Ste Jormur
@stejormur.bsky.social
Beats me why most dudes suck. Sure as hell ain't my scene.
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Ste Jormur
@stejormur.bsky.social
· Jul 4
You know what? I'm going to do a thread of music. Any time a song pops into my head, I'll post it here. Any genre, any era, any language, if I like it, I'll skeet it.
Let's start with something positive and uplifting. Vienna Teng feels like the most Bluesky musician out there. youtu.be/U4n_8R5lKnw
Let's start with something positive and uplifting. Vienna Teng feels like the most Bluesky musician out there. youtu.be/U4n_8R5lKnw
Vienna Teng - Level Up (Official Music Video) feat. Tommy Guns Ly
YouTube video by Vienna Teng
youtu.be
Rebooting this thread, because I just got an MP3 player for swimming, and my MP3 collection biases heavily towards pre-streaming music. Let's see how well my teenage music taste holds up!
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need to know about the 7% of both democrats and republicans who believe in bigfoot but think the yeti is a step too far. on this issue, the centrists truly are more sensible
New polling on aliens
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
need to know about the 7% of both democrats and republicans who believe in bigfoot but think the yeti is a step too far. on this issue, the centrists truly are more sensible
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feel like this one is not so much a "paradox" as "how wars work" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
feel like this one is not so much a "paradox" as "how wars work" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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imagine if you'd been fighting a war against another country and discovered that you actually agreed on everything. would be honestly embarrassing
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
imagine if you'd been fighting a war against another country and discovered that you actually agreed on everything. would be honestly embarrassing
The party line split on aliens is NOT what I expected at all. Was Trump making publishing UFO files a weirdly big part of his campaign actually his idea of a push for voters across the aisle?
New polling on aliens
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The party line split on aliens is NOT what I expected at all. Was Trump making publishing UFO files a weirdly big part of his campaign actually his idea of a push for voters across the aisle?
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[I apologise in advance]. Fifteen years of prime ministerial travel ruined me for the real world. Planes held for you if there was traffic on the M25. No safety rules. When I flew on a real plane after a couple of years, I caused an incident because I'd forgotten you can't stand up on landing.
The one time I got to travel on a Prime Ministerial plane, the thing that sticks in my mind is that it turns out to be entirely OK to stand around chatting over a glass of champagne *while taxying to the runway*, so long as you sit down for the actual take-off. Any safety announcement? Forget it.
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
[I apologise in advance]. Fifteen years of prime ministerial travel ruined me for the real world. Planes held for you if there was traffic on the M25. No safety rules. When I flew on a real plane after a couple of years, I caused an incident because I'd forgotten you can't stand up on landing.
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AND I SAID
WHAT ABOUT...
AND I SAID
WHAT ABOUT...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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AND I SAID
WHAT ABOUT...
AND I SAID
WHAT ABOUT...
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yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal
I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights
And few who are sympathetic to us, some who are friendly with me on here, will ever stick their head above the parapet
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal
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When can you declare an emergency over?
The 5p “emergency” petrol tax cut was introduced in March 2022, to offset a spike in prices
They are now about 30p down on that month, & about 50p down on the absolute peak
The 5p “emergency” petrol tax cut was introduced in March 2022, to offset a spike in prices
They are now about 30p down on that month, & about 50p down on the absolute peak
November 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
When can you declare an emergency over?
The 5p “emergency” petrol tax cut was introduced in March 2022, to offset a spike in prices
They are now about 30p down on that month, & about 50p down on the absolute peak
The 5p “emergency” petrol tax cut was introduced in March 2022, to offset a spike in prices
They are now about 30p down on that month, & about 50p down on the absolute peak
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I'm so pleased that the age-old barrier against gay men in fashion is finally crumbling.
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I'm so pleased that the age-old barrier against gay men in fashion is finally crumbling.
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Much to agree with here, notably on Labour's bewildering lack of interest in what 2010-24 governments actually did in policy terms. But this - something we have known for well over a century! - just cannot be repeated too often.
November 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Much to agree with here, notably on Labour's bewildering lack of interest in what 2010-24 governments actually did in policy terms. But this - something we have known for well over a century! - just cannot be repeated too often.
I'm kind of in awe. I remember when the only fake train slop Facebook would give you was the photoshopped triangle train over and over. Now you can get infinite hallucinatory railway fever dreams straight from the delirious id of Timothy Potter, Trainspotter.
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I'm kind of in awe. I remember when the only fake train slop Facebook would give you was the photoshopped triangle train over and over. Now you can get infinite hallucinatory railway fever dreams straight from the delirious id of Timothy Potter, Trainspotter.
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Endlich geht's los: Der Weihnachtsmarkt auf dem Römerberg ist seit gestern offiziell eröffnet!
