“Captain Video” From Outer Space
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I like the idea of a Tudor galleon with so many cannons it almost sank and it somehow has the name of a cartoon character who encourages kids to eat more fruit
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Here for the participatory disinfotainment
#Ilizarov frame gang
Here for the participatory disinfotainment
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November 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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The grumpy / pedantic / generally middle aged posting will continue until the weather improves
November 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The grumpy / pedantic / generally middle aged posting will continue until the weather improves
Whatsapp autocompleting my messages with extra words might actually drive me off the only Meta platform I’m still on
November 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Whatsapp autocompleting my messages with extra words might actually drive me off the only Meta platform I’m still on
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Sharaa's actual job in al-Qaeda in Iraq was overseeing suicide bomb manufacturing. Amazing career progression.
Has anybody asked the dickheads who spent years squealing idiot abuse at anyone who said the War On Terror was dumb and murderous bullshit what they make of western leaders queuing up to shake hands with Mr Al Qaeda In Syria? I want to hear them blame this one on post-modernism.
November 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Sharaa's actual job in al-Qaeda in Iraq was overseeing suicide bomb manufacturing. Amazing career progression.
China’s experiencing deflation because of weak domestic demand, you say?
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Bloomberg analysis shows China’s deflation is hitting the country’s economy harder than official numbers suggest, with prices of everyday goods plunging and the share of loss-making companies at a 25-year high. Read more: bloom.bg/47LNxI7
📷️: Bloomberg, Getty Images
📷️: Bloomberg, Getty Images
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
China’s experiencing deflation because of weak domestic demand, you say?
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Probably a combo of weather and mild burn out from work, but feeling pretty bleh today.
Hopefully this bowl of bright orange leftover soup will fix me
Hopefully this bowl of bright orange leftover soup will fix me
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Probably a combo of weather and mild burn out from work, but feeling pretty bleh today.
Hopefully this bowl of bright orange leftover soup will fix me
Hopefully this bowl of bright orange leftover soup will fix me
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This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
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IMO the worst thing about this government is its failure to see Trump, Farage, anti-immigration rhetoric, rising racism, and the 'gender critical' lobby as connected elements of a global war against liberalism and social democracy – and instead treating them as discrete issues to be 'managed'.
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
IMO the worst thing about this government is its failure to see Trump, Farage, anti-immigration rhetoric, rising racism, and the 'gender critical' lobby as connected elements of a global war against liberalism and social democracy – and instead treating them as discrete issues to be 'managed'.
Magnets in the discourse again. Everyone seems to believe they understand magnets because they did an experiment with iron filings once at age 11, not because eg they understand why unpaired dipoles prefer to align spins to increase the separation between outer orbitals on (some) neighbouring atoms
November 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Magnets in the discourse again. Everyone seems to believe they understand magnets because they did an experiment with iron filings once at age 11, not because eg they understand why unpaired dipoles prefer to align spins to increase the separation between outer orbitals on (some) neighbouring atoms
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A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
When Christopher Nolan works with his brother Jonathan, they make clever, compelling movies (Memento, Prestige).
Jonathan alone makes sterile puzzleboxes (Westworld)
Whereas Christopher alone makes pretentious Michael Bay movies (basically all his other films)
Jonathan alone makes sterile puzzleboxes (Westworld)
Whereas Christopher alone makes pretentious Michael Bay movies (basically all his other films)
It was utterly, completely, straightforward. And literally *nobody* thought it was clever and deep when Paul McCartney did the "dream within a dream within a dream" thing in Give My Regards To Broad Street -- they just thought it fatuous. Consistency, people!
does anyone else remember the way inception was sold as this super confusing movie? and that newspapers were printing visual guides on what the plot was? and then you saw the movie and it was actually really straight forward?
what was that about
what was that about
November 11, 2025 at 6:53 AM
When Christopher Nolan works with his brother Jonathan, they make clever, compelling movies (Memento, Prestige).
Jonathan alone makes sterile puzzleboxes (Westworld)
Whereas Christopher alone makes pretentious Michael Bay movies (basically all his other films)
Jonathan alone makes sterile puzzleboxes (Westworld)
Whereas Christopher alone makes pretentious Michael Bay movies (basically all his other films)
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You won’t read that in a book because it never happened but I can take a photo of the bulls for you if you like
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
You won’t read that in a book because it never happened but I can take a photo of the bulls for you if you like
Going zip tie mode. In my zip tie era.
It’s giving “frame joined by zip ties”, it’s giving “frame comes off on Thursday”
(Cannot wait)
#Ilizarov
It’s giving “frame joined by zip ties”, it’s giving “frame comes off on Thursday”
(Cannot wait)
#Ilizarov
November 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Going zip tie mode. In my zip tie era.
