Louis Patterson
@theboatend.bsky.social
All-purpose nerd and "competitive" sailor. Australian, Melburnian, Footscrayite, Him.
Anyway, a key problem with the labour market is that... a lot of what you might call "alternative paths to labour-market entry" are in the hands of people who are desperate for labour because they are screaming arseholes.
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Anyway, a key problem with the labour market is that... a lot of what you might call "alternative paths to labour-market entry" are in the hands of people who are desperate for labour because they are screaming arseholes.
Chris Pyne was pretty much the last member of the liberal party with the brains god gave a jellyfish, so if you *are* going to do bipartisanship he's basically the only choice.
I'm not saying he's nice, he's a turd. but he is *smarter* than a turd and all the other options are not.
I'm not saying he's nice, he's a turd. but he is *smarter* than a turd and all the other options are not.
What a brain-dead dumb, completely shite appointment. @tonyburkemp.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Chris Pyne was pretty much the last member of the liberal party with the brains god gave a jellyfish, so if you *are* going to do bipartisanship he's basically the only choice.
I'm not saying he's nice, he's a turd. but he is *smarter* than a turd and all the other options are not.
I'm not saying he's nice, he's a turd. but he is *smarter* than a turd and all the other options are not.
the bit you have to laugh at is, repressive govts can't really commercialise advanced technology because commercialisation needs messages passing from bottom to top that repression is set up to block. So all this will fail anyway, as will anything else they try except resource extraction.
COMMERCE DEPT SAYS IT HAS AUTHORIZED EXPORT OF ADVANCED U.S. SEMICONDUCTORS TO G42 IN THE UAE AND TO HUMAIN IN SAUDI ARABIA
November 19, 2025 at 11:23 PM
the bit you have to laugh at is, repressive govts can't really commercialise advanced technology because commercialisation needs messages passing from bottom to top that repression is set up to block. So all this will fail anyway, as will anything else they try except resource extraction.
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also i cannot decide if Milia is the best mom ever or the worst
March 14, 2025 at 9:08 AM
also i cannot decide if Milia is the best mom ever or the worst
And it does fit! Single-track passing station in TT with goods siding and a street tramway. 2x16m car trains, plus space for a couple of scenery setpieces, all on a 780x270 billy bookshelf shelf.
Will need some 7.5⁰ and r1 15⁰ curves I think, and leave the tramway for phase two.
Will need some 7.5⁰ and r1 15⁰ curves I think, and leave the tramway for phase two.
November 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
And it does fit! Single-track passing station in TT with goods siding and a street tramway. 2x16m car trains, plus space for a couple of scenery setpieces, all on a 780x270 billy bookshelf shelf.
Will need some 7.5⁰ and r1 15⁰ curves I think, and leave the tramway for phase two.
Will need some 7.5⁰ and r1 15⁰ curves I think, and leave the tramway for phase two.
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Windows does update.
Now opens Game Bar when webcam turns on.
Industrial paper cutter uses a webcam to detect registration dots.
Game Bar opens on every sheet feed.
I swear half of admin work in 2025 is slapping windows' fingers away from the controls. No! Bad OS. BAD! *gets the spray bottle*
Now opens Game Bar when webcam turns on.
Industrial paper cutter uses a webcam to detect registration dots.
Game Bar opens on every sheet feed.
I swear half of admin work in 2025 is slapping windows' fingers away from the controls. No! Bad OS. BAD! *gets the spray bottle*
November 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Windows does update.
Now opens Game Bar when webcam turns on.
Industrial paper cutter uses a webcam to detect registration dots.
Game Bar opens on every sheet feed.
I swear half of admin work in 2025 is slapping windows' fingers away from the controls. No! Bad OS. BAD! *gets the spray bottle*
Now opens Game Bar when webcam turns on.
Industrial paper cutter uses a webcam to detect registration dots.
Game Bar opens on every sheet feed.
I swear half of admin work in 2025 is slapping windows' fingers away from the controls. No! Bad OS. BAD! *gets the spray bottle*
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Gifu Shimbun has a map which plots monthly bear sightings and reports of suspicious individuals. The result looks like a strategy game, pitting bears against perverts. www.gifu-np.co.jp/articles/-/3...
November 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Gifu Shimbun has a map which plots monthly bear sightings and reports of suspicious individuals. The result looks like a strategy game, pitting bears against perverts. www.gifu-np.co.jp/articles/-/3...
So, if you tie a flag to a broomstick and then tie the pulling-up rope, the halyard, to the broomstick below the flag and then again at the bottom of the broomstick, you can hoist the flag higher than you could normally.
Occasionally useful knowledge.
Occasionally useful knowledge.
November 18, 2025 at 4:31 AM
So, if you tie a flag to a broomstick and then tie the pulling-up rope, the halyard, to the broomstick below the flag and then again at the bottom of the broomstick, you can hoist the flag higher than you could normally.
Occasionally useful knowledge.
Occasionally useful knowledge.
Bah. It looked like so much more space when I was sketching it out. The secondhand track not having the short curves I want doesn't help.
[the general idea is freelance 70s japan heavily inspired by some mid-sized private railways, esp the hokuriku. In TTm, because why not make your life harder]
[the general idea is freelance 70s japan heavily inspired by some mid-sized private railways, esp the hokuriku. In TTm, because why not make your life harder]
November 16, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Bah. It looked like so much more space when I was sketching it out. The secondhand track not having the short curves I want doesn't help.
[the general idea is freelance 70s japan heavily inspired by some mid-sized private railways, esp the hokuriku. In TTm, because why not make your life harder]
[the general idea is freelance 70s japan heavily inspired by some mid-sized private railways, esp the hokuriku. In TTm, because why not make your life harder]
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Nabokov: "In by book, I wrote about the treatment of Lolita as an examination of human cruelty and selfishness"
Pedophiles: "At long last, we have created Lolita from the classic novel It's Really Bad To Sexually Assault Lolita"
Pedophiles: "At long last, we have created Lolita from the classic novel It's Really Bad To Sexually Assault Lolita"
my new theory is that Jeffrey Epstein read Lolita, actually understood it, and killed himself.
did not have Harvard English professor Elisa New emailing Jeffrey Epstein about Lolita on my 2025 bingo card
November 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Nabokov: "In by book, I wrote about the treatment of Lolita as an examination of human cruelty and selfishness"
Pedophiles: "At long last, we have created Lolita from the classic novel It's Really Bad To Sexually Assault Lolita"
Pedophiles: "At long last, we have created Lolita from the classic novel It's Really Bad To Sexually Assault Lolita"
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The 1981 tour of NZ, with Errol Tobias btw, tore NZ apart and let the Bokke know they were hated. 1986, being shut out of tours and rebels being punished reinforced that. 1987, the first RWC, was when white SA had to ask itself: is keeping apartheid *really* worth never playing the All Blacks again?
November 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The 1981 tour of NZ, with Errol Tobias btw, tore NZ apart and let the Bokke know they were hated. 1986, being shut out of tours and rebels being punished reinforced that. 1987, the first RWC, was when white SA had to ask itself: is keeping apartheid *really* worth never playing the All Blacks again?
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If you want a woke conlang, at least pick one that doesn't regularly derive feminines from masculines (patro -> patrino, filo -> filino, etc.). I can send you a reference grammar and lexicon for something I've inflicted on an enby conlanger I know.
November 15, 2025 at 1:43 AM
If you want a woke conlang, at least pick one that doesn't regularly derive feminines from masculines (patro -> patrino, filo -> filino, etc.). I can send you a reference grammar and lexicon for something I've inflicted on an enby conlanger I know.
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
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Legitimately if you know the distinction between pedophilia and ephebophilia and use it as a defense of literally anything you are most likely a sex offender and should be investigated as such.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Legitimately if you know the distinction between pedophilia and ephebophilia and use it as a defense of literally anything you are most likely a sex offender and should be investigated as such.
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Everything in this secondhand clothing store in Koenji is either 990 yen or 550 yen, and you use a vending machine to pay for the items.
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Everything in this secondhand clothing store in Koenji is either 990 yen or 550 yen, and you use a vending machine to pay for the items.
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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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forever proud of Stephen Jay Gould for taking one look into the Epstein zone and saying "no fucking thanks". a credit to the profession
hasn't been enough reporting on his creepy science funding, tbh.
The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
forever proud of Stephen Jay Gould for taking one look into the Epstein zone and saying "no fucking thanks". a credit to the profession
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if you’ve never been camping before you should call the tourist information centre for the area you plan to visit! and TELL THEM you have never been camping before. and if the area you plan to visit doesn’t have a helpful tourist information centre, you need to change your plans
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
if you’ve never been camping before you should call the tourist information centre for the area you plan to visit! and TELL THEM you have never been camping before. and if the area you plan to visit doesn’t have a helpful tourist information centre, you need to change your plans
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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.
Getting vindicated is just so completely enraging. I hate it, it means the only thing for me to learn was to yell at more people louder and sooner.
if you're going to disagree with someone, show some fucking respect and not be completely 157% arse-wrong about everything from the get-go.
if you're going to disagree with someone, show some fucking respect and not be completely 157% arse-wrong about everything from the get-go.
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Getting vindicated is just so completely enraging. I hate it, it means the only thing for me to learn was to yell at more people louder and sooner.
if you're going to disagree with someone, show some fucking respect and not be completely 157% arse-wrong about everything from the get-go.
if you're going to disagree with someone, show some fucking respect and not be completely 157% arse-wrong about everything from the get-go.
bootstraps, the pulling up of self by same.
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
bootstraps, the pulling up of self by same.
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and once again, for those who don't realize, the nuremberg trials were the moderate position back then too.
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
and once again, for those who don't realize, the nuremberg trials were the moderate position back then too.
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Honestly everyone using genAI tools to save their own time and effort is just externalising that time and effort multiplied many-fold, onto other people.
It’s cognitive fly-tipping.
It’s cognitive fly-tipping.
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Honestly everyone using genAI tools to save their own time and effort is just externalising that time and effort multiplied many-fold, onto other people.
It’s cognitive fly-tipping.
It’s cognitive fly-tipping.