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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 10h

You mean the IKEA alien monster that lives in their HQ’s basement and comes up with their product names?

derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 21h

Out of curiosity, I once asked four of my uni-educated British coworkers to take Life in the UK, none of them passed it. I mean, they were all pretty close but… 😄

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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 3d

Apologies, I rather meant smth like "did they do anything with the permits along the feasible route that makes/is about to make building the connector impossible in the foreseeable future?"

derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 3d

And just for complete clarity, do I get it right that any way to connect HS1 and whatever is left of HS2 is dead and buried?

derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 5d

I am sure there are adult environments where management would love this system or already has one running.

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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 5d

@risu.bsky.social 😆😆😆 but also WTAF

A screenshot from Reddit showing an email from an automated tracking system informing a British parent that their child left lessons 3 times last week to go to the bathroom, and subtly hinting that that is unacceptable.

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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 6d

Good to hear there’s still hope! The rest of the specs look reasonable, bar the removal of CarPlay which is just a lame power grab.

derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 6d

Still unclear why everything has to be SUV shaped but 🤷‍♂️

derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 9d

In the latest issue of "Populist blabberers discover governing"...

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 10d

Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters on.ft.com/4pTvJ62

Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters

Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending

on.ft.com

derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 9d

Ah, right, good point. Still, planning for a district network would be sensible but this is the UK, so... 🤷‍♂️

derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 9d

@jamesomalley.co.uk @mjrobbins.com Hey, going through the new towns episode, do you know if any of them will get 21st century heating networks, or is it going to be individual gas boilers all over again?

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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 11d

🇪🇺 keeps waiting for invasion, meanwhile, 🇷🇺 is already inside the house.
Not with conventional forces, but with: influence operations poisoning civil discourse, targeted assassinations, strategic corruption subverting politics, lawfare stalling 🇪🇺’s collective defense
open.substack.com/pub/chakhoya...

Three reasons Russia is poking NATO

Moscow can't beat the West on the battlefield. So it's waging a different kind of war.

open.substack.com

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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 12d

@jmkorhonen.fi seen this yet?

The famous scene from The Twilight Zone where a man is looking away from the airplane window in terror, only instead of a gremlin, it’s a small drone. The caption ‘If I ignore it, maybe it will go away’, in reference to the EU refusing to acknowledge Russian drone attacks on European airports.

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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 12d

Nope, just more statements of grave concern.

derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 12d

@liss.bsky.social speaking of spotting ATP gear in the wild, I can’t believe none of you remembered this modest guy with a tiny YouTube channel sending you a very quiet ping.

derloos @derloos.bsky.social · Dec 17

@liss.bsky.social @siracusa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy right, this is legit elite level

derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 14d

a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing

Alt: Dicaprio pointing at screen

media.tenor.com

derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 14d

I think what people may be instinctively against here is the ability of big corporations to

a. Corner markets, like self-driving cars, turning them into effective oligopolies;

b. Dodge any responsibility/accountability/regulation whatsoever, no matter how big/bad their fuckups may be.

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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 14d

The question is, why care what moscow cries?

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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 15d

🔥🔥🔥

derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 15d

Makes me think of the steel mesh scene from the Three Body Problem.

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Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 16d

Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr

Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.

And you're cutting... the sleeper?

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts

Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis

www.theguardian.com

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derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 16d

Bears certainly seem to think so.

derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 16d

Daniel Radcliffe starring in Guns Akimbo

derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 16d

There should be a browser extension or smth

derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 16d

Regardless of specific countries involved, one lesson of this war is that high-risk countries shouldn't be buying critical defensive systems like AAD without 100% IP-free localization of munitions.

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