Reposted by HTFBAnthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026HOW TO DRAW A PYRAMID A zig. Now one zag. Gaze now on Giza! #palindrome 07020
Reposted by HTFBChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Kickstopper -- an app wher yf you rayse ynogh moneye then tech companynes do not do thinges 314926
HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026You know where there's wild hilly outdoors with no wind turbines? Military firing ranges. The haters will always have somewhere to go for a wander. 040
Reposted by HTFBMostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 06/09/2026He collapsed and lay twitching on the grass. 062
HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026You can pay for gas or you can not pay for gas. If you don't pay for gas in you don't get electricity out. 150
HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I am surprised it is possible to get a hundred members of any profession onto a stage in London and come out with a group quite as White as the BBC Symphony Orchestra is tonight. 020
HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The Cambridge Eight is made up of Muckle Tab I, Muckle Tab II, Muckle Tab III, Muckle Tab IV, Muckle Tab V, Muckle Tab VI, Muckle Tab VII, Muckle Tab VIII, and Wee Tab IX. 010
HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026If you chat for long with the void, the void chats also for you. 120
Reposted by HTFBLev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Optimist: The glass is half full Pessimist: The glass is half empty Crossword setter: Mighty fetal splashes shattered impression that all is not well? (3,5,2,4,5) 3495
HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026"Nathan Cofnas" is an anagram of FASH CANT ANON, the twelve step programme for people addicted to right-wing talking points. 030
HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Capita need to bring in help to fix this, if only they had access to some list of professional administrators with time on their hands. www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comRetired UK civil servants failed by pension outsourcing, government saysChaos of Capita-run scheme has left some people waiting up to a year for payments and in financial hardship 020
Reposted by HTFBHermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Not for nothing is the Helen the unit of beauty. Usually the Milihelen, or the amount of beauty needed to launch one ship. (Though this is not without controversy, as properly you shouldn't combine metric prefixes with Troy measures.) 0175
Reposted by HTFBGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party? - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @financialtimes.com Possibly the most informative article I've read this yeargiftarticle.ft.comWho cleans up after the vibe-coding party?Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers 75019
HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 11/07/2026The attribution of a heat island is complicated. If your cooling is powered by rooftop solar PV, then all the electricity used is energy that would otherwise have heated the roof - unless it was reflected. Using a/c is no more irresponsible than painting your roof black or making it of slate. 030
Reposted by HTFBPhilip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 10/07/2026"Bin C*ntface" would be a pretty good anti-Farage slogan. 1116
HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Ann Widdecombe's favourite soft toy, loved and kept into adult life, was Fly Bunny, an eldritch rabbit with the compound eyes of a fly. She sent me a picture, which was nice of her. I'd like to say "this explains a lot" but it really doesn't. 142
HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Some of us won't get a chance to watch it till after work today. Please, no spoilers. 010
Reposted by HTFBHTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 04/07/2026After Congress passes a Sensible Calendar measure it will be commemorated on the 7th of April. 041
Reposted by HTFBAnthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026HEATWAVE (Palindrome) To hoses I ran: Use now, as I saw one sun arise so hot. 13615
Reposted by HTFBThe Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 17/06/2026GOP hawks: "I want the US to do a military campaign against a weaker enemy whose outcome is to make China terrified to invade Taiwan" Oracle at Delphi: "sure thing boss, coming right up" 0278
HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 15/06/2026They look like they are for a chairlift, and I can't believe nobody has had this idea for dual-use infrastructure before. 010
Reposted by HTFBDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I am going to continue to push back on "high skill migration" even if I am the last dead ender. The UK has a much more pressing shortage of low-skill labour than high-skill labour. We have people giving up jobs as magic circle lawyers to take care of their parents. 31845208
Reposted by HTFBAnthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026FOOTBALL (Palindrome) See referees idle, if dim. A deep’s too far…. A ball! A cross! I’m onside. Sure. Peek a busied art: It's open on one post. I trade: I sub a keeper. Used is no miss or call. A bar! A footspeed! A midfield! I see referees. 11711
HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 12/06/2026If I should die, think only this of me: There is some midden in the dragon's lair Forever Cappadocia. There shall be In that rich turd a richer turd interred... 010
Reposted by HTFBPhilip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 11/06/2026The graph of "Generations since your most recent common ancestor" vs "How socially acceptable it is to shag them" starts with a sharp upward slope, levels off for a long time, then drops sharply again. 021
HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Only some of whom have subsequently had to be cancelled for noncery. 110
Reposted by HTFBUmit Singh Dhuga @usdhuga.bsky.social · 03/06/2026"Strip away the Latin and the instrument is a forward sale of a standing commodity, the direct ancestor of the contract a desk would write today to go long or short a harvest a season before the harvest exists." As we confront Hormuz and El Niño, my essay on the origins of averages and derivatives:open.substack.comThe Law of AveragesLong before futures or reinsurance, antiquity had its ways of pricing the weather, and one of them still hides in a word every analyst uses. 2247
HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Some of the spongiest people never buy cakes from the patisserie. They are 000
HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 26/05/2026You don't need aircon if you have a heat pump in cooling mode. Roof and wall insulation keeps the heat out. Low E windows reflect the sun's infrared. MVHR heat exchanger ventilation keeps your cool in. A low-energy home is a home adapted for climate change. ps Quite smug here. The tech all works. 170
HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Franz Schubert, much bothered by the stream of visitors arriving by UFO. 100
Reposted by HTFBJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 17/05/2026NEW ANALYSIS: Do renewables make electricity cheaper or more expensive? I pulled together wholesale and retail data across Europe and the US. Wholesale prices track gas exposure, not renewables share. Retail prices barely track either. Read full piece👇 janrosenow.substack.com/p/do-renewab...janrosenow.substack.comDo renewables make electricity cheaper or more expensive?The honest answer is: it depends on what you measure, and where you look. 1820767
Reposted by HTFBHTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Belphegor (quoth the Wiki) is the demon of Sloth, who promises marvellous inventions to create riches and save drudgery, and sows evil and dissension by redistributing wealth to the worst people. Truly a demon of our times. 042
Reposted by HTFBCelestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026This reminds me of the fun fact that the "In" in "Moreton-In-Marsh" is not the word "in" , but a corruption of 'henne marsh" as in moorhens 161
Reposted by HTFBHotblack @invalid-handle.com · 09/05/2026The og. Waiting for him to do a deal with Mauritius so we can have Chagos with Ed Milliband 0111
HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Notice to all parties: if you have one decent prospect and need to fill out your list with no-hoper paper candidates, make sure to pick no-hopers with names at the end of the alphabet. 020
HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 04/05/2026My "not building concentration camps here" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my blackshirts. 010
HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 25/04/2026While we're on this, St John's sadly chickened out of naming their new buildings north of North Quad after their former President, Sir Richard Southern. "Garden Quad" is feeble. 377
HTFB @htfb.bsky.social · 25/04/2026but imagine how exhausting all those ethical dilemmas would be. 032
