Richard J
@preachypreach.bsky.social
Tax nerd, still atrocious at amusing profiles
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We all know Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is so good because Tom Stoppard wrote all the good bits, yes ?
www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
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November 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
We all know Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is so good because Tom Stoppard wrote all the good bits, yes ?
www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...
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Hong Kong fire update: 128 people have been confirmed dead, and 150 remain unaccounted for.
The two towers with the least damage have been fully searched, with no human remains found. Five towers still need to be searched.
The two towers with the least damage have been fully searched, with no human remains found. Five towers still need to be searched.
November 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Hong Kong fire update: 128 people have been confirmed dead, and 150 remain unaccounted for.
The two towers with the least damage have been fully searched, with no human remains found. Five towers still need to be searched.
The two towers with the least damage have been fully searched, with no human remains found. Five towers still need to be searched.
I can suspend a lot of disbelief in the new series of Stranger Things about the characters ages, but Holly is supposed to be 7 and I’ve got no idea why they didn’t just recast the role rather than have a 14 year old play it
November 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I can suspend a lot of disbelief in the new series of Stranger Things about the characters ages, but Holly is supposed to be 7 and I’ve got no idea why they didn’t just recast the role rather than have a 14 year old play it
The periodic trip to a comics store (Gosh! Comics) with the eldest proves as mutually expensive as always
November 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The periodic trip to a comics store (Gosh! Comics) with the eldest proves as mutually expensive as always
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... one absolutely masterly use of ambiguity in one of the replies
November 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... one absolutely masterly use of ambiguity in one of the replies
Pulp Fiction is on Prime and absolutely the most dated thing about it (otherwise deliberately set in a hazy 70s-90s LA) is the surprise at the outrageousness of a five dollar milkshake.
November 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Pulp Fiction is on Prime and absolutely the most dated thing about it (otherwise deliberately set in a hazy 70s-90s LA) is the surprise at the outrageousness of a five dollar milkshake.
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The Problem in one FB ad
November 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The Problem in one FB ad
No bread, no circuses, that’s the Roman way!
November 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
No bread, no circuses, that’s the Roman way!
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The two work in tandem to create a terrible synergy: people will believe images/video they want to believe while disregarding those they don't.
Congratulations to humanity for building a cognitive bias confirmation machine. 🥳
Congratulations to humanity for building a cognitive bias confirmation machine. 🥳
sorta coming around to the view that the social danger of genAI images is less that they'll make people believe fabricated things are real and more that they'll make people believe real things are fabricated
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The two work in tandem to create a terrible synergy: people will believe images/video they want to believe while disregarding those they don't.
Congratulations to humanity for building a cognitive bias confirmation machine. 🥳
Congratulations to humanity for building a cognitive bias confirmation machine. 🥳
If only I had mutuals in a position to confirm or deny this
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
If only I had mutuals in a position to confirm or deny this
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Also, spare me the irony of the alt, far and weird right who go on and on and on with their weird solutions to increasing birth rates but then get themselves into an aneurysm over one policy which might actually boost birth rates.
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Also, spare me the irony of the alt, far and weird right who go on and on and on with their weird solutions to increasing birth rates but then get themselves into an aneurysm over one policy which might actually boost birth rates.
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Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
I know this is just how time works but
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I know this is just how time works but
This is actually a not unreasonable point
if the OBR as an institution was fine with this process it might not be a bad idea to review their cybersecurity practices more broadly, no?
November 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
This is actually a not unreasonable point
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC... being far far too old for this sort of thing, people will just smuggle significant amounts of cannabis? Through the post? From America? To their home address?
Moss, R. v [2025] EWCA Crim 1252 (11 September 2025)
www.bailii.org
November 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC... being far far too old for this sort of thing, people will just smuggle significant amounts of cannabis? Through the post? From America? To their home address?
While all the Americans are off line today, time to have a brief breather
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
While all the Americans are off line today, time to have a brief breather
Fundamentally every one of these posts about someone’s parents brings to mind Machiavelli’s observation that men will more easily forgive the execution of their father than the deprivation of their patrimony
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Fundamentally every one of these posts about someone’s parents brings to mind Machiavelli’s observation that men will more easily forgive the execution of their father than the deprivation of their patrimony
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yeah I hate generative AI and will go through every effort to not use it, but I already know I’m gonna spend the rest of my life as a weird Luddite. I’m not happy about this, but being delusional is worse.
it's normatively bad in many ways and also clearly useful for millions of people. it can run on a laptop, thinking that it's going away is cope. gotta engage with the world at it is.
this is a bluesky bubble opinion. 800M+ people use chatgpt every week. I hate Facebook and Instagram and I wish they didn’t exist, but 3B and 2B people use them every month, respectively. it’s very hard to picture a mass or even a niche left backlash against them
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
yeah I hate generative AI and will go through every effort to not use it, but I already know I’m gonna spend the rest of my life as a weird Luddite. I’m not happy about this, but being delusional is worse.
"She took insufficient account of his personal mitigation, omitting to recognise delay as mitigation or the fact that the authorities had failed to put a stop to his offending many years before"
Well... it's an argument www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...
Well... it's an argument www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...
Sartip-Zadeh & Ors, R. v [2025] EWCA Crim 1250 (05 September 2025)
www.bailii.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"She took insufficient account of his personal mitigation, omitting to recognise delay as mitigation or the fact that the authorities had failed to put a stop to his offending many years before"
Well... it's an argument www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...
Well... it's an argument www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...
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Periodic reminder that Aaron Banks Twitter DMs got leaked & he was immediately linked to Russian agents & absolutely nothing was done about it.
The UKIP/Reform Russian money trail has been going on for over 8 years now
The UKIP/Reform Russian money trail has been going on for over 8 years now
November 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Periodic reminder that Aaron Banks Twitter DMs got leaked & he was immediately linked to Russian agents & absolutely nothing was done about it.
The UKIP/Reform Russian money trail has been going on for over 8 years now
The UKIP/Reform Russian money trail has been going on for over 8 years now
