Yuriy Akopov
@yakopov.me
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I’m sorry but if “delivering food” isn’t the kind of job that robots are allowed to take then what is the point of even inventing robots
Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
November 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I’m sorry but if “delivering food” isn’t the kind of job that robots are allowed to take then what is the point of even inventing robots
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strangely passive language from the leader of a major, significantly armed european power
November 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
strangely passive language from the leader of a major, significantly armed european power
She didn't ask for her husband to be killed, but then again she didn't have to declare herself the head of organisation which in turn calls itself the resistance.
Just waiting until Putin dies and hoping the next guy will allow them to get their 10% of the vote is not that.
Just waiting until Putin dies and hoping the next guy will allow them to get their 10% of the vote is not that.
"a symbol of resistance" - what exactly Yulia Navalnaya resists? EU policy towards visas issuance for Russians?
November 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
She didn't ask for her husband to be killed, but then again she didn't have to declare herself the head of organisation which in turn calls itself the resistance.
Just waiting until Putin dies and hoping the next guy will allow them to get their 10% of the vote is not that.
Just waiting until Putin dies and hoping the next guy will allow them to get their 10% of the vote is not that.
Have to say it is a very good video. Something about the theatre backstage being a very natural environment for the left so it just works?
Plus, focusing on "beating Reform" rather than taking the easy route by overly focusing on the Westminster incumbent in your local elections ad deserves a nod.
Plus, focusing on "beating Reform" rather than taking the easy route by overly focusing on the Westminster incumbent in your local elections ad deserves a nod.
Hope is here.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Have to say it is a very good video. Something about the theatre backstage being a very natural environment for the left so it just works?
Plus, focusing on "beating Reform" rather than taking the easy route by overly focusing on the Westminster incumbent in your local elections ad deserves a nod.
Plus, focusing on "beating Reform" rather than taking the easy route by overly focusing on the Westminster incumbent in your local elections ad deserves a nod.
For many policies there's a sympathetic edge case immediately elevated to prominence as a typical scenario, see "a disabled old woman with a lifeline ULEZ-incompliant car", or more recently "someone whose house just went up in value", but for 2 child cap cherrypicking is reversed to extreme negative
November 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
For many policies there's a sympathetic edge case immediately elevated to prominence as a typical scenario, see "a disabled old woman with a lifeline ULEZ-incompliant car", or more recently "someone whose house just went up in value", but for 2 child cap cherrypicking is reversed to extreme negative
The 'public services' the public endlessly demands need to be understood as pensions, heathcare, potholes repair and policing. Everything else is wasteful 'welfare'.
November 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
The 'public services' the public endlessly demands need to be understood as pensions, heathcare, potholes repair and policing. Everything else is wasteful 'welfare'.
Saw a mention of Southport stabbings yesterday and couldn't stop thinking about that for a while, got to say that having my own baby daughter now deepens the emotional response. It doesn't mean that I used to think it was just statistics, but have to admit it hits completely differently still.
November 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Saw a mention of Southport stabbings yesterday and couldn't stop thinking about that for a while, got to say that having my own baby daughter now deepens the emotional response. It doesn't mean that I used to think it was just statistics, but have to admit it hits completely differently still.
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Torn between deep sympathy for the widow, and laughing hysterically at the irony of the whole situation.
www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/2565372...
www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/2565372...
Bull sculpture will go next to home of widow whose husband died in cattle stampede
A GRIEVING widow whose husband was trampled to death by cattle is facing fresh trauma after Council chiefs chose a new roundabout next to her home…
www.newsandstar.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Torn between deep sympathy for the widow, and laughing hysterically at the irony of the whole situation.
www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/2565372...
www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/2565372...
Miles and miles and miles of optical fiber left by attack drones in Ukrainian fields, it's like Shelob's lair.
November 28, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Miles and miles and miles of optical fiber left by attack drones in Ukrainian fields, it's like Shelob's lair.
If you think Britain is welded to the US in a specifically inconvenient position, spare a thought for Canada.
This is so funny. So the Canadian stock market was open today, but because the Yankees are off, the volume was NONEXISTENT. Here’s one stock, typical daily volume of 5800 shares a day, today: 326 shares traded.
November 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
If you think Britain is welded to the US in a specifically inconvenient position, spare a thought for Canada.
If you are interested what the BBC meant by that, I read the article for you, and it is about *not increasing personal allowance*.
Yes, you got it right! The reasoning is that if you earn less than 12K now but will be earning more at some point... you will have to pay income tax.
Yes, you got it right! The reasoning is that if you earn less than 12K now but will be earning more at some point... you will have to pay income tax.
This doesn’t feel like the kind of headline the BBC should be running with
November 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
If you are interested what the BBC meant by that, I read the article for you, and it is about *not increasing personal allowance*.
Yes, you got it right! The reasoning is that if you earn less than 12K now but will be earning more at some point... you will have to pay income tax.
Yes, you got it right! The reasoning is that if you earn less than 12K now but will be earning more at some point... you will have to pay income tax.
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Another way of looking at this, of course, is that if you took the triple lock out of the equation, the benefits bill would very likely roughly be increasing in line with projected inflation *if that*
November 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Another way of looking at this, of course, is that if you took the triple lock out of the equation, the benefits bill would very likely roughly be increasing in line with projected inflation *if that*
We all dislike how the government seems to be guided by polls, but lifting 2 child benefit cap is firmly opposed by the public inc. by the majority of Lab voters.
