I’m Ned Ludd and so’s my wife
@heptaglemious.bsky.social
Engineer. Recovering Xitter user.
Old enough to remember elections where there was hope for change.
Posts may contain traces of withering scorn.
Slava Ukraini!
Old enough to remember elections where there was hope for change.
Posts may contain traces of withering scorn.
Slava Ukraini!
Dudley Moore was a genius. youtu.be/h28kF6xDX3E?...
Dudley Moore - in the style of Beethoven or similar
YouTube video by Toby Vennard
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Dudley Moore was a genius. youtu.be/h28kF6xDX3E?...
I’m looking forward to the sequel, “Unemployed”, due in 2028.
notable but not surprising that Fetterman chose Fox & Friends as the place to promote his new book
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I’m looking forward to the sequel, “Unemployed”, due in 2028.
Sub-prime car loans! I wonder what will happen when the defaults start rolling in? If only we had some kind of precedent to draw on.
November 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Sub-prime car loans! I wonder what will happen when the defaults start rolling in? If only we had some kind of precedent to draw on.
Nobody could have predicted this. Of course the Thieves’ Guild wasn’t happy with laws requiring them not to steal stuff.
apparently the unprecedented wealth and inflcuence big tech is amassing at the cost of the most marginalised is not enough. big tech ceos are not that different from drug cartels
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
EU set to water down landmark AI Act after pressure from big tech
European Commission proposes pauses to provisions in digital rule book amid concerns over implications for EU competitiveness
www.irishtimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Nobody could have predicted this. Of course the Thieves’ Guild wasn’t happy with laws requiring them not to steal stuff.
Reposted by I’m Ned Ludd and so’s my wife
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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 7:08 AM
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
And this group includes 100% of the people in the US who feel those things. Everyone else thinks you are a senile asshole with a room temperature IQ motivated solely by imagined grievances and a gnawing hatred of anyone smarter than you, especially if they are Black.
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
And this group includes 100% of the people in the US who feel those things. Everyone else thinks you are a senile asshole with a room temperature IQ motivated solely by imagined grievances and a gnawing hatred of anyone smarter than you, especially if they are Black.
What this guy is actually saying is that most ACA enrollees actually DO file a claim, and a huge number of them would not be able to afford to do so pre-ACA, because, and I cannot stress this enough, THAT IS WHY THE FUCKING ACA FUCKING EXISTS IN THE FUCKING FIRST FUCKING PLACE.
My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died. I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down. That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies. It's because THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS.
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
What this guy is actually saying is that most ACA enrollees actually DO file a claim, and a huge number of them would not be able to afford to do so pre-ACA, because, and I cannot stress this enough, THAT IS WHY THE FUCKING ACA FUCKING EXISTS IN THE FUCKING FIRST FUCKING PLACE.
Hi America,
The surest way to make people leave religion, is to mandate it. The second you take your boot off their necks they will desert in droves.
Example: Brexitstan. Flag-shagging "ARE CRISTIAN CUNTRY" gammon? Never seen in church.
The Drafters knew this. It's there in The Federalist.
The surest way to make people leave religion, is to mandate it. The second you take your boot off their necks they will desert in droves.
Example: Brexitstan. Flag-shagging "ARE CRISTIAN CUNTRY" gammon? Never seen in church.
The Drafters knew this. It's there in The Federalist.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Hi America,
The surest way to make people leave religion, is to mandate it. The second you take your boot off their necks they will desert in droves.
Example: Brexitstan. Flag-shagging "ARE CRISTIAN CUNTRY" gammon? Never seen in church.
The Drafters knew this. It's there in The Federalist.
The surest way to make people leave religion, is to mandate it. The second you take your boot off their necks they will desert in droves.
Example: Brexitstan. Flag-shagging "ARE CRISTIAN CUNTRY" gammon? Never seen in church.
The Drafters knew this. It's there in The Federalist.
I have a Three Business account with 5 plans on it. I had one personal plan. The contract has now expired. I went to cancel.
Two separate agents have tried to sell me a new plan, send me an upgrade for the router that's in the skip, etc.
