HS2 was objectively a brilliant idea. I will challenge anyone who says otherwise. Cutting it in half was bad. Trying to cancel the rest of it is fucking moronic. No price tag too much. Happy to politely answer genuine questions, or fight anyone who has strong opinions otherwise. Let’s go.

ok so hear me out- #bubsy #bubsy4d

pleases me that somebody finally gave the Bubsy IP to a bunch of furries and they immediately fixed it

been watching the Martin Clunes remake of Reggie Perrin and I tried to watch the original and I'm sad to say the original is unwatchable

I immediately got riled up and excited seeing this; THIS is something I try to articulate when discussing doomed polar expeditions, and their inevitable ends, and the series of cascading events leading to those ends. I’m genuinely so jazzed to have seen this lol, it is perfect!

Amydog contemplates her existence as an Amydog.

Me talking politics with a normal person who doesn't know about the Zizians or Encounter Magazine or Frank Zappa's military intelligence connections or Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality or Operation CHAOS or

This mostly reminds me of when I worked in an office and people wouldn't clean down whiteboards between meetings so I'd annotate them. <call out> Potent laxative?</call out>

hey fun fact: EU generic drug laws mean that one generic could have 80% bioavailability w.r.t. the original brand, and another could have 125% so if you're given a generic medication switcheroo you might suddenly get 50% more of the active ingredient! fun!!!

I kept a travel journal and took lots of photos while I spent a week in Athens, and took some of that and turned it into a little travel blog of sorts: averyisonline.pika.page/posts/athens

genuinely tempted to send off a pill from each bottle of ADHD meds I get to a lab to see what's actually in them

The united states is currently rimming the incident pit

Once again, I recommend playing games like you do Disco Elysium: you know absolutely nothing, with possible brain damage. Bumble your way through and make MANY mistakes. I’m sure there’s an actual plot and story to this game but the Tale of Bingus the Barbarian has been very fun.

you don't realize how good a good doctor is until you get a bad one

discovering it's Eurobike next month and I am begging my boss to comp my tickets

my motivation for finishing my PhD is I promised myself that I'll buy a really nice accordion when I do

Contrary to the assumption that cheap, shallow actor type show-offs love talking about themselves, I do find it a bit uncomfortable. However, I think I managed. We cover many topics, from hand made shoes to battery tech.

You'd think that two reasonably well run countries - Sweden 🇸🇪 and Finland 🇫🇮 - could manage to fix a #CrossBorderRail line in a timely fashion But no they can't Wherever I go these sorts of sagas seem universal A rant about Haparanda 🇸🇪 - Tornio 🇫🇮, and some nice photos: jonworth.eu/cross-border...

In a break from all the motonormativity complaints, here's a recent photo of the Iris Nebula (NGC7023) now I've stopped fiddling with it Still a bit noisy, and I'd like to get a few more hours of exposure on this if it ever stops raining, but I'm enjoying the details of this 7-light-year-wide cloud

In the UK, public charging costs are generally on a par with petrol costs. If the Govt are continuing to subsidise ICE drivers, then one idea could be to drop VAT on public charging from 20% to 5% (same as domestic leccy). I doubt we'll see that. My EV is still stupidly cheap to run at 1p/mile

And if they ARE going to support driving obsessively.... why is there nothing for electric cars? My small van is 15 years old. With the right maintenance it could last for decades yet. But the battery is effectively unservicable, there's no open MCU standards, and charging infrastructure is a joke.

Aside from the obvious socio-economic implications of freezing fuel duty—putting money into the pockets of those who can afford a car—we should be doing everything we can to curb demand for oil right now, if only to ease cost of living pressures for *everyone*.

Pick a Bond from the photos you already have in your phone.

Belgium gets made fun of by the Dutch (a lot) but call me weird but I actually like Belgium.

it's write-up time again, lads

"Kid" is pushing it since I was a teenager at the time but: Whip-It.

