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Soft left(ie), former Labour staffer, and a tech/climate nerd who follows US politics a lot for a Brit. He/him + 🏳️🌈.
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That you need to work on your reading comprehension and realise this was aimed at him, not you? Though I wouldn't say the primary energy fallacy is particularly obvious to most people.
This video has the particular tweet in question.
How dare you insult cartoon hedgehogs like this.
@hedgehogsafety.bsky.social
Yikes this is nasty.
Priors = stuff you believe.
He has actually done a video on this cream before, though not with it being eaten..
Oh fuck, you got pulled into the computer? Is Daft Punk at least still there doing the music?
I am begging Chubbyemu to join Bluesky.
You get that I meant "love" very ironically right?
I guess because to me, part of what could maybe actually be Blueskyism, is seeing an unhinged reply and not being sure of the direction of the broken hinge. Not that I actually like that particular reply.
Okay, so that makes a lot more sense.
What I love is that I'm not even sure if that person meant that as a Newsom fan themselves.
Niice, you got gaming Jesus.
Depending on the genders of said tongues, obviously.
I get what you meant, but lol at "practitioners".
Look, the Disney Channel Original Movies tried to warn us.
I am once again reminded of the debating competition debate motion about whether if we had a way to magically make everyone bi, should we do it, as I'm pretty convinced guys like this would be much happier if they were into other guys too.
Except we can obviously convert the electricity into the overwhelming majority of those things, like heating (at hundreds of % efficiency if we use heat pumps), and EVs. Plus because fossil fuels are so inefficient, we actually need much *less* energy overall this way:
If only we could convert electricity into other forms of energy, like, imagine if it could also make heat, or light, or move a car? But alas, that's clearly impossible, and the primary energy fallacy? That is definitely not a thing as well..
Trying to work out if SNL has ever had a new cast member join with a larger unhinged series of clips of them:
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Left, though I would *slightly* bump the saturation.
Okay, but do you now have a moustache you're twirling, and did you tie a woman to those tracks?
I fucking love competency.
Though err, that backlash also seemed to take 4 years, and didn't affect Biden winning in 2020.
I wonder if you could make them actually light up with something like a @pimoroni.com TinyFX:
Unfortunately I think that'd require an EHRC who aren't so busy trying to remove trans people from public life.
Many such cases.
Hashtag cringe, hashtag maddening, hashtag whyaremillennialslikethis.
And that's what you missed on Glee!
Is it bad I now want to see a video where you review an array of British biscuits?
Keir Starmer has appointed as his new Comms Director Tim Allan who was a board member of the hate group Sex Matters. It's no longer even pretending to adhere to its Manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance."
Ah the joy of brand new troll accounts.
As a British kid, I was so confused watching American TV growing up as to why Americans seemed to constantly be having baths and showers.
Congratulations!
Sock it to thee?
But where are the slings?
Getting a flashback to @foldablehuman.bsky.social's video on crypt0 and how they say goodnight to each other, and wondering if a crypt0 loving person in his orbit posted it.
Working better now then?
Ngl, I still want custom verification logos. I feel like the Alf one would be Bluesky's equivalent of a Blue Peter badge.
Oh and if you liked unhinged memes with minor American politicians @slothropsmap.bsky.social, here's a former Labour MP I volunteered for a little bit, photoshopped into historical events because he posted a photo of him pointing that my brain immediately went "make an alpha version of this".
I feel this one in my bones.
Did I spend a good chunk of @joshgondelman.bsky.social's special making this *very* specific meme referencing some things in it? What else would I do? Be able to pay full attention otherwise? Come on.
Have to give credit to the random Redditor who uploaded a version of this screencap from @makesomenoiseshow.bsky.social with the screen alpha'd out for maximum memeing.
Oh yeah, did any of this improve things?
Wasn't sure where to start, but let's go with "unhinged meme I can't even remember the context of":
*bows*
Also, being able to customise folder icons with SF Symbols in the Finder itself (thus the moustache) is low-key one of my favourite little macOS Tahoe features.
I want to quote post, but I am literally not sure where to begin.
Yes, to a lot of people it is pretty easy to understand. I'm sorry that for whatever reason, it's confusing to you.
No, it's the cold hard reality of how you win elections, though I'm sorry you apparently *do* prefer belittling other people's red lines, in this case, in terms of civil rights, over winning elections.
@gluefactorypod.bsky.social You know what all the rest of you need to do now.
