Ken Tindell
@kentindell.bsky.social
Designer of chips, programmer of chips
But they seemed like such nice, patriotic, community-minded chaps. (Except the ones currently facing murder, child abuse & assault charges, obviously.)
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterdayLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterdayLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
I didn’t realise just how noisy it is being in an office overlooking a river. Diesel engines, horns blaring, crew yelling.
There may be air conditioning in the hotel but that doesn’t mean there’s fresh air in the hotel.
Their conclusion about what this all means is better cyber hygiene. I would suggest policymakers might also wish to come back to questions of agent liability and who is responsible when things go wrong
Elon is talking about using robots to build a mass accelerator on the moon in support of an economy 1000x to 1 million times the current earth economy. It's a bad sci fi novel not an earnings call.
Rory says populist. But Count Binface just calls it practical.
More evidence that Reform voters are not like other people in the UK. Show them some potential corruption and they’re all in.
Big night for Ukraine. The oil refinery in Syzran is on fire and a Wildberries warehouse in Krasny Bor, Leningrad, has been destroyed. #explodey
Everytime I get excited for a videogame they cancel the goddamn thing. The lesson here is to learn about new video games the way that god intended: for the first time 14 months after release.
CARTOON OF THE DAY (if you know who made this let us know)
We disgrace ourselves as a nation each and every day Donald Trump remains in office. The drafters of the United States Constitution provided a remedy for a criminally insane president like the one we have—impeachment and removal ...
He's losing words. Anyone with a parent or loved one suffering from dementia will recognize this pattern. Wen he says "moving cameras," it's because he can't recall the word "videos" and so he's stating the component parts as best he can. E.g., a "camera" is involved and the images are "moving"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "We have photographs or tapes -- like moving cameras, right? -- where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife."
once upon a time, we cut off the trolls’ oxygen and they got bored and wandered off. that’s how this place became the so-called “bubble” they hate so much. the end.
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d agoBluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit
Unlike the Ontario wildfires, which were mostly burning in the woods, these fires have now burned through urban areas, making the smoke extra, extra toxic. Take the AQI warnings seriously this week, PNW neighbors.
Matthew Pfab@matthewpfabwx.bsky.social · 3d agoHeads up, #Seattle...smoke from massive fires in Eastern Washington and Southern British Columbia will move into Western Washington starting early Monday, getting denser through Tuesday and Wednesday. Prepare for an extended period of degraded air quality. #wawx
a $20 boot lasts a month but a $200 boot lasts 50 years but the company that makes the $200 boot got bought out by private equity and changed factories to the same one that makes the $20 boot so now it only lasts a year but another company bought the original factory and is selling boots for $400
🚲insert into warcrimes_users where profession = 'maga'@db-user.bsky.social · 3d ago"people long for cheap disposable things" or buying goods has become a crapshoot of quality and people are focusing on the only signals that are reliable: price and social signals
Oh this is very cool. The veg yields *increased* under solar panels and/or used less water.
hoergen@hoergen.bsky.social · 4d ago*American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity* #Erneuerbare #Renewable #Solar #Photovoltaik energiesmedia.com/solar-panels…
The thing that haunts you after being there is that it's their nightly reality. Lying in a hotel room listening to air defense frantically tearing up the night sky or waiting it out in a shelter and knowing that unlike them, for you this is 4 nights of horror and then you're back on a train home.
The Ukrainian Review@theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 3d ago🇺🇦‼️Jesse Eisenberg witnessed the Russian shelling of Ukraine during a visit and reacted to it: “What if they bombed New York?” "We were woken up by anxiety, we went down to the shelter, and in the morning I saw the consequences of the shelling. It was devastating, terrible, outrageous, tragic. 1/2
"How you lose says more about you than how you win"...& "should the Brits turn the House of Lords into a House of Good Losers?". We welcome the lurking classicist Count Binface onto Instant Classics to talk about democracy, decency & how many elections he's lost! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfMv...
Classic Chats: Count Binface (Bonus episode)
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Ukrainian drones also blew up a building at Belgorod State Technological University where drone technology was developed. #explodey
Ukraine has destroyed the Wildberries warehouse in Khrastovo, Vladimir. #explodey