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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 4h

Having a lot of experience dealing with financial regulators there is one rule you always follow: you do NOT under ANY circumstances FA with the OCC because they are not messing with the FO part. Even more hardcore than BAFIN.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

- you will never be off them. This is not a bad thing. This is you managing your health. Hit the best weight you can hit using the drugs and taper down to your permanent maintenance dose.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

But I have a friend who ended up with Ozempic face and the only cure is fillers. - you will have low blood sugar. A lot. Ironically you need to have sweets around just to give you a quick glucose hit when you can’t imagine eating real food. Or you’ll pass out and hit your head and die.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

- fiber. Fiber and protein are the only macros you need to care about. Max them both. Take Psyllium capsules (eg Metamucil). Every snack needs to be fiber heavy. Popcorn. Tortilla chips. Artichokes. - During your fast weight loss phase take collagen capsules. May or may not avoid Ozempic face

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Been on GLP-1’s for two years. Things nobody who hasn’t been on them tells you: - you need protein. A lot of it. Otherwise your body goes into starvation mode cause you’re eating so little. 50g a day minimum. You need to plan how you’ll do it every single day.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I would say that the deal to allow Putin to rebuild Russia’s refining capacity would constitute as treasonous behavior on the part of Trump but at some point I might need to re-enter the USA for family or work reasons. So I’m not saying it. Also, guillotines are pretty cool.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That’s just madness! Here in the UK they sedate you but you’re still conscious unlike an endoscopy and you get to see the screen live. I’ve had 3 and I tell everyone “when the NHS asks you if you want sedation say you want Heavy. None of the weak ass stuff they’ll give you otherwise”.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...

In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.

The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.

The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026

If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 28/09/2026

USB-C is the best technology in so long. I bring ONE type of adaptor on business trips now (to charge my computer, my phone, my tablet, my earbuds, my watch, my headphones). I'm sitting in a meeting right now using my Mac and am borrowing the cord from a ThinkPad user. Standards win.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 28/09/2026

like if you think it’s fly tipping, repost if you bet dogging

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is fantastic innovation in brain cancer diagnosis. I’m just so sorry Steve had the BBC telegraph his terminal condition to the world. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Brain tumour diagnosis cut from weeks to hours with rapid new NHS test

The test means patients can start treatment sooner and are spared weeks of uncertainty.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”

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Tom Wilson @feedthedrummer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This does suggest Britain is a) very good at integration b) actively attracts the world's smart and ambitious people who want to get on and do well for themselves Both of these are very good, competitive qualities to have and should be celebrated.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Why yes person I haven’t met before or done full due diligence on, I - a high profile figure - will gladly accept this secret dodgy money. You’d better not be a journalist filming this!

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Do. Not. Platform. That. Evil. Man. I knew him. He is completely amoral. Publishing a single word he speaks or types gives an odious monster oxygen.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

UK government hasn’t confirmed he’s back here yet. And I hope he isn’t.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I knew Milo when he was a tech journalist in London specializing in the tech startup scene. I was friendly with him. He had some sort of psychotic break and turned into a monster. Or the monster was there all along and he was cosplaying as a nice guy. Cut off all ties years and years ago regardless.

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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026

The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan

Piers Morgan

@piersmorgan

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RIP Dolly Parton.

Never met her, never interviewed her (despite decades of unrequited requests) but thought she was utterly fabulous in every way.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Basically dropped FB when my dad died as I was mostly using it to keep my parents informed about my wellbeing and happiness

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I went on Facebook today because my husband convinced me I needed to do a birthday proof of life post. I’ll give Zuck an annual user but I avoided the algorithmic feed which is my red line. He says I got some likes. Ironically I still use insta because there’s still a non-algo way to use it.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The “don’t have a bbq” alerts override your phone settings. It’s a feature Google and Apple added in based on government requests. You can’t override it. The origin of the requests were around “natural disaster imminent” or “nuclear weapons incoming”. Makes sense in those contexts. But bbq’s? 🤔

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jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Is it just me or was the national phone alert for wildfires that just went out rather unnecessary? I'd hate to think of how many women there are out there trying to escape from abusive relationships who just had their secret burner phone go off like a fog horn.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/08/2026

I am absolutely thrilled to present to you: How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking) available for pre-order now, wherever you buy your books! www.simonandschuster.ca/books/How-to...

