Freddie
@dfal.bsky.social
Apparently an adult. Can sing, a little. Likes music, recording, programming, pretentious drinks and old objects.
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Unless you've experienced it yourself, you will never understand the frustration of being soemone who is good at using Excel watching someone who isn't using it in a meeting
April 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Unless you've experienced it yourself, you will never understand the frustration of being soemone who is good at using Excel watching someone who isn't using it in a meeting
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It would be an incredible bit if Boeing just insisted that this plane existed but was just too stealthy to see, and then pocketed the money because the President felt that this scanned
It's been clear for a while now that Trump believes stealth literally makes airplanes invisible to the naked eye - like they just go *poof* and disappear - and nobody has ever tried to sway him from this idea. Same thing with Hannibal Lecter -> "asylum" -> immigration. Mush brain oozing out his ears
Trump: "The F-47 is equipped with state of the art stealth technology -- it is virtually unseeable."
March 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
It would be an incredible bit if Boeing just insisted that this plane existed but was just too stealthy to see, and then pocketed the money because the President felt that this scanned
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i’m sorry i put salmon in your backpack when you went hiking. But how was i, the sole beneficiary of your estate, to know bears like fish?
March 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
i’m sorry i put salmon in your backpack when you went hiking. But how was i, the sole beneficiary of your estate, to know bears like fish?
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This is my Curmudgeon Era.
Not in the nostalgic, “things were better in my day" way.
More in the "I refuse to be gaslit by modernity" way. I refuse to pretend that constant connectivity has made us happier. I refuse to buy into the idea that infinite scrolling is anything but digital debt.
Not in the nostalgic, “things were better in my day" way.
More in the "I refuse to be gaslit by modernity" way. I refuse to pretend that constant connectivity has made us happier. I refuse to buy into the idea that infinite scrolling is anything but digital debt.
I’m Entering My Curmudgeon Era
My current project: I've been dusting off the old hard drives with my ripped CD collection and loading them into an iPod. A 20-year-old piece of tech with its click wheel intact, no WiFi, and no algorithm feeding me recommendations I didn't ask for. The result: I've started listening to
www.joanwestenberg.com
March 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This is my Curmudgeon Era.
Not in the nostalgic, “things were better in my day" way.
More in the "I refuse to be gaslit by modernity" way. I refuse to pretend that constant connectivity has made us happier. I refuse to buy into the idea that infinite scrolling is anything but digital debt.
Not in the nostalgic, “things were better in my day" way.
More in the "I refuse to be gaslit by modernity" way. I refuse to pretend that constant connectivity has made us happier. I refuse to buy into the idea that infinite scrolling is anything but digital debt.
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oh my god stop this, stop yankifying football, now, of all possible times, is not the time to decide to randomly yankify something that was entirely fine to begin with
Coldplay and FIFA working on first ever World Cup final halftime show
www.itv.com/news/2025-03...
www.itv.com/news/2025-03...
March 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
oh my god stop this, stop yankifying football, now, of all possible times, is not the time to decide to randomly yankify something that was entirely fine to begin with
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All I saw was sandwich for at least 15 seconds
February 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
All I saw was sandwich for at least 15 seconds
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I mean you don't need to know the subject THAT well, but I made it up, so I demand it be considered funny....
My wife went to India after reading a classic novel.
Forster?
NO, SHE WENT OF HER OWN ACCORD.
My wife went to India after reading a classic novel.
Forster?
NO, SHE WENT OF HER OWN ACCORD.
February 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I mean you don't need to know the subject THAT well, but I made it up, so I demand it be considered funny....
My wife went to India after reading a classic novel.
Forster?
NO, SHE WENT OF HER OWN ACCORD.
My wife went to India after reading a classic novel.
Forster?
NO, SHE WENT OF HER OWN ACCORD.
