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Disappointed Optimist
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I’m that guy that looks just like this that did that tweet that made you laugh that one time. UK based.
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Post a non religious photo you think of as holy
Two small boys running into the sea at the British beach. This was a beautiful day.
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Was about to reply then got utterly baffled at this moment
wrong done hypots d sure, there's a flotilla of bad-faith argument... Write your reply The post you're replying to was marked as being written in French by its author. Would you like to reply in French?
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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(Quiet voice)
No; I don’t think Mamdani winning is necessarily a big topic for British politics -
Except for the fact Donald Trump himself picked out London & its Mayor recently with these exact words:
Trump echoed his past attacks on the mayor's governing of London, calling him a "disaster" on immigration. "I think the Mayor of London Khan is among the worst mayors in the world, and we have some bad ones, " he said. "I think he's done a terrible job. Crime in London is through the roof." "I asked that he not be there. He wanted to be there, as I understand, I didn't want him."
November 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Periodic reminder the war on terror is estimated to indirectly been responsible for the deaths of millions of people & created refugees tides around the world
The Brown University Costs of War Project provides the most comprehensive figures, which are widely cited by other sources. e • Direct Deaths (due to war violence): Over 940,000 people were killed by direct violence in the major war zones of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan between 2001 and 2023. Of these, more than 432,000 were civilians. • Indirect Deaths (due to war-related conditions): An estimated 3.6 to 3.8 million people died indirectly due to the collapse of economies, healthcare systems, infrastructure, and the environment caused by the conflicts. • Total Deaths: Combining direct and indirect deaths, the total death toll is estimated at least 4.5 to 4.7 million people. e Specific Troop Fatalities • U.S. Military Personnel: Over 7,000 U.S. troops were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. • Allied Troops: Several thousand allied Western troops were also killed. • National Military and Police Forces: Over 177,000 uniformed Afghans, Pakistanis, and Iraqi and Syrian allies had died as of 2019.
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
Chart showing regional contribution versus revenue received
November 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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I mean, I sense her downfall started far earlier on
Sun front page August 1992 showing Sarah Ferguson getting her toes sucked by the pool by someone who is not Prince Andrew
November 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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“So what if there was a horse? The president is fighting for this country are you doing that AND somehow fucking a horse? I don’t think so. Horse fucking is as American as Apple Pie.”
Pete Hegeseth
October 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Another figure from the #trenchcrusade range. The weird mix of medieval & modern in a properly grim dark setting
Armoured miniature with bronze plates, carrying a large axe. The arms are bare, looking burned. The model is spattered in blood Armoured miniature with bronze plates, carrying a large axe. The arms are bare, looking burned. The model is spattered in blood Armoured miniature with bronze plates, carrying a large axe. The arms are bare, looking burned. The model is spattered in blood
October 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Repeated tapping at my window & every time I get up to look a group
Of magpies hop away cackling to each other.

I’m basically the victim of a teen group of birds prank aren’t I?
Magpie on roof of a tiled garage with its back turned to camera
October 21, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Like: see this post right here:

It’s about the AI economy.
taking a nice walk @InternetHippo one of the best things about our beautiful economy is if everyone participating in it saved and spent money responsibly it would immediately collapse 9:49 PM • 2021-08-19 • Twitter for Mac 819 Retweets 12 Quote Tweets 6,429 Likes
October 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Mother fu-
Age is 69
October 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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A bluesky vintage interaction
A post recommending someone read the piece showing a block in response
October 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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So back in 2009 a Boston student was taken to court & fined $22,500 PER SONG for streaming copyright material over Kazaa.

This wasn’t only case of its type. Indeed film & music producers have been litigious towards peer to peer services.

It’s called piracy.

www.informationweek.com/it-sectors/p...
INFORMATION WEEK NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP In awarding the companies $22,500 per track, a federal jury in Boston decided on a far lesser amount than the maximum faced by Joel Tenenbaum of Providence, R.... Under federal law, the jury could have ruled that the record studios were entitled to as much as $150,000 per track, or $4.5 million. The case is only the second time an individual has gone to trial for illegally downloading music. In June, a federal jury ordered Jammie Thomas-Rasset to pay record companies $1.92 million for illegally downloading 24 songs. The Minnesota mother of four is seeking, a new trial.
October 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Nerd post:

Recently completed this monstrosity - the Sin Eater.

It’s from #Trenchcrusade gaming rules which has literal Hell bubbling out of the ground during the crusades & changing the course of history in it. Intriguing premise for an alternate timeline.

Anyway: this guy:
Scale model of a monstrous armoured creature in iron armour, wielding a giant tenderising hammer & has a grimace breaking out of its helmet face. Spikes & bloody bones adorn its armour Scale model of a monstrous armoured creature in iron armour, wielding a giant tenderising hammer & has a grimace breaking out of its helmet face. Spikes & bloody bones adorn its armour Scale model of a monstrous armoured creature in iron armour, wielding a giant tenderising hammer & has a grimace breaking out of its helmet face. Spikes & bloody bones adorn its armour (rear shot)
October 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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I’m sorry fuck the Elon Musk bit: that’s varnish.

Tommy had a bag with thirteen grand in fucking cash in it.

THIRTEEN GRAND.

Remove Tommy from the conversation & you have a convicted criminal in a silver Bentley crossing the channel with a big bag of cash.

Of course it’s fuckin suspicious
The activist had arrived alone at the Channel Tunnel in a silver Bentley belonging to a friend and was on his way to the Spanish resort of Benidorm with more than £13,000 in a small bag, the first day of the trial at Westminster magistrates court heard. The money was said to have been from a collection to offset the expenses from organising a major rally of Robinson's supporters that took place the day before in Trafalgar Square. Robinson told police he was white English but was travelling on an Irish passport he had recently obtained and that he lived in Spain.
October 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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2007
Picture of me at a water fall in Australia. I am wearing a leather jacket and white T-shirt
October 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Periodic reminder that Sunday is in fact the first day of the week
Zed and the gimp from pulp fiction with Zed marked as Sunday night and the gimp marked as Monday morning
October 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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The real Annabelle looks like a proper little strumpet & troublemaker
A ridiculous 80s doll with red hair and printed facial features wearing a white dress that’s claimed to be haunted
October 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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For further reinforcement just look at the share price of nvidia and its sudden acceleration
A share price trend line showing move from gradual growth trend 2000 to 2010 the. Suddenly leaping around 2016
October 8, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Periodic reminder that OpenAI got its big break when nvidia gave it free hardware to develop on that wasn’t widely available to rest of market at time
In April 2016, OpenAl released a public beta of "OpenAl Gym", its platform for reinforcement learning research. 30. Nvidia gifted its first DGX-1 supercomputer to OpenAl in August 2016 to help it train larger and more complex Al models with the capability of reducing processing time from six days to two hours. 31[32 In December 2016, OpenAl released "Universe", software platform for measuring and training an Al's general intelligence across the world's supply of games, websites, and other apicatons. 3[34[35][36]
October 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Thing I learned today:

The shard was digitally added to the London skyline for the film “Children Of Men” made in 2007 to make film more authentic
Footage of film children of men showing London on 16th November 2027 with the shard building in shot
October 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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New reason to hate AI just dropped:
FILM Robin Williams' Daughter Tells Fans to 'Stop Sending Me Al Videos of Dad': It's 'Gross' and 'Not What He'd Want' VARIETY
October 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Eaten now and it was exactly what was required
Pho meal
October 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Wife has got a stinky cold so made her a spicy Pho for dinner with some gyoza on the side
A large saucepan of noodles being simmered for a Thai inspired pho soup. Includes chicken, mix of mushrooms, pak Choi, garlic, ginger as well as star anise and lime leaves
October 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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We ditched school and went out for a fancy middle aged brunch by a lake & walked in the quiet together.
View from a restaurant balcony over a lake View from a hill top over a lake through trees A full English breakfast including beans toast mushroom, sausages has brown tomato bacon and scrambled eggs A view across the lake - the sky reflects in the flat calm water and there is a blue grey quality to it all
October 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM