Adrian Boutel
aboutel.bsky.social
Adrian Boutel
@aboutel.bsky.social
Kiwi in Suisse Romande. Have practised law and taught philosophy. Wondering whether to do WSET 4.
It’s a bus! It can take passengers from anywhere, why make them walk past half a dozen widebodies first?

GVA might not be the worst airport in the world, but it’s arguably the stupidest.
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Surprisingly large choice for the capital of a country that doesn’t appear on world maps.
November 24, 2025 at 7:37 AM
She is here stating her opposition to the radical “after we stop digging up fossil fuels and burning them, we go into the ground and fight them where they live” types.
November 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Where'd my alt text go? Anyway "hallucinant" doesn't literally mean hallucinatory—that would be "hallucinatoire"—but there are definitely other French words for "impressive" they could have chosen.
November 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Those nasty Mercians, coming over here… :-)
November 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
(Also with free borders your own criminals can leave! Really, there is no sense in which immigration control is crime control.)
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
It’s Merz, so obviously some of it is going on tax cuts. But frankly even that is better than mindless fiscal tightness.
November 11, 2025 at 6:56 AM
“Like” obviously not being the right sentiment here.
November 9, 2025 at 9:59 AM
And in “Dear God, don’t let these things near live systems!” news:

“In June, rival research firm Gartner predicted that more than 40 percent of agentic AI projects would be cancelled by the end of 2027 due to rising costs, unclear business value, or insufficient risk controls.”
November 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
But of course… : “"We predict that much of this work will be given to lower-wage human workers, offshore or at lower salary," the report adds.“
November 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM