Roger McCarthy
@rogermccarthy.bsky.social
'Prince, I can hear the trumpet of Germinal,
The tumbrils toiling up the terrible way;
Even to-day your royal head may fall,
I think I will not hang myself to-day'.
(Chesterton)
The tumbrils toiling up the terrible way;
Even to-day your royal head may fall,
I think I will not hang myself to-day'.
(Chesterton)
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A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.
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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
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we live in an era where we are burning the legacy of civilization on the altar of men who don't want to do what their mothers told them when they were 6
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
we live in an era where we are burning the legacy of civilization on the altar of men who don't want to do what their mothers told them when they were 6
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Who thought it'd be a good idea to follow a politically spineless move by putting Tim Kaine on TV looking like a hobbit who's Ambien sleepwalking?
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Who thought it'd be a good idea to follow a politically spineless move by putting Tim Kaine on TV looking like a hobbit who's Ambien sleepwalking?
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*me, a freelancer, walking around town looking in at all the businesses*
"Yeah, hope you're having fun in there with all your COLLEAGUES!"
"Yeah, hope you're having fun in there with all your COLLEAGUES!"
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
*me, a freelancer, walking around town looking in at all the businesses*
"Yeah, hope you're having fun in there with all your COLLEAGUES!"
"Yeah, hope you're having fun in there with all your COLLEAGUES!"
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On J Carol Oates/Muskie cage match:
-Never met JCO, though have read (nearly!) all her books
-Have met EM, interviewed him at public event and otherwise
Benchmark: Have also met/interviewed 4 US prez, 5 VPs, multiple Nobel winners, multiple tech billionaires.
Of smarts in that group, EM = meh.
-Never met JCO, though have read (nearly!) all her books
-Have met EM, interviewed him at public event and otherwise
Benchmark: Have also met/interviewed 4 US prez, 5 VPs, multiple Nobel winners, multiple tech billionaires.
Of smarts in that group, EM = meh.
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
On J Carol Oates/Muskie cage match:
-Never met JCO, though have read (nearly!) all her books
-Have met EM, interviewed him at public event and otherwise
Benchmark: Have also met/interviewed 4 US prez, 5 VPs, multiple Nobel winners, multiple tech billionaires.
Of smarts in that group, EM = meh.
-Never met JCO, though have read (nearly!) all her books
-Have met EM, interviewed him at public event and otherwise
Benchmark: Have also met/interviewed 4 US prez, 5 VPs, multiple Nobel winners, multiple tech billionaires.
Of smarts in that group, EM = meh.
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smallpox eradication is one of the greatest achievement of humans, up there with 'hey maybe we should wash our hands'
Smallpox was so bad that two nations who were threatening to nuke everyone and everything agreed on eradication.
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
smallpox eradication is one of the greatest achievement of humans, up there with 'hey maybe we should wash our hands'
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Once you've costed all that, you know how much tax needs raising. It'd be a lot.
My aim would be to minimise the hit on
- low-income households
- lower-middle income households with kids
and maximise the hit on
- housing capital gains
- well-off pensioners
- childless upper-middle and high earners
My aim would be to minimise the hit on
- low-income households
- lower-middle income households with kids
and maximise the hit on
- housing capital gains
- well-off pensioners
- childless upper-middle and high earners
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Once you've costed all that, you know how much tax needs raising. It'd be a lot.
My aim would be to minimise the hit on
- low-income households
- lower-middle income households with kids
and maximise the hit on
- housing capital gains
- well-off pensioners
- childless upper-middle and high earners
My aim would be to minimise the hit on
- low-income households
- lower-middle income households with kids
and maximise the hit on
- housing capital gains
- well-off pensioners
- childless upper-middle and high earners
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Oh, couple of other things I meant to include:
- juice housing demand. no, really. people can't afford to buy, so builders have stopped building and the whole system is gummed up, planning reform or not. they're going to have to do something to substantively help buyers.
