Thérèse
@tiggertherese.bsky.social
European, veg grower, archaic surfer, economist & extremely appalled ex-central banker.
RT ≠ endorsement. I may not entirely agree with all my own views either.
https://mastodon.social/@tiggertherese
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RT ≠ endorsement. I may not entirely agree with all my own views either.
https://mastodon.social/@tiggertherese
https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/784397322696509320
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🇬🇧 Ready, Set, Flip! Crowds Gather For London Pancake Day Race
Ready, set, flip! Crowds gather as contestants take part in the annual Pancake Day race at Leadenhall Market. The race has been running for 15 years and is a light-hearted twist on the centuries-old feast day of Shrove Tuesday.
Ready, set, flip! Crowds gather as contestants take part in the annual Pancake Day race at Leadenhall Market. The race has been running for 15 years and is a light-hearted twist on the centuries-old feast day of Shrove Tuesday.
February 18, 2026 at 12:41 PM
🇬🇧 Ready, Set, Flip! Crowds Gather For London Pancake Day Race
Ready, set, flip! Crowds gather as contestants take part in the annual Pancake Day race at Leadenhall Market. The race has been running for 15 years and is a light-hearted twist on the centuries-old feast day of Shrove Tuesday.
Ready, set, flip! Crowds gather as contestants take part in the annual Pancake Day race at Leadenhall Market. The race has been running for 15 years and is a light-hearted twist on the centuries-old feast day of Shrove Tuesday.
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There are ways to do it, but those require long-term capital investment by the public sector to build up new industries like, idk, a wind turbine plant, but that requires long-term, structural commitment regardless of temporary headwinds, and all recent UK govts have been allergic to doing that.
February 18, 2026 at 10:17 AM
There are ways to do it, but those require long-term capital investment by the public sector to build up new industries like, idk, a wind turbine plant, but that requires long-term, structural commitment regardless of temporary headwinds, and all recent UK govts have been allergic to doing that.
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In addition a dearth of investment met with a policy that reduced investment. How could any of this possibly work
February 18, 2026 at 9:47 AM
In addition a dearth of investment met with a policy that reduced investment. How could any of this possibly work
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We’ve spent a decade trying to fix a problem of not enough people with a policy objective of reducing the number of people
February 18, 2026 at 9:45 AM
We’ve spent a decade trying to fix a problem of not enough people with a policy objective of reducing the number of people
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Yes, it transpired that cutting public spending to poor places didn’t lead to crowding in of private investment.
In addition a dearth of investment met with a policy that reduced investment. How could any of this possibly work
February 18, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Yes, it transpired that cutting public spending to poor places didn’t lead to crowding in of private investment.
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'But Brexit has removed a key source of funding, which the area desperately needs. County Durham received £154m of EU funding between 2014 and 2020, about £22m a year. Since the UK left the European Union, it receives about half that amount, £12m annually, under the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.'
This is fine as a snapshot of how things are in the place, but...what do we do?
Whatever it is will almost certainly need spending not tax cuts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Whatever it is will almost certainly need spending not tax cuts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Inside Horden, the County Durham town failed by politics
In Horden, County Durham, Westminster slogans have long been left unmet as the population has plummeted.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 18, 2026 at 10:04 AM
'But Brexit has removed a key source of funding, which the area desperately needs. County Durham received £154m of EU funding between 2014 and 2020, about £22m a year. Since the UK left the European Union, it receives about half that amount, £12m annually, under the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.'
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This is fine as a snapshot of how things are in the place, but...what do we do?
Whatever it is will almost certainly need spending not tax cuts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Whatever it is will almost certainly need spending not tax cuts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Inside Horden, the County Durham town failed by politics
In Horden, County Durham, Westminster slogans have long been left unmet as the population has plummeted.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 18, 2026 at 7:42 AM
This is fine as a snapshot of how things are in the place, but...what do we do?
Whatever it is will almost certainly need spending not tax cuts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Whatever it is will almost certainly need spending not tax cuts.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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A million dollars a year is SO MUCH MONEY. I live in NYC, and I am incredibly fortunate and privileged and I literally can’t even imagine how you could spend that much money! I don’t want for anything! My dogs are spoiled! What do they do with it all? Pay your fuckin’ taxes sheesh
Mamdani: "$5.4 billion is a very steep mountain to climb ... We want to work with Albany to raise personal income taxes by 2% on the 33,000 New Yorkers earning more than $1 million per year and to raise corporate taxes on the most profitable corporations."
February 18, 2026 at 12:10 AM
A million dollars a year is SO MUCH MONEY. I live in NYC, and I am incredibly fortunate and privileged and I literally can’t even imagine how you could spend that much money! I don’t want for anything! My dogs are spoiled! What do they do with it all? Pay your fuckin’ taxes sheesh
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Ah, the well known sequence of counting numbers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 16, 9, 10, 10…
Wtf
Wtf
They released this like this
Why would anyone ever drive a car by people who do not Look At MEASUREMENTS
Why would anyone ever drive a car by people who do not Look At MEASUREMENTS
February 17, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Ah, the well known sequence of counting numbers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 16, 9, 10, 10…
Wtf
Wtf
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I bet most people think Mrs Beeton lived to a ripe old age writing cookbooks, but actually Isabella Beeton died at the age of 28 of a bacterial infection contracted during childbirth
before antibiotics did people just die all the time from everything?
