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The UK did have one standout product that was considered globally valuable- universities- and unilaterally decided to stop providing the product because it was more important to be xenophobic than successful
The UK’s economic problems are quite deep-rooted. The best summary I can offer is “we don’t make enough valuable, productive stuff and sell it to the world any more”.
Things like planning and energy no doubt play a role in that - but I don’t think they’re enough to fix it on their own
Things like planning and energy no doubt play a role in that - but I don’t think they’re enough to fix it on their own
July 22, 2025 at 7:01 AM
The UK did have one standout product that was considered globally valuable- universities- and unilaterally decided to stop providing the product because it was more important to be xenophobic than successful
"The white working class" is a deeply insidious term that turns class issues into racial ones, dividing working-class people against each other and obscuring our shared interests. Anyone who uses it is a scab cunt.
July 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Are you fucking shitting me
July 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Are you fucking shitting me
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Every single Afghan whose life was put at increased risk due to this data leak should automatically have their asylum claim in the UK facilitated and expedited. There is no defence for denying them asylum.
July 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Every single Afghan whose life was put at increased risk due to this data leak should automatically have their asylum claim in the UK facilitated and expedited. There is no defence for denying them asylum.
Trying to get appropriate wedding guest attire for a winter wedding. This is the first winter wedding I will attend and I am bricking it. Usually I just get a nice dress and have done with it, but it’s gonna be cold as a witch’s titty how can I get thermals with style?
July 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Trying to get appropriate wedding guest attire for a winter wedding. This is the first winter wedding I will attend and I am bricking it. Usually I just get a nice dress and have done with it, but it’s gonna be cold as a witch’s titty how can I get thermals with style?
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“Gender critical” by ensuring gender presentation and gender roles are policed. Slow hand clap to all involved
This is the end result of anti-trans bigotry: more harassment of girls and women, more policing of gender roles, more gender McCarthyism.
July 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“Gender critical” by ensuring gender presentation and gender roles are policed. Slow hand clap to all involved
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The police (wrongly) inform a peaceful protestor that holding a Palestinian flag and signs deploring genocide is an offence under the Terrorism Act. This is the deranged policing environment the government has created.
Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.
July 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The police (wrongly) inform a peaceful protestor that holding a Palestinian flag and signs deploring genocide is an offence under the Terrorism Act. This is the deranged policing environment the government has created.
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there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3
July 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3
Told a senior at work I had ethical concerns about the use of AI. I know they are all for adoption, but I stood my ground and imagined myself a proud Luddite. Why hand over the spark inside the human mind to a machine? Can you truly mechanise wisdom?
July 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Told a senior at work I had ethical concerns about the use of AI. I know they are all for adoption, but I stood my ground and imagined myself a proud Luddite. Why hand over the spark inside the human mind to a machine? Can you truly mechanise wisdom?
Added to gynae pathway 06 July. Which hopefully means surgery is within 4 months
July 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Added to gynae pathway 06 July. Which hopefully means surgery is within 4 months
So I moved house and I am happy. Quids down but happy.
July 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
So I moved house and I am happy. Quids down but happy.
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This was the beginning of a paper my daughter wrote in school when she was 8 entitled, "When I Am 100 Years Old."
I've kept it for that second sentence.
I've kept it for that second sentence.
March 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
This was the beginning of a paper my daughter wrote in school when she was 8 entitled, "When I Am 100 Years Old."
I've kept it for that second sentence.
I've kept it for that second sentence.
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Sorry - new book about the fate of the Africans 'rescued' by the British Royal Navy from transatlantic slave ships in the 19th century is by Jake Subryan Richards, for @yalepress.bsky.social - though @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social has written on it to...
March 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Sorry - new book about the fate of the Africans 'rescued' by the British Royal Navy from transatlantic slave ships in the 19th century is by Jake Subryan Richards, for @yalepress.bsky.social - though @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social has written on it to...
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One of the great myths of 19th century British moral superiority, post-abolition of slavery. We exploited the Africans the Navy 'saved'. None of them went home.
Looking forward to @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social new book.
Looking forward to @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social new book.
Around 200,000 captives were intercepted aboard illegal transatlantic slave ships in the 1800s, mostly by the British navy
I wrote about this history in The Last Slave Ships but Jake Richards’ forthcoming book is the one you want to check out
Here’s my blurb… /1
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
I wrote about this history in The Last Slave Ships but Jake Richards’ forthcoming book is the one you want to check out
Here’s my blurb… /1
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
The Bonds of Freedom
The story of the long fight for freedom of African captives rescued from the illegal slave trade only to be forced back into bondage The Bonds of Freedom t...
yalebooks.yale.edu
March 6, 2025 at 8:18 AM
One of the great myths of 19th century British moral superiority, post-abolition of slavery. We exploited the Africans the Navy 'saved'. None of them went home.
Looking forward to @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social new book.
Looking forward to @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social new book.
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This is just to say
I have fired
the bureaucrats
throughout
your government
Even the ones
that were probably
keeping planes
in the air
Forgive me
I am not very smart
So efficiency
Much savings
I have fired
the bureaucrats
throughout
your government
Even the ones
that were probably
keeping planes
in the air
Forgive me
I am not very smart
So efficiency
Much savings
February 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This is just to say
I have fired
the bureaucrats
throughout
your government
Even the ones
that were probably
keeping planes
in the air
Forgive me
I am not very smart
So efficiency
Much savings
I have fired
the bureaucrats
throughout
your government
Even the ones
that were probably
keeping planes
in the air
Forgive me
I am not very smart
So efficiency
Much savings
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Trump regime tweets this wordless video—nothing but the hum of an engine & the clanking of chains—comprised of closeup shots of a human being shackled for deportation. This is, no hyperbole, fascist fetish porn.
February 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Trump regime tweets this wordless video—nothing but the hum of an engine & the clanking of chains—comprised of closeup shots of a human being shackled for deportation. This is, no hyperbole, fascist fetish porn.
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This has a direct line to state-celebrated cruelty and a White House that refers to shackling and deporting people as ASMR - something to watch to relax you and create a calm nervous system.
An 11-year-old girl took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call ICE and have her family deported. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
11-year-old took her own life over deportation threats, family says
‘I waited a whole week for a miracle that my daughter would be well, but unfortunately, nothing could be done’, despaired her mother
www.independent.co.uk
February 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This has a direct line to state-celebrated cruelty and a White House that refers to shackling and deporting people as ASMR - something to watch to relax you and create a calm nervous system.
Count your days Thames water my bill is £300 higher than last year, with no additional usage.
February 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Count your days Thames water my bill is £300 higher than last year, with no additional usage.
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Country music needs to go back to warning people about the dangers of the company store
February 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Country music needs to go back to warning people about the dangers of the company store
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if only there was a long and documented history of when people already did this and it went Bad
February 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
if only there was a long and documented history of when people already did this and it went Bad
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lol the article this dude is crying over mean responses to is him saying "employees should live at their jobs"
February 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
lol the article this dude is crying over mean responses to is him saying "employees should live at their jobs"
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Things are already terrible and that Category 5 Celie Curse hitting USA just gettin warmed up
February 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Things are already terrible and that Category 5 Celie Curse hitting USA just gettin warmed up
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Vance: a little eugenics shouldn’t cost this 25-year-old child his government job
February 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Vance: a little eugenics shouldn’t cost this 25-year-old child his government job
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Trump and Musk are shutting down US AID because they do not want to interfere with overseas issues WITH ONE WEIRD EXCEPTION
Trump just issued an executive order titled: ADDRESSING EGREGIOUS ACTIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
It says "the United States shall promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation"
It says "the United States shall promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation"
February 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Trump and Musk are shutting down US AID because they do not want to interfere with overseas issues WITH ONE WEIRD EXCEPTION