Dan Waterfield
@danwaterfield.bsky.social
SWE / PhD 18c History / Social Democrat / gam zu l'tovah. ✡️ 🇬🇧 in 🇳🇿.
Enormous fun at the first day of living / building conf. One highlight was the terrifyingly accomplished undergrad panel
November 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Enormous fun at the first day of living / building conf. One highlight was the terrifyingly accomplished undergrad panel
Passing through a town called Bulls.
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Passing through a town called Bulls.
Saw a Chinese guy go for a swim here while his family discussed why the hell he would do that.
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Saw a Chinese guy go for a swim here while his family discussed why the hell he would do that.
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Well Budapest is a good place for a stag do, or a solo city break in Toby's case.
Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK “censorship”.
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
Toby Young to Address Orbán-Backed Group on UK ‘Censorship’
Conservative peer and right-wing commentator Toby Young is due to deliver a talk tomorrow (25 November) at the in-house think tank of Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán. Young is being interviewed by Mat...
www.desmog.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Well Budapest is a good place for a stag do, or a solo city break in Toby's case.
WHAT NOW TALEB
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 AM
WHAT NOW TALEB
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children of men: the society
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
children of men: the society
this is bloody incredible writing.
They called them Near Abroad Direct Action Operations, NADA Ops. The "joke" in the CalSec cafeterias, which made its way out later in the hearings was that "What does the operator say when asked if there are civilians in the area? Nada...oops!". Even decades later, Arizona didn't find it funny.
November 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
this is bloody incredible writing.
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the Beaton Brontes never leave me
November 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
the Beaton Brontes never leave me
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Elon Musk is Stevenage
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Elon Musk is Stevenage
tfw important cat business.
November 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
tfw important cat business.
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had plans for the evening but guess I'm just going to sit here and repost every single thing I see about the fucking insane Trump/Mamdani meeting
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
had plans for the evening but guess I'm just going to sit here and repost every single thing I see about the fucking insane Trump/Mamdani meeting
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they said my Shahada was the best they'd ever seen, they were so impressed. they couldn't believe it. the means of production, we're going to be looking into it, looking into very strongly.
November 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
they said my Shahada was the best they'd ever seen, they were so impressed. they couldn't believe it. the means of production, we're going to be looking into it, looking into very strongly.
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Honestly, what an idiot.
November 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Honestly, what an idiot.
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Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Feels more like a study.
November 21, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Feels more like a study.
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“Are the fae open source?” is such a terrifying question in so many ways.
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
“Are the fae open source?” is such a terrifying question in so many ways.
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I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian
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TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 19, 2025 at 4:46 AM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
YOU INVITED YARVIN TO GIVE THE OAKSHOTTE LECTURES?!
See also Curtis Yarvin's remarks in a recent Oxford lecture:
"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
November 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
YOU INVITED YARVIN TO GIVE THE OAKSHOTTE LECTURES?!
