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Sam Thomas

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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I can’t remember - are you team “No means testing, claw back with taxes?”
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
a succession of child emperors? holding onto The Civil War province for too long (Britain)? Failure to drain the lagoon (Venice)? Not taking the 1905 revolution seriously? Not taking the Young Turks seriously? The list yawns before us
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I like walking around there - I’m east, I’m west, I’m east, I’m west
Waltham Abbey Church
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is the Emporada basin, which was former 20 something million years ago by the fault line, and is a basin created by the faults in the area. The rivers themselves are fairly slow moving and the bay and river deltas are wave dominated
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The Waldo Moment (S2E3)
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This feels like it something we see in lots of modern life - incumbency is the key to success. Want cheap rent? start your tenancy 30 years ago. Want to have wealth? Have any amount of wealth 30 years ago. does that track with your overall thesis? Incumbency advantages continue to be strengthened?
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It’s happening - drones seem like the future for preventing spotting www.xprize.org/news/finals-...
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Finals Testing: Autonomous Wildfire Response  | XPRIZE Foundation
Over the coming days, finalist teams will deploy autonomous systems in rural Nenana, Alaska, just outside of Fairbanks, in partnership with the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Their challenge: rapidly...
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
No no, you see, we must simply redistribute “incumbency benefits” - sure it might seem bad for you now as a newcomer, but that’s just because you haven’t bought a house 30 years ago yet!
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Plant based / veganism not mentioned one time in that article
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I’ve always really enjoyed your player ratings and off-cam moments! congrats on the new gig!
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
“Incumbents continue to accrue more benefits“ doesn’t have the same ring to it as “things are better”though, either. This is a binary experience for people w/r/t accrued benefits. It’s not simply as easy to dismiss as “things have gotten better somewhat slower” lol
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I’ve always wondered - when did anglophone historians stop localizing names of archaeological sites? like Deir el Madina means Monastery of the City. I’d be happy if it went the other way too - Wadiya el Muluka - it’s just something I’ve always found curious!
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
From Dusk Til Dawn’s story was from a treatment written by Robert Kurtzman in 1988
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Oh when is the Clerkenwell -> Old St. one going to be built? I've been waiting for it my entire life I think
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Like, how should I weigh more X against no longer having a local newspaper? Or all of the local businesses being overtaken by monopoly businesses that take their profits out of the community?
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
been thinking about this, and I have a question - should I care about relative inequality, or compare myself with past relative inequality? Or should I be happy, if there is a general rise in X, but my position in society relative to past positions has declined?
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I guess it depends! It probably felt satisfying as hell to read 100 books in the year 996 and be known as The Book Man - relative to that I have almost no social prestige from reading 10 times as many books
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I’ve always wondered - why look at comparable rather than prevailing? comparably I have read more books than probably any single person before the year 1000 - but that doesn’t mean I’d be the smartest person then or that I have a great social position now, you know?
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
2019 horror comedy ready or not
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
So just trying to follow along here, the EU attacked Folkestone when the UK left the single market?
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
just checking my notes here, but I don’t think the US is attacking Folkestone at the moment
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I think ultimately they have a theory of mind that has proved incoherent - they punished the nans for greedily taking winter fuel payments, failing to realize that winter fuel payments was not what the right wing press meant when decrying benefits, because they do not understand other people
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Maybe this book on Chile by Anita Ferrara www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
cambridge.org
Assessing the Long-Term Impact and Legacy of Truth Commissions - The Global Impact and Legacy of Truth Commissions
The Global Impact and Legacy of Truth Commissions - May 2019
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Hard to point to when it’s worked. it seems like it mostly does not. 20 years later (1984, Brazil) The Sorrow and the Pity (1969, France) The Act of Killing / The Look of Silence There was a Country, Chinua Achebe Maybe for some version of working, see South Africa?
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
That’s not the name of the painting! beautiful painting though, he painted it on the curve of the Rhône near the ancient town of Arles
Starry night on the Rhône, 1888 info plaqueDaytime view of the Rhône near Arles, from the perspective Van Gough painted Starry Night over the Rhône
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Local government fails again - time for something new? Integrated region wide transport planning?
