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Aidan Skinner

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Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 6h

Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 6h

i've read that. they don't mention trade. one of them spends a lot of time on the benefits of the artistic design of notes.

Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 6h

do you think that we use paper currency that can be overstamped and did they have a large consumer credit market?

Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 6h

scexit, like brexit, will mean additional costs at the new border, replication of some mundane activities etc

Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 6h

why isn't it? the Tillicoultry will need to find a level in ERMII and getting that right is going to be critical to our long term entry into the Euro

Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 6h

profits? is there any sign of revenue?

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 7h

All else equal — ceteris paribus, as the economists say — if you were to just grab that expensive watch from the jewelry store counter and walk out the door, you'd be better off.

Only all else would not be equal.

Lots of data-centric political punditry is basically "grab the watch".

Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 7h

we do the dance

Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 7h

affordance is one of those words where my brain makes a loud buzzing noise instead of understanding it

Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 7h

Like Burns did anything other than smoulder

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 8h

Three headlines that tell a very disturbing story

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boomkat.com @boomkat.com · 11h

this all day

www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 10h

Eeeey!

Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 12h

yikes

Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 14h

Mixed saltire / Palestine flags by the university

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 15d

Please don't call it that

What You Will Need
• Experience: 5+ years as a video editor or producer-editor ("preditor").

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The Edinburgh Reporter @edinreporter.bsky.social · 17h

Liquidator of Bross Bagels confirms determined effort to recover director’s loans has proved futile – file closed!
Biggest loser is UK taxpayer – left with £635,000 tab in unpaid VAT, PAYE and National Insurance theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2025/10/bros...

Bross Bagels creditors get a "hole" lot of nothing - official report into £1m debt

Creditors of the failed Bross Bagels chain which crashed with debts of almost £1 million will not receive a penny, the official liquidator has confirmed. Losers in the one-time feted bakery business i...

theedinburghreporter.co.uk

Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 1d

TBF sterlingsation is less inflationary than launching the tillicoutry and hoping

Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 1d

Nah you just need to think about "market" to include arms production. This is why we have licence laws in the first place

History may not repeat but it does drone on.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

This is maybe my least pro-market position: the good thing about drinking in a pub is there is an adult who can cut you off, something which cannot happen when you are drinking alone with the booze you bought at Tesco.

Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 1d

Should go further and tax supermarket beer at a higher rate than at the moment- raises revenue, targets the biggest source of binge drinking and might help get people back into pubs.

Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 1d

Milngavie

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 2d

An important (global) public service announcement from Ed Miliband on the day that renewables have over taken coal as the largest source of electricity.

"Clean energy, it's happening and it's the future."

Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 1d

As a Kirk atheist I disapprove of popes but this one? This one's a dude

Politico @politico.com · 1d

Pope Leo XIV says he will "stand with" Catholic leaders in protecting immigrants facing mass deportations in the U.S., according to advocates who recently met with the Pope.

Pope Leo will ‘stand with’ Catholic leaders in protecting immigrants’ rights, advocates say

The comments from the pope mark the most recent push from the Vatican against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

www.politico.com

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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 1d

Aidan Skinner @aidan.skinner.me.uk · 1d

Depends on the household: I was, am, will be, sole earner and furlough cratered our income even with commuting cost removed