Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026That feels pretty accurate about my "AI" feelings... 010
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 18/06/2026People sneaking into the stadium without tickets that's probably dangerous if the crowd gets beyond capacity... What's the solution... Oh, snipers... FFS...theguardian.comFifa plays down reports that ticketless fans breached security at England World Cup gameFifa have played down reports that ticketless England supporters were able to gain entry for the World Cup opener against Croatia after evading security checks at the Dallas Stadium 020
Reposted by Alex Martynwood McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11/06/2026"Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 billion in new apartments in places nobody wants them...."buff.lyAI Economics for Dummies“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi... 017964
Reposted by Alex Martynwood Arthur Webber 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Wrote a letter to my MP, it’s probably not the most coherent thing in the world but I couldn’t not say anything. 241059277
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Just walked past a group of men drinking special brew outside Euston station in Union Jack patterned suits, with a wooden cross with a tiny Jesus on it... I then realised I have an event on Fleet Street tomorrow... Hopefully they've all passed out by the time that finishes... 000
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Can we skip to the bit where we get to vote for "Chaos with Ed!" Go straight for an election and campaign on, "Look, last time I was here, you voted for `strong and stable' government. I think it's past time for a little chaos with Ed! WAAAGH!" *rips of shirt revealing war paint, dons Rambo bandana* 000
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 11/05/2026This was a speech with a lot of fire and emotion... Incrementalism needs to end now! Then... Nothing... Meh... No big announcement... Go for implementing PR to solve the ungovernability... Go for rejoining Europe to get back the lost money... Go for wealth taxes... Go for something... Anything... 130
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 27/04/2026What has austerity ever done for us...theguardian.comPeople in UK spend fewer years in good health than a decade ago, study findsExclusive: Health Foundation says Britain is ‘going backwards’ compared with most other rich countries 000
Reposted by Alex Martynwood G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 14/04/2026The index of consumer sentiment isn't broken; models that try to predict it just don't have the right input variables. I fix that and find that, yes, high nominal price levels explain why the vibes are so off. It's the prices, stupid www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-14...gelliottmorris.comIt's the Prices, StupidConsumer sentiment is at an all-time low because prices are at an all-time high. Consumer sentiment isn't broken, popular government data is just incomplete 732329612
Reposted by Alex Martynwood Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 30/03/2026This sign raises many questions, which probably should be answered by the sign but aren't 10640821020
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Ah the new modern revision... May you live in frenetically unstable times... Bonus points for anyone trying to raise children in them... 000
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Well that single piece of information puts a whole lot of *gesticulates towards America* in a new context... Holy shit... 000
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Well it's lovely when an actor you love is also a humble thoughtful and funny human...youtube.comHarrison Ford: Life Achievement Award Acceptance Speech | 32nd Annual Actor AwardsYouTube video by Netflix 000
Reposted by Alex Martynwood Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 02/03/2026This's excellent from the PM I am not prepared to commit our military service people to action, unless I am sure that what they are doing is lawful & has a viable basis. They deserve to know that their PM cares &pays attention to whether what I am asking them to do is lawful & I will always do that. 2022775
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Labour Mayors know where it's at... Maybe good Labour candidates wouldn't lose if we stuck to what being the Labour party should mean...theguardian.comLabour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq KhanThe threat to the party in some parts of our country is now existential. But we can progress, as we have in London, by being bold and strong in our core beliefs, says London mayor Sadiq Khan 000
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 17/02/2026OMG! Best news this year! This will be amazing, guaranteed!theguardian.comYouTuber Look Mum No Computer chosen as UK entry for Eurovision 2026Singer-songwriter Sam Battle has built online fanbase through building and playing unusual instruments 010
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 16/02/2026A new Luther was filming outside my office window all afternoon... Idris didn't turn up before I left, but it did get very, "We've got an Idris at home", with the stand in for the lighting and the stunt man eyeing up a jump... 010
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Ahhh, such fun... At this rate my ATLAS physics career will be 2007-2026... I guess 19 years on one experiment isn't bad...theguardian.comThese cuts to physics research will be a disaster for UK scientists – and for our standing in the world | Jon ButterworthIf plans by the UK’s science funding body go ahead, we won’t be able to benefit from Britain’s membership of Cern and other large international projects, says Jon Butterworth, professor of physics at ... 000
Reposted by Alex Martynwood Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/02/2026omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horsegradient.horsegradient.horseDraw a horse, watch it run! 3569783588
Reposted by Alex Martynwood ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/02/2026We found that Jeff Bezos paid *zero* taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. This is how he did it (published 2021):propublica.orgThe Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income TaxProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev... 6722391257
Reposted by Alex Martynwood Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue 5783269714047
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 05/02/2026I love alphaville. It presents serious topics with a underlying hint of joy... "So the squeeze got tighter over time; the EU started measures that might be characterised as somewhere between “smiling nervously and moving towards the door” and “saying ‘nice doggie’ while looking for a rock”."giftarticle.ft.comThe juice, the squeeze and the digital euroFinally, a question for the answer to a question nobody asked 000
Reposted by Alex Martynwood Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Trump in Davos, Switzerland: "Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German". German is the main language of Switzerland. 109697922503
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Manchester United beat City... What?!! Maybe we should fire our manager more often... 000
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Is Trump essentially saying, "Look, I've got all these lovely toys... It would be a shame not to use them...". 000
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Don't believe the hype... London is safe.theguardian.comSorry, Trump and Farage – London is no lawless ‘warzone’. Violent crime is lower than ever | Sadiq KhanReform’s new candidate for mayor claims people pity Londoners for living in an unsafe capital. But the evidence is clear: we’re making our streets safer, says mayor of London Sadiq Khan 000
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 06/01/2026What is the most consistently funny and informative newspaper column... And why is it the FTs alphaville?giftarticle.ft.comWho’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as TwitterA look inside Elon Musk’s big tent 010
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 05/01/2026A classic start to my working year... Confusing people by walking around in shorts and hoodie in this weather. The tube is still too hot for a coat, what are these people thinking?!? 000
Reposted by Alex Martynwood Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 03/01/2026This is what happens when you recklessly extend BRICS right up to America’s borders and ignore America’s legitimate security concerns. 561674286
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Yeah. Strongly agree. LLM's are possibly a useful tool, but you need a model with a broader understanding of the world than just language to actually get intelligence...giftarticle.ft.comComputer scientist Yann LeCun: ‘Intelligence really is about learning’The AI pioneer on stepping down from Meta, the limits of large language models — and the launch of his new start-up 022
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Almost shoulder barged Gavin Williamson into a wall at Euston tube station... My London commuter reactions kicked in just before I noticed who it was... 000
Reposted by Alex Martynwood Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Well, it’s Christmas Day, so it must be time to talk about Jesus – specifically, about how on this day 1,225 years ago, Charlemagne, who was in Rome to be crowned Carolingian Emperor, presented Pope Leo III with the very holiest of relics: the Foreskin of Our Lord 🧵 1316351
Reposted by Alex Martynwood Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny. 119123452878
Reposted by Alex Martynwood Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s. 17366153
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 12/11/2025This is the perfect example of what happens when you unthinkingly use AI... 010
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 10/10/2025What even is this? Please, someone section this man for his own and others safety... Just how can you be this insane and reach any level of wealth or power?!?theguardian.comInside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichristThe political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’ 010
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Same energy from @sirpaintalot.bsky.social My best recent purchase! jimll.co.uk/products/the... 020
Reposted by Alex Martynwood Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Henley & Partners’ wealth migration reports have been reported all over the world, both to prove both that there's a massive exodus of wealth from the UK and that there isn't. Our forensic review finds the data riddled with anomalies - and in key places looks fabricated: 5401168
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 27/07/2025I think someone needs to look up the world record for km's run on a fractured tibia... Pretty sure Bronze must have racked up 10k++ a game on a broken-fucking-leg... 010
Reposted by Alex Martynwood Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 25/07/2025I blogged about fashion defector.com/innovation-s...defector.comInnovation Strikes In The Field Of Chimpanzee Rectum Adornment | DefectorFifteen years ago in a sanctuary in Zambia, inspiration struck a chimpanzee named Julie. She plucked a stiff blade of grass, stuck it inside her ear, and left it there. There the grass dangled as Juli... 1320557
Reposted by Alex Martynwood Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 19/07/2025A woman wore a dress 16 years ago — when she was a teenager — so she’s not entitled to political principles that The Times dislikes. 881920325
Reposted by Alex Martynwood Amanda @pandamoanimum.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Trying to get a tan in the hot weather. 101314233
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 28/06/2025I don't think you could get a bigger dichotomy between the pyramid and other stage than right now... 000
Alex Martynwood @alpenm.bsky.social · 28/06/2025I finished my DBL 25 team! A Wood Elf team with no elves on it... "Can't See the Wood Elves For the Trees" I'm hilarious, I know :P But I'm pretty happy with how the concept has turned out... 010
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