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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 22h

Serious stuff to pay attention to. My brain: Robot Prince of Auchtertool, Over the Robot Kingdom rule! Electronic Lord of War, Destined to rule for evermore!

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s absolutely criminal that when talking about the Fox X-Men no one ever mentions the killer performance of Brendan Halberstein as my all time favourite X-Man: Forget-Me-Not!

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The standard supermarket produce section in Cork is not the same as in Manchester, and those two are culturally pretty similar! Sophia, Rome, and Copenhagen are massively different! I also saw totally different produce sections in San Diego from what I saw in Las Vegas.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Cold take: the quality of food available in places is super variable and what people think of as a measure of quality also varies so much that big generalisations about the US and Europe as a whole are completely pointless.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Rereading @elgoonishshive.bsky.social from the start is such a trip. Seeing the characters go from sexist jokes to deep exploration of their own gender queerness as the author matured is amazing.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

It’s amazing how these mythological accuracy guys never complain when Andromeda is depicted as white …

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Guy who's mad about Lupita Nyong'o being cast as Helen of Troy because she's not half-swan.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I think there’s some value in experience but you can get a lot from related work without actually being a politician. Eg. Carney was a governor of a national central bank for a while, which is definitely related to government.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I also think calling Sir Keir a career politician is inaccurate. He was a career civil servant and then moved into politics. I get the impression that he was motivated heavily by how much he saw politicians not knowing how to actually govern.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Source: I was an active Labour member at the time when a Corbyn was being challenged and I spoke to numerous people who were on the left of the party but pissed off with his handling of Brexit and other things.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Eh. There were multiple factors in the removal of Corbyn. There was definitely a group who felt that he was too far left, but it was very notable that even MPs who are fairly left supported removing him on the grounds that he was incompetent and couldn’t organise a cabinet meeting.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I think he’s a guy with a deep and strong belief in stable well offered efficiently run administration, and not much interest in much else. He’s Labour because he hates what the Tories stand for, like many others, but the thing he hates about them is the corruption and nepotism. I think.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Well, not my politics anymore, I moved to Ireland a few years ago :) But I keep track. Sir Keir has been pushing hard to the right and pandering to TERFs since he came to power, but his party has just lost badly in local elections and he’s facing leadership challenges. Change in direction.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This is great news! (Note for people not familiar with the UK constitution: although King Charles gives the speech he doesn’t have any say in its content, this is a change in direction by Keir Starmer’s government)

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

In some ways yes, but this isn’t an example: any UK monarch is required to read the speech the government gives them, they have no say in the content.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The King’s speech is written by the government, the King just reads it. He’s essentially just a spokesman here. Which isn’t a knock, but credit here should go to the government.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Charles is just the government’s spokesperson here. He is required to read whatever they give him. Credit here should go to the UK government.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Fair, but he has no actual say in the contents of the King’s Speech. He’s basically just the government’s official spokesman here. The question is why Sir Keir has changed direction here.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Seeing Ruby Cruz in For all Mankind is awesome, but also makes me sad we won’t see more of her character in Willow. That show was mixed, but Kit Tanthalos was brilliant.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

And in 1992 Vatican City had a crime rate of 0.87 reported crimes per resident!

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Just in case anyone’s wondering, the Pope does have his own police force.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I QUESTION THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE’S EXPERIENCE WHEN IT COMES TO ENERGY POLICY!

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Anyone know what the crime rates in Vatican City are?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I’ve never *seen* anyone be successful with it. It’s all anecdota from people I trust. The only thing I’ve seen is it being significantly worse than not using it

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

There are people I trust who are getting good, even amazing results with gen AI assisted coding, but literally *every* time I see someone trying It it results in bad code and takes far longer than doing it by hand would have. So what am I missing? Why is my experience so different?

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Congratulations to Oman for winning the US/Iranian war, I guess?

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Given a function P that maps natural numbers to propositions if you have a proof of P(0) and a proof of ∀ n ∈ N, P(n) ⟹P(n+1) then you have a proof of ∀ n ∈ N, P(n)

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

No, but it made their supporters think they were doing something. People like performative nonsense.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

If it helps (it won’t) inductive has an entirely different and much more restricted meaning in mathematics.

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Adrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The pagan Spring Equinox festival of Ostara is not the antecedent of the Christian Easter, because the pagan Spring Equinox festival of Ostara was created in around 1973. I appreciate that a statement like this warrants some substantiation, so bear with me.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Happy "no, we know basically nothing about the goddess Oestre and anything you've heard was made up much later" day to all who celebrate!

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Admittedly it’s not the only double plural in English. “Children” is a weird word when one thinks about it.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Yes? That’s why “y’all” makes no sense. You’re pluralising something that’s already plural.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Tha can take my second person singular whenst tha take my life

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

We should revive the usage of English’s actual second person singular pronoun: thou.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I don’t know how practical that is, but if it could be done wouldn’t it be better than just hurting them?

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Let them see the rural black communities they spent decades suppressing actually be empowered. Let them see their children educated and happier living in a multicultural world. Let them see their worldview collapse.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Let them see their communities *change* for the *better*. Nothing would hurt them more than that.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

In some ways I might argue that the very best way for you to get your revenge would be to rework things to make it easier and more likely for the children and grandchildren of the rural conservatives to become liberal.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I think it’s important to target actions appropriately. You don’t want to catch the next generation of kids who would go to college and move to the cities in the area of effect.

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James Weaver🇪🇺🇮🇪🏰⛵️🏰 @bazzalisk.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Personally I would argue that rural mail delivery has historically acted as a supportive lifeline to the vulnerable people otherwise trapped in rural areas. I could see an argument that the internet has largely replaced this now though

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 18/08/2025

You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’ You don’t ‘run the gambit.’ gamut = entire range or series gauntlet = severe trial Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy

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