Daisy Raikonnen
@daisyraikonnen.bsky.social
Swedish by birth, survived my adolescence in Brasso, Scotland. Captivated by Pollok FC, Star Trek & black holes. Married to Parr O'Dee, the occasional fixer of broken dreams.
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Scenes from Glasgow in 1975, featuring the city centre and the M8. The contrast between tenement demolition and the new motorways and Anderston Centre is presumably meant to illustrate progress.
#Glasgow
#Glasgow
November 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Scenes from Glasgow in 1975, featuring the city centre and the M8. The contrast between tenement demolition and the new motorways and Anderston Centre is presumably meant to illustrate progress.
#Glasgow
#Glasgow
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Thoroughbred horses, auto racing, massive ranches, luxury hotels.
The hobbies and side businesses of the ultrawealthy create huge write-offs that can let them get away with paying little or no income tax for as much as a decade at a time.
(Published Dec. 2021)
The hobbies and side businesses of the ultrawealthy create huge write-offs that can let them get away with paying little or no income tax for as much as a decade at a time.
(Published Dec. 2021)
When You’re a Billionaire, Your Hobbies Can Slash Your Tax Bill
Thoroughbred horses, auto racing, massive ranches, luxury hotels. The hobbies and side businesses of the ultrawealthy create huge write-offs that can let them get away with paying little or no income ...
www.propublica.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Thoroughbred horses, auto racing, massive ranches, luxury hotels.
The hobbies and side businesses of the ultrawealthy create huge write-offs that can let them get away with paying little or no income tax for as much as a decade at a time.
(Published Dec. 2021)
The hobbies and side businesses of the ultrawealthy create huge write-offs that can let them get away with paying little or no income tax for as much as a decade at a time.
(Published Dec. 2021)
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Pass over your biometrics, your passport, and financial details to dodgy companies – or accept a child-proof version of the web. (or get a VPN)
Me for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/31/t...
Me for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/31/t...
The Online Safety Act is Forcing Brits to Hand Over Personal Data to 'Unregulated' Overseas Corporations With Questionable Privacy Records
The age verification services used by social media platforms include a company funded by a Trump-supporting billionaire and a firm set up by former Israeli intelligence officers
bylinetimes.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Pass over your biometrics, your passport, and financial details to dodgy companies – or accept a child-proof version of the web. (or get a VPN)
Me for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/31/t...
Me for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/31/t...
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Councils warn of new QR code scams and other scam alerts
Scam QR codes on UK parking meters mimic official apps to steal data - drivers warned to avoid scanning codes in public places
@northeastbylines.co.uk
northeastbylines.co.uk/business/tec...
Scam QR codes on UK parking meters mimic official apps to steal data - drivers warned to avoid scanning codes in public places
@northeastbylines.co.uk
northeastbylines.co.uk/business/tec...
Councils warn of new QR code scams and other scam alerts
Scam QR codes on UK parking meters mimic official apps to steal data - drivers warned to avoid scanning codes in public places
northeastbylines.co.uk
July 4, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Councils warn of new QR code scams and other scam alerts
Scam QR codes on UK parking meters mimic official apps to steal data - drivers warned to avoid scanning codes in public places
@northeastbylines.co.uk
northeastbylines.co.uk/business/tec...
Scam QR codes on UK parking meters mimic official apps to steal data - drivers warned to avoid scanning codes in public places
@northeastbylines.co.uk
northeastbylines.co.uk/business/tec...
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This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP.
It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
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It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
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open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
IT IS A COUP
This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.
open.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP.
It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
1/
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
1/
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Lime bikes switched out their German tyres for a cheaper Chinese alternative and are now being sued by multiple users who have broken limbs because, they say, the new tires aren't as suitable for London weather. A little globalisation fable for our times
Imagine a revolutionary method of transport which offers so many benefits but where the appropriate level of safety and vehicle maintenance is decided by Californian tech investors who are seeking rapid financial growth.
Let’s talk about Lime in London!
www.londoncentric.media/p/lime-ebike...
Let’s talk about Lime in London!
www.londoncentric.media/p/lime-ebike...
Did Lime switch to bike tyres ‘less suitable for London's roads’?
The company denies the change to cheaper Chinese tyres on its e-bikes was a cost-cutting measure, as more Londoners come forward with severe injuries.
www.londoncentric.media
February 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Lime bikes switched out their German tyres for a cheaper Chinese alternative and are now being sued by multiple users who have broken limbs because, they say, the new tires aren't as suitable for London weather. A little globalisation fable for our times
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Trump is a One-Dimensional Negotiator
I'm going to get a little wonky and write about Donald Trump and negotiations. For those who don't know, I'm an adjunct professor at Indiana University - Robert H. McKinney School of Law and I teach negotiations. Okay, here goes.
I'm going to get a little wonky and write about Donald Trump and negotiations. For those who don't know, I'm an adjunct professor at Indiana University - Robert H. McKinney School of Law and I teach negotiations. Okay, here goes.
January 8, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Trump is a One-Dimensional Negotiator
I'm going to get a little wonky and write about Donald Trump and negotiations. For those who don't know, I'm an adjunct professor at Indiana University - Robert H. McKinney School of Law and I teach negotiations. Okay, here goes.
I'm going to get a little wonky and write about Donald Trump and negotiations. For those who don't know, I'm an adjunct professor at Indiana University - Robert H. McKinney School of Law and I teach negotiations. Okay, here goes.
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🔴Levi Davis - Murdered At Sea?
Part Two of a five-part special investigation by Dan Evans and Tom Latchem into a missing person’s case with dark criminal undertones
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/28/l...
Part Two of a five-part special investigation by Dan Evans and Tom Latchem into a missing person’s case with dark criminal undertones
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/28/l...
Levi Davis - Murdered At Sea?
Part Two of a five part special investigation by Dan Evans and Tom Latchem into a missing person’s case with dark criminal undertones
bylinetimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🔴Levi Davis - Murdered At Sea?
Part Two of a five-part special investigation by Dan Evans and Tom Latchem into a missing person’s case with dark criminal undertones
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/28/l...
Part Two of a five-part special investigation by Dan Evans and Tom Latchem into a missing person’s case with dark criminal undertones
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/28/l...
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Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
January 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
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Multiple cities reporting that ICE raids have begun.
I'm an immigrant & human rights lawyer. I wrote this on how to handle ICE, the actions each of us can take to protect our immigrant neighbors, & debunking anti-immigrant hate.
No paywall. Please share widely.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...
I'm an immigrant & human rights lawyer. I wrote this on how to handle ICE, the actions each of us can take to protect our immigrant neighbors, & debunking anti-immigrant hate.
No paywall. Please share widely.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...
Trump's Mass Anti-Immigrant Raids to Begin
Here are action items to protect your immigrant neighbors, answers to common FAQs, and insights to debunk anti-immigrant propaganda
www.qasimrashid.com
January 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Multiple cities reporting that ICE raids have begun.
I'm an immigrant & human rights lawyer. I wrote this on how to handle ICE, the actions each of us can take to protect our immigrant neighbors, & debunking anti-immigrant hate.
No paywall. Please share widely.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...
I'm an immigrant & human rights lawyer. I wrote this on how to handle ICE, the actions each of us can take to protect our immigrant neighbors, & debunking anti-immigrant hate.
No paywall. Please share widely.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mas...
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‘Solar Mamas empower our people by giving them electricity’: the women lighting up Zanzibar
‘Solar Mamas empower our people by giving them electricity’: the women lighting up Zanzibar
Women with little formal education trained to become solar technicians, transforming villages and tackling patriarchal norms
In a dimly lit corridor of a mud-walled house nestled among coconut trees, Sharifa Hussein stripped red and black cables, a…
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
‘Solar Mamas empower our people by giving them electricity’: the women lighting up Zanzibar
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An important read.
