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Alan Hasell

@alanhasell.bsky.social

Scientist. Engineer. Cynic. Generally grumpy old git. Geek but not the cool kind. Currently clean on OPSEC.

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Post image 07.11.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 15565    πŸ” 4573    πŸ’¬ 595    πŸ“Œ 197

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€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

I see everyone getting incredibly mad about this but… this is basically what the Dems have been asking for the entire time

it’s a bad deal for the Dems! it’s super easy to say yes to! and we are over a month into a shutdown anyway because the response has been β€œyou get nothing, good day sir”

07.11.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 697    πŸ” 110    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 2

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply β€œcities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

07.11.2025 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 15995    πŸ” 2625    πŸ’¬ 139    πŸ“Œ 96
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Minds 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

07.11.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month:

β€œ.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”

07.11.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2100    πŸ” 659    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 18
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Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package approved by Tesla shareholders The richest man in the world will get hundreds of millions of new shares if he hits his targets.

Tesla shareholders are fucking insane www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

07.11.2025 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 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€” πŸ‘ 700    πŸ” 184    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 5
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Yeesh. Someone call a medic.

07.11.2025 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 922    πŸ” 227    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 28

You just trained Trump to ask for more bribes

07.11.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Getting 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€” πŸ‘ 237    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 3

emotive butlerian jihad, more and more are saying it. the robot may not wear the skin of a man.

07.11.2025 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 385    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3

Welp. I have no interest in ever supporting my alma mater again.

Fucking hell.

07.11.2025 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 332    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 4

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.

07.11.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 884    πŸ” 104    πŸ’¬ 79    πŸ“Œ 15
Shamblin’s conversation partner wasn’t a classmate or friend – it was ChatGPT, the world’s 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 – right up to his last moments.

Shamblin’s conversation partner wasn’t a classmate or friend – it was ChatGPT, the world’s 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 – 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...

07.11.2025 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1832    πŸ” 665    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 79

People have struggled with my surname for my entire life, so you have little chance I fear.

07.11.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Chris 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€” πŸ‘ 438    πŸ” 134    πŸ’¬ 49    πŸ“Œ 11

They're bombing fishermen.

07.11.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Claim: Mamdani is a communist.

False: Any real communist will happily spend six hours explaining why this isn’t true.

Claim: Mamdani is a communist. False: Any real communist will happily spend six hours explaining why this isn’t true.

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

07.11.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 7574    πŸ” 1454    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 109

elon musk: people in the uk live like hobbits. um let’s look at you for a second bro

03.11.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2042    πŸ” 505    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 15
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Words to live by tbh

07.11.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 141    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 24
FT bar chart on β€œconcern about the pace of cultural change” broken down by party. 

Reform voters are at the top, more than half strongly agree β€œculture in the UK is changing too fast” and another tranche agree, leaving only a small box who don’t. 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 don’t agree - maybe fifteen percent in total?

FT bar chart on β€œconcern about the pace of cultural change” broken down by party. Reform voters are at the top, more than half strongly agree β€œculture in the UK is changing too fast” and another tranche agree, leaving only a small box who don’t. 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 don’t agree - maybe fifteen percent in total?

This is revealing.

on.ft.com/3JB1vEM

07.11.2025 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 8

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 β€œour crumbling justice system” has an explanation beyond β€œwe didn’t spend enough money on it” that I can’t stand.

07.11.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 466    πŸ” 109    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 2

It'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€” πŸ‘ 204    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
06.11.2025 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 7444    πŸ” 2410    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 21

if 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€” πŸ‘ 2556    πŸ” 430    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 32
Zack Polanskis increasing popularity has huge implications for the future of British politics.

Zack 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

07.11.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 963    πŸ” 263    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 11

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 you’re not speaking up about this, you’re hurting yourself

07.11.2025 03:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1301    πŸ” 329    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 86

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€” πŸ‘ 444    πŸ” 81    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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if i ever reach this point then just put me down

07.11.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1991    πŸ” 199    πŸ’¬ 117    πŸ“Œ 132

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