Iain
@discobanana.bsky.social
Drinker of tea. Devourer of biscuits.
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it's not as simple as "hardware has gotten better, software has gotten worse" because a lot of companies making physical devices are lost in the wilderness from a design perspective, but a rule of thumb that anything that charges you monthly gets worse over time works pretty well
November 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
it's not as simple as "hardware has gotten better, software has gotten worse" because a lot of companies making physical devices are lost in the wilderness from a design perspective, but a rule of thumb that anything that charges you monthly gets worse over time works pretty well
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Me: Word processing program I can use forever, please?
Microsoft: Monthly subscription?
Me: No, I want to own...
Microsoft: Monthly subscription it is.
Me: *sigh*
Microsoft: Save to OneDrive by default settings activated.
Microsoft: Monthly subscription?
Me: No, I want to own...
Microsoft: Monthly subscription it is.
Me: *sigh*
Microsoft: Save to OneDrive by default settings activated.
November 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Me: Word processing program I can use forever, please?
Microsoft: Monthly subscription?
Me: No, I want to own...
Microsoft: Monthly subscription it is.
Me: *sigh*
Microsoft: Save to OneDrive by default settings activated.
Microsoft: Monthly subscription?
Me: No, I want to own...
Microsoft: Monthly subscription it is.
Me: *sigh*
Microsoft: Save to OneDrive by default settings activated.
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We should point out the irony here. Trump announced just days ago he would begin stopping drug traffickers in Venezuela “by land,” and yesterday, he promised to pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez—who’s serving 45 years in prison for working with El Chapo to smuggle 400+ tons of cocaine into the US.
November 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We should point out the irony here. Trump announced just days ago he would begin stopping drug traffickers in Venezuela “by land,” and yesterday, he promised to pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez—who’s serving 45 years in prison for working with El Chapo to smuggle 400+ tons of cocaine into the US.
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I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
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Oops sorry we ruined the country and everything we voted for was a lie. Our total bad. Anyway, how about those bloody migrants eh??
November 30, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Oops sorry we ruined the country and everything we voted for was a lie. Our total bad. Anyway, how about those bloody migrants eh??
‘If you were to hop around various phone-in shows in the days after the budget, you would find a worrying number of remarkably angry people, utterly infuriated at the prospect of people being able to feed their kids.’
Excellent points made in this article. The penultimate paragraph says it all.
Excellent points made in this article. The penultimate paragraph says it all.
November 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
‘If you were to hop around various phone-in shows in the days after the budget, you would find a worrying number of remarkably angry people, utterly infuriated at the prospect of people being able to feed their kids.’
Excellent points made in this article. The penultimate paragraph says it all.
Excellent points made in this article. The penultimate paragraph says it all.
Can't remember which of your videos you mentioned it in, but did you remember to cancel the WSJ trial subscription, @acollierastro.bsky.social?
November 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Can't remember which of your videos you mentioned it in, but did you remember to cancel the WSJ trial subscription, @acollierastro.bsky.social?
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So basically flying commercial is now off limits to any noncitizen with a parking ticket?
November 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
So basically flying commercial is now off limits to any noncitizen with a parking ticket?
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These are not serious people.
November 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
These are not serious people.
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One day someone will pay me to make fun of their product. One day!
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
One day someone will pay me to make fun of their product. One day!
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Sergeant Stanislav Mozheiko # 4481 of SRG 5 doing the pepper spraying of both protesters and his fellow officers
www.50-a.org/officer/TPNH
www.50-a.org/officer/TPNH
Stanislav Mozheiko
3 allegations
www.50-a.org
November 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Sergeant Stanislav Mozheiko # 4481 of SRG 5 doing the pepper spraying of both protesters and his fellow officers
www.50-a.org/officer/TPNH
www.50-a.org/officer/TPNH
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Oh and at one point, one cop pepper-sprayed another cop. (Around the 12-second mark.)
November 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Oh and at one point, one cop pepper-sprayed another cop. (Around the 12-second mark.)
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Members of the NYPD's Strategic Response Group pepper-sprayed several protesters as they cleared the road for federal immigration officials.
November 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Members of the NYPD's Strategic Response Group pepper-sprayed several protesters as they cleared the road for federal immigration officials.
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How the right-wing newspapers still manage to dictate BBC coverage.
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
The Real 'Benefits Street' Protecting Britain's Wealthiest
The sheer scale of outrage about plans to lift children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
How the right-wing newspapers still manage to dictate BBC coverage.
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
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my patience has increased but I will say, it is ok to have trouble reading, it is not ok to scream at people for things you imagined they said because you can't read what they actually said
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
my patience has increased but I will say, it is ok to have trouble reading, it is not ok to scream at people for things you imagined they said because you can't read what they actually said
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Admin are continually pressuring us to make the course "more accessible," by which they mean "devastatingly easy to complete," but it's not about access. Many students refuse to read or write in any capacity that isn't tech-aided, no matter how simple the assignment, no matter how process-based.
November 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Admin are continually pressuring us to make the course "more accessible," by which they mean "devastatingly easy to complete," but it's not about access. Many students refuse to read or write in any capacity that isn't tech-aided, no matter how simple the assignment, no matter how process-based.
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It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.
November 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.
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Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
November 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
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Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
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Paul, in his Aston Martin gilet, 10 years from retirement, living in one of the most expensive houses in one of the best places in Britain, with savings and investments worth £2-4mil (excluding anything he has in tax-free ISAs), who has earned enough in his lifetime to pay “millions in taxes”…
8/
8/
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Paul, in his Aston Martin gilet, 10 years from retirement, living in one of the most expensive houses in one of the best places in Britain, with savings and investments worth £2-4mil (excluding anything he has in tax-free ISAs), who has earned enough in his lifetime to pay “millions in taxes”…
8/
8/
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Blair, Alastair Campbell and New Labour did not want to be seen by the public as hifalutin sorts delivering intellectual speeches. Their communication was, if not lowest denominator, at least made to fit snugly into the tabloid press.
But Blair himself was not anti-intellectual.
But Blair himself was not anti-intellectual.
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Blair, Alastair Campbell and New Labour did not want to be seen by the public as hifalutin sorts delivering intellectual speeches. Their communication was, if not lowest denominator, at least made to fit snugly into the tabloid press.
But Blair himself was not anti-intellectual.
But Blair himself was not anti-intellectual.
Between this revelation and the Coyote Creek project, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District is really knocking it out of the park this week.
Going forward, public utilities throughout California should understand that they cannot disclose customers’ electricity data to law enforcement without any “evidence to support a suspicion” that a particular crime occurred. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Victory! Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program in
For more than a decade, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District coordinated with police to sift through the granular smart meter data of residents without suspicion to find evidence of cannabis
www.eff.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Between this revelation and the Coyote Creek project, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District is really knocking it out of the park this week.
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture