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Gift
@giftmacher.bsky.social
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Recovering STEM brain, occasional poet.
Increasingly a fan of lampposts.
they/them, but you can also use he/him
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giftmacher.bsky.social
More bullshit harder and faster seems the most likely outcome.
December 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Former leader of Scottish Labour there, just to really underline that none of this is organically arising and all of has always been elite derangement.
December 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM
giftmacher.bsky.social
They're a hair's breadth from shrieking about "degenerates" and a bonfire of books.
December 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
giftmacher.bsky.social
If that's not a contradiction in terms.
November 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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totr.bsky.social
please also enjoy this truly astonishing section, with a final paragraph so absolutely insane you'd assume it was a parody, and not something produced in conjunction with the ONS
The average monthly rent in Great Britain fell by 0.4% to £1,387 in the year to August. This is the joint second-largest decline since the launch in 2011 of the Hamptons Lettings Index, and the most substantial drop since the end of the pandemic... Demand has softened, down 4% over the past year. Meanwhile, there are 8% more rental homes on the market than in Summer 2024. The stock of properties may still be lower than in 2019: in July, there were 21% fewer homes available than six years ago. But in August, there were 16% fewer. As a result of this increase in supply, landlords are being forced to adjust their expectations to attract tenants. Inflation in August, as measured by the CPI, rose to 3.8%; overall housing costs made up close to a quarter of the increase. But the pace of rental growth has been lower than the overall rate of inflation for the past nine months. This is good news for tenants who have endured steep increases in recent years. It should also lessen the headache for policymakers at the Bank of England. Rising rents have been one of the bigger reasons why the Bank has not been able to meet its 2% inflation target. In 2022 and 2023, rents were some of the fastest-rising components of the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) and, indeed, over a five and ten-year period, the increase in rents has outpaced the overall rise in the cost of living. Since 2020, rents have gone up 35%, against 28% for the CPI. Over 10 years, rents have jumped by 51%, outpacing inflation, which has leapt by 38%. If rents had tracked inflation since 2020, the average rent would now be £1,308 pcm, saving £952 a year for tenants. This saving would be £1,611 if rents had followed the direction of inflation over 10 years, giving an average monthly rent of £1,253. Tenants may feel aggrieved about the spiralling rents. But if rents had moved in line with the cost of some everyday services and goods, the financial burden would be even greater.
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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mcraeandrew.bsky.social
When all the while, maybe - just maybe - the EHRC has dug its own grave with its hot mess of transphobic guidance, and this in turn is actually playing very nicely into the hands of the far right. I mean, there’s a more obvious story staring our mates at the guardian right in the face. 4/4
November 30, 2025 at 7:33 AM
giftmacher.bsky.social
Same, and I am perpetually baffled by it. Cannot work out why.
November 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM