Emyr Derfel
@emyrderfel.bsky.social
Programming to pay for my bicycle habit.
ADHD+Dyslexia.
Welsh but in Bolton, Northwest England.
ADHD+Dyslexia.
Welsh but in Bolton, Northwest England.
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A reminder that in 2022, President Biden signed the “Eliminating Limits to Justice for Child Sex Abuse Victims Act,” eliminating the statute of limitations to file civil action for federal sex offenses. Seems relevant.
November 14, 2025 at 5:22 AM
A reminder that in 2022, President Biden signed the “Eliminating Limits to Justice for Child Sex Abuse Victims Act,” eliminating the statute of limitations to file civil action for federal sex offenses. Seems relevant.
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
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2023: "They're taking advantage of a 16-year-old MINOR!! I have a daughter close to that, if you come near her as a 31-year-old man, we're going to have a SERIOUS PROBLEM!!"
2025: "He was not a pedophile; he was into the barely legal type. Like he liked 15-year-old girls... that is what I believe."
2025: "He was not a pedophile; he was into the barely legal type. Like he liked 15-year-old girls... that is what I believe."
November 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
2023: "They're taking advantage of a 16-year-old MINOR!! I have a daughter close to that, if you come near her as a 31-year-old man, we're going to have a SERIOUS PROBLEM!!"
2025: "He was not a pedophile; he was into the barely legal type. Like he liked 15-year-old girls... that is what I believe."
2025: "He was not a pedophile; he was into the barely legal type. Like he liked 15-year-old girls... that is what I believe."
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Charlie Brooker: I wrote the Black Mirror episode Be Right Back as a cautionary tale.
Tech Company: At long last, we
Tech Company: At long last, we
November 14, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Charlie Brooker: I wrote the Black Mirror episode Be Right Back as a cautionary tale.
Tech Company: At long last, we
Tech Company: At long last, we
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All a husband wants is a cargo bike, guys.
I am a husband and I wouldn't want to receive any of these, dear New York Times "gift expert" www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...
Husbands Swear They Don’t Want Gifts. Prove Him Wrong With These 16 Finds.
Excellent offerings for your better half, no matter the occasion.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
All a husband wants is a cargo bike, guys.
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seen at Pine & 12th
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
seen at Pine & 12th
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Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry.
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry.
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
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this is why god made adverse inferences
An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today:
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
November 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM
this is why god made adverse inferences
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I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
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Some folks said we were too harsh in our episodes on on John Forester and Vehicular Cycling. This amazing video from Not Just Bikes suggests we weren’t harsh enough.
I'm a longtime fan of Not Just Bikes, but his 95(!) minute video on John Forester and Vehicular Cycling is truly his magnum opus.
If you are even remotely interested in the history of bicycling in America, it is worth a watch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPd...
If you are even remotely interested in the history of bicycling in America, it is worth a watch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPd...
This is Why Cycling is Dangerous in America
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Some folks said we were too harsh in our episodes on on John Forester and Vehicular Cycling. This amazing video from Not Just Bikes suggests we weren’t harsh enough.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Former models for Donald Trump’s agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally.
Former models for Donald Trump's agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally
"It's like modern-day slavery."
www.motherjones.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Former models for Donald Trump’s agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally.
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Still seething that my former sainted editor cut my long couple paragraphs about all the ways Andreessen misunderstood the economics of 18th-century whaling. He was so wrong, y’all. Whaling was not like venture capital.
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Still seething that my former sainted editor cut my long couple paragraphs about all the ways Andreessen misunderstood the economics of 18th-century whaling. He was so wrong, y’all. Whaling was not like venture capital.
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Christian Nationalists:
QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?
ANSWER: Zero times.
QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?
ANSWER: Zero times.
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Christian Nationalists:
QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?
ANSWER: Zero times.
QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?
ANSWER: Zero times.
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The underwater seismometer network is so great, as evidenced from yesterday's EQ off-Tohoku.
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA
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The irony of this being posted in English... by an Irishman.
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
The irony of this being posted in English... by an Irishman.
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Design vehicles to fit the streets rather than streets designed to fit the vehicles.
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Design vehicles to fit the streets rather than streets designed to fit the vehicles.
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"An acute insight into the reasons these voters almost found a new messiah in a man regarded as an offensive clown by many, a man who ultimately cannot save them . . . "
BY JD VANCE
MADE IN USA 2016
ANOTHER SUMMER
BY JD VANCE
MADE IN USA 2016
ANOTHER SUMMER
November 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"An acute insight into the reasons these voters almost found a new messiah in a man regarded as an offensive clown by many, a man who ultimately cannot save them . . . "
BY JD VANCE
MADE IN USA 2016
ANOTHER SUMMER
BY JD VANCE
MADE IN USA 2016
ANOTHER SUMMER
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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$40B of your money to this guy, so he can dance at CPAC at Mar-a-Lago while Americans wait for their paychecks, hoping the money actually comes.
November 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
$40B of your money to this guy, so he can dance at CPAC at Mar-a-Lago while Americans wait for their paychecks, hoping the money actually comes.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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What fresh hell is this?
Trump gives Hungary one-year exemption from Russian energy sanctions
The opt-out comes despite the US increasing pressure on allies to sever economic ties with Russia.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 7:35 AM
What fresh hell is this?