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Posts by Michael Batey

Is this our first appearance in the top half of the table this season?

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They’re fascists.

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You'd think the boffins might have programmed them to try and save themselves

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New crash guidelines urge journalists to avoid 'accident' and refer to drivers rather than vehicles Road collision reporting guidelines finalised: Journalists urged not to use word "accident" and avoid general negative terms against groups like cyclists.

#CrashNotAccident pressgazette.co.uk/news/road-co...

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The way the news reader on six music reads out her daily anti migrant hit pieces like a butlins entertainer should be studied

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Good luck with the appeal, Carole 😏

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Presumably they’re unfamiliar with Jim Davidson’s oeuvre

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I have three court hearings to attend in three months. Two subjects of our reporting are suing us.

Journalism is threatened by abusive legal threats aimed at silencing reporting. The Government needs to #StopSLAPPs.

Please share and write to your MP.

manchestermill.co.uk/three-courts...

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Their coffee will still taste like old washing-up water

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The Gemini-screenshotter has now blocked me, which is pretty satisfying

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Yes, yes and yes 👏

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Didn’t say it wasn’t 👍

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An LLM can cite sources and still get its facts wrong

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Asking Gemini is *not* a fact check

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If you've read something you disagree with but don't understand well enough to rebut, and you ask an AI to generate a rebuttal for you, you still don't understand it well enough to rebut it.
You haven't generated a rebuttal: you have generated a blob of plausible sentences that may or may not constitute a valid critique of the work you're upset with - but until a human being who understands the issue goes through the AI output line by line and verifies it, it's just stochastic word-salad.

If you've read something you disagree with but don't understand well enough to rebut, and you ask an AI to generate a rebuttal for you, you still don't understand it well enough to rebut it. You haven't generated a rebuttal: you have generated a blob of plausible sentences that may or may not constitute a valid critique of the work you're upset with - but until a human being who understands the issue goes through the AI output line by line and verifies it, it's just stochastic word-salad.

Wonderfully said by @doctorow.pluralistic.net

pluralistic.net/2026/03/02/n...

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'Borderline' still sounds great. 'Lucky Star' sounds INCREDIBLE 🕺🏻

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Bonus points for getting obscure contraction 'who’re' into the headline

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'I'm like, a lord, but I'm also a bit barony?'

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'Lord Barony' 🚩🚩🚩

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'War on aspiration'. Get fucked

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One thing this leaflet promotes, & indeed is probably a general 'view' of planning, is that you only comment when you want to object.

WRONG.

You can, & should, always write to Planning to support something if you think it is worthy. It IS recorded, & noted, as part of Officer reports.

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Why are you angry?

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From the london community on Reddit: NIMBYs Trying To Block a Hospital Explore this post and more from the london community

This seems apposite
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Nimbyism is 99% cuntery

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a bunch of stuffed animals with their mouths open in front of a window ALT: a bunch of stuffed animals with their mouths open in front of a window
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Who’s downsize? A short rapper?

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Wait till you hear about cars

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I demand to know why her column isn't called Rumbelow's Window

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Janet Brown would have had a field day with Melania BITD

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