Which clone hears it?
Live your life so that people don’t consider rumors of your death a form of edging.
The idea it'll explode? That's just a psy.. oh god, there's so much grey matter!
@legaleagle.tv @lizdye.bsky.social (obvs I know YT can legally do whatever they want)
The numbers are from BloombergNEF. Why do you think they’re weird? Batteries are incredibly cheap now.
I assume it's probably AI generated.
My increasingly hard-held take as I've gotten older is 100% the opposite. Arbitrarily (key qualifier there) deeming some fun things as bad for you to like when you get older is bad, and I don't really see any utility in doing so, beyond snobbery/being a killjoy. Let people enjoy things.
Actually jaw dropping from James McMurdock MP, even by his standards. We cannot become numb to this. The far right are in Parliament, and they're trying to normalise outright, vicious racism (same goes for the likes of Rupert Lowe too)
Oh no, lots of people like claiming it is, or that it could be if only you got rid of those pesky safety regulations/if nuclear opponents didn’t exist etc.
Batteries.
Aside from money doesn't somehow make you magically not subject to discriminatory BS, where exactly are you getting this from?
Labour/Starmer are literally pursuing a strategy that research published years ago covering many different countries, shows *does not* work. "If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right."
Aside from how they actually did vote for them, and how if nobody cared, you wouldn't be insulting them, is it exhausting telling trans women that they're "privileged kid[s]" for not wanting to vote for people opposed to their rights?
As someone who previously ran doorknocking for a (successful) Labour election campaign, it’s a bit surreal to realise that I’m now, in Labour electoral data speak, somewhere between an Against and a Green.
My desktop is now littered with a cavalcade of cut out Keir Starmer heads, but:
Here in the UK we're building a new reactor at Hinkley Point, I've again not seen anything indicating NIMBYs have had any real role in delaying its construction process or increasing its cost, but it's already estimated to be around a third over budget, and years behind schedule.
Flamanville 3 in France was meant to start production in 2012, and while I can't seem to find anything indicating it had any real delays due to NIMBY lawsuits, especially in famously pro-nuclear France, it was still 12 years later and nearly €10bn over budget.
That just isn't really true though, they were always very expensive. Why do you think the cost and construction challenges are down to NIMBYs? Similar lawsuits again Vogtle 3 and 4, the US's newest reactors, were dismissed within a few months. They were still 7 years late and $17bn over budget.
If it being disgusting wasn't bad enough, Labour/Starmer embracing far right BS to try to beat the far right is also just so goddamn incompetent. Trying to do so just grants them more legitimacy and voters, shifts the Overton window, and they'll gladly go "thanks!" as you also lose your core voters.
Keir Starmer's political strategy of trying to position himself as Farage with better administrative skills would be morally reprehensible even if it were working. It does not appear to be.
Can you explain how the incredibly high costs of constructing a nuclear power plant, which are mostly down to them being massive, incredibly complex construction projects that have to be built to very tight tolerances for safety reasons, compared to cheaper renewables, were "done on purpose"?
I remember the last time that happened here in the UK very vividly, because it happened 29 years ago when I was also a kid. There were thoughts and prayers, and oh yeah, we massively changed our gun laws so it wouldn’t happen again.
This thread honestly reminds me of those stories of people getting brutalised by the state in communist Russia, remarking about if only Stalin knew what they were doing etc.
Have you really not considered the obvious explanation that he’s fine looking like a xenophobic racist, because that’s what he is? It’s pretty consistent with Labour’s policies, and it’s very much consistent with his Enoch Powell 2.0 speech. This is just who he is.
@pronouns.diy is pretty handy if you haven’t seen it before
Geothermal is generally pretty centralised too though?
Oh, guys certainly smoke something on there..
Wouldn't that be nice, eh?
Meanwhile rebutting that with "Um, actually, while the tech is cool in the abstract, the economics of nuclear are fucking godawful and they're the cost overun-tastic construction projects from hell to try to build" isn't quite as satisfying.
I could be wrong, but I think nuclear's appeal is partly that from an advanced tech standpoint, there's something really cool about getting power from something so scientific, combined with how knowing they're actually pretty safe and we can manage the waste gives people a contrarianism high.
My assumption is that they're likely arguing it a bit from a legal standpoint, but more from a practicality standpoint. You can pass a law prohibiting me from writing/running certain code, but that doesn't mean you actually have any way to enforce it (though I'm sure the UK gov would like to try).