Friso
@friso.bsky.social
A polymath but for only one math. And that math is the sea - Palaeoceanography PhD student at Queen Mary University.
You’re just giving these great policy ideas away for free?
November 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
You’re just giving these great policy ideas away for free?
It’s a log plot, otherwise everything ends up disappearing in the exponential increases
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It’s a log plot, otherwise everything ends up disappearing in the exponential increases
As someone who eventually had to get rid of EU4 from my computer because I found it too much of a time sink - this news does not bode well for my productivity, it’s like hearing they’ve invented a better form of heroin.
November 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM
As someone who eventually had to get rid of EU4 from my computer because I found it too much of a time sink - this news does not bode well for my productivity, it’s like hearing they’ve invented a better form of heroin.
Not a book but @ppfideas.bsky.social did a podcast on it in August that was very good, and they sometimes put out a reading list alongside their podcasts
November 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Not a book but @ppfideas.bsky.social did a podcast on it in August that was very good, and they sometimes put out a reading list alongside their podcasts
Could that not be because people tend to dislike the government, and if the government has been of the right for most of the time, then polling will show unpopularity for them most of the time? Those spikes in right wing support on the longer term might coincide with election campaigns, but not sure
November 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Could that not be because people tend to dislike the government, and if the government has been of the right for most of the time, then polling will show unpopularity for them most of the time? Those spikes in right wing support on the longer term might coincide with election campaigns, but not sure
So you can’t get a photo of it as clearly, but at Whitechapel you have the bizarre phenomenon of Underground (district line) trains being overground and then you have to go down some stairs to the Overground (Windrush?) trains which are underground
November 4, 2025 at 8:46 AM
So you can’t get a photo of it as clearly, but at Whitechapel you have the bizarre phenomenon of Underground (district line) trains being overground and then you have to go down some stairs to the Overground (Windrush?) trains which are underground
Had something similar to this happen last night at a comedy gig, we had a row of French kids behind us and so a line would get a laugh and then occasionally another smaller laugh a second later as the joke was translated
October 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Had something similar to this happen last night at a comedy gig, we had a row of French kids behind us and so a line would get a laugh and then occasionally another smaller laugh a second later as the joke was translated
I guess the thinking here is that it’s probably too late to mount anything like a public health campaign to save them, but a campaign aimed at reducing social media usage in most people maybe stops more people following this path?
October 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I guess the thinking here is that it’s probably too late to mount anything like a public health campaign to save them, but a campaign aimed at reducing social media usage in most people maybe stops more people following this path?
They should train hawks to hunt drones and then release these in areas of outstanding natural beauty
August 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
They should train hawks to hunt drones and then release these in areas of outstanding natural beauty
Really neat episode, just listened to it while walking through London and, spookily enough, as @iandunt.bsky.social mentioned Jacob Rees Mogg, there he appeared, waiting at the traffic lights across from me. So hope you’re proud of that eldritch power this podcast now has.
August 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Really neat episode, just listened to it while walking through London and, spookily enough, as @iandunt.bsky.social mentioned Jacob Rees Mogg, there he appeared, waiting at the traffic lights across from me. So hope you’re proud of that eldritch power this podcast now has.
Did you stick around for rock concert (ft. the Swedish cover of sultans of swing) after the church had stopped moving for the day?
August 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Did you stick around for rock concert (ft. the Swedish cover of sultans of swing) after the church had stopped moving for the day?
But what to do about the Dutch, or the French? Term like the Greek or the Dane are gender neutral - happy for you to bring it back but it’s got to be done in an inclusive way
August 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
But what to do about the Dutch, or the French? Term like the Greek or the Dane are gender neutral - happy for you to bring it back but it’s got to be done in an inclusive way
Heroic that you’ve actually come out with 140 plus opinions on this
August 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Heroic that you’ve actually come out with 140 plus opinions on this
The break with Rome in 1534 or the break with Rome in 407?
July 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The break with Rome in 1534 or the break with Rome in 407?
I guess not, I don’t ever read their online offerings. I reckon - but I’m not sure - that having it in person makes me more likely to read it than if I were set a curated list of articles every quarter or whatever
July 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I guess not, I don’t ever read their online offerings. I reckon - but I’m not sure - that having it in person makes me more likely to read it than if I were set a curated list of articles every quarter or whatever
I get The Fence (@thefence.bsky.social) because it’s much better in print and they don’t put everything online, pretty cheap as well at £30-ish for a year. Still keep all of mine, there’s jokes in there worth coming back to even years later
July 19, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I get The Fence (@thefence.bsky.social) because it’s much better in print and they don’t put everything online, pretty cheap as well at £30-ish for a year. Still keep all of mine, there’s jokes in there worth coming back to even years later
They’re getting rid of the requirement to have an MPs home address on the ballot which seems like something that should have happened ages ago given the harassment they receive
July 17, 2025 at 10:26 AM
They’re getting rid of the requirement to have an MPs home address on the ballot which seems like something that should have happened ages ago given the harassment they receive
Not a particularly insightful point here but MoneySavingExpert.com has a bunch of different savings accounts that it recommends based on what you want from it ordered by interest rate, might be worth a look
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July 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Not a particularly insightful point here but MoneySavingExpert.com has a bunch of different savings accounts that it recommends based on what you want from it ordered by interest rate, might be worth a look
🎶 we didn’t start the fire! 🎶
July 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🎶 we didn’t start the fire! 🎶
Maybe switch off the cricket once England are in…just in case
June 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Maybe switch off the cricket once England are in…just in case
It is the most panicky group - it’s never enough to say we’re not doing well in this session, it’s also this match, this series, and the Ashes lost as well - never understood what they get from sending that in
June 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It is the most panicky group - it’s never enough to say we’re not doing well in this session, it’s also this match, this series, and the Ashes lost as well - never understood what they get from sending that in
Top notch investigative journalism this
June 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Top notch investigative journalism this
Oh my god the footnotes in this were so bad for this! It doesn’t count as subtext just because you explain your point below the text
June 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Oh my god the footnotes in this were so bad for this! It doesn’t count as subtext just because you explain your point below the text
Huh, my pre-order showed up yesterday somehow, excited to read it anyhow
June 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Huh, my pre-order showed up yesterday somehow, excited to read it anyhow