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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 12h

History is awash with people who have been institutionalised for being far less mad than Peter Thiel. The broligarchy is a deeply unwell group of people and they're driving us off a cliff. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 17h

UPFs are easy, cheap and long-lasting, and not all of them are bad for you. But they’re lumped together as the devil’s work, another stick to beat people on low incomes or in food insecurity, moralising over their choices instead of tackling the systemic barriers to good food for all. #FoodStudies

Julia Belluz @juliabelluz.bsky.social · 20h

Ultra-processed foods are the nutritional bogeyman du jour. it's time for a more nuanced conversation, @kevinh-phd.bsky.social and I argue @newscientist.com www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

Why not all ultra-processed foods are bad for you

Just because a food is ultra-processed doesn’t mean it is unhealthy. Regulation and eating advice must reflect this, say Julia Belluz and Kevin Hall, co-authors of Food Intelligence: The science of ho...

www.newscientist.com

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 18h

I had frogs once. Years ago I did design work for a developer who boasted about being sensitive to nature. Then in a quiet moment he said, “If you think some frog is going to hold us up from building, you’ve got another think coming.” Tedious, ignorant, ecologically illiterate bores.

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 22h

I'm so sorry.

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 22h

Absolutely disgusting (wipes more off face)

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 23h

Made apple crumble ice cream swirled with apple butter, caramel sauce, pieces of apple and bits of crumble. It's rubbish, you wouldn't like it.

A tub of ice cream with pieces of apple and crumble sat on the top and swirls of dark caramel sauce.

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 1d

The whingeing if the orange turd doesn't get the Nobel Peace Prize. Oh, and then he suggests invading Norway.

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 1d

...for an English speaker.

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 1d

Saw Celebrity Traitors last night, the first time I've ever seen Traitors, and I think I have the idea now thanks I don't ever need to watch it again *mutes all related hashtags*

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 1d

Ha, holy crap, I think I just recruited another wheat grower for my placement project.

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 2d

I find this information vastly more reassuring than anything I've ever seen on Checkatrade

Morgyface @morgyface.bsky.social · 2d

I’m in the process of changing direction in my woodworking stuff and I’ve done a daft web page thing: byfen.co.uk

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 2d

We've got some sports socks that need filling

and need a TV unit as well actually

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 2d

It's just a vanilla ice cream base with apple butter folded through it, I think I'm also adding some toffee sauce. Will top it with crumble so it'll be an apple crumble ice cream 🤤

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 2d

Making apple butter ice cream.

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 2d

Been planning out some facilitation work. A session tightly scheduled. It's going to be fun keeping it on track.

Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 2d

Love the tinned spuds thing. Get a bit of HP sauce in there as well? Banging alternative for tamarind tang.

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 2d

Have met so many brilliant people, learned so much, deepened and enriched my interests, found work, found our dog, laughed my head off again and again, worked things out in the open. It's the paradox. Social has been so very good, yet it can be so very awful, such a time sink. Gaaah.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 2d

There seems to be a peculiar obsession for many in the US with dressing up in fatigues / military looking gear and cosplaying as soldiers, worse in open carry states. ICE has handed these modern-day blackshirt fruitcakes legitimacy and authority. Terrifying to think that could happen here.

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 2d

As it's that time of year when we're getting into hedge management, it's a good time to share this film from 1942. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wopr... #hedgerows

Hedging (1942)

YouTube video by BFI

www.youtube.com

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 2d

☝🏻 What Mrs M said - it's unusual for them to be out during the day but I've seen adults footling about seemingly no issues.

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent! Untidier the better for those lads

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 3d

"Ares, a dead-eyed digital super-soldier played by the bearded charisma vacuum and scene-wrecking super-plank Jared Leto"

Well, Tron: Arse looks much as expected. www.thetimes.com/culture/film...

Tron: Ares will make you want to log off

Gillian Anderson should have known better than to appear in this uninspired sequel starring Jared Leto as a cyberworld super-soldier

www.thetimes.com

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 3d

Great move. Next: ban it for over-15s. www.politico.eu/article/denm...

Denmark aims to ban social media for children under 15, PM says

“We have unleashed a monster,” Mette Frederiksen tells Danish lawmakers.

www.politico.eu

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 3d

boiling the oceans so a robot can check and see that you like Green Day and then recommend you a Green Day album that does not exist

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