Richard
@richd028.bsky.social
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in my more optimistic moments, i try to remember that the generation currently starting to come into power will have had their formative years defined by all of this corruption and elite decadence and i think it has defined how they intend to change things
December 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
in my more optimistic moments, i try to remember that the generation currently starting to come into power will have had their formative years defined by all of this corruption and elite decadence and i think it has defined how they intend to change things
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One of the reasons I'm more hopeful than I thought I'd be at this point is that this reality is too obvious and too unstoppable.
We're doing some incredibly embarrassing shit right now in the US but the vast majority of the rest of the world gets it and is moving quickly.
We're doing some incredibly embarrassing shit right now in the US but the vast majority of the rest of the world gets it and is moving quickly.
December 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
One of the reasons I'm more hopeful than I thought I'd be at this point is that this reality is too obvious and too unstoppable.
We're doing some incredibly embarrassing shit right now in the US but the vast majority of the rest of the world gets it and is moving quickly.
We're doing some incredibly embarrassing shit right now in the US but the vast majority of the rest of the world gets it and is moving quickly.
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I'm pretty sure that at this point in time, the remaining opposition to renewables are nothing but the tantrums of those with interest in fossil fuels and/or could not get the logic of "there's no cost to obtaining the fuel" to sink into the brain.
Hell yeah: @science.org's official Breakthrough of the Year for 2025 is ... [drumroll] ...
... the unstoppable rise & spread of renewable energy.
... the unstoppable rise & spread of renewable energy.
Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy
Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way
www.science.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I'm pretty sure that at this point in time, the remaining opposition to renewables are nothing but the tantrums of those with interest in fossil fuels and/or could not get the logic of "there's no cost to obtaining the fuel" to sink into the brain.
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Fuck off, Monzo, I'm trying to pay a water bill.
December 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Fuck off, Monzo, I'm trying to pay a water bill.
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ProTEct truSTed LocAL nEWS
This isn't even designed to wind people up and hope they share it. It's just an exploitation of Birmingham Live's privileged position on Google Discover/Apple News. The whole point is to deceive people into clicking. An industry built on total contempt for its audience.
This isn't even designed to wind people up and hope they share it. It's just an exploitation of Birmingham Live's privileged position on Google Discover/Apple News. The whole point is to deceive people into clicking. An industry built on total contempt for its audience.
Another datapoint for @jim.londoncentric.media's list of misleading Reach headlines:
"Alert for UK households buying Cathedral City cheese at M&S or Tesco"
The "alert" is that... other cheeses came out ahead in an independent taste test.
www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/sho...
"Alert for UK households buying Cathedral City cheese at M&S or Tesco"
The "alert" is that... other cheeses came out ahead in an independent taste test.
www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/sho...
Alert for UK households buying Cathedral City cheese at M&S or Tesco
A taste test has revealed Cathedral City is actually outscored by other varieties
www.birminghammail.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
ProTEct truSTed LocAL nEWS
This isn't even designed to wind people up and hope they share it. It's just an exploitation of Birmingham Live's privileged position on Google Discover/Apple News. The whole point is to deceive people into clicking. An industry built on total contempt for its audience.
This isn't even designed to wind people up and hope they share it. It's just an exploitation of Birmingham Live's privileged position on Google Discover/Apple News. The whole point is to deceive people into clicking. An industry built on total contempt for its audience.
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During the chase a man in the cinema told Paddington to "run, you cunt"
December 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
During the chase a man in the cinema told Paddington to "run, you cunt"
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ah man, señor borks keeps popping up in those "treasured memory" things on the iphone. My kid being born, playing with my kid, señor borks, my wedding day, señor borks again. love it, part of the family
December 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
ah man, señor borks keeps popping up in those "treasured memory" things on the iphone. My kid being born, playing with my kid, señor borks, my wedding day, señor borks again. love it, part of the family
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there's no refunds on visit visa refusals, and it's essentially impossible to appeal because you'd have to show that your human rights were affected (good luck doing that from a holiday visa refusal). the home office knows it makes a killing on these, and so the refusals roll on forever
December 19, 2025 at 8:25 AM
there's no refunds on visit visa refusals, and it's essentially impossible to appeal because you'd have to show that your human rights were affected (good luck doing that from a holiday visa refusal). the home office knows it makes a killing on these, and so the refusals roll on forever
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the scenario is always implicitly that the hirer is someone that they have a preexising relationship to, since why would a stranger bother offering any excuse at all (especially one that could get them sued for discrimination!) bsky.app/profile/dese...
