Doug, Persisting
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Doug, Persisting
@dasmunch.bsky.social
· Dec 15
He’s getting a cat
To kill in a way
Dependent on quantum
Atomic decay
Schrödinger is coming to town
To kill in a way
Dependent on quantum
Atomic decay
Schrödinger is coming to town
An awful lot of American 90's rock is entirely unknown to me. I know I don't *need * to know the full works of Counting Crows or Live or Pearl Jam, but I feel that hole in my knowledge is there, and I should address it
What is your biggest musical blindspot for someone precisely your age?
For me - an elder millennial - it is that I have never knowingly listened to INCUBUS, nor could I name even one of their songs if you put a gun to my head.
For me - an elder millennial - it is that I have never knowingly listened to INCUBUS, nor could I name even one of their songs if you put a gun to my head.
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
An awful lot of American 90's rock is entirely unknown to me. I know I don't *need * to know the full works of Counting Crows or Live or Pearl Jam, but I feel that hole in my knowledge is there, and I should address it
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
I got a response to my Trainline review. Middle class parents reviving old names may have gone too far in this case
November 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I got a response to my Trainline review. Middle class parents reviving old names may have gone too far in this case
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Yeah, it’s pretty good
November 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Yeah, it’s pretty good
I’m 46, and have seen MML electrification cancelled four times now, I think. How may more times can it be cancelled before I die? I reckon we can make it to at least seven
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I’m 46, and have seen MML electrification cancelled four times now, I think. How may more times can it be cancelled before I die? I reckon we can make it to at least seven
I know that 70’s yacht rock was being filleted for samples by hip-hop crews from coast to coast a few years after this, but using Why Worry by Dire Straits is a) a bold choice and b) so far ahead of its time as to be genuinely weird
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I know that 70’s yacht rock was being filleted for samples by hip-hop crews from coast to coast a few years after this, but using Why Worry by Dire Straits is a) a bold choice and b) so far ahead of its time as to be genuinely weird
Well that was resoundingly mid by Divine Comedy standards, but by the standards of 1998 it was ambrosia mixed with sunsets and blow jobs #totp
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Well that was resoundingly mid by Divine Comedy standards, but by the standards of 1998 it was ambrosia mixed with sunsets and blow jobs #totp
Absolutely no memory of this
November 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Absolutely no memory of this
You know what, $1,000,000,000,000 probably is too much money
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
You know what, $1,000,000,000,000 probably is too much money
I’m Douglas to customers and strangers, Doug to friends and colleagues and Dougie to my Mum and sister. Anyone straying from these very simple rules is persona non grata. And just FYI, if you spell it Douglass, it isn’t spelt like that in the email header, is it? Do it again, and do it properly
I have unfollowed people on social media who have called me Andy. It’s not my name. I am not an Andy. You might as well call me Ronald. Call people by the name they want.
Dump him, girl www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
November 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I’m Douglas to customers and strangers, Doug to friends and colleagues and Dougie to my Mum and sister. Anyone straying from these very simple rules is persona non grata. And just FYI, if you spell it Douglass, it isn’t spelt like that in the email header, is it? Do it again, and do it properly
I don’t claim to have tremendous clairvoyance, or even be a particularly good judge of character, but it was absolutely crystal clear that the no.1 driver of Brexit was racism, long long before the referendum itself. Anything else was just delusion and excuses. I saw that, and I’m an idiot
For anyone still tempted to take Dominic Cummings at all seriously, he's now an advocate of Donald Trump-style open racism.
November 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I don’t claim to have tremendous clairvoyance, or even be a particularly good judge of character, but it was absolutely crystal clear that the no.1 driver of Brexit was racism, long long before the referendum itself. Anything else was just delusion and excuses. I saw that, and I’m an idiot
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I’m sorry but this move has been obvious from space since the inception of the electric car. Was the expectation that fuel duty would trend to 0 and politicians would just go “whoops, no more vehicle revenues for us 😔”
November 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I’m sorry but this move has been obvious from space since the inception of the electric car. Was the expectation that fuel duty would trend to 0 and politicians would just go “whoops, no more vehicle revenues for us 😔”
It's a minor consideration, but the next occupier of the White House is going to have to spend a lot of time, money and effort making it useable again after Don covered it in plastic gold and Live Laugh Love writing to turn it into the kind of tacky dreadfulness exhibition he's comfortable in
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
It's a minor consideration, but the next occupier of the White House is going to have to spend a lot of time, money and effort making it useable again after Don covered it in plastic gold and Live Laugh Love writing to turn it into the kind of tacky dreadfulness exhibition he's comfortable in
Oh look, exactly what needs doing. Loads of other countries do something similar, it's really obvious that those who use or damage roads and roadspace the most should pay the most. The only hitch I can see is that it's political suicide and will end up being another multi-squillion pound PFI fuckup
Reeves set to unveil plan for EV drivers to pay per mile charges at Budget on.ft.com/4qLCd7z
Reeves set to unveil plan for EV drivers to pay per mile charges at Budget
Chancellor looks to offset a forecast sharp drop in government revenue from fuel duty
on.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Oh look, exactly what needs doing. Loads of other countries do something similar, it's really obvious that those who use or damage roads and roadspace the most should pay the most. The only hitch I can see is that it's political suicide and will end up being another multi-squillion pound PFI fuckup
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The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
Now that’s FANCY
November 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Now that’s FANCY
We all just watched Mamdani win New York on a really negative, joyless and bleak campaign, after all
November 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
We all just watched Mamdani win New York on a really negative, joyless and bleak campaign, after all
[Democrat Campaign HQ, New York, 01:34am]
REPORTER 1: Mr Mamdani, Tom Stump from MSNBC, what do you say to Andrew Cuomo after defeating him?
REPORTER 2: Jennifer Brine, ABC News, how will your policy of free bus rides affect NYC taxes?
REPORTER 3: Chris Mason, BBC News, where's your fucking poppy?
REPORTER 1: Mr Mamdani, Tom Stump from MSNBC, what do you say to Andrew Cuomo after defeating him?
REPORTER 2: Jennifer Brine, ABC News, how will your policy of free bus rides affect NYC taxes?
REPORTER 3: Chris Mason, BBC News, where's your fucking poppy?
November 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
[Democrat Campaign HQ, New York, 01:34am]
REPORTER 1: Mr Mamdani, Tom Stump from MSNBC, what do you say to Andrew Cuomo after defeating him?
REPORTER 2: Jennifer Brine, ABC News, how will your policy of free bus rides affect NYC taxes?
REPORTER 3: Chris Mason, BBC News, where's your fucking poppy?
REPORTER 1: Mr Mamdani, Tom Stump from MSNBC, what do you say to Andrew Cuomo after defeating him?
REPORTER 2: Jennifer Brine, ABC News, how will your policy of free bus rides affect NYC taxes?
REPORTER 3: Chris Mason, BBC News, where's your fucking poppy?
Morgan McSweeny: 'Au contraire'
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Morgan McSweeny: 'Au contraire'
Read this morning that Zohran #Mamdani founded a cricket team, making him the first democratically elected leader of a global Alpha+ city to have definitely read The Art of Captaincy by Mike Brearley
November 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Read this morning that Zohran #Mamdani founded a cricket team, making him the first democratically elected leader of a global Alpha+ city to have definitely read The Art of Captaincy by Mike Brearley