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FreakAngels

23 years ago, 12 strange children were born in England at exactly the same moment. 6 years later, the world ended. This is the story of what happened next. So welcome to Whitechapel, some years from now, just barely above ground in a flooded England, where a clan of 11 strange people with purple eyes – the Freakangels – have carved out some sort of a life for themselves. A life that starts to show big cracks when a girl called Alice from Manchester turns up with a shotgun and a grievance, having met the lost, prodigal last Freakangel, who had very different ideas about what they should do with themselves and this flooded future England. Because the Freakangels have a big secret: Something very bad is their fault.

Chloe Bancroft

A real life bond girl?

By means of introduction, I’m a postmodern courtesan, a woman with a few lovers that support my independent lifestyle. I provide a glimpse of myself here only because I cannot resist the allure that some wildly compatible stranger I would never meet through the usual routes might come across it. Finding like-minded people is one of the true pleasures of life.

2021-09-19: This has been made into a TV show.

Street Use

This site features the ways in which people modify and re-create technology. Herein a collection of personal modifications, folk innovations, street customization, ad hoc alterations, wear-patterns, home-made versions and indigenous ingenuity. In short — stuff as it is actually used, and not how its creators planned on it being used. “The street finds its own uses for things.”

Tesla Founders Blog

Now, you maybe can argue that there are a lot of necessary changes as the company has grown and scaled. And obviously, transitions are always difficult, even with careful planning. But axing nearly the entire executive staff, letting the world’s foremost EV motor engineer go, trimming down the service organization before the job of opening the first service center is done, ripping through the firmware team – and doing it by random firings on a daily basis – are all hard to explain.

tesla is dead. too bad, this would have been awesome to overcome the fascination with internal combustion that erectionally challenged people have