- juice housing demand. no, really. people can't afford to buy, so builders have stopped building and the whole system is gummed up, planning reform or not. they're going to have to do something to substantively help buyers.
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Oh, couple of other things I meant to include:
- juice housing demand. no, really. people can't afford to buy, so builders have stopped building and the whole system is gummed up, planning reform or not. they're going to have to do something to substantively help buyers.
- juice housing demand. no, really. people can't afford to buy, so builders have stopped building and the whole system is gummed up, planning reform or not. they're going to have to do something to substantively help buyers.
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We know that we've let Donald Trump down, and in future, we shall try to do better.
thecritic.co.uk/cris...
thecritic.co.uk/cris...
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We know that we've let Donald Trump down, and in future, we shall try to do better.
thecritic.co.uk/cris...
thecritic.co.uk/cris...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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if i were part of a dying publishing industry i would simply not discourage people from reading in public
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
if i were part of a dying publishing industry i would simply not discourage people from reading in public
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Deeply unserious country, one has to wonder what the point of a Labour government and an independent broadcaster is if a foreign far-right regime is allowed to dictate its output anyway.
All kinds of reasons Davie should have resigned before, but one whiff of anti-right-wing scandal and off he pops.
November 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Deeply unserious country, one has to wonder what the point of a Labour government and an independent broadcaster is if a foreign far-right regime is allowed to dictate its output anyway.
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Jesus fucken Christ. I ordered some undercrackers, lads. Nothing came. No despatch email, no delivery confirmation, nothing.
So today I check tracking online. Evri "delivered" them to my side garden (just chucked randomly).
AND THEN THE FOXES
THE FOXES
(breathe)
ATE
MY
FUCKEN
PANTS
So today I check tracking online. Evri "delivered" them to my side garden (just chucked randomly).
AND THEN THE FOXES
THE FOXES
(breathe)
ATE
MY
FUCKEN
PANTS
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Jesus fucken Christ. I ordered some undercrackers, lads. Nothing came. No despatch email, no delivery confirmation, nothing.
So today I check tracking online. Evri "delivered" them to my side garden (just chucked randomly).
AND THEN THE FOXES
THE FOXES
(breathe)
ATE
MY
FUCKEN
PANTS
So today I check tracking online. Evri "delivered" them to my side garden (just chucked randomly).
AND THEN THE FOXES
THE FOXES
(breathe)
ATE
MY
FUCKEN
PANTS
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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I avoid reposting twitter, but this is well put. Directed at Musk but captures Trump, too. I think it's tragic that such men are so clueless about the beauty of life. I believe their lack of joy is why they try to squash life and light from all of us. Living joyfully is how we will overcome.
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I avoid reposting twitter, but this is well put. Directed at Musk but captures Trump, too. I think it's tragic that such men are so clueless about the beauty of life. I believe their lack of joy is why they try to squash life and light from all of us. Living joyfully is how we will overcome.
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🙃
The pro-Palestine group Within Our Lifetime has already decided that Zohran Mamdani has sold out the pro-Palestine cause... by condemning swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn. forward.com/culture/7822...
Mamdani's first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
After someone spraypainted a swastika on a yeshiva, Zohran Mamdani condemned antisemitism. Somehow, this generated conspiracy theories.
forward.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
🙃
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I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.
November 8, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.
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We rightly condemn our fellow voters for not doing due diligence, but the actual problem is that there was a built-in floor for Trump because he emerged through and is protected by the Republican Party. Trump is as numerate as Paul Ryan, but only one of them was called a “policy wonk.”
Seriously? He has no idea how insurance works or how to govern. I’ll never get over 77 million people thinking a man this incompetent belongs anywhere near the Oval Office.
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
We rightly condemn our fellow voters for not doing due diligence, but the actual problem is that there was a built-in floor for Trump because he emerged through and is protected by the Republican Party. Trump is as numerate as Paul Ryan, but only one of them was called a “policy wonk.”
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LABOUR Home Office minister writes...
November 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
LABOUR Home Office minister writes...