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ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks! I think you’ve rescued my lemon meringue pie!

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 11h

i've got over 70k kills in the "meeting buddha on the road" minigame. it's tough at first but once you master the spin kick you can get the hammer you need to break the wheel of samsara pretty quick

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 12h

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

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ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 12h

I’d be interested to see whether they’re telling the truth about it being a “digital native” producer.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 6d

Until people in the climate movement very publicly stop eating meat and flying, we're not going to seem trustworthy.

I will die on this hill.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 6d

Meat is a blind spot for people who care about climate. When I used to have dinner with my colleague Wally Broecker, the climate scientist who coined the term “global warming”, he would always order a steak.

The climate movement’s biggest weakness

What the climate movement is getting dead wrong.

www.vox.com

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 17h

Le Creuset is Cheugy 👎

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ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 14h

Oh yeah, M4A is definitely core government.

Cool stuff would be compulsory purchase of all the railways and upgrading them to express* frequent service passenger & freight use.

*hourly service, 100mph running speeds, etc

ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 14h

It kind of is, because cool government stuff is mainly the frosting on the cake of essential government stuff.

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Profit Greenly @profitgreenly.bsky.social · 15h

~40% of the ENTIRE corn crop of the US is used to make ethanol. This gets blended with gasoline to power well under 10% of our vehicle miles. If we converted 100% of our vehicles to EVs installing solar on a small fraction of the land this corn is grown on would power them all.

US domestic corn use graph from 1980 to 2020. The orange bar representing "Alcohol for fuel use" (aka ethanol) starts growing in early 2000s, explodes before 2010 and stays huge through the graphs 2022 end. This explains most of the increased corn production in the US.

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ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 15h

I can’t remember the exact details, but it was an acknowledgment that Saudi Arabia effectively has slavery

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ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 15h

What material about the regime was that?

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ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 15h

Robbie Gibb, to be specific. L

Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 16h

The BBC is slowly but surely destroying Radio 4 as well. It’s the last bastion of intelligent debate in Britain, yet it’s increasingly becoming a vehicle for culture wars. When the history of the UK in this period is written, the BBC will have a lot to answer for when it comes to stirring division

ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 17h

I mean, it’s no “absolute casserole”, is it?
youtu.be/E8uAY2d1ADM

Mike Wozniak's Farting Task Shock | Taskmaster Series 11

YouTube video by Taskmaster

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ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 17h

Look, I thought we were over the whole sucking up to Infosys thing now we’ve got this new prime minister.

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ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 17h

Here’s some massive inspiration for anyone who gets anxious about giving people bad news.

Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 17h

I mean, if you don't genuinely lol at this then I'm afraid we can't be friends.

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ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 17h

The US is the world’s largest oil producer. It’s a whole Brazil (9th largest) ahead of Saudi Arabia.

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ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 17h

I cannot believe the disappointment the first time I had a fresh one, man. Dried are so flavourful, then you get the damp orange bellybutton fluff that is a fresh one.

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ambrosen @ambrosen.bsky.social · 19h

“Is likely to end up in you getting beaten up” is pretty much the definition of a public order offence, isn’t it?

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 20h

This reads to me very much like the tale of somebody who once said PRIMM-er by mistake in front of people and got the piss absolutely ripped out of them, and who after many many years of hard work and perseverance finally achieved control of the Merriam-Webster social media accounts

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 21h

Ivor (3) was watching me charge something up using a USB C cable, and he asked if he could plug it in, and I said sure, and he asked which way up it goes, and I was able to proudly say “IVOR IT DOES NOT MATTER WHICH WAY UP IT GOES AND THAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF HUMAN PROGRESS”