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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 6h

The livestreaming of an execution should be blocked everywhere. FFS, what's wrong with people? Why is this even a question?

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˖˚ʚわかɞ˚˖ @skaspec.yuri.agency · 14h

one of my art history professors once pointed out that donatello was an early renaissance sculptor while michelangelo, da vinci, and raphael were all high renaissance painters, and it would have made a lot more sense for the fourth ninja turtle to be titian. this has always stuck with me

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DroOoOoOoOoOoOo 👻 @drwsplnd.com · 10h

In Assassin's Creed Syndicate, set during the reign of Queen Victoria, they have the cipher of Queen Elizabeth II on the pillboxes outside Buckingham Palace.

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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 11h

Incorrect, he landed in Puerto Rico

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Machine Lord Zero @machinelordzero.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h

If this appliance were really smart, it'd know there's no damn reason it should be connected to the internet.

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 13h

Victoria raises a huge chunk from payroll tax, I think, which is great: it's broad-based like income taxes, but it's also effectively a wage subsidy for smaller businesses [balancing against economies of scale to even the playing field] and is the easiest tax in the world to collect.

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Gino (The Manager) @littlegino.bsky.social · 15h

coyly telling people "I play for Juventus" whenever the topic of my sexual orientation comes up

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 17h

Also: the Doctor Blake Mysteries is set in ballarat in the late 50s and never includes a shot of a tram. Virtually every photo of the city I've seen before the network was closed in 71 has a tram in it, but I guess the TV show didn't have the budget to build a 25km tram network.

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 17h

[most modern japanese western-fantasy runs early-modern to as late as mid-victorian, technology-equivalent, but bookworm's technology base is older / more primative and *usually* it is pretty good at this.]

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 17h

In Ascendance of a Bookworm, set in a late-medieval fantasy world, our main characters, who are poor children, make a wooden box using nails. Bad enough, they should be using wooden pegs, but the anime represents them with modern round-wire nails instead of the period-correct tapered square ones.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Q: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 21h

The point is, if you _just_ vote people out then it's all upside for them: heads they get to steal money or pii or to [verb] the [epithet]s, tails they lose an election and go back to where they were. People who chose to do crimes have to be made worse off, to "suffer": crimes need to be punished.

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Sailor Star Hater, the neglected fourth member of the Sailor Starlights.

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

No, the cockroach has been removed from the environment, it's not *in* any environment.

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🌸Anime Themes🌸 @animethemes.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Anime: Magic User's Club!/Mahoutsukai Tai! Style: Opening Track: Senobi wo Shite Follow You Artist: Mahou Tsukai Tai! Year: 1996 Studio: Production Reed #Anime #AnimeSky #AnimeThemes #AnimeOpening #AnimeOP #MagicUser'sClub #MagicUsersClub #MahoutsukaiTai!

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

So you know how food retail deals with everyone, all sorts of people, and so gets a Better Idea than most of The Full Range Of Humanity? Printing is like that, for understanding business owners. [pretty sure "too much red tape" comes from the same place as "bleed?" a lot of the time...]

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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Everyone in creative work for hire knows most of the job is clients asking you for something bad and stupid and you figuring out how to make something completely different while convincing them it's what they asked for. The AI era means everyone gets to see what clients actually want

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

325gb of art and material that artists and animators weren't allowed to use in portfolios to keep themselves fed.

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Complex systems run in degraded mode." how.complexsystems.fail

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How Complex Systems Fail

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

eh, I ran on the name, figured that was good enough, & only skimmed. Apologies, I can only blame myself and stupid american naming traditions.

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I believe ancient greek culture largely took that role as being under athena's oversight.

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

never really thought about the relationship between the thai monarchy and islam but that's some fascinating stuff.

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ruin a book by adding a word: On Her Majesty's Secret Fanservice.

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

what's your take on vegemite and miso? vegemite is ~2% msg equiv, more than dried tomato, miso paste about half that.

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The Other Other Mike Myers @battlehork.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Cars in Magic Knight Rayearth, a thread: Zagato Zagato is a design house rather than a manufacturer, so I’ll go with the roughly contemporary 1989 Alfa Romeo SZ as an example. Mamoru in Sailor Moon drives one, too.

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Moribito guardian of the spirit has been filmed twice, once at ~9.5 hours less credits [26ep anime] and once at 4 hrs [4 ep LA]. The anime is better-paced, but this is a dense book; normal anime production is 1-4.5 hours / volume.

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

could be worse, could be literally any fucking thing else Akihito Yoshitomi has written.

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Which-raildex-char-are-you. Apparently I'm Mugino. [ja only, but my browser's auto translate matched my shitty N4 understanding].

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

to remind people: cashmere is kashmir, a real place where real bombers kill real people.

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

[higher inflation targets would make it easier for govts to run higher output, but "govt is getting output lower than it wants" isn't the big constraint here.

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The govt is going to put us into a recession. The RBA uses interest rates to control inflation; the govt uses fiscal policy to control output. Or is supposed to, the problem is, people keep on electing govts that run fiscal policy too tight and output too low.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Axey” was not popular with the Shang kings, who complained of his intrusive “It looks like you’re ritually sacrificing a prisoner!” comments

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

semi-relatedly: a big chunk of the purpose of gifted education is to familiarise smart kids with failure so's they know how to recognise it and how to recover. Sort of intellectual breakfall / ukemi training.

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

But Black Dynamite, *I* get mad on the computer.

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the whole point of bart was to do a clean-sheet design. It turns out that, golly, rail is the technical optimum, but nobody could prove that until the 70s transport studies. I've read one of the reports, the whole dancing around "we've just spent a lot to prove the old technology is best" is fun.

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So the thing about BART is, it's not a train, it's a clean-sheet super-SF transportation system like something out of thunderbirds, that kinda resembles a train simply/purely on account of the victorians getting it right. Sometimes [see below] this is more obvious.

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Honestly, slayers is one of the handful of anime that makes more rather than less sense when you remember for example that Lina is *supposed* to be fifteen years old. [even younger for the movies! maybe thirteen or fourteen!]

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Eamonn Griffin @eamonngriffin.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Weirdly, BBC and ITV have identified and solved a core issue, but have not sought to apply it to scripted comedy or drama. Game shows dominate schedules in part because they have a single indoor set, a small cast, and a premise that generates tension/drama. Do that but with fiction.

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Lotteries are a form of investment, think of it as stochastic savings. Not a *good* investment but all the others require the ability to keep cash / cards physically secure, reliable counterparties &c. Hadn't thought of it but heavy inflation would make cash savings worse too.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There is a strong argument for the hypothesis that the main heir of the British empire is the Indian state.

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

there's a japanese low floor tram called the "little dancer" [rittoru dansaa I think]: "dansa" means "step".

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Perfect example though of how corrupting tariffs are. Every town & business becomes dependent on little tariff carve outs, meaning that buying influence with Senators becomes mandatory to stay in business. The tariff is the mother of trusts!!!

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Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As Marx wrote in the 18th brumaire, fundamentally a sequel is a reactionary enterprise and thus doomed, unless it can move beyond its source material and become its own thing responsive to the present rather than the past.

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