Matt Sendorek

Lots of folk voting to get on with a bad idea doesn't make it a good idea - if the newly elected government takes us out of the EU then we'll have left the EU but I am yet to be persuaded that it's anything but a bad idea (especially the way they're going about it)

@TomLondon6 The expectation that the British Establishment would significantly dilute the implementation of policies by a Green government arguably makes it easier to justify grasping the nettle and voting for them!

Here's the DIRTY SECRET of the British Establishment They are OK with the idea of a racist, authoritarian Farage govt They are TERRIFIED at the idea of a Polanski govt which would threaten their power & privilege and make them pay their fair share of tax

@RichardJMurphy Amid the many potential concerns identified, I find this one the most alarming: "the media no longer know what is happening and are ceasing to care. The claims are themselves the story"

The world is in denial about what is coming our way taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05/0…

I suppose my better half buys me a slim-fit shirt to remind me I'm no longer slim

@MolloyLaurence How did you know I had a Vic20 and (still somewhere) a C64?! For me there's a difference -- I could understand, with the help of the manuals, the principles and details of how they worked. Not so AI, which just seems to throw masses of fast processor cycles at masses of data

@matt_sendorek And - perhaps something that will resonate with you - when its working very well (which TBH is 95% of the time) I find myself feeling like a teenager with a ZX Spectrum / C64 / Vic20 again.

FML! You can't trust an AI with a simple "change the text in one file" instruction sometimes. It's gone AWOL across my codebase while my gaze was averted & broken stuff I'll revert to last night's commit and lose a few of the more recent fixes that I forgot to commit last night

@MolloyLaurence Glad all's well and you've learned from it. I reckon I'm past having spare energy to learn about things I can quite happily live without!

@matt_sendorek There were only two minor 'tweaks' to my app that were lost and I was able to determine what they were and ask the AI to repeat them by comparing my AI chat history timestamps with the last commit time.

@doctor_oxford Looks rather like an issue of the government giving away bits of sovereignty

This may seem arcane, but it’s a deeply concerning & spectacularly cynical move from this government to sideline NICE - the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence - whose role is vitally important in protecting NHS patients from the lobbying clout of the Pharma industry lobby. Until now - and since 1999 - NICE has made independent, evidence-based decisions about which medicines constitute value for money for the NHS to buy. Largely free from political manipulation, it’s renewed internationally as a model of how to protect patients against excessive drug company prices. It enables the NHS to strike hard bargains with Big Pharma. But @wesstreeting has just used a statutory instrument in parliament (that no-one has voted on) to award himself power to dictate what the NHS pays for drugs, overriding NICE’s vital role in insulating the NHS from pharmaceutical price gouging. Why would he do something so self-evidently bad for patients? Because, it seems, this is a price the government is willing to pay to do a deal with Trump on US-UK drug pricing. What an outrageous power grab for a man who claims to care about patients. Already hospitals up and down the country are cutting staff and closing services under pressure to make cost savings. But every pound spent on, essentially, increasing profits for US Pharma is money that *doesn’t* get spent on nurses, doctors and treatments we know are good value for money. As the editor of the BMJ, @KamranAbbasi, wrote this week, this: "will end up harming vulnerable people to boost the profits of already obscenely profitable drug companies." Starmer has shamelessly caved in to the White House. Even the former Tory Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, now a Lord, has joined forces with Labour and Lib Dem MPs opposing Streeting’s power grab. Truly an appalling move from a government that claims they’re rebuilding the NHS while, in this case, blatantly undermining our abilities to provide cost-effective care.

@mjdaly57 @Shambles151 I'm pretty sure I bought mine over the counter in a @Waterstones

But there has already been a full, independent investigation into the activities of Labour Together. It was undertaken by journalist and author Paul Holden and the published findings are to be found in his book The Fraud. It’s one of the most important political books/investigations ever published in this country but you won’t find it on sale at the Labour Party conference or displayed/for sale in @Waterstones. @UKLabour @StarmertheFraud @LabourTogether @joshsimonsmp @lisanandy @SteveReedMP @RachelforLWP @RachelRileyRR @ABarrosCurtis @johnmcdonnellMP @jeremycorbyn @RichardBurgon

Would you like to see a full, independent investigation into the activities of - Labour Together? Please RT after voting thank you.

@MolloyLaurence Every time there's a US-led abrupt change of direction, there's a chance for anyone in the know to cash in

I thought Trump said that their new leadership was now entirely reasonable and aligned in their thinking with the US? Now he's threatening to blow them up?

We planted lilac because, in these parts, it traditionally flowers for my better half's May birthday. Here it is today, 22 April

@creativepro72 Davinci Resolve 16. I dared to uninstall the graphics driver and then restarted ready to re-install a newly downloaded one, but all was well. Incidentally, on my Dynabook Portege X30L-G, the screen brightness function keys had also given up -- perhaps a hint if I'd realised!

@matt_sendorek What editor are you using, by the way? And did the "careful kick" involve just a driver reinstall, or was it the classic "restart + pray" combo?

Came close to thinking I might need a new laptop, after the video editor suddenly said it "couldn't find an OpenCL capable GPU". However, following a little research, it seems the graphics driver had decided to stop, and a careful kick was enough to restore normal operation

The US/Israeli attack on Iran has created a local ripple.  Instead of bowling along comfortably out of the way on my right, nearly every car on the Surrey M25 is now reduced to inching past lorries and clogging my own progress cruising, economically as usual, at just 63

@Suitpossum Back to live theatre and concerts?

We’re pissed that AI is replacing organic human creativity with machinic auto-generation, but even if you do continue to use your creativity you'll now find that the public increasingly believes it's a machine output In other words, AI is increasingly taking credit for work that it hasn't even done, its parasitism extended by breaking down public trust in authenticity

Trump's excursion certainly simplifies the process of choosing a holiday destination

@MolloyLaurence Trump would exploit any excuse to take control of the coming elections

@matt_sendorek Not sure what you mean.

Far too much of a co-incidence to not be related to Iran. America will now be a prime target for terrorism across the globe. My advice: give the World Cup a *very* wide berth. This has now become a massive safety risk. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

McSweeney says he takes responsibility for the advice he gave, and consequently resigns -- what about ownership of the decision, and the consequence of that?

@SkyNews @WestminsterWAG I find your new background distracting and tiring to watch -- it makes it difficult to concentrate on what is being said by the folk sitting in front of it

🟣 "You can't just shoot people, Iran shoots people they don't agree with. You can't shoot people for protesting against your policy" @WestminsterWAG says the Trump administration is in a mindset where they think this is okay 📺 Sky 501