Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 8hSo sick of fake speciality coffee shops in Paris charging 5.50 for a single shot flat white that I might start my own. 120
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Sometimes I wonder how I went from making complex and subtle theoretical arguments about toleration to reading mystical texts like the Tao te Ching. 000
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026People think the speed of llm reasoning is a thing yet Microsoft still hasn’t after all these years been able to sort out the stuttering pace of editing using track changes. 010
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Well it must be autumn. The neighbours across the way have removed the aluminium foil from their windows 250
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026God finally Labour able to talk about Europe. Another good thing about the post-Starmer era. 000
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Say it softly but I think we may soon be seeing the decline of social media. As we know it anyway… 030
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Listen it is possible to be smart or at least not unintelligent in one or more domains and be stupid on political issues. 020
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Things I love about Paris- the way jazz is made for it. 010
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On the left is size small in France, on the right is size medium in UK. 010
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Well after 10 days of a sore throat and loss of voice I seem to have entered the cold phase. 210
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Goodness me a spate of well-known and successful U.K. businesses have closed down this week - Designers Guild, Triyoga, Yeast bakery. What’s going on? 000
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Back then it felt like a dare to dream. Today we are even further away from this 020
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Outrageous that the same Strepsils that cost £6 in the Boots up the road retail for £2 in Iceland. Profiteering much Boots? 001
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Gentrification is embroidering the logo of your local council on a hoodie and selling it for 120 pounds 000
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The British state is best read by what it does and what it does not do. 010
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The sight of all the asset managers preparing to pile into the big tech bubble to make benchmark is deeply disturbing. 000
Reposted by Selina ChenEmma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat. 1042175958
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Did the Singapore tourist promotion board pay for a whole hour on a channel4 programme? 000
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026So depressing to read in the FT that adhd is being over diagnosed by private clinics who are incentivised to do so, for parents who want their kid to get more support in education whether they have adhd or not. 000
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Go into boots to ask about the best thing to take for a cough and sore throat. The young lady said oh when I feel it coming on I take everything going. Think a french pharmacien would faint in horror. 100
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The ft article on what freedom means only shows up the silence of philosophers who should be actively in the debate. 000
Reposted by Selina Chen 𝓪 𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓿𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓶𝓸𝓽𝓱 🦋 @totr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026the final line of this 💀youtube.comEd Sheeran and the tyranny of the centrist dad YouTube video by Meditations for the anxious mind 154
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I have gone through a whole box of Strepsils in 2 days. But since when did they cost £6.50? 000
Reposted by Selina ChenTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I think the prime minister should have said this 1844461
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Nostalgic for the time when tackling hate speech was almost taken seriously. 010
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The narrator in wild China sounds weary of the crappy bbc nature documentary style script he has to deliver. 000
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Too many samey faces from the past isn’t the answer to today’s problems. 020
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I’m surprised but I’m disappointed by London coffee so far. 000
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026So…we got better art as predicted but it hardly seems worth these dismal times. 010
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Strong suspicion that baristas in London are reducing the grams per shot. But if so please don’t charge 4.25 pounds for a flat white. 010
Reposted by Selina ChenFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Paloma Faith speaking with Krishnan Guru-Murthy on #C4News "I did play at a concert with Ed Sheeran to raise money for Ukraine, so he wasn't being apolitical doing that" "My perspective, my motivation, as a mother, I've looked at the pictures and what I've seen is abominable" 730466
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Watching the news in the Uk and my it’s worse than I had realised. 010
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Just passed a very Hackney poster for a dog collar making workshop. 000
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ugh hope this isn’t what’s going around @donnad.eurosky.social 110
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I may be getting old but the incivility I’m witnessing in public spaces is breathtaking. A person is sprawled across a key set of stairs of one of Europe’s railways having a nap. Another has decided to sit in the middle of the concourse with his bike sprawled out beside him to have his breakfast. 110
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026You were trying not to get burnt but got burnt trying anyway. #edsheeran 011
Selina Chen @minkfossa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Wow poster wants to move to France for cool weather and had no idea France had a terrible summer of heatwaves. Because ChatGPT didn’t say so. 131
