Adrian Speed
@adrianspeed.bsky.social
A novelist and amatuer history communicator.
I use multi-speed on youtube because everyone talks fucking slow (some youtubers are only speaking normally at 3x speed) but I feel youtube should default back to 1x when you play music. It knows what music is. This would help the majority of people using the feature.
January 20, 2026 at 11:39 AM
I use multi-speed on youtube because everyone talks fucking slow (some youtubers are only speaking normally at 3x speed) but I feel youtube should default back to 1x when you play music. It knows what music is. This would help the majority of people using the feature.
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don't you
forget about me
♪♫
forget about me
♪♫
August 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
don't you
forget about me
♪♫
forget about me
♪♫
People living in a failed state don't notice their state has failed. Parties happen in the same cities as government raids. Metros run while the government massacres rebels. People get up and go to work and grumble about the roads and the weather and tomorrow is just a little bit worse than today
January 18, 2026 at 8:03 PM
People living in a failed state don't notice their state has failed. Parties happen in the same cities as government raids. Metros run while the government massacres rebels. People get up and go to work and grumble about the roads and the weather and tomorrow is just a little bit worse than today
LLMs require refreshing their models with fresh data to stay relevant and keep up with changing language. This should mean that AI businesses have both a financial and professional obligation to keep society free, fair and open, and encourage human made art and culture.
But they don't.
But they don't.
January 17, 2026 at 10:12 PM
LLMs require refreshing their models with fresh data to stay relevant and keep up with changing language. This should mean that AI businesses have both a financial and professional obligation to keep society free, fair and open, and encourage human made art and culture.
But they don't.
But they don't.
The writers of Star Trek the next generation were simply not capable of making good on their promise for the Ferengi. The word comes from the Afghanistani word for Western foreigner. They should have been more conniving and insidious than the romulans, and invade with less hesitation.
January 17, 2026 at 5:37 PM
The writers of Star Trek the next generation were simply not capable of making good on their promise for the Ferengi. The word comes from the Afghanistani word for Western foreigner. They should have been more conniving and insidious than the romulans, and invade with less hesitation.
Sometimes I worry I am too much an online person and then I see an assemblage of words I do not understand and breathe a sigh of relief.
I have a theory that the general epistemic crisis has led to a lot of very online people getting used to communicating primarily through oughtposting and kind of forgetting how to deal with isposting
people gotta chill out about making normative vs. descriptive claims. it’s tedious to have to specify “of course, I do NOT support fire” if you’re talking about a house burning down.
January 16, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Sometimes I worry I am too much an online person and then I see an assemblage of words I do not understand and breathe a sigh of relief.
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every day i wake up to the American Government being like
"that's right leftists, we are bringing back HAMBURGERS
with KETCHUP too"
"that's right leftists, we are bringing back HAMBURGERS
with KETCHUP too"
January 16, 2026 at 11:19 AM
every day i wake up to the American Government being like
"that's right leftists, we are bringing back HAMBURGERS
with KETCHUP too"
"that's right leftists, we are bringing back HAMBURGERS
with KETCHUP too"
The 2000s Dilbert cartoon is what Seinfeld and the Office wishes they were.
Goodbye Scott Adams, you were already a bad person and the internet made you worse but you built a McMansion with a big dumb Dilbert head in it, confidently documented your horrible middle aged guy abs, and had a TV show that was somehow way funnier than anything you’d ever written.
January 13, 2026 at 11:51 PM
The 2000s Dilbert cartoon is what Seinfeld and the Office wishes they were.
I remember people discussing about whether Reginald Barclay creating a holographic version of Troy to kiss would be considered acceptable but cringe in the future or if he was crossing a social boundary.
Grok kind of proves its both.
Grok kind of proves its both.
January 9, 2026 at 11:14 AM
I remember people discussing about whether Reginald Barclay creating a holographic version of Troy to kiss would be considered acceptable but cringe in the future or if he was crossing a social boundary.
Grok kind of proves its both.
Grok kind of proves its both.
"the horrors persist but so do I" the millennials mutter to themselves, the forgetting that they have just defined hell
January 9, 2026 at 8:10 AM
"the horrors persist but so do I" the millennials mutter to themselves, the forgetting that they have just defined hell
Generative AI uses a lot of energy but you can generate 1000 images for the amount of energy it takes to drive your car 1 mile. I don't see people treating their cars with the same level of reflexive anger. And this is not a pro-AI post.
January 8, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Generative AI uses a lot of energy but you can generate 1000 images for the amount of energy it takes to drive your car 1 mile. I don't see people treating their cars with the same level of reflexive anger. And this is not a pro-AI post.
If AI is to be the next great step in technology (and the jury is out) like the Printing Press and the Personal Computer then it must either seek collective ownership of the data centres or discrete AI boxes that individuals can own.
All else is rent seeking and feudalism.
All else is rent seeking and feudalism.
January 5, 2026 at 1:24 PM
If AI is to be the next great step in technology (and the jury is out) like the Printing Press and the Personal Computer then it must either seek collective ownership of the data centres or discrete AI boxes that individuals can own.
All else is rent seeking and feudalism.
All else is rent seeking and feudalism.
Merry Christmas, here is a joke only I will like.
December 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Merry Christmas, here is a joke only I will like.
I write books and draw comics in the same way other people eat or breathe or walk around. They're part of my body existing. You may not see them, but they are there. They are either getting polished up and ready to be shown or they are the micro-screams of living in a society, and meant just for me.
December 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I write books and draw comics in the same way other people eat or breathe or walk around. They're part of my body existing. You may not see them, but they are there. They are either getting polished up and ready to be shown or they are the micro-screams of living in a society, and meant just for me.
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There will come a time when people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law.
When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.
The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.
When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.
The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.
"They had done nothing wrong. They were not protesting. They were not chasing ICE vehicles. They were simply shopping."
Matt DeMateo recounts how three U.S. citizens, including a toddler, were tear gassed in Cicero by federal agents.
Matt DeMateo recounts how three U.S. citizens, including a toddler, were tear gassed in Cicero by federal agents.
December 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
There will come a time when people of good faith are empowered to uphold the law.
When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.
The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.
When that time comes, Illinois will have the testimony and records needed to pursue justice to its fullest extent.
The truth of what Trump and his masked agents are doing in Chicago will be told.
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"you're a man"
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
December 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"you're a man"
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
ad hominem
"you were born a boy"
sunk cost fallacy
"you're amab"
false dichotomy
"you have xy chromosomes"
false equivalence
"trans people are mentally ill"
non sequitur
"changing your sex isn't possible"
skill issue
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Fuck every single one of these assholes. Once again, this is *literally* what the Nazis did.
The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related care to minors.
Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
House passes bill to criminalize transition care for minors
The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related medical care
www.nbcnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Fuck every single one of these assholes. Once again, this is *literally* what the Nazis did.
There are four civilisations in Europe: Latin, Greek, Slav and Muslim.
December 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
There are four civilisations in Europe: Latin, Greek, Slav and Muslim.
Sometimes I feel that reading the entirety of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire should be a prerequisite for having opinions on the Roman empire. Dispelled many of Gibbon's ideas are, but he forces you to confront your thoughts and misconceptions and truly reckon with them.
December 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Sometimes I feel that reading the entirety of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire should be a prerequisite for having opinions on the Roman empire. Dispelled many of Gibbon's ideas are, but he forces you to confront your thoughts and misconceptions and truly reckon with them.
Fallout is a world without hope and only the agency of the player mitigates that. This is why the TV show is not good on a conceptual level.
Last of Us less so because the lack of hope is cemented by the player. You kick away your own execution stool.
Last of Us less so because the lack of hope is cemented by the player. You kick away your own execution stool.
December 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Fallout is a world without hope and only the agency of the player mitigates that. This is why the TV show is not good on a conceptual level.
Last of Us less so because the lack of hope is cemented by the player. You kick away your own execution stool.
Last of Us less so because the lack of hope is cemented by the player. You kick away your own execution stool.
We made a mistake when we let companies provide services instead of products.
December 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
We made a mistake when we let companies provide services instead of products.
I listened to Edward Gibbon talk for over one hundred hours on the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and I think he is the best friend I made in my thirties despite being dead almost two hundred years when I was born.
December 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I listened to Edward Gibbon talk for over one hundred hours on the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and I think he is the best friend I made in my thirties despite being dead almost two hundred years when I was born.
There used to be an axiomatic constant to political disagreement:
Human suffering is bad, and society exists to reduce it.
But I don't think that common ground exists anymore, if it ever truly did.
Human suffering is bad, and society exists to reduce it.
But I don't think that common ground exists anymore, if it ever truly did.
December 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
There used to be an axiomatic constant to political disagreement:
Human suffering is bad, and society exists to reduce it.
But I don't think that common ground exists anymore, if it ever truly did.
Human suffering is bad, and society exists to reduce it.
But I don't think that common ground exists anymore, if it ever truly did.
I cant wait for the Christmas break so I can be sad relaxing at home instead of being sad while working at home
December 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I cant wait for the Christmas break so I can be sad relaxing at home instead of being sad while working at home
