Richard J
@preachypreach.bsky.social
Tax nerd, still atrocious at amusing profiles
I liked it when my chair started vibrating
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I liked it when my chair started vibrating
J Mascis lulling the crowd into a false sense of security with a solo set
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
J Mascis lulling the crowd into a false sense of security with a solo set
You know a gig is of a certain genre when the queue is for the gents alone
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
You know a gig is of a certain genre when the queue is for the gents alone
Almost every quote tweet here is making me, a fussy eater, feel like I’ve got a broad culinary spectrum (properly done cabbage is delicious)
Cabbage is affordable, delicious, and astoundingly versatile, @giladedelman.bsky.social writes. The underrated crucifer “is fit for a king”:
The Most Underrated Thanksgiving Vegetable
Embrace cabbage.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Almost every quote tweet here is making me, a fussy eater, feel like I’ve got a broad culinary spectrum (properly done cabbage is delicious)
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A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
Worth spending a few seconds processing this table properly
29th Division's report of their troop availability for the 1/7/1916 assault on the Beaumont-Hamel front. The last two columns show the number of officers & OR's who attacked, & the resulting casualties. "Dulce et Decorum est", Horace's line which Wilfred Owen post war called "the old Lie".
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Worth spending a few seconds processing this table properly
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It's not all shit when a proposal to build a (quite nice looking mosque to replace the motley selection of buildings on the site) gets this kind of response.
It's not all shit when a proposal to build a (quite nice looking mosque to replace the motley selection of buildings on the site) gets this kind of response.
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
councilmeetings.lewisham.gov.uk/ieListDocume...
It's not all shit when a proposal to build a (quite nice looking mosque to replace the motley selection of buildings on the site) gets this kind of response.
It's not all shit when a proposal to build a (quite nice looking mosque to replace the motley selection of buildings on the site) gets this kind of response.
Certainly A-B testing the gilt market by means of briefing The Times has proved to be not entirely ineffective on one particular axis, but the wider picture it gives, FFS.
November 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Certainly A-B testing the gilt market by means of briefing The Times has proved to be not entirely ineffective on one particular axis, but the wider picture it gives, FFS.
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Have been worried about Reform's war on the disabled for some time (essentially they think everyone is faking it)so I think it's by far the most disheartening thing of whatever this project is meant to fucking be that Labour have kicked it off in earnest. And that's from a LONG list of grim moments.
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Have been worried about Reform's war on the disabled for some time (essentially they think everyone is faking it)so I think it's by far the most disheartening thing of whatever this project is meant to fucking be that Labour have kicked it off in earnest. And that's from a LONG list of grim moments.
Just as a little observation, annual property tax valuations in the US are generally set by small valuation offices in said counties
Hot take but the biggest hurdle for AI isn't that there seems to be no demand for the scale of investment, but rather that capex will hit a wall from smalltown NIMBYism. "The county with the most data centers also has the biggest utility hikes" is something the Median Voter will eventually notice
November 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Just as a little observation, annual property tax valuations in the US are generally set by small valuation offices in said counties
“What if Liz Jones but politically consequential?”
I regret to inform you there is more Olivia Newzzi: the print VF will feature a nude portrait by artist Isabelle Brourman that is also destined for Art Basel Miami Beach. Notably, its inclusion appears be a surprise to VF staff. VF looking worse and worse here. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“What if Liz Jones but politically consequential?”
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Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
The fifth day of having Birdhouse In Your Soul as an earworm thanks to a YouTube video
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The fifth day of having Birdhouse In Your Soul as an earworm thanks to a YouTube video
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Sometimes wonder if what the UK needs is a thinktank that doesn't do any new research, it just repeats obviously true statements that people try to ignore because they're inconvenient.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Sometimes wonder if what the UK needs is a thinktank that doesn't do any new research, it just repeats obviously true statements that people try to ignore because they're inconvenient.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.
"Look, either we have to pay WHT on dividends from our European portfolio or you have to move to Luxembourg"
www.ft.com/content/51cd...
www.ft.com/content/51cd...
Top Advent private equity executive quits UK for Luxembourg
Co-chair James Brocklebank tells colleagues of move two days before Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Budget
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
"Look, either we have to pay WHT on dividends from our European portfolio or you have to move to Luxembourg"
www.ft.com/content/51cd...
www.ft.com/content/51cd...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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I guess what offends me most with these people, at an almost personal level, is that they long for the sweet dividends of the christian democrat paternalist, with zero of its sense of duty
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I guess what offends me most with these people, at an almost personal level, is that they long for the sweet dividends of the christian democrat paternalist, with zero of its sense of duty
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November 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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(Aside: one of my most hot takes is that THE DIRTY DOZEN is one of the most morally repulsive bits of voyeuristic sadism in twentieth-century cinema)
i would welcome however another attempt to do THE DIRTY DOZEN in space.
rogue one is bad folks. i have believed this since i saw it in theaters and no subsequent rewatch has changed my mind. basically a chop job until the final sequence, which is good (for star wars)
November 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
(Aside: one of my most hot takes is that THE DIRTY DOZEN is one of the most morally repulsive bits of voyeuristic sadism in twentieth-century cinema)
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if you came of age in the 20th century then this really sits you down about how much the Worlds changed in 21st century. no going back….
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
When Tony Blair came to power in 1997, the UK economy was bigger than China and India combined.
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
if you came of age in the 20th century then this really sits you down about how much the Worlds changed in 21st century. no going back….
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
Discourse over for the day
BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Discourse over for the day
Wait they’re actually going after a fucking astronaut?
Dept of war: ‘OFFICIAL STATEMENT: The Department of War has received serious allegations of misconduct against Captain Mark Kelly, USN (Ret.). In accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 688, and other applicable regulations, a thorough review of these
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Wait they’re actually going after a fucking astronaut?
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They really don't want to share any interior shots but when they do, you just know that unspeakable acts have been committed within... www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Check out this 3 bedroom end of terrace house for sale on Rightmove
3 bedroom end of terrace house for sale in 75 Camden Mews, Camden, London, NW1 9BY, NW1 for £925,000. Marketed by Auction House London, Hampstead
www.rightmove.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
They really don't want to share any interior shots but when they do, you just know that unspeakable acts have been committed within... www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Very Middle-Aged Dad but Last Stand of the Tin Cans or A Distant Mirror tbh
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Very Middle-Aged Dad but Last Stand of the Tin Cans or A Distant Mirror tbh
Bodied by my eldest , frankly
November 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Bodied by my eldest , frankly