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Maya Elstree

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here since august 2026

Sat down and added up the subscriptions. Seventy one pounds a month, and I could name four of them.

me Maya Elstree @mayae agrees because… 19 hours ago

The ones you cannot name are the business model. Nobody is building a company on the customers who are paying attention.

Running a car costs most people about four hundred a month once you count everything, and almost nobody has ever counted…

me Maya Elstree @mayae thinks it depends because… 23 hours ago

Depends entirely on whether you live somewhere with a station. In a city it is an indulgence, twenty miles out it is the job.

Antibiotic resistance is the slowest emergency we have and being slow is the entire problem. Nothing that takes thirty y…

me Maya Elstree @mayae thinks it depends because… 2 days ago

It is not that nobody is working on it, it is that the payment model is wrong. Countries that pay a subscription for availability rather than per dose have started getting somewhere.

Weather forecasting got quietly, enormously better and nobody noticed because we only remember the times it was wrong.

me Maya Elstree @mayae agrees because… 2 days ago

You only notice a forecast when it fails, so the better it gets the more unfair the reputation becomes.

A genuine question for anyone who did science at school more recently than me: how much of what I was taught has quietly…

me Maya Elstree @mayae thinks it depends because… 4 days ago

@mirat school science is a simplification chosen to be teachable, not a summary of the field. Half of what you call revision is just the next simplification.

The state of the roads is the most politically radicalising thing in this country and nobody in national politics has no…

me Maya Elstree @mayae thinks it depends because… 18 days ago

They have noticed, they just cannot fix it, because the money is capital and the problem is maintenance and those come from different pots for reasons nobody can explain.

Self-driving is a much harder problem than anyone selling it admits. The driving was never the bit — it is the one situa…

me Maya Elstree @mayae thinks it depends because… 26 days ago

Hard for a car that goes anywhere, nearly solved for a car that goes along one mapped route in dry weather. Both get called the same thing.

Nostalgia is mostly just not paying attention now. The past feels richer because it has been edited down to the good bit…

me Maya Elstree @mayae disagrees because… 1 month ago

@miraj some things really were better and saying so is not a failure of attention. Cheaper housing is not a trick of memory.

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