Peter Brown
@pensivepeter.bsky.social
Polyglot, polymath, part-time perfectionist.
Retired public official and diplomat covering tech policy; lazy reader, writer, and musician; but intellectually stimulated by everything quirky, novel or different.
Oh, and analogue synthesisers
Retired public official and diplomat covering tech policy; lazy reader, writer, and musician; but intellectually stimulated by everything quirky, novel or different.
Oh, and analogue synthesisers
*tap tap* “unsubscribe”
“Please give a reason
a. I don’t want them any more
b. I don’t recall subscribing
c. …” etc
No. I didn’t subscribe. Not “I don’t recall”.
How many services from which you ask to unsubscribe try to gaslight like this?
“Please give a reason
a. I don’t want them any more
b. I don’t recall subscribing
c. …” etc
No. I didn’t subscribe. Not “I don’t recall”.
How many services from which you ask to unsubscribe try to gaslight like this?
November 26, 2024 at 10:06 PM
*tap tap* “unsubscribe”
“Please give a reason
a. I don’t want them any more
b. I don’t recall subscribing
c. …” etc
No. I didn’t subscribe. Not “I don’t recall”.
How many services from which you ask to unsubscribe try to gaslight like this?
“Please give a reason
a. I don’t want them any more
b. I don’t recall subscribing
c. …” etc
No. I didn’t subscribe. Not “I don’t recall”.
How many services from which you ask to unsubscribe try to gaslight like this?
Couples counselling seriously needed
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
Opinion | The U.S. and Europe May Be Headed for a Divorce
Trump’s re-election has exposed aesthetic and substantive divisions within the alliance.
www.wsj.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Couples counselling seriously needed
www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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Meanwhile, in Brussels…
“the parliament risks irrelevance, becoming little more than a rubber-stamping body for an unaccountable executive.”
euobserver.com/eu-political...
“the parliament risks irrelevance, becoming little more than a rubber-stamping body for an unaccountable executive.”
euobserver.com/eu-political...
The backroom stitch-up of the EU commissioner hearings
What ought to have been a robust democratic exercise turned into political theatre with a predetermined script. The parliament’s mainstream groups — European People's Party (EPP), Socialists & Democra...
euobserver.com
November 26, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Meanwhile, in Brussels…
“the parliament risks irrelevance, becoming little more than a rubber-stamping body for an unaccountable executive.”
euobserver.com/eu-political...
“the parliament risks irrelevance, becoming little more than a rubber-stamping body for an unaccountable executive.”
euobserver.com/eu-political...
Reposted by Peter Brown
Just adding a link www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/11/...
November 21, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Just adding a link www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/11/...
Reposted by Peter Brown
Dear Joe - the Supreme Court has granted you (yes, you too; not just the orange cockwomble) immunity for all official acts. Use it:
Publish everything the federal government has on Gaetz and all the grifters. Let Americans see who they are.
Publish everything the federal government has on Gaetz and all the grifters. Let Americans see who they are.
November 19, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Dear Joe - the Supreme Court has granted you (yes, you too; not just the orange cockwomble) immunity for all official acts. Use it:
Publish everything the federal government has on Gaetz and all the grifters. Let Americans see who they are.
Publish everything the federal government has on Gaetz and all the grifters. Let Americans see who they are.
Reposted by Peter Brown
Through executive order, President Biden should mandate that the FBI conduct background investigations on Trump’s picks and instruct the FBI to begin the process now. The U.S. Senate should use its power to request the same of the FBI.
November 20, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Through executive order, President Biden should mandate that the FBI conduct background investigations on Trump’s picks and instruct the FBI to begin the process now. The U.S. Senate should use its power to request the same of the FBI.
Classic misdirection - look over here while we try to sneak Gabbard and Hegsith through…
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apple.news/A1j-nYLiYT8q...
Matt Gaetz withdraws from consideration to be Trump’s attorney general — Guardian US
Gaetz’s withdrawal comes amid intense scrutiny of allegations of sexual misconduct against the cabinet nominee
apple.news
November 21, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Classic misdirection - look over here while we try to sneak Gabbard and Hegsith through…
apple.news/A1j-nYLiYT8q...
apple.news/A1j-nYLiYT8q...
Proof, if needed, that GOP’s morals are in the toilet
This is a proposed law targeting exactly one person: Incoming trans Congresswoman Sarah McBride of Delaware. Nancy Mace is a transphobic, hateful troll who voted with teen rapist Matt Gaetz to depose her own party’s speaker, but the bathrooms. That’s where she’s focused.
November 20, 2024 at 3:19 AM
Proof, if needed, that GOP’s morals are in the toilet
Dear Joe - the Supreme Court has granted you (yes, you too; not just the orange cockwomble) immunity for all official acts. Use it:
Publish everything the federal government has on Gaetz and all the grifters. Let Americans see who they are.
Publish everything the federal government has on Gaetz and all the grifters. Let Americans see who they are.
November 19, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Dear Joe - the Supreme Court has granted you (yes, you too; not just the orange cockwomble) immunity for all official acts. Use it:
Publish everything the federal government has on Gaetz and all the grifters. Let Americans see who they are.
Publish everything the federal government has on Gaetz and all the grifters. Let Americans see who they are.
“…you haven’t even brought a knife to a gunfight – you’ve brought Oprah Winfrey.”
