Freerange
@freerange-inc.bsky.social
She/her. Part of the boring revolution at Dark Matter Labs. Recovering artist, futures and research geek. Won’t tolerate transphobes.
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I have just approved TINY CARS to be built in America. Little SEDANS that should fit four at most but when you open the door 27 clowns spill out. HOW??? They will DUST THEMSELVES OFF as they leave the car. The HORN will make the little eeooh-eeooh sound. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
December 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I have just approved TINY CARS to be built in America. Little SEDANS that should fit four at most but when you open the door 27 clowns spill out. HOW??? They will DUST THEMSELVES OFF as they leave the car. The HORN will make the little eeooh-eeooh sound. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
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The Cass Review is the worst kind of pseudoscience & has at least 13 peer-reviewed critiques of it (all ignored by mainstream media).
Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.
I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)
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Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.
I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)
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Considering Streeting's well stated belief autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis
The health secretary said the aim was to tackle a rising demand for services and the increased pressure on the NHS.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The Cass Review is the worst kind of pseudoscience & has at least 13 peer-reviewed critiques of it (all ignored by mainstream media).
Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.
I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)
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Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.
I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)
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Today in extremely normal headlines
December 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Today in extremely normal headlines
Why yes, deciding to eat poppy seeds in yogurt for breakfast was a great move, why do you ask
a close up of a woman 's mouth with gold teeth and red lips
Alt: a close up gif of a woman 's mouth with gold dirty looking teeth and red lips
media.tenor.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Why yes, deciding to eat poppy seeds in yogurt for breakfast was a great move, why do you ask
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This week’s Nimby Watch: how just three people managed to get a popular kids park and skate park bulldozed, and themselves a £130,000 payout – and all their neighbours an 84% council tax bill hike.
capx.co/nimby-watch-...
capx.co/nimby-watch-...
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If Nimbys are able to get playgrounds demolished, then there's no stopping them
capx.co
December 2, 2025 at 9:47 AM
This week’s Nimby Watch: how just three people managed to get a popular kids park and skate park bulldozed, and themselves a £130,000 payout – and all their neighbours an 84% council tax bill hike.
capx.co/nimby-watch-...
capx.co/nimby-watch-...
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Know your status - do an HIV test for World AIDS Day, but also do a full STI panel. You might be monogamous, but you don’t actually know if your partner is too and lots of people are walking around with oral gonorrhea and chlamydia because they use condoms for PIV/PIA but nothing else
December 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Know your status - do an HIV test for World AIDS Day, but also do a full STI panel. You might be monogamous, but you don’t actually know if your partner is too and lots of people are walking around with oral gonorrhea and chlamydia because they use condoms for PIV/PIA but nothing else
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To achieve Elon Musk's wealth, a person on an average salary would have to work for 8 MILLION YEARS!
They just don't want to. Lazy bastards!
They just don't want to. Lazy bastards!
November 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
To achieve Elon Musk's wealth, a person on an average salary would have to work for 8 MILLION YEARS!
They just don't want to. Lazy bastards!
They just don't want to. Lazy bastards!
Me too, as someone who gives a damn I am hyped to be forced to contribute to the demise of our planet 🙈
Love love love how everything is made to rely on cloud services with no possible way to run them offline so they just turn into e-waste even though they still work fine
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Me too, as someone who gives a damn I am hyped to be forced to contribute to the demise of our planet 🙈
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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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This image from the Perseverance Mars rover came down yesterday.
The rover is looking down towards the ground, forlornly.
Wondering why someone would ever maroon it on that dead, cold planet.
The rover is looking down towards the ground, forlornly.
Wondering why someone would ever maroon it on that dead, cold planet.
November 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This image from the Perseverance Mars rover came down yesterday.
The rover is looking down towards the ground, forlornly.
Wondering why someone would ever maroon it on that dead, cold planet.
The rover is looking down towards the ground, forlornly.
Wondering why someone would ever maroon it on that dead, cold planet.
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“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” --Anne Lamott
November 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” --Anne Lamott
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"The current disinformation and slop phenomenon on the internet today makes the days of ‘Russian bot farms’ seem quaint; the problem is now fully decentralized and distributed across the world and is almost entirely funded by social media companies themselves."
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
"The current disinformation and slop phenomenon on the internet today makes the days of ‘Russian bot farms’ seem quaint; the problem is now fully decentralized and distributed across the world and is almost entirely funded by social media companies themselves."
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
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It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Saying this but to a computer
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Saying this but to a computer
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New subgenre just dropped: ADVERSARIAL POETRY
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
New subgenre just dropped: ADVERSARIAL POETRY
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If you've found a small boat full of people bringing over cars, that's the ferry
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
If you've found a small boat full of people bringing over cars, that's the ferry
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For the first time ever, I had to make a payment in crypto.
I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.
I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.
November 18, 2025 at 5:58 AM
For the first time ever, I had to make a payment in crypto.
I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.
I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.
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Things like this will become increasingly common as billionaires increasingly treat low earth orbit like their personal playground and garbage dump
The only craft docked at Tiangong space station has been damaged and “does not meet the release conditions for a safe manned return.”
A Collision with Space Debris Leaves 3 Chinese Astronauts Stranded in Orbit
The only craft docked at Tiangong space station has been damaged and “does not meet the release conditions for a safe manned return.”
wrd.cm
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Things like this will become increasingly common as billionaires increasingly treat low earth orbit like their personal playground and garbage dump
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This morning I discovered a bunch of London accelerationists are holding a VC-funded hackathon to build AI powered dancing robots with the final "robot rave" in a Margaret Thatcher themed nightclub, and I would like to go back to bed now please
November 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This morning I discovered a bunch of London accelerationists are holding a VC-funded hackathon to build AI powered dancing robots with the final "robot rave" in a Margaret Thatcher themed nightclub, and I would like to go back to bed now please
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Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
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Welcome, new users. Posts on Bluesky are called skjörts. If someone re-skjörts you, that is a doppelskjört. If you respond to a doppelskjört, that is called a Trifect, and you cannot skjört again for nine hours. If you do anyway, that's a Time Clench. It's all very simple.
October 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Welcome, new users. Posts on Bluesky are called skjörts. If someone re-skjörts you, that is a doppelskjört. If you respond to a doppelskjört, that is called a Trifect, and you cannot skjört again for nine hours. If you do anyway, that's a Time Clench. It's all very simple.
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A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 AM
A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?