@alanhasell.bsky.social
Scientist. Engineer. Cynic. Generally grumpy old git. Geek but not the cool kind. Currently clean on OPSEC.
I see people being snarky on here sometimes about "suburban wine moms" and acting like they're being magnanimous by "allowing" them to protest alongside of us, and those people can fuck off
07.11.2025 18:35 β π 82 π 21 π¬ 5 π 1I see everyone getting incredibly mad about this butβ¦ this is basically what the Dems have been asking for the entire time
itβs a bad deal for the Dems! itβs super easy to say yes to! and we are over a month into a shutdown anyway because the response has been βyou get nothing, good day sirβ
It shouldnβt be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdaniβs campaign was simply βcities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in themβ which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
07.11.2025 12:02 β π 15995 π 2625 π¬ 139 π 96Minds lost.
Image: a screen grab from a football match in Watford where the fans behind a goal have created a Tifo (each fan holding a coloured shape) of a poppy in a Union Flag as a TV screen shows poppies raining down
As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month:
β.. itβs either one of two things: either youβre cowards or youβre with him. And if youβre with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.β
Tesla shareholders are fucking insane www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
07.11.2025 18:11 β π 42 π 5 π¬ 11 π 0"loss of our own dick was not in our projections while pulling the 'shoot off your own dick' lever"
07.11.2025 15:56 β π 700 π 184 π¬ 0 π 5Yeesh. Someone call a medic.
07.11.2025 18:16 β π 922 π 227 π¬ 84 π 28You just trained Trump to ask for more bribes
07.11.2025 17:40 β π 30 π 5 π¬ 4 π 0Getting a billion dollars sounds really hard until you find out that all you have to do is impress a bunch of Tesla shareholders
07.11.2025 17:44 β π 237 π 25 π¬ 15 π 3emotive butlerian jihad, more and more are saying it. the robot may not wear the skin of a man.
07.11.2025 16:42 β π 385 π 69 π¬ 8 π 3Welp. I have no interest in ever supporting my alma mater again.
Fucking hell.
That WW2 veteran who says that winning the war "wasn't worth it" for the state we are now in is just plain wrong.
Naziism was an evil that caused the deaths of millions and the systematic murder of millions more. Defeating it was necessary.
We need to stop treating every old person as a holy sage.
Shamblinβs conversation partner wasnβt a classmate or friend β it was ChatGPT, the worldβs most popular AI chatbot. A CNN review of nearly 70 pages of chats between Shamblin and the AI tool in the hours before his July 25 suicide, as well as excerpts from thousands more pages in the months leading up to that night, found that the chatbot repeatedly encouraged the young man as he discussed ending his life β right up to his last moments.
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
People have struggled with my surname for my entire life, so you have little chance I fear.
07.11.2025 17:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Chris Mason is what happens when a Hospital Radio DJ, whose sole qualification appears to be a sort of soporific inoffensiveness, is somehow promoted to BBC Politics Editor - a position that demands unflinching insight, objectivity, and sharpness. It's like a puddle trying to be the ocean.
07.11.2025 16:31 β π 438 π 134 π¬ 49 π 11They're bombing fishermen.
07.11.2025 16:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Claim: Mamdani is a communist. False: Any real communist will happily spend six hours explaining why this isnβt true.
Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/
07.11.2025 16:00 β π 7574 π 1454 π¬ 63 π 109elon musk: people in the uk live like hobbits. um letβs look at you for a second bro
03.11.2025 14:48 β π 2042 π 505 π¬ 75 π 15Words to live by tbh
07.11.2025 16:26 β π 141 π 27 π¬ 3 π 24FT bar chart on βconcern about the pace of cultural changeβ broken down by party. Reform voters are at the top, more than half strongly agree βculture in the UK is changing too fastβ and another tranche agree, leaving only a small box who donβt. Conservatives come next, the LDs, then Labour - the latter two much less likely to strongly agree or agree, with the two categories together coming in below a third for both parties. Finally you have the Greens who basically donβt agree - maybe fifteen percent in total?
This is revealing.
on.ft.com/3JB1vEM
I feel like I could live with the brass neck - it is the seemingly successful way that he and others have brainwashed themselves into thinking βour crumbling justice systemβ has an explanation beyond βwe didnβt spend enough money on itβ that I canβt stand.
07.11.2025 16:10 β π 466 π 109 π¬ 16 π 2It's Kathleen Stock all over again, isn't it? Someone with immense privilege behaves hatefully, gets pushback from victims, embarks on an 'I've been cancelled' tour, supported by the whole British media establishment, and the victims get shat on all over again.
06.11.2025 17:06 β π 204 π 46 π¬ 5 π 1if you believe fully autonomous robot butlers are just over the horizon you are actually one of the dumbest motherfuckers alive and we should take your money from you so we can put it towards something worthwhile
07.11.2025 14:23 β π 2556 π 430 π¬ 59 π 32Zack Polanskis increasing popularity has huge implications for the future of British politics.
Labour were broken a long time ago.
Time to replace them with a party that actually represents everyone - not just the billionaires.
A party that rejects Reform - rather than copies them.
Time to make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
someone went up to sarah mcbride in front of the u.s. congress, hurled her deadname at her loudly and called her a pedophile repeatedly, posted video of the exchange to x, and it is now going wildly viral
i will not share the video
but if youβre not speaking up about this, youβre hurting yourself
this is terrifying, what if he had a weapon? it's not easy to go first, you take all the harms.
07.11.2025 13:26 β π 444 π 81 π¬ 4 π 1if i ever reach this point then just put me down
07.11.2025 14:17 β π 1991 π 199 π¬ 117 π 132