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Ste Jormur

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Beats me why most dudes suck. Sure as hell ain't my scene.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · Jul 4

Rebooting this thread, because I just got an MP3 player for swimming, and my MP3 collection biases heavily towards pre-streaming music. Let's see how well my teenage music taste holds up!

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · Nov 13

You know what? I'm going to do a thread of music. Any time a song pops into my head, I'll post it here. Any genre, any era, any language, if I like it, I'll skeet it.

Let's start with something positive and uplifting. Vienna Teng feels like the most Bluesky musician out there. youtu.be/U4n_8R5lKnw

Vienna Teng - Level Up (Official Music Video) feat. Tommy Guns Ly

YouTube video by Vienna Teng

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 4h

He has fake sticker headlights, which really adds a whole extra level to it

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 5h

I was going to say that it's weird that a couple of moments imply that female headlights are sexualised just like women's breasts are, but male cars also have headlights. Then I realised that the same is also true of humans. Well played, Pixar's Cars. Cutting commentary on topless equality.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 6h

Just had Pixar's Cars on, which is weirdly kind of the same deal. One of the few big global Hollywood blockbusters that genuinely feels like a foreign movie

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 22h

People talk about how omnipresent and global US culture is, but MST3k is a good reminder that there's a huge, huge substrate of TV shows and music and companies and products that are apparently intimately familiar to Americans but never left their shores.

James Hickson @misterhickson.bsky.social · 1d

Did it ever feel to you like MST3K was imparting secret knowledge? Did you ever look at your classmates and say,
"Wait..do all of you seriously not know who Ernest Borgnine is!?"

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 7h

My best friend from school did AAT > local council accounting > Westminster accounting > climbing the civil service management ladder, so it is theoretically a qualification with prospects, but I don't know how typical that is, and as you say, surely there are quicker routes for a KCL/Oxford grad!

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 7h

Does it count the VAT on Haribo and Lego?

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 8h

(I would say, if the UK was mapped on the same standard as Germany then I'm pretty sure Bury, Rochdale, Altrincham, etc would all be marked, as would Sunderland. If you can tag every town on the Rhein-Ruhr Stadtbahn, you can tag every town on the Manchester Metrolink)

JP Spencer @jpspencer.bsky.social · 10h

The map below shows how far behind France and Germany we are in mass transit. In France, every place with over 150,000 people has some form of tram or metro.

But if mayoral areas can 'become builders' as @tracybrabinmayorwy.bsky.social puts it in the foreword, we can turn this around.

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The UK has very few mass transit systems compared to peers

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 9h

Canadian trains are as tall as a house, about a mile long and loaded with about 5000 tons of iron ore. RIP to that moose

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 9h

feels quite Guardian that this piece doesn't present the move as good news or even neutral news but instead spends about two thirds of its copy running through every single possible reason why a maybe fun thing will be TERRIBLE and AWFUL www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts

www.theguardian.com

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 9h

My son is watching a video of Canadian trains, and I've got to say, Canadian train driver seems like a pretty sweet gig. Get in the train, push the throttle all the way up to 20 mph, and then all you have to do for 2000 miles is sit back and slam the horn

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 10h

Butterfield Voice: Nerd. Second Nerd. American. Buzznusswoman.

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 14h

Are they hoping to start a Young Tory cosplay trend on TikTok
www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 10h

I do try not to mock anyone's appearance, but this stuff is just cosplay. It's a teenager's third or fourth-hand imagining of what a cool, classy double-barrelled aristocrat looks like, put on for internet attention. Mirror image of the young communist in a Che T-shirt and Chinese Red Army hat

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 10h

Last place contestants at a Doctor Who cosplay competition

LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 10h

Charles Amos is the legalise incest guy. Insane they didn't do due diligence. www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 10h

All the AI film/Tilly Norwood discourse in the last week:

Travis Daveley: I have this little dream whereby there's this whole village of reanimated corpses, and, if you like, a kind of control tower at the centre of that village with a bank of monitors, and I control all the corpses.
Barbara Wintergreen: Why use corpses? Why not normal people? Why don't you just leave things the way they are?
Travis Daveley: Because, because normal people... because I wouldn't have my tower. I want a tower.

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 11h

I love the idea of Amazon ripping off You've Got Mail. You think Jeff Bezos watched it and thought the happy ending was the bit where Tom Hanks' big corporation puts Meg Ryan's cute local bookshop out of business?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15h

Maintenance Required review – Amazon’s synthetic You’ve Got Mail rip-off

The beats of the 1998 romcom, which was itself a re-imagining of The Shop Around the Corner, are shamelessly regurgitated for this charmless copycat

www.theguardian.com

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 22h

this is a kind of perverse fandom, where haters follow the every utterance of the sin-eater and broadcast it as if it is critical breaking news. some of them become obsessed with the details of the sin-eater's personal life, or become experts on their personal and professional history.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 21h

(I regret to inform you that the last series had an English grad and a Design grad. Also graduates in Government, Sport, Law, and Psychology, which all sit awkwardly on the edge of humanities. One STEM grad (nursing), one accounting grad and everyone else had business/management or no degree)

Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 1d

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 22h

OnlyFans is actually a great way to tackle the national debt. Just not the debt of the nation the BC cavemen are so worried about www.thelondoneconomic.com/business-eco...

OnlyFans pays more UK corporation tax than Starbucks, eBay and Apple combined

Adult site OnlyFans pays more UK corporation tax than Starbucks, eBay and Apple combined, its company filings show.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 22h

Next month: "You really think Dave Chappelle, a man worth $71m, played Pyongyang Comedy Festival for the money?"
December: "You really think Dave Chappelle, a man worth $72m, played Hell Comedy Festival for the money?"

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 22h

I didn't know Snausages were a thing! I just thought the bots were doing a funny impression of how a dog would say "sausages"!

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 22h

James Hickson @misterhickson.bsky.social · 1d

Did it ever feel to you like MST3K was imparting secret knowledge? Did you ever look at your classmates and say,
"Wait..do all of you seriously not know who Ernest Borgnine is!?"

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