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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 3h

"My t-shirt..." etc, etc.

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AAAAH-riadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 5h

Give Celia Imrie's fart a BAFTA #CelebrityTraitors

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 5h

Yo!

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 5h

Glass traitor

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The Onion @theonion.com · 5h

Hotshot Peasant Has Window

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 7h

I had to have two pints of Stella and a large whisky instead.

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 7h

Can't even have a hot chocolate because of #woke

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 8h

More girls doing hands-on STEM; fewer girls putting hands on brain-stem.

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 10h

Big Aluminum Foiled Again
www.gov.uk/government/n...

TRA recommends keeping anti-dumping measure on aluminium foil

The TRA has proposed that an anti-dumping measure on imports of aluminium foil in rolls from China be kept in place for a further five years.

www.gov.uk

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 12h

A big chunk of new Russia (and Chinese!) sanctions out today...

www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 18h

It is may be 3x average pay but 62% tax rate on earnings over £100,000 and cliff edge removal of childcare subsidies limit aspirations of upper middle classes bit.ly/49arr4e misleading to call it ‘working hard’ not ‘being lucky and clever’. Many work very hard on £12.21/hour 48 hours a week or more

This tax trap is killing youthful aspiration

Little wonder the under-40s laud Margaret Thatcher: she valued hard work, unlike the rules that penalise them today

bit.ly

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 12h

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been chatting with chatbots naked

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12h

Kemi Badeoch's spokesman tying himself in knots trying to explain why the substantive evidence the Conservative Government gave to the CPS on the China spy trial wasn't good enough to secure a conviction, but the additional evidence Starmer's Government later supplied somehow should have been

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 14h

I'm sure there are some accounting rules disallowing it but it seems a no-brainer to have set up "Invesco Marketing Inc." and simply charge exorbitant commissions for the marketing activities.
(They probably did, but there is still a limit...)

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 14h

A bakery in Oxford does this. Open doors, all set up, "no, you can't cross the threshold just yet".
Unfortunately they make good bread so I still go...

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 14h

No, of course it's not "an insurance thing".

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 15h

I've spoken to my lawyers and apparently you can only register entrop.ai as an S-corp.

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 15h

I'm going to register both and use the confusion as the basis for a massive cross-financing fraud.

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 15h

Apparently .py doesn't accept any direct subdomains any more 😢

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 15h

"Of course, that's a slightly simpliced model"

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 15h

And that was Rain Rain Barkels, with 'Slightly Simpliced' out now on Bullshit Records.

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 15h

That should be straightforward to resolve with a strongly-worded tablet.

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 15h

Hold on, just gonna register enthalp.ai

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 15h

And not a single mention of Gordon Brow... <a shot rings out>

Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 19h

Still, even if it's not strictly central banks (who knows?), someone's been buying @katie0martin.ft.com's pet rock. And it seems likely govts are involved.

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