Cab Davidson
@gnomeicide.bsky.social
Mad inventor. Rides bikes a lot. Plays D&D. Forager.
Got to say the run up to this budget has been shambolic. But the event itself? Does anyone see anything there that leads to economic growth? There are some good measures, sure, on the fundamental job of growing the economy? I don't see it.
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Got to say the run up to this budget has been shambolic. But the event itself? Does anyone see anything there that leads to economic growth? There are some good measures, sure, on the fundamental job of growing the economy? I don't see it.
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"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
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Tax bands are a bodge that was invented to simplify the calculations when they had to be done in £/$/d, and without computers.
Now those simplifications are no longer necessary, we should move towards a quadratic regression.
Now those simplifications are no longer necessary, we should move towards a quadratic regression.
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Tax bands are a bodge that was invented to simplify the calculations when they had to be done in £/$/d, and without computers.
Now those simplifications are no longer necessary, we should move towards a quadratic regression.
Now those simplifications are no longer necessary, we should move towards a quadratic regression.
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Another Budget, another attempt to pretend that endlessly frozen fuel duties will be raised at some point in the future
November 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Another Budget, another attempt to pretend that endlessly frozen fuel duties will be raised at some point in the future
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On budget day, think of George Ward Hunt, who delivered his only budget in 1868.
On arriving in the Commons he discovered that he'd left his speech behind, & had to run home to get it while MPs sat grumbling in the Chamber.
That is why chancellors show the red box to journalists before setting out
On arriving in the Commons he discovered that he'd left his speech behind, & had to run home to get it while MPs sat grumbling in the Chamber.
That is why chancellors show the red box to journalists before setting out
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
On budget day, think of George Ward Hunt, who delivered his only budget in 1868.
On arriving in the Commons he discovered that he'd left his speech behind, & had to run home to get it while MPs sat grumbling in the Chamber.
That is why chancellors show the red box to journalists before setting out
On arriving in the Commons he discovered that he'd left his speech behind, & had to run home to get it while MPs sat grumbling in the Chamber.
That is why chancellors show the red box to journalists before setting out
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Absolutely, leaving Norway triggers an exit tax of 37.8% on unrealised capital gains above 3 million Krone.
Odd that this isn't part of the conversation.
Odd that this isn't part of the conversation.
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Absolutely, leaving Norway triggers an exit tax of 37.8% on unrealised capital gains above 3 million Krone.
Odd that this isn't part of the conversation.
Odd that this isn't part of the conversation.
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When they say ‘higher education providers’ do they mean universities?
When they say ‘exiting the market’ do they mean closing?
When they say ‘exiting the market’ do they mean closing?
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
When they say ‘higher education providers’ do they mean universities?
When they say ‘exiting the market’ do they mean closing?
When they say ‘exiting the market’ do they mean closing?
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I've never directly called Farage a prick but I can assure you I think he's a prick
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Nigel Farage says he's 'never directly racially abused anybody'
The Reform UK leader was responding to reports he made racist remarks to his peers in school in the 1970s.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I've never directly called Farage a prick but I can assure you I think he's a prick
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Pointlessly evil.
Disabled people choose these brands bc they come with a guaranteed replacement vehicle WHICH IS ESSENTIAL IF YOU'RE DISABLED.
They pay the difference themselves.
So all you've done is tell disabled CEOs/working disabled people that they have to drive a Kia.
#budget #reeves
Disabled people choose these brands bc they come with a guaranteed replacement vehicle WHICH IS ESSENTIAL IF YOU'RE DISABLED.
They pay the difference themselves.
So all you've done is tell disabled CEOs/working disabled people that they have to drive a Kia.
#budget #reeves
Luxury cars removed from Motability scheme ahead of budget
The programme has been criticised for allowing people with non-visible disabilities to get luxury vehicles as part of their welfare. The chancellor wants to support the British car market with the new...
news.sky.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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the degree to which Labour have limboed under my lowest expectations for them is remarkable.
what the fuck
November 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
the degree to which Labour have limboed under my lowest expectations for them is remarkable.
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So we are clear welfare spending in this country is NOT “out of control”. It’s risen very little in 10+ years. Small increase due to ageing & ill population. But benefits to working age families & children have been cut severely. Over 70% of children in poverty live in working families #Budget2025
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
‘Madness’ to increase welfare spending in Budget, says AO World boss
www.independent.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
So we are clear welfare spending in this country is NOT “out of control”. It’s risen very little in 10+ years. Small increase due to ageing & ill population. But benefits to working age families & children have been cut severely. Over 70% of children in poverty live in working families #Budget2025
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Saying Labour are just appeasing the far right stopped being a point a while ago.
They are doing these things because they want to.
They are doing these things because they want to.
The honest truth is that our entire political spectrum (bar the Greens, the SNP, and the Lib Dems) are wholesale bought into racism. Lies about foreigners, conflating refugees and immigrants, just stuff that twenty years ago was a deal breaker
October 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Saying Labour are just appeasing the far right stopped being a point a while ago.
They are doing these things because they want to.
They are doing these things because they want to.
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Utterly surreal that a key part of the pre Budget narrative from the government hasn’t been ‘Russian planes keep buzzing the Essex coast, US support for NATO is looking shaky, and thanks to the Tories our army fits in Old Trafford - that’s why we need to raise taxes’.
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Utterly surreal that a key part of the pre Budget narrative from the government hasn’t been ‘Russian planes keep buzzing the Essex coast, US support for NATO is looking shaky, and thanks to the Tories our army fits in Old Trafford - that’s why we need to raise taxes’.
