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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 3h

Ah, come on, everyone can see the Mayor of Croydon's a wanker.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 7h

Ever heard Travis' cover of "Baby One More Time"? It does just that, marvelously so.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 8h

So you'd have a personal allowance and thresholds that scale by hours worked? Because otherwise higher hours = higher brackets. Maybe not as bad as the £100k 60% marginal, but still.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 8h

Like there is no way this nonprofit could have paid for the number of hours I put into this just because I got stubborn and contrary! They are wrecking the most basic fundemental part of the internet I love: anyone can just make a little goofy website!

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 8h

While I was struggling with protecting my mom's site from the bot swarm I kept asking everyone who is still in the industry how small sites who don't have a kid with a computer science degree survive and the answer was pretty much "they don't" and that's so grim

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 8h

IME under the sort of workload pressures that jobs in that earnings range typically attract, working 4 days a week - for someone of either gender with young kids - is not silly avoidance, but a rational, even commendable, response to circumstances. There's more to life than work!

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 8h

Yep. I've only known one other thing that brings out that worst side in people so rapidly and effectively; I won't say what it is, but there's a seven year jail term on it, and life behind bars for running a dealership.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 9h

The whales are attacking billionaires, so now the media are racialising whales.

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Duncan @slamdunc.eurosky.social · 10h

In a crowd, an umbrella is just a way of making sure the rain that would have fallen on you falls on your neighbours.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 10h

They're Thatcherite, then. I bloody knew it!

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 11h

4. Rain here comes with wind, meaning any umbrella under £100 has a half-life of days. I'm not spending £100 on a damn umbrella. 5. My preferred way to minimise rain exposure is to move quickly. Which I can't if everyone else on the pavement has guess what. 6. If I had one, I'd forget it anyway.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 11h

Ah, go on, I'll bite. Purely for Discourse, naturally. 1. Two hands is already one less than I'd ideally like. 2. Why are the pointy bits on other peoples' always level with my eye sockets. 3. Nobody died of wet hair. At least, not since central heating.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 12h

More the former than the latter. Ukraine has achieved much with little, but their combination of sheer bravery, field innovation and practicality is hard to imagine in the West.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 13h

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

As we join the great theoretical scientist, he is deep in thought. So still, quiet and focused that he might almost be asleep. But inside that brilliant mind, what new idea is forming? What certainty is being meticulously interrogated? What ingenious theory is ready to change our world forever? (the scientist snores lightly) Ah, it seems he actually is asleep. And that's fine. Science is hard and not every day can be a success. We will come back another time.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 13h

This was made by a eight-year-old with an AI infographic-maker. "And then the missile BOOSTS out and it blows up the enemies and then the plane goes PEWPEWPEW and then ninjas jump out on parachutes and they..."

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 13h

You haven't called for that. The point is that some people (some Israeli, some Jewish, some sympathetic towards them) understand "antiZionism" to mean "Israel shouldn't exist". And they do so because e.g. the Iranian regime and Hamas think exactly that. It's an understandable misunderstanding, ie.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 13h

I'm not attacking you, not accusing you of that. No offence intended in your direction.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 15h

Silent? If it helps, I think Netanyahu should be in the Hague, or frankly if other more definitive measures are available...

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 15h

Some understand Zionism to mean "the existence of the state of Israel" - that was its original meaning. And that's how some understand this motion. There are, after all, no shortage of actors on the world stage who would like Israel to not exist. So you can't blame people for hearing it that way.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15h

My parents made this bird sculpture from various bits of wood and old metal they found in their shed and made a perch for it on the sawn-off trunk of a dead tree, and it makes for some great folk horror winter sunset photos.

My mum and dad’s metal bird sculpture in their garden, earlier this year.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 15h

It's not what a lot of Israelis or Jews want either. Apply it to us: Most want a state of England to exist. Most want it to be, in its own way, to a varying amount, English. Some want to be racist about it, but most don't. Even electing a racist party isn't a death penalty for the nation-state.

