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Her affidavit is here. I'll remember this lady a long, long time

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I ask myself if I'd have the courage, to stay filming if someone was murdered in front of me by violent government thugs.

Hopefully yes, but realistically I'm not sure. Hopefully yes.

It incredible to think that the Lady in Pink likely saved multiple, if not eventually 100s of Minnesotan lives.

And yes it was headed in that direction. The provocation so obvious, so deliberate.

Simply by having the courage to stand and film, then the calmness to upload, before suppressed.

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Zack would see the UK destitute, the banks all closed, trade ended, everyone hungry and even London bombed flat before he gives up on his quest for victory over all the powers and injustices of the world. He's utterly irresponsible in such a dangerous world.

Mehdi again and again you seem to think anarchic international relations are about consistency, norms and morality.

We are entering a phase where nations don't care about these things. Where raw power matters more than rules or consistency.

Think Mongol wars or British imperialism not UN and ICC

Exactly.

This.

Yes not arguing with you at all. Just asking myself questions.

I 100% agree with maximising UK+European hard defensive power and, where possible, reducing dependency.

Not disagreeing, just thinking aloud. I'm in favour of aligning with Europe.

UK+Europe will not, however, be strong enough to be active defenders of the international order (eg right of navigation, or protecting other countries or distant islands against invasion). We must be realistic.

You don't understand Lewis' tweet.

You're correct, but that's only because "The West" has hard power. Against the USA no one has hard power except those willing to drag them into a violent quagmire like Vietnam or Iraq.

Lewis is saying hard power is what matters now, not morality or consistency.

I don't know the right path ahead. Armed-to-the-teeth neutrality seems viable for core or UK/Europe for security. But we are very dependent on oil, gas, digital, safe seas, trade, food and much much more. We are very weak in action especially against US interests.

Yes, but are we willing to deprioritise defending the international order? Human rights? Do we put self-preservation over morality?

If Greenland or Canada are invaded, what do we do? In truth we have little capability to help. There's no action we can take that wouldn't bring vast retaliation.

I think that's the world we face. But UK/Europe's moves need to be very, very careful. They must be made on security, economics and our mutual interest, not plain morality nor blindly defending a very weak international order.

The tensions between morality/security/economics will be extreme.

We are enslaved to triple lock pensions, catastrophic infrastructure and other vast commitments to the future wealth of citizens

Plus huge debts to international bond markets who we rely on to borrow even more money to pay for basic things

And no we can't print money, if we are to buy gas and fuel

Lewis' tweet is saying the exact opposite.

There is no "global peace" or international human rights regime in the world ahead, for the coming years. Just hard power.

The UK and EU must rethink everything. We have very little hard power. What we have must be used very very wisely for our safety.

People are saying "it's like 1914" or "it's like 1939".

Honestly it's not. It's 1984.

"The rate of interest in London will not affect the price of gas..."

That statement is false and any economist saying it is not worth listening to.

IIf we lower our interest rates, we weaken our currency and pay more for gas. In Qatar. In Riyadh. In USA.

So embarrassing.

Your careful words are, in my eyes simply manipulation. Smoke and mirrors. With a sentence like that you should not be taken seriously on economic matters.

OMG it's honestly so embarrassing.

We are talking about how many pounds are needed to buy gas.

The price of gas in Qatar for someone who possesses pounds - as we all do - is affected by the UK interest rate.

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Oh you're back. How glorious.

Let's start again.

"The rate of interest in London will not affect the price of gas in Qatar"

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Somehow he seems to think it's all cool because the gas remains in Qatar and we don't actually pay for it in pounds so it's OK if other people buy it in other people's unchanged currencies and we simply don't get any gas so look magic no problem!

Since @zackpolanski.bsky.social's economic advisors are under scrutiny, here's my old twitter argument with @meadwaj.bsky.social, where he used the weird wordsmithing of leftist "economists" to argue that the price of imported gas is not affected by the UK interest rate 😂

This would be a great addition to ionide if it was possible to host it vscode side somehow 💫... Could technically MCP servers be hosted within vscode itself and run locally ?

GitHub - jovaneyck/fsi-mcp-server: A wrapper around F# interactive (fsi) that exposes an MCP server endpoint for AI agents allowing for fsi IO. A wrapper around F# interactive (fsi) that exposes an MCP server endpoint for AI agents allowing for fsi IO. - jovaneyck/fsi-mcp-server

Lately I started using VScode-ionide-copilot-mcp-server combi, that is giving me even better results. github.com/jovaneyck/fs...

Fable Python Introduction to Fable.Python This post is part of the F# Advent Calendar 2025. Thank you, Sergey Tihon, for organizing this wonderful tradition that brings the F# community together every year! Welcome to this guide on Fable and Fable.Python - a co...

My F# Advent Calendar post about Fable.Python (and ended up with Fable.Literate 🙈). Learn how you can use Pydantic, FastAPI with Fable 🐍🦔 cardamomcode.dev/fable-python #FsAdvent #fsharp #fablecompiler #python

Designing weaving software Applying my design principles to an unusual domain

My #fsharp #FsAdvent post for 2025 is up. It's about applying my functional DDD design principles to an unusual non-business domain, which is my hobby of hand weaving! Anyone else weave? I'd love any comments.
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Thanks as always to @sergeytihon.com

F# Weekly #47, 2025 – F# 10 & last #FsAdvent slots Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Introducing F# 10 – .NET Blog Introducing C# 14 – .NET Blog Introducing Major New Agentic Capabilities for GitHub…

F# Weekly #47, 2025 - F# 10 & last #FsAdvent slots #fsharp sergeytihon.com/2025/11/22/f...