Einige Impressionen vom feierlichen Start haben wir für euch zusammengestellt. Wer hat auch schon so viel Lust aufs Schlendern, Stöbern und Schlemmen? 🍡 ☕️ 🧤
Einige Impressionen vom feierlichen Start haben wir für euch zusammengestellt. Wer hat auch schon so viel Lust aufs Schlendern, Stöbern und Schlemmen? 🍡 ☕️ 🧤
November 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Endlich geht's los: Der Weihnachtsmarkt auf dem Römerberg ist seit gestern offiziell eröffnet!
Einige Impressionen vom feierlichen Start haben wir für euch zusammengestellt. Wer hat auch schon so viel Lust aufs Schlendern, Stöbern und Schlemmen? 🍡 ☕️ 🧤
Einige Impressionen vom feierlichen Start haben wir für euch zusammengestellt. Wer hat auch schon so viel Lust aufs Schlendern, Stöbern und Schlemmen? 🍡 ☕️ 🧤
Of all the American holidays, Thanksgiving is the one we *should* have borrowed. There's a big Harvest-shaped gap in the modern British calendar.
Since I’m English, I don’t go in for Thanksgiving myself, but it’s a feast I happen to love, and this week I have a few suggestions for it, kicking off with the Turkey Breast Stuffed with Italian Sausage and Marsala-Steeped Cranberries that is #RecipeOfTheDay! www.nigella.com/recipes/turk...
Turkey Breast Stuffed With Italian Sausage and Marsala-Steeped Cranberries
I know it might sound a bit of a faff, but take it from me that stuffing a whole double breast joint is very much easier than stuffing and rolling a single breast joint, as is more commonly found in s...
www.nigella.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Of all the American holidays, Thanksgiving is the one we *should* have borrowed. There's a big Harvest-shaped gap in the modern British calendar.
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Well the last panel of this made me cry
xkcd.com/3172/
xkcd.com/3172/
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Well the last panel of this made me cry
xkcd.com/3172/
xkcd.com/3172/
COVID update: it didn't hit me too badly, and I was already mostly recovered by the time the rest of the family got the worst of it, but I'm having to add piles of pickles and chilli sauce to all my food just to taste anything
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 AM
COVID update: it didn't hit me too badly, and I was already mostly recovered by the time the rest of the family got the worst of it, but I'm having to add piles of pickles and chilli sauce to all my food just to taste anything
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South Bank has had heat pump using the Thames since late 1940s. See Heating Systems in Wiki article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_F...
Royal Festival Hall - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
South Bank has had heat pump using the Thames since late 1940s. See Heating Systems in Wiki article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_F...
Oh god, he's trying to talk like Trump, isn't he? "My beloved working class", "cruel and deeply disrespectful", "very beautiful party", it's like if you asked an LLM to write a Trump speech - and not even one of the more advanced LLMs.
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Oh god, he's trying to talk like Trump, isn't he? "My beloved working class", "cruel and deeply disrespectful", "very beautiful party", it's like if you asked an LLM to write a Trump speech - and not even one of the more advanced LLMs.
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Francis was more Mike Shinoda whereas Leo is more Chester
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Francis was more Mike Shinoda whereas Leo is more Chester
At university, our statistical mechanics lecturer had grown up in the Soviet Union and he told us that this was how his apartment complex had been heated - one huge heat pump in the river that worked even in deep Russian winter. Can't find anything online about Soviet-era heat pumps though
Most people hear “heat pump” and think of small air-source units at home. But Germany is building one of the world’s largest heat pumps in Mannheim: a 162 MW river-source system using heat from the Rhine.
Big reminder that heat-pumps scale far beyond households — they can decarbonise whole cities.
Big reminder that heat-pumps scale far beyond households — they can decarbonise whole cities.
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
At university, our statistical mechanics lecturer had grown up in the Soviet Union and he told us that this was how his apartment complex had been heated - one huge heat pump in the river that worked even in deep Russian winter. Can't find anything online about Soviet-era heat pumps though
To be fair, it started going downhill long before the LLMs came along, around the time it started saying "Well, we certainly don't want to become overrun with spam, but if spammers did want to flood our search results, here's how they'd do it *wink wink*"
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
To be fair, it started going downhill long before the LLMs came along, around the time it started saying "Well, we certainly don't want to become overrun with spam, but if spammers did want to flood our search results, here's how they'd do it *wink wink*"
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November 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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I know they're losing but this seems a bit extreme
November 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I know they're losing but this seems a bit extreme
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
I've spent far too long trying to work out which Disco Elysium character would be most likely to say "The woke left don't even want you to enjoy sex with your wife!"
Lord Glasman:
November 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I've spent far too long trying to work out which Disco Elysium character would be most likely to say "The woke left don't even want you to enjoy sex with your wife!"
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