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Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social · 16h

The way some people define Zionism is definitely racist. But - and I can’t stress this enough - it’s neither the only definition nor is it owned by everyone. And boy is the history of “a Jewish homeland” complicated. So a 300 character post simply won’t do. Nor will a Z=R or river to the sea slogan.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 15h

Broadly agree, it's about who is being persecuted in the here and now. Tbf, there may well be a whole lot of global Jewish communities to which that also applies. Not something that's on (my personal) current affairs radar, but it's been a problem forever so...

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 15h

There are other solutions to a bolted horse, but they're not the obvious Green ones. With apologies to any vegans or animal rights folks reading this. 🤫

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 15h

"It's just the machine, doing what it does": *not good enough*. Zack Polanski and the rest of Green leadership: yes, you. Politicians and traffic engineers: yes, also you. Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and your cult followers: you think, for a moment, that I don't mean you? LOL, and may I add, LMAO.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 15h

It's available, but we've been given ~zero motivation to do so. Weighed up against everything else going on in lives.. Greens tend to be People That Care, but that means we have a lots of things to Care About, some of which are likely to outrank Conference unless leaders impress upon us otherwise.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 15h

On consideration: it absolutely does. For the best, for low-stakes stuff, it's day-to-day muscle memory: "I'll know the rules, know just how to bend them, and be accountable if it blows up". POSIWID is kind of a cop-out, if accountability and justice matter. Your system, your purpose. Own it.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 16h

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 16h

Selection bias effect. The drooling dregs that have chosen to be in a room with him are exactly what they are. Judge a man by the company he keeps / judge company by the man they keep.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 16h

Croydon has a few. The popular / obvious "Croydon *is* a massive hole" is off-the-mark and unfair. The alternative ".. has" construct is more accurate, and somehow even ruder. LOL.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 16h

The good news here is, that particular hype train will be long since halted, derailed, on fire in bits in a ditch, by the time they actually get around to building anything. The bad news is, that might mean they don't get around to building anything. AGAIN.

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 16h

Oh ffs

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 16h

Why do I always have to over-complicate things? Exhumated unDead was right there for the taking, the whole time. Too much 🧠, or not enough? Not too late to fix, anyhow, so.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 19h

When i was in business school, one class I struggled to fully comprehend was finance, because equity pricing always just seemed like made up bullshit. Stories like this are part of the reason why I still think I was right and the professor was wrong.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 18h

the UK has three industries: higher education, whisky, and Games Workshop.

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Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences @mateosfo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think we're within a few years of Democrats/liberals/leftists being forced to make a hard choice between coddling violent drivers in our cities -- blocking traffic enforcement, defending "free" parking, saying $75,000 cars are for the "working class" -- and realizing those are fascist positions.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

All I know is, in most crafts where the rules are written down, the best practitioners, the ones who are celebrated and remembered: Know the rules. Respect the rules. Understand how, when, why to go beyond. I'm not sure if leadership works exactly that way, but feels like there's something there.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Rules codify power, but they are not power. Where the do-gooders are right: systems where the two are closely aligned are - in general - much, much better places to live than those where they are not. Denmark > Russia, say.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Final [over]thoughts on this. "Power" and "the Rules" are often understood - especially by progressive do-gooder types - to be the same thing. They are not. There's plenty of cases where people cannot, in fact, exercise power to the full envelope specified by the rules, and plenty the other way.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Kept in the dark and covered in bull💩". Works even better with the Aussie accent.

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Lady Death Becomes Her @aelixnt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When you're in a "suppressing your intrusive thoughts" competition and your opponent is this photographer

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just naughty boys being a little bit cheeky, innit.

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Now it is.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This can of course go badly wrong. Power corrupts, and the good aren't immune to that. Maybe there's a least-worst choice in amongst the bad ones, anyway. /end.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm not going to lay out specific actions here, but in situations where following the rules points toward a coward's ending, breaking them is always an option - if indeed you have the power you pretend to, and the ability to use it.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Emergency situations call for emergency powers. (Ask your friendly local 999 crew). Does that mean a price to pay when all's said and done? Of course, perhaps a very high one. But when the alternative is being slowly bled out, what's a leader to do?

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

But it's also where true accountability exists. "I will break the rules, and it's my judgement that in this situation it's better to do so, and be held accountable, than meekly follow the letter of the law to a bad outcome." Not a good attitude for everyday life - very much YOLO mode.

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