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Peter Moore

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🇺🇲🇬🇧 - Former rail worker and one time US pollster.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

19thnews @19thnews.org · 1d

Our recent poll found that women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average. Nearly 80 percent of Gen Z women want abortion to be legal and seven in 10 want gender-affirming care to be accessible for trans adults.

Gen Z women are the most liberal group in the country

On issues like abortion and gender-affirming care, women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average.

Peter Moore @petejmoore.bsky.social · 1d

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!

Peter Moore @petejmoore.bsky.social · 1d

Given my house went on the market Monday at a price I thought was slightly excessive with a chain estate agent I wish I had read this ~a month ago.

Peter Moore @petejmoore.bsky.social · 1d

I spend a lot of time going around various playgrounds across the South East and I notice with sadness how there basically aren't any plaques dated later than 2011.

Peter Moore @petejmoore.bsky.social · 2d

Given the current situation of Israel Police I would strongly suspect one of the unspoken reasons for this ban is that they have refused to identify the Ultras in order for their attendance to be blocked.

Peter Moore @petejmoore.bsky.social · 3d

Picked up this thread talking to a mate of mine in Irish politics and his joking P.S. at the end was to send me this and thank us for solving what would have been a huge dependency ratio problem.

Peter Moore @petejmoore.bsky.social · 3d

I am not going to overthink this and resent you expecting me to. If only one outfit is willing to accept a debit card/not performatively shit on my values then, yes, I shall give them the time of day.

Peter Moore @petejmoore.bsky.social · 3d

Similar energy to black cabbies complaining about Uber. Like, yes, your complaints are largely accurate but you're entirely insane if you don't get that the reason they are successful despite that is because you are so shit.

Peter Moore @petejmoore.bsky.social · 4d

Went to that museum of emigration in Dublin and I was absolutely gobsmacked to read that for some years of school leavers in the late-50s *most* of them were in England within a year.

Peter Moore @petejmoore.bsky.social · 5d

Apartheid, as evil as it was, really did rely on black South Africans largely staying alive.

Peter Moore @petejmoore.bsky.social · 5d

I mean I clutch my pearls if only because the past two years have demonstrated that Israel was entirely willing to unleash the sort of horrific bloodshed that is even worse than what the Apartheid government blanched at.

Peter Moore @petejmoore.bsky.social · 5d

(As in, you wouldn't necessarily expect it, but the NYC DoE is quietly one of the big voices that complained back when a decade or so ago stabilization was being weakened rather then strengthened)

Peter Moore @petejmoore.bsky.social · 5d

Also underrated that it creates problems for local governments to have people moving about a lot. One of the big but hidden props of support for rent stabilization in New York is that it's just significantly better and quite a bit cheaper for the government if people don't move their kids every year

Peter Moore @petejmoore.bsky.social · 5d

(I think it also touches on a lot of the culture war insofar as the only humming engine of regional migration we have is kids going to university, which comes with all sorts of baggage)

Peter Moore @petejmoore.bsky.social · 5d

A nation with a functional inter-regional set up would see *much* greater migration within the country, but the fact it is just clearly easier and more sensible to get people to move from 4,000 miles away than 100 miles away is very indicative of so many of the problems that plague us.

Peter Moore @petejmoore.bsky.social · 5d

I've long bored people/been mocked on the old site for pointing out that Britain's immigration story is intimately connected to our regional problem.

Peter Moore @petejmoore.bsky.social · 5d

If they successfully liberate builders from the tyranny of local government without facilitating significant immigration then everyone within the M25 is going to end up with tinnitus from the wooshing sound as every builder in the country is sucked into London.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 5d

An example of the government not having a project: only yesterday the government was trumpeting new measures to make it easier to build things. We'll work out who actually builds stuff later on.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 5d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Peter Moore @petejmoore.bsky.social · 7d

One of the biggest problems we face is that journalists don't remember things. This is not something that would have survived contact with a reporter who had been properly covering the industry 5 years ago, but given these stories are churned out by a rotating cast, well...!

Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 7d

It bothers me to no extent that the media plays how Klarna whistles

Klarna wants to the headlines to say "AI-enabled Klarna"

It would have halved its workforce without AI because it overhired 2x in 2020-21 and never corrected till now

But this is how they get front pages

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 7d

working on a feature on a similar character at the moment and the advance TL;DR is that these guys are pretty good at making themselves feel unavoidable and intellectually overwhelming, when their reactionary views are very often just incredibly pedestrian and unoriginal, it's their main strength

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 7d

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

Peter Moore @petejmoore.bsky.social · 9d

I always loved that German TV is basically "woman in very short practical haircut gives detailed answer on housing issues in Thuringia" or "nudist couples engage in a trampoline contest"

Peter Moore @petejmoore.bsky.social · 12d

Didn't exactly save us ten years ago with Brexit but the same contradictions are at the heart of this too, those Reform voters who love the bigotry are not going to get the cleansing they want, just a new class of disposable immigrant to serve the wealthy.

Peter Moore @petejmoore.bsky.social · 12d

The fact loads of private GPs are emerging in the past five years should scare the shit out of anyone who wants to preserve the NHS as the *universal* healthcare provider in the UK.

Peter Moore @petejmoore.bsky.social · 12d

Slice by slice we are gonna end up with a different health model, but it'll be the Irish one not any of the boogeymen that usually get invoked.

Peter Moore @petejmoore.bsky.social · 12d

Hard to separate the two though in a country that has been fairly described as an 'army that has a state'. Not least that you have to wonder how much bang for their buck their defence industries would get if they had to begin covering all their bases.