Marl Karx
@bareleft.bsky.social
Here to make friends online. Makes typos.
Doesn't particularly bode well for Your Party having a good grasp on their membership numbers if I'm receiving canvassing calls after having quit in November, lol.
February 18, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Doesn't particularly bode well for Your Party having a good grasp on their membership numbers if I'm receiving canvassing calls after having quit in November, lol.
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People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.
www.heise.de
February 17, 2026 at 9:12 PM
People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.
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Billionaires should not exist because they can use their vast wealth and influence to create crises like this in service of something the vast majority of the public does not want and cannot be meaningfully stopped as long as they're billionaires.
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out
Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.
www.heise.de
February 17, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Billionaires should not exist because they can use their vast wealth and influence to create crises like this in service of something the vast majority of the public does not want and cannot be meaningfully stopped as long as they're billionaires.
For real. Besides Labour continually delaying local elections, or consigning themselves to death with the excuse it'd be too costly to have a single Mayoral by-election, rumours were that most of the PLP would resign if Corbyn had actually won in 2017 and 2019. That's besides threat of army coups.
when i read this i got stunlocked by a dozen contrary examples all jumping to mind at once. the UK! ha!
It's great to live in a country (Canada, Japan, UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, etc.) where citizens don't worry about if the next election will be canceled, if they will be allowed to register to vote, if they will have to stand in line for hours to vote, or if their vote will be counted.
February 16, 2026 at 2:30 PM
For real. Besides Labour continually delaying local elections, or consigning themselves to death with the excuse it'd be too costly to have a single Mayoral by-election, rumours were that most of the PLP would resign if Corbyn had actually won in 2017 and 2019. That's besides threat of army coups.
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when i read this i got stunlocked by a dozen contrary examples all jumping to mind at once. the UK! ha!
It's great to live in a country (Canada, Japan, UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, etc.) where citizens don't worry about if the next election will be canceled, if they will be allowed to register to vote, if they will have to stand in line for hours to vote, or if their vote will be counted.
February 16, 2026 at 10:44 AM
when i read this i got stunlocked by a dozen contrary examples all jumping to mind at once. the UK! ha!
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A British remake of Good Bye, Lenin! except it’s about Keir Starmer’s assistant of 30 years trying to prevent his boss from finding out about anything of any importance ever
February 16, 2026 at 2:04 PM
A British remake of Good Bye, Lenin! except it’s about Keir Starmer’s assistant of 30 years trying to prevent his boss from finding out about anything of any importance ever
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"I left the NHS as it's not fit for purpose, too much medication is being given out, what you should all be doing is downloading MY app and subscribing to MY private health care service instead"
- Me, an ex GP with no skin in the game when it comes to criticising the NHS (I also have a podcast)
- Me, an ex GP with no skin in the game when it comes to criticising the NHS (I also have a podcast)
February 16, 2026 at 1:28 PM
"I left the NHS as it's not fit for purpose, too much medication is being given out, what you should all be doing is downloading MY app and subscribing to MY private health care service instead"
- Me, an ex GP with no skin in the game when it comes to criticising the NHS (I also have a podcast)
- Me, an ex GP with no skin in the game when it comes to criticising the NHS (I also have a podcast)
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This is IMO fully consistent with Sir Keir being exactly what he appears to be: a clueless bonnet ornament on a car filled with crooks and shit gangsters, forever staring directly ahead, oblivious to the horrors behind.
February 16, 2026 at 1:21 PM
This is IMO fully consistent with Sir Keir being exactly what he appears to be: a clueless bonnet ornament on a car filled with crooks and shit gangsters, forever staring directly ahead, oblivious to the horrors behind.
Flattered when I get the Zack Polanski retweet, but that does mean I get all the biggest dickheads imaginable in my Twitter mentions for a couple hours.
February 14, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Flattered when I get the Zack Polanski retweet, but that does mean I get all the biggest dickheads imaginable in my Twitter mentions for a couple hours.
Still don't want to write them off, but have never been more glad to have detached myself from caring about Your Party while the blood-letting continues.
February 11, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Still don't want to write them off, but have never been more glad to have detached myself from caring about Your Party while the blood-letting continues.
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People will tell you that it’s silly to cut family members out of your life over politics, but this serves to highlight how it can be an act of self-preservation
Briton shot by father in Texas after row about Trump was unlawfully killed, coroner rules
Briton shot by father in Texas after row about Trump was unlawfully killed, coroner rules
Lucy Harrison died after being shot in chest by alcoholic Kris Harrison while staying at his home in US last year
A Cheshire woman who was shot dead by her “reckless” father while visiting him in the US after a row about Donald Trump was unlawfully killed, a coroner has ruled.
