outeast.bsky.social
Won't post much as I have no insight or expertise, but sometimes forget that when drunk with the power of a keyboard. Pronouns whatever. Writer, editor etc. of ESL materials in Prague. Interests here: Politics, climate, SFF, linguistics, i dunno
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Give us another rub down with that chip fat.
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Came here for this
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So that's what they did with the trolls. This is worse than soylent green
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Thank you for the clear explanation. (I hadn't known about the specific issues resulting from it being a Private Member's Bill. I don't like that the usual tried-and-tested system won't apply but I'm glad to understand the situation better.)
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As an outsider: Is whoever wins the primary basically guaranteed to be elected? Or is this gonna be "liberals" fighting off the moderately leftish candidate only to lose because they insist on someone who can't turn out the actual Democratic vote again?
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Apologies! Your profile says NJ so with the gun as well I leapt to conclusions. Still, although it's a great picture I like the axe but instinctively find the gun alarming. Culture gap.
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I wouldn't dream of telling you what to do but from my liberal European's point of view guns don't feel fun and approachable, just startling and very, very American (which, extra complex rn). So maybe it depends on whether it's an American society or an international one...!
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Taste it don't waste it
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Know Your Meme reckons Yookay began on 4Chan /pol/ and /int/ before migrating to X and is meant to be an eye-dialect representation of MLE (though as is common with eye-dialect, that's how everyone else says UK too). I'd say it's a pretty tainted concept and a bit of a giveaway as to one's milieu.
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It repeatedly directed me to closed-off trails when I tried it last winter. And the trail reviews from other users showed people had been happily following them anyway. Not at risk to themselves so much as to a very fragile ecosystem (which was why they'd been closed).
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Space was the big one for me. My parents' house had whole walls of bookcases in multiple rooms. I've not been housing insecure for 25 years but a *house*? Lol. Most of my physical media ended up in storage long ago. Now my library fits in my pocket.
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The most surprising thing about it all to me is that it was so hilariously self-parodying in the first place. Was it meant as engagement trolling? Did they really take it seriously? Did the *writer*? I guess if it was basically a troll post, maybe they figured it wasn't really worth fact-checking.
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That this is AllTrails makes me roll my eyes extra hard. I tried it out on one holiday and it guided me to several explicitly banned/closed routes. And that was without any LLM nonsense.
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The whole thing is extremely skeevy. The sports sponsorship too.
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It's that but more. Didn't he literally post on Twitter that he wants to see his followers over here? He'd like to invoke a 4Chan-style troll wave.
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Oh sweet jesus
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Stop this silliness. Peering at trouser legs, Trump sitting down to shake hands... He's a ranting fascist maniac, there's no need for the Fox-does-Joe-Biden conspiracy shite.
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Is there any reason to think he'll be more than just the next joke to be defeated by Count Binface? I don't live in the UK any more and don't have a feel for local politics. I'm not even on X. But I never see mention of this person except in your skeets.
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Let's keep away from referencing that very specific mechanism hey?
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📌 A new analysis framework to me (only "agent" is familiar). Thank you. Gonna have to get to that properly when I'm not working rather than merely not getting work done.
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Totally. Lincoln should never have got away with the Gettysburg Address, either. "Four score and seven years ago"? What, you mean in 1938?? Shoulda future-proofed that speech, sucker
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Nice! I think I came across that Generation X (or at least references to it) in sociology at uni, back when the world was young, but I'd entirely forgotten its existence. Kudos to the BBC writer for at least tracking a couple of the original interviewees down.
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It didn't start with boomer-hatred. The boomers did it too, and probably every generation prior. The Cretacians probably made jokes about how those Generation Jurassic assholes were a bunch of dinosaurs.
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I just realised I haven't even seen him since his climbdown in his spat with Trump. I know it's only a few days and I'm sure he'd seem just as omnipresent if I was on Twitter, but everything was like ElonCam for months. Long may it last.
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It might just be who I'm following, but *mostly* these people only hit my radar here when someone is highlighting them for being skanky (like now). And then I recognise them from the other place. So I'd tentatively say yes?
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Heartwarming to see that bean dad is remembered even unto the end times
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The album is still a masterpiece.
#PortsmouthSinfonia
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There's one about Prometheus that's always delivered
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This seems the right call. I wonder if he even knows what it is to identify with someone. It was the wrong question for Trump.
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You literally used the word "purging", a word heavily freighted with associations with murdering political enemies. That's the only reason I replied: It's the worst concept you could possibly bring into messaging. If you'd said "it's people defending their neighbourhoods" I wouldn't have blinked.
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Sure, the way to refute the narrative that "the left want civil war" is to say "we're going to war to purge the streets of the soldiers of the right." 🙄
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I only read a handful of Moorcocks growing up & never stumbled across this series. Just read the Wikipedia page on Jerry Cornelius and... wow.
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I wonder how often that comes down to how cheap the rights are.
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Lactucovarchy as the highest form of government, you mean?
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I wrote about 25,000 words of a punk-political-splatterpulp abomination that was basically Stewart Home fanfic. It was dire, but to be fair, so are Home's "anti-novels" (deliberately so). I'm fairly sure some of the unlabeled 3" Amstrad floppies I have in a shoebox still have the files.
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2/2 By this, "levelling up" means reducing inequality by making poorer people richer, more educated etc. Which is not the same as the gaming image, where "levelling up" means more growth but not necessarily less inequality.
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Levelling the ground for construction etc. either by excavating / flattening out the higher ground or by building up the low ground. Hence the (rhetorical) image of socialism "levelling down" (taking from the successful). 1/2
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No worries, there's precedent.
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I think both levelling up and levelling down originally had engineering meanings, then were used figuratively for economics. Now different people use the same term (levelling up) with different connotations depending whether they're drawing on engineering or gaming.