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Just killing time waiting for the train (waiting for me to leave)
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Say this fellow getting the overground last night #foxoftheday #redfox
A red fox on the emergency exit stairs in Hoxton
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The essential problems is the cost of essentials has gone up so much, that imagining a nice future where you retire comfortably is hard! If housing and healthcare cost a lot that makes getting old scary! I need a house and a healthcare when I’m old 😔 I will not need a cheap tv
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The Mittelwerk episodes are a great series, just wanted to say! You should have somebody on to talk about Mittelwerk in culture after the war (Gravity's Rainbow, V-2 Schneider, etc).
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Any of the set meals at Toconoco in Kingsland basin - they are all around £8!
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This is a beautiful venue, can't wait!
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I was reading the new G20 report on inequality - 41% of new wealth is capture by the global 1%, compared to only 1% capture by the bottom 50%. If trends continue, the global poor’s net worth will only increase by $1755 by 2100!
Box: Some key facts on inequality
• Nationally, 83% of countries have high income inequality (using the World Bank definition of 'high inequality' as a Gini coefficient above 0.4). These countries account for 90% of the world's
population. • Globally, income inequality between all individuals in the world has fallen since 2000, due largely to
economic development in China. However, it remains very high, at a Gini coefficient of 0.61. • Wealth inequality is far higher than income inequality. Globally between 2000 and 2024, the richest 1% captured 41% of all new wealth, in contrast to just 1% being captured by the bottom half of
humanity. • The richest 1% have seen their average wealth increase by US$1.3m since 2000, while someone in the poorest half of humanity saw their wealth increase by an average of US$585 over the same period
(in constant 2024 USD). • One in four people globally (2.3 billion) face moderate or severe food insecurity, i.e., having to
regularly skip meals, which is up by 335 million since 2019.
Inequality is a policy choice. The negative trends can be reversed. An International Panel on Inequality (IPI), as we propose in Chapter 5, could track trends on inequality
such as these, and assess the forces contributing to those trends
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
another day, another L for Chomsky
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Is this sister-steals-the-will
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Brian De Palma Over here
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
nice looking Maß - Prost!
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Oh maybe I misunderstood - I read it as collapse for these societies meant these specific things - but I think I should have read, collapse meant these specific things (among others)
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I wholeheartedly agree that collapse can mean many things, but that's in direct oposition to what you wrote in your previous post
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
it also would lose canals and irrigation coordination - feeding the Faiyum was pretty important to the people living there.
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I’ve wondered - I listen to this podcast called Fall of Civilizations, and they just released a podcast today - I guess it feels a bit value judgmental. Have you heard it? Do you have thoughts on it? Loved the crusade podcast btw! Got this book from the reading list
Byzantium and the Crusades, by John Harris
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I don't think that's what is being said, but I do think that seeing a city you live in get turned into something else (like warehousing for students) can be sad actually. When they build it all, and your world comes to pass, are you sure you'll want to live in it?
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Sadly the ownership that agreed to his idea is still there, forever probably. I have one hope, and it's that they move the team to Vegas and Dallas gets to start over.
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Wake, dreamer, and dream no more shop.pimoroni.com/products/ink...
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Inky Impression
Beautiful, colour E Ink® / ePaper displays for use with Raspberry Pi computers. Available in 7.3” (800 x 480 pixel)  and 13.3” (1600 x 1200 pixel) sizes.
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Caro responded www.nytimes.com/1991/02/03/b...
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The metro coming to town? Proust having Thoughts about it? www.theguardian.com/books/2010/a...
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Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb
After its opening in 1900, the Métro transformed Parisian life. As the new stations opened, Marcel Proust was at work on his own great innovation. By Graham Robb
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Atget, born just 40 years after Napoleon died, strolling around photographing Paris, dressed like this (in 1890).
Eugène Atget in 1890
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Le weefee
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I do not see a comparison between a single countries unilateral pursit of airstrikes as a policy since 2001 as comparable to World War I in any way, sorry.
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Sam Thomas @samuelfuller.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
this chart is totally wrong by the way
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