Timothy James

Old enough to know but young and brave enough to risk carrying on.

[Peter Ould (Deeper Magic / Before Dawn Time) @PeterOuld]

I assume that if the Government thinks 16 and 17 year olds are not responsible enough to have social media 24 hours a day, they will abandon all plans to give the same 16 and 17 year olds the vote (and indeed will also actively prevent the regions giving them the vote)?

[Ike Ijeh @ikeijeh]

Taking the knee is a pointless piece of performative pageantry.

But it tells you everything you need to know about the racial prejudice hardwired into progressivism that David Lammy, Britain's Lord Chancellor, would do it for a black US criminal but not a white British student.

[Timothy James @The_Bit_Before]

@bbctms I'd seen the 140 all out headline earlier and felt that common response of English supporters. Seeing this headline, I don't know what to think. Can someone have a word with the groundsman or was the batting really as bad bad as the scorecard suggests?!

[Timothy James @The_Bit_Before]

@iGerLynch seeing as it's made-up/rumours season...:
Erling Haaland has said that when the EPL get round to ordering a proportionate punishment for the 115 breaches and ManCity are relegated, he intends to move to Leeds to realise his boyhood dream and score goals for LUFC.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

All next week London temperatures won’t get above the late teens and it’s forecast to rain everyday.
It’s called the British Summer. ☔️
But at least we can expect some respite from the London-based media’s climate hysteria.

[Timothy James @The_Bit_Before]

@xx_xyathletics Maybe, for the sake of all the struggling and confused people out there, @jk_rowling could re-open that little series of books she wrote with: Harry Potter and the Magical Gametes !

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Timothy James @The_Bit_Before]

Move over @RCrouserThrows ! Apparently Lawrence Okoye has just added 42.47m to your world record. He must be some kind of monster and on the most incredible performance drugs ever to support his move from discus.
Or maybe @BBCSport need to proof read their Diamond League report!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "Where did they get it?"

Activist: "What?"

Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere."

Activist: "From... eating?"

Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it."

Activist: "The soil?"

Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from."

Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it."

Activist: "Then just don't have the cow."

Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle."

Activist: "It's not that simple."

Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."

[Karl Turner MP @KarlTurnerMP]

Happy to find extra capaity to prosecute people when it politically suits him, less happy to do it to reduce the backlog. So much for scrapping juries being all about victims.

[Karl Turner MP @KarlTurnerMP]

Can pull extra court capacity out of thin air when he thinks he needs it but can’t open courts NOW to get the backlog down.

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

And Starmer reads the room yet again 🤦🏼‍♀️
I did not have one single email from any constituents supporting this stupid idea - and very very many against it.

[Timothy James @The_Bit_Before]

Hantavirus. C19. Bird flu.
Opportunistic fear stoking by big pharma et al to drive profits.
"A vast global health industry has been built in which private investors determine priorities, taxpayers foot most of the bill and populations have become markets."
https://t.co/5jtUKyiMf6

[Timothy James @The_Bit_Before]

@PolitlcsUK @JeffSmithetc why isn't your name in this list?
Your 33% margin in Withington constituency meant nothing for your councillor colleagues dumped out last week. If you've decided you're going to retire in 2029, go now and give Burnham your seat as we'd probably vote him in.

[Timothy James @The_Bit_Before]

@Peston This is utterly tone deaf from Starmer.
Labour voters, who voted Brexit, first left to support Johnson when the 'red wall' turned blue, and have now shifted to support Reform.
Cosying up to the EU will only entrench the position of that substantial cohort.

[Timothy James @The_Bit_Before]

@KarlTurnerMP If a leadership challenge emerges today, surely there should be some means to postpone the King's speech. Setting out the legislative plan of an outgoing PM would be a nonsense.

[Karl Turner MP @KarlTurnerMP]

.@peterkyle tells @NickFerrariLBC that PM will tell my voters in East Hull that they need to feel the benefits/opportunities with the EU. Why threaten them? 74% voted leave. It’s a bit like telling a child that if they carry on crying they’ll be given something to cry about?🤷🏼‍♂️

[Timothy James @The_Bit_Before]

@JeffSmithetc when is your boycott against democracy going to end? You've absented from here, don't publicise hustings and only visit neighbourhoods that vote Labour. Four out of five of your council colleagues in the constituency got voted out today. Where are you hiding?