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When Israel breaks international law, what does Trump’s US do? Sanction the judges | Owen Jones
When Israel breaks international law, what does Trump’s US do? Sanction the judges | Owen Jones
Three ICC judges have been put on a list with terrorists after approving an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu. This is the charade of the ‘rules-based order’, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
When Israel breaks international law, what does Trump’s US do? Sanction the judges | Owen Jones
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Best understood, Labour's attack on juries, as a further lurch towards authoritarianism. Who, now, will stand in the way of a State that wants to imprison its opponents?
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Best understood, Labour's attack on juries, as a further lurch towards authoritarianism. Who, now, will stand in the way of a State that wants to imprison its opponents?
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Labour Party seems to have moved from:
“We will look out for you, from the cradle to the grave.”
To
“Life’s unfair. Deal with it.”
“We will look out for you, from the cradle to the grave.”
To
“Life’s unfair. Deal with it.”
November 26, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Labour Party seems to have moved from:
“We will look out for you, from the cradle to the grave.”
To
“Life’s unfair. Deal with it.”
“We will look out for you, from the cradle to the grave.”
To
“Life’s unfair. Deal with it.”
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They literally Google-translated Russia's demands, and called it the plan.
Trump on his administration's initial Russia-friendly peace plan: "That was not a plan. It was a concept."
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
They literally Google-translated Russia's demands, and called it the plan.
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After two infants died, the Louisiana Dept of Health under the leadership of the new incoming deputy director of the CDC, delayed notifying the public for months of a whooping cough outbreak. Instead, he ordered DOH to stop promoting vaccines. Pertussis is currently a national health crisis.
Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak
After a whooping cough outbreak killed two infants, Louisiana health officials waited months to officially alert physicians or do public outreach. That's not the typical public health response.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
After two infants died, the Louisiana Dept of Health under the leadership of the new incoming deputy director of the CDC, delayed notifying the public for months of a whooping cough outbreak. Instead, he ordered DOH to stop promoting vaccines. Pertussis is currently a national health crisis.
Banana and lime when I make it. Delicious.
I recently discovered that banana jam exists. Not enough people know about the existence of banana jam, but they should. Especially lovers of the banana sandwich.
November 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Banana and lime when I make it. Delicious.
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As for Farage’s use of racist slurs being confined to his childhood - well, that's not what Alan Sked, the founder of UKIP, claimed in this 2014 interview.
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Ukip founder Alan Sked: 'The party has become a Frankenstein's monster'
He may have founded Ukip, but Alan Sked's moderate, Brussels-boycotting party has gone rogue. Stuart Jeffries meets the academic who's desperate to stop the bandwagon he first set rolling
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
As for Farage’s use of racist slurs being confined to his childhood - well, that's not what Alan Sked, the founder of UKIP, claimed in this 2014 interview.
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
You know, there's something comforting in this. Every man loving a cis woman sees the same thing, as their partner complains every other woman has better looking knees or something. Trans women are women, right down to the irrational insecurities.
every girl looking at other girl's transitions: "omg! wow! you have become a vision of beauty even the gods could not begin to approach, what magic formed you into this immaculate shape???"
the same girl about her own: "yeah, i mean, my skin's a little softer and my hair grew out, i guess… nbd?"
the same girl about her own: "yeah, i mean, my skin's a little softer and my hair grew out, i guess… nbd?"
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
You know, there's something comforting in this. Every man loving a cis woman sees the same thing, as their partner complains every other woman has better looking knees or something. Trans women are women, right down to the irrational insecurities.
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Of course another consequence of removing juries from all but the most serious crimes is that those pesky juries won’t be able to find annoying protestors not guilty.
November 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Of course another consequence of removing juries from all but the most serious crimes is that those pesky juries won’t be able to find annoying protestors not guilty.
Going to stick my neck out and say every one of wealthy, privileged kids at that school was racist, as we would see it, at that time. Thats the era. For Farage to still stand out to his classmates as noteworthy in this regard implies he was quite an extraordinary example.
Journalist - did you racially abuse your fellow classmates at school?
Farage - it’s almost 50 years ago so I don’t remember. But I also know that I didn’t do it. And it I did do it I didn’t mean it in a bad way. Something something banter.
Farage - it’s almost 50 years ago so I don’t remember. But I also know that I didn’t do it. And it I did do it I didn’t mean it in a bad way. Something something banter.
November 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Going to stick my neck out and say every one of wealthy, privileged kids at that school was racist, as we would see it, at that time. Thats the era. For Farage to still stand out to his classmates as noteworthy in this regard implies he was quite an extraordinary example.
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Journalist - did you racially abuse your fellow classmates at school?
Farage - it’s almost 50 years ago so I don’t remember. But I also know that I didn’t do it. And it I did do it I didn’t mean it in a bad way. Something something banter.
Farage - it’s almost 50 years ago so I don’t remember. But I also know that I didn’t do it. And it I did do it I didn’t mean it in a bad way. Something something banter.
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Journalist - did you racially abuse your fellow classmates at school?
Farage - it’s almost 50 years ago so I don’t remember. But I also know that I didn’t do it. And it I did do it I didn’t mean it in a bad way. Something something banter.
Farage - it’s almost 50 years ago so I don’t remember. But I also know that I didn’t do it. And it I did do it I didn’t mean it in a bad way. Something something banter.
Folk like @acarpen.bsky.social have been talking about finding a better use for this site for years. At one time there was a plan to turn it into a Burlesque club...
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Demolition of Cambridge art deco cinema blocked by inspector
The 1930s cinema in central Cambridge had faced demolition under plans to build a new office block.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Folk like @acarpen.bsky.social have been talking about finding a better use for this site for years. At one time there was a plan to turn it into a Burlesque club...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...