Alex LM
@alexlm.bsky.social
Schrodinger's immigrant, fully paid up member of the metropolitan elite
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I really cannot recommend this excellent piece on Hammersmith Bridge highly enough
Hammersmith Bridge
Where did 25,000 vehicles go?
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November 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I really cannot recommend this excellent piece on Hammersmith Bridge highly enough
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Truly a battle of wits
November 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Truly a battle of wits
Game recognises game
FIFA awarding a "peace prize" to Trump would be so absolutely on-brand, a truly genius innovation.
November 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Game recognises game
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If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit
The delivery rider is my hero
I just tried doing this (with “Yakety Sax”), but can’t figure out how to upload it so the sound works.
September 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The delivery rider is my hero
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I just tried doing this (with “Yakety Sax”), but can’t figure out how to upload it so the sound works.
September 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I just tried doing this (with “Yakety Sax”), but can’t figure out how to upload it so the sound works.
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Carl Benz has an idea
![[Scene is a 19th century drawing room with a sign outside saying TRANSPORT INVENTORS CLUB. Inside, the German Engineer KARL BENZ is addressing a meeting of gentlemen about his new transport idea]
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KARL BENZ:
OK guys - you’re gonna love this
2
KARL BENZ:
So it’s like, a box made of metal that goes at up to 120 miles an hour, yeah?
[Karl shows them a diagram of a car]
3
KARL BENZ:
And your drive it down one side of the road, and the boxes going the other way go on the opposite side, so we don’t need to build two roads!
4
OTHER GUY:
What’s down the middle?
KARL BENZ:
A white line.
5
OTHER GUY:
So like, a white barrier…
KARL BENZ:
No a white line. Drawn on the floor.
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OTHER GUY:
And who’s piloting these machines?
KARL BENZ:
I was thinking: random members of the public.
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[Pause, the other guys all look with concern at Karl]
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OTHER GUY:
Karl are you OK
KARL BENZ:
No listen it’s fine
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OTHER GUY:
You know we’re worried about you, don’t you?
KARL BENZ:
No really it’ll work -
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KARL BENZ:
Once hundreds of millions of people have died and the world’s started ending because of the fumes it’ll all be normal.
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OTHER GUY:
Is that normal like the ‘commuter travel device’ you brought in last week which was just…
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OTHER GUY:
…an iron maiden fired from a catapult?
[The other guy displays a diagram of an iron maiden being fired from a catapult]
KARL BENZ:
THAT WOULD’VE WORKED!
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September 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Carl Benz has an idea
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I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again.
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
September 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again.
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐
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For crying out loud! It is so patronising to stroke your chin and assume people are low information voters because you see them as "white working class". Low information voters aren't spending their weekend attending a national protest! That is what the highly engaged and politically committed do!
September 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
For crying out loud! It is so patronising to stroke your chin and assume people are low information voters because you see them as "white working class". Low information voters aren't spending their weekend attending a national protest! That is what the highly engaged and politically committed do!
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What could be done in practice with a Reform majority in the House of Commons would have no constitutional limits, short of either refusal of Royal Assent to a Bill or the courts impugning the sovereignty of parliament.
It would be messy and chaotic and crazy expensive but ultimately Reform can override courts if they have a majority and I don't see why, say, the Taliban wouldn't sign a returns agreement to get back people they would like to torture and kill. So yes it could work.
One of two very good threads by Adam on this. A startling number of people - responding, in part, by the tone set by their government - just have this very complacent 'oh, no, this plan will never work'. I mean, 1) it could but also 2) they will definitely try.
August 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
What could be done in practice with a Reform majority in the House of Commons would have no constitutional limits, short of either refusal of Royal Assent to a Bill or the courts impugning the sovereignty of parliament.
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If you're playing rock, paper, scissors against a Republican, pick paper. www.pbump.net/o/how-to-win...
August 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
If you're playing rock, paper, scissors against a Republican, pick paper. www.pbump.net/o/how-to-win...
Can we skip to the party where billionaires start falling out of windows?
Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today
August 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Can we skip to the party where billionaires start falling out of windows?
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Peter Thiel Shows Trump How To Sort Spreadsheet Of Americans By Ethnicity
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July 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Peter Thiel Shows Trump How To Sort Spreadsheet Of Americans By Ethnicity
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Fuck off Nick you ghoul
"What is so sad is that in Europe we have appeared to have completely lost the ability to act as the sum of our parts."
Former UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg on the failure of Europe to unite in the face of common challenges.
Former UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg on the failure of Europe to unite in the face of common challenges.
June 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Fuck off Nick you ghoul
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Marines Raise American Flag Outside Cell Phone Store After Defeating Skateboarding Teenagers
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June 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Marines Raise American Flag Outside Cell Phone Store After Defeating Skateboarding Teenagers
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Oscar Isaac & Nick Offerman
Full-out Spaghetti Western blowout in which both are Men With No Name reluctantly forced to work together when they ease into an iron fist gripped town at the same time from opposite directions.
The Sun Sets Either Way
Full-out Spaghetti Western blowout in which both are Men With No Name reluctantly forced to work together when they ease into an iron fist gripped town at the same time from opposite directions.
The Sun Sets Either Way
1) Pick two actors that have never appeared in a movie together
2) Describe the basic plot and/or genre
3) Give the movie a title
2) Describe the basic plot and/or genre
3) Give the movie a title
June 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Oscar Isaac & Nick Offerman
Full-out Spaghetti Western blowout in which both are Men With No Name reluctantly forced to work together when they ease into an iron fist gripped town at the same time from opposite directions.
The Sun Sets Either Way
Full-out Spaghetti Western blowout in which both are Men With No Name reluctantly forced to work together when they ease into an iron fist gripped town at the same time from opposite directions.
The Sun Sets Either Way
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With Father's Day on the horizon, I would like to belatedly confirm that GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM is indeed a Dad Book.
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Gangsters of Capitalism
A groundbreaking journey tracing America’s forgotten path to global power―and how its legacies shape our world today―told through the extraordinary lif...
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June 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
With Father's Day on the horizon, I would like to belatedly confirm that GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM is indeed a Dad Book.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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April 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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i wish we could jus jump to the part where the nazis get hanged.
April 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
i wish we could jus jump to the part where the nazis get hanged.
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Trump Boys Hook Dollar Bill Up To Potato To Make Cryptocurrency
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April 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Trump Boys Hook Dollar Bill Up To Potato To Make Cryptocurrency
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