Jon

I'm also jev42 in the other place.

[Jon @jev42]

Goodbye Twitter.

You are broken beyond satire, sarcasm or hope.

Bukowski's grave says Don't Try. I have stopped trying.

[Jon @jev42]

@LNRailway I'm guessing this still the effect of the flooding :( do you know yet if things will be back to normal on Monday (I travel WFJ - EUS)?

(And hang in there social network team, you're doing a good job in difficult circumstances!)

[JEDWARD @planetjedward]

It’s can be hard this time of year!…

https://t.co/sH24Ib4wbj

[Humanists UK @Humanists_UK]

This isn’t an accurate representation of what has been said. Second Reading has always been about voting on the principles and ambitions of a Bill—in this case, the choice of assisted dying for the terminally ill within a defined process and with strong safeguards. After this stage, there would be a detailed committee process, an informed debate on amendments and practical issues, and finally, a Third Reading vote by MPs. Then the whole thing again in the Lords. That’s how deliberative parliamentary democracy works. Historically, this process has always been essential to improving Acts of Parliament.

It’s natural for those who oppose the Bill on principle to want MPs to vote against it at this stage, and they are citing a mix of practicalities as well as principles in doing so. Those with principled objections are also not likely to want to propose constructive amendments. And those for whom assisted dying in unacceptable in any circumstances, and for whom no safeguards will therefore ever be good enough, will of course prefer MPs to reject the Bill at the outset, rather than see a majority support the Bill in principle and then for it to be later either passed in its final form or rejected on a much narrower basis.

Voting the Bill down at Second Reading prevents any meaningful debate on the practicalities and the opportunity to address or amend them. And it would turn a deaf ear to people in real suffering, including those beyond the help of palliative care, who want choice at the end of life.

As the Parliament website says and as the Leader of the House has reminded MPs, this is how the system is designed to function. Even if the Bill passes at Second Reading, it will only become law if MPs and peers then vote for it at their respective Third Readings, and there is no prospect of that happening before April 2025. This leaves ample time for parliamentarians to shape it.

[Rithwik Jayasimha @thel3l]

Apple released a hearing aids feature for the AirPods Pro a while ago. I bought a pair for grandma, but then realized that the feature was geoblocked in India

So we at @_lagrangepoint decided to unblock it. It ended up involving a leaky microwave and building a Faraday cage:

[Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers]

First of all, I wanna hear from the bottom official

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

https://t.co/38Hr3xZoVc

[Chris French profchrisfrench.bsky.social 🇺🇦 @chriscfrench]

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

[Jon @jev42]

Thank God for this, it's an eyesore and a massive waste of electricity.

[Ross Lydall @RossLydall]

Giant advertising boards at Euston to be shut down immediately as part of review of the poor "passenger experience" at the station - ordered by Transport Secretary @LouHaigh

[Jon @jev42]

@Peston In the coliseum? Rome is quite nice at this time of year.

[Jon @jev42]

This is why I've started going to the cinema on Sunday afternoon. We've just got back from seeing Beetlejuice Beetlejuice in Imax and there were only about 8 other people in the theatre! The film is fun, go see it. (Even if you're not as lucky as me & have Sunday PM availability)

[Joe @hzjoe03]

The cinema is becoming insufferable. Every time I go there’s always someone who ruins it. I just went to see Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and a woman on the same row as my family is on her phone. My mum politely asked if she could turn it off, “no I’m texting my daughter”. The cinema staff comes in to tell her to turn it off, “no in a minute”.

She then starts shouting at my family saying that we’re “embarrassing” her, and now everyone in the cinema is looking over at her. The shouting stops and for the next 20 minutes she keeps looking over at us, calling my mum and sister “slags” under her breath, to which we just ignore. Also, we saw her phone and she was on gambling apps and booking a flight???

I just don’t understand why people CHOOSE to pay for an opening night movie IN IMAX and then just sit there on their phone with max brightness??? Can y’all not survive 2 hours without technology? If not, DONT GO TO THE CINEMA

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

In a new Weekend Essay, Ted Chiang argues that artificial intelligence can’t make real art. https://t.co/Du8w66w24X

[Jon @jev42]

@aliterative The Stranger Times, comedy supernatural horror that isn't horrifying, just funny.

Battlestar Suburbia, ai was put into everything and now the toasters,the vacuums and the hairdryers etc rule the world and humans are slave labour (also comedy but sci-fi)

[Jon @jev42]

@EE Thanks Jess. You must get this all the time.

[Jon @jev42]

So far the list of companies who have ripped off our elderly parents and grandparents are @SkyBroadband @currys @bt_uk and now @EE

This predatory crap has been going on, in just my experience, for decades and it's disgusting. @Ofcom sort it out.

[Jon @jev42]

@EE @SkyBroadband @currys @bt_uk @Ofcom Yes, they have talked to the technical team, to the shop, to customer support, that's how they ended up with an expensive bill and phones they were told were free with their current deal.

[Jon @jev42]

@EE @SkyBroadband @currys @bt_uk @Ofcom What I find digusting is this was all under the guise of helping them and it's not just you guys it's rife. All of them pay more than my wife and I and we're super online people (I work in tech). It's not good enough.

[Jon @jev42]

@EE @SkyBroadband @currys @bt_uk @Ofcom Well, they are paying £80 a month for phones that doesn't get any signal where they live AND this was after visting an EE shop to get help with the fact they don't get any reception where they live. 2 future visits and no solution.

[Jon @jev42]

So twitter, any ideas #ageconcern #elderly #ripoff #scam