This is a bold move and a gift to the young - the only group that is net positive about lifting it.
Give the government credit for it.
This is a bold move and a gift to the young - the only group that is net positive about lifting it.
Give the government credit for it.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
We all dislike how the government seems to be guided by polls, but lifting 2 child benefit cap is firmly opposed by the public inc. by the majority of Lab voters.
This is a bold move and a gift to the young - the only group that is net positive about lifting it.
Give the government credit for it.
This is a bold move and a gift to the young - the only group that is net positive about lifting it.
Give the government credit for it.
I just know this person is on BlueSky.
Housing is genocide sign seen at a NIMBY protest today against a mixed income high rise.
The new homes are less than a few blocks to a trolley stop.
And the neighborhood is majority white and middle to upper income.
The new homes are less than a few blocks to a trolley stop.
And the neighborhood is majority white and middle to upper income.
November 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I just know this person is on BlueSky.
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For now Europe dominates the global export of pharmaceuticals. Source: buff.ly/6bWCvGj
November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
For now Europe dominates the global export of pharmaceuticals. Source: buff.ly/6bWCvGj
Not a fan of certain Labour policies, but all of that happening so quickly shows how powerful the sovereign Parliament is.
Makes Patel, Braverman and Jenrick who were yelling about "cutting immigration" non-stop and did nothing look absolutely pathetic. Can't feel good to their supporters.
Makes Patel, Braverman and Jenrick who were yelling about "cutting immigration" non-stop and did nothing look absolutely pathetic. Can't feel good to their supporters.
November 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Not a fan of certain Labour policies, but all of that happening so quickly shows how powerful the sovereign Parliament is.
Makes Patel, Braverman and Jenrick who were yelling about "cutting immigration" non-stop and did nothing look absolutely pathetic. Can't feel good to their supporters.
Makes Patel, Braverman and Jenrick who were yelling about "cutting immigration" non-stop and did nothing look absolutely pathetic. Can't feel good to their supporters.
Got into an argument with someone who insisted "the average person in the UK can't afford food".
Very weird feeling because by saying it's a manipulative lie you come across as someone defending the current (dire) state of affairs, but god some people are absolutely addicted to poverty porn.
Very weird feeling because by saying it's a manipulative lie you come across as someone defending the current (dire) state of affairs, but god some people are absolutely addicted to poverty porn.
November 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Got into an argument with someone who insisted "the average person in the UK can't afford food".
Very weird feeling because by saying it's a manipulative lie you come across as someone defending the current (dire) state of affairs, but god some people are absolutely addicted to poverty porn.
Very weird feeling because by saying it's a manipulative lie you come across as someone defending the current (dire) state of affairs, but god some people are absolutely addicted to poverty porn.
Glasgow? Wait, I was reliably informed that something like this can only happen in England (ew).
today's round of online-radicalised racist rent-a-mentals www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
Mothers trying to learn English face demonstration outside school
The protest follows a campaign by YouTube influencers against schools offering migrant parents lessons to improve their language skills
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Glasgow? Wait, I was reliably informed that something like this can only happen in England (ew).
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When Tony Blair came to power in 1997, the UK economy was bigger than China and India combined.
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
When Tony Blair came to power in 1997, the UK economy was bigger than China and India combined.
To be honest while it is refreshing seeing the media remembering that racism is bad and is worth mentioning, I also feel that Farage is himself a relic of a bygone era, and whoever replaces him won't even bother to deflect that. He is the last reactionary leader on whom this pressure works at all.
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
To be honest while it is refreshing seeing the media remembering that racism is bad and is worth mentioning, I also feel that Farage is himself a relic of a bygone era, and whoever replaces him won't even bother to deflect that. He is the last reactionary leader on whom this pressure works at all.
Tbh Britain will have an excess of plumbers by then because woke universities and lanyard jobs will be no more.
The year is 2037. The Polish right are using the stereotype of the "migrant British plumber" as a rhetorical device to split a rival coalition.
Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Tbh Britain will have an excess of plumbers by then because woke universities and lanyard jobs will be no more.
The latest threads by Will Stancil are all about that the housing crisis is made up.......….
Choosing to understand it as something that might indeed be true in the US of A (even though the same arguments are used in the same debate here in Britain as well).
Choosing to understand it as something that might indeed be true in the US of A (even though the same arguments are used in the same debate here in Britain as well).
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The latest threads by Will Stancil are all about that the housing crisis is made up.......….
Choosing to understand it as something that might indeed be true in the US of A (even though the same arguments are used in the same debate here in Britain as well).
Choosing to understand it as something that might indeed be true in the US of A (even though the same arguments are used in the same debate here in Britain as well).
Speaking of corruption, Russia had jailed a bunch of its top MoD officials + governor of the invaded Kursk region + one of the most successful Russian generals, all on corruption charges. Somehow this doesn't signal an imminent collapse to commentators in the same way Ukraine corruption scandals do.
November 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Speaking of corruption, Russia had jailed a bunch of its top MoD officials + governor of the invaded Kursk region + one of the most successful Russian generals, all on corruption charges. Somehow this doesn't signal an imminent collapse to commentators in the same way Ukraine corruption scandals do.
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You get the reverse of this on the right, where someone dislikes capitalism, but believes that what they object to is 'modernity'.
November 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
You get the reverse of this on the right, where someone dislikes capitalism, but believes that what they object to is 'modernity'.