AI won’t fix this.
AI won’t fix this.
I've written this thread up as a blog post with some more details:
Why some DVLA digital services don't work at night
dafyddvaughan.uk/blog/2025/wh...
Why some DVLA digital services don't work at night
dafyddvaughan.uk/blog/2025/wh...
January 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
An important read.
AI won’t fix this.
AI won’t fix this.
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As always, very good thread by John on the current trend of 'Europeanisation' of British politics and their impact on reform capacities.
Looking a bit closer at the underlying @yougov.co.uk data makes a grim reading for the Labour government:
Looking a bit closer at the underlying @yougov.co.uk data makes a grim reading for the Labour government:
The Europeanisation of British politics continues. What does this mean for small-r reform - not the party, but attempts to expand the supply capacity of the UK economy? Thread.
Our first voting intention since the general election shows a close contest between Labour and Reform UK (12-13 Jan 2025)
Labour: 26%
Reform UK: 25%
Conservatives: 22%
Lib Dems: 14%
Green: 8%
SNP: 3%
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Labour: 26%
Reform UK: 25%
Conservatives: 22%
Lib Dems: 14%
Green: 8%
SNP: 3%
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
January 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM
As always, very good thread by John on the current trend of 'Europeanisation' of British politics and their impact on reform capacities.
Looking a bit closer at the underlying @yougov.co.uk data makes a grim reading for the Labour government:
Looking a bit closer at the underlying @yougov.co.uk data makes a grim reading for the Labour government:
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Morning All, a seasonal offering 😁
George Elgar Hicks's "Missed Christmas bin collection"
Oil on canvas,
1863
Tate London
George Elgar Hicks's "Missed Christmas bin collection"
Oil on canvas,
1863
Tate London
December 29, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Morning All, a seasonal offering 😁
George Elgar Hicks's "Missed Christmas bin collection"
Oil on canvas,
1863
Tate London
George Elgar Hicks's "Missed Christmas bin collection"
Oil on canvas,
1863
Tate London
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In preparation for the official publication date of my new book Supply Chain Justice next week (December 17) I thought I should do a thread (assuming I can figure out how to do that) on what the book is about. Just in case anyone is looking for a last-minute Christmas present….
December 9, 2024 at 3:27 PM
In preparation for the official publication date of my new book Supply Chain Justice next week (December 17) I thought I should do a thread (assuming I can figure out how to do that) on what the book is about. Just in case anyone is looking for a last-minute Christmas present….
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Democracies are in desperate need of effective protection from foreigners. But not from the poor refugees he despises. The real threat comes from the subject of Trump & Co’s unceasing fascination: the world’s most powerful autocrats, sitting on trillions of stolen money, surrounded by hordes
🔴Time to Build a Wall – Against Autocracy
Sergei Cristo, the whistleblower behind the new podcast series Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring, warns about the real threats from abroad
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/29/t...
Sergei Cristo, the whistleblower behind the new podcast series Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring, warns about the real threats from abroad
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/29/t...
Time to Build a Wall – Against Autocracy
Sergei Cristo, the whistleblower behind the new podcast series Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring, warns about the real threats from abroad
bylinetimes.com
December 30, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Democracies are in desperate need of effective protection from foreigners. But not from the poor refugees he despises. The real threat comes from the subject of Trump & Co’s unceasing fascination: the world’s most powerful autocrats, sitting on trillions of stolen money, surrounded by hordes
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Single cigarette takes 20 minutes off life expectancy, study finds
Single cigarette takes 20 minutes off life expectancy, study finds
Figure is nearly double an estimate from 2000 and means a pack of 20 cigarettes costs a person seven hours on average
Smokers are being urged to kick the habit for 2025 after a fresh assessment of the harms of cigarettes found they shorten life…
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Single cigarette takes 20 minutes off life expectancy, study finds