Stephen Liddle

Stephen Liddle

@stephenliddle.bsky.social

Method. Madness.

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We've been putting Sir Terry Pratchett's Sam Vimes 'Boots' Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness out there for years. We should also point out that Douglas Adams' Shoe Event Horizon perfectly explains the current corporate obsession with AI.

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It doesn’t matter if you feed your kids organic foods, MAHA moms. It doesn’t matter if you lift every day, bro. It doesn’t matter how many supplements you consume. When polio, diphtheria, measles, mumps, and whooping cough come a calling, all that matters is if you are vaccinated or not.

Cake, in the only definition that applies to all cake, is a combination of Egg and carbohydrates to which heat has been applied. Therefore, as we all come from an egg, add carbs to ourselves and have heat applied to us, we are all cake. Since all experience is internal, everything is cake.

Dinosaur Comics!@qwantz.com

"what if it feels like it's real but it's fake??" okay what if it feels like it's veal but it's cake. WHAT IF?? qwantz.com/index.php?co...

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HMRC chasing £90m in taxes from temp staffing firm rescued from insolvency. Insolvent businesses sold in secret deals (pre-packs) which pay-off secured creditors, jettison others HMRC loses. It is a secondary preferential & unsecured creditor. There is no economic assessment of pre-packs.

theguardian.comUK chasing £90m in taxes from temp staffing firm rescued from insolvencyThe £18m deal to acquire Challenge Recruitment Group assets from administration repaid private funders in full

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The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

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ITV were interviewing a guy who was holding a white flag in the street in early 2024. As soon as the cameraman switched off his camera and they started to walk away, an IDF sniper shot the white guy flag through the heart. The problem here has not been a failure of understanding.

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If you're going to send me something written by an LLM then save us all time and resources and just send me your prompt instead. I'll value a text that says "Heartfelt condolence message with reference to a list of events" more, because this way I at least actually know what you were thinking

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Replying to @ryanlcooper.com

more details here: bsky.app/profile/mich...

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

Pretty egregious error from this book: The authors say Swedish deaths fell by 2.3% during the pandemic, proving that the country's lax lockdown strategy worked. But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths. research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...

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"The signatories also include 111 BBC journalists...The statement alleges Gibb has a “conflict of interest” which “highlights a double standard for BBC content makers who have themselves experienced censorship in the name of ‘impartiality’.” this seems important www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

theguardian.comMore than 400 media figures urge BBC board to remove Robbie Gibb over GazaMiriam Margolyes, Alexei Sayle and Mike Leigh among signatories to letter criticising Jewish Chronicle ties

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Republicans are lying about Medicaid work requirements. The truth is that a vast majority of recipients who can work are already working. Work requirements are just a shady way to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.

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Replying to @hopeisthething.bsky.social

Humility attracts attacks because they perceive it as weakness. Humility, compassion, and truth are three pillars of strength.

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I just met with legal counsel for my constituent, Dr. Badar Khan Suri. Dr. Suri is a global conflict scholar at Georgetown who was detained without explanation by masked agents outside his Arlington home, then disappeared without due process to a prison 1,300 miles from his wife and children. 1/

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Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

reuters.comRobert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reportsU.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.

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20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant. They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear. They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings. The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore. kfor.com/news/local/w...

kfor.com'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspectsA woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

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RFK Jr. is an unprecedented threat to US health. He just completely eliminated the CDC lead poisoning group and all teams that respond to help address local radiological and nuclear threats and all capacity for natural disasters response. Mind numbing insanity. www.cbsnews.com/news/milwauk...

cbsnews.comCDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffsThe CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.

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My God, the sheer cynicism of this. Forcing the poor and vulnerable to keep an account on your platform to receive the money that keeps them housed, fed, and alive. Digital serfdom

Leah Feiger@leahfeiger.bsky.social

NEW: The Social Security Administration Is gutting regional staff and shifting all of its public communications to Elon Musk's X read @zoeschiffer.bsky.social:

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Don’t worry - Mike told me he will vote against ANY cuts to benefits for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. I really don’t think he would lie about something so important.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) says it's "not realistic" to rule out cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.