Casper Hoed
@telecasper.bsky.social
Improvising music and words, all over the shop.
This will tip a number of universities into crisis. I'm sure we are all glad the banking sector has been spared further tax increases, and fuel duty has been *cut* despite the climate emergency.
'The government will charge universities £925 per international student for each year of study from August 2028, in a blow to cash-strapped higher education institutions.' 1/3
International student levy set at £925 per student from 2028
Chancellor confirms details of controversial tax on income from overseas students, while universities also expect to be hit by changes to pension tax rules
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This will tip a number of universities into crisis. I'm sure we are all glad the banking sector has been spared further tax increases, and fuel duty has been *cut* despite the climate emergency.
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The government’s stated number one goal is growth.
Its actual number one goal is scrabbling together enough money to meet the fiscal rules while trying not to actually make any tough decisions or piss anyone off. It is not very good at that goal, not least because it’s a stupid one.
Its actual number one goal is scrabbling together enough money to meet the fiscal rules while trying not to actually make any tough decisions or piss anyone off. It is not very good at that goal, not least because it’s a stupid one.
If the Government do go ahead with the mooted plan in here to (effectively) remove workplace pensions from salary sacrifice schemes I am genuinely a little in awe of how bad their "growth strategy is."
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The four audiences Reeves’ ‘high-wire’ Budget must satisfy
Chancellor needs a lot to go right if she is to somehow reconcile interests of Labour MPs, markets, business and the public
www.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The government’s stated number one goal is growth.
Its actual number one goal is scrabbling together enough money to meet the fiscal rules while trying not to actually make any tough decisions or piss anyone off. It is not very good at that goal, not least because it’s a stupid one.
Its actual number one goal is scrabbling together enough money to meet the fiscal rules while trying not to actually make any tough decisions or piss anyone off. It is not very good at that goal, not least because it’s a stupid one.
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harold's auto center, horizontal view, sinclair gas station, route 19, spring hill, florida, 1979
November 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
harold's auto center, horizontal view, sinclair gas station, route 19, spring hill, florida, 1979
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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80s: Japan is the future
90s, 00s: Japan in dying country typified by stagnant incomes, xenophobia and toxic, sexless nerd culture
Now: oh, that WAS the future
90s, 00s: Japan in dying country typified by stagnant incomes, xenophobia and toxic, sexless nerd culture
Now: oh, that WAS the future
the actual suicide of the West will be combining a rapidly aging population with hostility to migrants. however we must give credit to East Asia, especially Japan, for pioneering this model.
November 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
80s: Japan is the future
90s, 00s: Japan in dying country typified by stagnant incomes, xenophobia and toxic, sexless nerd culture
Now: oh, that WAS the future
90s, 00s: Japan in dying country typified by stagnant incomes, xenophobia and toxic, sexless nerd culture
Now: oh, that WAS the future
This is illiterate policy. For the policy to have a clear rationale, it needs to apply to all vehicles, with rates staggered by weight class and fuel economy. It's then also a way of clawing back the indirect subsidy to drivers over the past 15 years through constant deferral of fuel duty rises.
Rachel Reeves ‘planning pay-per-mile tax for electric vehicles in budget’
Rachel Reeves ‘planning pay-per-mile tax for electric vehicles in budget’
EV drivers would face 3p-a-mile charge on top of other road taxes to offset falling revenue from petrol and diesel cars
Rachel Reeves is drawing up plans for a new pay-per-mile tax for electric vehicles to announce in this month’s budget worth an extra £250 a year on average, according to reports.
Under the plans expected to be announced on 26 November, EV drivers would face a new charge of 3p a mile on top of other road taxes to offset falling revenue from petrol and diesel cars as drivers switch to greener options. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This is illiterate policy. For the policy to have a clear rationale, it needs to apply to all vehicles, with rates staggered by weight class and fuel economy. It's then also a way of clawing back the indirect subsidy to drivers over the past 15 years through constant deferral of fuel duty rises.
This is why we shouldn't let Palantir run stuff. Anything!
New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
www.404media.co
October 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This is why we shouldn't let Palantir run stuff. Anything!
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IMPORTANT: DO NOT PRACTICE YOUR 1970S DISCO STRUT ON THE MILITARY FIRING RANGE.
October 29, 2025 at 8:19 AM
IMPORTANT: DO NOT PRACTICE YOUR 1970S DISCO STRUT ON THE MILITARY FIRING RANGE.
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This is why “listening” isn’t reducible to something like “resonance” or even “sympathy.” The necessary conditions for feeling heard go include doing something with what is heard beyond echoing to responding and acting on it.
Maybe they could try giving people some hope that their lives could improve instead of just promising misery and cruelty
October 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
This is why “listening” isn’t reducible to something like “resonance” or even “sympathy.” The necessary conditions for feeling heard go include doing something with what is heard beyond echoing to responding and acting on it.
Caerphilly 💪💪💪🏴
October 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Caerphilly 💪💪💪🏴
Well done Caerphilly, well done Wales, well done Plaid Cymru 🏴💪
October 24, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Well done Caerphilly, well done Wales, well done Plaid Cymru 🏴💪
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remove her from her job, let nobody ever forget the horrendous nonsense she came out swinging for, and take all of her printed music scores and bury them under the north sea. this person should never be put in front of the public ever again
Several Tory MPs are unhappy at language of Katie Lam, a junior whip, saying mass deportations of 2-3m+ needed to make Britain "more culturally coherent" (ie, fewer nonwhite migrants) but "not entirely" (ie,some of those she can't deport won't integrate: Muslims)
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Conservatives complain to whips about fellow MP’s comments on legally settled people
Exclusive: Criticism of Katie Lam comes amid widespread confusion in the party over its policy on indefinite leave to remain
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
remove her from her job, let nobody ever forget the horrendous nonsense she came out swinging for, and take all of her printed music scores and bury them under the north sea. this person should never be put in front of the public ever again
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Play isn’t just for playgrounds.
Children should have a right to play in the streets, alleys, pavements and car parks of their neighbourhoods
Play isn’t just for playgrounds.
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October 23, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Play isn’t just for playgrounds.
Make America Argentina again
US FEDERAL RESERVE WILL PRINT $1.5 TRILLION FOLLOWING OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER INTEREST RATE CUTS
October 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Make America Argentina again
As Lacan would say, they are enjoying their symptom.
People who are generally upset with how their lives are going, and also feel there are too many people around who look different, can never actually be appeased.
Not by Brexit, not by eliminating FoM, not by new taxes or fees, not by ending ILR, not by denaturalizing not by anything.
Not by Brexit, not by eliminating FoM, not by new taxes or fees, not by ending ILR, not by denaturalizing not by anything.
October 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
As Lacan would say, they are enjoying their symptom.
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'Piccadilly Circus Underground Station' (from 'This Is London', 1959) by Miroslav Šašek
October 21, 2025 at 6:54 AM
'Piccadilly Circus Underground Station' (from 'This Is London', 1959) by Miroslav Šašek
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To be absolutely clear, it is impossible to vote for a party that cannot bring itself to unequivocally defend the rights of people living and working legally in this country. Because arbitrary removal of legal rights, or sudden varying of terms, for some is ultimately a threat to everyone.
October 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
To be absolutely clear, it is impossible to vote for a party that cannot bring itself to unequivocally defend the rights of people living and working legally in this country. Because arbitrary removal of legal rights, or sudden varying of terms, for some is ultimately a threat to everyone.
A very interesting thread that shows how labour regulation is not only a matter of law, but also a matter of enforcement and sanction. The UK has shown itself to be systematically negligent on this, leading to a free-for-all for unscrupulous employers.
In the UK there's no punishment for employers who refuse to pay their workers, but @mattcole.bsky.social argues that we should follow the example of New Zealand and make non-payment of wages a criminal matter.
novaramedia.com/2025/10/16/employers-who-steal-wages-should-be-made-criminally-liable/
novaramedia.com/2025/10/16/employers-who-steal-wages-should-be-made-criminally-liable/
Employers Who Steal Wages Should Be Made Criminally Liable | Novara Media
A shocking investigation has revealed that employers who fail to pay wages simply get away with it. It’s time to make wage theft a criminal matter, argues Matthew Cole.
novaramedia.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
A very interesting thread that shows how labour regulation is not only a matter of law, but also a matter of enforcement and sanction. The UK has shown itself to be systematically negligent on this, leading to a free-for-all for unscrupulous employers.
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Basically the US Treasury burnt USD400 million on the altar of neoliberal ideology, predictably benefiting financiers
October 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Basically the US Treasury burnt USD400 million on the altar of neoliberal ideology, predictably benefiting financiers
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The world I was born into: a world of brown, sensible, sobre things. And brown sensible drunk things
October 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The world I was born into: a world of brown, sensible, sobre things. And brown sensible drunk things
In light of all the ruckus around Maccabi and Villa, let's remember what happened in Amsterdam. Ultras came to the city looking for a scrap, found it with some street youths, police had to intervene. Same old story. The difference was a foreign government using it as a propaganda wedge issue.
October 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
In light of all the ruckus around Maccabi and Villa, let's remember what happened in Amsterdam. Ultras came to the city looking for a scrap, found it with some street youths, police had to intervene. Same old story. The difference was a foreign government using it as a propaganda wedge issue.
That's it, I'm moving to Brussels.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
That's it, I'm moving to Brussels.
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Every country with English expat populations should retaliate.
October 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Every country with English expat populations should retaliate.
Pamuk's My Name Is Red is poorly disguised rip-off of The Name Of The Rose.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Pamuk's My Name Is Red is poorly disguised rip-off of The Name Of The Rose.