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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Inheritance tax? Over my dead body! 🤪

HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As a thought experiment, China turning off the supply of solar cells/panels completely would be very different than Russian turning off all gas. Gas is a consumable with a few months in storage, solar panels last like 25 years or more so the latter don’t seem that suitable for blackmailing/leverage

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The early 17th century galleys had bow canons so were superior to Greek triremes. The early 17th century galleons with their non-standardised collection of calibres would have stood no chance against a common 74-gun 3rd rate ship of the line with standardised 32 or 36 pounders on the main gun deck.

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also, the gap between the contemporary galleys and galleons was a lot less than between the trireme and a say Napoleonic era ship of the line.

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hope there’s a silver (€400) lining if it’s the airline’s fault and over 1500km

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In many areas the German Green Party is a lot more pragmatic nowadays, they have for instance moved to strongly support wind energy while admitting bird/bat kills. In the past this was a big issue for them. Below is from the Greens in Saxony pushing back against AfD (and old Green) arguments

gruene-sachsen.de

FAKTENCHECK WINDENERGIE - BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN Sachsen

1. Windkraft und Vogelsterben Behauptung: Windräder töten massenhaft Vögel und bedrohen Arten wie den Rotmilan. Fakt ist: Jährlich sterben ca. 100.000 Vögel durch Windkraftanlagen. Es ist wichtig, das...

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What are the precedents? For starters: Diocese of Garðar (Greenland) established 1124 for a Norse population of maybe 1000 to 2000.

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I wonder how globally comparable 0.1% of all companies is. I would expect quite a difference of # of companies per capita due to regulation and business culture. For example, creating a UK Ltd requires £1 min share capital, for a German GmbH it’s €12,500 min to be deposited at formation.

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh, do I understand correctly that you got those additional mesh nodes/satellites via Community Fibre on a rental basis?

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

… thinking of where I could possibly be persuaded to use an agent (not from Meta!): Paying for parking on holidays in UK and Europe is still utter pain. Would I use an agent linked to an account with £100 to take care of paying and, if necessary, automatically extending the parking fee? Possibly.

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I remember all those warnings in 2007 about criminals brushing past folks on their commute to work and sucking the max £10 from contactless cards via reader apps unless encased in a steel block. I didn’t notice any commotion when the limit went to up to £100 a few years ago …

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Germans: Das ist keine number on the front!

FlixBus 074 service from York to Liverpool

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Could have been worse: “You are on the sucker list we acquired on the dark web” 😬

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not my experience of tech startups in the 00s and 10s. Most folks I know that worked there could have earned more at say Accenture or in traditional financial tech, especially as contractors. Most did it for the working environment rather than their 0.002% options. Barely any VC/CrowdCube funding.

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Socially maybe, social mobility wise likely less. Having to turn up in person favours the ones with means - travelling around to trade shows for an off-chance, jumping on the plane for a last minute in person interview opportunity. Not great for say a kid from Stornoway, Truro or Belfast.

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Uber model - you become a subcontractor and you have to bring your own tools and pay for fuel, I.e. use AI agents but you’ll have to pay for the tokens till your margin becomes wafer thin.

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Revolut told me the money laundry keeps eating their compliance staff so l asked how many compliance staff they have and they said they just go to LinkedIn and get new compliance staff afterwards so I said it sounds like they’re just feeding staff to the money laundry …"

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In the fairly densely populated rural area in Germany where I have family there is really no option to go to a different school than the on of the community. Schools have been closing and every community is fighting to keep their kids and at least primary school. Loophole: specialist schools.

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When I went sailing on much smaller vessels I was told in the safety briefing the orderly way to abandon the vessel would be by stepping up to the life raft. Fortunately never had to verify.

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That’s a beauty. I wondered why no size of the plot was given. Till I saw pic 17, lol.

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There is still a discussion about ‘why he is doing this’ after, <gesticulating wildly>, … EVERYTHING?

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Both Nokia and Engie have seen better times which makes this even more painful

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wow, being disliked by the French. They must truly be feeling like outcasts 😆

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What is actually inside the opaque box labelled Jev? It feels like 1770 and the Mechanical Turk has been presented. A very fast and cheap one. Interesting so far what I don’t read - claims that it solves the core cybersecurity issue of prompt injection. Did I miss it?

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What percentage of voters are in the financially poor and worker buckets, respectively?

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

WeWork product team brainstorming: What, hear me out, if we buy old passenger planes from the aircraft boneyards …

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There’s decades of reinforcing brain washing via ads. On the other hand, the avg ubiquitous Astra, Corsa, Golf, Passat, Polo where never really built for very high sustained speeds (depends somewhat on the definition and noise tolerance) but even in that segment Germany missed the memo.

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I always feel that generalisations like ‘German industry’ and ‘its supply chains’ are unhelpful, especially as I see this feature heavily in arguments against the ‘Energiewende’. Apart from energy and some raw materials, what supply chains could they even switch to Russia if they had to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Will Eriskay and Loch nan Uamh (and wherever French reinforcements landed) feature in the sequel or under etc?

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ah yes, doh! A complete Mercator map is non-printable and *literally* an endless vertical scroll on my phone. 🤦

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sadly this comparison just makes me feel really ancient. The video games I played in the 1990’s didn’t have character skins. Indiana Jones, Guybrush Threepwood, Lara Croft all worked well before the ‘cosmetic skin economy’ tried to monetise identity as part of recurring revenue enshittification.

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Not sure Mercator disappeared completely from Atlases. I don’t have my 1970’s school Atlas accessible now but I believe the time zone map showing actual time zones as well as true noon offsets was in Mercator projection. Strictly speaking it probably wasn’t world map missing the high latitudes.

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

… others less, leaving some gauchos roaming in the interior. Mission accomplished. Sail away. Some paperwork - deal with insurance claims. (Something like that)

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

… first if Venet acted with Argentinian approval) and they do the American thing, shoot first, destroy the interfering local government, take prisoners and blow the place up (they dispute it, investigation still ongoing). The local population gets also shipped off to Argentina, some happy, …

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The USS Lexington raid 1831 is interesting too, though every Wikipedia page paints the story somewhat differently. Venet as Argentinian approved and British ignored military and civilian ruler has some American sealers captured. USS Lexington is dispatched with vague orders (like check …

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have no idea what I have done to the algorithm to deserve it but I have seen this red pelvis-shaped monstrosity probably a thousand times. I am certain I would buy (and bin) it if it would stop showing up because I have absolutely no use for it and never will.

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yeah, fiddling with IPv6 would be a) everything works but I am bored b) I am desperate and running out of options

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I see 3 years ago folks had issues with using Codeberg via ipv6 but it might happily do so nowadays. Could be worth checking this as option, your ISP and local network infrastructure allowing. Does your mobile network carrier support ipv6 OOTB maybe?

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

… I guess the remedy is still the same - wait half an hour / switch to a different VPN server/location, use a mobile access point of the private or business mobile, or use IP v6, as available. Re. Starlink - IP v6 should avoid the issue, but 🤷 as not using Starlink

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That’s a bit like saying Germany leads Switzerland in rail passenger transport punctuality because it has more trains on time than Switzerland. (And that’s the German in me writing this) Normalise for population or number of registered cars and it will look very different.

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Gone off cartridges. IMV, one of the positive effects to came out of Covid (by way of a cartridge chip shortage) was the rise of ink tank printers. Even the genuine branded ink bottle set (4 x 70ml / £25.87) works out as a mere £92 per litre for me, cheaper than a good Single Malt Whisky.

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yep. This happening when accessing Google via a University (or company) gateway doesn’t surprise me. Goggle sees traffic from an IP or IP range and simply automatically blocks/throttles it. Just more common nowadays, someone giving an AI agent a task to research something might just hammer Google …

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I was wondering too. 2021, 2022 are probably Covid easing / post-Covid effects and a lot was likely psychological rather than purely economic. A lot of them things turned in 2022, a year bracketed by the attack on Kyiv and the release of ChatGPT, not least job ads.

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Any idea what it does (try to) say on the left picture on the wall?

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Regarding mobility flows it’s worth keeping in mind that Canada was limiting international student numbers to ~360,000 for 2024 to ease pressure on housing / healthcare / services (their words). International Experience Canada, their youth exchange program, is also capped, difficult to get numbers

canada.ca

Canada to stabilize growth and decrease number of new international student permits issued to approximately 360,000 for 2024

International students enrich our communities and are a critical part of Canada’s social, cultural and economic fabric. In recent years, the integrity of the international student system has been thre...

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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The are counter examples too. The increase in enter efficiency has reduced domestic energy consumption (as measured in oil equivalents) in the UK even when correcting for rising temperatures. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68d28e...

Domestic
Energy consumption in the domestic sector has been on a long-term decreasing trend since the early 2000s, partly due to improvements in energy efficiency and more recently the impact of warmer temperatures and higher energy and other prices. Between 2023 and 2024 domestic consumption increased by 3.8 per cent to 34.0 mtoe, having been heavily impacted by temperature and prices in the preceding two years. The main fuel contributing to the year-on-year increase was natural gas, which increased by 4.1 per cent to 21.8 mtoe.
On a temperature corrected basis, domestic consumption in 2024 was 36.7 mtoe, 5.0 per cent higher than the temperature corrected consumption for 2023. This is a larger increase than the unadjusted figures, which suggests some easing of the high energy and other prices that depressed consumption levels in 2023.
Chart 1.2 Domestic consumption, temperature-corrected domestic consumption and average annual temperatures, 2002 to 2024 (Table C5)
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HangryGannet @hangrygannet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s mad; also the parents overestimate their hand Student: "I can’t afford to take over the contract” Parent internally declaring mission accomplished Student: "I’ll get an old iPhone 14 from my dodgy mate and I’ll pay for the eSIM by skipping lunch on some days" Parent starts hyperventilating

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