And they don't tell this to women or minorities, much as they would like to, because then they could be sued.
December 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
the scenario is always implicitly that the hirer is someone that they have a preexising relationship to, since why would a stranger bother offering any excuse at all (especially one that could get them sued for discrimination!) bsky.app/profile/dese...
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longstanding theory on this is that people who know the applicant that they don't want to hire has racial resentment offer "wish i could've hired you, but they made me hire a black woman instead!" as a let-them-down-easy cope rather than admit to them that they just didn't want to hire them.
December 19, 2025 at 3:08 AM
longstanding theory on this is that people who know the applicant that they don't want to hire has racial resentment offer "wish i could've hired you, but they made me hire a black woman instead!" as a let-them-down-easy cope rather than admit to them that they just didn't want to hire them.
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Tired: Labour lost its way with Corbyn
Wired: Labour lost its way with Clement Attlee
Inspired: Labour lost its way when Ramsay MacDonald committed the cardinal sin of actually winning power
Wired: Labour lost its way with Clement Attlee
Inspired: Labour lost its way when Ramsay MacDonald committed the cardinal sin of actually winning power
December 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Tired: Labour lost its way with Corbyn
Wired: Labour lost its way with Clement Attlee
Inspired: Labour lost its way when Ramsay MacDonald committed the cardinal sin of actually winning power
Wired: Labour lost its way with Clement Attlee
Inspired: Labour lost its way when Ramsay MacDonald committed the cardinal sin of actually winning power
I didn't do Eramsus, but my friend did it Murcia in Spain, and the uni hosted a welcome party at a club which me and another friend gatecrashed.
So thank you Erasmus for paying for the shot of Limoncello that was poured directly into my mouth by an out of it student rep standing on the bar.
So thank you Erasmus for paying for the shot of Limoncello that was poured directly into my mouth by an out of it student rep standing on the bar.
Finally, we’ll again hear stories like this one from young people.
Rejoining Erasmus+ is a huge win for young British people.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly0d9je56zo
Rejoining Erasmus+ is a huge win for young British people.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly0d9je56zo
'I learned languages and travelled Europe through Erasmus'
Several years after it was scrapped, the UK is now set to rejoin the Erasmus scheme in 2027.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I didn't do Eramsus, but my friend did it Murcia in Spain, and the uni hosted a welcome party at a club which me and another friend gatecrashed.
So thank you Erasmus for paying for the shot of Limoncello that was poured directly into my mouth by an out of it student rep standing on the bar.
So thank you Erasmus for paying for the shot of Limoncello that was poured directly into my mouth by an out of it student rep standing on the bar.
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this is the McSweeney profile I really want to read:
December 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
this is the McSweeney profile I really want to read:
FM26.
So trying to get into this series fornthe first time in like 15 years. Figure i will read a few guides to get my head round them.
Err, does anyone know where the guides written by humans are now? I keep finding slop.
So trying to get into this series fornthe first time in like 15 years. Figure i will read a few guides to get my head round them.
Err, does anyone know where the guides written by humans are now? I keep finding slop.
December 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
FM26.
So trying to get into this series fornthe first time in like 15 years. Figure i will read a few guides to get my head round them.
Err, does anyone know where the guides written by humans are now? I keep finding slop.
So trying to get into this series fornthe first time in like 15 years. Figure i will read a few guides to get my head round them.
Err, does anyone know where the guides written by humans are now? I keep finding slop.
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Don’t worry, though, I’m sure a “reset” in which they do exactly the same things and pursue the same policies will turn things around in 2026!
Keir Starmer planning new king’s speech after May elections
Timing seen as reset moment after potential loss of hundreds of council seats in England and defeat in Wales and Scotland
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Don’t worry, though, I’m sure a “reset” in which they do exactly the same things and pursue the same policies will turn things around in 2026!
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Justin Trudeau‘s tenure is one of the most successful progressive political projects in the western world in the last decade and most of the left is in denial of this because that project was based around treating working aged women as their core demographic in both rhetoric and policy
December 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Justin Trudeau‘s tenure is one of the most successful progressive political projects in the western world in the last decade and most of the left is in denial of this because that project was based around treating working aged women as their core demographic in both rhetoric and policy
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To clarify for the people who’ve had the good sense to never get anywhere near a financial audit, the auditors will report on failings in processes and procedures but will bend over backwards to give you any chances to correct errors in the numbers themselves
Yikes!