Just. Fucking. Cancel. It.
Two separate agents have tried to sell me a new plan, send me an upgrade for the router that's in the skip, etc.
Just. Fucking. Cancel. It.
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I have a Three Business account with 5 plans on it. I had one personal plan. The contract has now expired. I went to cancel.
Two separate agents have tried to sell me a new plan, send me an upgrade for the router that's in the skip, etc.
Just. Fucking. Cancel. It.
Two separate agents have tried to sell me a new plan, send me an upgrade for the router that's in the skip, etc.
Just. Fucking. Cancel. It.
Spamming cunt Mike Randell (mike@southamptionbusinessexpo.com) spammed me again today. No idea what he said, because I just emptied my spam folder.
Don't be a spamming loser like mike@southamptionbusinessexpo.com.
Don't be a spamming loser like mike@southamptionbusinessexpo.com.
Mike Randell, Marketing Executive | B2B Growth Expo, is a spammer.
He sends spam from mike@southamptionbusinessexpo.com
He sends several spam emails per week, sometimes more than one per day.
They drop in my spam bin, because fuck spammers.
Don't be a spammer like mike@southamptionbusinessexpo.com
He sends spam from mike@southamptionbusinessexpo.com
He sends several spam emails per week, sometimes more than one per day.
They drop in my spam bin, because fuck spammers.
Don't be a spammer like mike@southamptionbusinessexpo.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Spamming cunt Mike Randell (mike@southamptionbusinessexpo.com) spammed me again today. No idea what he said, because I just emptied my spam folder.
Don't be a spamming loser like mike@southamptionbusinessexpo.com.
Don't be a spamming loser like mike@southamptionbusinessexpo.com.
The horror! A memorial acknowledged that Black people served the US even before the Civil Rights era!
Can't have that, can we? It's a studied insult to the myth of America as a white Christian country.
Can't have that, can we? It's a studied insult to the myth of America as a white Christian country.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The horror! A memorial acknowledged that Black people served the US even before the Civil Rights era!
Can't have that, can we? It's a studied insult to the myth of America as a white Christian country.
Can't have that, can we? It's a studied insult to the myth of America as a white Christian country.
Adding wings to my car so I pay less tax
YouTube video by Oli Frost
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Reminder: Chuck Schumer is not just a name, it’s a call to action.
Hard to see @schumer.senate.gov being able to stay in leadership after this or in the senate, he was not the man for this moment
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Reminder: Chuck Schumer is not just a name, it’s a call to action.
Vale, Quentin “Count Quentula” Willson. A legendary motoring journalist, part of the OG Top Gear, later proponent of #StopBurningStuff with @bobbyllew.bsky.social
This is genuinely sad. He was a top man, and put in the work (not a bloviating twat like Clarkson).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin...
This is genuinely sad. He was a top man, and put in the work (not a bloviating twat like Clarkson).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin...
Quentin Willson - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Vale, Quentin “Count Quentula” Willson. A legendary motoring journalist, part of the OG Top Gear, later proponent of #StopBurningStuff with @bobbyllew.bsky.social
This is genuinely sad. He was a top man, and put in the work (not a bloviating twat like Clarkson).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin...
This is genuinely sad. He was a top man, and put in the work (not a bloviating twat like Clarkson).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin...
OK, that's funny. Dark, but funny.
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
OK, that's funny. Dark, but funny.
Mike Randell, Marketing Executive | B2B Growth Expo, is a spammer.
He sends spam from mike@southamptionbusinessexpo.com
He sends several spam emails per week, sometimes more than one per day.
They drop in my spam bin, because fuck spammers.
Don't be a spammer like mike@southamptionbusinessexpo.com
He sends spam from mike@southamptionbusinessexpo.com
He sends several spam emails per week, sometimes more than one per day.
They drop in my spam bin, because fuck spammers.
Don't be a spammer like mike@southamptionbusinessexpo.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Mike Randell, Marketing Executive | B2B Growth Expo, is a spammer.
He sends spam from mike@southamptionbusinessexpo.com
He sends several spam emails per week, sometimes more than one per day.
They drop in my spam bin, because fuck spammers.
Don't be a spammer like mike@southamptionbusinessexpo.com
He sends spam from mike@southamptionbusinessexpo.com
He sends several spam emails per week, sometimes more than one per day.
They drop in my spam bin, because fuck spammers.
Don't be a spammer like mike@southamptionbusinessexpo.com
Anyone who said, even five years ago, that the US would have unidentified federal officers in plain clothes and unmarked cars, with their faces concealed, abducting people based on race, with no warrant, would have been derided by Republicans as hysterical.
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Anyone who said, even five years ago, that the US would have unidentified federal officers in plain clothes and unmarked cars, with their faces concealed, abducting people based on race, with no warrant, would have been derided by Republicans as hysterical.
James Watson’s most important discovery was Rosalind Franklin’s notebook.
What a great obit, all the more poignant knowing the author herself has passed too [can read w/ free sign up]
There’s so much to say about the Watson phenomenon; embodied now by people like Dawkins. A reminder great scientists have very human flaws, prone to contrarianism and bias; ie poor science
There’s so much to say about the Watson phenomenon; embodied now by people like Dawkins. A reminder great scientists have very human flaws, prone to contrarianism and bias; ie poor science
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
James Watson’s most important discovery was Rosalind Franklin’s notebook.
Mamdani is going to implement Sharif Law. Every man will have to be suave and debonair, and play bridge.
Mamdani is going to implement Shar Law. Everyone will have to bow down to the Mistress of the Night, the Lady of Loss, and devote themselves to bringing about a darkness that will smother her hated foe and sister Selûne
Mamdani is going to implement My Sharona law. Everyone will have to create songs with undeniable rock beats.
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Mamdani is going to implement Sharif Law. Every man will have to be suave and debonair, and play bridge.
Hope is one hell of a drug, and I freely confess to being high on it right now.
Alex Karp and Peter Thiel are two of the worst people on this planet running one of the most evil companies to ever exist—we should do whatever we can to make Palantir go bankrupt.
Palantir CEO Karp twice slams short sellers as stock suffers worst week since April
Palantir CEO Alex Karp twice confronted short sellers this week as the company's shares suffered a double-digit drop.
www.cnbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Hope is one hell of a drug, and I freely confess to being high on it right now.
All you have to do is launch a crypto grift and then deregulate crypto grifts and stop prosecuting crypto scammers. Americans just won’t the effort in.
November 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
All you have to do is launch a crypto grift and then deregulate crypto grifts and stop prosecuting crypto scammers. Americans just won’t the effort in.
This is a very positive sign.
So the one to 25,000 bad apples in the NYPD are "self-deporting?" What a great way to weed out the most prejudiced assholes. Congratulations, New York City!
November 8, 2025 at 7:24 AM
This is a very positive sign.
The absurdity should be obvious. Musk is paid 20x the entire salary of the rest of Tesla’s employees, yet Musk is single handedly responsible for its plummeting sales.
Elon Musk is now the highest paid CEO on the planet his $100bn a year for 10 years deal is 2,500,000x the wage of his average employee
In fact it's 20x the entire wage bill for all 125,000 of Tesla's other employees
For comparison World Hunger could be cured for $37-50bn a year
In fact it's 20x the entire wage bill for all 125,000 of Tesla's other employees
For comparison World Hunger could be cured for $37-50bn a year
November 8, 2025 at 7:10 AM
The absurdity should be obvious. Musk is paid 20x the entire salary of the rest of Tesla’s employees, yet Musk is single handedly responsible for its plummeting sales.
Which business? The fraudulent real-estate company, the bankrupt casino, the fraudulent "university", the failed airline?
Specificity required!
Specificity required!
November 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Which business? The fraudulent real-estate company, the bankrupt casino, the fraudulent "university", the failed airline?
Specificity required!
Specificity required!
Oh no!
Anyway...
Anyway...
November 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Oh no!
Anyway...
Anyway...