@iansilvester.bsky.social
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
22.07.2025 14:30 — 👍 11540 🔁 2598 💬 122 📌 95
Grand opening, grand closing.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
I really loved this conversation with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social - I've thought about it lots ever since.
Hope you enjoy it too!
youtu.be/3xx6lNFx8tI?...
Control of your own devices is temporary, but surveillance is forever.
17.11.2025 23:19 — 👍 324 🔁 143 💬 5 📌 2
Autumn Swiss mountains
Golden light this afternoon...
15.11.2025 17:47 — 👍 131 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
At the
14.11.2025 07:39 — 👍 5843 🔁 1131 💬 62 📌 41
8-track tape: Tomorrow's Harvest - Boards of Canada
8-track tape: Geogaddi - Boards of Canada
#NowPlaying Tomorrow's Harvest. It's so long since #BoardsofCanada released their last album that I'm starting to think I bought it on 8-track tape.
13.11.2025 14:53 — 👍 43 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Crime: Man steals bus with passengers on board.
Canadian Crime: He still makes the scheduled stops to let passengers on and off.
Canadian Crime Bonus: He denies boarding to one passenger because his bus pass had expired.
globalnews.ca/news/1152251...
I love Neil Young because he'll make a song where he mumbles "Got mashed potatoes/Ain't got no T-Bone" over three chords for 9 straight minutes and then insist you listen to it on the most high-resolution audiophile equipment possible. Happy 80th, king.
12.11.2025 18:39 — 👍 77 🔁 11 💬 4 📌 0I’ll put it more simply: my first (and best) aerobatic flight instructor looked me in the eye before our first lesson and said: “remember, airplanes really like the ground. They really really like the ground.”
09.11.2025 06:32 — 👍 494 🔁 91 💬 20 📌 2Attn @garius.bsky.social 😉
05.11.2025 03:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An abandoned building by the beach where a window overlooks the sea. The water through the window resembles a painting, so someone has scrawled Free Rothko on the wall.
Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
Programming Meme from Reddit
dealingWithSafariAsAWebdev
#programmerhumor #reddit
source: reddit/r/programmerhumor
Oh I wish I’d looked after me works
And not left me legs buried in dirt
Look on them there
And ye mighty, despair
Oh I wish I’d looked after me works
This is the moment for me that Claudia Winkleman became one of my all time favourite faces on television and all she says is “stop speaking”. youtu.be/cPpac4QGmXE?...
23.10.2025 09:38 — 👍 140 🔁 31 💬 13 📌 6Absolutely agree. Personal preference for the mix on the Boxed/CD release.
20.10.2025 12:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0British.
16.10.2025 17:03 — 👍 7533 🔁 2627 💬 301 📌 593😁
16.10.2025 12:15 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It still shocks friends from other countries when I tell them that mainstream drag and camp artists were pretty much standard fare on weekend primetime national telly.
14.10.2025 09:14 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Cartoon of a plesiosaur. Seen from the side, the top line of its shape is echoed in ripples up the page, reminiscent of the artwork for the Joy Division album Unknown Pleasure. Caption: Unknown Plesiosaurs
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
14.10.2025 08:56 — 👍 552 🔁 125 💬 14 📌 7
An image of a Bombardier G8000 business jet flying toward and slightly below the camera against the background of lower, hazy cloud deck. The aircraft is leaving a 'furrow' in a cloud layer. The tip vortices of the aircraft are leaving upward curls at the edges of the furrow. It appears to be a sunny day. It's not clear whether this photo is as it was captured or if there was some manipulation of the photo after the fact with photo editing tools. (📸 Bombardier)
« Bombardier Global 8000, the World’s Fastest Business Jet, Gets Even Faster With a New Top Speed of Mach 0.95 » Almost as startling is the 8,000 NM range. Not bad for a company that starting out making snowmobiles. 😉 (📸 Bombardier) | 🛩️ 📰 🥇 | 🧵 1/2 | 🔗 bombardier.com/en/media/new...
14.10.2025 02:15 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0I cannot sit alone with the fact that the inventor of the carabiner is an early 20th century German mountaineer who went by Rambo Herzog
12.10.2025 11:59 — 👍 85 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 0Björk’s Vespertine (who then later made a masterpiece divorce album lol)
08.10.2025 17:58 — 👍 54 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0This guy has some of the most incisive no-bullshit reporting on Ukraine I've found.
08.10.2025 11:35 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This is a party with virtually the same number of MPs as Reform (4 v. 5).
The way the BBC is treating Reform, compared to the Lib Dems and the Greens, is a dereliction of their duty as a public broadcaster.
NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
Still struck by a Merriam-Webster IG post I saw on legal doublets: artefacts of the bilingual Norman legal system. The English synonym went first in the pair
law (English/Germanic) & order (French/Roman)
cease & desist
all & sundry
lewd & lascivious
breaking & entering
free & clear
will & testament
Breaking | Greg Stoker reports Thirty-two vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla continue their mission toward Gaza regardless of Israeli threats, with an estimated 9 to 12 hours remaining until they reach the Strip.
01.10.2025 22:14 — 👍 83 🔁 49 💬 2 📌 4Another very interesting post by Z-Blogger "INSIDER-T." I should point out that he has informants in the Kremlin's decision-making circles, so in my opinion, his information is credible: "There is a real panic among the elites, comparable to those turbulent days of February 2022,
02.10.2025 06:39 — 👍 46 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1In 1945, the Allies faced a tricky question: where to hold Nazi war criminals until the trials.
A run-down hotel in Luxembourg was quickly converted to a prison ("Camp Ashcan"). The hope was to keep the nature of the prisoners secret.
In May 1945, this failed, and almost turned into a disaster. /1
