 Oh and in my experience 'look at the degree on that chick' (expressed slightly differently obvs 🤣) is definitely a thing (and has been since forever)
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
“The promise of a world-changing technology that isn’t here…companies are stealing every scrap of data they can find, throwing computer power at it, draining our aquifers of water, our national grids of electricity and all we have is some software that you can’t trust not to make things up.”
Donald Trump destroyed public service broadcasting in the US - it's little surprise Nigel Farage wants to do the same thing here.
Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.
