Paul ☕️ 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🚶 🚲 🍃
@misterwohlfart.bsky.social
He/Him. Software developer. Node, Java, C#, React, Swift.
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While the Israeli military invades a Palestinian university in the occupied West Bank to demolish a memorial to Palestinian students the IDF has previously murdered, here in the UK our political & media class focus on telling us the Green Party are the problem.
October 6, 2026 at 6:36 AM
While the Israeli military invades a Palestinian university in the occupied West Bank to demolish a memorial to Palestinian students the IDF has previously murdered, here in the UK our political & media class focus on telling us the Green Party are the problem.
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Also, it's insulting to those Jewish and Palestinian members who worked for a year on this detailed motion to reduce its content to a 'slogan'. Please read this longish thread from Jewish member Annie Gottfried-Cohen:
bsky.app/profile/anns...
bsky.app/profile/anns...
Reading the news, it would be easy to believe that the Green Party has adopted a policy to expel its Jewish members, prevent them from attending synagogue or at the very least scrutinise their activities outside the party. *None of that has happened* 🧵
October 7, 2026 at 7:38 AM
Also, it's insulting to those Jewish and Palestinian members who worked for a year on this detailed motion to reduce its content to a 'slogan'. Please read this longish thread from Jewish member Annie Gottfried-Cohen:
bsky.app/profile/anns...
bsky.app/profile/anns...
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Noooooo, you don't understand, the purpose of a political party is to patiently fence-sit their way into power, and then sell out what little principles they have left to become the junior party in (and absorb all the toxicity of) a right-wing coalition for a 5p carrier bag charge.
Some people here don't seem to have understood the purpose of a political party.
It's not the same as a protest movement.
It is a vehicle designed to get into government, to change legislation and make a material difference to the lives of people at home and abroad.
It's not the same as a protest movement.
It is a vehicle designed to get into government, to change legislation and make a material difference to the lives of people at home and abroad.
October 7, 2026 at 9:09 AM
Noooooo, you don't understand, the purpose of a political party is to patiently fence-sit their way into power, and then sell out what little principles they have left to become the junior party in (and absorb all the toxicity of) a right-wing coalition for a 5p carrier bag charge.
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Leonid Ragozin was expelled by Latvia. The usual crowd of Kremlin apologists, along with some real journalists, quickly came to his defense.
Read here why Leo is not your typical journalist:
bsky.app/profile/vatn...
Read here why Leo is not your typical journalist:
bsky.app/profile/vatn...
In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce a Russian journalist, Leonid Ragozin (@leonidragozin.bsky.social). He’s best-known for posing as a Russian dissident, while at the same time sneakily promoting the Kremlin’s narratives about the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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October 8, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Leonid Ragozin was expelled by Latvia. The usual crowd of Kremlin apologists, along with some real journalists, quickly came to his defense.
Read here why Leo is not your typical journalist:
bsky.app/profile/vatn...
Read here why Leo is not your typical journalist:
bsky.app/profile/vatn...
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The worst part of that green party motion is that now I have to hear the NPC dialogue tree about it being a "complex issue" in real life. Just like the online version, no refutation of core thrust of the motion is made, if it's anything it's conceded, just that it's rude to point out.
October 8, 2026 at 10:55 AM
The worst part of that green party motion is that now I have to hear the NPC dialogue tree about it being a "complex issue" in real life. Just like the online version, no refutation of core thrust of the motion is made, if it's anything it's conceded, just that it's rude to point out.
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I'm still very upset that stuff like this goes bascially uncommented on. not even an MP commenting on it.
It shows how broken things are bsky.app/profile/aida...
It shows how broken things are bsky.app/profile/aida...
This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it.
It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.
It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.
October 8, 2026 at 10:30 AM
I'm still very upset that stuff like this goes bascially uncommented on. not even an MP commenting on it.
It shows how broken things are bsky.app/profile/aida...
It shows how broken things are bsky.app/profile/aida...
