Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 6hNother Scot. I’d rather let the English sort this out themselves but I think they’ll a) screw it up, and b) screw us in the process. 010
Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 6hI listened a lot c. 2005-2010 for my work. Over that period his scoffing, blustering, talking over people, “Come off it” etc. got steadily worse. Then I retired 🙂 120
Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 9hI sometimes forget that people remote from the channel crossing don’t know the name Eurostar, or that it’s a train. Until they say helpfully “Yes… or there’s that train that goes under the sea!” 000
Reposted by SlidemanRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...cnn.comInside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN PoliticsMigrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation. 44937561884
Reposted by SlidemanVelour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose 682150709
Reposted by SlidemanHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor 03682776
Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I had this lots (retired now). V. stressful. Not just too much email: too much actual work. Deleting trivia helps a bit with little risk, but some of the actual work would never get done. Your peers & bosses may still not care, but they can’t claim not to know. Good cartoon btw. 000
Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Dystopian. “There will be Consequences” is normally used for comic effect. The kids won’t learn them by heart. Will they “suffer consequences” too? Parents report things to the govt; fascists report them to “the party”. 001
Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Amazing that, given the internet & its many helpful language sites, so many people can’t find out the meaning of everyday phrases in widely used languages. 000
Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Why does Google Translate offer me both PT and BR Portuguese when I’m on line, but only BR to download? #portuguese #portugal #brazil 000
Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Apparently so. I had to look up the meaning, and then the penny dropped. Similar process with Lunga, which turns out to be cognate with луг, with meanings ranging from bog to water-meadow etc. 020
Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026On a recent trip to IT I got checked at Kehl and I *think* again on a NJ from Stuttgart to Udine. (I got woken up and didn’t know where I was.) But since then, going Plzeň - FFTO - Berlin, nothing. So it seems v. spotty. So any bad actors will have worked out where they can get away with it. 010
Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Thanks, super. I recently discovered a handful of Romanian words and names borrowed from OCS that preserve traces of nasals: the word rând and various places called Lunga. Quite an exclusive club, I guess. 120
Reposted by SlidemanSaganism @sagan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths". 894298269745
Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I thought for a moment it said “Jim Crow theorboes” which, as well as being a wrong plural, is wrong in so many other ways too. 000
Reposted by SlidemanDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 3024131512
Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I once got an email from somebody whose surname was Clift and in his sig line he had omitted the “f”. 030
Reposted by SlidemanMichael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Here’s the @europeanreview.bsky.social piece on Yugoslav Tribunal interpreters that I posted about last week. europeanreviewofbooks.com/a-good-inter...europeanreviewofbooks.comA good interpreter is an invisible interpreter - The European Review of BooksIn the interpreting booths of the Yugoslavia Tribunal, neutrality was the job. 163
Reposted by SlidemanDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Can’t believe no one has ever thought of the idea of selling us hot food. I, for one, am both excited and, if I’m honest, a little apprehensive about the idea of warm food. www.ft.com/content/bdb6... Subway rival bets hot sandwiches will sell in UK’s ‘cold and rain’ 2939758
Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I’m not there, but I bet the robot is not conducting the 4tet. Dancing to the music, maybe, but that’s not what conducting is. 000
Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Trump as Harry Secombe: “If I ruled the world… 🎶”. (Brits of a certain age will understand.) 000
Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Idk what they’re measuring, bc “feeling safe” is subjective & ∴ subject to manipulation. Maybe the people they’re asking *like* reporting that they don't feel safe? 010
Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026You may need to explain "that London" to some delegates. 000
Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Harsh. Surely the listeners can't be as bad as the presenters? One recently presented “Canzona duodecìmi”, full stop. That was her version of the whole title. That’s two-thirds of the title, and it doesn't make sense, and she still mispronounced “duodècimi”. 000
Slideman @slideman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I read some yarn about a former head of Eton who reckoned his job was to teach his kids an air of “effortless superiority”. I can believe it. I think I’ve seen the products. I can’t see an honest use for it. I can see dishonest uses for it. 020