February 17, 2026 at 11:08 PM
I bet most people think Mrs Beeton lived to a ripe old age writing cookbooks, but actually Isabella Beeton died at the age of 28 of a bacterial infection contracted during childbirth
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Jenrick went to the same school as John Rentoul and Mervyn King. 🤔
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolverh...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolverh...
February 17, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Jenrick went to the same school as John Rentoul and Mervyn King. 🤔
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolverh...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolverh...
There's something pretty odd going on here.
Anyone know what really happened?
Anyone know what really happened?
Second person contacts Cabinet Office to warn against appointment of Dame Antonia Romeo
www.channel4.com/news/second-...
www.channel4.com/news/second-...
Second person contacts Cabinet Office to warn against appointment of Dame Antonia Romeo
A second individual has contacted the Cabinet Office to warn against the appointment of Dame Antonia Romeo as the new Cabinet Secretary.
www.channel4.com
February 17, 2026 at 8:31 PM
There's something pretty odd going on here.
Anyone know what really happened?
Anyone know what really happened?
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Reverend Jesse Jackson was a prominent civil rights campaigner who ran twice for the US Democratic Party's nomination for president in 1984 and 1988.
American civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson dies aged 84
Reverend Jesse Jackson was a prominent civil rights campaigner who ran twice for the US Democratic Party's nomination for president in 1984 and 1988.
l.euronews.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Reverend Jesse Jackson was a prominent civil rights campaigner who ran twice for the US Democratic Party's nomination for president in 1984 and 1988.
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oh my GOD
In the end they tore it down and build a psyciatric emergency ward in its place, and so the saga mostly ends….
But for the art work they commisioned to put on the roof, its called “how to meet an angel” and to say its wildly insensitive to its location is still an understatement.
But for the art work they commisioned to put on the roof, its called “how to meet an angel” and to say its wildly insensitive to its location is still an understatement.
February 17, 2026 at 4:08 PM
oh my GOD
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Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way.
Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.
February 17, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way.
I haven't watched this for decades, it's been repeated so often, but they were actually quite good...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ob...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ob...
Torvill & Dean Bolero - 1984 Olympic Winning Routine
YouTube video by Vienna81
www.youtube.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I haven't watched this for decades, it's been repeated so often, but they were actually quite good...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ob...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ob...
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So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.
It took only a 15-second clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt duking it out on a crumbling rooftop — made by A.I. with a two-sentence prompt and the click of a button — to draw swift outrage, and sizable fear, from Hollywood.
"It’s nothing short of terrifying," one scriptwriter said.
"It’s nothing short of terrifying," one scriptwriter said.
Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood
A 15-second clip created by an artificial intelligence tool owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance appears more cinematic than anything so far.
nyti.ms
February 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.
I remember Robin Cousins practising jumps in the middle of Bristol Ice Rink while the rest of us clonked around the outside crashing into each other but I don't remember this at all. 🤔
youtu.be/jg2lPhTYGNw?...
youtu.be/jg2lPhTYGNw?...
Robin Cousins - Olys 1980 FP
YouTube video by fsvin
youtu.be
February 16, 2026 at 9:43 PM
I remember Robin Cousins practising jumps in the middle of Bristol Ice Rink while the rest of us clonked around the outside crashing into each other but I don't remember this at all. 🤔
youtu.be/jg2lPhTYGNw?...
youtu.be/jg2lPhTYGNw?...
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Magnetic.
I love this scene. Duvall has to deliver a tongue-twisting amount of dialogue, but his body is doing more work than his mouth
youtu.be/Zxqkrmkhrjw?...
youtu.be/Zxqkrmkhrjw?...
Network - "I Got A Hit" - Holden, Duvall
YouTube video by No Small Plans
youtu.be
February 16, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Magnetic.
Been to the restored 1938 Saltdean Lido today on a recce for the upcoming @seasidenetwork.bsky.social symposium to be held in partnership with our friends @hbap1924.bsky.social
Full details will be available soon but you can save the date now to join us on *FRIDAY 26 JUNE*
Full details will be available soon but you can save the date now to join us on *FRIDAY 26 JUNE*
February 16, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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We're front page news in Australia 📰 as millionaires across the world urge political leaders to #TaxTheSuperRich
Dick Smith told Guardian Australia he joined the call for a wealth tax simply because it would “benefit us greatly”
Dick Smith told Guardian Australia he joined the call for a wealth tax simply because it would “benefit us greatly”
February 16, 2026 at 1:01 PM
We're front page news in Australia 📰 as millionaires across the world urge political leaders to #TaxTheSuperRich
Dick Smith told Guardian Australia he joined the call for a wealth tax simply because it would “benefit us greatly”
Dick Smith told Guardian Australia he joined the call for a wealth tax simply because it would “benefit us greatly”
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February 14, 2026 at 12:58 PM