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Mass spectrometrist in Env then Life Sciences. Retired. Occasional consultant. 🇬🇧🇨🇭Wallasey born Woolyback. Lived in Brighton, Norwich, Montpellier (Fr), Norwich. #FBPE #NAFO #OTBC #YNWA #JFT97. On X as @fred_mellon. No DMs, no posts = no follow back

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Love it... www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...

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Following on from previous comments about Tesla stock being hugely overpriced (P/E ratio of around ~120, in contrast KIA is 4). It appears that TSLA has become a “meme stock”, according to several sources, e.g. finance.yahoo.com/news/tsla-be...

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H/T Lord Sydes on t’other place.

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“Meta's own employees are clearly keenly aware of its toxic nature. It's not just Sarah Wynn-Williams: departing Facebookers' "badge posts" – where they publicly take stock of their careers at Facebook – are a litany of recriminations and regrets…” pluralistic.net/2025/04/11/i...

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It was ultimately the bond market tanking that led to the downfall of Lettuce Liz. 🤞https://www.reuters.com/markets/global-markets-tariffs-bonds-2025-04-09/

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The death of google search: “The illogical, product-destroying mindset that turns the products you love into torturous, frustrating quasi-tools that require you to fight the company’s intentions to get the service you want.” Great article by Ed Zitron www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-...

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😂👍

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“Enshittification is what you get when tech companies, run by the common-or-garden mediocre sociopaths who end up at the top of most businesses, are unshackled from any consequence for indulging their worst, greediest impulses:” Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/03/28/s...

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DNA testing company 23andMe files for bankruptcy protection, CEO resigns techcrunch.com/2025/03/23/d...

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

I have questions (pic courtesy of ‘The Writers’ Circle’ on FB).

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

H/t @denimdemon99 in the other place:

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“The American shield is crumbling, Ukraine risks being abandoned, Russia strengthened. Washington has become the court of Nero, a fiery emperor, submissive courtiers and a ketamine-fueled jester in charge of purging the civil service.” washingtonspectator.org/senator-clau...

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The significance of this is not the predicition itself but that Gerber is a major investor: www.businessinsider.com/tesla-stock-...

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Buy? The chance of him paying for it is zero. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Great stuff! Look forward to someone animating this to Gounod’s ‘Funeral March of a marionette’.

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Trump as an electrical circuit:

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Go Canada! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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GBNews: "Are you Nigel Farage in disguise?" Starmer: "Nigel Farage didn't even turn up to the debate in Parliament. Nigel Farage is fawning over Putin. That's not patriotism." An inane question getting precicely the treatment it deserves. ~AA

submitted 63 days ago • 33 comments

Who would have thought that this could have happened to such a fine, upstanding chap? 🙃 www.dw.com/en/argentina...

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As Trump leans into AI, automated systems are already ruining lives. A new organization is out to stop it. www.levernews.com/rage-against...

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The eminence grise who runs DOGE (no, it’s not Harcourt Fenton Musk). Ht @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy for the link. prospect.org/power/2025-0...

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This is an excellent & entertaining article by Kieran Maguire on the Byzantine world of Premier league accounting, focusing on MUFC but of general relevance: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Nay, nay & thrice nay!!

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Anna Paulina Luna investigating JFK

submitted 77 days ago • 16 comments

Accurate TBF as most people have seen through them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

Stunning pic.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Learned a new word yesterday, courtesy of my American neighbour: ‘autogolpe’ sk.sagepub.com/ency/edvol/t...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

I’m shocked! Shocked! (But not surprised). thehill.com/business/513...

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Reposted from ‘IT humor & memes (uncensored)’ on FB. Chess is the software system that underpins the Australian stock exchange.

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