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He took over from Michael Foot, lol. I'm guessing Richard Burgon will inherit the title in 25 years

Very interesting discussion on the AI bubble, from a number of different angles, shipping, power, debt. Summary - Its an inevitable clusterf*ck. youtu.be/es4FfRU8saQ?...

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Ed Zitron: Microsoft Has $80 Billion Of AI Chips It Can't Plug In

YouTube video by Market Talk with George Noble

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, its not very good. And I usually like James Gunn's stuff. Gunn is better at making parodies, rather than the main event.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 9h

Because Thatcherism has reached it's logical conclusion, and they don't know what to do. So like all cults they reach for ever more extreme, batshit crazy answers.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 9h

The Tories will probably gain a few points after the conference. But they're in a terrible place, the right wing vote split 3 ways.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 9h

The daily casualties are getting crazy, Russia trying to make progress before winter kicks in. What an utter waste of life, what a pointless war.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is the ideological bind the Conservatives find themselves in - Despite the mountain of evidence, they cannot under any circumstances criticise a Thatcherite policy. thedailybritain.co.uk/kemi-badenoc...

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Kemi Badenoch calls Thatcher’s water privatisation a ‘success’ despite sewage, debt and failing firms

Kemi Badenoch has defended Margaret Thatcher’s privatisation of water despite debt, sewage pollution and pressure on failing companies.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The motion didn't criticise Israel's behaviour, it called for it to be "replaced". If that isn't antisemitism I don't know what is.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Absolutely. However making it party policy that the description Zionism is racist, along with calling for Israel to be "replaced", is.

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Wavy Jones @postambition.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hopefully we can still get these

Chinese sign translated as “translate server error”

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Natalie Litofsky @positivelynatalie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's been a hot minute since I was traveling (or living) abroad, but I do have quite the collection of museum displays, store signage, and menu text. Menus are my favorites, because what is translated as awkward poetry in signs is often... not so poetic on menus.

Menu written in Chinese with English translation under each line. Literally every single dish on the menu has been translated as "Italian meat sauce face." The section heading for soup has been correctly translated as soup. In the corner is an illustration of a stereotypical chef with the hat and white coat and red kerchief at the neck. He has a mustache and is grinning while holding a tray of food. He is leaning back in a way that suggests his torso is not properly connected to his legs. At his feet is the single English word, "work."

Photo of a menu page that I took while living in Beijing around 2013 or so. The dish is a bunch of brown cubes in a red oily sauce, with strips of red pepper and one decorative sprig of parsley on top. It costs 28 RMB and the English translation of the dish is "Bloody battle." It's actually a jellied pig's blood dish, which I once described to someone as, "Like blood pudding, but jigglier."

Menu item written in Chinese, with a photo of the dish that is a bright red broth with bits of fish and vegetables. The dish has been translated to English as "Cannot Take This Anymore." I took this photo at a restaurant in Beijing in 2014-ish, and for the record I did not order this so I can't confirm just how dangerous the broth was.

Lunch menu photographed at a restaurant in Beijing in 2013. The English text is larger, with the Chinese text below. The list of dishes from top to bottom are: Traditional tomato sausage surface (actually spaghetti); Spanish Merlot sauce beef with rice (actually a sort of marsala); Venice bacteria Italian rice (actually risotto); Rome vegetable soup; Mexican beef cheese cornflakes (actually nachos). It was located near a business district, so this was an attempt to bring in foreign office workers.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

3 parties splitting the right wing vote for years, and the Greens self-destructing. Labour could do very well put of this.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One of these days Rees-Mogg is going to realise he's surrounded by lunatics. And will ignore it because the money's rolling in.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Seems Davey's days are numbered. The Lib Dems might be anticipating a possible coalition after the next election.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Greens drown in Corbynism, while Reform and the Tories tear chunks out of each other and split the right wing vote. Andy Burnham is a lucky general.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

lmfao

$r/AskDocs Join u/Impressive_S... • 215d • Layperson/not... When can My girlfriend sit on my face again I'm 21M my Girlfriend 21 F, and I broke my lower jaw 9 weeks ago, it was fractured in 2 places and I have 2 titanium plates and screws in my mouth, everything has gotten back to normal now at this point though, l've been eating and going about my life almost completely normal, but I was wondering if she was able to sit in my face now at this point in jaw surgery. I'm not on any medication I haven't been since week 2 and I'm healing great. Any feedback is greatly appreciated, please and thank you!!!$

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There are other wild animals I would prefer to be legally represented by. A Gibbon, maybe.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Everyone knows not to mess with Moira Stewart

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The papers have finally worked out that Reform aren't a viable party and Farage is a grifter. But they've been fluffing him for far too long, so now they're reduced to cheering for a party on 17% of the vote. The inevitable outcome when people flirt with fascism.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

England thrashing Croatia 7-0 in front of 6,200 schoolkids is surreal comedy genius.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Trotskyites strike again.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It didn't seem like they were following any up to this point? Maybe the prisoner swap.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This game absolutely blew my mind. What a few years that was for PC games.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The irony of a man convinced the west is trying to destroy Russia, destroying it himself in the process.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They're pretty obvious, to be fair.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No one will ever get through to that 30%. He could personally insult each of them and they'd still vote for him.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The weird and violent contradictions at the heart of America.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ultimately this is on the Premier League. They allowed these people into the league, along with arms dealers, Russian oligarchs and predatory capitalists

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For decades I've been convinced that the public are in favour of some socialist policies, but it needed a palatable, credible leader to sell it to them. We may finally have found one.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well, if we had to wade through all of the bureaucracy in order to leave, we're going to have to wade through the same bureaucracy in order to get back in.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yep, welcome to RAMaggedon. Please direct all complaints towards Sam Altman and Jensen Huang.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

God these people are so thick. Or so cynical. Or both.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Was interviewed by a US journalist today who asked if we were all panicking about terrorists at Fairford, which ended with me trying to explain dogging.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A risky speech, it's true. But he also had no choice, the public won't support steady-as-she goes anymore, they want radicalism.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

True. I suppose what I meant to say is that its the modern PR game if you're a prick with no shame, and something to hide.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Deny everything, brazen it out. Its the modern PR game.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No, I wouldn't. But neither do I have much empathy for the gangsters running Iran. It's a dispute between two stubborn, ignorant, showboating governments.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Agreed, but to be fair they did also break the last ceasefire. The Iranian government's control over the IRGC is pretty weak. Trust is very low on both sides. Agree that this isn't going to be sorted out anytime soon.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Burnham absolutely smashed that. Bold policies, engaging delivery, emotional intelligence. I really hope it resonates with the public, that we're not too far down the Reform rabbit hole.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Of all the suppliers, Oracle is the weakest link in the AI chain. This isn't an immediate crisis for them, but it points to mounting problems - An $18bn data centre that they're going struggle to get online. www.reuters.com/business/ora...

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Oracle triggers 'force majeure' on data center project over power delays, source says

Oracle issued a "force majeure" notice to a Blue Owl unit, the developer of a large New Mexico ‌data center, citing potential delays in securing power for the project, a person familiar with the matte...

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It really says something about the nature and speed of misinformation, that the US president is commenting on a bunch of diesel thieves as if they're Iranian terrorists. Its such a farce.

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Finite @finite187.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is worth pointing out that this is the IRGC, rather than the Iranian government or its negotiators. They always come out with belligerent rhetoric like this, which doesn't reflect what Iran's actual demands will be.

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