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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We went from "Steve Jobs is gonna make a crowd go wild announcing you can do funny webcam photos on your PC" to "CEO announces they need 4 bajillion dollars to complete The Great Work: completing the Torment Nexus" in one generation, and people wonder why consumers don't like tech anymore!

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On this note it has been completely memory holed that the UK medical profession used to lean/skew heavily Tory It actually took some doing (Lansley, Hunt et al) to make doctors instinctively distrustful and hostile to the party despite all the traditional factors that used to make it an easy fit

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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The paid search engine Kagi is allegedly described as "Google ten years ago/before ensh**fication" but I haven't used it personally on the basis my role doesn't involve using search engines enough to justify paying for one

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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

In another era this would be leadership ending, immediately Sir Graham Bradys postbox would look like a hurricane had blown in with mail

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The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Sunday was slow smoking ox cheeks and eating it in tacos with guacamole and tomato salsa. Amd it was late when everything was ready including the sweet potato cooked in the embers! And corn on the bbq! Heaven! But not photos it was dark in the garden! This is next day. Or night, rather! #foodsky

A round plate with four tacos topped with tomato salsa, guacamole and slow cooked melt in the mouth mixed with the lovely sauce ox cheeks! Delish!

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My most boomer "things were simpler in the good old days" moment was reminiscing earlier this week about how Apple Photo Booth was once one of the coolest consumer feature on new computers

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If someone *really* wanted to Reply Guy to Rosindell they could point out how technically the UKs borders last changed in *1990* when the channel tunnel breakthrough happened and the new underground land border with France was fixed at 37.8km down the tunnel....

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I keep coming back to classical notions of honour and virtue, and how we've somehow reached a point where the expectation is you can be an awful person who punches down in life but the expectation is you'll be treated with the care & respect of the virtuous after you've gone

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Certain posters are not beating the allegations that a certain type of British journalist is incapable of extending empathy to anyone other than the 50 or so colleagues they run into at dinner parties, a grace they extend to those 50 people but think minorities & the disadvantaged are unworthy of

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This could lead to some very weird (by UK standards, but quite normal in Germany etc) coalitions. E.g. open pro European centre-right in grand coalition with open internationalist centre-left, both opposed to horseshoe theory closed/ethnonationalist far right and closed/socially illiberal far left

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Wait the last church was meant to come across like the emperor sincerely won the argument?! What Just...what This would be like if CS Lewis tried claiming that he *didn't* want people to work out the talking lion is Jesus

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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

At this point IMO no one can blame North Macedonia for not trusting the process after they went through the whole "amend the constitution and change the literal name of the country to soothe the feelings of greek nationalists" and they then get locked out by Bulgaria

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Music video agitprop: 100% Air support: 0%

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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Pierre Poilievre going full rage-quit and yeeting his computer out the window of his centre block office when he sees this

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The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Good morning my curious archaeogastronomers! Here's the latest adventure of The Delicious Legacy. My interview with the fantastic James Chatto, the co-author of the wonderful book Acquired Tastes. Listen here, share, and rate! x podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... The Delicious Legacy

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Acquired Tastes: An Interview With James Chatto Part Two

Podcast Episode · The Delicious Legacy · 28 July · 39min

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The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

More Odyssey dish-course this time (ha!) About food in The Odyssey and Bronze Age Greece in general: #odyssey #odysseus #Homer #TheOdyssey #BronzeAge #ulysses #Οδυσσέας #οδύσσεια

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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Some part of "the last days of X and context collapse leading to the dumbest replies imaginable and subsequent defensive writing" brain never died...

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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

TFW you are so allegedly corrupt and manifestly incompetent that commentators start doing Sepp Blatter revisionism (/s)

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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Westerners understand that right wing politicians in Japan love public works spending as much as literal communist politicians in China do challenge (impossible)

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There has to be Uber big money in creating films and franchises that can cross cultural divides... ...imagine a game of thrones style TV series about Genghis Khan, would likely do well in *both* the west and the east

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The key to enjoying TDKR it to ignore the plot/treat it with all the reverence of the average doctor who episode's plot, you watch it for spectacle

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And I guarantee you Nolan did not expect to end up in this category lol

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There is something fascinating about how there are only two seemingly guaranteed films you will find on any major international airlines IFE* 1) Christopher Nolan Films 2) Anyone But You *Excluding mainland Chinese airlines who are different for a bunch of reasons

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Whereas ironically, I thought Inception was mind-blowing when I saw it in theatres and repeated viewings on streaming/on planes have convinced me since it's a solid 7/10 lol

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Yeah NGL I didn't understand that as someone who read the original trilogy at 16, and then all the sequels. The current trilogy is as good a run at big budget cinema as Dune is ever going to get, ever. It's this or keep dreaming in your head with no cinematic adaptation.

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Does this make sense? No Does it make about as much sense as the fact that every generation seemingly is a sucker for politicians who basically promise "I'll make things the good old days which are always inevitably your youth no matter which cohort you are", yes

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Current theory: Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy and Inception came out during the formative years (teenage through to early 20s) for a big cohort of millenials...ergo some people see attacks on Nolan (particularly on his style of film making) as attacks on their youth?

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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I'm genuinely trying to work out why, for example, people don't have this reaction to Denis Villeneuve. Like, even hardcore dune fans really were "IDGAF" if someone hated on the films lol

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Low key expecting your next newsletter to land in my inbox entitled "death to deliverables, why Productivity Maxxing needs to stop" after this thread lol

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The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The book features heroines, heroes and a villain,(including a queen, a pianist, a slave-trader, a merchant, an admiral, and a freedom fighter) who have, become better known for their culinary associations than for their more significant accomplishments...who are they? What did they cook?

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It has been almost completely memory holed now that *Brussels* thought May had pulled off a negotiating coup by engineering a deal which was effectively "single market in goods without anything else" and that they thought Boris was moronic for ditching this for an Irish sea border

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People who do this are violating the basic norms of social interaction in a desperate attempt to speed-run self improvement and seemingly have no idea that... ...outsourcing self reflection to an LLM is precisely what will kneecap self-improvement

Quote "Others, like AI sales company Yuzu Labs founder Emmie Chang, go even further. Chang admitted to the WSJ that she records most of her first dates by putting her phone on the table or chair. Afterwards, she asks Anthropic’s Claude how the date went, wondering if she could be “more engaging or empathetic.”

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Ironically, Manchester city centre has a lot of the things that people who looked enviously at London's success in the 2000's/early 2010s felt their cities/towns were lacking: a thriving bar/restaurant scene, construction cranes with new towers going up, unified public transport etc...

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What's wild about things like this is its clear people who say this have an image of Manchester that's stuck (*at best*) at the the turn of the millennium If you want to find another city centre in England outside London that *feels* successful/on the up, Manchester is pretty much in pole position

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Revenge of the miliverse/milifandom

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This joke will probably make sense to about 7 people on this website, at least 3 of whom will only get it because of @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social's posts, however Non, je ne regrette rien

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