Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

Cambridge Liberal Democrat. Techie (retired). One time pilot (lapsed PPL).

Profile picture: street furniture - I take pictures of interesting street furniture when travelling. In this context it *is* appropriate for the street lighting columns to be gold plated.

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Location: Cambridge, England

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2026-10-25 09:49:19 UTC

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My assumption is that he'll just wait until the normal time for the next GE, not call an early one. But I haven't put any money on it.

2026-10-25 09:46:10 UTC

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A manifesto commitment would be good enough. I agree that a government couldn't just do it out of the blue.

2026-10-25 09:43:07 UTC

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We don't want another fucking referendum. We just want to #RejoinEU

2026-10-25 09:26:24 UTC

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That's never stopped most governments.

2026-09-24 13:40:45 UTC

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Our kids used to go on about how old we were. Our response: "One day, *if* you're lucky, you might be as old as we are now".
Eventually they worked out what we were saying and stopped going on about how old we were.

2025-12-04 09:41:59 UTC

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As a required exercise at work I asked an AI to generate a web application wrapper round an existing piece of back-end code.
It generated something that looked like it came from 1995 - pure HTML, no styling at all. But it did work, and you could see everything at one on one screen, no scrolling.
So for a laugh I said "make this look like a 2025 web application, not a 1995 one". And it generated lots of CSS and suchlike ...
... and did exactly what it was told. 2025-style, what you saw on the screen was mostly wasted white space. We had to scroll vertically to see all the information, and some individual fields needed to be scrolled horizontally.
My colleagues took one look at this and said "we prefer the 1995 version". So did I, I said, that's the version I'd committed for production use.