Louis Patterson
@theboatend.bsky.social
All-purpose nerd and "competitive" sailor. Australian, Melburnian, Footscrayite, Him.
Bah. It looked like so much more space when I was sketching it out. The secondhand track not having the short curves I want doesn't help.
[the general idea is freelance 70s japan heavily inspired by some mid-sized private railways, esp the hokuriku. In TTm, because why not make your life harder]
[the general idea is freelance 70s japan heavily inspired by some mid-sized private railways, esp the hokuriku. In TTm, because why not make your life harder]
November 16, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Bah. It looked like so much more space when I was sketching it out. The secondhand track not having the short curves I want doesn't help.
[the general idea is freelance 70s japan heavily inspired by some mid-sized private railways, esp the hokuriku. In TTm, because why not make your life harder]
[the general idea is freelance 70s japan heavily inspired by some mid-sized private railways, esp the hokuriku. In TTm, because why not make your life harder]
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Nabokov: "In by book, I wrote about the treatment of Lolita as an examination of human cruelty and selfishness"
Pedophiles: "At long last, we have created Lolita from the classic novel It's Really Bad To Sexually Assault Lolita"
Pedophiles: "At long last, we have created Lolita from the classic novel It's Really Bad To Sexually Assault Lolita"
my new theory is that Jeffrey Epstein read Lolita, actually understood it, and killed himself.
did not have Harvard English professor Elisa New emailing Jeffrey Epstein about Lolita on my 2025 bingo card
November 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Nabokov: "In by book, I wrote about the treatment of Lolita as an examination of human cruelty and selfishness"
Pedophiles: "At long last, we have created Lolita from the classic novel It's Really Bad To Sexually Assault Lolita"
Pedophiles: "At long last, we have created Lolita from the classic novel It's Really Bad To Sexually Assault Lolita"
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The 1981 tour of NZ, with Errol Tobias btw, tore NZ apart and let the Bokke know they were hated. 1986, being shut out of tours and rebels being punished reinforced that. 1987, the first RWC, was when white SA had to ask itself: is keeping apartheid *really* worth never playing the All Blacks again?
November 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The 1981 tour of NZ, with Errol Tobias btw, tore NZ apart and let the Bokke know they were hated. 1986, being shut out of tours and rebels being punished reinforced that. 1987, the first RWC, was when white SA had to ask itself: is keeping apartheid *really* worth never playing the All Blacks again?
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If you want a woke conlang, at least pick one that doesn't regularly derive feminines from masculines (patro -> patrino, filo -> filino, etc.). I can send you a reference grammar and lexicon for something I've inflicted on an enby conlanger I know.
November 15, 2025 at 1:43 AM
If you want a woke conlang, at least pick one that doesn't regularly derive feminines from masculines (patro -> patrino, filo -> filino, etc.). I can send you a reference grammar and lexicon for something I've inflicted on an enby conlanger I know.
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
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Legitimately if you know the distinction between pedophilia and ephebophilia and use it as a defense of literally anything you are most likely a sex offender and should be investigated as such.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Legitimately if you know the distinction between pedophilia and ephebophilia and use it as a defense of literally anything you are most likely a sex offender and should be investigated as such.
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Everything in this secondhand clothing store in Koenji is either 990 yen or 550 yen, and you use a vending machine to pay for the items.
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Everything in this secondhand clothing store in Koenji is either 990 yen or 550 yen, and you use a vending machine to pay for the items.
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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forever proud of Stephen Jay Gould for taking one look into the Epstein zone and saying "no fucking thanks". a credit to the profession
hasn't been enough reporting on his creepy science funding, tbh.
The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
forever proud of Stephen Jay Gould for taking one look into the Epstein zone and saying "no fucking thanks". a credit to the profession
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if you’ve never been camping before you should call the tourist information centre for the area you plan to visit! and TELL THEM you have never been camping before. and if the area you plan to visit doesn’t have a helpful tourist information centre, you need to change your plans
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
if you’ve never been camping before you should call the tourist information centre for the area you plan to visit! and TELL THEM you have never been camping before. and if the area you plan to visit doesn’t have a helpful tourist information centre, you need to change your plans
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A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.
Getting vindicated is just so completely enraging. I hate it, it means the only thing for me to learn was to yell at more people louder and sooner.
if you're going to disagree with someone, show some fucking respect and not be completely 157% arse-wrong about everything from the get-go.
if you're going to disagree with someone, show some fucking respect and not be completely 157% arse-wrong about everything from the get-go.
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Getting vindicated is just so completely enraging. I hate it, it means the only thing for me to learn was to yell at more people louder and sooner.
if you're going to disagree with someone, show some fucking respect and not be completely 157% arse-wrong about everything from the get-go.
if you're going to disagree with someone, show some fucking respect and not be completely 157% arse-wrong about everything from the get-go.
bootstraps, the pulling up of self by same.
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
bootstraps, the pulling up of self by same.
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and once again, for those who don't realize, the nuremberg trials were the moderate position back then too.
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
and once again, for those who don't realize, the nuremberg trials were the moderate position back then too.
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Honestly everyone using genAI tools to save their own time and effort is just externalising that time and effort multiplied many-fold, onto other people.
It’s cognitive fly-tipping.
It’s cognitive fly-tipping.
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Honestly everyone using genAI tools to save their own time and effort is just externalising that time and effort multiplied many-fold, onto other people.
It’s cognitive fly-tipping.
It’s cognitive fly-tipping.
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You can rank how good each City dub is by how on beat the VA is with Mambo No. 5
youtu.be/9PctVxvoRag?...
youtu.be/9PctVxvoRag?...
Nagumo sings Mambo No. 5 and then dies from cringe in 9 languages
YouTube video by Khan.
youtu.be
September 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
You can rank how good each City dub is by how on beat the VA is with Mambo No. 5
youtu.be/9PctVxvoRag?...
youtu.be/9PctVxvoRag?...
Should make a law banning the under-40s from taking nostalgia, their brains aren't mature enough for it.
I saw one of those “nostalgic atmosphere” videos called something like “it’s 2010 and you’re sipping on a juice box in the back of your mom’s car” and i just scromited up dust and bone fragments
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Should make a law banning the under-40s from taking nostalgia, their brains aren't mature enough for it.
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a coffee mug replica of the NZ parliament's biscuit tin, for only 15 of the local-currency cowrie shells. Perfect for the political reformer in your life.
shop.parliament.govt.nz/products/bis...
shop.parliament.govt.nz/products/bis...
Biscuit Tin Mug
Bone China mug depicting the iconic "Biscuit Tin" - a tin purchased from department store DEKA in the 1990s, which is now used to draw Member's Bills from before they can be introduced to the House of...
shop.parliament.govt.nz
November 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
a coffee mug replica of the NZ parliament's biscuit tin, for only 15 of the local-currency cowrie shells. Perfect for the political reformer in your life.
shop.parliament.govt.nz/products/bis...
shop.parliament.govt.nz/products/bis...
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My very Christian mamatomo calls this bento design “Jesus in my heart.” Or at least she did, until I convinced that it must instead be called ハムアンドチーザス. You’re welcome, world.
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
My very Christian mamatomo calls this bento design “Jesus in my heart.” Or at least she did, until I convinced that it must instead be called ハムアンドチーザス. You’re welcome, world.
Sitting next to the man eating three pies [australian meat pies] for lunch. All different flavours, too.
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Sitting next to the man eating three pies [australian meat pies] for lunch. All different flavours, too.
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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Benesse's annual ranking of popular baby names is out. 碧 (Ao) is top again for boys, while 翠 (Sui), which was 3rd last year, is top for girls. Follow the link to see the full top 100. st.benesse.ne.jp/ninshin/name/
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Benesse's annual ranking of popular baby names is out. 碧 (Ao) is top again for boys, while 翠 (Sui), which was 3rd last year, is top for girls. Follow the link to see the full top 100. st.benesse.ne.jp/ninshin/name/
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I formed the theory while back, during her period as Home Secretary, that Suella Braverman is one of those people who don't relate to concepts like "truth" or "belief" in the same way the rest of us do. She says what she thinks it is in her short term interest to say at any given time.
Suella Braverman has every right to make her own choice for herself about her own identity
If her argument is to refuse to accept that Ian Wright & Michelle Agyemang, Rishi Sunak, David Lammy and Priti Patel are English - their identity & birthright - on grounds of race, she should lose the whip
If her argument is to refuse to accept that Ian Wright & Michelle Agyemang, Rishi Sunak, David Lammy and Priti Patel are English - their identity & birthright - on grounds of race, she should lose the whip
November 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I formed the theory while back, during her period as Home Secretary, that Suella Braverman is one of those people who don't relate to concepts like "truth" or "belief" in the same way the rest of us do. She says what she thinks it is in her short term interest to say at any given time.