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World-weary 50-something British geek, still trying to decide what I want to be when I grow up.
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Roll out the red carpet.....

Before it gets stolen, you saw it here first....! I follow back if you're interested....

I missed this part

Once again life darkly imitates @straczynski.bsky.social's art. I miss the days when Babylon 5 was a warning and not a playbook. therecord.media/hegseth-orde...

"…a group of eight-year-olds performed a dance to animations of ballistic missiles hitting targets. A video of the spectacle shows girls and boys with red neckties, singing, while explosions flare on a screen behind them." But enough about Donald Trump's videos, what's happening in North Korea?

Musk was aiming for Ukraine and missed?

Strangely enough the Telegraph looks less ridiculous with Sunday Sport stories.

every day we see more and more evidence of society descending into utter lawlessness and chaos

Dominic Cummings must become nominatively deterministic in his pants when he reads stuff like this. https://www.404media.co/things-are-going-to-get-intense-how-a-musk-ally-plans-to-push-ai-on-the-government/

Condom bombs?! I think he’s got Durex confused with Semtex.

Jesus. Twister in Donegal right now.

I need threads like this to remind me that, during those initial COVID years, every time I thought it couldn’t be as bad as it appeared it was actually worse.

We have to stop seeing news broadcasting as a traditional format for providing information. It's now just Reality TV based around trending topics: "Nigel is in the kitchen, slagging off Keir to Beth. ... Laura's in the bedroom, bitching about Rachel to Kemi." Understand that, and it all makes sense.

I wrote an ‘Eliza’ program in BBC Basic in 1986. He’s welcome to a free copy if he thinks it’ll help.

We appear to have reached the "too much brown clay in the claymation" stage of British racism.

Never mind, I’m sure the Woking Pizza Express will be able to squeeze him in.

Is this the YouTube equivalent of getting "ratioed"? I only followed the recommended link and its clickbait title in the expectation of adding the channel to BlockTube, but the comments were so entertaining I've given it a reprieve. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHuQ... @mrjamesob.bsky.social

j'accuzi

Just had a very productive meeting with China's Xi Jinping, in which I suggested he address concerns over civil liberties and human rights and he suggested that I fuck off and mind my own business.