Banjon
@beardybanjo.bsky.social
striving to put humanity above all other considerations
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Excited to say that’s it my very first day as Head of Publishing Administration for the Office of Budget Responsibility. Exciting things to come!
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Excited to say that’s it my very first day as Head of Publishing Administration for the Office of Budget Responsibility. Exciting things to come!
Oh no. The MMT crowd are goi g with Cant Someone Else Pay For It.
Taxes to do not pay for public services. Govt money creation, mainly via the issuing of bonds, does. But, putting aside that lie, I would pay more tax for better public services. The problem is so much has been privatised that our taxes are creamed off by profiteering private firms. That I object to
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Oh no. The MMT crowd are goi g with Cant Someone Else Pay For It.
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Did it hurt? When you feel from heaven. 😏
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TRICK QUESTION ANGELS CAN'T GET HURT LIKE THAT NOW WHAT ARE YOU
WHAT ARE YOU
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TRICK QUESTION ANGELS CAN'T GET HURT LIKE THAT NOW WHAT ARE YOU
WHAT ARE YOU
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Did it hurt? When you feel from heaven. 😏
🔫 👀
TRICK QUESTION ANGELS CAN'T GET HURT LIKE THAT NOW WHAT ARE YOU
WHAT ARE YOU
🔫 👀
TRICK QUESTION ANGELS CAN'T GET HURT LIKE THAT NOW WHAT ARE YOU
WHAT ARE YOU
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Knives Out: A Star Wars Story
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Knives Out: A Star Wars Story
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Mood of UK political Bluesky, 2 days before the Budget: We're discussing about how we guarantee our own deaths in a nuclear war.
Things are going well.
Things are going well.
Yes, as a zone one dweller, I am maybe...against nuclear power if it takes away the central London guarantee of 'ending up a shadow on the wall' quite frankly.
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Mood of UK political Bluesky, 2 days before the Budget: We're discussing about how we guarantee our own deaths in a nuclear war.
Things are going well.
Things are going well.
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Archetypal example is “capitalism ground me down so I quit my job and set up a small business so that I’m my own boss”. You didn’t dislike capitalism! You disliked authority!
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Archetypal example is “capitalism ground me down so I quit my job and set up a small business so that I’m my own boss”. You didn’t dislike capitalism! You disliked authority!
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"Blue Labour's policies are based around the nuclear family yet the nuclear bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki should cure you of any notion "nuclear" is desirable"
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"Blue Labour's policies are based around the nuclear family yet the nuclear bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki should cure you of any notion "nuclear" is desirable"
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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You see this also with the “we have to reduce immigration or racism will get worse”. The average person who thinks immigration is too high does not think that makes gutter racism ok and does not agree with, e.g. “let’s do a Partition scale ethnic cleansing in the UK”.
Sorry to keep banging on about it but it's literally *they are on Twitter and think it's the majority view*
This is pretty striking and makes me wonder exactly what Labour have been up to in making policy seemingly in response to / fear of the former rather than the middle group.
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
You see this also with the “we have to reduce immigration or racism will get worse”. The average person who thinks immigration is too high does not think that makes gutter racism ok and does not agree with, e.g. “let’s do a Partition scale ethnic cleansing in the UK”.
I genuinly completly misread this and thought that the nudget was going to start taxing playing outdoors on windy days or some nonsense
It's a lesson for this government that kite-flying isn't free?
(One I'm not sure they are ready to learn, unfortunately.)
(One I'm not sure they are ready to learn, unfortunately.)
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I genuinly completly misread this and thought that the nudget was going to start taxing playing outdoors on windy days or some nonsense
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What’s the most deprived place of its size in the country? Blackpool, probably.
What Blackpool have a competitive advantage in? Ballroom dancing.
Which public national institution, with a track record of successfully relocating to the north west, runs Strictly?
They should move it
What Blackpool have a competitive advantage in? Ballroom dancing.
Which public national institution, with a track record of successfully relocating to the north west, runs Strictly?
They should move it
November 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
What’s the most deprived place of its size in the country? Blackpool, probably.
What Blackpool have a competitive advantage in? Ballroom dancing.
Which public national institution, with a track record of successfully relocating to the north west, runs Strictly?
They should move it
What Blackpool have a competitive advantage in? Ballroom dancing.
Which public national institution, with a track record of successfully relocating to the north west, runs Strictly?
They should move it
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Hope HMRC are investigating whether Gill evaded tax on the bribes he received.
(Bribes are absolutely taxable income, but people tend not to declare them to HMRC...)
(Bribes are absolutely taxable income, but people tend not to declare them to HMRC...)
November 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Hope HMRC are investigating whether Gill evaded tax on the bribes he received.
(Bribes are absolutely taxable income, but people tend not to declare them to HMRC...)
(Bribes are absolutely taxable income, but people tend not to declare them to HMRC...)
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Sad old man nod
November 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Sad old man nod
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Yeah, as much as I loathe him and he indulged far too much round the edges, Sunak did enforce boundaries on this, as did Starmer on opposition, it's only this year that Starmer drifts into what Stephen Bush rightly calls a "Trappist" approach to bigotry that the right have been able to move things.
As soon as politicians stop enforcing norms things can unravel very, very quickly. Currently the Starmer legacy based off the last six months of total capitulation and ceding of ground, bar one decent speech in September.
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Yeah, as much as I loathe him and he indulged far too much round the edges, Sunak did enforce boundaries on this, as did Starmer on opposition, it's only this year that Starmer drifts into what Stephen Bush rightly calls a "Trappist" approach to bigotry that the right have been able to move things.
"no snow at christmas? Make the best of it with the festive crack house"
November 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"no snow at christmas? Make the best of it with the festive crack house"
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oh, that's... that's not... you can't call it that
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
oh, that's... that's not... you can't call it that
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I’m not going to say that every single person in the United States who cares about a House resolution condemning socialism either way is on Bluesky but only because some of them never made the leap from Twitter
November 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I’m not going to say that every single person in the United States who cares about a House resolution condemning socialism either way is on Bluesky but only because some of them never made the leap from Twitter
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We need to go back to Eighties school vocabulary so that "disruptive" means "what a little shit" again rather than being aspirational
November 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
We need to go back to Eighties school vocabulary so that "disruptive" means "what a little shit" again rather than being aspirational
Just been to the gp for a routine blood test. I noticed one of the doors was marked Dr. A Lone.
I wish theyd gone into cardiology not general practice.
"Dr A Lone, can fix any broken heart except their own"
I wish theyd gone into cardiology not general practice.
"Dr A Lone, can fix any broken heart except their own"
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Just been to the gp for a routine blood test. I noticed one of the doors was marked Dr. A Lone.
I wish theyd gone into cardiology not general practice.
"Dr A Lone, can fix any broken heart except their own"
I wish theyd gone into cardiology not general practice.
"Dr A Lone, can fix any broken heart except their own"
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tomorrow's newsletter is literally called "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and boy isn't this a darling example, a phrase popularised by full-on racists on Elon Musk's Twitter now being bandied around in the mainstream press and sold as a Labour term
November 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
tomorrow's newsletter is literally called "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and boy isn't this a darling example, a phrase popularised by full-on racists on Elon Musk's Twitter now being bandied around in the mainstream press and sold as a Labour term
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Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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make me ready, Lord, for whatever
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
make me ready, Lord, for whatever
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the president, who tried to appoint another pedophile to be his attorney general, is trying to cover up his relationship with the world's most famous sex trafficker. his defenders have suggested that this may only be because the trafficker arranged payments to him from Russian oligarchs.
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
the president, who tried to appoint another pedophile to be his attorney general, is trying to cover up his relationship with the world's most famous sex trafficker. his defenders have suggested that this may only be because the trafficker arranged payments to him from Russian oligarchs.
You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! the WaPo journalist.
But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to.
But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to.
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 AM
You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! the WaPo journalist.
But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to.
But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to.