Dr Neutopia
@oceanclub.bsky.social
Monster Truck Neutopian•Bearded lefty Marie-Antoinette shouting 'Let them eat Atkins'-Telegraph commenter•Alinsky-inspired 'ShameCulture warrior'-@AdamBaldwin
You mean you got taken by the guy who's entire existence is a scam who has never created anything ever and is only thought of a a genius because a style reporter from the WaPo said so? Weird. I cannot believe this is happening
The Associated Press@apnews.com · yesterdaySpaceX shares are down by half from their June peak as investors worry Musk may have oversold them on its future prospects.
We're flying to Spain on Friday and had looked up online and you need a valid passport for 3 months. When we checked in online with Ryanair, it says 6 months - my wife's (non-EU) passport expires in 5 months and 25 days and we have to go to the counter. Are we screwed?
Updated: Germany has opened a counterterrorism investigation after an explosive-laden drone was found near a runway at Leipzig/Halle airport overnight, prompting the closure of parts of one of Europe’s biggest cargo hubs
Germany opens terrorism probe after explosive drone found at air cargo hub
Germany opened a counterterrorism investigation on Wednesday after an explosive-laden drone was found near a runway at Leipzig/Halle airport overnight, prompting the closure of parts of one of Europe’...
independent.ie
He's definitely too young to remember that style of completed enclosed box, but my memory of them is still dirt and the smell of piss.
Dr Neutopia@oceanclub.bsky.social · 4h agoPatrick Collison is doing #decline posts about British red telephone boxes. #collisontracker
It's not a mathematical equation, it's an allegorical metaphor.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 4h agoSince people are still relentlessly abusing me over this, here’s why the so-called “boots theory” doesn’t make any sense. First, what is it? Some people have suggested I haven’t done the background reading, but it’s not a deep idea. It’s from a passage that’s four sentences long.
The “cowardly French” and the “incompetent Irish”, at its heart Brexit was the last gasp of imperial British exceptionalism. In their minds Britain was being held back by its small minded, feckless, cowardly partners and would thrive once it was unshackled from the EU and “forged its own path”.
Absolutely sending me that an Irish billionaire is giving it the whole "this is what they took from you" about red telephone boxes.
Doctors say that you should eat a balanced diet that includes whole grains and fresh fruits and vegetables. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seat seats and doesn’t wipe his ass says you should subsist entirely on sauerkraut and steak. For a busy eaters it can be hard to know who to trust.
This is all horrific stuff, and I invite you to go back to 2018/19 and reread her columns, newspaper interviews and podcast appearances talking about it, and then decide who it sounds like it was, that had been doing all this.
Elon Musk said lots of antisemitic things and shared lots of antisemitic posts written by antisemites and then sprinkled on some sugar with two nazi salutes on telly and Jonathan Greenblatt said "no he's alright, he isn't one" and now has spent over a year painting Zohran Mamdani as Hitler Part II.
Patrick Collison is doing #decline posts about British red telephone boxes. #collisontracker
Ken McFadden *drags deep from cig* I haven’t heard that name in years
Myles na gCup O'Lean.@executivesteve.bsky.social · 20h agoCounterpoint: what better way to honour his legacy than by chatting up good-looking young wans?
Hodges is an occasionally useful guy to keep an eye on, mainly because he’ll say things that his less stupid colleagues are smart enough to keep to themselves.
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
Tired: Bono doing Beautiful Day as a poem at your funeral Wired: The Edge doing the Numb rap at my funeral
Bluesky is not a "liberal bubble". It's just one of increasingly few public spaces where Nazis get called out, and if that makes you uncomfortable, you need to think about that.
It's not "harder to determine". We have centuries of jurisprudence on whose fault it is when an object or machine causes harm.
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 8h agoAs I said above, focusing on questions of liability might be fruitful in changing the incentives for behaviour through the system
Sexual assault survivor calls failure of Travelodge boss to meet MPs ‘shocking’
Sexual assault survivor calls failure of Travelodge boss to meet MPs ‘shocking’
Woman assaulted after man was given key card to her room criticises CEO Jo Boydell over cancelled meeting A woman who was sexually assaulted by a man who was handed a key card to her room at a Travelodge has said she was shocked to learn the hotel chain’s boss cancelled a meeting with a group of MPs seeking to discuss concerns about the case. More than 20 MPs had demanded the meeting this month to discuss the matter – including details of the chain’s security processes and procedures that led to it offering the victim an “insulting” £30 refund after the incident. Continue reading...
theguardian.com
The race to the bottom is hotting up Beds in sheds progresses rapidly to beds in work depots This government is truly delivering #HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland "Rental crisis forces bus firm to put beds for staff in Dublin depot" www.independent.ie/irish-news/r...
Rental crisis forces bus firm to put beds for staff in Dublin depot
Swords Express operator’s planning agent said “severe shortage” of suitable sites for employees
independent.ie
“I think a lot of the public backlash to AI isn’t explained by people thinking the technology has no use at all…It’s AI as sort of an avatar for a small group of Silicon Valley billionaires’ ability to impose their vision of the world onto everybody else without their consent.” @jasmine.bsky.social
Opinion | The A.I. Giants Weren’t Prepared for This (Gift Article)
Jasmine Sun, a writer covering technology, takes us into the backlash against A.I. data centers.
nytimes.com
Someone in my writing group who hasn't said anything for months submitted 100 new pages over the weekend and said he has started “working with a collaborator” and after exactly two comments on his pages he let it slip it's ChatGPT. This is gonna be a bloodbath.
Roses are red, Depp's In Ebeneezer,
The US host cities for the 2026 men's World Cup claim that they were *verbally* promised $1 million each by Gianni Infantino and that FIFA hasn't paid up. Truly incredible stuff. www.nytimes.com/athletic/749...
He's gone for Pratchett. Thats enough. Ive defended Stancil but this time he's gone too far. (And no, no one thinks the boots theory is a fully worked out economic system: its a elegant metaphor for part of the problem)
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · yesterdayYeah, for days people have been citing “boots theory” at me and I want to shout DO YOU REALIZE THIS IS A RANDOM IDEA TOSSED OUT BY A FANTASY WRITER AND MAY NOT ACCURATELY DESCRIBE REALITY
no funding for the planned Orbital route, which was planned to be the most frequent service in the revised Bus Connects network, people left dependent on the 11, which even if it turned up when it was supposed to, is every 30mins off-peak - with the obvious consequence of cars strewn everywhere
There are 279 parking spaces, for its planned 1,046 homes in the Montpelier (O’Devaney) development. All streets around have / will have residential parking. People in Montpelier will be dependent on the worst Dublin bus service (the No 11)-Fintan is right on this www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
Fintan O'Toole: Dublin 4’s version of Marie Antoinette’s ‘let them eat cake’? Let them get the bus
The northside is a different country – especially when it comes to transport options
irishtimes.com
in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
VT musical director of planned 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' created fake threats, police say
The director of a planned production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" admitted to sending himself threatening texts that eventually got the play canceled out of safety concerns.
mynbc5.com
