Thérèse
@tiggertherese.bsky.social
European, veg grower, archaic surfer, economist & extremely appalled ex-central banker.
RT ≠ endorsement. I may not entirely agree with all my own views either.
https://mastodon.social/@tiggertherese
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RT ≠ endorsement. I may not entirely agree with all my own views either.
https://mastodon.social/@tiggertherese
https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/784397322696509320
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I haven't watched this for decades, it's been repeated so often, but they were actually quite good...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ob...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ob...
Torvill & Dean Bolero - 1984 Olympic Winning Routine
YouTube video by Vienna81
www.youtube.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I haven't watched this for decades, it's been repeated so often, but they were actually quite good...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ob...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ob...
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So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.
It took only a 15-second clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt duking it out on a crumbling rooftop — made by A.I. with a two-sentence prompt and the click of a button — to draw swift outrage, and sizable fear, from Hollywood.
"It’s nothing short of terrifying," one scriptwriter said.
"It’s nothing short of terrifying," one scriptwriter said.
Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood
A 15-second clip created by an artificial intelligence tool owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance appears more cinematic than anything so far.
nyti.ms
February 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.
I remember Robin Cousins practising jumps in the middle of Bristol Ice Rink while the rest of us clonked around the outside crashing into each other but I don't remember this at all. 🤔
youtu.be/jg2lPhTYGNw?...
youtu.be/jg2lPhTYGNw?...
Robin Cousins - Olys 1980 FP
YouTube video by fsvin
youtu.be
February 16, 2026 at 9:43 PM
I remember Robin Cousins practising jumps in the middle of Bristol Ice Rink while the rest of us clonked around the outside crashing into each other but I don't remember this at all. 🤔
youtu.be/jg2lPhTYGNw?...
youtu.be/jg2lPhTYGNw?...
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Magnetic.
I love this scene. Duvall has to deliver a tongue-twisting amount of dialogue, but his body is doing more work than his mouth
youtu.be/Zxqkrmkhrjw?...
youtu.be/Zxqkrmkhrjw?...
Network - "I Got A Hit" - Holden, Duvall
YouTube video by No Small Plans
youtu.be
February 16, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Magnetic.
Been to the restored 1938 Saltdean Lido today on a recce for the upcoming @seasidenetwork.bsky.social symposium to be held in partnership with our friends @hbap1924.bsky.social
Full details will be available soon but you can save the date now to join us on *FRIDAY 26 JUNE*
Full details will be available soon but you can save the date now to join us on *FRIDAY 26 JUNE*
February 16, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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We're front page news in Australia 📰 as millionaires across the world urge political leaders to #TaxTheSuperRich
Dick Smith told Guardian Australia he joined the call for a wealth tax simply because it would “benefit us greatly”
Dick Smith told Guardian Australia he joined the call for a wealth tax simply because it would “benefit us greatly”
February 16, 2026 at 1:01 PM
We're front page news in Australia 📰 as millionaires across the world urge political leaders to #TaxTheSuperRich
Dick Smith told Guardian Australia he joined the call for a wealth tax simply because it would “benefit us greatly”
Dick Smith told Guardian Australia he joined the call for a wealth tax simply because it would “benefit us greatly”
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February 14, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Apparently, the fireworks may be celebrating one of the following:
Abda of Edessa
Elias and companions
Juliana of Nicomedia
Onesimus
Charles Todd Quintard
Kim Jong Il's birthday
Restoration of Lithuania's Statehood Day
Elizabeth Peratrovich Day
Rich bastards letting off fireworks day
🙄
Abda of Edessa
Elias and companions
Juliana of Nicomedia
Onesimus
Charles Todd Quintard
Kim Jong Il's birthday
Restoration of Lithuania's Statehood Day
Elizabeth Peratrovich Day
Rich bastards letting off fireworks day
🙄
There are fireworks going off in at least 3 nearby gardens.
Google AI tells me it's probably Bonfire Night.
🙈
Google AI tells me it's probably Bonfire Night.
