The Bellman

Driving didn’t “naturally” become inevitable. We designed a society that make driving inevitable in most places. We can design something different

Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...

I need to spend more time here. Threads is getting a bit Twitter to be honest.

Fascism sets in EXACTLY like this. Days go by. Nothing improves. The people wait with bated breath for SOMETHING or SOMEONE to help. Court orders, but no enforcement. Time passes. We become desensitized. Life goes on. Rights are chipped away. Life goes on. People die. Life goes on.

Concern about proposed loss of park space at Royal Arsenal in Woolwich - Murky Depths Residents at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich are concerned about a new proposal by Berkeley homes to build across a green space

Part of a Woolwich park could be built upon under plan from Berkeley homes www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2025/05/23/c...

Lab Leak: The True Origins of Covid-19 THE ORIGIN “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak

So, covid.gov now redirects to, uh, this... www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...

AWS CloudShell is a surprisingly useful trick

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McSweeney’s are keeping a remarkable journal of all the shit Trump 2.0 is doing

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Feeling Outrage Fatigue at the News? These Tips May Help Repeated exposure to outrage-inducing news or events can lead to emotional exhaustion. An expert who studies online outrage says there are ways to cope

Important PSA. Outrage even at outrageous things can burn you out. www.scientificamerican.com/article/outr...

I predict that by the weekend the IDF will be bombing Gaza again using Trump’s declaration of hostilities as a pretext. Hamas and Hezbollah will take up arms again and the whole shitshow will continue.

people, the new administration is a) completely unconcerned with the actual law and b) very online

please stop posting about the crimes you want to commit, especially in my replies

your opsec is not as good as you think it is if they decide to go after you for whatever reason

Remember how back in 2016 we’d use Twitter to find out if Trump had accidentally gone to war?

Brexit cheerleaders have gone awfully quiet – so let me remind you what they did to Britain If we do talk about it, we start to recognise the gulf between their words and reality

When something is a success, people like to associate themselves with it. So it's noticeable how quiet the Brexiters are.

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I love watching HEMA tournaments. It’s great to see fencers doing their best to follow the advice and teaching in the historical documents to skip up and down like a rabbit on cocaine.

The knee jerk from some of the left and center to blame this plane crash in Washington on Trump is as irrational and conspiratorial as anything from the MAGA crowd. Just silly. It’s not the way to fight the fight.

And keep on kicking Cameron’s arse for the breathtakingly cavalier way he handled it.

Perfect spot for an American Candy store

Some wealthy collector had a shopping list.

I’m just gonna say I didn’t expect a shooting war between NATO and the US to be on the 2025 agenda.

Yeah but the rules say that the halberd is more points so there’s totally a winner and HEMA is totally about finding the truth of historical combat.

And then my life would have meaning and purpose and I’d be part of a supportive community.

Just imagine if during the four years following the referendum there’d been folks trying to tell the government of the day “there are a lot of very important details that need to be taken care of”.

The independent life of data. I have opinions

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Anyone saying “oh the American ChristoTalibanFascists are a minority” miss the point that the Taliban, and fascists in general, were minorities.

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” (Mao Zedong, 1927)

Good grief. Has Johnson been sniffing ground up moth balls again

I went over to permanently deactivate my Twitter account and some of you are still just…over there? Tweeting? Promoting your content?

I hope you’re rethinking this today.

Yeah, asking for revolutionaries to put their name on a list you maintain to sign up to a service with very questionable privacy arrangements is not going to work.

Wednesday.

The older I get and the more learn the less I feel I know things.