Thomas Bell

Called by @ndrew.bsky.social

Something strange going on at LinkedIn... or at Rutgers

Very impressive bar graph.

Amazing bloke who booked Sydney instead of Perth for a holiday by accident and is out to make the best of it.

Everyone thought Lula was cooked, hopeless. Then he bought a phone and started posting and now he's gonna get a 4th term. The lesson is to never stop posting.

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

An arrest warrant has been issued against Salvador's secretary of transport, one of Brazil's largest Lula-voting hubs, for keeping dozens of buses off the streets today. Again: what’s happening in Brazil is criminal.

Nice reminder that we are all human and no social agreement is immutable.

It's weird that some people's arguments rest on them proudly saying they fall for the simplest and dumbest propaganda trick.

Anyway, for those wanting to know what a cruise itinerary looks like when it's both very, very boring and far, far too interesting, here's the entire voyage as seen on AIS.

That poor tug was really giving its all.

One tough aspect of AI in writing is you probably need to be a native speaker to sense it.

a) that award committees aren't so smart b) that award committees don't care about quality c) that ai can write good fiction (honestly not my impression, but I've never tried to convince one to write a book) d) that it's all relative, and a crapshoot, and ai is just more crapshoot entries

Her vision of the world in 2040 if she'd stayed in office

Apologies, there was a third idea

Yes, but your two big ideas so far have been police and crime commissioners and Brexit. Shall we check on them first?

You probably know about the Jaffa Cakes VAT thing, but here are a bunch of others compiled for your tax nerdy pleasure by @timharford.ft.com www.ft.com/content/2b77...

We've discovered a way to get young people to vote

The staircase is back.

The Andromeda Galaxy, low in the sky over New South Wales, Australia.

In fact, Texas' solar generation has grown so much that it's surpassed California to become America's largest solar-producing state Texas already had a heavy lead in utility-scale solar, but has now passed California even when you include rooftop

They understand the value of a robust tax system:

The fall in immigration is mutilating Healey’s Budget iandunt.substack.com/p/the-fall-i...

The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

Nowadays when I see a misplaced Abu Dhabi I have to wonder if it was AI or just basic lack of map knowledge.

Lights are reflected off a bulletproof screen as President Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina. More photos of the week: reut.rs/4yGkBNh 📷 Evan Vucci

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

What?

literally illegal

It's weird how slightly off this is. The AI gets many things right (not perspective or continuity of course but besides that) yet there's this oddness that permeates.

TIL you can put a hold on clothes.

People are being very kneejerk negative on this, but this could very easily be spun in a positive manner Bluesky could really get behind.

The fact that Western publics are unreasonably mad at objective trade-offs and tolerable living standards (and have to make up new words to describe a nebulous “crisis”) is bad because it generates real crises (avoiding trade-offs causes debt crises, grievance politics cause democratic crises).

Yeah - the ideal solution is just “you get a share of the profits”, but we live in a world where we are asked to believe that Men in Black has yet to break even and Hollywood keeps making sequels for the love of the game.

It's weird to me that there are workplaces where others don't simply clock that their coworker obviously just got an LLM to do their work.

??????

Their mixed feelings is that automated enforcement meant they had to actually pay. It's incredibly easy to take transit to the beach here btw.

What does Kemi Badenoch think the level of immigration should be? Is everybody in the media & politics going to act surprised when the year to June 2026 statistic (on Nov 26th) falls below net 100k for first time this century Best estimate of net migration *now* (4th Q 2026) is zero, or negative

Continuing to be the ugliest election

Can't blame him for this one, I would also like an indoor swimming pool.