Stefan Iaonco
@deexilio.bsky.social
Stately homo 🏳️🌈 & past professional foreigner (🇮🇹🇫🇷🇷🇺🇺🇦🇹🇷🇮🇩🇧🇷) Now work for myself. You know the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse? I’m their fluffer. Genetic hæmochromatosis patient. Yorkshire, England
This last couple of nights I’ve been staying at the (tiny) hotel I always choose (if the choice is mine) in Paris: l’Hôtel, rue des Beaux-Arts. Needless to say it causes endless ‘mirth’ with taxistes: «mais bien sûr monsieur, mais quel hôtel en rue des Beaux-Arts, comment s'appelle-t-il ?»
August 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This last couple of nights I’ve been staying at the (tiny) hotel I always choose (if the choice is mine) in Paris: l’Hôtel, rue des Beaux-Arts. Needless to say it causes endless ‘mirth’ with taxistes: «mais bien sûr monsieur, mais quel hôtel en rue des Beaux-Arts, comment s'appelle-t-il ?»
Last night I *feasted* at Le Christine, beginning with an olive 🫒 (!) an “aspiration” of anchovy & a Spanish vermouth mousse followed by a heavenly sardine; with caviar, roasted japanese caviar; lardo & smoked beurre blanc
August 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Last night I *feasted* at Le Christine, beginning with an olive 🫒 (!) an “aspiration” of anchovy & a Spanish vermouth mousse followed by a heavenly sardine; with caviar, roasted japanese caviar; lardo & smoked beurre blanc
Popped over to Paris to catch one of the last days of the epic ‘Hockney 25’ retrospective @ Fondation Louis Vuitton. What a breathtakingly good show!
August 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Popped over to Paris to catch one of the last days of the epic ‘Hockney 25’ retrospective @ Fondation Louis Vuitton. What a breathtakingly good show!
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Contempt of court laws are doing nothing to help the good administration justice, and an awful lot to harm it. But the justice system cling to them as if they’re a life jacket rather than an anchor.
May 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Contempt of court laws are doing nothing to help the good administration justice, and an awful lot to harm it. But the justice system cling to them as if they’re a life jacket rather than an anchor.
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Every day I wake up, and I dream that someone a position of influence in the Labour party will just propose putting up the basic rate of income tax.
Rayner proposed big tax increases in memo to Reeves
Deputy prime minister’s ideas suggest deep divisions at top of UK government over economic policy
www.ft.com
May 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Every day I wake up, and I dream that someone a position of influence in the Labour party will just propose putting up the basic rate of income tax.
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Something that the Lucy Connolly case has illustrated - something that is well known to those who work in criminal justice but often overlooked in public debate - is the complexity and nuance in the lives and characters of people appearing before the courts.
A short 🧵👇
A short 🧵👇
May 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Something that the Lucy Connolly case has illustrated - something that is well known to those who work in criminal justice but often overlooked in public debate - is the complexity and nuance in the lives and characters of people appearing before the courts.
A short 🧵👇
A short 🧵👇
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Had no interest in cricket until The Hundred come along, now every Monday night is multiple County Championship livestreams. The Hundred is such a great way to get people into cricket — take your kids this summer!
May 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Had no interest in cricket until The Hundred come along, now every Monday night is multiple County Championship livestreams. The Hundred is such a great way to get people into cricket — take your kids this summer!
こんにちはセクシー！
(“Hello sexy!)
My new fish filleting knife 👌… lovely weight to the handle. The curve of the tip will work better than the straighter blade of my otherwise lethally-awesome meat boning knife
#CulinaryBoysAndTheirToys
(“Hello sexy!)
My new fish filleting knife 👌… lovely weight to the handle. The curve of the tip will work better than the straighter blade of my otherwise lethally-awesome meat boning knife
#CulinaryBoysAndTheirToys
May 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
こんにちはセクシー！
(“Hello sexy!)
My new fish filleting knife 👌… lovely weight to the handle. The curve of the tip will work better than the straighter blade of my otherwise lethally-awesome meat boning knife
#CulinaryBoysAndTheirToys
(“Hello sexy!)
My new fish filleting knife 👌… lovely weight to the handle. The curve of the tip will work better than the straighter blade of my otherwise lethally-awesome meat boning knife
#CulinaryBoysAndTheirToys
Aesthetical day: such a gr8 luncheon with chums; collected the reframe of my new drawing by an artist I collect (well, the 3rd 😂); & peonies (!).
I ❤️ English peonie season: brief, blousy & utterly gorgeous 😊
& Yorkshire wild 🐇 defrosting for a 🍄🟫, 🌿 fricassé & a terrine 😋
I ❤️ English peonie season: brief, blousy & utterly gorgeous 😊
& Yorkshire wild 🐇 defrosting for a 🍄🟫, 🌿 fricassé & a terrine 😋
May 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Aesthetical day: such a gr8 luncheon with chums; collected the reframe of my new drawing by an artist I collect (well, the 3rd 😂); & peonies (!).
I ❤️ English peonie season: brief, blousy & utterly gorgeous 😊
& Yorkshire wild 🐇 defrosting for a 🍄🟫, 🌿 fricassé & a terrine 😋
I ❤️ English peonie season: brief, blousy & utterly gorgeous 😊
& Yorkshire wild 🐇 defrosting for a 🍄🟫, 🌿 fricassé & a terrine 😋
Judging by my fridge, it’s totally asparagus season 😂
White asparagus - a luncheon thing / homemade hollandaise sauce - but feeling risotto for the green asparagus
But natch my pee smells like clotted cream this time of year 😂
White asparagus - a luncheon thing / homemade hollandaise sauce - but feeling risotto for the green asparagus
But natch my pee smells like clotted cream this time of year 😂
May 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Judging by my fridge, it’s totally asparagus season 😂
White asparagus - a luncheon thing / homemade hollandaise sauce - but feeling risotto for the green asparagus
But natch my pee smells like clotted cream this time of year 😂
White asparagus - a luncheon thing / homemade hollandaise sauce - but feeling risotto for the green asparagus
But natch my pee smells like clotted cream this time of year 😂
I don’t have prostate cancer! Lady urologist said my MRI was completely clear. “Your prostate is larger than most men’s; double the weight, so a PSA score of 7-8 is completely normal for you. I’ll tell your GP you should have an annual PSA test but no need to see again you unless goes over 10” 😀
April 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I don’t have prostate cancer! Lady urologist said my MRI was completely clear. “Your prostate is larger than most men’s; double the weight, so a PSA score of 7-8 is completely normal for you. I’ll tell your GP you should have an annual PSA test but no need to see again you unless goes over 10” 😀
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Media reporting also needs to be clear about Trump's relative unpopularity. This is not normal - even in these polarised times.
Nothing to be scared of here in political terms. One of the least popular presidents is now even less popular than he was in his first term. People need to come out from under rocks.
April 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Media reporting also needs to be clear about Trump's relative unpopularity. This is not normal - even in these polarised times.
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the banality of evil
Ice director says deportations should be run like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’
Ice director says deportations should be run like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’
Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process
* US politics live – latest updates
The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said he’d like the agency to implement a system of trucks that rounds up immigrants for deportation in a system similar to how Amazon delivers packages around the US.
“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” the acting Ice director, Todd Lyons, said. He said that he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings”. His comments were first reported by the Arizona Mirror. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
the banality of evil
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Short version: if you're a guy with a track record of defaulting on debts, and you give people the impression you might be considering defaulting on your debts, people get less keen on lending you their money...
What's behind the Treasury sell-off? Gillian Tett wrestles with the question on everyone's lips
www.ft.com/content/d598...
www.ft.com/content/d598...
What is behind the Treasury sell-off?
The double whammy of falling bond and equity prices could partly be hedge funds unwinding so-called ‘basis trades’
www.ft.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Short version: if you're a guy with a track record of defaulting on debts, and you give people the impression you might be considering defaulting on your debts, people get less keen on lending you their money...
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I try to remember that political figures are also human beings but at the same time I also think “yo! Go suck a dead dogs dick you bearded homunculus” so I’m a spectrum of opinions here
JD Vance feels “very lonely” in his role as vice-president, his wife has said in her first interview since becoming second lady
Usha Vance: My husband is very lonely
www.thetimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I try to remember that political figures are also human beings but at the same time I also think “yo! Go suck a dead dogs dick you bearded homunculus” so I’m a spectrum of opinions here
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Deutsche Bank's George Saravelos has been having a very good crisis and his latest is... sobering. Take notes, kids, this is history in the making
April 9, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Deutsche Bank's George Saravelos has been having a very good crisis and his latest is... sobering. Take notes, kids, this is history in the making
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For veterans of the Eurozone crisis, this is quite incredible - today Greece has a lower borrowing cost than both the UK and the US for their 10 year bonds.
I had to check, all of the previous so called 'PIIGS' (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain) have lower borrowing costs than the US today.
I had to check, all of the previous so called 'PIIGS' (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain) have lower borrowing costs than the US today.
April 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
For veterans of the Eurozone crisis, this is quite incredible - today Greece has a lower borrowing cost than both the UK and the US for their 10 year bonds.
I had to check, all of the previous so called 'PIIGS' (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain) have lower borrowing costs than the US today.
I had to check, all of the previous so called 'PIIGS' (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain) have lower borrowing costs than the US today.
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The failure isn’t the insane President. The failure is all the supposedly sane people pretending he’s not.
April 9, 2025 at 6:21 AM
The failure isn’t the insane President. The failure is all the supposedly sane people pretending he’s not.
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Neguse demolishes Arrington's hypocrisy: "When the stock market dropped 1k points years ago, you rushed to bemoan Biden's actions. You condemned it. Now the market drops 1k points every day for the last week and you claim it's the economy running well. Do you understand why that's a tough argument?"
April 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Neguse demolishes Arrington's hypocrisy: "When the stock market dropped 1k points years ago, you rushed to bemoan Biden's actions. You condemned it. Now the market drops 1k points every day for the last week and you claim it's the economy running well. Do you understand why that's a tough argument?"
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Congress could stop Trump’s tariff policy at a stroke.
This story is ultimately not about presidential power, but about congressional weakness.
This story is ultimately not about presidential power, but about congressional weakness.
April 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Congress could stop Trump’s tariff policy at a stroke.
This story is ultimately not about presidential power, but about congressional weakness.
This story is ultimately not about presidential power, but about congressional weakness.
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seems like someone might be panican
April 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
seems like someone might be panican
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BREAKING: China's central bank urges state banks to put a brake on dollar purchases
www.investing.com/news/forex-n...
www.investing.com/news/forex-n...
China’s central bank urges state banks to put a brake on dollar purchases - report By Investing.com
China’s central bank urges state banks to put a brake on dollar purchases - report
www.investing.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
BREAKING: China's central bank urges state banks to put a brake on dollar purchases
www.investing.com/news/forex-n...
www.investing.com/news/forex-n...
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Ok what’s going on here?
Yields are going up which means bond prices are going down.
Fewer buyers of the world’s safest asset.
Normally when the economy slows, there’s a flight to safety, not away from it.
Means the world may be abandoning America.
We are flirting with a true crisis.
Yields are going up which means bond prices are going down.
Fewer buyers of the world’s safest asset.
Normally when the economy slows, there’s a flight to safety, not away from it.
Means the world may be abandoning America.
We are flirting with a true crisis.
10-year yield going vertical here. Something’s gonna break.
April 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Ok what’s going on here?
Yields are going up which means bond prices are going down.
Fewer buyers of the world’s safest asset.
Normally when the economy slows, there’s a flight to safety, not away from it.
Means the world may be abandoning America.
We are flirting with a true crisis.
Yields are going up which means bond prices are going down.
Fewer buyers of the world’s safest asset.
Normally when the economy slows, there’s a flight to safety, not away from it.
Means the world may be abandoning America.
We are flirting with a true crisis.
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April 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM