Peter Evans
@evanspw.bsky.social
transistors... are doin' it for themselves!
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This is one of those things that rarely gets talked about that has had a massive effect.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
If you're ever wondered why journalists seem so out of touch most of the time it's because in order to establish yourself you need to either come from money, marry into money, or be OK with abject poverty and daily financial panic
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This is one of those things that rarely gets talked about that has had a massive effect.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
As fields like journalism, art, and academia were collapsed and living expenses skyrocketed they came to skew increasingly toward people whose families could afford to supplement their income.
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I will boycott any supermarket that offers lower prices if you have a loyalty card, even if it means paying a little more elsewhere. I just want to buy some milk, I don't owe you any loyalty and I won't join your stupid club. Fuck off.
November 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I will boycott any supermarket that offers lower prices if you have a loyalty card, even if it means paying a little more elsewhere. I just want to buy some milk, I don't owe you any loyalty and I won't join your stupid club. Fuck off.
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For what purpose - bin collection and preventing housing from being built?
Local government costs $50 billion, and that sounds a bit expensive as a therapy session for people who "like to be heard"
Local government costs $50 billion, and that sounds a bit expensive as a therapy session for people who "like to be heard"
November 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
For what purpose - bin collection and preventing housing from being built?
Local government costs $50 billion, and that sounds a bit expensive as a therapy session for people who "like to be heard"
Local government costs $50 billion, and that sounds a bit expensive as a therapy session for people who "like to be heard"
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Meanwhile @australianlabor.bsky.social still excludes scope 3 emissions from policy considerations because they believe in magic and are sponsored by woodside. #auspol
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Meanwhile @australianlabor.bsky.social still excludes scope 3 emissions from policy considerations because they believe in magic and are sponsored by woodside. #auspol
Pretty sure the AI GPU caper has already become a vast money laundering scam. Natural progressing.
November 25, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Pretty sure the AI GPU caper has already become a vast money laundering scam. Natural progressing.
The smart play would be for Mexican drug cartels to get heavily into provisioning AI data centres.
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The smart play would be for Mexican drug cartels to get heavily into provisioning AI data centres.
This horseshit will kick on until at least the state election.
‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months
‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months
Search powers, usually reserved for protests, will be in effect in the CBD and beyond in move criticised by human rights groups
Victoria police will have the power to conduct warrant-less pat-downs, search cars and move people on in Melbourne’s CBD for six months, in a move human rights and legal groups have described as a “vast overreach”.
Police on Tuesday declared the CBD, Docklands, Southbank, the sporting and entertainment precinct and parts of East Melbourne and South Melbourne as a “designated area” from Sunday, until 29 May 2026. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:16 AM
This horseshit will kick on until at least the state election.
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
Cranky-pants just had a word with the naming department.
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Cranky-pants just had a word with the naming department.
Hundreds of years experience in destroying economies. It's a reflex at this point.
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Hundreds of years experience in destroying economies. It's a reflex at this point.
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Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
People moan about Teams but the real enemy is and always has been Outlook.
November 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
People moan about Teams but the real enemy is and always has been Outlook.
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if you came of age in the 20th century then this really sits you down about how much the Worlds changed in 21st century. no going back…. @katemac.bsky.social
Germany was 4 times China's GDP in 1990
China is now 4 times Germany's GDP in 2025
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
Germany was 4 times China's GDP in 1990
China is now 4 times Germany's GDP in 2025
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
November 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
if you came of age in the 20th century then this really sits you down about how much the Worlds changed in 21st century. no going back…. @katemac.bsky.social
Germany was 4 times China's GDP in 1990
China is now 4 times Germany's GDP in 2025
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
Germany was 4 times China's GDP in 1990
China is now 4 times Germany's GDP in 2025
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
Aaaah, Jimmy Cliff! One of the all-timers. Pouring one out…
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Aaaah, Jimmy Cliff! One of the all-timers. Pouring one out…
No shit, Sherlock.
Bosses talk endlessly about customers, investors and employees, yet the audience they’re often most anxious to impress is each other. on.ft.com/3KbBA6T
November 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
No shit, Sherlock.
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I feel in my heart this has been true for a long time
UN: Jakarta Overtakes Tokyo as World's Most Populous Capital City - https://en.tempo.co/read/2068182/un-jakarta-overtakes-tokyo-as-worlds-most-populous-capital-city
UN: Jakarta Overtakes Tokyo as World's Most Populous Capital City
The Indonesian capital, Jakarta, has become the world's most populous capital city with 42 million residents, according to the United Nations (UN).
en.tempo.co
November 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
I feel in my heart this has been true for a long time
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I don't have a TikTok but my friends always come through with the most relevant ones
November 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I don't have a TikTok but my friends always come through with the most relevant ones
jesus fucking christ they're making another insomnia cure (dune)
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
jesus fucking christ they're making another insomnia cure (dune)
insanity that Windows itself is turning into demoware. You can turn most of the horseshit off (recommend OOSU10) but fair dinkum what a dumb move from microsoft.
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 AM
insanity that Windows itself is turning into demoware. You can turn most of the horseshit off (recommend OOSU10) but fair dinkum what a dumb move from microsoft.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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the more I futz about with it the more I am convinced there are literally hundreds of millions of middle management dipshits using this thing full time to churn out the pointless slop that their pointless jobs require. Perfect for generating shit no one reads.
November 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
the more I futz about with it the more I am convinced there are literally hundreds of millions of middle management dipshits using this thing full time to churn out the pointless slop that their pointless jobs require. Perfect for generating shit no one reads.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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My favoured conspiracy theory is that they actually stopped making chiko rolls in 1991 and we’ve just been working through a massive strategic stockpile ever since
November 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
My favoured conspiracy theory is that they actually stopped making chiko rolls in 1991 and we’ve just been working through a massive strategic stockpile ever since