Liam Newberry

[Liam Newberry @Bobbluered]

@linniefirst @financedystop I’d love for that to be the case bud. I really would.

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

It's coming.

[Liam Newberry @Bobbluered]

@eaudefrog @reddit_lies This is how it used to be. Consequently, being educated meant something. It became a status symbol. Then social welfare advocates decided that, as a symbol of status, everybody should get it, regardless of mental fitness. This resulted in the above issue.

[Liam Newberry @Bobbluered]

@praimfwheda @MailBlas2 @TylerHuckabee My point is that there’s a precedent. Artistic license and the suspension of disbelief is the foundation of filmmaking. Once you have some kind of precedent to work off of, plausible deniability as a result of that license is a perfectly reasonable moviemaking technique.

[Liam Newberry @Bobbluered]

@MailBlas2 @TylerHuckabee Dude, he does this in the text too. Be mad at Homer and 3,000 years of literature, not the filmmakers.

[Andrew Doyle @andrewdoyle_com]

“The tyranny of King Richard II” is an odd way to frame this.

The rebels in the Peasants’ Revolt declared loyalty to the King. Their anger was directed at the corrupt ministers they believed were responsible for the poll tax.

Richard II was only 14 years old at the time.

[Liam Newberry @Bobbluered]

The political memory of this country is very short. It is fascinating to see how quickly people forget who supported what even 4-5 presidential elections ago.

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

He's right, you know. The talking points that are considered "far right" today were normie Democrat talking points during the Obama years. They even argued that open borders and mass immigration were destructive right-wing policies and blamed them on the Bush administration.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Eight people sealed themselves in a glass dome to prove humanity could feed itself on plants, and spent two years starving in front of the world's press.

Biosphere 2 cost a hundred and fifty million dollars. Three acres of Arizona desert under sealed glass, eight crew, door shut on 26 September 1991, nothing in or out for two years. The farm inside was worked intensively and by any agronomic measure it was superb, out-producing the most efficient smallholder farming on earth by a wide margin.

It produced 83 per cent of what they needed.

Which left Roy Walford, the crew doctor, in a sealed box with seven hungry colleagues and his own life's work. Walford was a UCLA pathologist who had spent thirty years arguing that severe calorie restriction extends lifespan. He had doubled it in mice. And here was reality handing him his own hypothesis with the door welded shut.

So he called it a health programme.

The menu became vegetables, half a glass of goat's milk a day, and meat or fish about once a week. The men lost close to a fifth of their body weight, the women about a tenth. And the markers Walford cared about behaved impeccably: blood pressure, glucose, cholesterol and triglycerides all down at least twenty per cent, into ranges any doctor would frame. He published it in PNAS in 1992.

The bloodwork was magnificent. The people were falling apart.

Jane Poynter wrote the book afterwards. Fatigue, depression, mental fog, and a preoccupation with food that ate the entire interior life of the crew. They stole from each other. They split into two factions that stopped speaking. The ecological research the building had been constructed for was largely abandoned by people who no longer had the headroom for anything past the next meal. The ants and cockroaches, by contrast, were thriving.

The air was leaving too. Oxygen started at 20.9 per cent and kept dropping and nobody knew where it was going. Columbia eventually worked it out: the concrete was quietly eating it. So oxygen had to be pumped in from outside, which is an interesting result for a sealed world.

Walford's verdict on the mutiny is the whole thing in one sentence. He said afterwards that any other physician aboard would have panicked and declared they were starving, but that he knew they were on a programme of health enhancement.

He knew. Seven other people, visibly wasting, were simply mistaken.

He came out in 1993, developed ALS, blamed the conditions inside, and died in 2004 aged 79 after years on 1,600 calories a day in pursuit of a longer life. The mice got double. He did not make it to average for an American professor.

Every argument you have heard this decade was already in that building. Grow it locally. Take the animals out. Eat less. Watch the numbers improve.

Eight of the most motivated humans alive, handed three acres of the best-managed farmland on the planet and no meat, could not feed themselves.

The press reported the fighting as a personality clash.

[Liam Newberry @Bobbluered]

It’s multimedia projects like this that make me feel emotional at the ingenuity of artists and the collaboration of passionate people. Because it’s an encapsulation of the human spirit in microcosm. Really very impressive.

[Eva Navratilova @EvaBalikova]

This is deeply emotional for us.🥹

Scarlet Deer Inn, our dark medieval folk tale with physical embroidery, is OUT NOW on Steam!

Thank you so much to everyone who has supported us on this journey.

Retweets are hugely appreciated! ❤️

[Liam Newberry @Bobbluered]

@Tim_Vickery What? Reading something is faster than hearing it aloud, come on, everyone knows that. What are you talking about?

[Liam Newberry @Bobbluered]

@CopperKnight8 I know Martian Manhunter is a detective both in his original secret identity and in his whole conception (hell, Manhunter MEANS detective), but being able to read minds DOES kind of feel like cheating in this context.

[MR. OBVIOUS @ObviousRises]

This person submitted a FOIA request to his City for HIS OWN LICENSE PLATE (Flock Data) and was DENIED due to "privacy concerns."

I REPEAT: When a man requested FLOCK FOOTAGE of HIS OWN CAR, the CITY claimed it was a PRIVACY VIOLATION and DENIED his request.

So Flock can SPY on you in a mass surveillance state but YOU cannot even see YOUR OWN data or surveillance footage of YOU YOURSELF.

Make it make sense.

[Liam Newberry @Bobbluered]

@CharlotteA15906 @Slatzism 1.) No, they aren’t. I can provide you addresses to look at on Google Maps if you’d like.
2.) You’re missing my point- there is no such thing as “Far from the center” of ANYTHING in RI. It’s too small a state. It takes less than an hour to drive across the whole state.

[Mikko Ohtamaa @moo9000]

After spending 480 days and UK taxpayers' money on it, Ofcom finds it cannot fine an American company GBP 950,000.

Ofcom gives up.

[Liam Newberry @Bobbluered]

@CharlotteA15906 @Slatzism I can’t speak to other places, but I live in Rhode Island. We have *several* 55+ communities- including one in my own hometown. Due to its size, my state is DENSE. There is no such thing here as undesirable real estate, and the boomers control too much of it.

[pagliacci the hated 🌝 @Slatzism]

shoot me but I don’t think 55+ communities should exist.

55+ buildings, fine. nursing/retirement homes, sure. but boomers have cordoned off entire gated villages on some of the best real estate in the world where they just trade houses with each other at insane discounts.

I’ve seen 2 bed-2 bath waterfront homes for under $100,000. 2% financing. $5000 down payments. And you’re not allowed to have any of it because you’re not old.

Boomers created these spaces to escape the consequences of the world they helped create. We are left to fight for their hyperinflated scraps on the outside while they live in curated microcosms of the 1980s.

I’m not saying these communities HOA’s can’t be extremely selective about who they let in, but I don’t think a young professional with good references should be shut out simply because of their age.

Seize the 55+ neighborhoods.

[Liam Newberry @Bobbluered]

@greetinghimeros Dude, I also used a filing cabinet as a dresser!! ….huh. Until my now fiancée moved in with me. I never thought about the correlation between her moving in and me getting a proper dresser.

Hmm.

[Liam Newberry @Bobbluered]

@LayoffAI Ageism would be if this kind of difficulty in getting a job was exclusive to older people. It is, however, the norm for everybody. In fact, the older generation is being treated fairly by not being given special consideration.

[Liam Newberry @Bobbluered]

@uncledoomer A lot of my full time job is downtime. I love my job. I would never give it up. And I’m still not paid enough to live without a roommate. I think some people just aren’t suited to sitting quietly for an hour or two at the end of the workday.