The only thing I have to say on this Remembrance Sunday is to quote, verbatim, what Harry Patch had to say about the First World War:

icymi my best video in months dropped yesterday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX5IZg-94EI

This might have been true 20 years ago. Unfortunately it is no longer the case. As the people whose actual memories of war have died, we've replaced sombre remembrance with fascist purity tests and crass celebrations of violence.

I've had this in the drafts for a while. One month after she went seems like a good time to publish. ❤️

"you can add a laser engraver module to this machine!" ok cool does it have an enclosure that will filter out the laser wavelength and does it have an interlock "no what for" ..... aight that's a report written for the EU Consumer Safety Gateway on the sale of dangerous goods

me: I need custom bike parts also me: it's cheaper to buy a DIY tabletop CNC machine than to order custom parts from a commercial vendor anyway this was my evening. it's 80% assembled because some bits are tapped wrong. new tap ordered, will be here Monday, hooray for CNC

Paging @rideleicester.bsky.social

I kind of roll my eyes at people riding beach cruisers on sidewalks because they’re in the way and it’s genuinely more dangerous for them, but also they’re usually going 8mph so I’m not up in arms about it. Riding e-bikes on sidewalks at 15-20mph is stupid dangerous.

if you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it (I'm stretching it I knowwwww but this album was formative for me so I don't care)

This isn't just poverty of aspiration, it is incompetence. www.ft.com/content/5ecd...

add butterfinger to orlando

I need to observe this. Forgive myself for not doing all the things I want to do and unrealistically set myself. Oh, and stop thinking of myself as a disappointment, because that what I fear other people think of me, but is really just self-projection and paying too much attention to assholes.

the great thing about living next door to Germany is being able to go "suddenly I want to wear leather" and there's like a thousand stores to choose from anyway

I like T'Lyn a normal amount

For some reason the media is not mentioning that the reason GTA6 is being delayed is they fired 40 staff over threats of unionization and now the rest of their staff are revolting

Paging @hiddenhistoriesjim.bsky.social @rideleicester.bsky.social

too messy for corporate, too put-together to be punk. a perennial problem for me it seems.

Punching the few people still inclined to support them and looking over at racists who think they're communist Islamic terrorist scum for approval.

Was just speaking to someone about how catastrophic that the BBC scrapped their flagship Film programme. I do think a lot of people used that show to keep up with what was out, and I think there's still room for it. Have it as a BBC Four show, and cross post the reviews to YouTube.

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

Brits seem to have long remained in a state of denial that most of their media is heavily influenced by self-serving billionaires, but Musk has made it absurdly obvious. A government with a backbone would fight back - ours continues to use his service, even as he personally insults them.

You can also check out the Stockholm syndrome apologists for the petrostate of Norway in response to this post of mine: bsky.app/profile/ianw...

everyone say hello appa

I mean we can say this stuff all we want but the USA is the global imperial hegemon, the mass producer of anglophone culture, and New York City is probably the most famous city in the whole world. And news about it is in English. Of course it registers more on people's attention.

I need this framed on my wall NOW

there lives an Imaginary Phil in my head that says things like "it's alright to buy the cheap CNC mill but you are absolutely not to buy the laser module" and Imaginary Phil is right

One other thing that's unusual about this election is that Mamdani really, really hated his political opponent and wanted him to lose. That's also incredibly rare on the left of American politics, if you think about it.

lol eat shit Cuomo

29 years ago this week, the first sub-$1,000 PC with a built-in LCD display hit the market. And it was made in Missouri. The PC was called the Monorail. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing dfarq.homeip.net/monorail-the...

me @ nyc rn

Mamdani has proven that socialist ideas are actually fucking popular. Tackling affordability is popular. Removing corporate middlemen from the chain to save everyone money is popular. These things both save money and improve the economy. Do that Keir. Do any of that and people will hate you less.

Cracking idea for a man with the natural charisma of a toenail clipper. These weird nerds are still confusing the Mamdani effect with “get some slick videos and people will like you” instead of understanding it’s about being authentic _and_ having policies PEOPLE ACTUALLY WANT, YOU MELT. 🤣

"Kenya's strong commitment to nuclear and radiation safety is reflected in its legal and regulatory framework, an international team of experts has found." #nuclear #news https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/kenya-shows-strong-commitment-to-nuclear-and-radiation-safety-iaea

Pure chaos in Utrecht #LUBACH

On this beautiful morning in Astoria, I cast my ballot for our city and our future. I hope you will too.

The framing of this is hilarious: Democrats deeply worried about the repercussions of a victory www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/m...

We strip-mined the future, the rich tearing the whole planet apart, the middle class getting bought off with a house. Now the future is the present and the kids who have to grow up in the ruins are asking: where's my future? And the answer is "fuck you, why are you trying to take my house?"

One of the really important things to understand about the UK is that we hate our own kids. We resent them for still being young when we are old, and we want to punish them for it.

wrote about why the kids are into McMansions now untappedjournal.com/stories/why-...

I know I missed Halloween this year but next year I'm going as Computer Guy

I feel similar about the CD. It's forty years old. It's still amazing.

The DVD (1996) is now as old as the original 8-inch floppy disk (1967) was when the DVD came out.

a movie you've seen more than seven times, with a gif:

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Today my thoughts are with everyone affected by the dreadful attack near Huntingdon - the victims, their loved ones, and everyone who witnessed it. We're all hoping those injured make a full recovery. Grateful to the passengers and emergency services who showed such bravery.

For some reason my feed is full of people claiming baseball is the best game ever. FYI, a little more than a hundred years ago a Finn Lauri Pihkala saw baseball being played and found it wanting. He created something greater: pesäpallo. End of history.

The bitterly ironic transformation of the iconography of the poppy, from sombre reminder of the senseless futility of a war in which the British ruling class systematically ordered the wholesale slaughter of millions of working-class men, to 'War Christmas', says everything about the current crisis