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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 2h

There are actually ways of moving boats that doesn’t involve flying them around

But I take your point :-)

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13h

Lord Heseltine, "Brexit is now having a debilitating effect on the UK.. It will be reversed, not it, when..The deception of Brexit has exposed Britain"

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 3h

Don’t worry, I bought some last week so the rally is over :-)

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 20h

To be fair - Open AI and maybe Tesla excluded - the big players are fantastic companies with great underlying businesses and low leverage so won’t actually fail.

But they could halve or more in value and it will be 🤷‍♂️

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 20h

Honourable mention for the NZ stock market 84-87 which largely consisted of companies called SomethingCorp whose principal business was investing in each other at ever higher prices, in all-stock transactions.

Also crashed unsurprisingly.

Tbf MSFT, Google etc are cash cows by comparison

BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 20h

Like Amazon does with products that sell well…

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 23h

Nothing to see here, just Reform’s leader suggesting UK emulate a country with Sharia Law

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

UAE has no democratically elected institutions, no free speech and an appalling human rights record.

Its economy functions on completely different metrics to the ours & ranks well below us for GDP

No serious person would ever think that we should emulate it.

But here's Tice calling us decadent

BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 23h

Reform leader calls for Sharia law in UK?

Did I get that right?

BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 23h

Ha just saw this
Sound on

ice.cream.assassin @icassassin.bsky.social · 1d

Felt compelled

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 23h

lol 😂

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 1d

Oh so we are going after girlfriends now?

Are they water-boarding her to get the names of Portland party shops where Antifa buy their inflatable frog suits??

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 1d

Other than counterfeiting or theft, that pretty much covers the options

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 1d

It would have worked if only he’d yolo’d into bitcoin with the proceeds

(a few years later but that you know).

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 1d

My favourite joke lol

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 1d

We can put that case behind us then.

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 2d

Nailed it

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 2d

Tories have made real progress with killing international banking - UK doesn’t feature for IPOs anymore, and listening to Jenrick ranting about judges, he’s coming for the globally recognised legal system too…

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a goal worth going for, and I’m not sure it’s so unlikely.

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 2d

She’s announced last week she’s going to prosecute Comey for lying to a Senate hearing so it’s likely front of mind

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 2d

Labour / LD / Green tactical voting gives them a comfortable majority as Tories / Reform battle each other

BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 2d

Her personal Vietnam is being confronted by men in chicken outfits

BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 5d

No one that is a friend of mine

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🦇🧛‍♂️Bram Stoker’s GuitarMoogula🧛‍♂️🦇 @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 6d

A country that tolerates this baloney emanating from its head of state and government for a day, let alone another four and a half years, has surely lost its mind.

Unhinged crackpot stuff anyone remotely connected with reality would be ashamed and embarrassed to say out loud.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Leavitt: "President Trump will end the radical left's reign of terror in Portland once and for all. The president has directed Secretary Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland."

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 6d

Where the fuck are the state police?

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BGB @bbolger.bsky.social · 6d

I sort of don’t understand how the GOP, which controls Congress, is trying to blame this on the Dems?

I mean I do, but JFC the Dem messaging is shit

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 6d

So Speaker Johnson gave the congress another week off. Paid of course, while they shut the govt down.

The GOP has made it clear they have no interest in compromise with Dems. So they will have to figure how to reopen their govt that they closed.

And they get another vacation

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