Matthew
@thirty-bob.bsky.social
At this point, I must have lost my presence of mind
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Matthew
@thirty-bob.bsky.social
· Jun 9
"Above all things, good Policie is to be used, that the Treasure and Moneyes, in a State, be not gathered into few Hands. For otherwise, a State may have a great Stock, and yet starve. And Money is like Muck, not good except it be spread." Francis Bacon
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If this is true it must be one of the biggest massacres by a government of protesters - not in a civil war - in decades anywhere in the world
January 19, 2026 at 11:19 PM
If this is true it must be one of the biggest massacres by a government of protesters - not in a civil war - in decades anywhere in the world
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First bin day after Twelfth Night
January 15, 2026 at 11:21 AM
First bin day after Twelfth Night
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On screen-time-menace grifters.
January 14, 2026 at 10:27 AM
On screen-time-menace grifters.
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Nobody in The Moral Maze gets eaten by the Moral Minotaur, which is a fundamental flaw in the programme.
December 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Nobody in The Moral Maze gets eaten by the Moral Minotaur, which is a fundamental flaw in the programme.
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Also it’s Mike Leigh on BBC4 tonight and NUTS IN MAY IS ON
January 10, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Also it’s Mike Leigh on BBC4 tonight and NUTS IN MAY IS ON
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dear mr trump, my name is rupert and i am 68 years old. the evil keir starmez is trying to take away our access to mr musk's magical paedophile machine, a fundamental assault on british values. please deploy enola gay over london our country yearns for freedom
January 10, 2026 at 11:08 AM
dear mr trump, my name is rupert and i am 68 years old. the evil keir starmez is trying to take away our access to mr musk's magical paedophile machine, a fundamental assault on british values. please deploy enola gay over london our country yearns for freedom
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jools... put down the piano... we're all here to help you
December 31, 2025 at 10:14 AM
jools... put down the piano... we're all here to help you
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An edited list of food for a feast at the Hall in 1448: 21 capons, 72 fowls, 6 suckling pigs, 12 rabbits, 6 herons, 2½oz of saffron, 10oz white sugar.
To drink: 170 pints of wine and 416 pints of ale.
Standard week between Christmas and New Year if you ask us…
To drink: 170 pints of wine and 416 pints of ale.
Standard week between Christmas and New Year if you ask us…
December 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
An edited list of food for a feast at the Hall in 1448: 21 capons, 72 fowls, 6 suckling pigs, 12 rabbits, 6 herons, 2½oz of saffron, 10oz white sugar.
To drink: 170 pints of wine and 416 pints of ale.
Standard week between Christmas and New Year if you ask us…
To drink: 170 pints of wine and 416 pints of ale.
Standard week between Christmas and New Year if you ask us…
Done a Gant chart for tomorrow 🥂🍖🥕🍷
December 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Done a Gant chart for tomorrow 🥂🍖🥕🍷
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it’s great that the message ends up being “it’s much worse and bigger than you thought”
December 20, 2025 at 10:49 AM
it’s great that the message ends up being “it’s much worse and bigger than you thought”
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It’s weird how there’s always moves to make fiction more “interactive” with different endings etc. It’s like these people have never seen the same film twice a few years apart and had a completely different reaction. All fiction is interactive. That there’s an audience is the interactive part.
December 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM
It’s weird how there’s always moves to make fiction more “interactive” with different endings etc. It’s like these people have never seen the same film twice a few years apart and had a completely different reaction. All fiction is interactive. That there’s an audience is the interactive part.
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So annoying that companies that promote GenAI and LLMs called it AI and didn’t differentiate it from the advanced machine learning algorithms and tools that enable so many great things that are also AI but actually solving a problem, and good.
December 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
So annoying that companies that promote GenAI and LLMs called it AI and didn’t differentiate it from the advanced machine learning algorithms and tools that enable so many great things that are also AI but actually solving a problem, and good.
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Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.
December 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.
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RIP the great Martin Parr
December 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
RIP the great Martin Parr
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has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane
December 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane
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Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
December 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
🎵 Endure yourself
It’s later than you think 🎶
It’s later than you think 🎶
December 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
🎵 Endure yourself
It’s later than you think 🎶
It’s later than you think 🎶
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Everyone shut thefuck up in that they discovered ribose and, for the first time in any extraterrestrialsample, glucose on Bennu.
This adds to earlier this yr 14 of the 20 amino acids thatlife on Earth uses to make proteinsand all five nucleobases that lifeon Earth uses
www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...
This adds to earlier this yr 14 of the 20 amino acids thatlife on Earth uses to make proteinsand all five nucleobases that lifeon Earth uses
www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...
Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples - NASA
The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life. As
www.nasa.gov
December 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Everyone shut thefuck up in that they discovered ribose and, for the first time in any extraterrestrialsample, glucose on Bennu.
This adds to earlier this yr 14 of the 20 amino acids thatlife on Earth uses to make proteinsand all five nucleobases that lifeon Earth uses
www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...
This adds to earlier this yr 14 of the 20 amino acids thatlife on Earth uses to make proteinsand all five nucleobases that lifeon Earth uses
www.nasa.gov/missions/osi...
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RIP Tom Stoppard who did so much incredible work, not least writing every single line of dialogue in Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade.
November 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard who did so much incredible work, not least writing every single line of dialogue in Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade.
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Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.