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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 5h

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 5h

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 4h

Scotland somehow shit but getting away with it. I expect glorious failure though.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 5h

Seriously though, you need to be doing at a minimum 45 mins hard, as in at least a 7-8 RPE for that long.

LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, long dry summer. Normally a wet couple of weeks in August brings the blight and it's game over by September. I picked 4kg of plum tomatoes and a kilo of cherry ones this morning... They're basically done though. The blight is coming.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 6h

They got hungry.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 6h

The biggest I've ever grown. I've got some plum tomatoes that come close in weight but are denser

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 6h

bsky.app/profile/leit...

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 6h

Half of the giant tomato has been used.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 6h

Half of the giant tomato has been used.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 13h

Another American with a humiliation fetish.

Brandon @bcfox.bsky.social · 21h

watching great British bake off and once again asking if the UK is aware that the war ended

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 13h

The 5 year old told me she saw some small flies go into a hole at the back of the cupboard under the stairs and I should go in and have a look, so I crawled in and she's shut and bolted to door behind me. I have about 5 hours of battery life and the BBC iPlayer installed. More fool her.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 13h

Suspect one side of that open relationship is getting more of it than the other...

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

Is this better or worse than the entire AI industry being run by people who read science fiction as teenagers and thought it was a manual for the future?

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

Completely agree with this - there is a lot of terrible policymaking where you can see the direct echo of “this guy played a lot of Civ as a child and teen”.

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely think the concept of the tech tree has done a lot of damage.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

Lobbying isn't working, what else can they do? Hope the FDA collapsing doesn't increase costs elsewhere...

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

If you perform the ritual you will protect the village. Cargo cult democracy.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

And that's only going to happen with the very real application of power in the sense of organised people with weapons using physical violence to restore democracy and the rule of law. Whether that's a revolution or if somehow the next election is free, a Democrat President.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

There were several layers of power specifically designed to stop the appointment of people like him. Every single one failed because the majority of Americans are cowards with no principles.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

Like I said. The institutions are rotten. If you don't exercise power it doesn't exist. They haven't exercised it. Now they're dead as a brake on dictatorship.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

The systems are so rotten, and power so concentrated in one man and his lackeys, that nothing can be done through regulatory, legal and political systems. Sooner or later this will be realised and that's when people will die in numbers.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

It's the proof, imo, that America is never coming back as a democracy without some form of internal conflict to settle the issues (again). It's such a crazy set of beliefs that even the most authoritarian, personality cult led states wouldn't go for it and yet nobody in the USA can stop it.

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

What, does he want people to return to the days of using a pork sausage to quench the flow?

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

The point is healthcare is fundamental in human societies.

LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 1d

Every village has a healer.

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