Matthew Coates

39 years ago, there were only 27 California condors in the world. As of 2025, we now have 607, including 392 that are living free in the wild.

"Put that in your doom and smoke it" -Ursula Vernon

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Also, what exactly does he think Labour have been doing for the past year?

I never liked football anyway

Why We Should Be Reading Paul Churchland Right Now The more I get into philosophical and philosophy-adjacent discussions of current-generation "artificial intelligence" (large language models and the like), the more dismayed I am not to see any discus...

Why I think, in the current A.I. moment, we should be reading Paul Churchland. #philsky #philsci

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She joined the party when she was younger reportedly more as a social club and much of her social life has revolved around it. That obviously leads to an emotional connection to the party that voters don’t have

I think it is but in different ways. The Tories jettisoned much of what made them Tories on the alter of Brexit, potentially killing the party. Labour have decided to not change anything and pretend they’re still in a pre Brexit world, potentially killing the party.

It probably is, I can’t work out why else they’d name him that. But he just never seemed to have the same attachment to Labour that Kemi had to the Tories. He did the classic jump around various left wing organisations, not the “make the party my life” thing

I get it with Kemi, her life has been based around the Conservative Party as a social thing. I just can’t work out why Starmer is so emotionally invested in Labour in the same way

Article - Nuffield Politics Research Centre

@martamiori.bsky.social and I have been writing, since 2024, about why Labour's 'Reform' challenge and emphasis was based on a misunderstanding of Labour's vote. Here for anyone interested: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Labour have alienated the voters they had on the left, and failed to win over any of the voters they have courted on the right. Now their core appeal is all but gone and ever growing numbers of voters have exit options on the left, right and in the centre.

Welcome to the Valley of Electoral Death.

A 2023 tweet: every european election The People’s Democrats (center-right) 31 per cent Soviet Worker’s Party (center/center-left) 22 per cent Citizen’s Forum (fascist) 19% Wow! (Center) 11 per cent Friendship is Magic (left) - nine per cent Green Partt - eight per cent

This remains a good, tongue in cheek guide, though the centre-right is doing worse across the board than it was then, while the Greens are taking the “Friendship is Magic” vote in addition to their traditional core.

Family voting - Wikipedia

I did notice that someone from the group almost certainly wrote the very short page for Family Voting. 1/3rd of the page is just talking about how they discovered it

Indeed. Part of what is beautiful about so many metro systems is also what makes them sad: that they often represent a very brief moment of municipalities having money, ambition and power that vanished like breath on a mirror.

For some reason when Wayne Rooney eventually passes away in a good few decades I now want his skeleton preserved in a natural history museum next to some prehistoric reptile as a size comparison

I'm always curious how well leaflets against other parties in that parties colours actually work. Do they make people who might support that party read it, or do people pay so little attention to these that they see the colour, the party name and picture of the leader and assume it's pro that party

Some BART stations have a similar aesthetic (albeit worse than DC) and I love it, combined with weirdly retro futuristic looking trains

I love DC Metro stations because they make me feel like I’m taking a train in an underground version of the 8th wonder of the world, Preston Bus Station

The amount of people that seem to be claiming that people with mental illnesses basically shouldn't go outside at all has disgusted me

Tourette’s discourse shows the poverty of ‘mental health awareness’. We’ve successfully argued depression isn’t an attitude problem and people can’t just toughen up, but people can’t generalise the principle to other mental illnesses and disabilities.

I never liked rugby union anyway

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

These two look very much like a 1990s comedy sketch series

The first Royal to be arrested since Charles I AND a South Korean court referencing the arrest and execution of Charles I during a trial of a president who attempted a military coup? Are we suddenly living in the fantasy of one of the Levellers during the 1650's?

You know M.R. James would have had a field day with this.

Always think they look like birds that have evolved to camouflage among AI generated images of birds.

Maddening genre of writing about AI which blithely describes the conditions that to a civil war that killed one person in ten in China and proceeds on the basis that it would be less politically disruptive than deindustrialisation in the UK in the 1980s was.

Have I seen worse movies? Almost certainly. Have I seen worse movies that made me anywhere near as angry. Absolutely not. It wasn't even like I was expecting it to be good but it being bad. I had no expectations and I can still remember my anger at how bad it was 15 years later.

Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch. I still remember how angry that movie made me, as well as how incredulous I was that some of the people I went with actually enjoyed it.

Well he has so many jobs he might actually just be the entire British State at this point

Having only a very casual interest in Star Wars, ”Zeb from Rebels” could either be a real character or someone you’ve just made up to make a point. I genuinely don’t know at this point