Alex
@ducklofty.bsky.social
Tall, Liberal left, IT guy. Recovering from an unhealthy obsession with politics after the shock of Nov 5th.
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Property porn with a difference: two children’s homes for sale, boasting an underlying profit margin of 48% (!!) despite being judged to require improvement to be good’
December 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Property porn with a difference: two children’s homes for sale, boasting an underlying profit margin of 48% (!!) despite being judged to require improvement to be good’
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Breaking. Liz Truss wins this year's FIFA Prize for Economics.
December 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Breaking. Liz Truss wins this year's FIFA Prize for Economics.
There's a good chance Marjorie Taylor-Greene has been visited by three ghosts and/or grown a soul.
November 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
There's a good chance Marjorie Taylor-Greene has been visited by three ghosts and/or grown a soul.
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And this is why we don't trust press coverage of research that hasn't been reviewed...
This should get WIDE circulation:
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI
The retracted paper had impressed a Nobel Prize winner in economics.
gizmodo.com
August 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
And this is why we don't trust press coverage of research that hasn't been reviewed...
Enjoying the proof in the old adage: Pop(ulism) Will Eat Itself
July 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Enjoying the proof in the old adage: Pop(ulism) Will Eat Itself
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A lot of chin-stroking speculation and head-scratching about where Reform's Scottish vote is coming from. Can't help thinking that the question "Do you support Rangers?" would clarify a lot.
June 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
A lot of chin-stroking speculation and head-scratching about where Reform's Scottish vote is coming from. Can't help thinking that the question "Do you support Rangers?" would clarify a lot.
True dat
how bleak that following most elections now is going WOOOOOOO fascists only on 47%!!!!!!!
May 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
True dat
Fabulous counter to the squalid language on display this week from the alway readable @iandunt.bsky.social
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Thank God for immigrants
This week, of all weeks: Thank God they came here and chose to make it their home.
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May 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Fabulous counter to the squalid language on display this week from the alway readable @iandunt.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Being John Voight
You guys are implementing a 100% tariff on movies wrong. Double the cost means you get Three and a Half Samurai for the price of your ticket, not Fourteen Samurai.
May 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Being John Voight
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I would have argued with the cheese’s suggestions, but who am I to diss a Brie?
April 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I would have argued with the cheese’s suggestions, but who am I to diss a Brie?
What a missed opportunity America had. The contrast with JD Vance is incredible.
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 5:43 AM
What a missed opportunity America had. The contrast with JD Vance is incredible.
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SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
April 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
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It's time to repost this Easter masterpiece
April 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
It's time to repost this Easter masterpiece
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Last night at trivia night they announced the next category was current events and everyone booed
April 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Last night at trivia night they announced the next category was current events and everyone booed
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If you liked our making of story behind SHAUN OF THE DEAD, please share the opening post.
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SHAUN OF THE DEAD was released 21 years ago this week. Acclaimed as one of the great British comedies and the first part in Edgar Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy, the behind-the-scenes story is a slice of Fried Gold…
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April 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
If you liked our making of story behind SHAUN OF THE DEAD, please share the opening post.
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The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:
Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:
Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
@secretedinburgh.bsky.social a half revealed ghost sign in Colinton.
March 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
@secretedinburgh.bsky.social a half revealed ghost sign in Colinton.
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One weeps - weeps - at the idea of Lee Anderson being exposed to inappropriate language.
March 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
One weeps - weeps - at the idea of Lee Anderson being exposed to inappropriate language.
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Freedom and democracy are always worth fighting for. Slava Ukraini.
February 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Freedom and democracy are always worth fighting for. Slava Ukraini.
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When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”
To repeat: "A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for."
Today's university slashing and burning is Edinburgh, where about 10% of the budget will be cut. There'll be another case every single day until UK govts actually do something. A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
February 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”
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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.
February 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.
Very excited about this. The books are great and I really hope the series catches the heart of the android.
I have been so excited since I found out this would be announced today! RIP any ability for me to concentrate: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...
Apple’s new sci-fi series “Murderbot” to make global debut May 16, 2025
Today, Apple TV+ unveiled a first look at “Murderbot,” created by Chris and Paul Weitz and starring Alexander Skarsgård
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February 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Very excited about this. The books are great and I really hope the series catches the heart of the android.
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This is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen in my life
February 15, 2025 at 3:49 AM
This is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen in my life