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@loungeiguana.bsky.social

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Lizard.Still sorting out my pronouns, but they/them will do fine. Cocktails. 🏳️‍⚧️⚧️rights, TERFs/GC will be blocked. Left-leaning but finance background, go figure. Climate change and renewable energy: ask me about my heat pump at your peril. UK-based.

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · Feb 14

Brief PSA: If you're on the transphobia moderation list bsky.app/profile/asuk... I will never re-share any of your content.

I haven't blocked all accounts on it as I think some of my old follows deserve the benefit of the doubt. But forwarding labelled content implies I don't care, and I do.

bsky.app

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 7h

White cishets only. Surprised they didn't get rid of all the women while they were at it.

🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 7h

The inside fire could become an outside fire eventually

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22h

Here's Better Offline. I sat down with Steve Burke of @gamersnexus.bsky.social for an interview at their HQ to talk about the state of PC hardware, AI, linux gaming, their deep hardware testing, and building a channel watched by millions. www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
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The Interview: Steve Burke of GamersNexus - Better Offline | iHeart

<p>In this week’s episode of Better Offline, Ed flies out to North Carolina for a deep interview with Steve Burke of Gamersnexus about the state of PC hardware, AI, Linux gaming, their extremely...

www.iheart.com

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 7h

This really is saying the quiet part out loud

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 7h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 14h

I paint them pink and erect a Someone Else's Problem field around them. Janky, volatile market, prone to selling off with OATs just out of sympathy afaics

🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 15h

The great thing about meme stocks and crypto is that they make the OAT* market look rational and efficient

(*I've had to give up being rude about BTPs)

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 15h

If they have human operators, as they do, then they're not exactly driverless. They probably pay them less than personally present drivers though?

🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 15h

Not a stock investor, but do I detect some heavy lifting being done by the last four words?

🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 15h

Alleges?

Tbf it could also read "xenophobic government minister makes xenophobic comment" but that probably wouldn't have done the same numbers

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19h

All of this is being put out to placate the right wing press...

In the meantime, it's causing fear & confusion. As I understand it:

● this only applies to some people on skilled visas
● it's not "A level English" it's something called SELT
● much the same requirement exists elsewhere in EU

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Suzanne @lasuzanita.bsky.social · 1d

I believe pertinent health information should not be behind paywalls. Gift article from my subscriber account. Feel free to share 😊

Lead Found in Popular Protein Powders and Shakes, Report Says www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/w...

Lead Found in Popular Protein Powders and Shakes, Report Says

www.nytimes.com

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody should tell them that 'ceasefire' means you stop shooting.

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

israel has already broken the ceasefire

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · May 2

THE FOUR STAGES OF PRO-FOSSIL EXPLOITATION OF MAJOR BLACKOUTS

[a thread with videos]

Stage 1: Guilt By Proximity - "any blackout that happens in a region with renewable energy must have been caused by renewable energy"

[we are in the later end of this stage -see, FT, Bloomberg (Blas), etc]

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure it was to start with, but it sure looks that way post-2024 (signed, an ex-subscriber)

🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you

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Rebecca @beccauk.bsky.social · 1d

I recall that the EHRC’s draft guidance on single sex services, currently with ministers, expressly states that religious objections are a legitimate justification for single sex services…

Perhaps someone should tell Steve Reed?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Minister ‘appalled’ at Muslim charity run in London that excluded women

Event in Victoria Park organised by East London mosque and London Muslim Centre was open to ‘men, boys of all ages and girls under 12’

www.theguardian.com

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 1d

We are going to look back on this sort of thing as the Pets.com of the AI bubble

🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 1d

Dumb question, if you have the bandwidth: can Supreme Court rulings be appealed in the UK?

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 1d

Fair point! I was just being optimistic.

🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 1d

An acknowledgement that transmisogyny is a thing?

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 1d

I think so. I remember the discussion of 'passing privilege' becoming law. But wasn't there also a get-out clause that if the defendant knew they were trans it didn't apply?

I'll leave it to more legally knowledgeable people to comment further

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🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 1d

And if the next Chair was imposed by the government against the recommendation of two parliamentary committees?

🦎 @loungeiguana.bsky.social · 1d

Say it loud, correct it quietly and late, suffer no consequences, get the clicks

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · Jun 2

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here.

These are the ones published since Labour won the election.

"We are happy to correct the record."

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