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john bone

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contentedly retired academic (economics) diatonic accordion fumbler (https://www.youtube.com/@ekhezlaik/videos) shelfloads of #vinyl - not a collector though, just old. #COYI btw

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

Trusting Grok with medical diagnoses is definitely the funniest way to use AI but I think legal advice is probably a close second

Elon Musk: Try it out!

Dan: hot tip:

before you sign any legal forms, dump the who thing into Grok and ask it to "read this for me and tell me what I should know before signing"

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 17h

Manchester, 1961, photo by Shirley Baker.

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 2h

I guess it’s just not news.

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by and large (😬)

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 8h

For Labour, a fairly straightforward variation on nicking it would be to (maybe closer to the next election) raise the threshold to a point where complete abolition could be framed as benefitting only the very wealthy.

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 8h

Just now on ITV quiz show The Chase.

Host: “What animal features in Van Dyck’s equestrian portrait of Charles I?”

Contestant: “A duck.”

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 16h

Not so long ago, Jenrick would have been sacked by now. His comments were racially selective and many will say racist, failed to mention other parts of white majority Britain and he further stigmatised ethnic communities. But in these times he’s still being talked about as a next leader.

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Carl @carlsalter.bsky.social · 10h

Et voila

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 10h

Watch the second episode of our new YouTube series The Night Watch: Every Inch a Story as curator Pieter Roelofs reveals how even the smallest details hold the key to understanding Rembrandt’s revolutionary masterpiece.🔍

🎥 See the full story: https://youtu.be/FTyAnqtZPtA

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 11h

Would’ve been even funnier on Zoom.

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#wato
Sarah Montague, interviewing Helen Whately re (proposed abolition of) Stamp Duty:
“Is there anything that’s going to replace it? Perhaps a tax that the seller would pay?”

Sigh. Econ101.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 17h

Street Talk, Hull, 1951, photo by Bert Hardy.

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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 1d

It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social

Read our tribute to the visionary Nobel Laureate and watch an interview from 2012, just after he won: https://bit.ly/4mM8o3r

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 16h

got to be a joke about scurvy in there somewhere

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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 18h

A miniature armoured train on the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway in Kent. #WW2 #HISTORY

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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 1d

Scott Prior
(American painter b. 1949)
Summer Window, 2022
Oil on panel

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 17h

I think I'd cycle 80 miles in a headwind to see Ely Cathedral. No other cathedral feels so organically grown from the earth itself - it's lantern tower is one of the most verdant wonders of the medieval world. #thread

Ely Cathedral’s octagon and spires rise above the town’s tiled rooftops, their weathered stone and intricate pinnacles catching morning light beneath a pale blue Fenland sky.

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 1d

perhaps he was a gas fitter in his spare time

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#EconSky

University of York UK recruiting to Economics Lectureship (full-time, permanent).

Lecturer (Teaching & Research) at University of York

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Lecturer (Teaching & Research) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 1d

ditto 😉

john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 1d

"WHERE IS YOUR MEDIAN VOTER NOW???"

Some guy on the radio today talking about "the moderate, middle of the electorate" (approx 36:25).

Does that help?

World at One - 07/10/2025 - BBC Sounds

News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 1d

I’m strongly against anything that might induce them to move back here.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

If I cringe any harder at the Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp's stand-up comedy routine, I may fold in on myself, collapsing into a PSR-J0952–0607-style neutron star of vicarious embarrassment. ~AA

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john bone @johnbone.bsky.social · 1d

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