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M. Ella
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@incredimella on the old gross creepy site
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@incredimella@mstdn.social

historical linguistics, phonetics, physics & classical raga music
(and I follow politics on here when life gets too fun IRL)
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Tony Blair Institute is lying through their teeth and were caught out in a most embarrassing way. Literally says so in the article:
Extract from the FT article in question
July 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Marco Rubio in 2019 on twitter: Today another transformer explosion at the German Dam in Boliviar [sic] State caused another massive blackout. The reply from @gedv86: Senator an important transformer exploded in Bolívar and that, in part, again collapsed the Venezuelan Electric System; however it was not in a dam, much less german. My name is Germán Dam, I am one of the journalists who published the information.
March 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Chris Murphy on Twitter: if you want to know why I'm at the 3-alarm stage on the short term risk of losing our democracy, it's this. Trump shut off spending so each Congressman, Governor, Senator, Mayor had to come pledge loyalty to get the $$ turned back on. It's called "petitioning the king".
March 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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And that the NYtimes is doing its usual, surely?
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January 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Dammit.
The gif screenshot for me was the word "juvenile"
January 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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The Manatee County guy, Scott Hansen, sounds (and looks?) exactly like the kind of person who would block nasa.gov.
Screenshot off of an image hosted on Facebook, the original poster of the image is presumably "Scribbles Software". Shows a graphic of lots of paper, with a pull quote saying, "You can get lost in all that paper." - Scott Hanson, CTO. There's an inset image of a balding, bespectacled, overweight man, mouth pursued open mid-speech, at the top left of this image, who may or may not be Scott Hanson.
November 25, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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Na, it's the guy who made this amazing diagram and then put it in his PhD thesis:
"Diagram" from Seb Gorka's PhD thesis with a horizontal axis (no vertical), with Peacekeeping at the left in blue and Thermonuclear War at the right end above the arrowhead in red and an oval under the line with Terrorism inside it in red and italics, and two arrows on either side of the oval extending outwards. Two question marks sit on either side of these smaller arrows. No reference is made to the axis, scale or concept. A caption at the bottom right reads "Diagram Nine: Terrorism and the Scale of Conflict"
November 23, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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Quote from Ted Lasso: Do you believe in ghosts Ted? I do! But more importantly, I think they need to believe in themselves, you know?
November 18, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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~"Some people pulled the lamp-post down because they wanted electric light; some because they wanted old iron; some wanted darkness, because their deeds were evil. Some thought it not enough of a lamp-post, some too much; some wanted to smash municipal machinery; some to smash something"

Oh fuck.
Extract from the post about Chesterton's fence, the thought experiment about a lamp post taken down by a community who all work together for different reasons (they want different things in place of the lamp post), and once it's thoughtlessly taken down, they sort of regret it but have to go without light, as imperfect as the source of it was: Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to pull down. A grey-clad monk, who is the spirit of the Middle Ages, is approached upon the matter, and begins to say, in the arid manner of the Schoolmen, "Let us first of all consider, my brethren, the value of Light, If Light be in itself good At this point he is somewhat excusably knocked down. All the people make a rush for the lamp-post, the lamp-post is down in ten minutes, and they go about congratulating each other on their un-mediaeval practicality. But as things go on they do not work out so easily. Some people have pulled the lamp-post down because they wanted the electric light; some because they wanted old iron; some because they wanted darkness, because their deeds were evil. Some thought it not enough of a lamp-post, some too much; some acted because they wanted to smash municipal machinery; some because they wanted to smash something. And there is war in the night, no man knowing whom he strikes, So, gradually and inevitably, to-day, to-morrow, or the next day, there comes back the conviction that the monk was right after all, and that all depends on what is the philosophy of Light. Only what we might have discussed under the gas-lamp, we now must discuss in the dark. ... Many of the problems we face in life occur when we intervene with systems without an awareness of what the consequences could be. While we are well-intentioned, it's easy to do more harm than good. If a fence exists, there is likely a reason for it.
November 18, 2024 at 7:44 AM
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How is this guy Thirty Nine???
Picture of Richard Holden MP from his wikipedia page. Balding man with a slight smirk, who IMHO looks much older and way more cynical & contemptuous than the average 39-year-old
November 13, 2024 at 9:52 AM
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ha, time for me to pull out an old old SBMC comic about how USBs have a quantum spin of 1/2
an SBMC comic about how USBs have a quantum spin of 1/2 - you try to slot it in, doesnt work, turn it around, doesnt work, turn it around again, and it works
November 11, 2024 at 2:20 PM