Stephen Buggy
@stephenbuggy.bsky.social
I work with data and on Homelessness. I am learning Portuguese. I live in Belfast
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This seems like good news... 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 1:00 AM
This seems like good news... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
International being good with money championships:
Last place, Elon Musk, somehow unhappy and pining after respect despite having more money than God.
Winner: Juan, 58-year-old popcorn salesman from Rio. Earns little but enough to keep his wife and kid happy. Dreams of going to more Flamengo games
Last place, Elon Musk, somehow unhappy and pining after respect despite having more money than God.
Winner: Juan, 58-year-old popcorn salesman from Rio. Earns little but enough to keep his wife and kid happy. Dreams of going to more Flamengo games
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
International being good with money championships:
Last place, Elon Musk, somehow unhappy and pining after respect despite having more money than God.
Winner: Juan, 58-year-old popcorn salesman from Rio. Earns little but enough to keep his wife and kid happy. Dreams of going to more Flamengo games
Last place, Elon Musk, somehow unhappy and pining after respect despite having more money than God.
Winner: Juan, 58-year-old popcorn salesman from Rio. Earns little but enough to keep his wife and kid happy. Dreams of going to more Flamengo games
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The historian in me feels the need to note that contests between cities and their rural hinterland are not new things and they do not generally go great for the rural folks.
California alone produces a third of all the food America eats. So this is a lie.
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
November 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The historian in me feels the need to note that contests between cities and their rural hinterland are not new things and they do not generally go great for the rural folks.
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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 3:44 PM
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.
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Don't make me tap the footnote to Notes on AI in Foundations Of The Digital State
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Don't make me tap the footnote to Notes on AI in Foundations Of The Digital State
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You know life has been kicking my ass when I pull this off the shelf.
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM
You know life has been kicking my ass when I pull this off the shelf.
As someone who has been learning Portuguese for three years, she's my hero
November 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
As someone who has been learning Portuguese for three years, she's my hero
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Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
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It has been my duty as a historian to record how smelly Che Guevara was. Honestly one of the stinkiest dudes in history. He was immensely proud of this & once showed off a pair of underpants he’d been wearing for two months. They were so filthy, he won a bet that they could stand up by themselves.
I am listening to Red Heat, by @alexvont.bsky.social, and I am shocked by how shitty people the male protagonists of political events in Latin America and the Caribbean were in the cold war. And the idea of how bad Che Guevara must have smelt is chasing me in nightmares
November 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It has been my duty as a historian to record how smelly Che Guevara was. Honestly one of the stinkiest dudes in history. He was immensely proud of this & once showed off a pair of underpants he’d been wearing for two months. They were so filthy, he won a bet that they could stand up by themselves.
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This is why I’m bearish on Starmerism in the UK, BTW. Even if Labour goes right of Farage, it can’t dodge the “this is what you shitheads like, right?” aura it subconsciously projects.
This is why Trump is a tricky enemy to beat. He comes across as liking loathsome people who were previously universally despised in polite company and there’s no way to come across as liking them as much as he does without being loathsome yourself.
November 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This is why I’m bearish on Starmerism in the UK, BTW. Even if Labour goes right of Farage, it can’t dodge the “this is what you shitheads like, right?” aura it subconsciously projects.
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I had to watch this twice to ascertain that yes, they do include this as an example of how the ban was 'demeaning and demonizing' with no indicator that its satire, sandwiched among actual news clips.
This New Yorker documentary about the 1988 UK government ban on broadcasting the voices of Sinn Féin and I.R.A. leaders is pretty good but they show *that clip from The Day Today with no explanation and no indicator that it is satire.
www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...
www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...
The Ban
www.newyorker.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I had to watch this twice to ascertain that yes, they do include this as an example of how the ban was 'demeaning and demonizing' with no indicator that its satire, sandwiched among actual news clips.
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“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there.”
Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor
November 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there.”
Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor
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Who did this?!
November 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Who did this?!
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If you saw this chart in isolation it would be incredibly hard not to conclude that being connected to nature sucks www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 1, 2025 at 9:37 AM
If you saw this chart in isolation it would be incredibly hard not to conclude that being connected to nature sucks www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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all the dads were so stoked about our costumes
October 31, 2025 at 11:42 PM
all the dads were so stoked about our costumes
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Real grim stuff from a nonprofit staff attorney and former UCSD urban studies lecturer
October 31, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Real grim stuff from a nonprofit staff attorney and former UCSD urban studies lecturer
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"because the base rate of fire is always, hopefully, going to be 'unlikely', yes" is not the answer I think they are looking for
October 31, 2025 at 10:28 AM
"because the base rate of fire is always, hopefully, going to be 'unlikely', yes" is not the answer I think they are looking for
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my knowledge of Hume has unexpectedly come in handy for my fire safety training test
October 31, 2025 at 10:25 AM
my knowledge of Hume has unexpectedly come in handy for my fire safety training test
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this is also the case for income tax in China - it comes out of your paycheck before you get it, it's not even usually listed, and any salary offer you get will be in post-tax terms.
October 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
this is also the case for income tax in China - it comes out of your paycheck before you get it, it's not even usually listed, and any salary offer you get will be in post-tax terms.
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New post out:
"The worst social policy ever"
Today we have a guest post from @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social on the abomination that is the two-child limit and why Labour need to scrap it ASAP.
Lots of data but also powerful testimony.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The worst social policy ever"
Today we have a guest post from @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social on the abomination that is the two-child limit and why Labour need to scrap it ASAP.
Lots of data but also powerful testimony.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The worst social policy ever"
We have a couple of bonus guest posts over the next week.
open.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:27 AM
New post out:
"The worst social policy ever"
Today we have a guest post from @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social on the abomination that is the two-child limit and why Labour need to scrap it ASAP.
Lots of data but also powerful testimony.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The worst social policy ever"
Today we have a guest post from @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social on the abomination that is the two-child limit and why Labour need to scrap it ASAP.
Lots of data but also powerful testimony.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
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This is an interesting piece but I just read it going “the missing bit is the section on how the internet has fried everyone’s brains”.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK
How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.
www.bbc.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
This is an interesting piece but I just read it going “the missing bit is the section on how the internet has fried everyone’s brains”.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.
October 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.
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Happy Longest Day Of The Year
October 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Happy Longest Day Of The Year