Alistair Davidson / is on Nostr

Democratic #Socialist #SNP member.

Web development consultant. Amateur #synth musician. Big fan of #urbanism and #cycling. Love a bit of political economy. #Buddhist. Sometimes write for Bella Caledonia.

#Glasgow #Scotland

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Last Notes

2024-09-04 12:43:21

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@npub1rkl…c3e0 dunno if you saw my post but I broke some code by upgrading Babel. The code was defining variables in the wrong order but old Babel turned consts into vars so they were all hoisted 😳

2024-08-16 11:46:37

My wife has a complaint about the Time Bandits TV series. In the last episode they travel to Bingley in 1996 and visit a goth party. She says there were only 5 goths in Bingley in 1996, she was one of them, and they didn't have parties.

2024-04-25 16:56:53

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 nobody knows at this time

2024-04-25 16:51:40

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 yeah they've been arguing for that since the day it was signed

2024-04-25 16:23:34

The right of the SNP are a real brain trust. Geniuses.

2024-01-04 11:35:03

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@npub1psd…9sr7 good news https://ianbetteridge.com/2022/10/26/how-to-run-scrivener-on-linux/
(Wayland is good though... but you do you for as long as X is still supported)

2023-11-03 18:34:06

BBC: "Everyone got duped by Sam Bankman-Fried's big gamble"
No, lots of us called crypto out from the very start. I was reading accurate critiques of bitcoin in 2012.
Journalists and financiers and politicians got duped or didn't care about the truth when there was money to be made.
Now you're trying to pretend nobody warned you? Get fucked.

2023-10-20 12:59:32

I'm very distressed by the total denial of reality by the political, business and media classes, even in the face of unprecedented heatwaves, wildfires, and floods all following one after the other. "Net zero by 2050" is a sick joke. We needed to half carbon output between 2020 and 2030 and it's still going up.

2023-09-04 13:25:16

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 Yeah I am an elder millenial and while I planned ahead to not do that myself it had not occurred to me that some of my once-progressive friends would trend reactionary!

2023-09-03 17:15:27

I keep coming back to this article about economic planning and the #ClimateCrisis
'It is no longer obvious that the Green New Deal framework—which ties inequality with climate policy—will offer success. In the unequal societies we inhabit, this strategy generates as many oppositional coalitions as it does supporters. Furthermore, given their track record and feeble plans, we cannot place hope in preemptive action by rationally long-termist elites.'
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/climate-planning/

2023-08-24 16:35:20

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66492767