Ouch 📌
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ouch 📌
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Behind Trump’s victory lies a cold reality: liberals have no answers for a modern age in crisis | Nesrine Malik
As authoritarians triumph by lying and scapegoating, there is no hope for centrists doubling down on a broken neoliberal system, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 2:43 PM
“…you haven’t even brought a knife to a gunfight – you’ve brought Oprah Winfrey.”
Ouch 📌
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ouch 📌
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I don’t know this gentleman but his credentials are legit.
Thought experiment: if this had been the other way around, what would GOP have done? And no, I’m not advocating any Jan 6 style stupidity
open.substack.com/pub/spoonamo...
Thought experiment: if this had been the other way around, what would GOP have done? And no, I’m not advocating any Jan 6 style stupidity
open.substack.com/pub/spoonamo...
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November 18, 2024 at 4:31 AM
I don’t know this gentleman but his credentials are legit.
Thought experiment: if this had been the other way around, what would GOP have done? And no, I’m not advocating any Jan 6 style stupidity
open.substack.com/pub/spoonamo...
Thought experiment: if this had been the other way around, what would GOP have done? And no, I’m not advocating any Jan 6 style stupidity
open.substack.com/pub/spoonamo...
NASA, why aren’t you on Bluesky yet?
Will you come?
Pretty please?
Will you come?
Pretty please?
November 18, 2024 at 3:41 AM
NASA, why aren’t you on Bluesky yet?
Will you come?
Pretty please?
Will you come?
Pretty please?
This is what can genuinely be described as “awesome”
Saturn’s aurora captured by the Hubble Space Telescope
November 18, 2024 at 2:16 AM
This is what can genuinely be described as “awesome”
A couple of thoughts for #bluesky leadership:
- please let me edit flits (it’s what a butterfly does, right?) immediately after posting; don’t copy the other guys’ error here;
- verification? At least an email icon to show that the account is linked to an actual email account even if not shown?
- please let me edit flits (it’s what a butterfly does, right?) immediately after posting; don’t copy the other guys’ error here;
- verification? At least an email icon to show that the account is linked to an actual email account even if not shown?
November 17, 2024 at 11:55 PM
A couple of thoughts for #bluesky leadership:
- please let me edit flits (it’s what a butterfly does, right?) immediately after posting; don’t copy the other guys’ error here;
- verification? At least an email icon to show that the account is linked to an actual email account even if not shown?
- please let me edit flits (it’s what a butterfly does, right?) immediately after posting; don’t copy the other guys’ error here;
- verification? At least an email icon to show that the account is linked to an actual email account even if not shown?
July 4, 2026 just happens to be the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Coincidence? I think not
November 16, 2024 at 4:23 AM
July 4, 2026 just happens to be the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Coincidence? I think not
I’m guessing everyone here is an ex-X?
November 16, 2024 at 4:15 AM
I’m guessing everyone here is an ex-X?
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I've seen it done on Rugby pitches many times, taken part in it in a pub in Hemel Hempstead, but never seen it more impressive or pointed than this...
Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.
November 15, 2024 at 7:47 AM
I've seen it done on Rugby pitches many times, taken part in it in a pub in Hemel Hempstead, but never seen it more impressive or pointed than this...
Why is the left - across the world, not just in the US - so hopeless at managing vocabulary?
When someone says “regulation” or “red tape”, I think “protection”; for “tax burden”, I think “investment opportunity”.
Surely we are capable of establishing a lexicon for the left?
Thoughts? Contributions?
When someone says “regulation” or “red tape”, I think “protection”; for “tax burden”, I think “investment opportunity”.
Surely we are capable of establishing a lexicon for the left?
Thoughts? Contributions?
November 16, 2024 at 3:32 AM
Why is the left - across the world, not just in the US - so hopeless at managing vocabulary?
When someone says “regulation” or “red tape”, I think “protection”; for “tax burden”, I think “investment opportunity”.
Surely we are capable of establishing a lexicon for the left?
Thoughts? Contributions?
When someone says “regulation” or “red tape”, I think “protection”; for “tax burden”, I think “investment opportunity”.
Surely we are capable of establishing a lexicon for the left?
Thoughts? Contributions?
If someone were to come up with a catchy Thanksgiving song, it would have instant audiences: stores would finally have something to play between Hallowe’en and mid-December without driving their clientele prematurely bonkers.
Target is now playing nonstop Christmas music in case you need a place to go silently insane
November 16, 2024 at 2:57 AM
If someone were to come up with a catchy Thanksgiving song, it would have instant audiences: stores would finally have something to play between Hallowe’en and mid-December without driving their clientele prematurely bonkers.
I took the plunge, downloaded my Twitter data before closing the account and moving over here.
I hope that this space can remain a haven of civility and intelligent thought sharing.
If my reflexes bring me here when a random thought pops in my head, I’ll hopefully be contributing as much as reading
I hope that this space can remain a haven of civility and intelligent thought sharing.
If my reflexes bring me here when a random thought pops in my head, I’ll hopefully be contributing as much as reading
November 16, 2024 at 2:40 AM
I took the plunge, downloaded my Twitter data before closing the account and moving over here.
I hope that this space can remain a haven of civility and intelligent thought sharing.
If my reflexes bring me here when a random thought pops in my head, I’ll hopefully be contributing as much as reading
I hope that this space can remain a haven of civility and intelligent thought sharing.
If my reflexes bring me here when a random thought pops in my head, I’ll hopefully be contributing as much as reading