It’s giving “frame joined by zip ties”, it’s giving “frame comes off on Thursday”
(Cannot wait)
#Ilizarov
It’s giving “frame joined by zip ties”, it’s giving “frame comes off on Thursday”
(Cannot wait)
#Ilizarov
Agree with the diagnosis, somewhat agree with the prescription, but I don’t think data journalism alone will correct the political biases that inflict the UK media
(I started from a similar PoV as Chris in my 20s, reading Ben Goldacre and Flat Earth News and telling friends about Gell-Man Amnesia)
(I started from a similar PoV as Chris in my 20s, reading Ben Goldacre and Flat Earth News and telling friends about Gell-Man Amnesia)
The big problem with the BBC isn't so much a bias against left or right, but a bias against understanding: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/being-a-ne... There's little chance that a change of DG will remedy this.
Being a news avoider
Even with the best journalists, the news gives us a distorted picture of the world.
chrisdillow.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Agree with the diagnosis, somewhat agree with the prescription, but I don’t think data journalism alone will correct the political biases that inflict the UK media
(I started from a similar PoV as Chris in my 20s, reading Ben Goldacre and Flat Earth News and telling friends about Gell-Man Amnesia)
(I started from a similar PoV as Chris in my 20s, reading Ben Goldacre and Flat Earth News and telling friends about Gell-Man Amnesia)
Coming to feel that one of the great political challenges of our time is to provide a soft landing to upper middle class and above people experiencing small relative loss of privilege and willing to burn everything down as a result
November 10, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Coming to feel that one of the great political challenges of our time is to provide a soft landing to upper middle class and above people experiencing small relative loss of privilege and willing to burn everything down as a result
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interesting long thread on the unfolding of the US's conservative revolutionary period as it struggles to cohere into fully realised fascism.
I've noticed that there isn't much talk here about the current internecine war that is unfolding on the right, spearheaded in large part by Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I know this shit is insane and feels bad. But this is a mistake (1/)
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
interesting long thread on the unfolding of the US's conservative revolutionary period as it struggles to cohere into fully realised fascism.
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The Wentworth Needle’s Eye was built so the second Marquess of Rockingham could win a bet “to drive a coach and horses through the eye of a needle”
November 9, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The Wentworth Needle’s Eye was built so the second Marquess of Rockingham could win a bet “to drive a coach and horses through the eye of a needle”
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hey did i mention we discovered a new organ system in our bodies in like 2012? It's called the glymphatic system.
It answers a long standing mystery of how our brain gets new fluid and dumps the old fluid and primarily works when we sleep.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glympha...
It answers a long standing mystery of how our brain gets new fluid and dumps the old fluid and primarily works when we sleep.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glympha...
Glymphatic system - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:42 AM
hey did i mention we discovered a new organ system in our bodies in like 2012? It's called the glymphatic system.
It answers a long standing mystery of how our brain gets new fluid and dumps the old fluid and primarily works when we sleep.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glympha...
It answers a long standing mystery of how our brain gets new fluid and dumps the old fluid and primarily works when we sleep.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glympha...
Little-known, but a text that has greatly influenced my thinking over the years
November 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Little-known, but a text that has greatly influenced my thinking over the years
Impressive example of open source geolocation. Who says that investigative journalism is dying
Elizabeth Olsen believes she will die old and alone in a foggy English coastal town. Here are her options
Elizabeth Olsen believes she will die old and alone in a foggy English coastal town. Here are her options
While promoting new film Eternity, the actor outlined a specific end-of-life scenario that should be cold, wet and include one cheese shop
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Impressive example of open source geolocation. Who says that investigative journalism is dying
Seen this argument over the years for Uber, then Uber Eats services.
As someone with an actual, albeit temporary disability this year ( #Ilizarov woo) I’ve used these services a lot. I would still vastly prefer to live in a world with regularly paid workers plus govt subsidies to disabled people!
As someone with an actual, albeit temporary disability this year ( #Ilizarov woo) I’ve used these services a lot. I would still vastly prefer to live in a world with regularly paid workers plus govt subsidies to disabled people!
It's always some hypothetical disabled person who cannot grocery shop, cook, or even use a microwave, but can use their phone and get to the door to pick up a bag of takeout. This person also lives alone with these disabilities with no assistance.
November 6, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Seen this argument over the years for Uber, then Uber Eats services.
As someone with an actual, albeit temporary disability this year ( #Ilizarov woo) I’ve used these services a lot. I would still vastly prefer to live in a world with regularly paid workers plus govt subsidies to disabled people!
As someone with an actual, albeit temporary disability this year ( #Ilizarov woo) I’ve used these services a lot. I would still vastly prefer to live in a world with regularly paid workers plus govt subsidies to disabled people!
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just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias
August 12, 2023 at 6:04 PM
just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias