Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 29/09/2026Even if he won he'd still just be doing what his boss ordered. 000
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 29/09/2026$2.6T-worth of breadcrumbs and butterbeans, huh? Result! 000
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 29/09/2026I'm guessing "have loads of cash and bugger-all to do" is probably one of the tips. 000
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 29/09/2026For the record, I am terminally online, and I had to look both of these things up. 020
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 29/09/2026I feel sure that once they reckon they've finished with the brown people, they'll find other reasons to separate us. That's what Nazis do. 130
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 29/09/2026Under a Reform government, there won't be human rights any more. 3313
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 29/09/2026Oh, they were going round scrumping diesel from farms, huh, intending to sell it on? Dickheads. 010
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 28/09/2026OVO Energy tried to scam me into getting mine replaced, this summer. 000
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 28/09/2026All by itself, my phone made me an album of my gas and electricity meter reading pictures. 110
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 28/09/2026Non-existent company called "Fuel 2You", though... 100
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 28/09/2026They're going to turn out to be a bunch of fly-tippers who chose the wrong corner of the forest, or something like that. 110
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 28/09/2026In the same way that the Enola Gay carried out a defensive strike on Hiroshima, perhaps. 000
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 28/09/2026One thing the rest of us who don't live there can do now that we couldn't do back then is to look at it all on Streetview. That is some scary shit. 000
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 27/09/2026"Charles Manson stole this from the Beatles. We're stealing it back" 000
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 26/09/2026I'm old enough to remember when "cut off their goolies" made for a good comedy sketch. 040
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 25/09/2026Can Bourbon Spread and Jammie Dodger Spread be far behind? 220
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 24/09/2026I couldn't believe Le Guin's punctuation was as poor as that; that second comma is a semicolon in the original. 110
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 24/09/2026Has anyone ever successfully sued a research council? 030
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 24/09/2026Students have been completely reasonably complaining about Turnitin getting access to their work as long as Turnitin has existed. Nothing much ever happened about this. 020
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 23/09/2026A staggeringly large charging infrastructure is what's needed, yes. 010
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 23/09/2026I did OK, and I think I will do OK, now I'm retired, and I'm well aware of people way worse off than me. My flat's paid for and my car's paid for, but I still have no idea how to eliminate my gas central heating or my petrol car. I don't know how anyone would even approach those two problems. 110
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 23/09/2026To be fair, some of the people who voted LibDem will have done that to try to keep someone worse out. They may not have succeeded, but they may have had good intentions. Such is the appalling state of FPTP elections. 120
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 23/09/2026A Volvo EX60 costs about 4 times what I've ever spent on a car. I live in a second-floor flat. If I bought an EV I'd have nowhere to charge it, so "EV v ICE" isn't even a relevant question, for the moment. 110
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 22/09/2026No - for example - suspension issues, ever? Typical EV will be larger and heavier than its ICE equivalent because it has to carry this massive battery around all the time. 200
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 22/09/2026It's fairly easy to discover online which points of view are popular or not, and where, these days. Once you know you hold a particularly unpopular point of view on something, you can just keep it to yourself and STFU when it arises, or even pretend the opposite if necessary. 130
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 22/09/2026I kinda think this is where home automation falls down. It starts with the best intentions, but then just leaves you feeding the machine, just like before, but in a different way. 200
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 22/09/2026Sympathy. I'd kinda think home automation could help with that. 110
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 22/09/2026Are EVs bill-free, somehow? I have an ICE with a 500-odd-mile tank. 200
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 22/09/2026Boggle. [watches video] You'll be using rotating sets of USBC-rechargeables, natch... 100
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 22/09/2026No-one much really wants home automation, any more than they want VR or 3D TV. The things people actually want are "water my plants" and "did I remember to lock the door when I went out?". Source: PhD I was around to watch, 2009 000
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 21/09/2026Knowing why you're in hospital feels at least as important as knowing why you're in jail; there's a definite habeas-corpus-type ring to it. 100
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 21/09/2026It's almost entirely "questions to which we already know the answer" and Kuenssberg's royal-crawling was deep. 000
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 20/09/2026Or maybe it's just Elvis at Rowhead Farm being a twat again. 020
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 19/09/2026Shut down a perfectly serviceable oil refinery in Scotland, attracted shedloads of UK government cash to start some oil processing outfit in Belgium. Yeah, we really desperately need people like him. 060
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 19/09/2026Useless clueless bastard, only ever in it for himself. He said something on R4 this morning about how the UK needs politicians with the courage to take difficult decisions. Strangely, he didn't mention "rejoin the EU" as one of these difficult decisions. 280
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 18/09/2026Weirdly, I read Blind Watchmaker and it confirmed that I'm an atheist. I honestly don't care what the differences are. 001
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 18/09/2026We could kinda trace "when shit started to go wrong" to the point where the Faculty Manager arranged "one to one" meetings with us all, that had three people at them - the 3rd person being his HR minder. 050
Sam Nelson @crediblywitless.ssrl.scot · 18/09/2026So, since it wasn't him, whoever it was is still out there. 000