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As ever with these bits of research I’m reminded of the 1933 Oxford Union debate in which 275 to 153 voted for the motion "That this House will under no circumstances fight for its King and country", and six years later that wasn’t the case at all
Half of Generation Z think that Britain is a racist country and only a tenth would risk their lives to defend it in a war, landmark research for The Times has shown
Gen Z think UK is racist and have lost faith in the police and NHS
www.thetimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
As ever with these bits of research I’m reminded of the 1933 Oxford Union debate in which 275 to 153 voted for the motion "That this House will under no circumstances fight for its King and country", and six years later that wasn’t the case at all
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PITCH: An updated version of the curse of Cassandra where she's describing things that are happening now, in front of everyone, but still isn't believed.
February 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
PITCH: An updated version of the curse of Cassandra where she's describing things that are happening now, in front of everyone, but still isn't believed.
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4'33 by John Cage is a perfect piece of music. No notes.
February 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
4'33 by John Cage is a perfect piece of music. No notes.
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Social media is basically the political equivalent of squeaky toys for dogs. You can take a dog with an extremely high prey drive, give it a little toy that imitates the sound of small animals screaming, and it'll just sit in the corner all day looking cute while squeaking its pretend squirrel.
YOU CAN'T POST YOUR WAY OUT OF FASCISM: "The greatest of these sins is convincing ourselves that posting is a form of political activism, when it is at best a coping mechanism." Essential reading by Janus Rose in @404media.bsky.social:
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
February 9, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Social media is basically the political equivalent of squeaky toys for dogs. You can take a dog with an extremely high prey drive, give it a little toy that imitates the sound of small animals screaming, and it'll just sit in the corner all day looking cute while squeaking its pretend squirrel.
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saw this circulating on Instagram the other day and I can’t stop thinking about it. “Who cares anymore what particular knot they used in the binding?” is such a perfectly expressed repudiation of the “economic anxiety” framing
February 7, 2025 at 3:22 AM
saw this circulating on Instagram the other day and I can’t stop thinking about it. “Who cares anymore what particular knot they used in the binding?” is such a perfectly expressed repudiation of the “economic anxiety” framing
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Happy "Microsoft trying to force CoPilot subs" day in the UK for all who celebrate.
(They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase).
1) Go to your account page
2) Hit cancel
3) Change sub back.
(They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase).
1) Go to your account page
2) Hit cancel
3) Change sub back.
February 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Happy "Microsoft trying to force CoPilot subs" day in the UK for all who celebrate.
(They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase).
1) Go to your account page
2) Hit cancel
3) Change sub back.
(They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase).
1) Go to your account page
2) Hit cancel
3) Change sub back.
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![A New York Post tweet with images of bikini clad burger saleswomen
New York Post @nypost
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This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern.
#upcycling
#upcycling
January 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern.
#upcycling
#upcycling
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Recently catologued two of the most interesting and unique election campaign materials I've ever come across - party dresses worn by Phyllis & Marjorie Hervey during their father's campaign for the Bury-St-Edmunds seat in 1906. The case for Tariff Reform painted onto a 6yr old's dress...
Dress 852628
www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk
January 27, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Recently catologued two of the most interesting and unique election campaign materials I've ever come across - party dresses worn by Phyllis & Marjorie Hervey during their father's campaign for the Bury-St-Edmunds seat in 1906. The case for Tariff Reform painted onto a 6yr old's dress...
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HERCULE POIROT: Mon ami, whom do you believe to be the murderer?
CAPTAIN HASTINGS: Goodness me, surely you don’t want to know MY opinion?
POIROT: Au contraire!
HASTINGS: Well…that lady did it.
POIROT: Wrong, you big hot stupid baby bitch English piece of shit.
HASTINGS: Let me die for you.
CAPTAIN HASTINGS: Goodness me, surely you don’t want to know MY opinion?
POIROT: Au contraire!
HASTINGS: Well…that lady did it.