🙈
February 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Apparently, the fireworks may be celebrating one of the following:
Abda of Edessa
Elias and companions
Juliana of Nicomedia
Onesimus
Charles Todd Quintard
Kim Jong Il's birthday
Restoration of Lithuania's Statehood Day
Elizabeth Peratrovich Day
Rich bastards letting off fireworks day
🙄
Abda of Edessa
Elias and companions
Juliana of Nicomedia
Onesimus
Charles Todd Quintard
Kim Jong Il's birthday
Restoration of Lithuania's Statehood Day
Elizabeth Peratrovich Day
Rich bastards letting off fireworks day
🙄
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Student debt is a generational injustice. Why are we squeezing graduates harder than the super-rich? | Gaby Hinsliff
Student debt is a generational injustice. Why are we squeezing graduates harder than the super-rich? | Gaby Hinsliff
Reform of this stealth tax is long overdue – and with it, a shake-up of the whole university system, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Student debt is a generational injustice. Why are we squeezing graduates harder than the super-rich? | Gaby Hinsliff
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RIP Robert Duvall, one of the absolute all-time greats. I had the great good fortune to work with him as stills photographer on the movie Stalin. Here we are in Stalin’s dacha outside Moscow.
February 16, 2026 at 6:28 PM
RIP Robert Duvall, one of the absolute all-time greats. I had the great good fortune to work with him as stills photographer on the movie Stalin. Here we are in Stalin’s dacha outside Moscow.
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Good.
UK bank bosses plan to set up Visa and Mastercard alternative over Trump fears
UK bank bosses plan to set up Visa and Mastercard alternative over Trump fears
Exclusive: First meeting to be held over domestic payments system aimed at reducing reliance on US networks
UK bank bosses will hold their first meeting to establish a national alternative to Visa and Mastercard, amid growing fears over Donald Trump’s ability to turn off US-owned payment systems.
The meeting, chaired by Barclays’ UK chief executive, Vim Maru, will take place this Thursday and bring together a group of City funders that will front the costs of a new payments company to keep the UK economy running if problems were to occur. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Good.
Now change your mind about the BBC World Service and the aid budget. 🙄
Glad to see this. The bar for delaying elections should be very high indeed, and shouldn't be done at the stroke of a ministerial pen (even if councillors have requested it) www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Starmer abandons plans to delay local elections in England in latest U-turn
PM under fire from his own MPs and opposition leaders after ditching plan to postpone elections for 30 councils
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Now change your mind about the BBC World Service and the aid budget. 🙄
There are fireworks going off in at least 3 nearby gardens.
Google AI tells me it's probably Bonfire Night.
🙈
Google AI tells me it's probably Bonfire Night.
🙈
February 16, 2026 at 8:17 PM
There are fireworks going off in at least 3 nearby gardens.
Google AI tells me it's probably Bonfire Night.
🙈
Google AI tells me it's probably Bonfire Night.
🙈
I remember the day decimal currency was introduced. Me and my friend ran across the street to buy some sweets so we could see some of the new coins!
Danial Hannan is a tit.
Danial Hannan is a tit.
Dan wasn't even born before decimalisation (nor was he anywhere near the UK when he was born) but still he yearns for Britain's pre-decimal times 55 years later.
February 16, 2026 at 7:37 PM
I remember the day decimal currency was introduced. Me and my friend ran across the street to buy some sweets so we could see some of the new coins!
Danial Hannan is a tit.
Danial Hannan is a tit.
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I remember decimalisation well, and suddenly it became much easier to do maths at primary school. I'm amazed that he doesn't mind looking so stupid.
February 16, 2026 at 7:08 PM
I remember decimalisation well, and suddenly it became much easier to do maths at primary school. I'm amazed that he doesn't mind looking so stupid.
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This needs to be a frame, in the Louvre!
February 16, 2026 at 1:09 PM
This needs to be a frame, in the Louvre!
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This is IMO fully consistent with Sir Keir being exactly what he appears to be: a clueless bonnet ornament on a car filled with crooks and shit gangsters, forever staring directly ahead, oblivious to the horrors behind.
February 16, 2026 at 1:21 PM
This is IMO fully consistent with Sir Keir being exactly what he appears to be: a clueless bonnet ornament on a car filled with crooks and shit gangsters, forever staring directly ahead, oblivious to the horrors behind.
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Didn’t loads of people spend years saying we shouldn’t bother about climate change because China burns a lot of coal? I expect they’ll graduate eventually to “China is sorting the issue for us”.
Large electric powered container ships are already a reality.
When posting about this 2 years ago the so-called “experts” said it is impossible.
Can people stop listening to oil and gas “experts” soon?
When posting about this 2 years ago the so-called “experts” said it is impossible.
Can people stop listening to oil and gas “experts” soon?
China Starts Sea Trials for Largest Electric-Powered Containership
China’s first 10,000-ton electric containership is beginning sea trials. The shipyard is billing the ship as the largest of its kind and a further bre...
maritime-executive.com
February 16, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Didn’t loads of people spend years saying we shouldn’t bother about climate change because China burns a lot of coal? I expect they’ll graduate eventually to “China is sorting the issue for us”.
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Nothing incentivises me more than spite so if there is a way for me to not have children in a more aggressive way than just by not having children you best believe I will be aggressively not having children even more.
As a woman would you really vote for this, Reform commanding Women what to do with their own bodies.
February 16, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Nothing incentivises me more than spite so if there is a way for me to not have children in a more aggressive way than just by not having children you best believe I will be aggressively not having children even more.
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What America did through ideology, the UK does in order to get a budget projection that we don't even really care about
Cuts to overseas aid by the UK are set to go further and faster than those made by the Trump administration in the US, as Sir Keir Starmer’s government wrestles with funding pressures
www.ft.com/content/ad52...
www.ft.com/content/ad52...
UK overseas aid cuts to outstrip those of Trump administration
Spending will drop 27% this year from 2024 levels to help fund higher defence budget
www.ft.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:50 AM
What America did through ideology, the UK does in order to get a budget projection that we don't even really care about
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Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/10/31/d...
Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel
Exclusive: Boris Johnson's senior advisor pushed for Covid contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison
bylinetimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/10/31/d...
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BBC headline utterly failing. ‘The saga of a £165m rail line that keeps causing travel chaos’
It’s not the rail line that “keeps causing travel chaos” its the shifting climate with more prolonged and intense rainfall and more frequent storms leading to landslips and the sea wall being washed out.
It’s not the rail line that “keeps causing travel chaos” its the shifting climate with more prolonged and intense rainfall and more frequent storms leading to landslips and the sea wall being washed out.
February 15, 2026 at 11:49 PM
BBC headline utterly failing. ‘The saga of a £165m rail line that keeps causing travel chaos’
It’s not the rail line that “keeps causing travel chaos” its the shifting climate with more prolonged and intense rainfall and more frequent storms leading to landslips and the sea wall being washed out.
It’s not the rail line that “keeps causing travel chaos” its the shifting climate with more prolonged and intense rainfall and more frequent storms leading to landslips and the sea wall being washed out.
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I saw someone use the acronym 'ai;dr' and I can see I'm going to be using it a lot
February 15, 2026 at 10:30 PM
I saw someone use the acronym 'ai;dr' and I can see I'm going to be using it a lot
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It does not take any especial brand of genius to understand that if you have no moral standards and don't care about breaking the law, you can accumulate wealth and power in a way that people who are morally and ethically upright cannot.
February 15, 2026 at 7:58 PM
It does not take any especial brand of genius to understand that if you have no moral standards and don't care about breaking the law, you can accumulate wealth and power in a way that people who are morally and ethically upright cannot.
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Relatedly: a lot of people use the term "millionaire" as short hand for "wealthy person" when that really isn't the case any more. 18% of U.S. households (including mine) have a paper net worth over $1 million. Using "millionaire" in conjunction with people like Elon Musk minimizes Musk's influence.
February 15, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Relatedly: a lot of people use the term "millionaire" as short hand for "wealthy person" when that really isn't the case any more. 18% of U.S. households (including mine) have a paper net worth over $1 million. Using "millionaire" in conjunction with people like Elon Musk minimizes Musk's influence.