Cover of the book "How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)" by Katie Mack. The top right corner says "Author of The End of Everything" and the bottom left says "Brilliant and thrilling! - John Green". The cover motif is a space image made of puzzle pieces.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I really as someone who’s appreciative of everything you’ve written that I’ve read hoped you would have the right reaction to this am very disappointed. There are awful people in this world. He was one of them.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I still maintain my (read only) Twitter account to avoid someone taking over my username. I logged in just to block anyone eulogizing that awful man. At least 50 so far. Lots of random numbers in usernames. God that site is a cesspit.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I’m in the UK and I’m very happy not to see any eulogizing tonight about a horrible human paid as a columnist to write terrible things about his fellow humans. Rod Liddle was a terrible person and I think the world will be better off he doesn’t write another word.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Am I the only one who thinks that being so careless with space launches that you alter the surface of the moon should be a criminal offense?

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...

notus.org

Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest

America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Here it is. Before house tracks (particularly gospel house tracks) had videos: youtu.be/RQZYydmp1zs?...

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The Absolute - I Believe - Mark's Full On Gospel Mix. 1996. (HD).

YouTube video by TheFourOfNine

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Listen to early Suzanne Palmer (find clips of Absolute gospel house songs like I Believe). And then realize it’s a 5’4 white blond girl from the Chicago suburbs.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My man looks like he goes to a swingers evening solo with a full bottle of rohypnol.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A man visits Paris where he makes several friends, one of whom dies.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Yet another “study” that clearly didn’t include the gays (which I am of).

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

When the original investors bailed as it was transitioning to cesspool I, a gay man, was getting about 20 spambots messaging me, an inactive “user” a day. Looking back the “pic taken in app” “feature” I was too old and naive to understand the rationale for

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I’m trying not to visit the US unless I’m obligated to by work. For obvious reasons. And I do have morals. So I would never invest money in a kidney cripple/“dialysis”/transplant/monkey knife fight investment strategy. Well not in my own name at least. I’d use a BVI corp for that.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I think “the thing we used for discussing a mobile game that doesn’t exist anymore escaped the gamosphere?!”

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I tend to name squat as I’ve consistently used some variant of my real name on most things. Kik I just didn’t want to have any remnant of me attached to.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I somehow still have morals hence why this is Black Mirror ish. So I’ve written the script for some 21 year old growth hackers. I wonder how the tele-prep company illegally prescribing prescriptions fared…

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Eh no I agree with the original statement. Kik is today nothing but ridiculous depravity and my account was deleted years ago. Discord still has non sketchy uses. I mean there’s lots of filth on WhatsApp but it’s the messaging app for most of humanity. Kik is not in that fellowship today.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Kalshi and Polymarkets competing for setting market on the outcome of the monkey knife fights. One or the other cornering the market on organ rejection

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I somehow have written a synopsis for next season’s Black Mirror opening episode… and I’ve had my hair did next to Charlie Brooker.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The trifecta: invest in a for profit kidney transplant startup that does the surgery on hospital ships in international waters. Monkey knife fights for post surgery recovery entertainment for patients. Merge the three firms and you’re in Henry Ford levels of vertical integration. Profit!

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It morphed into that. I used to use it early in the day because it was the only E2E encrypted chat app, and was user/PW based so when I swapped phones crossing the Atlantic I could keep chatting with the person I’m now married to. Lost history but free international encrypted chat. Started well tho.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

You know A16Z would fund them both. They could do teledialysis via remote capillary microfluidics. I think there’s a world renowned expert in that who’s free for work…

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

And by “things” we mean kidneys. Cause in our YC cohort there’s a tele-dialysis startup we think we have synergies with.

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kirkwy.bsky.social @kirkwy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

When prep was illegal in the UK this service told you how to get it illegally via foreign pill mills and still did your bloods for you pointing out how dangerous it was to be on without constant monitoring.

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