POIROT: Wrong, you big hot stupid baby bitch English piece of shit.
HASTINGS: Let me die for you.
December 31, 2024 at 7:18 PM
HERCULE POIROT: Mon ami, whom do you believe to be the murderer?
CAPTAIN HASTINGS: Goodness me, surely you don’t want to know MY opinion?
POIROT: Au contraire!
HASTINGS: Well…that lady did it.
POIROT: Wrong, you big hot stupid baby bitch English piece of shit.
HASTINGS: Let me die for you.
CAPTAIN HASTINGS: Goodness me, surely you don’t want to know MY opinion?
POIROT: Au contraire!
HASTINGS: Well…that lady did it.
POIROT: Wrong, you big hot stupid baby bitch English piece of shit.
HASTINGS: Let me die for you.
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i have seen the theory that Trump is so obsessed with Greenland because he doesn't understand the Mercator projection and i cannot stop laughing. one hundred percent that's what's going on
January 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
i have seen the theory that Trump is so obsessed with Greenland because he doesn't understand the Mercator projection and i cannot stop laughing. one hundred percent that's what's going on
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Remember the right-wing plot to sabotage Jimmy Carter’s re-election by urging Iran to hold American hostages longer? You don’t? It’s a shocking example of the American right’s treachery that more people should know about. (Gift link to 2023 NYT story.)
A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election (Gift Article)
A prominent Texas politician said he unwittingly took part in a 1980 tour of the Middle East with a clandestine agenda.
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Remember the right-wing plot to sabotage Jimmy Carter’s re-election by urging Iran to hold American hostages longer? You don’t? It’s a shocking example of the American right’s treachery that more people should know about. (Gift link to 2023 NYT story.)
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They think it's ok to design and build a slave who they have no intention of treating like a person but every intention of compelling it to do the work a person does.
If nothing else, it tells you what these folks think about other people (and about the ethics of how one treats other people)
If nothing else, it tells you what these folks think about other people (and about the ethics of how one treats other people)
December 27, 2024 at 4:46 PM
They think it's ok to design and build a slave who they have no intention of treating like a person but every intention of compelling it to do the work a person does.
If nothing else, it tells you what these folks think about other people (and about the ethics of how one treats other people)
If nothing else, it tells you what these folks think about other people (and about the ethics of how one treats other people)
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5 more days fellas. Have sex before we're replaced
December 27, 2024 at 2:28 AM
5 more days fellas. Have sex before we're replaced
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One of the best parts of the latter is that it requires rewriting Penelope as Piggie absolutely SOAKING the suitors for gifts, and then joyfully joining the final mele and karate-chopping her way to defending her man.
and she strings the bow, handing it to Hardy w/a nod
and she strings the bow, handing it to Hardy w/a nod
Christopher Nolan's Odysseus will be good.
Christopher Nolan's Muppet Odysseus would have been better.
(Tom Hardy as Odysseus in both)
Christopher Nolan's Muppet Odysseus would have been better.
(Tom Hardy as Odysseus in both)
December 24, 2024 at 8:55 AM
One of the best parts of the latter is that it requires rewriting Penelope as Piggie absolutely SOAKING the suitors for gifts, and then joyfully joining the final mele and karate-chopping her way to defending her man.
and she strings the bow, handing it to Hardy w/a nod
and she strings the bow, handing it to Hardy w/a nod
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Christopher Nolan's Odysseus will be good.
Christopher Nolan's Muppet Odysseus would have been better.
(Tom Hardy as Odysseus in both)
Christopher Nolan's Muppet Odysseus would have been better.
(Tom Hardy as Odysseus in both)
December 24, 2024 at 8:47 AM
Christopher Nolan's Odysseus will be good.
Christopher Nolan's Muppet Odysseus would have been better.
(Tom Hardy as Odysseus in both)
Christopher Nolan's Muppet Odysseus would have been better.
(Tom Hardy as Odysseus in both)