Prettygreenparrot
@prettygreenparrot.bsky.social
Drug … developer.
Geek.
Mtb rider
Coffee drinker
Hobby coffee roaster
Beer interested
Cocktail maker
Geek.
Mtb rider
Coffee drinker
Hobby coffee roaster
Beer interested
Cocktail maker
Fascinating to see this week’s bastard from @iwriteok.bsky.social and @coolzonemedia.bsky.social the description reminded me of @molcher.bsky.social ‘I am the law’ book. shop.rebellion.com/products/grn... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
Part One: Daryl Gates: The Man Who Invented SWAT Teams and DARE
Podcast Episode · Behind the Bastards · 21/10/2025 · 53m
podcasts.apple.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Fascinating to see this week’s bastard from @iwriteok.bsky.social and @coolzonemedia.bsky.social the description reminded me of @molcher.bsky.social ‘I am the law’ book. shop.rebellion.com/products/grn... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
Saw the release of Battle/Action volume 3 shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/RC... @rebelllion.bsky.social @molcher.bsky.social bought all 3 volumes. Excellent!
2000 AD Shop : Battle Action volume 3 - WEBSHOP EXCLUSIVE
2000 AD is Britain's cult sci-fi comic, and has been at the cutting edge of contemporary pop culture since 1977. It's a multi-award winning cocktail of explosive sci-fi and fantasy, infused with a mea...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Saw the release of Battle/Action volume 3 shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/RC... @rebelllion.bsky.social @molcher.bsky.social bought all 3 volumes. Excellent!
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Taxpayers aren’t supposed to deduct losses from something that has no hope of being a profitable business.
But billionaire-owned operations that look like expensive hobbies, like race horses, rack up business deductions by the tens of millions of dollars.
(Published 2023)
But billionaire-owned operations that look like expensive hobbies, like race horses, rack up business deductions by the tens of millions of dollars.
(Published 2023)
Private Planes and Luxury Yachts Aren’t Just Toys for the Ultrawealthy. They’re Also Huge Tax Breaks.
What’s the only thing better than having your own Gulfstream jet? Why, getting to claim millions in tax deductions for it. All you have to do is make a case you’re using it for business, which turns o...
www.propublica.org
October 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Taxpayers aren’t supposed to deduct losses from something that has no hope of being a profitable business.
But billionaire-owned operations that look like expensive hobbies, like race horses, rack up business deductions by the tens of millions of dollars.
(Published 2023)
But billionaire-owned operations that look like expensive hobbies, like race horses, rack up business deductions by the tens of millions of dollars.
(Published 2023)
2025 and excel still can’t detect US date format reliably in a CSV import in the UK? 🤦🏻♂️ @microsoft.com
August 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
2025 and excel still can’t detect US date format reliably in a CSV import in the UK? 🤦🏻♂️ @microsoft.com
Gah! Pesky @molcher.bsky.social and @2000ad.bsky.social merchandise. The ‘increased leisure citizen’ design was my favorite back in the day. Seems I’m destined to buy some version of it again shop.rebellion.com/products/hal...
Halo Jones Increased Leisure Citizen Sweatshirt
Step into the world of The Ballad of Halo Jones with this Increased Leisure Citizen Sweatshirt!
shop.rebellion.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Gah! Pesky @molcher.bsky.social and @2000ad.bsky.social merchandise. The ‘increased leisure citizen’ design was my favorite back in the day. Seems I’m destined to buy some version of it again shop.rebellion.com/products/hal...
What the …? @edzitron.com  www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish PM under fire for using AI in role
Tech experts criticise Ulf Kristersson as newspaper accuses him of falling for ‘the oligarchs’ AI psychosis’
www.theguardian.com
August 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
What the …? @edzitron.com  www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Wow. Seems like your recent commentaries on quack medicine in the USA were cruising the zeitgeist @iwriteok.bsky.social Investigation Underway After Two Women Fell Ill at RAADFest, a Las Vegas Anti-Aging Conference www.propublica.org/article/pept...
A Las Vegas Festival Promised Ways to Cheat Death. Two Attendees Left Fighting for Their Lives.
Authorities are investigating why two women fell ill at the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival. They both received peptide injections, an alternative therapy promoted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr....
www.propublica.org
July 30, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Wow. Seems like your recent commentaries on quack medicine in the USA were cruising the zeitgeist @iwriteok.bsky.social Investigation Underway After Two Women Fell Ill at RAADFest, a Las Vegas Anti-Aging Conference www.propublica.org/article/pept...
Loving the @2000ad.bsky.social podcast @molcher.bsky.social @punkrokmomjeans.bsky.social excellent content, digression, and rambling.
June 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Loving the @2000ad.bsky.social podcast @molcher.bsky.social @punkrokmomjeans.bsky.social excellent content, digression, and rambling.
Blown away by how slick and effective @metabrainz.org @musicbrainz.org Picard is. 1,000s of purchased iTunes and CD backup files on a NAS whose tags and organisation had been mangled by iTunes back in the day and now they look like they’re starting to make sense
June 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Blown away by how slick and effective @metabrainz.org @musicbrainz.org Picard is. 1,000s of purchased iTunes and CD backup files on a NAS whose tags and organisation had been mangled by iTunes back in the day and now they look like they’re starting to make sense
Saw that Sha had arrived in the post @patmillswriter.bsky.social looks amazing. Possibly the most professionally executed Kickstarter I’ve been part of. Eager to start reading in due course ✊
May 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Saw that Sha had arrived in the post @patmillswriter.bsky.social looks amazing. Possibly the most professionally executed Kickstarter I’ve been part of. Eager to start reading in due course ✊
🤷🏻♂️ never seen ‘the phantom of the opera’?!?!? @molcher.bsky.social before your time I’m sure but it was a BBC2 night time movie event for me. Definitely worth seeing. 🤷🏻♂️ maybe there’s a 4K restoration version? Brian de Palma has an amazing canon.
