Bitcoiners have sex?

Access Industries being the Blavatnik mob?

Well, they do have cliffs

They could lean into sarcasm:“don’t forget to tip your landlord”. Or just Koalang it, coming up with an ever-shifting system of allegorical codewords (“green Mario” could probably last for a week or so before the river crabs catch on).

There was Corbyn, who, after his antisemitism judgment, has been deplatformed by the mainstream media, not to mention repellent, self-serving tankies like Galloway. There was a media-savvy “dirtbag left” (think Russell Brand, in his sex-god-Che-Guevara era), though for some reason they keep turning fash as soon as it gets expedient, and are the opposite of a solution here.

there’s an old saying: “you may as well hang for a sheep as for a lamb”.

Societies where there is a high male mortality rate adapt. Iceland apparently has had its uncommonly accepting view of single motherhood for centuries, stemming from the large proportion of the male population employed in fishing, and the dangerous nature (in those days) of going to sea meaning that it was not uncommon for fathers to die before their children.

Sounds like your supply of Friends may have been contaminated with Twin Peaks

These new Enid Blyton stories are getting pretty dark.

Not Ecco: they continue to do business in Russia. For my money and conscience, I’d buy American shoes before buying from them.

Any electronic device with firmware in flash. The charges will have decayed a long time ago, leaving a paperweight.

Sufficiently diligent far-future archaeologists may dissect and catalogue the devices well enough to develop a taxonomy of components, having their own names for components, CPU architectures and such, but they’d then be left with something like “this was a programmed control device of the Xargx Valley type, variant 13, only with a screen, a speaker, two microphones and a motor actuator. We speculate it may have been a domestic appliance, a children’s toy or part of a transportation device. Alternatively, it may have had religious or ceremonial uses.”

Maybe at some point Charles Stross will be inspired to write a short story/novella set on an island of sentient trains thinly modelled on Thomas, only extrapolated to reveal the full horrifying implications of its worldbuilding and twisted to breaking point; I live in hope.

Conservative men, it must be said, have their type

NATO will probably need Ukraine at least as much as Ukraine needs NATO. If Russia invaded the Suwalki Gap or Gotland, beating them back would be a lot harder without Ukrainian expertise. And keeping them out in the first place will be easier with Ukraine on board.

Musk is neither a Tesla nor an Edison; he is a Barnum.

“Why, not even God himself could sink this ship!”

They pay hundreds of millions to Joe Rogan, who was one of the vectors of getting young men into the far-right “manosphere” radicalisation pipeline. Were it not for him, and Spotify’s part in his reach, the US may now have President Harris.

… he thought as he balled testily down the stairs

If the rumours are that intelligence agencies have codes embedded in scannable objects that cause their country’s scanners to wave the baggage containing the code through are true, perhaps one should run the US, EU and Chinese scanners in series for maximum security.

When corporations put fecal matter in the water supply, that’s just the will of the free market and the natural order of things. When you do it, however, all of a sudden it’s “endangerment of life”. Double standard much?