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I always say when asked, British Rail used to run a ferry company (Sealink). Privatisation of that seems like an OK change. Also now in private hands: • 02, the mobile phone company • Jaguar / Land Rover • British Airways • military barracks… Oh no, sorry that last one was a resoundingly bad idea.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 19h

The internet existed! Websites would take a few more years.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 23h

If you're shocked by a solar installation, get it safety checked.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 23h

When something is set before widespread literacy, people should have a good command of spoken language. Remembering a single whole sentence verbatim would have been table stakes, because it's how you learned stories etc. The whole structure of how people would speak was different to today.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Given how close the result was, Russia would have been pretty annoyed to put in all that effort and not even have made a 1% difference.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

We got the redacted version from Mr Burnham. Why reveal the UK's hand any more than that? An ally is literally at war with Russia right now, so revealing even a little intelligence could cost Ukrainian lives. Proof is a luxury – especially as, even if it's published, I couldn't exactly check it.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's very likely that some of the evidence is secret. Giving that secrecy away is possible, but the juice won't be worth the squeeze. It's not like Russia would be shamed into honesty.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The idea of building on brownfield land in the green belt around London is broadly fine, but the spirit of the initiative is to use things like disused petrol stations, genuinely unused agricultural buildings, wasteland… Unless there's no brownfield land left in London, this shouldn't go ahead.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

You can't use facts to get past crap journalism. Sloppy writing is way easier than rebuttal, especially when there are people willing to do a speech saying that actually Russia's government are lovely people who wouldn't dream of rigging elections, etc.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Indigenous groups are a subset of activists; I think the article made that perfectly clear. (the author may never have been somewhere where "indigenous" doesn't mean "descendant of the survivors").

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Criticising (people from) Somalia for having a coffee culture? Before 21st century climate changes, Somalia even had a few coffee growing regions. Maybe it still does.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If it doesn't have at least three meanings, is it really a Pet Shop Boys track?

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Thinking you're Zakalwe? Hmm. Not the actions of a balanced individual.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The purpose of a system is what it does.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

@zackpolanski.bsky.social said that he didn't agree that the aim should be that all of Israel becomes a single Palestinian state. The same motion defines what it means by Zionism and Mr Polanski says he thinks that this form of Zionism is racist. So he agrees with part of it.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Did something happen about 10 or 11 years ago that led to big cuts in youth services? Would explain a lot.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

(I take seven points of psychic damage)

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If I had to change trains from Edinburgh to Paris, I think it could actually be nicer to do that at Ashford. Stretch goal, that one.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If spouting unsafe nonsense were a crime, Mr Trump would have a very sparse top level of his executive branch.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's going to be really difficult to do academic research into "find the ways that AI can kill lots of people". Every committee that needs to approve the research and its funding is going to have at least one good reason to say No.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I made a thing with carlins and chickpeas and spices and cous cous and peppers. It was approximately north african.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

After what seems to be the final boss, you can board a spacecraft to escape. But between you and boarding is one guard with a blaster. Because even fictional galactic empires post guards for their ships. Another nod to how an actual evil empire would work.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The first mission, you can complete it without offing any stormtroopers. But because you're on a military base you can go and trigger a big fight if you want. An empty base would be unbelievable; getting the plans out without being noticed is a great first mission.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One of the best computer games I saw for plausible military guards was Star Wars: Dark Forces.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I wasn't imagining he would try to get a third term via an election.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There's a really easy† way to make gasoline cheaper: ration it. Maybe the governor could try that? 😉

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can I just say that the buildings destroyed on 2001-09-11 were due to either terrorism or war, depending on who is counting, and not a result of people cutting red tape on building standards? Maybe swap it out for the audio recordings from Lakanal House victims? With families' permission, I mean.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's as quick as the market can make it be, it's not actually hard to implement. But the wealthiest voters won't like it much.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Use banked land. Shift more of the tax burden from income to land (based on its assessed value with current planning permission). When the current use doesn't align to a local plan, and isn't critical national infrastructure with an exemption, collect a higher tax. Pay most of it to the treasury.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If the companies running AI had to pay for the training data, they wouldn't have investors and lenders willing to fund all that unprofitable power use.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them. Don’t let them explore you until they’ve explored the secret universes of books. Don’t let them connect with you until they’ve walked between the lines on the pages.” (John Waters I think)

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thing is, Israel is very credibly accused of crimes against humanity. Those crimes are racist in nature, committed by zionist war criminals. I get that there is a "not all Jewish supremacists" angle, and I agree that this isn't good for the Greens' election prospects. But: are they actually wrong?

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Are there enough of Your Party to call it a mass?

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why would the Russian government lie about this? 😉

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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tbilisi now. The 675th consecutive day of protests in Georgia. 🇬🇪

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Really good use of CGI. As in, I am sure it's in there but you just don't see it.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is essentially: "look, for the amount we (over) paid for the land, the only way we could make a profit is to build a massive high rise that is 50% sold off plan to overseas buyers". And my advice to those developers is: don't do that then. Even better if the tax system persuaded them not to.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The usual measure is the equivalent number of ideal twenty foot containers.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Somewhere in a parallel universe is a really in-demand editor who always dreamed of working in comedy.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's a fictionalised movie from a few years back that highlights some of the challenges of rural policing, including perennial under resourcing, a lack of effective internal security, and a heavily paper-based workflow. Wright, E., & Pegg, S. (2007). "Hot Fuzz" [Screenplay]. Working Title.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I expect that the acceptance criteria include checking whether the package was left within a certain radius of where it was supposed to go. And, this being Evri, I also expect that the check called something like "circular error assured".

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"They Lived, We Died"

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If Sun readers don't care who is the leader of the opposition, news channels aimed at that demographic can show some big tit instead of the politician in question.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think the sign doesn't say what you say it does. Very similar point being made, though.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Isn't that a war crime?

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Even young people can have empathy. Bound to be possible.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In the museum there are mannequins that look like soldiers etc.

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