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@mattharrisonnn

Hobbies include adding long reads to my reading list and not reading them. I reply more than I tweet. This is not the only place I tweet. 🏳️‍🌈 he/him

Cape Town, South Africa Katılım Mayıs 2009
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Matthew
Matthew@mattharrisonnn·
then where is your audience concentrated? Do you just want to be able to consume English-language media and converse with people? Then it really doesn't matter, go for your aesthetic or cultural preference. If the latter I would obviously recommend British English.
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@ikbenbenji I once had to abandon some shopping in an Albert Heijn because I had no way to pay 🥲
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Matthew@mattharrisonnn·
@TonySeruga "Think tank for hire" and you produce these maps with AI and you either a) don't bother to correct them or b) (possibly worse) you don't notice anything wrong with them in the first place. Why the fuck would anyone serious ever hire you?
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Tony Seruga
Tony Seruga@TonySeruga·
🚨 You Mean to Tell Me Iran Lied?! February 25, 2026 — “We are not developing long-range missiles… we have intentionally limited the range to below 2,000 kilometers” — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (via IRNA). March 20, 2026 — Iran launches two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at the joint U.S.-U.K. military base on Diego Garcia, approximately 4,000 kilometers away (Wall Street Journal, citing U.S. officials). Neither missile struck the target—one failed mid-flight, and a U.S. warship fired an SM-3 interceptor at the other—but the attempt reveals capabilities far exceeding Iran's publicly declared limit. Guess what else is roughly 4,000 (4,400) kilometers from Iran? London.
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Matthew@mattharrisonnn·
@nikicaga The other one might honestly be worse
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Matthew@mattharrisonnn·
@washington_21 @SimpGanassi London to Stansted Airport is an hour's drive, depending on where you're coming from - it's 45 minutes by train from the centre for £18 (leaving right now, less in advance or with a railcard).
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hmm@washington_21·
@SimpGanassi I’m fine with incentivizing speed but it is extremely infuriating the lack of transit options at Stansted. You’re getting gouged no matter what you chose and if its not financial it’s your time. 90 min bus to london and that’s not cheap either
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Cal@SimpGanassi·
Free parking, even for drop off, has huge social costs. Charging almost triple for staying longer than 15 minutes incentivises one to be quick when dropping people off, meaning more people can be dropped off and you don’t miss your flight stuck in a traffic jam
Prem Sikka@premnsikka

London Stansted Airport drop-off price rises from £7 to £10; £28 for 15-30 minutes. Greedy owners portray it as an environment friendly move. Public transport isn't always possible. It is about higher profits. No regulator will side with customers. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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Matthew@mattharrisonnn·
@lebsiankitten Whenever I see this kind of "random accents to make it look foreign" for Swedish, I imagine the SNL skit where they do Abba and they (Maya Rudolph in particular) have terrible accents
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@nickthedicck @VickieforNYC In the UK, for example, I seem to recall that there is a 10% tolerance, related to speedometers having a <10% variance (your speedometer's 70 might actually be 75). The argument here is about the limit itself, not that technical aspect.
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@nickthedicck @VickieforNYC I don't know what NYC's rules say about where "speeding" starts relative to the limit, but clearly the actual number isn't the point in Vickie's argument. Nothing in the quoted post or article says "fines will be issued starting at 16mph".
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Matthew@mattharrisonnn·
@ATabarrok Okay but then why doesn't it just go and look it up and retrieve it like a Google search would? Instead of this whole song and dance pretending to be a thinking person that has to go to a library instead of code that has access to practically all the world's knowledge?
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Alex Tabarrok
Alex Tabarrok@ATabarrok·
Hallucinations are like six fingers, pretty much a thing of the past. Claude just told me: Honestly, I want to be careful here — I'm not confident enough in exact wording to quote precisely without risking fabrication. I'd rather not manufacture something vivid...I can point you there with confidence, but I'd want to look up the exact passage rather than quote from memory.
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@fermatslibrary That y-axis is wild 😂 "~10" and it's everything from below 1 to above 100 🥴
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Fermat's Library
Fermat's Library@fermatslibrary·
A bacterium and a whale have almost nothing in common. Except this: Their max speed is ~10 body lengths per second. Why does life converge on the same speed limit? We break it down this week: #email-newsletter" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">fermatslibrary.com/s/how-fast-do-…
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