DepressedClown
@lizardunicorn.bsky.social
VFX artist. Unqualified opinions about everything and nothing. SE London. Posts a lot of photos. COYG.
📷: Fujifilm X-S20 (or my mobile).
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Nobody thought right-wing techbro libertarianism would be the system yet to be born, but here we are.
My neighbours are doing everything they can to spread the word that this year's fireworks season is far from over! In Catford, it lasts until the end of April. At least.
November 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
My neighbours are doing everything they can to spread the word that this year's fireworks season is far from over! In Catford, it lasts until the end of April. At least.
I'm glad the fever has passed, but last night's Indian takeaway was apparently from a restaurant with rather relaxed ideas about food hygiene. Blimey!
November 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I'm glad the fever has passed, but last night's Indian takeaway was apparently from a restaurant with rather relaxed ideas about food hygiene. Blimey!
I don't mind matcha, as long as it's the traditional Japanese tea. Tea. Nothing else. No frothy, milky, Dubai chocolate infested pint of a sugary drink with a green tinge. But I get why people with the taste buds of children like it.
But what's this?
But what's this?
Had to go back to get proof
November 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I don't mind matcha, as long as it's the traditional Japanese tea. Tea. Nothing else. No frothy, milky, Dubai chocolate infested pint of a sugary drink with a green tinge. But I get why people with the taste buds of children like it.
But what's this?
But what's this?
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I don't think that means you need to have "read all the books". It's enough to have a clear idea of what you want to do, have a sense of right and wrong, and not be totally batshit
Starmer falls down on the first two and Badenoch on the third
Starmer falls down on the first two and Badenoch on the third
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I don't think that means you need to have "read all the books". It's enough to have a clear idea of what you want to do, have a sense of right and wrong, and not be totally batshit
Starmer falls down on the first two and Badenoch on the third
Starmer falls down on the first two and Badenoch on the third
I caught the flu twice within a fortnight. Skills.
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I caught the flu twice within a fortnight. Skills.
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I think more than anything else AI feels like a miracle to people with questionable literacy because it can read and write for you, and a lot of us who are highly literate underestimate how many of our society's leaders, esp in business, struggle with literacy.
It's pretty much mandatory at work that I appear to be using it, so I've doe a few functional things with it, and it's a moderate time-saver if used right. But nowhere near worth it's stock value, energy cost.
Then I realize there's a lot of people who simply can't write coherent paragraphs.
Then I realize there's a lot of people who simply can't write coherent paragraphs.
September 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I think more than anything else AI feels like a miracle to people with questionable literacy because it can read and write for you, and a lot of us who are highly literate underestimate how many of our society's leaders, esp in business, struggle with literacy.
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Splash Damage places entire studio into consultation ahead of redundancies
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/284795/
Splash Damage has announced a consultation process affecting all staff at the Bromley-based studio, which will conclude with…
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/284795/
Splash Damage has announced a consultation process affecting all staff at the Bromley-based studio, which will conclude with…
Splash Damage places entire studio into consultation ahead of redundancies - United Kingdom News Beep
Splash Damage has announced a consultation process affecting all staff at the Bromley-based studio, which will conclude with significant redundancies. Staff
www.newsbeep.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Splash Damage places entire studio into consultation ahead of redundancies
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/284795/
Splash Damage has announced a consultation process affecting all staff at the Bromley-based studio, which will conclude with…
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/284795/
Splash Damage has announced a consultation process affecting all staff at the Bromley-based studio, which will conclude with…
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You have to wonder what happens to UK government tax and housing strategies if it turns out that property prices have been underpinned by unsustainable financial market bubbles
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
You have to wonder what happens to UK government tax and housing strategies if it turns out that property prices have been underpinned by unsustainable financial market bubbles
The road surface is at an angle. This means any ebike that's being parked there will most likely fall over. What happened to common sense?
November 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The road surface is at an angle. This means any ebike that's being parked there will most likely fall over. What happened to common sense?
Football managers should dress like that again.
November 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Football managers should dress like that again.
I'd just write a book
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I'd just write a book
What would swapping Wes for Keir achieve? From today onwards, there will be no more thin gruel for dinner. Instead it will be thin gruel, but yellow.
“A coronation rather than a contest to install him as Labour leader”, you say.
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
What would swapping Wes for Keir achieve? From today onwards, there will be no more thin gruel for dinner. Instead it will be thin gruel, but yellow.
I don't think whatever happend 45 years ago will be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Reform voters vote for him because Farage is who he is, and they like it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel Farage reject ‘banter’ claims
Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries ‘rubbish’ Reform UK leader’s suggestion alleged racist taunts not intended to hurt
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I don't think whatever happend 45 years ago will be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Reform voters vote for him because Farage is who he is, and they like it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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It is worth questioning though whether making the teaching of home students dependent on numbers of overseas students whose fluctuation is not under the control of universities is really a sustainable funding model for higher education
Because people *still* don’t understand that overseas students subsidise home students. This is punishing everyone involved.
With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It is worth questioning though whether making the teaching of home students dependent on numbers of overseas students whose fluctuation is not under the control of universities is really a sustainable funding model for higher education
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[bursts in panting covered in Sharpie]
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
[bursts in panting covered in Sharpie]
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Have those who bought Liverpool shirts last season already swapped them for the Chelsea shirts that were lurking at the back of their wardrobe?
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Have those who bought Liverpool shirts last season already swapped them for the Chelsea shirts that were lurking at the back of their wardrobe?
Earlier today, on Trafalgar Square. I couldn't leave the house for a fortnight or so because of a mix of flu and (what turned out to be) bursitis and decided to go to the museum (not in the picture).
November 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Earlier today, on Trafalgar Square. I couldn't leave the house for a fortnight or so because of a mix of flu and (what turned out to be) bursitis and decided to go to the museum (not in the picture).
That was a nice breakfast, earlier today.
November 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
That was a nice breakfast, earlier today.
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@michaeldweiss.bsky.social on the ‘peace plan’ as theatre of absurd and theatre of cruelty all in one
Here is my read of the "peace plan" and how Kirill Dmitriev played the American media to force this thing into being -- with an incompetent White House scrambling to make it seem like this was somehow coordinated and well-planned. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
“He Must Have Got This From K.”
How a Russian operative used the American media to force a risible “peace deal” into existence
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social on the ‘peace plan’ as theatre of absurd and theatre of cruelty all in one
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1/ What a Russian breaking of the ceasefire will look like, step by step.
There are far better experts on this, but I was an Australian diplomat in Ukraine in 2014 so I've seen this play out up close.
So join me, brothers and sisters, as we count down to a fullscale re-invasion.
There are far better experts on this, but I was an Australian diplomat in Ukraine in 2014 so I've seen this play out up close.
So join me, brothers and sisters, as we count down to a fullscale re-invasion.
November 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
1/ What a Russian breaking of the ceasefire will look like, step by step.
There are far better experts on this, but I was an Australian diplomat in Ukraine in 2014 so I've seen this play out up close.
So join me, brothers and sisters, as we count down to a fullscale re-invasion.
There are far better experts on this, but I was an Australian diplomat in Ukraine in 2014 so I've seen this play out up close.
So join me, brothers and sisters, as we count down to a fullscale re-invasion.
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And it's a tie at the World Narcissism Grand Final.
November 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
And it's a tie at the World Narcissism Grand Final.
It's funny, because they don't care. Old-school Centrists need to understand you can't convince a GBNews audience with facts.
I'm sure the Londinistan guys will be delighted to read this... really good news... they'll be talking about something else altogether now... sure of it... because they were genuinely concerned weren't they
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It's funny, because they don't care. Old-school Centrists need to understand you can't convince a GBNews audience with facts.
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.