Alastair Harper
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Alastair Harper
@alastairharper.bsky.social
Veteran of various UK squabbles on housing, climate, nature, refugee rights.
Look, these things aren’t going to grift themselves
November 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Wait. It’s not. Nessie and the goat sucker. But, again, these very likely to be out there. Ppl make a big deal about unicorns when rhinos are real and way weirder.
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
This is the sensible pick so my liberal elite sneer notes it’s the only one where Dems out number Reps
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The bit where “i summoned a fleet of star destroyers with my force” was so anti the scruffy believable world summed up perfectly in the first movie going from “cosy but cosseted farm life” to “get in the Falcon, no time to explain”
November 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Just make a cinematic universe so scruffily convincing you can start it “episode iv- here’s what you missed”
November 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
(Whispers) social housing is countercyclical
October 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Look, Bill could have released DOS but he knew it wasn’t there yet. He could have released Windows 95 to the public. In many ways it would have been good software. But he is a principled man against iterative improvements and that’s why the first thing he ever released was Windows 11
October 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Because we have a net loss of social housing so anything done to help fewer kids grow up in travelodges is good news.
October 27, 2025 at 9:27 AM
She supports recycling Tbf
October 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM