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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I did not know this was a thing! Awesome

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you could come back to Great Malvern that would be extremely convenient for me, ta

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Almost certainly some dodgy deal with Ivo Graham

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is like arguing that, if you are a retailer, there is no competitive advantage in using the internet because your competition uses it too. On the contrary, using tools more effectively than the competition is the definitive competitive advantage.

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sure it’s not thrown in as a dead cat? So everyone goes “omg you used the bad word” and the rest of the content goes unchallenged, like the old gag about the serial killer who planned to murder 400 Frenchmen and a dentist.

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Don’t put too much faith in this. You know how incompetent BA are being now? Imagine that, but they’re actively trying not to give you any money. Trying to win a 261 compensation claim against them is like trying to get a dog to swallow a worming tablet.

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And for some reason it always plays as “must be a reason why I’m baking examples” which means it happens during the GBBO as well.

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Any time anyone mentions a castle, for any reason, my brain locks onto a little known and not very good house/early garage tune from 30 years ago, “King Of My Castle” by the Wamdue Project. I wish it didn’t.

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And all it took was one Flash of the Pennington

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Tim Pitt @timpitt100.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Local meeting of the Self Preservation Society.

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It always really annoyed me that the fast 146 was a Ti while the 145 was the (in my eyes hugely superior) Cloverleaf.

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’ve been building something similar with Claude models. The problem is currently that the reviewers are a bit too enthusiastic and spend hours, and a fortune, writing huge treatises on their opinions on the code. So nothing actually gets achieved. I assume OpenAi have solved this!

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hear me out… He’s heard it called the emerald isle. Sort of a… green land if you will. It’s not totally out of the realms of possibility that he doesn’t realise it’s not the same place

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

AI is almost certainly better at spotting phishing than the majority of gormless people tbh

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

That’s not a horse that’s an ATAT

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Whenever I prune things with secateurs, I imagine I'm a 1960s gangster cutting off fingers.

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My mate got one of these for his Z4, took aaaages to arrive but was beautiful when it did

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The only people I’ve ever seen and thought “you know what, this could work” have been: 1) The lads from All The Gear 2) Kevin and Angus from Pole Barn Garage and Dalton from Junkyard Digs as a trio. Both sets have something special. An ability to tell a story whilst taking the piss and having fun.

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Old New Top Gear worked because it was the vision of a few people. This won’t work, just like New New Top Gear didn’t. There were some excellent presenters - Sabine, Rory, Monkey - but it always felt wrong, because they weren’t doing their vision, they were doing someone else’s

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So it’s saying it’s got a gallon of fuel remaining?

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Lars Peder Haga @larspederhaga.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It is always important to pursue Russian navy matters to the bottom.

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The first sentence is quite funny too. “Because the rest of the range is absolute shite tbh”

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Had the same conversation with lawyers for an automotive firm a few weeks ago at SMMT. They said a few years ago 99% of complaints to car company were “green ink” sort. Now pretty much every complaint is laid out correctly with full legal argument. Overwhelming them.

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

On the other hand, a pro with the same power tools could build pretty much anything. The ones getting left behind are the ones saying “I don’t need no stupid power tools, I’ve got this hacksaw and I’m sticking to it because that’s what I’ve always used”

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I think the power tools analogy is good. Both from danger and opportunity. Power tools let amateurs do things that are pretty good with very little training. Put up shelves, cut up flooring, detail a car. But it doesn’t make amateurs into craftspeople.

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Car names are nowhere near as weird as van names. Here in the UK we get a Rifter (which sounds like euphemistic slang for someone performing obscenities in public) a Jumpy and a Jumper, and who can forget the Transit Nugget

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The wheels on that E31 are unforgivable

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This may turn out to be one of the most photographed cars on the Internet, like the Roupell Street Citroens, but I don’t think I’ve seen it before. Whoever owns it and presumably daily drives it in Clerkenwell, you, madam or sir, are a hero #weirdcarBS #spotted

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It’s also possible that he has no idea what happened in 1688. Wonder what he’d think of a bunch of foreigners showing up on the Devon coast in small(ish) boats and marching to London in search of employment

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I’m not saying Rizzo is Richard Hammond. I’m just saying I’ve never seen the two in the same place at the same time

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The dash appears to be made of some sort of tree, rather than aluminium as would be proper. Or was that just the coupe?

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Please keep her off my timeline. She’s a grifter and I don’t care if she’s pro, anti or anything else Ukraine or Russia

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I know this is a fess and not a Reddit thread but: Read the waitbutwhy post on the panic monster. Get a diagnosis.

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Are we getting a Maximus Decimus Meridius picture? I think we deserve it

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Can we make a case for Cadiz as an underrated siege? Tied down forces in Spain which could have otherwise forced a quicker campaign in Russia, maybe even an early win in 1811. Essentially the straw that broke the camels back for imperial France

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It feels like allowing any gravy based dish into British comedy clubs might be an error

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Some grassroots stuff like Poverty Tour comes close I guess?

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Nice thread thank you. One thing I don’t get though is your point about solar being not responsive enough. Is it a case that not enough people are on intelligent tariffs? Couldn’t Grid spike the buy price of solar if needed, so all MCS devices say “mm free money” and redirect to grid?

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Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Here are the things plaguing Wildberries' ecosystem right now: Customers from Belarus have been waiting for their deliveries for 6 days. Nothing is arriving.

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I hate to be that guy but… who is this dude? I’ve never heard of him. Is he like a Jackson Hinkle sort?

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

@rebel44cz.bsky.social did a good article on this recently and the combo of Covert Cabal and Jompy maintain accurate counts. Nuts to think that they could still be in such a strong position after losing the equivalent of most of NATOs operational tanks.

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Government: “We need it to look like we are being green.” Housing lobby: “We need to cram as many houses into the same patch of land as physically possible to maximise our margins.” …. 🤝

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I wouldn’t say the two situations or the two approaches are comparable. But fair enough.

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Russell Gowers @usget.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My POV (based on nothing but vibes) is that they are trying to spark a consumer goods shortage (exacerbated by the fuel shortage) which will lead to unrest

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