Matthew Frye

@purble

…move along, nothing to see here *whistles nonchalantly* Various things. Very much personal account, I haven't figured out how to do professional social media accounts yet

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Matthew Frye@purble· 12d

This para

"We therefore agreed that the government’s ambition is to ensure every area in England has,
or is in the process of establishing, a strategic authority by the end of 2027, with strategic
authorities in place everywhere by the end of 2028. The government will not impose mayors
on areas that do not want one, but we do consider that directly accountable mayors
represent the strongest form of governance available, and so the suite of powers available
to areas with mayors will be commensurately greater. The government wants all areas that
are ready to have a mayor as soon as possible, as long as there is strong local support. We
will therefore invite all areas without strategic authorities to confirm their preference as to
whether the strategic authority for their area should be mayoral or not."

Matthew Frye@purble· Jun 26

Signing up as a fellow Mamdani recruit! (Although I answered no to the "would you fight and die for your tribe" question so who knows how much use I'll be.)

Your Results:
78% Woke 22% Chud
45% Techbro 55% Neo-Luddite
55% Hopepilled 45% Doomer
77% Davos 23% Dubai

Your closest match: Zohran Mamdani, Mayor of New York City (2026-present)

Matthew Frye@purble· Apr 28

Screenshot from the Oxford English Dictionary website, including "workshop, v. transitive. To develop or improve (something) by…"

Matthew Frye@purble· Jan 22

Do these people never learn? Doing something for Trump is never going to make him like you and will only get you stabbed in the back.

Except from article: Allies also say he feels particularly aggrieved that Trump has criticised the UK despite its military assistance when the US recently seized a Russian oil tanker in the Atlantic.

Matthew Frye@purble· Dec 7

Oh no, these missing deaths are driving me mad.

Bullet list (screenshot from "i will strangle a horse"):
- you died due to a misunderstanding
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- you got mangled into slurry after strangling a horse. was it worth it?

Matthew Frye@purble· Dec 1

Jamvent calendar time!

Advent calendar with a typical cliche festive scene with snow, Christmas trees, reindeer, etc. The first door has been opened and there's a cute little pot of jam standing in front of the calendar with a red and white checked lid.

Closeup of the little jam jar:
Confiture Bonne Maman, Abricots au Miel

Matthew Frye@purble· Nov 22

Version of "Consent Jesus" meme. At top: 'THE MYTH OF "CONSENTUAL" POLITICS' (where "politics" has been crudely photoshopped over "sex"). A man (with Mamdani's head) lies with a woman (with Trumps' head), each saying "I consent", and gazing joyfully at each other in a frankly disturbing way (I have regrets), but Jesus (with Vance's head) looks on saying "*I* don't". At bottom: "ISN'T THERE SOMEBODY YOU FORGOT TO ASK?"

Matthew Frye@purble· Nov 13

Meme of a stick figure person labelled "The Audience" in front of a table with two cakes on, one noticeably fancier than the other, but hey, they're both cakes! They are saying "Holy shit! Two cakes!"

Matthew Frye@purble· Oct 25

Oh no! The endless Bees are multiplying!

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Matthew Frye@purble· Oct 23

The existing IC service has some very cheap tickets too. Don't know the exact conversion rate, but I think this is under 5 Euro. Having options and opening up lines is great, but it's not like cheap train travel in Poland is a brand new invention.

Screenshot of a ticket offer from Krakow to Warsaw for 19 PLN from PKP Intercity.

Matthew Frye@purble· Oct 1

Judge ripping into experts. She really ripped into both of them. "You're not paying attention, and you're just making stuff up"

Extract of a court judgment of a judge's assessment of two expert witnesses. Of one: "…he gave the impression of not having engaged particularly rigorously with the exercise he was being asked to perform… …mercilessly exposed examples of generalisations, loose assumptions and failures to dig into the relevant evidence. Dr Richards also occasionally lost the train of his thoughts or did not accurately recall the questions." Of the other: "Mr Archia… was certainly no better. He was, despite the making of a succession of fairly major mistakes… extremely dogmatic… His evidence was on occasion plainly overstated… …sought to overbear… the court with a document dump of citations (numbers of which on probing proved not to exist or not to be relevant to the proposition cited)"

Matthew Frye@purble· Oct 1

Found it!

"344. There were also some puzzles deriving from the facts that:
a. One of the contaminants Lysinibacillus yapensis, was a species which was not isolated until 2017, when it was recovered from the deep sea Yap Trench;
b. another Ornithinibacillus contaminans is documented in a blood sample in Sweden;
c. a third Bacillus mojavensis was (as its name suggests) first isolated in the Mojave desert;

Matthew Frye@purble· Jul 13

There are worse places to be sat still on a train

Pretty views of a green grass-converted hill, rising up to wooded slopes to the right, with a big blue sky. At the edge of the frame you can see the front of the train we are on, stopped at a red light on a wide curve.

Matthew Frye@purble· Jun 20

Surely they should clean the stage *before* letting the audience in?

A stage in all blank white, with mirror walls on left and right. On stage there is a woman vacuuming the (spotlessly clean) floor and a man walking towards a ladder for polishing the mirrors

Matthew Frye@purble· Jun 8

🤔

Screenshot of Wikipedia page for Luigi Mangione, the suspected killer off a healthcare CEO. The picture at the top is of... King Charles III?

Matthew Frye@purble· May 24

I found the tree where they grow all the pigeons!

Photo upwards of a group of trees with bits of blue sky between branches and leaves. All of the branches have pigeons sitting on, dark shadows silhouetted against the light coming through the canopy.

Matthew Frye@purble· Feb 10

Bronze Medal Celebration meme, a man receiving a bronze medal on a podium during a sports event while overly celebrating and popping champagne despite coming in third.

Matthew Frye@purble· Jan 6

Some wonderful Mandarins in the park near me in Warsaw

Matthew Frye@purble· Nov 22

Art.

Conversation between @infinitescream and @infinitebeesbot:
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Matthew Frye@purble· Nov 20

Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you. Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire was exactly as good as you think it will be from the title. Some surprisingly big names in it though, Kevin Hart, Matt Lucas, John Rhys-Davies.

Matthew Frye@purble· Nov 2

AFAIK that's largely urban legend and there's not really any good original reason for doing it. Nowadays football players do it mostly because it's a thing football players do And because performative christianity is also a thing football players do, inevitably this becomes a thing too

An american football player (Tua Tagovailoa) with eye black in the shape of a (christian) cross on his cheeks

Matthew Frye@purble· Oct 30

*points* There you are!

Screenshot of a flight tracker showing a United flight recently departed from Chicago O'Hare heading NNE over Lake Michigan. There are also dozens of other planes in the area, mostly clustering around Chicago and Milwaukee

Matthew Frye@purble· Sep 17

AI art or Cookie Clicker icons?

Image of (non-AI) eldritch-horror-like worm creatures, mutated from friendly grandmas by the power of too many cookies.

Matthew Frye@purble· Sep 3

Gas pretty stable on average over the past ~8 years, slightly reducing. We've mostly made up with wind. Graphs from www.energydashboard.co.uk/historical