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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fifteen minutes before the thermal cutout. Then how long before the chips are cool again?

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Lovely autumn evening on Box Hill, with two fires visible.

Zoomed in view showing two active fires.

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I mean, who doesn’t hear mortal screams every thirty seconds of the waking day?

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Lots of new followers today. All bots, flogging AI. All blocked and reported.

Screenshot of some bot accounts pushing AI.

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The unemployment rate is not historically high, if you look back a few more years. Peaked under Thatcher, of course, and always higher under Tory governments.

Graph from ONS website showing U.K. unemployment rate since 1971. Peaked at nearly 12% under Thatcher in 1984. Generally higher under Tory governments, surprise surprise.

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

share.google/TM4597Dar9FN... The unemployment rate is not historically high, if you look back a few more years. Peaked under Thatcher, of course, and always higher under Tory governments.

Graph from ONS website showing the unemployment rate since 1971.

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

And then an anemone floated by. An anemone? An anemone. Was it an enemy? Was the anemone an enemy? Yes. Was the anemone an enemy? I don’t think so. It seemed bored, uninterested in the world. Anomie, one might say. Anomie in an anemone? You don’t hear that very much.

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

45 year old male, I should have said. Oh, and Google AI is useless.

Google AI delivering a spectacularly wrong answer

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

There were so many powerful political cartoons in that era. This is one of my favourites, which must also have been featured in a school textbook.

Zac’s famous cartoon from 1942, “The price of petrol has been increased by one penny “ — Official

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. This is a really good article about the use of literacy. The Learning Dispatch carlhendrick.substack.com?utm_source=n...

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Might explain the pre-eminence of ballet in Russian music?

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Self-certification is never a good idea, and a spectacularly bad one in this case. I never imagined the US regulatory regime was already this dysfunctional.

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

“What? We gotta freeze those missiles for Ukraine? Wait a second … well heck, they’re already in transit. Nothing to be done, I’m afraid.” This, or variations on it, need to echo up and down the command chain. Resist!

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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶 @esseph63.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The analytical analysis appendix has the same info, but labelled better. But no information on the relative size of each cohort, ie how many million people are at each qualification level.

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