December 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
To clarify for the people who’ve had the good sense to never get anywhere near a financial audit, the auditors will report on failings in processes and procedures but will bend over backwards to give you any chances to correct errors in the numbers themselves
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That was a party political broadcast on behalf of capitalism
December 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
That was a party political broadcast on behalf of capitalism
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"Listen, Roald, we *love* the story, it's clearly another winner, but we just... look, we just feel it might be wise if the F stood for 'Friendly' instead?"
December 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM
"Listen, Roald, we *love* the story, it's clearly another winner, but we just... look, we just feel it might be wise if the F stood for 'Friendly' instead?"
See also our wise electorate claiming they would definately like net migration to be negative for a sustained period of time.
Which they really, really would not if they thought about it.
Which they really, really would not if they thought about it.
There has been one (1) period of sustained deflation (eg prices down for multiple years in a row) since the 1910s. That was the Great Depression. I understand why people (not Chris, he gets it) naively think prices should fall but I cannot emphasize enough how Bad that would be.
December 18, 2025 at 7:12 AM
See also our wise electorate claiming they would definately like net migration to be negative for a sustained period of time.
Which they really, really would not if they thought about it.
Which they really, really would not if they thought about it.
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me: do you want anything from <Vietnamese restaurant>?
husband: no, I’m going to eat leftovers.
me: do you think should I get Toddler something?
husband: yeah, get her a pork banh mi no mayo, but keep the pate. Oh and fries.
husband: no, I’m going to eat leftovers.
me: do you think should I get Toddler something?
husband: yeah, get her a pork banh mi no mayo, but keep the pate. Oh and fries.
December 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
me: do you want anything from <Vietnamese restaurant>?
husband: no, I’m going to eat leftovers.
me: do you think should I get Toddler something?
husband: yeah, get her a pork banh mi no mayo, but keep the pate. Oh and fries.
husband: no, I’m going to eat leftovers.
me: do you think should I get Toddler something?
husband: yeah, get her a pork banh mi no mayo, but keep the pate. Oh and fries.
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It's actually quite impressive to find a way to create something even more pathetic than paying a chatbot for sex
An online marketplace is selling code modules that simulate the effects of cannabis, ketamine, cocaine, ayahuasca, and alcohol when they are uploaded to ChatGPT. www.wired.com/story/people...
People Are Paying to Get Their Chatbots High on ‘Drugs’
An online marketplace is selling code modules that simulate the effects of cannabis, ketamine, cocaine, ayahuasca, and alcohol when they are uploaded to ChatGPT.
www.wired.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
It's actually quite impressive to find a way to create something even more pathetic than paying a chatbot for sex
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Rian Johnson, just off-screen and brandishing a gun: "now, tell them Looper is an underrated gem"
Josh O’Connor calls THE LAST JEDI “so beautiful.”
“The end of that movie - how anyone could be a Jedi... I just remember seeing that movie in the cinemas and I wept of that last image with the boy. It’s just one of the most iconic images in cinema”
(Source: @letterboxd)
“The end of that movie - how anyone could be a Jedi... I just remember seeing that movie in the cinemas and I wept of that last image with the boy. It’s just one of the most iconic images in cinema”
(Source: @letterboxd)
December 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Rian Johnson, just off-screen and brandishing a gun: "now, tell them Looper is an underrated gem"
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I mean it doesn't explain Wales 2016 but Scotland 2011 is a perfect example of a turning point that was anything but inevitable. If Scottish Labour hadn't fumbled it with a frankly insultingly bad campaign, there's no 2014 IndyRef, no GE15 SNP landslide, but possibly yes Prime Minister Miliband!
Acting like this trajectory was inevitable, ordained even by the Prophetic Dalyell when e.g. a few months ahead of 2011 Labour were on track to win? And they lost because they ran what was until GE24 Tories the worst campaign of my voting lifetime: "Come home to Labour or you'll get chibbed"
December 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I mean it doesn't explain Wales 2016 but Scotland 2011 is a perfect example of a turning point that was anything but inevitable. If Scottish Labour hadn't fumbled it with a frankly insultingly bad campaign, there's no 2014 IndyRef, no GE15 SNP landslide, but possibly yes Prime Minister Miliband!