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Indy @indy.bsky.social · Sep 20

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #542!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #542, Indy ‪@indy.bsky.social‬, joined on Feb 27, 2023"

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 6h

New edition of goblin mode just dropped @sonofsuntzu.bsky.social

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 6h

I think it’s true to the book, but they quickly realised it wouldn’t make for good TV long term?

See also book Morse’s tendency to look for “erotica” in every dead person’s home.

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 7h

LSD?

Indy @indy.bsky.social · 7h

The government wants more deportations.

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Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm.bsky.social · 7h

From the FT:
“UK consumers have curbed spending more than anywhere else in the G7 since the pandemic…
Since the start of the Covid pandemic in 2020, UK household spending has risen just 1 per cent in real terms and fallen 3 per cent on a per capita basis.”
#economy #uk @financialtimes.com

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 8h

Tess is behind you. 🙃

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 9h

I always remember Grant McCracken asking us (participants in a workshop) - "so given VUCA, when should we flip from 'Keep Calm and Carry On' to 'Freak Out and Throw Things'?"

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 10h

Sounds like good extra evidence for your theory.
Great (but depressing) piece.

Indy @indy.bsky.social · 10h

It looks very naive in retrospect, but have to say even in 2015 (as this period of British politics was just getting started) I didn't think we'd have "normal/sensible journalists" and mainstream political parties endorsing mass deportations and reneging on things like ILR in 2025.

Indy @indy.bsky.social · 11h

Starmer & Badenoch: "That sounds like hard work Mr Higham"

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 11h

I'd predictably say there's something about the (post) Hayekian frame of the market as being like the weather/climate. An independent force of nature, revealing truth(s).

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 11h

There's a certain national team that just seems to have a certain preference for fighting it out.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16h

something quite brain-melting about the hard right's position apparently now being "we hate all Muslims and distrust Muslim states, aside from that one Muslim place that still has slavery because that sounds fun"

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 11h

Yes! It's just so bizarre.

Indy @indy.bsky.social · 11h

It's a good thesis. (Being the systems idiot that I am, my first instinct is to say "but it's more complicated than that." However, ignore that part of me, it's a good thesis.)

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 11h

Possibly the only game that really understood how important tobacco was 🙃

Indy @indy.bsky.social · 11h

Turn off reshares would be great.
If we're invoking AI - "mute until the end of this event"

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 11h

Sim City Brain is definitely a thing

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 11h

He looked so tired at the top of the 15th, thought he was going to drop - but he kept on running.

Indy @indy.bsky.social · 11h

You can certainly draw a line from it to most of the recent "pro-tech" think-tank output in the UK.

Pottery ------>
Writing ------>---->2020s British Tech Progress ThinkTanks
Civ Games -->

Indy @indy.bsky.social · 12h

Maybe you have another machine to test it in?
I don't use Windows regularly, in the old days you'd sometimes get driver incompatibilities with different sticks, but surely that's not the case now. Is there encryption involved?

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 12h

Jail, jail for 1000 years.

Indy @indy.bsky.social · 12h

Sometimes this shows a bad physical connection. Sometimes it's about bad sectors on the USB stick. Sometimes it's something else beyond my ability to find.

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 15h

Up to a point, although the service pattern is weirdly spaced, to give you time to stand at the Liz Line platform and see that if you pay and go over to the HEX one, you could leave sooner.

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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 17h

Baron Moorgate of Kingsclere