Gerry Doyle

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Reuters Global News Desk editor, Asia. Defense, other stuff. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6

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yo, this is very good

Was just going through my photos from my PDX trip and found this video of @golikehellmachine.com and the rest of Tragic Lovers rocking out. youtu.be/A2DBJx4WXn0?...

Tragic Lovers - “Silent Sea” live at Shanghai Tunnel Bar PDX 6/8/2024youtu.be

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Dispatch #745 from FalconSAT-8 (L CLEARANCE) 1. Oblique Sewage 2. Illegal Heat Domes 3. Webkinz Villa

this would be one of the funniest political moves ever imo congress would meet in rfk stadium

One of the original unratified Amenments to the constitution (that has no deadline for ratification btw) would have capped Congressional districts at 50,000 people per district, or around 6,660 seats in Congress.

when the king has absolute power for one hour between governments he should nuke the moon. 100 percent, this is not even up for discussion

it's kind of amazing how every british person on social media knows the name of every single tory mp and is specifically calling out each loss

I'm incredibly bullish on America's future. I get it's a bit hard to see these days--the death throes of unpopular authoritarianism is pretty scary and there are real problems in the immediate term--but I definitely think America's best days are still very much ahead.

hey waiiiiiiiiit a second

this is iirc an afterburner test of a j79, famously used in the f-104 and also iirc one of the last (maybe the last?) turbojet used in a u.s. military aircraft before the more efficient low-bypass turbofans became standard anyway why did they do this to elmo

screams and screams and screams and screams and screams and screams and screams and screams and screams and screams and screams and screams and screams and screams and screams and screams and screams and screams and screams and screams and screams and screams and screams and screams and screams and

risky business, a patriotic classic

fourthin’ it up

phrasing

MOTHERFUCKING WILLIE TIME

the short campaign time would I think do a lot for my sanity

UK politics can be grim, but election night there with constituencies being largely ungerrymandered, losers standing next to winners of podiums, and the "election season is 6 weeks, not 2 years" default is incredibly wholesome

also don't forget the key part: there is no electoral college, so if people vote a certain way it creates the expected outcome

The Brits know how to do an election night. We can't do it the same way, because we have a zillion different federal, state, & local offices up for grabs on the same day, plus ballot initiatives & referenda. But one night with elections to a single legislative house is so pure, it's fun.

anyway. america is a good place. its government has done a lot of bad things, and it's ok to acknowledge those while also embracing the goodness, of which there is also a lot

what if you only want fans to visit your space

On MySpace you really can make it Your Space.

I asked chatgpt about this and it said ai was the most lucrative industry in the world

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There's a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It's Making Absolutely No Moneyfuturism.com AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.

the thing about this one that makes it shine is the scottish vernacular I have always loved, unironically, how scottish folks know how to write like they talk. it's beautiful

reskeet with a tweet you still think about i have this saved now, cuz it's just too handy

balmbottom on rickshaw, a village between kidneypaste and halbardshire

Watching the voting results come in, I am reminded that at least 50% of towns in the UK don't sound real at all.

overcoverage of a "national crime problem" that didn't exist sort of willed it into existence as a voter concern.

Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders. AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...

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ok so, without knowing the article this headine is attached to, it sort of shows how you can report a story straight (the first clause) but completely change the framing by including something analytical (the second clause)

Big victory for Labour — so big that the NYT just gave Sir Keir his own version of ‘Joe Biden Is Old’

anyway, happy fourth of july. that was yesterday here. it wasn't a holiday but I grilled burgers for my family and thought about how nice it would be to have a baseball game on the radio

well-heeled donors are privately saying we should choose a different sun

This is not news. www.nytimes.com/article/aphe...

Our Planet Is About to Reach Its Greatest Distance From the Sunwww.nytimes.com Earth whirls around the sun in an ellipse, rather than a circle. On Friday the planet will reach its farthest point from its star, known as aphelion.

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this is perhaps the funniest possible “Dems are already doing something like this” www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip...

kamala takes the stage as the presumptive nominee to the organ riff from “not like us.” the crowd goes wild when she says “our opponent, the certified lover boy? certified pedophile”

Vice President Kamala Harris Drops Kendrick Lamar ‘Not Like Us’ Reference During 2024 BET Awards: ‘They Not Like Us’www.billboard.com Kamala Harris dropped a reference to Kendrick Lamar's Drake diss track 'Not Like Us' during Sunday night's (June 30) 2024 BET Awards.

I honestly can't imagine thinking that journalism is an important civic platform and also thinking that "not voting is good, actually" is a voice I need to amplify. just mystified

Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote

this is just the kiwi pronunciation

improve a videogame by changing one word: Kerbal Spice Program

y'all ever get a rejection letter from a publisher who had said promising things about your novel, and also clean child vomit off a shag rug in the same morning

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the early 90's were SO early 90's, man

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Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...

tom clancy's the revision

I mean ass effect seems like the obvious choice here would also accept mall of duty

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I've done this with scissors and it's been a big upgrade for not much money. Have something to cut stuff in every room of your house

Adam Savage's book "Every Tool a Hammer" explicitly gives you permission to get a second x-acto knife and a second pair of pliers and leave a set at each spot you need them rather than wander around looking for where you last left The Tool and omg it is LIBERATING.

I mean ass effect seems like the obvious choice here would also accept mall of duty

ruin a popular videogame by changing one word: Tony Blair Skateboarding