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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 5m

The M25 is as close as that guy will ever get to London

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1h

When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc.

I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant"

People got SUPER mad with it.

Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 2h

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 1h

The other Long covid - Billionaire's brains being fried after becoming fixated on their phone for a year

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7d

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 1h

Favourite (overall): Nessie or Black Shuck

Favourite (most likely): Sasquatch/Bigfoot

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 1h

Feels like some kind of Bader-Meinhoff Syndrome but I only heard about this thing this morning in the context of Napoleon's brother!

James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 2h

Oh that is interesting! I do love a think tank/political party taking the piss expenses scandal.

E.g. the Tory HQ taxi expenses brou-ha-ha

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 6h

This is my basic theory for a lot of what is going on with the centre right atm

The ideas failed utterly and now there is a total crisis of intellectual confidence

Indy @indy.bsky.social · 1d

It nags at me that people are dancing around the fact that one reason centre-right think-tanks are in an intellectual crisis moment is because we've spent over a decade where lots of their ideas were tried out and didn't pan out as advertised.

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 5h

Academisation, from what I've seen has led to even more workload for teachers (to breaking point), loss of coordination of student places across areas, and creation of a very-well renumerated additional layer/band of management/executive

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 5h

Looks like glasses of fruit juice!

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 5h

Surely dumping £5bn of bitcoin on the market would immediately depress their value due to sudden influx of supply (I have no idea of the intricacies of bitcoin).

Or is the UK stockpiling bitcoin to eventually cause some kind of cryptocurrency market crash....?

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Microsoft Visual Kei @joebaldwin.me.uk · 4d

Bellroy's "Region" field on their address form has one of the most deranged selections I've seen, I think it's just to wind up people who are really interested in local government subdivisions

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 5h

Somehow the reflections on the paving makes the photo itself look like a painting!

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 17h

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19h

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Lorenzo Trojan @ltrojan.bsky.social · 16h

Clear, terse, composed, factual

As usual a sobering, articulate and intelligent interview from Lord Heseltine

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 16h

Victoria Derbyshire, "You described Reform UK as the right wing fascists of 1930s, why?"

Lord Heseltine, "Because that's what they are"

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 17h

Rare Spectator W

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19h

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 17h

He's a far cry from offering to be Martin Lewis' election agent as ML is a man who the British public trust and respect

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 17h

Nice retro/vintage glass

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 21h

Among other things the reason is apparently "time spent looking at the CCTV footage", indicating that BTP have *still* not understood the binary chop algorithm despite having it explained to them by numerous angry computer science professors.

Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 1d

The British Transport Police (BTP) says it will not investigate bike thefts outside stations where the bicycle has been left for more than two hours.

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns.

buff.ly

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Retro Game Art 🎮🖼️🎃🦇 @retrogameart.bsky.social · Dec 28

Sims 2 ad (2004)

#retro #art #gaming #Sims

Sims 2 ad (2004) wife comes home to husband in bed with 2 other women

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wormbuxx @wormbuxx.bsky.social · 1d

Now I’m falling asleep and she’s calling a cob

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Dr Pete Olusoga @dr-peter-olusoga.bsky.social · 6d

Once again, for #blackhistorymonth I'll be highlighting some of the all time greats from the world of sport and performance in a month-long thread.

Trailblazers, record breakers, game-changers. One every day.

Settle in....

Let's start with...

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Inside Out @insideoutx.bsky.social · 1d

People who don’t condemn chaingate are NOT welcome at the Grand Départ 2028 in Luxembourg 🧘🏽‍♂️

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry opal, I don't follow

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James C @iguandonjim.bsky.social · 1d

I recall reading something a while ago about how Badenoch just sits listlessly looking at her phone in a catatonic state. I wonder if she feels completely hostage to the racists in her party and is just living in a state of perpetual shock and fear

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing! A colleague found it in her cavity wall whilst doing some DIY. A newspaper article from the 1960s bemoaning the introduction of some 50mph speed limits. "Poor British Motorists" - some things never change, do they?!

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