May 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
🤷🏻♂️ never seen ‘the phantom of the opera’?!?!? @molcher.bsky.social before your time I’m sure but it was a BBC2 night time movie event for me. Definitely worth seeing. 🤷🏻♂️ maybe there’s a 4K restoration version? Brian de Palma has an amazing canon.
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Forget all the annoying stuff in the world for a few seconds and enjoy the natural beauty of Brazil’s Seven-coloured Tanager (Tangara fastuosa) Photo: Luiz Cavalcanti Damasceno
May 31, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Forget all the annoying stuff in the world for a few seconds and enjoy the natural beauty of Brazil’s Seven-coloured Tanager (Tangara fastuosa) Photo: Luiz Cavalcanti Damasceno
Thanks for the Clobber ‘bully boys’ link @molcher.bsky.social @2000ad.bsky.social Idols…but harder.
May 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Thanks for the Clobber ‘bully boys’ link @molcher.bsky.social @2000ad.bsky.social Idols…but harder.
New @2000ad.bsky.social issue #2435 excellent. Art and story content peak 2000AD.
May 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
New @2000ad.bsky.social issue #2435 excellent. Art and story content peak 2000AD.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... @molcher.bsky.social hearing aids? Never too early. Get them ASAP and they will transform your wife. And life.
Better Mutants Than The X-Men? – In Orbit Every Wednesday
Podcast Episode · The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast · 28/05/2025 · 41m
podcasts.apple.com
May 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... @molcher.bsky.social hearing aids? Never too early. Get them ASAP and they will transform your wife. And life.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w... great to hear Welsh being explored and celebrated.
The Welsh Language with Huw Stephens at the Hay Festival
Podcast Episode · Word of Mouth · 29/05/2025 · 28m
podcasts.apple.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w... great to hear Welsh being explored and celebrated.
New bike day yesterday. Thanks to the great folks at Atherton Bikes for making this happen. @singletrack-world.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 8:41 AM
New bike day yesterday. Thanks to the great folks at Atherton Bikes for making this happen. @singletrack-world.bsky.social
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If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting. - @lianabrooks.bsky.social
#WriterSky #BookSky #KidLit
#WriterSky #BookSky #KidLit
May 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting. - @lianabrooks.bsky.social
#WriterSky #BookSky #KidLit
#WriterSky #BookSky #KidLit
Scrotnig Dredd story in Prog 2432 @molcher.bsky.social looking forward to the pod review
May 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Scrotnig Dredd story in Prog 2432 @molcher.bsky.social looking forward to the pod review
Not sure that a comparison with ‘legendary’ Jack Welch is a good thing. Tesla without Musk? Board faces unique challenge whether he stays or goes - www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Tesla without Musk? Board faces unique challenge whether he stays or goes
Tesla's board on Thursday rushed to defend its chief executive, Elon Musk, assuring he had the board's confidence amid rising investor worries about his prolonged absences, polarizing politics and the EV maker's plunging sales and profit.
www.reuters.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Not sure that a comparison with ‘legendary’ Jack Welch is a good thing. Tesla without Musk? Board faces unique challenge whether he stays or goes - www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
@cookingissues.bsky.social ‘grub street’ - probably already answered. I was just listening to the podcast. Isn’t its origin as a term for the press and their old street of shame? Wikipedia has a nice article on it. ‘Grub Street existed on the margins of London's journalistic and literary scene.’
April 26, 2025 at 10:21 AM
@cookingissues.bsky.social ‘grub street’ - probably already answered. I was just listening to the podcast. Isn’t its origin as a term for the press and their old street of shame? Wikipedia has a nice article on it. ‘Grub Street existed on the margins of London's journalistic and literary scene.’
A day behind on this ‘give up copyright or miss out on bullshit machines’ drivel reported in @theguardian.com from @tonyblairinstitute.bsky.social big tech has taken more and delivered less in recent years. They should pay for their access to copyrighted material like the rest of us
April 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
A day behind on this ‘give up copyright or miss out on bullshit machines’ drivel reported in @theguardian.com from @tonyblairinstitute.bsky.social big tech has taken more and delivered less in recent years. They should pay for their access to copyrighted material like the rest of us
Reminds me of the TUC’s unpaid work calculator. Excellent cartoon from @privateeyenews.bsky.social that leans in to unpaid internships @iwriteok.bsky.social and other devious work practices. I am however reminded of gwern.net/doc/science/... Personal choice?
March 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Reminds me of the TUC’s unpaid work calculator. Excellent cartoon from @privateeyenews.bsky.social that leans in to unpaid internships @iwriteok.bsky.social and other devious work practices. I am however reminded of gwern.net/doc/science/... Personal choice?
@edzitron.com nice piece in Private Eye on balanced journalism and AI storytelling ©pressdram (probably)
March 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
@edzitron.com nice piece in Private Eye on balanced journalism and AI storytelling ©pressdram (probably)
@molcher.bsky.social ‘never read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell’ ? It is excellent!
March 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
@molcher.bsky.social ‘never read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell’ ? It is excellent!