Christopher Webb
@chriswebb.bsky.social
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"To create the batteries we need to keep the whole world's lights on when the sun goes down and the wind stops blowing, we will need to extract *one seventeenth* of the amount of minerals we burn *every year* in the fossil fuel system" pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/o...
Pluralistic: The enshittification of solar (and how to stop it) (23 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
September 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"To create the batteries we need to keep the whole world's lights on when the sun goes down and the wind stops blowing, we will need to extract *one seventeenth* of the amount of minerals we burn *every year* in the fossil fuel system" pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/o...
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This is how blatantly the #BBC and other news favours Reform.
This is appalling and unbalanced and needs addressing NOW.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
This is appalling and unbalanced and needs addressing NOW.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
Reform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins
Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:41 AM
This is how blatantly the #BBC and other news favours Reform.
This is appalling and unbalanced and needs addressing NOW.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
This is appalling and unbalanced and needs addressing NOW.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
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In addition I think it's because he's not been seen for a few hours, hasn't tweeted in a few hours, and, for me, the pizza intelligence is blowing up:
www.pizzint.watch
www.pizzint.watch
Pentagon Pizza Index - Real-Time OSINT Dashboard
Track pizza popularity around the Pentagon as a geopolitical indicator. The conspiracy theory that's taking OSINT by storm.
www.pizzint.watch
August 30, 2025 at 4:51 AM
In addition I think it's because he's not been seen for a few hours, hasn't tweeted in a few hours, and, for me, the pizza intelligence is blowing up:
www.pizzint.watch
www.pizzint.watch
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@dandouglas.bsky.social Nice to see Edge magazine quoting one of the biggest names in gaming right now, plus also Gabe Newell
August 22, 2025 at 8:18 AM
@dandouglas.bsky.social Nice to see Edge magazine quoting one of the biggest names in gaming right now, plus also Gabe Newell
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I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.
August 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.
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i'm sorry for posting facts:
July 30, 2025 at 6:36 AM
i'm sorry for posting facts:
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UAC Director Malcolm Betruger says Mars may be on the verge of a "demon crisis" because of some other guy who did something, not him. Adds that he is not tempted at all by the power offered from aligning himself with evil forces after discovering a pathway to Hell and trying to tame its many beasts
July 23, 2025 at 5:42 AM
UAC Director Malcolm Betruger says Mars may be on the verge of a "demon crisis" because of some other guy who did something, not him. Adds that he is not tempted at all by the power offered from aligning himself with evil forces after discovering a pathway to Hell and trying to tame its many beasts
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He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...
The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops
Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?
www.londoncentric.media
July 22, 2025 at 6:48 AM
He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...
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Once again we find ourselves thinking about the range of kaiju action figures apologising for all their city destroying shenanigans that Bandai released a few years ago
July 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Once again we find ourselves thinking about the range of kaiju action figures apologising for all their city destroying shenanigans that Bandai released a few years ago
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A Polish friend of mine learned the only 2 facts about swans any Brit knows, then confused them and, gloriously, *forgot they were about swans*, so one day she told me:
"Did you know that the Queen is the only person in England allowed to break your arm?"
"Did you know that the Queen is the only person in England allowed to break your arm?"
Q Can a swan break your arm?
1) Yes
2) Also yes
1) Yes
2) Also yes
March 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
A Polish friend of mine learned the only 2 facts about swans any Brit knows, then confused them and, gloriously, *forgot they were about swans*, so one day she told me:
"Did you know that the Queen is the only person in England allowed to break your arm?"
"Did you know that the Queen is the only person in England allowed to break your arm?"
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When you read this it becomes apparent that Elon Musk is a showman, nothing more. He's not an engineer. The whole thing is an act.
Starship Was Doomed From The Beginning
The fatal flaw SpaceX can't overcome.
www.planetearthandbeyond.co
March 18, 2025 at 9:39 AM
When you read this it becomes apparent that Elon Musk is a showman, nothing more. He's not an engineer. The whole thing is an act.
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Zelensky probably calculated that he was a goner anyway -- the US was looking for an excuse to cut off support and is aligning itself with Russia. So very little incentive to play nice and -- given that he is a former actor -- a lot of alpha to embarrassing Trump on TV
February 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Zelensky probably calculated that he was a goner anyway -- the US was looking for an excuse to cut off support and is aligning itself with Russia. So very little incentive to play nice and -- given that he is a former actor -- a lot of alpha to embarrassing Trump on TV
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February 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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I worked for a prototyping machine shop that made parts for meta's vr hardware. Some of the worst designed parts I've ever had to manufacture, churned out by a constantly shifting team of designers with absolutely no frame of reference for how much something should cost to make.
February 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I worked for a prototyping machine shop that made parts for meta's vr hardware. Some of the worst designed parts I've ever had to manufacture, churned out by a constantly shifting team of designers with absolutely no frame of reference for how much something should cost to make.
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Tom Gauld on the John le Carré advent calendar – cartoon
Tom Gauld on the John le Carré advent calendar – cartoon
Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2024 at 8:13 AM
Tom Gauld on the John le Carré advent calendar – cartoon
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For folks that know me as "the blue noise guy", I've put together a 50 minute video that talks about many of the things I've learned in my ~decade long dive into noise and related topics - up to and including our latest paper published days ago at I3D.
Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=teth...
Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=teth...
May 14, 2024 at 3:49 PM
For folks that know me as "the blue noise guy", I've put together a 50 minute video that talks about many of the things I've learned in my ~decade long dive into noise and related topics - up to and including our latest paper published days ago at I3D.
Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=teth...
Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=teth...
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The Detroit Tigers bullpen looks like the room in Alien Resurrection where they have all the cloned Ripleys that didn't quite work out, but in this case it's 8 attempts to clone Waingro from Heat from a degraded DNA sample.
October 4, 2024 at 1:06 PM
The Detroit Tigers bullpen looks like the room in Alien Resurrection where they have all the cloned Ripleys that didn't quite work out, but in this case it's 8 attempts to clone Waingro from Heat from a degraded DNA sample.