Desk Nerd

Desk Nerd

@desknerd.bsky.social

Ya hya chouhada Luchd-ionnsachaidh na Gàidhlig [EN] he/they [GD] e/iad

472 Followers 139 Following 85 Posts Joined Dec 2023
3 days ago
@TheChiefNerd

SAM ALTMAN: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

i don’t know how this is supposed to work in terms of intelligence but whatever these guys do is taking stuff that is not theirs to take and then sell it for the highest possible price

electricity water clean air knowledge

you name it

they should be treated like the common thieves they are

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2 days ago

Well Sunday to me is the last day of the week and always will be, it's how it forms the nebulous concept of "the weekend". If Sunday were truly the start it would be "the weekends".

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2 days ago
Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account 

Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart”
Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001
Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar  at city hall

Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

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3 days ago

"The next Friday" would be the next time it is Friday

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3 days ago

"This Friday" = "This week's Friday"
"Next Friday" = "Next week's Friday"

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5 days ago

No, but the move of English middle to upper class people moving to Scotland to fetishise the countryside and take castles is a fairly documented issue. Her inability to blend to local customs is also quite English.

Also important thing to note: she is not Scottish! She grew up in England!

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1 week ago

It's fascinating to watch cooler Labour heads like Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham say that comparing the Greens and Reform together is a terrible tactic.

Yet Labour ministers are hourly on shows keeping up the same narrative.

The Green Party and Reform are completely the opposite!

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1 week ago

Daughter Games and Wife Games are an interesting thing. they always come after, never before, the games centered on the men in a story—as if they have to ask for permission to exist

that doesn't stop a certain sector of absolute fucking babies from whining about the fact that they exist, period

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1 week ago

everything theyre saying now they said during iraq

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2 weeks ago

Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them

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2 weeks ago

This is a simple misunderstanding of the equation. French Onion Soup is actually French(Onion(Soup)) You have to divide it by Onion(Soup) to get France.

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2 weeks ago

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

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2 weeks ago

every time one of these markets dissembles and parses and weasels their way out of paying people on a technicality my heart grows three sizes like the grinch. i love to watch these people get scammed on crypto and nfts and gambling. they deserve it and it's funny and it's not my problem at all

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2 weeks ago

In order to understand UK politics in 2026 you must realise that a plumber & plasterer doesn't represent the interests of the working class because she is left-wing but a wealthy broadcaster & former academic does represent the interests of the working class because he is right-wing. Hope this helps

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2 weeks ago

this is horrifying. this is why they say death to america. because all we bring is death to their children and people

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2 weeks ago

Yeah it's a result of Hellenism innit. Ph=f is a Greek thing.

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2 weeks ago

Try telling Americans that free health care is actually FREE in other countries and you will meet, head on, the cruelly insular and one-sided nature of the American media.

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2 weeks ago

Deeply evil, genocidal policy. Here are some orgs that may be able to help:

Across Bsky, many people have shared Trans Continental Pipeline. This is a grassroots mutual aid network turned based in Denver that helps LGBTQ+ individuals relocate from unsafe situations to Colorado. tcpipeline.org

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2 weeks ago
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If you have to stay out of politics you might as well not make art

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3 weeks ago
University of Glasgow Professor Alison Phipps wearing a red robe in front of an ornate window.

A major report led by @alisonphipps.bsky.social calls for a renewed national commitment to supporting multilingualism as a core pillar of integration, education, and community wellbeing.

It was launched at the @royalsoced.bsky.social New Scots Language Taster day.

Read more: gla.ac/4tPdjFJ

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1 month ago

Standing up against these laws, both in the USA and numerous other nations, is integral for a whole host of issues

Gaza? Minnesota? Venezuela? If these and more matter to you, then you need to get active because these laws will handicap any online organizing for MANY causes

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1 month ago

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

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1 month ago

Not to sound like a guy who wants things but I think I would be good at being on Lateral with Tom Scott and I also think I could come up with some good questions to ask Hank Green

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1 month ago

Just got this email back. Don't use email, use their form: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/req...

If you haven't used their support portal, you may need to request activation and use the email you have associated with your disc account.

Hit the same points as you would in an email, tips below ⬇️

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1 month ago

Tim Allan, who just quit as Starmer's director of comms, was on the board of the trans-eliminationist hate group "Sex Matters", whose director of advocacy Helen Joyce urged transphobes to get through to "decision makers" so that the "numbers" of trans people could be "reduced." That's what they did.

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1 month ago
A guardian headline reading “England and Wales brace for downpours with more than 200 active flood alerts”

The headline is accompanied by a picture of a wet supermarket car park.

Why is nobody asking if “severe” rain is over diagnosed when it is part of natural weather variation? Instead of flood warnings, people should be helped to find dignity through labour with a compassionate approach to getting those in a temporarily submerged lifestyle back into the workforce.

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1 month ago

Tax.
The.
Billionaires.

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1 month ago

I say this having voted blue in every election I have been allowed to vote in because I understand harm reduction: in a country famously apathetic about voting, you gotta figure out how to motivate the unengaged instead of lecturing those already engaged for not being 100% supportive of all things

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1 month ago
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Which house was he JK Rowling????

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