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Captain Haddock

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The tweeter formerly known as @jxb101 at the previous place Brexit is shite 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇿🇦🇨🇿☸️🔸

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1m

Agree with that - and next year looks like an oil glut

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 57m

Thiel saying the quiet bit out loud

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1h

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 58m

Israel has already taken Sparta I am afraid

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1h

Saudi has f all debt though

It’s more how it disrupts ability to implement MBS vision

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1h

Leveraged investment in private credit

a man with a serious look on his face

ALT: a man with a serious look on his face

media.tenor.com

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1h

I mean it isn’t knife island - that’s a bit silly

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1h

I mean the oil folks have so much money it barely matters

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1h

Underwriting standards have collapsed

Folks holding the bag this time going to include lots of ME sovereign wealth money

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 2h

According to some prominent news outlets if Europe does not emulate these innovative practices it will never catch up with America's current trajectory

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1h

Surprise…. it’s a fraud!

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 2h

Knife island?

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 4h

It’s the apotheosis of consumerism

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 5h

Imagine being this lame

The Telegraph saying that an activist dancing dressed as a frog is a terrorist (in coward quotes), and for some reason they’ve added that the person is non-binary

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 4h

Maybe Peter it’s you?
Have you thought about that?

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 10h

Peter Thiel has recently hosted 4 lectures about who the antichrist could be + warning that Armageddon is coming. He says the harbinger of the end of the world could already be in our midst + things such as international agencies, environmentalism and guardrails on technology could quicken its rise

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 8d

35 years ago today, the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist and its territory was absorbed into the Federal Republic. If you want to learn more about the rise and fall of the GDR on this auspicious #TagderEinheit, you can check out my new book: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-de...

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 4h

Fabulous! Shall buy! Congrats!

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 4h

Ah but she was white so it’s ok

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 5h

Private school billionaire funds private school fascist
Shock horror

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 6h

Pretty much

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 6h

Do the line bikes still have all their pedals though

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 6h

Yeh that’s gotta be it

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 7h

Baku?

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 8h

Beyond parody

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 8h

Curious