Half Baked Ideas
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First name is Dominic
Ideas are as described in my username
Feel free to flesh them out and make them happen!
Ideas are as described in my username
Feel free to flesh them out and make them happen!
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Seriously, asbestos? WTUF.
Good reminder that if it wasn't for govt regulations, companies would still be putting it in every single fricken thing they could, but yeah, too much red tape is the problem.
Good reminder that if it wasn't for govt regulations, companies would still be putting it in every single fricken thing they could, but yeah, too much red tape is the problem.
November 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Seriously, asbestos? WTUF.
Good reminder that if it wasn't for govt regulations, companies would still be putting it in every single fricken thing they could, but yeah, too much red tape is the problem.
Good reminder that if it wasn't for govt regulations, companies would still be putting it in every single fricken thing they could, but yeah, too much red tape is the problem.
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I don’t entirely buy the cognitive skill / attention argument. The other factor (I think) is ‘trust’ - in other words one might sub contract one’s analytical judgement to institutions / elites one trusts. But various events have crushed trust in many traditional elites / institutions.
In 2015 I wrote that Trump, Grillo, Corbyn and UKIP were the revolt of people who hate being told it is more complicated than that. Tim's lovely piece discusses populism and the aversion to the cognitive effort needed to dismiss convincing-sounding bullsh1t. Free link above 2/
November 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I don’t entirely buy the cognitive skill / attention argument. The other factor (I think) is ‘trust’ - in other words one might sub contract one’s analytical judgement to institutions / elites one trusts. But various events have crushed trust in many traditional elites / institutions.
Wasn't expecting the NY Times to be today's revealed villain from the Epstein release
Doubt it'll affect anyone's game subscription though, those things are addictive
Doubt it'll affect anyone's game subscription though, those things are addictive
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Wasn't expecting the NY Times to be today's revealed villain from the Epstein release
Doubt it'll affect anyone's game subscription though, those things are addictive
Doubt it'll affect anyone's game subscription though, those things are addictive
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Wild VEC political party name change alert
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Wild VEC political party name change alert
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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Reading about the rapid collapse of Eastern European governments in 1989 as completely rotten and corrupt leaderships disintegrated when people realised fear was all that was holding them up. Apropos of nothing.
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Reading about the rapid collapse of Eastern European governments in 1989 as completely rotten and corrupt leaderships disintegrated when people realised fear was all that was holding them up. Apropos of nothing.
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I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
October 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
This guy's implying that my life insurance policy won't revive me in the unlikely event. I'm shook
My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died. I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down. That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies. It's because THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS.
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This guy's implying that my life insurance policy won't revive me in the unlikely event. I'm shook
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
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Does this mean something different in American English?
“.. upon returning to the Capitol, the senators made it very clear: They planned to blow Trump off.”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 7, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Does this mean something different in American English?
Half baked US Politics (NY edition):
There's two super-charismatic under-40 US politicians who get a lot of international coverage (AOC & Mamdami)
Both are from New York (not that surprising, it is a big town)
Both a bit young to run for President (wastes their career, in a sense) but what odds...
There's two super-charismatic under-40 US politicians who get a lot of international coverage (AOC & Mamdami)
Both are from New York (not that surprising, it is a big town)
Both a bit young to run for President (wastes their career, in a sense) but what odds...
November 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Half baked US Politics (NY edition):
There's two super-charismatic under-40 US politicians who get a lot of international coverage (AOC & Mamdami)
Both are from New York (not that surprising, it is a big town)
Both a bit young to run for President (wastes their career, in a sense) but what odds...
There's two super-charismatic under-40 US politicians who get a lot of international coverage (AOC & Mamdami)
Both are from New York (not that surprising, it is a big town)
Both a bit young to run for President (wastes their career, in a sense) but what odds...
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Hwæt! Ic gemette eardstapa in ealdum lande.
Þe cwæð “Twa miccle & liclæs fæt of stān
Stondaþ on þǣm westen. Neah him, on þære eorþe,
healf sunkene, an wlīte līcð.
And on þæm fotstōle, þās word ġewrīfene wǣron:
Mīn nama is Ōsīmandias, Cyninga Cyning;
Lūcaþ on mīn ġeweorc, ġē mihtiġe, and āfȳraþ!
Þe cwæð “Twa miccle & liclæs fæt of stān
Stondaþ on þǣm westen. Neah him, on þære eorþe,
healf sunkene, an wlīte līcð.
And on þæm fotstōle, þās word ġewrīfene wǣron:
Mīn nama is Ōsīmandias, Cyninga Cyning;
Lūcaþ on mīn ġeweorc, ġē mihtiġe, and āfȳraþ!
Poor chap, his lip always wrinkling
And now he's dead
It must have been two legs or the heart fed that way
They said.
Oh, no no no, head half sunk all sideways
(Look on my Works, despairing!)
I had far too much clout all my life
And not waving but frowning.
And now he's dead
It must have been two legs or the heart fed that way
They said.
Oh, no no no, head half sunk all sideways
(Look on my Works, despairing!)
I had far too much clout all my life
And not waving but frowning.
my name is Oz
and wen the stone
is broke to bits
and all alone
i lie in sand
it stretches bare
you read my words
you pls despair
and wen the stone
is broke to bits
and all alone
i lie in sand
it stretches bare
you read my words
you pls despair
October 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hwæt! Ic gemette eardstapa in ealdum lande.
Þe cwæð “Twa miccle & liclæs fæt of stān
Stondaþ on þǣm westen. Neah him, on þære eorþe,
healf sunkene, an wlīte līcð.
And on þæm fotstōle, þās word ġewrīfene wǣron:
Mīn nama is Ōsīmandias, Cyninga Cyning;
Lūcaþ on mīn ġeweorc, ġē mihtiġe, and āfȳraþ!
Þe cwæð “Twa miccle & liclæs fæt of stān
Stondaþ on þǣm westen. Neah him, on þære eorþe,
healf sunkene, an wlīte līcð.
And on þæm fotstōle, þās word ġewrīfene wǣron:
Mīn nama is Ōsīmandias, Cyninga Cyning;
Lūcaþ on mīn ġeweorc, ġē mihtiġe, and āfȳraþ!
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Interested to see what this means for governments treating 'X' as a publisher. It acts like one already, but at least RTs and likes provide a thin veneer of "we're just a platform and can't decide what others react to". This would make it quite clear X via its AI was making editorial decisions.
Musk: X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. ...the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts.
Brace for another wave of x refuges
October 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Interested to see what this means for governments treating 'X' as a publisher. It acts like one already, but at least RTs and likes provide a thin veneer of "we're just a platform and can't decide what others react to". This would make it quite clear X via its AI was making editorial decisions.
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Somebody tried this with a listed pub here in the UK and got a fuck off fine and a court order to rebuild it brick by brick.
just in case the feds need any ideas how to respond idk
just in case the feds need any ideas how to respond idk
By proceeding with the demolition of the White House East Wing before seeking approval from federal agencies for a new ballroom, President Donald Trump forced the issue. It's a strategy known as "stake-driving."
How Trump Demolished the White House East Wing
By putting the demolition of the East Wing before the necessary approvals for his ballroom, President Donald Trump borrowed a tactic known as “stake-driving” to force an outcome.
bloom.bg
October 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Somebody tried this with a listed pub here in the UK and got a fuck off fine and a court order to rebuild it brick by brick.
just in case the feds need any ideas how to respond idk
just in case the feds need any ideas how to respond idk
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the way Trump and his administration keep going on livestreams and tv to laugh about this, I can’t really compare it to anything political that comes to mind, only thing that comes to mind rn is a serial killer who writes letter taunting family of their victim.
Trump’s victims are now washing up in Trinidad:
“The U.S. campaign targeting what it says is drug trafficking from Venezuela has exposed Trinidad to the fallout: unidentified bodies with burn marks and missing limbs showing up in its territory.“
“The U.S. campaign targeting what it says is drug trafficking from Venezuela has exposed Trinidad to the fallout: unidentified bodies with burn marks and missing limbs showing up in its territory.“
A Mystery in Trinidad as Bodies Wash Ashore After U.S. Strikes
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
the way Trump and his administration keep going on livestreams and tv to laugh about this, I can’t really compare it to anything political that comes to mind, only thing that comes to mind rn is a serial killer who writes letter taunting family of their victim.
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It is a little known fact that tonight's clock re-adjustment was pioneered by German-British artist Frank Auerbach, to the great dismay of the proponent of the original change, politician Konrad Adenauer
October 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
It is a little known fact that tonight's clock re-adjustment was pioneered by German-British artist Frank Auerbach, to the great dismay of the proponent of the original change, politician Konrad Adenauer
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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
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I have another cartoon in the current Private Eye.
Shoppers, assemble!
Shoppers, assemble!
October 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I have another cartoon in the current Private Eye.
Shoppers, assemble!
Shoppers, assemble!
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The government shutdown is especially tough on men, who are losing $1.00 for every 75¢ a woman loses.
October 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
The government shutdown is especially tough on men, who are losing $1.00 for every 75¢ a woman loses.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Good decision. My half baked plan would be to get at least half the fans* of at least two clubs to support the idea before making any arrangements.
Timeline: 10 weeks after never
*Regular attendees, not the couch type
Good decision. My half baked plan would be to get at least half the fans* of at least two clubs to support the idea before making any arrangements.
Timeline: 10 weeks after never
*Regular attendees, not the couch type
Barcelona in Miami: La Liga cancels match against Villarreal after criticism
La Liga cancels plans to hold Barcelona v Villarreal in Miami in December after recent protests and backlash.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 6:41 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Good decision. My half baked plan would be to get at least half the fans* of at least two clubs to support the idea before making any arrangements.
Timeline: 10 weeks after never
*Regular attendees, not the couch type
Good decision. My half baked plan would be to get at least half the fans* of at least two clubs to support the idea before making any arrangements.
Timeline: 10 weeks after never
*Regular attendees, not the couch type
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For those folks, accepting Black people's view of the world would require them to:
1) Accept responsibility for the legacy of white supremacist harm.
2) Be accountable as part of the culture that continues to perpetuate that harm.
3) Stop doing self-serving things that harm Black people.
1) Accept responsibility for the legacy of white supremacist harm.
2) Be accountable as part of the culture that continues to perpetuate that harm.
3) Stop doing self-serving things that harm Black people.
October 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
For those folks, accepting Black people's view of the world would require them to:
1) Accept responsibility for the legacy of white supremacist harm.
2) Be accountable as part of the culture that continues to perpetuate that harm.
3) Stop doing self-serving things that harm Black people.
1) Accept responsibility for the legacy of white supremacist harm.
2) Be accountable as part of the culture that continues to perpetuate that harm.
3) Stop doing self-serving things that harm Black people.
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Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all.
Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.
Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.
October 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all.
Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.
Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.
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