Lucy Harrison, 23, who lived in Warrington and worked as a fashion buyer for Boohoo, was shot in the chest with a semi-automatic handgun by Kris Harrison, while staying at his home in Prosper, Texas, on 10 January last year. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:22 PM
People will tell you that it’s silly to cut family members out of your life over politics, but this serves to highlight how it can be an act of self-preservation
Finished Cyberpunk 2077 a week ago.
This opinion still broadly stands. The mainline missions are legit some of the most mechanically uninteresting/boring content in the whole damn game, including the various iterations of the final mission. The endings themselves are great. Bleak, but great.
This opinion still broadly stands. The mainline missions are legit some of the most mechanically uninteresting/boring content in the whole damn game, including the various iterations of the final mission. The endings themselves are great. Bleak, but great.
Okay, disregard this. I'm nearly 50 hours deep and would like to revise my position:
It's still flawed mechanically and narratively (as an RPG, linearly it's quite appealing even if your choices mean fuck all), but I've been won over by the impressive (literal and figurative) worldbuilding.
It's still flawed mechanically and narratively (as an RPG, linearly it's quite appealing even if your choices mean fuck all), but I've been won over by the impressive (literal and figurative) worldbuilding.
Anyway, I finally bought Cyberpunk 2077 in the Steam sale and sadly have to concur with the people who said its problems went beyond the shoddy state it launched in.
It's still early and I hear the Phantom Liberty expansion is genuinely great, but it's not hooking me and it feels... wrong, somehow.
It's still early and I hear the Phantom Liberty expansion is genuinely great, but it's not hooking me and it feels... wrong, somehow.
February 7, 2026 at 6:06 AM
Finished Cyberpunk 2077 a week ago.
This opinion still broadly stands. The mainline missions are legit some of the most mechanically uninteresting/boring content in the whole damn game, including the various iterations of the final mission. The endings themselves are great. Bleak, but great.
This opinion still broadly stands. The mainline missions are legit some of the most mechanically uninteresting/boring content in the whole damn game, including the various iterations of the final mission. The endings themselves are great. Bleak, but great.
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Staring at the $5 goodwill cheese printer like it's the green goblin mask
February 4, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Staring at the $5 goodwill cheese printer like it's the green goblin mask
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Trayvon Martin would be 31 today.
February 5, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Trayvon Martin would be 31 today.
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Lmao (enlarge)
February 5, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Lmao (enlarge)
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top schumering lately. his party's supporters want ICE abolished; he proposes ICE being reformed, & then those reforms are a bunch of half-measures like the agents not wearing masks, & then he waters that down until we land on the agents not wearing masks unless they say they have a reason. 10/10
Chuck Schumer says ICE should be allowed to wear masks in "unusual circumstances—you know, some guy's picture was put up by a terrorist group or something."
February 5, 2026 at 11:34 PM
top schumering lately. his party's supporters want ICE abolished; he proposes ICE being reformed, & then those reforms are a bunch of half-measures like the agents not wearing masks, & then he waters that down until we land on the agents not wearing masks unless they say they have a reason. 10/10
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may need to post my kieth collection pronto. i don't know what will happens first: i will out of images or his resignation.
February 5, 2026 at 12:06 PM
may need to post my kieth collection pronto. i don't know what will happens first: i will out of images or his resignation.
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JPMorgan should ‘threaten’ UK over banker tax, Mandelson told Epstein.
Mandelson was Business Secretary at that time in 2009.
After leaving govt in 2010, Mandelson set up an advisory firm called Global Counsel, JPMorgan was a client.
Must be investigated.
archive.is/rzjnQ
Mandelson was Business Secretary at that time in 2009.
After leaving govt in 2010, Mandelson set up an advisory firm called Global Counsel, JPMorgan was a client.
Must be investigated.
archive.is/rzjnQ
archive.is
February 2, 2026 at 3:06 PM
JPMorgan should ‘threaten’ UK over banker tax, Mandelson told Epstein.
Mandelson was Business Secretary at that time in 2009.
After leaving govt in 2010, Mandelson set up an advisory firm called Global Counsel, JPMorgan was a client.
Must be investigated.
archive.is/rzjnQ
Mandelson was Business Secretary at that time in 2009.
After leaving govt in 2010, Mandelson set up an advisory firm called Global Counsel, JPMorgan was a client.
Must be investigated.
archive.is/rzjnQ
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starmer is hilarious: Mandelson can only be removed from Lords by an Act of Parliament, so you can see why, as Prime Minister, there is nothing I can do
February 2, 2026 at 1:35 PM
starmer is hilarious: Mandelson can only be removed from Lords by an Act of Parliament, so you can see why, as Prime Minister, there is nothing I can do