Had to share this excerpt from the #WombatWaiting audiobook, read by the incomparable @marawilson.bsky.social. 🧡 🐕️ I was blown away when I heard Mara's narration. It's a joy to listen to. libro.fm/audiobooks/9... @harperkids.bsky.social

I think children with financially stable parents (which doesn’t always mean well-cared for children) also deserve to eat. But what do I know. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/edit...

ICYMI - It's a sheep-er hit!

The answer is no. There is no way that smartphones are responsible for a 40% decline in worldwide fertility rate. This is what the graph looks like from 1970 to the present (from @ourworldindata.org).

News out of Norway: a 14-year-old boy has been caught driving a stolen bus for the third time. This time he made it over 300 kilometers, from Oslo to Kristiansand!

not that I don't have sympathy for them but hearing expats in Amsterdam complaining about the jobs market and it turns out that, most of the time: - they work in tech and won't look for anything outside tech - they don't even speak basic Dutch

love to have to strain my eyes to see anything it's great isn't it

cutting Rammstein out of my life wasn't really hard as they're basically just Laibach but worse

need more gear nerds in my life who'll get excited that Sturmey-Archer's 2025 catalog contained a 3-speed cargo hub with a 240% gear range and a 110mm drum brake can you say "vintage moped mid-drive conversion" cos I can but I'm also flat broke and they're OEM-only so 🥹

5 RANDOM HORROR GAMES ABOUT GAMBLING! Watch: youtu.be/9KrWtE9rZGc Had to take the original upload down because of copyright, so hopefully this round will be the jackpot 🎰👹🎰🎰👹

What makes something weird good? @oxyoxspring.bsky.social muses over the difference between good weird and bad weird in the latest article on our website! stupendiumsoftworks.com/what-makes-w...

Best moment this government has had was unleashing the police & courts on the far-right in August 2024. It was morally right, politically popular & played to Starmer's strengths. They disgracefully & idiotically allowed themselves to be spooked away from this by a right-wing press that nobody reads

the people in history that I have the most admiration for are people who found themselves in a position of some authority, but rather than resting within the confines of unjust rules, went out of their way to do the right thing even at great risk to themselves

the specific autistic traits I seem to have in the 80% ADHD muddle in my brain seems to be a bit of a craving for precision, and think that people do understand it better if you dont assume they're too stupid to understand it in the first place

not sure what the laws are in NL but occurs to me if I did a @cyclingmikey.bsky.social and put 360° cameras on the van that I'd catch probably about a half-dozen phone drivers every time I take it out

cis people use “identifies as” as shorthand for “they’re one of those trannies btw” they wouldn’t say that about a cis person, it’s literally to inform that this person is different than their gender assigned at birth and they can’t help themselves but make sure that’s noted We arent allowed to BE

Recent government data shows there are over 77,000 licensed firearms dealers across the United States, compared to two in all of Mexico. Yet U.S. gun dealers have rarely been held accountable for their role in facilitating the movement of weapons.

My health insurer has covered the correct pills for the last yea, and then today for some reason every pharmacy I have been to has insisted that I get a doctor's note or else they won't give me the pills that actually work, but a slightly cheaper version that a) doesn't work and b) gives me the runs

We won every seat on Richmond upon Thames Council last week. But that doesn’t mean we’ve changed our mind on electoral reform. It’s time the Government stopped defending a broken system out of self-interest and backed proportional representation.

is it just me or is every 3D CAD package some different flavor of terrible

new alloy rims and tyres: €1000 second-hand alloy rims and part-worn tyres: €200 anyway guess I'm learning the ins-and-outs of what wheels are compatible with what vehicles eyyyyy

The same way anything devolves into anti-Semitism. Your favorite singer being accused of heinous crimes which you know in your heart can't possibly be true? The Jews did it. Anything you don't like, the Jews did it

World cup getting americanized by adding an obnoxious halftime show. Tell Europe it's called soccer now.