Tim Mansfield
@timbomb.bsky.social
@mattbevan.bsky.social I love your work! But Armenia is *not* Roman Catholic. It's 97% Armenian Apostolic Church, which is Oriental Orthodox and not in communion with Rome. There is an Armenian Catholic Church, but that's about 150,000 people. I'm only saying this because you're usually so accurate!
August 30, 2025 at 6:46 AM
@mattbevan.bsky.social I love your work! But Armenia is *not* Roman Catholic. It's 97% Armenian Apostolic Church, which is Oriental Orthodox and not in communion with Rome. There is an Armenian Catholic Church, but that's about 150,000 people. I'm only saying this because you're usually so accurate!
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chatgpt has fully broken-through to every facet of the corporate environment. I'm spending a not-insignificant amount of my time every week now explaining to people that just because chatgpt told you that something was possible doesn't mean that it a) is or b) even exists
March 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
chatgpt has fully broken-through to every facet of the corporate environment. I'm spending a not-insignificant amount of my time every week now explaining to people that just because chatgpt told you that something was possible doesn't mean that it a) is or b) even exists
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This is tonight! Gonna see if I can coax a couple more invites out of the party lady. DM me if you want to be one of them.
Extremely rare good news!
The Onion, Bluesky and Project Liberty are throwing a party for sickos on Saturday in Austin at South by Southwest.
It's a Good Party for Bad Times.
Sign up for a spot in the link below. (Onion subscribers get first dibs, btw.)
docs.google.com/forms/d/1pG-...
The Onion, Bluesky and Project Liberty are throwing a party for sickos on Saturday in Austin at South by Southwest.
It's a Good Party for Bad Times.
Sign up for a spot in the link below. (Onion subscribers get first dibs, btw.)
docs.google.com/forms/d/1pG-...
March 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is tonight! Gonna see if I can coax a couple more invites out of the party lady. DM me if you want to be one of them.
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ChatGPT is not a search engine nor a research database. Y'all need to stop treating it that way. You have to verify everything it tells you.
March 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
ChatGPT is not a search engine nor a research database. Y'all need to stop treating it that way. You have to verify everything it tells you.
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The inspiring scientists who saved the world’s 1st seed bank: During the siege of Leningrad, botanists in charge of an irreplaceable seed collection had to protect it from fire, rodents – & hunger
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/12/food-source-famine-leningrad-seed-bank-nikolai-vavilov
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/12/food-source-famine-leningrad-seed-bank-nikolai-vavilov
November 13, 2024 at 8:32 AM
The inspiring scientists who saved the world’s 1st seed bank: During the siege of Leningrad, botanists in charge of an irreplaceable seed collection had to protect it from fire, rodents – & hunger
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/12/food-source-famine-leningrad-seed-bank-nikolai-vavilov
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/12/food-source-famine-leningrad-seed-bank-nikolai-vavilov
More folks in the USA need to be aware of what Gary Stevenson is up to in the UK
Fascinating article from two researchers who have been studying right wing media with recommendations for how the left can/should build new media infrastructure to compete: jacobin.com/2025/03/left...
The Left Needs Media That Competes — and Wins
The Right’s growing success with working-class voters wasn’t won with policy papers or think tanks; it was built through media that speaks their language. If the Left wants to compete, it needs to bui...
jacobin.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:19 AM
More folks in the USA need to be aware of what Gary Stevenson is up to in the UK
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I think in this stupidest of timelines it is worth harking back to when Bobby Kennedy Snr said: “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, & in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.“
March 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I think in this stupidest of timelines it is worth harking back to when Bobby Kennedy Snr said: “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, & in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.“
So first off… the fact that everyone is required to repeat the phrase “waste, fraud and abuse” verbatim is a cult hypnosis/PR technique to control discourse. Stop it.
March 3, 2025 at 3:35 AM
So first off… the fact that everyone is required to repeat the phrase “waste, fraud and abuse” verbatim is a cult hypnosis/PR technique to control discourse. Stop it.
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Somebody who understands neither Ponzi schemes nor social security
March 3, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Somebody who understands neither Ponzi schemes nor social security
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Australia urgently needs to make regulatory investments in drug safety, air safety, food safety. U.S. regulation is no longer reliable, and the international community needs to reconfirm anything that they claim. The group of countries whose regulation can be trusted no longer includes the USA.
March 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Australia urgently needs to make regulatory investments in drug safety, air safety, food safety. U.S. regulation is no longer reliable, and the international community needs to reconfirm anything that they claim. The group of countries whose regulation can be trusted no longer includes the USA.
It amazes me that anyone listens to people in the AI industry saying that the tech will lead to abundance and none of us will need to work. This exact prediction has been repeated about every kind of automation since the 1950s (at least) and it has never been true…
November 29, 2024 at 12:25 AM
It amazes me that anyone listens to people in the AI industry saying that the tech will lead to abundance and none of us will need to work. This exact prediction has been repeated about every kind of automation since the 1950s (at least) and it has never been true…
The Really Dark Truth About Bots
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
youtu.be
November 27, 2024 at 10:37 PM
