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A motley assembly of interests 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 socialist, video game enjoyer, tech pessimist coping tifosi (they/them)
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never using Google docs again for any non-professional use with all the AI nonsense that's been shoved into the professional one

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

nothing more iconic in F1 than Ferrari and painful tyre strategy

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

desperately trying to lock in on on this work project but instead listening to brat. 4 times in a row

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

as contradictions under capitalism give way to fascism, I'm finding a lot of not necessarily comfort, but understanding of the systems at place is coming from the field of cybernetics

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

watching US news so I can know what dumb bullshit Labour is going to do in 3 months. "DOGE was an abject failure? what if we did it but 'sensibly'?"

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Ferrari throws another race with tire strategy. Some things never change

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

new season of F1 and the broadcast just now added the intervals?? wtf is happening

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

with Wales' loss to England, the only thing standing between England and winning the M6N is France beating Scotland. so I'll be putting on a beret and smoking hautily for the rest of the night

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

every time some solved tech is advertised to me with as "now with AI" I become more of a luddite

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

one day I will make it to a LARP again if only because I love playing mooks

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

it turns out that the Viable System Model is, in fact, a d20 system (I swear this is a solid joke please believe me)

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

it's been over a decade and The Doomstar Requiem is still my favourite musical

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

really enjoying the cyberneticist view of the brain not as a thinking machine but as an acting machine

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

no media has more fundamentally altered my brain chemistry than Andor and Disco Elysium. On some level that says a lot about who I am and what I value more than it does about what I enjoy. But I think that's also the trap of consumption as identity, values, and protest.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

showing up to work hungover on a Wednesday is not recommended, but it's easier if your boss is also hungover

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

go birds

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

ty to the librarian friend who recommended Cinéma Paradise. It is now one of my favourite movies, it was so touching

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

gotta love the cycle of being an analyst: have an interesting insight type it out realise downstream ramifications delete that insight never speak of it again

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

ideating on the train, but surely there is a direct relation between the ever increasing true complexity of our world and the reactionary's desire to force simplicity on it through metaphors and truisms while also embracing labyrinthine conspiracy theories

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

starting to hate those social media posts like: "ADHD people have NO object permanence!" *skit about losing the remote*

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

morning convo with my dad: "why is it that the democrats couldn't do what trump is doing but for good?" me resisting the urge to say liberalism is a failed ideology: yeah it's really interesting that they don't show any interest in fundamentally governing aside from staying in power

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

i've never watched dandadan but the op is 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

really weird that the people who say "it's not what the founding fathers would have wanted!" are the same ones that always claim to be realists while believing in the invisible hand of the market while also hating communists more than fascists almost like liberalism is the worst ideology

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

43-0 loss to france in their 6 nations opener is spiritually painful. this is going to be a long run

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

upon further internal investigation, my love for the endless wonders of humanity drives so much of my disdain for capitalism if only that wonderment transferred itself into some social skills

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

the Saturday train into Cardiff is so much different than the weekday ones it's self-evident but still. people already day drinking

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments