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Simon Wyatt 🇺🇦 @drsimonwyatt.bsky.social · 4h

I'm watching Mr & Mrs Forger, Mecha Maria, and Motorbikin'

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5h

As you shop, consider how the material will age, not just how long it will last. Will it age beautifully over time? Can you easily repair it? Will the repairs add to the item's appeal? As always, buy less, buy better, and take care of what you own. True beyond clothes

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Simon Wyatt 🇺🇦 @drsimonwyatt.bsky.social · 15h

There's a real danger though that the bubble is so large that it kills otherwise very productive and valuable tech players

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Simon Wyatt 🇺🇦 @drsimonwyatt.bsky.social · 15h

There very much is an AI industry in the field it emerged from: computer programming. I think that has decent prospects beyond the market crash, whereas creative media slop certainly does not

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Simon Wyatt 🇺🇦 @drsimonwyatt.bsky.social · 16h

Circular financing models totally demonstrate confidence in the value of the product

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Simon Wyatt 🇺🇦 @drsimonwyatt.bsky.social · 16h

You know the game is up when central banks can see the bubble

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 19h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 19h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Simon Wyatt 🇺🇦 @drsimonwyatt.bsky.social · 2d

This really is the end of the most successful political party in history

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus Christ

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d

Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride's big speech.

#ToryPartyDeath

Simon Wyatt 🇺🇦 @drsimonwyatt.bsky.social · 2d

How does she never miss

Simon Wyatt 🇺🇦 @drsimonwyatt.bsky.social · 4d

It's the opening track of her solo album, while watching her perform it I realised it's her grief over the record label forcing her to leave her rockabilly band and go it alone

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Simon Wyatt 🇺🇦 @drsimonwyatt.bsky.social · 4d

Her Imperial Majesty Cyndi Lauper has a song about this...

youtu.be/8ffc0TCGIG4

Cyndi Lauper - Money Changes Everything [HQ - FLAC]

YouTube video by Diego Perez (Music FLAC)

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Simon Wyatt 🇺🇦 @drsimonwyatt.bsky.social · 4d

Best way to be free is to never start 😎

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Simon Wyatt 🇺🇦 @drsimonwyatt.bsky.social · 6d

You could replace "UK" with "USA" and offer the same critique. No electorate is immune to right-wing populism

Simon Wyatt 🇺🇦 @drsimonwyatt.bsky.social · 7d

Ed is our Big Sam

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Simon Wyatt 🇺🇦 @drsimonwyatt.bsky.social · 8d

This is such a succinct summary of Labour's strategic folly

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 8d

All to avoid the shame of acknowledging the horrible, psychologically troubling truth. Labour has for a long time been a party of the PMC, by the PMC, for the PMC. It’s just, here’s the thing about the PMC. They are the electoral majority. And they are how Labour won, will win, and can only win. n/n

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 8d

All to avoid the shame of acknowledging the horrible, psychologically troubling truth. Labour has for a long time been a party of the PMC, by the PMC, for the PMC. It’s just, here’s the thing about the PMC. They are the electoral majority. And they are how Labour won, will win, and can only win. n/n

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Simon Wyatt 🇺🇦 @drsimonwyatt.bsky.social · 14d

You're here to inform the public with journalism, not actively spread misinformation with stupid questions

Simon Wyatt 🇺🇦 @drsimonwyatt.bsky.social · 15d

Horses are expensive. Any lord leading dozens of heavy cavalry was absolutely minted and very powerful

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Simon Wyatt 🇺🇦 @drsimonwyatt.bsky.social · 15d

Can't stand all these fundamentalists who don't know the fundamentals or their religion innit

Simon Wyatt 🇺🇦 @drsimonwyatt.bsky.social · 15d

Some muppet didn't really read the bible (Noone will know the hour...) and predicted that the rapture is happening today

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Simon Wyatt 🇺🇦 @drsimonwyatt.bsky.social · 15d

Legoland is great fun when the kids are all at school

A giant mini figure and roller coaster at legoland

Lego octopus wearing a crown, underwater

Simon Wyatt 🇺🇦 @drsimonwyatt.bsky.social · 15d

Cricket. The Last Night of the Proms. Visiting National Trust houses.

The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs @joemuggs.bsky.social · 16d

What’s the most Tory-coded thing you actively love?

Me: Essex. Elgar. Country pubs.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 15d

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 15d

Fundamentally, the headbanging Right doesn't believe Autism (or ADHD) exists. Or in so far as it does exist, a human conspiracy has created it.

We're back to their core outlook that 'It didn't exist back in the good old days so can't exist now.'

'It must just be some modern woke Marxist nonsense'.

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Simon Wyatt 🇺🇦 @drsimonwyatt.bsky.social · 16d

Genuinely good to see the BBC comments section reacting angrily to the ILR stuff. Cruel, racist guff that belongs in the bin

Simon Wyatt 🇺🇦 @drsimonwyatt.bsky.social · 16d

Sign of the times: my retired parents have done away with their land-line phone.