Half Baked Ideas
halfbakedplanning.bsky.social
Half Baked Ideas
@halfbakedplanning.bsky.social
First name is Dominic
Ideas are as described in my username
Feel free to flesh them out and make them happen!
Culture/performing arts?
November 13, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Generalising this, whenever travelling to places with unfamiliar* cuisines, always try the least attractive looking/smelling foods. There's a reason they're popular!

*Can be you only know a version of it, hardly any diaspora manage the "real deal"
November 13, 2025 at 4:50 AM
In a way it removes their ability to vote with the Coalition to do little and say it was the Greens (pol party)'s fault for being too extreme

But it does make it easier to be "less bad than them"
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Ford was VP for 8 months, (insert name) might only be VP for 8 days (hours?)
November 13, 2025 at 12:33 AM
All part of the wider "why did he apply for the job" question
November 13, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Tax everyone on their spend then distribute equally is about as leftwing a policy as I could imagine for the US
November 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM
You still need workers, tradies! Experience still matters, so do skills
November 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
How do we triple the size of an industry, and how quickly can it be done?

Ideally 5x but I'll set my initial sights lower
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I feel this way about the train legs when doing a multi-stop trip

Like I've booked A to B and C to A so umm, why's there this giant void in my plans?
November 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Or even that there's a hypothetical chance that maybe...
November 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Big Tech seems to actually have the powers traditionally ascribed to Big Pharma
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
And if you thought they put interesting content out, surely you'd have "liked" at least one!
November 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I assumed the name was a spontaneous choice after seeing that face!
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I mistakenly booked non-refundable non-direct when I should have booked a direct flight

I then got confused by the wayfinding

This is everyone else's fault but my own
November 12, 2025 at 6:28 AM
You ask only the impossible, you must expect ridicule along the lines of "none so blind as those who will not see"

The vast majority of people who missed the news on tv, radio, newspapers and a mountain of repeats, are the same people who'd have binned the letter without reading it
November 12, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Just keep the rant shorter than Noah's, right?
November 12, 2025 at 6:07 AM
The 2pp is pretty close in polls, so whilst you're right about the Liberals here, that alone won't be enough for Labor
November 12, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Delicious, unhealthy word salad? If not, I'm not interested
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 AM
For a man who isn't complaining, he sure is bringing it up a lot
November 12, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I'd estimate it's around 3/4 of my followers, that have never liked nor replied to a single post nor reply of mine

Can see how you'd block before interacting, but why would you follow if for sincere reasons?
November 12, 2025 at 2:59 AM
My plan is to offer £2 of compensation, for the cost of the letter that allegedly wouldn't have been thrown directly into the bin and interest thereon

Given how it was on the news repeatedly between 1995 and taking effect, etc etc
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
On a scale of Mumsnet to X, where are we talking?
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM