Simon Lucy
@lusaimon.com
A left-angled trapezoid on the graph of political philosophies, apply me no labels.
Other descriptions might include an Architect at Large, occasionally writing complete fiction but mostly working on zettel.io
See also [email protected]
Other descriptions might include an Architect at Large, occasionally writing complete fiction but mostly working on zettel.io
See also [email protected]
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Simon Lucy
@lusaimon.com
· Nov 14
Time to repeat.
It is abundantly clear that we would have the greatest benefit in rights, market access, regulatory participation as well as influence for progress and change by being a full member of the EU.
It is abundantly clear that we would have the greatest benefit in rights, market access, regulatory participation as well as influence for progress and change by being a full member of the EU.
All political polls are worthless they're used to move the needle, not record the needle.
All non-political polls are also worthless because no-one gives a fuck.
However, they are run for the same reason, to move the needle at the behest of whoever pays for the poll.
All non-political polls are also worthless because no-one gives a fuck.
However, they are run for the same reason, to move the needle at the behest of whoever pays for the poll.
January 6, 2026 at 3:26 PM
All political polls are worthless they're used to move the needle, not record the needle.
All non-political polls are also worthless because no-one gives a fuck.
However, they are run for the same reason, to move the needle at the behest of whoever pays for the poll.
All non-political polls are also worthless because no-one gives a fuck.
However, they are run for the same reason, to move the needle at the behest of whoever pays for the poll.
When people argue emotionally about the invasion, or the threat of invasion, to particular, land, territory or country it is not because of whichever land, territory or country is threatened or invaded.
It is because any land, territory or country could be invaded if that attempt was not resisted.
It is because any land, territory or country could be invaded if that attempt was not resisted.
January 6, 2026 at 3:19 PM
When people argue emotionally about the invasion, or the threat of invasion, to particular, land, territory or country it is not because of whichever land, territory or country is threatened or invaded.
It is because any land, territory or country could be invaded if that attempt was not resisted.
It is because any land, territory or country could be invaded if that attempt was not resisted.
Music challenge.
Find a song without mention, either explicitly or implicitly whether by name, metaphor or simile of Love in any of its forms.
I don't actually care if you find one.
Find a song without mention, either explicitly or implicitly whether by name, metaphor or simile of Love in any of its forms.
I don't actually care if you find one.
January 6, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Music challenge.
Find a song without mention, either explicitly or implicitly whether by name, metaphor or simile of Love in any of its forms.
I don't actually care if you find one.
Find a song without mention, either explicitly or implicitly whether by name, metaphor or simile of Love in any of its forms.
I don't actually care if you find one.
Reposted by Simon Lucy
"Who says you can't fight big business?"
Listen to @alistrathern.bsky.social tell the Red Lion's story and find out how the Community Right to Buy could make all the difference for Britain's pubs.
youtu.be/6_Gs7MHAyxU
Listen to @alistrathern.bsky.social tell the Red Lion's story and find out how the Community Right to Buy could make all the difference for Britain's pubs.
youtu.be/6_Gs7MHAyxU
Who says you can't fight big business?
YouTube video by Co-operative Party
youtu.be
January 6, 2026 at 10:05 AM
"Who says you can't fight big business?"
Listen to @alistrathern.bsky.social tell the Red Lion's story and find out how the Community Right to Buy could make all the difference for Britain's pubs.
youtu.be/6_Gs7MHAyxU
Listen to @alistrathern.bsky.social tell the Red Lion's story and find out how the Community Right to Buy could make all the difference for Britain's pubs.
youtu.be/6_Gs7MHAyxU
Today's Lesson for Critical Thinking
Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb.
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
January 6, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Today's Lesson for Critical Thinking
Yellow snow warnings are still funny.
January 5, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Yellow snow warnings are still funny.
The USA, a country dreaming a manifest destiny, unable to wake up and conjuring nightmares.
January 5, 2026 at 8:29 AM
The USA, a country dreaming a manifest destiny, unable to wake up and conjuring nightmares.
The Planet He, the flying planet from James Blish's Cities in Flight has been discovered.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Two views of a rogue planet
A collaboration between ground and space observations unveils a rogue planet
www.science.org
January 4, 2026 at 6:55 PM
The Planet He, the flying planet from James Blish's Cities in Flight has been discovered.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reminder, Reagan invaded Grenada (when it was a British Territory) and Panama.
January 3, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Reminder, Reagan invaded Grenada (when it was a British Territory) and Panama.
Today we go to Piston to formulate Gin.
January 3, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Today we go to Piston to formulate Gin.
Lidl has Cadbury Cream Eggs.
January 3, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Lidl has Cadbury Cream Eggs.
Gangsters gonna gangst.
Venezuela opposition reports the so called "capture" of Maduro was a negotiated deal between Maduro and US for an agreed exit strategy. We reported in November that this would be the case. The US bombed Venezuelan service members as part of a death theatre. #VenezuelaInvasion
January 3, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Gangsters gonna gangst.
I guess Maduro has the money for a royal, sorry Trump pardon.
Gangsters gonna gangst.
Gangsters gonna gangst.
January 3, 2026 at 9:54 AM
I guess Maduro has the money for a royal, sorry Trump pardon.
Gangsters gonna gangst.
Gangsters gonna gangst.
Does Trump really think that asylum seekers are people out of psychiatric asylums?
Or do his MAGA supporters believe it?
And that's sufficient distraction for the stealing of oil and the reduction of socialist states.
Or do his MAGA supporters believe it?
And that's sufficient distraction for the stealing of oil and the reduction of socialist states.
January 3, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Does Trump really think that asylum seekers are people out of psychiatric asylums?
Or do his MAGA supporters believe it?
And that's sufficient distraction for the stealing of oil and the reduction of socialist states.
Or do his MAGA supporters believe it?
And that's sufficient distraction for the stealing of oil and the reduction of socialist states.
Reposted by Simon Lucy
Happy New Year, one and all! 🎉🎆🎇
Hope your NYE was better than Bernard Hooper’s.
#TheCutThroatTrial
“Will leave you gobsmacked” - The Times
“Not for me” - Debs on Amazon.
Available in links below 👇
Hope your NYE was better than Bernard Hooper’s.
#TheCutThroatTrial
“Will leave you gobsmacked” - The Times
“Not for me” - Debs on Amazon.
Available in links below 👇
🎉IT’S PUBLICATION DAY!🎉
My first legal thriller, #TheCutThroatTrial!
The mutilated body of an old man is found in the street. Three teenagers nearby, caked in his blood.
Each points the finger at the others.
Each has his own story.
Available NOW in the links below 👇
My first legal thriller, #TheCutThroatTrial!
The mutilated body of an old man is found in the street. Three teenagers nearby, caked in his blood.
Each points the finger at the others.
Each has his own story.
Available NOW in the links below 👇
January 1, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Happy New Year, one and all! 🎉🎆🎇
Hope your NYE was better than Bernard Hooper’s.
#TheCutThroatTrial
“Will leave you gobsmacked” - The Times
“Not for me” - Debs on Amazon.
Available in links below 👇
Hope your NYE was better than Bernard Hooper’s.
#TheCutThroatTrial
“Will leave you gobsmacked” - The Times
“Not for me” - Debs on Amazon.
Available in links below 👇
Reposted by Simon Lucy
I have to say that after all the hype, New Year's Eve was a bit of a damp squib in Ambridge.
Now a week of a missing girl, the identity of an assailant, who may even be the girl and possibly a serial killer.
Happy Valley it's not.
Now a week of a missing girl, the identity of an assailant, who may even be the girl and possibly a serial killer.
Happy Valley it's not.
January 1, 2026 at 10:39 AM
I have to say that after all the hype, New Year's Eve was a bit of a damp squib in Ambridge.
Now a week of a missing girl, the identity of an assailant, who may even be the girl and possibly a serial killer.
Happy Valley it's not.
Now a week of a missing girl, the identity of an assailant, who may even be the girl and possibly a serial killer.
Happy Valley it's not.
I have reached the biblical limit of three score and ten.
I guess something is going to start, or end.
I guess something is going to start, or end.
January 1, 2026 at 9:52 AM
I have reached the biblical limit of three score and ten.
I guess something is going to start, or end.
I guess something is going to start, or end.
I feel compelled to state that the London fireworks were rubbish this year. A confused mess, no drones that I could see and very little curtation with the music.
And why did the BBC overlay graphic DOGS on the Eye? Because it was boring otherwise?
And why did the BBC overlay graphic DOGS on the Eye? Because it was boring otherwise?
January 1, 2026 at 1:05 AM
I feel compelled to state that the London fireworks were rubbish this year. A confused mess, no drones that I could see and very little curtation with the music.
And why did the BBC overlay graphic DOGS on the Eye? Because it was boring otherwise?
And why did the BBC overlay graphic DOGS on the Eye? Because it was boring otherwise?
As on many occasions I'm confused. I thought the point of Philosophy was the exercise of critical thinking.
Turns out studying philosophy is actually valuable. Philosophy majors don’t just argue well, they actually become better thinkers and do better on tests.
Data from 600k students shows they outscore every other major on reasoning, curiosity and open-mindedness.
Data from 600k students shows they outscore every other major on reasoning, curiosity and open-mindedness.
Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads
Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.
buff.ly
December 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
As on many occasions I'm confused. I thought the point of Philosophy was the exercise of critical thinking.
If the OBE and MBE did not exist then people could not performatively reject them after they've been received.
December 31, 2025 at 12:27 PM
If the OBE and MBE did not exist then people could not performatively reject them after they've been received.
Currently playing Am I in Trouble's Spectrum.
Kind of North American Metal, sort of less Heavy more Aluminium with occasional Were Growls on top of Super Tramp.
Quite pleasant.
#Music
Kind of North American Metal, sort of less Heavy more Aluminium with occasional Were Growls on top of Super Tramp.
Quite pleasant.
#Music
December 31, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Currently playing Am I in Trouble's Spectrum.
Kind of North American Metal, sort of less Heavy more Aluminium with occasional Were Growls on top of Super Tramp.
Quite pleasant.
#Music
Kind of North American Metal, sort of less Heavy more Aluminium with occasional Were Growls on top of Super Tramp.
Quite pleasant.
#Music
Reposted by Simon Lucy
if you can't afford clothes, it's not clothing poverty, it's poverty. If you can't afford sanitary protection, it's not period poverty, it's poverty. Divvying up poverty into little bits hides the fact that poverty is poverty and gives right-wingers an in to say "poor people need to budget better."
Charity warns of rise in 'clothing poverty'.
Profiteering and cuts in real wages force people rely on charity.
Charity provides food, clothing, air ambulance, hospices and more in the 6th largest economy.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Profiteering and cuts in real wages force people rely on charity.
Charity provides food, clothing, air ambulance, hospices and more in the 6th largest economy.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Charity warns of rise in 'clothing poverty' among working people
The Sharewear Clothing Scheme in Nottingham says demand is so high it is running out of clothes.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 31, 2025 at 9:06 AM
if you can't afford clothes, it's not clothing poverty, it's poverty. If you can't afford sanitary protection, it's not period poverty, it's poverty. Divvying up poverty into little bits hides the fact that poverty is poverty and gives right-wingers an in to say "poor people need to budget better."
Reposted by Simon Lucy
All of this 👇👇👇
My wish for 2026 is that politicians and political analysts realize that public opinion is endogenous to elite behavior, that polling single issues tells us nothing about electorally successful strategies, that politics means shaping public opinion and that popularism is the death of progressivism.
December 31, 2025 at 9:06 AM
All of this 👇👇👇