This phenomenon is absolutely real. Makes conversation so unbelievably dull and is perhaps an underappreciated factor in people feeling isolated: if every conversation is basically a one-way performance, why on earth bother with them?

Jack Kessler@jackkessler.bsky.social · 17h ago

Wrote about the epidemic of people whose conversational style is to never ask you questions. ✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/ask-me-any...

Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!

Oh my god I think I found the video.

CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · yesterday

A brutal series of quotes…

Giles Wilkes@gilesyb.bsky.social · yesterday

Quotes: "during our period of study (1993-2024), mechanisms designed to regulate spending tended towards input control and short-term decision-making, struggled to support strategic investment and often failed to deliver sustained improvements in outcomes."

Feels like a season of mono no aware - the realisation that all things are fleeting and this is why we should enjoy them while they are there

Nicolas Cage an interesting casting choice for Britain’s most controversial US Ambassador Is Andrea Riseborough Karen Pierce?

Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · 3d ago

First time watch

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

Um….I think the Bosnia line might be a bit optimistic for a hefty chunk of the population…

Am reading Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, written in the early 1960s and this section makes me wonder: when did people stop thinking of London as ghastly, unpleasant and grim? I've long taken it for granted that it's one of the best cities in the world.

What To Know About ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-spider-man-brand-new-day/

The Odyssey merch is getting out of hand

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 6d ago

Sainsbury's to sell Argos for £120m

People sometimes idolise Japan, partly because it's so keen and people are so polite including on public transport. But a huge part of why it's like that, is because there's a huge culture of shaming people who don't conform. That has all sorts of downsides in many other areas of society

There’s a reason that the early environmentalist movement was closely associated with arch conservatives…

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD@charltoncussans.bsky.social · last wk.

The Population Bomb isn't about environmentalism it's about conserving a political social and cultural world in which rich white people get nice suburban houses.

The best way to view Paul Ehrlich and the degrowth movement really is through the lens of a religious cult that believes (like the Gnostics, Orphics, and Manicheans before them) that the modern world is fundamentally fallen and sinful because it hurt Gaia, and therefore it must be hurt back.

You people all joking as though Burton and O’Toole didn’t star in a Hollywood adaptation of under milk wood

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

Always fun to look at the Games Workshop annual report. “in the last financial period we sold over five million novels.”

But, even without that, we should be talking far more about how to support a 30-35 year old who wants to become a plumber/fitter of solar panels/lawyer/whatever.

I think, in general, we devote too much time to debating 14-21 education and not enough time to life time education/training/retraining.

The point is that once you're a billionaire, there's not necessarily anything else to do...

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · last wk.

being a billionaire and on the internet all day is crazy to me. if i had even five million dollars, you would not find me online whatsoever.

Not wanting to add to Broadmoor discourse but… I’m fairly sure the psych professionals have a fairly good idea of when people are genuinely so monumentally ill that they need to be sent there vs they’re faking it to have a go

The great thing about the powerful’s attitude to fascism vs communism is the notion that they’d be fine under fascism. Which is nuts: it’ll eat you eventually, it just won’t start with you.

Brett Meiselas@bmeiselas.bsky.social · 2w ago

lots of reporters suddenly worried about slipping into communism but strangely f*cking quiet about slipping into fascism

Leaving aside the nauseating nature of the point he is making, the content of this is bonkers Ofc there is a dentist on site. How are they going to get teeth sorted otherwise? Every TV set sold in the UK since 2008 has a freeview tuner. And what’s a DvD? Duck vs Dog?

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 2w ago

Right on cue from the most toxic MP in Britain.

Interesting to see if any successful launches help with this, given how little the space business had to do with the prospectus

God@thegodshow.com · 2w ago

A fool and their money are quickly parted.

The winning design. 🇪🇺💶

This is the thing: these people claim all these grand ideas, but they are based on bugger all. So when they are asked to explain them, they can’t, and all they have left is whining. Does make you wonder how intelligent they really are…

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w ago

There's a reason Elon Musk rarely does interviews with real news outlets.

There's a paradox in anthropology: the larger a population gets, the better protected it should be from random fluctuations that could cause collapse. Yet the record is rife with large civilizations that failed. New research from SFI's Marcus Hamilton points to an unexpected culprit: cooperation.

Cooperation both protects and weakens societies

When mega-societies like Rome collapse, it shows that no group is too big to fail. New research from SFI External Professor Marcus Hamilton shows why.

santafe.edu

Interesting to see: reinforces Joseph Tainter’s work on the collapse of complex societies. As things become more complex they become more at risk of collapse, particularly if there is a major environmental disruption.

Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 2w ago

There's a paradox in anthropology: the larger a population gets, the better protected it should be from random fluctuations that could cause collapse. Yet the record is rife with large civilizations that failed. New research from SFI's Marcus Hamilton points to an unexpected culprit: cooperation.

If it’s going to feature guys waddling around in this for three hours, then I’m in

Watcher Guru@watcher.guru · 2w ago

JUST IN: Elon Musk says Grok will make a "full-length movie" of The Odyssey that is "historically accurate" by the end of this year.

what do you want to bet that the lesson Hollywood learns from The Odyssey isn't that you should let brilliant directors do their thing, but that there is a whole Classic Greek Poetry Cinematic Universe worth of sequels to be mined