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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 15h

That’s a great stat. I shall be banking that!

BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 17h

Yes I think that’s right… ‘no I’m not, I just care about this issue’ gets a ‘more girls died of starvation while you’ve been complaining than have ever been kept off a podium by a trans athlete so, again, why are we talking about this?’

Ps I don’t get invited out much lol

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22h

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 17h

:-)

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 17h

I had a friend’s wife storm out of a dinner after I asked - maybe too insistently - ‘why are we talking about this? Do you realise you are just repeating right wing assholes talking points, entirely designed to divide?’

Really triggered her

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 18h

To be clear - I’m not a gold fan at all, never have been. But there is quite a lot of it.

Although I did buy some last week which should put an end to this rally.

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 18h

Unfair - it’s pretty good for money laundering and buying drugs.

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 18h

Global trade is $33b per annum.
Global gold stocks are $27b.

Trade financing / payments etc probably takes a week max so, yeah gold could be a substitute.

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 1d

There are actually ways of moving boats that doesn’t involve flying them around

But I take your point :-)

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Heseltine, "Brexit is now having a debilitating effect on the UK.. It will be reversed, not it, when..The deception of Brexit has exposed Britain"

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t worry, I bought some last week so the rally is over :-)

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 1d

To be fair - Open AI and maybe Tesla excluded - the big players are fantastic companies with great underlying businesses and low leverage so won’t actually fail.

But they could halve or more in value and it will be 🤷‍♂️

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 1d

Honourable mention for the NZ stock market 84-87 which largely consisted of companies called SomethingCorp whose principal business was investing in each other at ever higher prices, in all-stock transactions.

Also crashed unsurprisingly.

Tbf MSFT, Google etc are cash cows by comparison

BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 1d

Like Amazon does with products that sell well…

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing to see here, just Reform’s leader suggesting UK emulate a country with Sharia Law

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

UAE has no democratically elected institutions, no free speech and an appalling human rights record.

Its economy functions on completely different metrics to the ours & ranks well below us for GDP

No serious person would ever think that we should emulate it.

But here's Tice calling us decadent

BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 1d

Reform leader calls for Sharia law in UK?

Did I get that right?

BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 1d

Ha just saw this
Sound on

ice.cream.assassin @icassassin.bsky.social · 2d

Felt compelled

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 1d

lol 😂

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 1d

Oh so we are going after girlfriends now?

Are they water-boarding her to get the names of Portland party shops where Antifa buy their inflatable frog suits??

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 2d

Other than counterfeiting or theft, that pretty much covers the options

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 2d

It would have worked if only he’d yolo’d into bitcoin with the proceeds

(a few years later but that you know).

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 2d

My favourite joke lol

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 2d

We can put that case behind us then.

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 2d

Nailed it

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 2d

Tories have made real progress with killing international banking - UK doesn’t feature for IPOs anymore, and listening to Jenrick ranting about judges, he’s coming for the globally recognised legal system too…

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