Sarah Harris

Please respect & enjoy the peace.

(Here for art&graffiti chat, R/Python/maths/stats stuff & hockey scores)

Also I paint murals, mainly in Swindon:

[Sarah Harris @implausible17]

“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”

[Sarah Harris @implausible17]

@Cinnabastian I assumed that was deliberate, it's too on the money otherwise

[Kas (Seddera Side) @sedderaside]

AI could literally never come up with a masterpiece like this

[Sarah Harris @implausible17]

@didem5654 British airways used to give you a little pack with an eye mask, a little toothbrush and toothpaste, and flight socks, nice loose ones, designed to be worn instead of shoes because of swelling feet. It's a perfectly normal thing to do on an intercontinental flight.

[Sarah Harris @implausible17]

@turingtested743 ...budget for carpenters :) ) but it looked fantastic, the vibe was well captured, the sound design was impeccable. I look forward with interest to whatever KP does next.

[Sarah Harris @implausible17]

@turingtested743 ... because they were trying to portray him as a sympathetic to start with, while also peppering in little hints to the fact he's not very nice. And maybe they went a bit too heavy on the former.

I enjoyed the film though, felt a bit like a good, student movie (with a decent..

[Sarah Harris @implausible17]

@turingtested743 I assumed that the whole "if you describe a dog to something that doesn't know what a dog is and ask it to draw a dog" thing , the "off" or backwards text and the look of some of the still lifes, was specifically referencing how AI image generation works

[Guy Goma @RealWrongGuy]

At least I was alive when the BBC interviewed me.

[Sarah Harris @implausible17]

@909feelinfine About 35 all in (but that included all the prep work protecting the room etc)

[Sarah Harris @implausible17]

Oof, I could have done with some of that icy dragon breath cooling me down while I was painting this one! Hottest May weekend in the UK in 82 years, apparently. Soooo sweaty!! :D

Anyway - here you go - painted for a young dragon-obsessed lad's bedroom wall:

[Sarah Harris @implausible17]

@909feelinfine Thank you! Was a bit of a challenge, all those spikes :D but worth it.

[Sarah Harris @implausible17]

@typesfaster Well if 900k for the last decade is correct, 2025's 71k total was significantly below the 10 year average, so it looks like we are on the mend, eh? :)

[Sarah Harris @implausible17]

@typesfaster Also, according to the Met, 71k phones were reported stolen in London in 2025. That's a bit down on your 900k!

People do also quite often tend to report their phones as stolen if they damage them, so they can claim on the insurance

Anyway, you believe what you want...

[Sarah Harris @implausible17]

@typesfaster I suspect many are tourists. So the denominator of your calculation should include the number of tourists per decade as well as the resident population. But genuinely I don't feel remotely at risk in London, it's as safe or safer than most comparable cities.

[BRYN_BORANGA @BRYN_BORANGA]

I am once again thinking of William Shatner going through a profound existential crisis after being in space, trying to explain the terrifying emptiness he felt whilst Jeff Bezos sprayed champagne in his face and interrupted him to say 'WAZZUUP' whilst dabbing to Barenaked Ladies

[Sarah Harris @implausible17]

I'm watching the latest season of the US version of Saturday Night Live (because #SNL UK is over for now and I'm bereft)

Just got to episode 13 and

QUINN!!!

(I still haven't totally forgiven him for leaving the Canucks, but I was delighted to see him pop up on my comedy show)

[Sarah Harris @implausible17]

@janekin24 From the BBC. Arrivals also sharply down since early 2023.

Data from ONS. I have also examined the raw data (I am a statistician by profession).

There is always nuance behind the numbers in the news, but your statement "immigration is actually up" is simply not true.

[Sarah Harris @implausible17]

For all the people who have told me to my face that they would vote Reform at the next general election "because we just need a change".... we voted for that change in 2024 and we got it, and look, it's working. Despite the circus, good things are happening. Let's keep going.

[Dave Hibbert, BA(Hons), ACTUS, Cert.Ed. Rejoin EU. @Cpass12David]

The Guardian: “Net migration down by three-quarters, the biggest fall in NHS waiting lists for 17 years, knife crime cut by 10%, the economy growing the fastest in the G7, rising wages, energy bills and petrol prices held down, the biggest sustained rise in defence spending since the cold war, a massive expansion of free childcare …
If Keir Starmer did tub-thumping lists of Labour’s achievements in the style of Gordon Brown, he would not actually have a shortage of things to talk about.”
During the two years of Labour government, following fourteen years of Tory mismanagement, there have actually been significant improvements in Britain. Why does the Tory media not report them?

[Sarah Harris @implausible17]

@htranbui I went solo to my showing (I'm Gen X - hopefully you wouldn't have lumped me in with "Elderly" had I been at yours :D) - there were some kids/families but plenty of unaccompanied adults/couples too. The kids mainly laughed, ALL the adults were crying.