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tomrunnacles.bsky.social
Software developer, philosopher, guitarist, whinger.
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Latest blogpost on Musk/Royal Society debacle: deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/02/seve... I look at the reasons that have been given for inaction, and find them wanting. @royalsociety.org

submitted 11 days ago • 27 comments

"In a system designed to run on heavily qualified but quantifiable systems of consent, Musk has repeatedly refused the premise at every turn; that cocksure and annihilating lack of care is behind everything that Elon Musk has ever done or claimed or stolen or faked or bought."

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Not a national security expert, but seems like exposing CIA employees identities to foreign adversaries is bad.

submitted 18 days ago • 25 comments

@jamellebouie.net hits the nail squarely on the head, as he so very often does.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Pitch for a Hollywood space epic: NASA has scrubbed the names of all women in leadership, indigenous people, etc, on Earth. But there's an inaccessible, abandoned-due-to-Wokeness base on Jupiter's Europa, which has been renamed 'Herope', for fairness and merit. And!

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

My proposal for this grey February Monday is that political reporters should be abolished. They're far too addicted to the psychodrama, they don't have expertise in any policy areas, they bigfoot their expert colleagues on any story that involves an MP, and this creates too noise and little light.

submitted 20 days ago • 34 comments

Worried about a fascist takeover? This sheet-pan paella will make you feel like you’re in 1930s Spain.

submitted 22 days ago • 88 comments

You've just been thrown to your death by the Beatles.

submitted 31 days ago • 338 comments

I do like the fact that the only unoccupied place that Elon Musk has persuaded millions of people to move to turns out to be Bluesky rather than Mars.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025

submitted 34 days ago • 877 comments

Re-up. prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

A man a plan a canal, Panama!

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

I've now heard the Cybertruck referred to as a "Wankpanzer" & I cannot now, in good conscience, not refer to it as that exclusively.

submitted 39 days ago • 32 comments

📈 New post from me about Labour’s growth problem 📈 I argue that there isn’t a clear ‘theory of growth’ that Starmer and Reeves share. So there is a risk of a Frankenstein’s monster of incommensurate ideas. 🧵 benansell.substack.com/p/grasping-f...

submitted 39 days ago • 30 comments

My easiest New Year's Resolution is to read more @chrisdillow.bsky.social stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an... You don't have to agree with every word, but it poses the right challenge. *Does* the centre right have a decent answer to getting growth going? What has it got most wrong?

submitted 43 days ago • 4 comments