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Ecosia has a much deeper problem than which text fabrication engine they're using - they're fundamentally driving a shift towards more wasteful, bloated and inefficient digital existence and they continue to refuse to disclose any meaningful information
October 8, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Ecosia has a much deeper problem than which text fabrication engine they're using - they're fundamentally driving a shift towards more wasteful, bloated and inefficient digital existence and they continue to refuse to disclose any meaningful information
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That aside: the idea open models are "better" in terms of sustainability is wildly overplayed. There's *some* difference but it's small
Ecosia are scamming a huge, huge number of eco-minded people and pushing them into wasteful, private-jet-esque search habits
cleerdash.sustainableaigroup.com
Ecosia are scamming a huge, huge number of eco-minded people and pushing them into wasteful, private-jet-esque search habits
cleerdash.sustainableaigroup.com
October 8, 2026 at 9:11 AM
That aside: the idea open models are "better" in terms of sustainability is wildly overplayed. There's *some* difference but it's small
Ecosia are scamming a huge, huge number of eco-minded people and pushing them into wasteful, private-jet-esque search habits
cleerdash.sustainableaigroup.com
Ecosia are scamming a huge, huge number of eco-minded people and pushing them into wasteful, private-jet-esque search habits
cleerdash.sustainableaigroup.com
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A short while ago my local Labour MP said he was pushing for and making the case for electric bikes to be classed as dangerous products. Yet they kill and seriously injure less people than these unsafe (over powered, over weight, over sized) trucks.
Silence or leadership?
Silence or leadership?
October 8, 2026 at 11:24 AM
A short while ago my local Labour MP said he was pushing for and making the case for electric bikes to be classed as dangerous products. Yet they kill and seriously injure less people than these unsafe (over powered, over weight, over sized) trucks.
Silence or leadership?
Silence or leadership?
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Psychotruck driver kills again. 😢 Ford Ranger is an unsafe vehicle that should require special licence to use. Users of sensible vehicles pay the price with their children’s lives.
Actual dangerous product. I’m now waiting for our MPs to demand such classification?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Actual dangerous product. I’m now waiting for our MPs to demand such classification?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Girl, 9, killed in two-vehicle crash in the Highlands
Police say the girl was a rear seat passenger of a car involved in the collision south of Inverness.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 8, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Psychotruck driver kills again. 😢 Ford Ranger is an unsafe vehicle that should require special licence to use. Users of sensible vehicles pay the price with their children’s lives.
Actual dangerous product. I’m now waiting for our MPs to demand such classification?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Actual dangerous product. I’m now waiting for our MPs to demand such classification?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Summerhall plans definitely sound like they're deliberately intended to set up a situation where the remaining arts space becomes unviable so oh well we can just demolish it all then
🌤️ Good morning Edinburgh. Today’s headlines: Summerhall artists have more questions, Fringe could shift for school holidays, adventurer Mark Beaumont's 'Extreme Dreams' + Porty family on Grand Designs
⏰ Read more in Edinburgh’s ad-free local newsletter: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg...
⏰ Read more in Edinburgh’s ad-free local newsletter: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg...
October 8, 2026 at 11:25 AM
The Summerhall plans definitely sound like they're deliberately intended to set up a situation where the remaining arts space becomes unviable so oh well we can just demolish it all then
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Generally used in context that makes it pretty clear it’s just “the Woke Mind-Virus”, from people who would never be so uncouth and classless to use the term
'Social contagion' might be my new favourite way of saying "yeah we have no real idea but this sounds kinda scientific-y right"
Why people don’t want to have children any more ft.trib.al/O4zvQ9N
October 8, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Generally used in context that makes it pretty clear it’s just “the Woke Mind-Virus”, from people who would never be so uncouth and classless to use the term
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I've talked about this before, but it is very hard when you see how moral red lines are drawn, and the complete gutting of trans people's civil rights is entirely within an accepted norm and barely remarked upon even by many progressives.
It's just accepted as normal that the UK hates trans people and that's ok. It doesn't even register as something to be concerned about when most cis people are talking about the state of the country.
Tired.
Tired.
October 8, 2026 at 10:19 AM
I've talked about this before, but it is very hard when you see how moral red lines are drawn, and the complete gutting of trans people's civil rights is entirely within an accepted norm and barely remarked upon even by many progressives.
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Yes the kids won't remember but "overturning roe will be good for abortion rights" was a big centrist thing for awhile
remembering how dozens of centrists assured us the loss of Roe would make conservatives become MORE sane
US states label abortion drugs a 'public nuisance' in bid to curb access reut.rs/4zm5Mjp
October 8, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Yes the kids won't remember but "overturning roe will be good for abortion rights" was a big centrist thing for awhile
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I notice that everything the press doesn’t like is “social contagion” now, except for the escalating crankery of the press, which is an organisation of a couple of thousand people mostly concentrated in one city, who largely all know each other - one thing that definitely *is* social contagion.
October 8, 2026 at 9:45 AM
I notice that everything the press doesn’t like is “social contagion” now, except for the escalating crankery of the press, which is an organisation of a couple of thousand people mostly concentrated in one city, who largely all know each other - one thing that definitely *is* social contagion.
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Some political cartoonists about to show their entire arses
October 8, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Some political cartoonists about to show their entire arses
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People will say "why do you only talk about Israel when there's other countries doing massive violence?" And so with that in mind I'll just note that the UAE, which is backing a genocide in Sudan, as well as being a slave state, is being treated with delicate kid gloves by the government.
October 8, 2026 at 8:47 AM
People will say "why do you only talk about Israel when there's other countries doing massive violence?" And so with that in mind I'll just note that the UAE, which is backing a genocide in Sudan, as well as being a slave state, is being treated with delicate kid gloves by the government.
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Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).
October 7, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).
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Tens of thousands of people will die due to this pollution. The biodiversity and agriculture damage of the fires is catastrophic. And the BBC news is spending an age on "oh no, what about the Singapore Grand Prix?" share.google/BvZEAjsOJYlB...
Indonesia accused of ‘gross negligence’ in wildfires lawsuit as haze tests region
NGOs in Indonesian Borneo file class action lawsuit calling for government to better manage annual fires
share.google
October 8, 2026 at 6:19 AM
Tens of thousands of people will die due to this pollution. The biodiversity and agriculture damage of the fires is catastrophic. And the BBC news is spending an age on "oh no, what about the Singapore Grand Prix?" share.google/BvZEAjsOJYlB...
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Sad to hear of the passing of NASA legend Margaret Hamilton - year after year we had hoped that she would write a memoir talking about those pioneering days of space programming, and now she's gone, but her accomplishments will always be with us.
www.cnn.com/2026/10/07/s...
www.cnn.com/2026/10/07/s...
Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died | CNN
The groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA win the 20th century space race, has died at 90.
www.cnn.com
October 8, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Sad to hear of the passing of NASA legend Margaret Hamilton - year after year we had hoped that she would write a memoir talking about those pioneering days of space programming, and now she's gone, but her accomplishments will always be with us.
www.cnn.com/2026/10/07/s...
www.cnn.com/2026/10/07/s...
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Also labour from the people mining rare Earth minerals, the people in the Global South who toil to clean the data and supervise models live as human-in-the-loop, the people building/ cleaning data centers... the labour theft is so extensive it's not realistic that this would have been feasible.
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
October 8, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Also labour from the people mining rare Earth minerals, the people in the Global South who toil to clean the data and supervise models live as human-in-the-loop, the people building/ cleaning data centers... the labour theft is so extensive it's not realistic that this would have been feasible.
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they'll be packing me into a padded cell while i scream about how autocorrect used to be good
Well done to the person in charge of Surface for doing a presentation where Surface wasn’t spelled correctly.
October 7, 2026 at 6:54 PM
they'll be packing me into a padded cell while i scream about how autocorrect used to be good
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Microsoft running their ‘new products’ live stream with the CEO and their viewer count is going down as the event is going on. Why? It’s all AI.
October 7, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Microsoft running their ‘new products’ live stream with the CEO and their viewer count is going down as the event is going on. Why? It’s all AI.
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Jobby Dunplop KC
hmmmm i wonder how massive transphobe Roddy Dunlop and massive transphobe Stuart Campbell got together
October 7, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Jobby Dunplop KC
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I'm on the Tech Report, talking about how "rogue AIs" are utter bollocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Q6LQ5oyDc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Q6LQ5oyDc
October 7, 2026 at 7:22 PM
I'm on the Tech Report, talking about how "rogue AIs" are utter bollocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Q6LQ5oyDc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Q6LQ5oyDc