bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Opposite of gazump - when someone else bids higher than you on a purchase when you are about to sign contracts! I've had both :( 111
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I guess what I'm adding here is: even if they do stop this abhorrent behaviour, they're ready at a moment's notice to go back to it when the political landscape allows - which is why it's so important that we democratically create a political landscape that is not owned by corporations 011
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 11/08/2026When this is all over and: if a free and fair election occurs, if the US population re-learns that fascism is evil and corrosive and deeply stupid, if they elect a Dem who is not corporation-owned THEN watch - social media companies will suddenly find "heil hitler, kill the Jews" is unacceptable 130
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Not according to the fess... I've had mixed results, not to that level though. 000
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Dammit - slipped in a "he" - felt like it was a guy writing but might not have been. 140
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 08/08/2026No, fessor is saying they are a coder and while everyone else is using AI and claiming they're doing great fessor is putting in 40% of the effort they used to and still looking average. Basically - AI coding is hype and so he's taking it easy. 🤷♀️ Covers pretty much all devs. 181
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Being Irish I always had a curiosity about Dublin, Ohio - that's ... disappointing 120
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 18/07/2026JUST saw it and had the exact same experience, I think they timed it - turning off the aircon (what there was of it) about 20 minutes before the end .... swampy 120
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Also, he did say most every guy "I know" - he's admitting that he's a rapist and most very guy he knows is too. Now is not the time for "not all men" - it's a non-sequitur 0320
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 08/07/2026(No spoilers) - Worried about season 3 TBH - loved the Rebecca Ferguson show for the first 2 but s3e1 .... 🤷♀️ 000
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Exactly! A) women are "lower tier" B) any argument against yours from someone you consider inferior must not be considered and C) rage-bait. You're right to just block 110
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 27/04/2026For those who come across this and didn't realise Citrini were involved (or hadn't read the article) I think this is it: www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028giccitriniresearch.comTHE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISISA Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future 010
Reposted by @bfiend.bsky.socialJames Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 11/12/2025I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future. Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death. 22415439
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Reported as misleading. Good luck with your search for ancient aliens, just don't present well-falsified data as evidence. 000
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Feels hard to believe they wouldn't be bots\some group trying to sow discord. Maybe I have too much faith in humanity to think it's hard for so many people to be wildly, wildly wrong 120
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 22/09/2025I believe they're orthogonal - they mix in us but not each other. I think we get in trouble when we try to let one dictate to the other (either direction!) 010
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Looks nice! Can you share the recipe? (Masala btw!) 000
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 20/04/2025 American exceptionalism? Almost every country has a history of fighting oppressors somewhere. The USA just voted in an obvious fascist leader and so many people love him. I had an Italian workmate whose grandparents still loved Mussolini. Everyone thinks they're the good guys. 030
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 19/03/2025The article says they refused to convene the high-contracting parties to implement the fourth declaration. As it felt there was no agreement, they cancelled. I'm not sure what's going on here - should they have convened anyway? 100
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 05/03/2025open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... CEOs do this all the time and move on while people still believe they did a good job, leaving misery behind them. People put private industry on a pedestal but it's at least as dysfunctional as everywhere else and much less rational than people believe.open.substack.comAmerica is Trapped in a Burning TeslaSurprise! The madman stuff wasn’t an act 041
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 03/03/20256.5% of GDP on shoplifting? Bollocks. Linked article talks about 2.2 billion. That becomes 170bn followed by "fear" at a further 80bn. The solution? Tougher sentences and deporting pesky foreigners. Seems depressingly blatant. 000
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Down - signmyrocket.com still up.signmyrocket.comSign My Rocket - Send Your Greetings To Russian Occupiers!Support Ukraine's army and send a message to Russian soldiers by signing a shell or rocket with Sign My Rocket. 030
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Trying to hold back tears of anger. I've donated now and will look to how I can donate more. EU needs to act 010
Reposted by @bfiend.bsky.socialGwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 27/02/2025The Do Everything Responsibly And Be Okay fantasy and the Prepared Individual fantasy both have a lot of their roots in the invisibility of government. In some ways they are promises that government has made to the middle class over the years. 352487
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Checked it out - got the pangram straight away and thought "this isn't so bad". 267 for genius :( this is going to be painful 120
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Veterans of WW2 who fought the nazis are dead. Your veterans are those of Vietnam, even Korea is too long ago. Active veterans? Probably Gulf War 1 and 2. Demoralised vets of questionable wars. 130
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I'm so sorry for all of you. And given the kind of work you are doing - for all of us. 000
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 30/01/2025I think that's the general push - enshittification followed by privatisation. Take the profitable parts and sweat any assets until the whole system breaks down. See water and rail privatisation in Britain. 000
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Benefit of the doubt is a shifting window - I give him the benefit of the doubt that he is not a sack of bugs like mr Oogie Boogie. Or that he will simply stab a journalist on air force one. I have no doubt to give him the benefit of for decency 110
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Yep, fuck 'em. Also important to point out no one was worse than the nazis. Confirming I didn't mean that - I hate comparisons of suffering (misery olympics) so Romans weren't better either. 000
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 21/01/2025I guess what I'm saying is that when people say it's a "Roman salute" I don't actually feel that's better. The Romans did some things the nazis would have considered barbaric. 120
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Agreed that it's almost certainly not Roman. It's what these guys are thinking though, and they romanticise the hell out of a society that went through multiple phases - almost all of them antithetical to a modern democracy 000
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 21/01/2025I think it _was_ a Roman salute and that's also really really bad. Where do people think we get the term "fascist" and where do they think we got the nazi salute? It's not an excuse, it should be a condemnation! 140
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Won't use it for help writing anything creative, or researching history\people etc. I would either be stealing someone else's work or reading what the AI company considered acceptable. Plus it _still_ makes stuff up. Got the google one to give me a recipe for chicken sushi. 010
bfiend.bsky.social @bfiend.bsky.social · 13/01/2025I find AI useful for searching documentation, generating simple code.It makes stuff up cuts research time down as it can point you in the right direction and if you're careful you'll spot the imagined stuff. I don't feel bad for using it like that because no-one generates documentation as art.code.it 110
