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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 11h

I love the "it's realistic.. Real life is brutal that is why you starve to death if you don't eat an entire roast chicken every 15 minutes" as a gaming philosophy.

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 10h

Its a niche

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 10h

Being at a smaller uni helps too

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 10h

Evidence appears to suggest he is now no longer a trainee chartered accountant so fortunately I don't have to deal with him being a member of the same distinguished professional body as myself

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 10h

I am always sceptical of the idea anything in BTC is insider trading. Most of the market is totally artificial and weird moves are more likely to be inside baseball repositioning

Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 11h

Charles Amos already does this its worth saying. He is if anything too insane to get anything beyond death slots in GB News and The Critic

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josh @lobstereo.bsky.social · 12h

meme image macro with “books i expect my future partner to have read”

uncertainty in the empire of routine cover

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 1d

It's hilarious how they stop making any attempt to make the Ergon look scary after episode 1.

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 1d

Wasn't it also an internal power struggle within Hamas? As in Sinwa needed to do something to establish his own leadership and promptly did well anything

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 1d

As a communist, seeing Maureen Dowd aggressively pushing for NFT wash trading scares me.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

the double-event is upon us already

A meme showing a man at a chalkboard from "Pacific Rim". He says "in the beginning the [new French PMs] were spaced apart 24 weeks. Then 12. Then 6. Then every 2 weeks. In four days we could be seeing a PM every 8 hours until they are coming every 4 minutes. We should witness a double event within seven days

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 1d

There is essentially a quite lucrative grift in being a sort of young person wealthy elderly recationaries want to exist. What made Charlie Kirk a bit unusual was he actually did more than just grift. He did build a big organisation that did things.

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 1d

I knew he'd stopped fundimg Yudkowsky but I didn't realise it was so bad he was now referring to him as the antichrist

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

I couldn't believe this but it's true, Thiel can't decide whether the antichrist is Greta or Big Yud. Positively reeling.

(Washington Post) -- Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are "legionnaires of the Antichrist" in private lectures on Christianity that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future, according to recordings reviewed by The Washington Post.
In the four, roughly two-hour lectures, which began last month and culminated Monday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Thiel laid out his religious views to a sold-out audience told to keep the contents "off-the-record," according to an event listing. He argued that those who propose limits on technology development not only hinder business but threaten to usher in the destruction of the United States and an era of global totalitarian rule, according to the recordings.
"In the 17th, 18th century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Strangelove, a scientist who did all this sort of evil crazy science," Thiel said in his Sept. 15 opening talk, according to the recordings. "In the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It's someone like Greta or Eliezer," he said, referring to Thunberg and Eliezer Yudkowsky, a prominent critic of the tech industry's approach to AI.

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Ben Baker @benbaker.bsky.social · 1d

Wonderful to see the Jackie archives appearing on the British Newspaper Archive so we can see which hot to trot hunks the teen girls of 1964 were moistly pinning to their walls.

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Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social · May 11

I want to meet a Hanna-Barbera Otaku. I bet their perspective on the Flintstones is wild.

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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · 1d

Society today has no sense of community. When I was a kid, we'd play out on the street every day. We'd pop round Mum's for a tea. We'd bribe rent collectors for dibs on a terrace .. (I realize I'm remembering the landmark 1957 sociological study 'Family and Kinship in East London') ah.. Nevertheless

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 1d

"if anything employment outcomes are worsening more rapidly for those with fewer skills looking for blue-collar jobs than the highly skilled seeking knowledge work"

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@jburnmurdoch.ft.com as ever doing the essential work.

It's not just AI. And education still matters

What the graduate unemployment story gets wrong

People with a degree are faring better, not worse than their non-graduate counterparts

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Ian Smith @iankmsmith.ft.com · 1d

Credit insurance is back in the spotlight – my personal fomo. scoop from @leeharris.ft.com @bondhack.ft.com www.ft.com/content/de37...

Insurers prepare for wave of First Brands claims

Allianz, Coface and AIG among groups to have written credit insurance policies linked to bankrupt car parts maker

www.ft.com

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 2d

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 5d

It’s happened again

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 3d

Miliband's stuff is pretty good

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 3d

They need to find a way to make having pupillage a condition for being allowed on the BVC in my view

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 3d

Its actually the prime example of fiscal drag IMV. It used to be paid on a minority of homes.

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 3d

It is also an absolutely hideous tax to navigate and virtually no specialists really out there

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 3d

The claim SDLT has no impact on first time buyers is a bit of a nonsense, it massively impacts second or third time buyers who are upsizing or relocating, often due to work or family. Literally the worst place in the system for friction to fall.

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