Isn't patriarchy just primate nature? I know feminism says it's culturally learned but we aren't perfect blank slate creatures - we have monkey psychology that's very visible.

Welsh tactical voting.

Nice. youtu.be/nMOY_ydCfwE?...

The English left believe they're British. The Scottish left believe they're Scottish. Fundamental identity conflict, not resolved by "They can have a referendum if they want one". This was predictable, @elliebgomersall.bsky.social.

Average bluesky user.

Menswear guy indulging in some idolatry, which Jesus did care about, while trying to nail Trump for "blasphemy", which was almost entirely a concern of the artificial hierarchies created to trade on his name.

The best golf handicapper in the world, afaik, believes that Justin Rose is an average player who sometimes has a good week.

I bet there's a big intersection between the sort of people who mock someone for asking a question about something they don't understand and people who are bad at LLMs. As if you can replace questions with blending in with the herd. As if you can replace autism with bog standard apes.

If Scotgov had any nous they would exploit this as a wedge issue versus Westminster, rather than tamely nod along. In four years there will be concentration camps. Draw the battle lines now.

In Las Vegas you can just walk across the railway line. Drunk, if you want. I found that interesting.

I think wokeness is primarily self-soothing. It's visions like Roddenberry's and Weir's that inspire progress.

I'll stop mentioning this soon to avoid dispersing my own profits. Farage PM is very likely. Greens need to get over a threshold - I'll examine that closer. Labour need British citizens to start being killed in a World War. The square money, as in Brexit, is decidedly liberal.

Twitter is noticing that the choking trend is led by women finding the confidence to say what they enjoy. Bluesky has not yet noticed this.

Visited Twitter. Garrett Adelstein is releasing a book about the time he doubled down instead of accepting a learning moment. He's tripling down. #poker

I think not enough non-runners are noticing that Chinese branded running shoes, bought on aliexpress or Taobao, are now the highest quality and lowest price. This should be a story on Odd Lots (@weisenthal.bsky.social). Sports shoes aren't robot vacuum cleaners or whatever. They're culturally huge.

Cycles of abuse. Jews in 1948 needed therapy and instead we gave them an ethnostate.

Rollercoaster for Brahim Diaz. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Greyhound racing has been banned in Argentina, Mexico, Panama, Uruguay, and several US states. It is legal almost everywhere.

Dems will need a Project 2029. But do any of them have the gumption?

Basketball inching towards equilibrium. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdBF...

It's funny how often I've thought "John McTernan gets it" since he left politics.

The 2026 elections are likely to push the square money firmly onto the liberal side.

In the real world, smart glasses are getting good reviews. youtu.be/E2K0Tv37Z4U?...

At some point humanity needs to deal with Israel, if we're to have a future.

Shout out to all the lovely ladies. #internationalwomensday

Found a plugin that wipes your YouTube Watch Later. Takes about an hour to remove 5000, since they have to be removed one at a time. (I pay Google for extra gigs of storage, yet Watch Later - a tiny text file - is capped at 5000, whereupon it becomes useless.) share.google/vVZQyHWuGsEd...

This guy used to be a punchline. And, tbf, this is Content. But he nails every point here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGY_...

We're at the stage of capitalism where gambling theory should be taught in schools. Bluetick commentators are not equipped.

1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...

I like the Greens but "Thailand based crypto investor" as if that isn't just a winning gambler who moved somewhere warm is unbecoming. He's a Reform supporter! There is enough to pin on him.

All humans should be allowed to live in a liberal society if they want to, but not all societies have to be liberal. I think that's a fair ruling.

My mistakes at predicting politics have mostly been when I thought something should happen, because it would be optimal, when I should have been asking what must happen out of necessity. When a party (or indeed anyone) repeats an error, the necessity typically concerns their identity.

"Betting markets don't make predictions, they just reflect bets"

I've been saying: the main short term effect of AI will be to expose nonsense in human belief systems.

Honestly think some of the modern left would be on the wrong side of the Scopes monkey trial.

sadness in her eyes

These are coming to Britain. Once people are inside them, they're vastly harder to remove.

Odd case. Guy seems either a tragic idiot or a liar-murderer. Probably good to find out which before he does it again. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Kat is the first politician, that I can think of, who looks like someone I'd talk to at a rave and they'd be confident enough, or loved up enough, to not be scared.

Really good explainer of 'baiting overconfident pressing' as a playstyle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=96yJ...

I had a feeling this was going on but hadn't checked until now.

Mugs hope for the best. Winning gamblers engineer advantageous situations. Calling it now: Musk's far right party won't act as an obstacle to Musk controlling the government.

David was consistently one of the sharpest anti-Brexit liberals but this smacks of failing to learn a lesson.

Chinese running shoes are now superior. #running m.youtube.com/watch?v=-irQ...

I would be disappointed if only racist tech oligarchs were planning the future, while "the left" were stuck in fearful conservatism.

TIL Mardi Gras is French for Pancake Day. Same thing but with fancier and fattier food.

A lot of normies are bumping up against philosophical hurdles these days. We are in the future! It's impossible to know whether anyone besides oneself has feelings, motives and thoughts. This is why Turing imagined his Test. All we can ask is whether something fools us.

This guy gets it. I think actually most people get it, but many are afraid to say what they can see.

Yep. A post-brexit Labour government doesn't indulge Mahmood on immigration. (I've said we probably don't become post-brexit until after Farage, unfortunately.)