On this: the sentence "Federation Post Scarcity is built on a shadow Sovereign Wealth Fund" has just entered my head

if somebody pulls one tweet out of context from the middle of the thread, gives it an uncharitable framing, and directs it to other people primed to accept the uncharitable framing, most people will misinterpret it. You can’t write around that. This is just how quote tweeting works.

Isaac Chotiner: You say the two cats who live in your house are "Jerks" and you don't care for them Me: Absolutely. They are the burdens of my life Chotiner: It seems you spent an hour searching for special food for them and paid more for it than you do even for your own food. Me: That's--Hold on,

Mailing in all our most important documents to the passport office and hoping I didn’t goof anything as otherwise we’re in for a bad time

yeah when you tell the enemy "by the way we aren't abiding by the rules of war" you can't really expect them to follow any rules in return

Saw that there was a fire at the nice Geagle, and: ah, yeah, checks out

i just realized THE 17776 day is in less than a week now

This is one of the reasons the government needs to start warning people about what an energy crisis could mean. The average member of the public will have no idea this is a possibility. It might not happen, but if it does happen and it’s a surprise… ouch

The child, who doesn't even like Frozen, has earwormed "Let It Go" into my head. Guess what I absolutely can't do? I am hoping that by mentioning this, Ring style, it has now made its way into your subconscious and I am free of the curse. Sorry not sorry.

Trump started a pointless and illegal war with Iran, he lost it almost immediately, he crushed America's economy and America's partners while making Iran and our rivals much stronger. He did it for no reason he can articulate. In any decent nation, he'd be forced to resign immediately.

Preschool in the UK is partially means tested but everyone gets a certain number of hours a week once the kid turns three. And it’s great! I loved seeing the bill go down! It builds solidarity, we’re all in the same boat. Daycare/nursery is expensive.

We have a very simple solution to universal programs benefiting the wealthy. You claw back the money through taxes on the back end. Everyone has known this for 100 years, but people get to pretend they don’t when it’s convenient for their ideology.

It's been more than 5 hours since Iran released pictures of the debris of a US fighter jet, apparently an F-15 out of Lekenheath downed over central Iran, and still no comment out of CENTCOM. You can't do war comms like this in 2026.

the Democrats need to announce that anyone who drops a bomb on Iranian civilian infrastructure will die in prison

community notes is a legitimately amazing feature

Yeah, I don't even know what they're going for. It's not the west end? I guess pickups are pretty rare, and some of those brick styles would be more common in other UK cities but still not rare here

Just had a crazy idea for a Claude Code project: transcompile NES games to SNES games

"I shook up a bottle of lemonade before opening it, thinking it was US style lemonade, but it was UK style lemonade" a tale in one pathetic act

“if you didn’t give enough of a shit to write it why would I give enough of a shit to read it” is a pretty reasonable argument. “If you didn’t give enough of a shit to code it why would I give enough of a shit to use it” is completely incoherent

once you start seeing this stuff in terms of writers and builders talking past each other it’s impossible to stop. LLMs make language but language has at least two very different important functions right now and LLMs are way better at one than the other

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

In the pub that Rod Stewart popped in a few weeks ago because it was one of his teenage haunts. They’ve played Steve Winwood and Starship, so they might be trying to summon him back

Can anyone connected to North London religious Judaism help me out? Just found a library of Hebrew religious texts (Talmud, rabbinic commentary, book of prayers, etc), maybe 30 nice hard cover books overflowing a public bin. Is there anyone who could use this I can give it to?

I don't say this normatively, just descriptively: I think the post is basically correct. We've already had an artificial celebrity (Hatsune Miku); people have feelings about AI right now but they'll be different in a a few years. Not all positive, just different. Especially among younger folks.

And of course the grim truth is we're all trapped in that same speeding car with Trump at the wheel too. Because 77.3m Americans, at the height of immature, decadent folly, decided it would be funny or perhaps profitable, to put a mad man at the wheel of the world's most powerful country, ever.

A striking fact I learnt researching my book: For those in the bottom half, much of the real wage growth between 1979 and 2019 happened over just 7 "tight" years. For top wages, full employment wasn't a big deal. For bottom wages, it was the nearly the whole game.

I sleep in a big bus with my wife

The last time some people decided the constitution wasn’t a suicide pact, we killed hundreds of thousands of them over the question and became a better nation for it

If things had gone differently, I could’ve been a lawyer. But I could never be a trial lawyer. Just wouldn’t survive the aneurysm on hearing something like this.

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Yes! The ruthless power maximizing resource-extracting US that exists in a lot of stupid people’s worldview is much *less* willing to put up with Israel’s shit!

I do not see how Hormuz gets reopened with Trump saying stuff like this. He's explicitly saying any ceasefire agreement is meaningless! *TRUMP SAYS US WILL BE OUT OF IRAN PRETTY QUICKLY: REUTERS *US CAN COME BACK TO IRAN FOR 'SPOT HITS' ONCE WAR OVER: REUTERS

What the hell? Fuck this shit.

Yup, “You must express yourself in a way that cannot be misconstrued or you risk Our Wrath” is abuser logic

*going up to a straight couple* so which one of you is secretly sleeping with a Royal Navy captain and which one of you is secretly spying for the Chinese government

Banks don't store money; they create money. This is a public service that we've tasked them with.

Multiple people have responded to this with "Philly is the Glasgow of the US" and I think they have a point in more ways than one

Unmedicated ADHD: my plans for today are none of my business

I just cannot understand the mentality of a government that looks at people who have *Multiple Sclerosis* and says "yep, they're cheating the system".

The marginal cost of code is now zero. This doesn’t replace thinking, or humans, but it absolutely 100% changes our (meaning computer touchers’) relationship to software development.

The toddler uses “fell down” transitively—“you fell me down!”—and I really don’t want to fix it

This chart is like 40% fighting words by volume

TikTok is a very underrated source of accidental Dudes Rock content.

What a bad electoral system (yeah yeah glass houses) Anyway interesting to see how the go green vs go orange breakdown is regional

not my creation but goddamn if it didn't speak to me

Very British problems: does the giant nitrous canister someone left at the playground go in the waste or recycling bin (decided probably neither)

I used to feel irked by the ostentatious transparency symbolism of gov’t architecture in the Berlin Republic. But there’s something so therapeutic about ordinary people w/ strollers promenading in the government quarter after you’ve seen the increasingly securitized fortress that is US federal gov’t

oh hey, now they're just admitting it! "I am not voting for a corporate dem anymore. I will stay home and let this country slide deeper into fascism then."

It really is stunning how often people think Venus is a UFO or whatever. And I get it: I admit there have been a few times where I was in a car or walking, and I interpreted as having a proper motion. Thought it was a plane. It can be so bright.

This principle of "abuse" - discriminates against all Afghan women on their national group characteristics, not as individuals - does not accept that a genuine fear of persecution under the convention should count as a genuine fear of persecution, if you were already in Britain as a student