Koningwoning
@koningwoning.bsky.social
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Koningwoning
@koningwoning.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Choose 10 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One album per day for 10 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 1/10
#MusicSky
#MusicChallenge
#Music
One album per day for 10 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 1/10
#MusicSky
#MusicChallenge
#Music
There is a simple reason why you cannot compare this to 'the industrial revolution': what is being replaced is not a single set of jobs - it is ALL general thinking jobs that are at risk.
The Ind Rev mechanised manual labour at a high entry cost. AI does it at a low cost.
The Ind Rev mechanised manual labour at a high entry cost. AI does it at a low cost.
Why are the people at the top so clueless?
No - training isn't going to save people and make them be able to tradition into other jobs.... There simply are less jobs unless we magic some new jobs.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No - training isn't going to save people and make them be able to tradition into other jobs.... There simply are less jobs unless we magic some new jobs.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
AI likely to displace jobs, says Bank of England governor
Andrew Bailey says workers need to be trained to move into jobs that use AI, but adds it might not lead to mass unemployment.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
There is a simple reason why you cannot compare this to 'the industrial revolution': what is being replaced is not a single set of jobs - it is ALL general thinking jobs that are at risk.
The Ind Rev mechanised manual labour at a high entry cost. AI does it at a low cost.
The Ind Rev mechanised manual labour at a high entry cost. AI does it at a low cost.
Why are the people at the top so clueless?
No - training isn't going to save people and make them be able to tradition into other jobs.... There simply are less jobs unless we magic some new jobs.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No - training isn't going to save people and make them be able to tradition into other jobs.... There simply are less jobs unless we magic some new jobs.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
AI likely to displace jobs, says Bank of England governor
Andrew Bailey says workers need to be trained to move into jobs that use AI, but adds it might not lead to mass unemployment.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Why are the people at the top so clueless?
No - training isn't going to save people and make them be able to tradition into other jobs.... There simply are less jobs unless we magic some new jobs.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No - training isn't going to save people and make them be able to tradition into other jobs.... There simply are less jobs unless we magic some new jobs.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Yorkshire Water boss said "not being transparent" about receiving £1.3m payments from the parent company was a "mistake".
They carefully planned to circumvent the rules, civil society exposed it. No retribution
Customer fleecing, sewage dumping continues for bigger profits and exec bonuses
They carefully planned to circumvent the rules, civil society exposed it. No retribution
Customer fleecing, sewage dumping continues for bigger profits and exec bonuses
Yorkshire Water boss 'mistaken' to keep £1.3m payment secret
Nicola Shaw says she was wrong in
www.bbc.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Yorkshire Water boss said "not being transparent" about receiving £1.3m payments from the parent company was a "mistake".
They carefully planned to circumvent the rules, civil society exposed it. No retribution
Customer fleecing, sewage dumping continues for bigger profits and exec bonuses
They carefully planned to circumvent the rules, civil society exposed it. No retribution
Customer fleecing, sewage dumping continues for bigger profits and exec bonuses
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Either we did Brexit well and he has a right to speak.... or we didn't and he hasn't.
At one point this person has to deal with that simple fact (as does the publication that keeps on adding him to the line-up)
At one point this person has to deal with that simple fact (as does the publication that keeps on adding him to the line-up)
December 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Either we did Brexit well and he has a right to speak.... or we didn't and he hasn't.
At one point this person has to deal with that simple fact (as does the publication that keeps on adding him to the line-up)
At one point this person has to deal with that simple fact (as does the publication that keeps on adding him to the line-up)
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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
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Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro wound up after order to repay £148m for faulty goods.
Company has £600,000 assets. Govt is unsecured creditor, won't recover anything.
Hard to trace money in offshore bank accounts.
Govt could sue directors for fraud, will take years, what will it recover?
Company has £600,000 assets. Govt is unsecured creditor, won't recover anything.
Hard to trace money in offshore bank accounts.
Govt could sue directors for fraud, will take years, what will it recover?
Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro wound up after being ordered to repay £148m
In a ruling, Insolvency and Companies Court Judge Sebastian Prentis placed the company into liquidation
www.independent.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro wound up after order to repay £148m for faulty goods.
Company has £600,000 assets. Govt is unsecured creditor, won't recover anything.
Hard to trace money in offshore bank accounts.
Govt could sue directors for fraud, will take years, what will it recover?
Company has £600,000 assets. Govt is unsecured creditor, won't recover anything.
Hard to trace money in offshore bank accounts.
Govt could sue directors for fraud, will take years, what will it recover?
How THE FUCK is this already 'too late'?
So we have judicial backlogs of YEARS, but not even 18 months ago tampering with election money is 'too long ago'?
How come HMRC can get to my spending 5 years prior without a problem but 18 months is 'too long ago for a police investigation'?
So we have judicial backlogs of YEARS, but not even 18 months ago tampering with election money is 'too long ago'?
How come HMRC can get to my spending 5 years prior without a problem but 18 months is 'too long ago for a police investigation'?
December 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
How THE FUCK is this already 'too late'?
So we have judicial backlogs of YEARS, but not even 18 months ago tampering with election money is 'too long ago'?
How come HMRC can get to my spending 5 years prior without a problem but 18 months is 'too long ago for a police investigation'?
So we have judicial backlogs of YEARS, but not even 18 months ago tampering with election money is 'too long ago'?
How come HMRC can get to my spending 5 years prior without a problem but 18 months is 'too long ago for a police investigation'?
Ex-defense (humanitarian) lawyer thinks that we can just trust the system.....
Crazy times.`
Just shows how either
a) some people just do things for the money and never really cared for what they did OR
b) how your station in life totally obfuscates any other views
Don't know which is more scary.
Crazy times.`
Just shows how either
a) some people just do things for the money and never really cared for what they did OR
b) how your station in life totally obfuscates any other views
Don't know which is more scary.
Keir Starmer faces huge threat of rebellion as dozens of MPs slam 'madness' jury plan
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Keir Starmer faces huge threat of rebellion as dozens of MPs slam 'madness' plan
Keir Starmer is facing the threat of a rebellion from angry Labour MPs over plans to reduce the number of cases that go to jury trials - the MPs have sent him a warning letter
www.mirror.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Ex-defense (humanitarian) lawyer thinks that we can just trust the system.....
Crazy times.`
Just shows how either
a) some people just do things for the money and never really cared for what they did OR
b) how your station in life totally obfuscates any other views
Don't know which is more scary.
Crazy times.`
Just shows how either
a) some people just do things for the money and never really cared for what they did OR
b) how your station in life totally obfuscates any other views
Don't know which is more scary.
Can you imagine working under these circumstances?
You are constantly emotionally and physically drained..... and to then still have medical breakthroughs?
THIS is what the Nobel prize for Engineering should go to.
You are constantly emotionally and physically drained..... and to then still have medical breakthroughs?
THIS is what the Nobel prize for Engineering should go to.
"Under a suffocating blockade and a total electricity blackout, Palestinian doctors in Gaza have engineered a medical breakthrough..."
Hind Khoudary reporting.
Hind Khoudary reporting.
December 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Can you imagine working under these circumstances?
You are constantly emotionally and physically drained..... and to then still have medical breakthroughs?
THIS is what the Nobel prize for Engineering should go to.
You are constantly emotionally and physically drained..... and to then still have medical breakthroughs?
THIS is what the Nobel prize for Engineering should go to.
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Helpful context for the slight hatchet job Rory performed on Zack. Zack recognising he needs to learn the figures (regardless of their worth in the political debate) tells you everything you need to.
P.s. Rory Stewart also got his numbers wrong, but I guess that’s ok?
P.s. Rory Stewart also got his numbers wrong, but I guess that’s ok?
Why Rory Stewart might need to self reflect...
December 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Helpful context for the slight hatchet job Rory performed on Zack. Zack recognising he needs to learn the figures (regardless of their worth in the political debate) tells you everything you need to.
P.s. Rory Stewart also got his numbers wrong, but I guess that’s ok?
P.s. Rory Stewart also got his numbers wrong, but I guess that’s ok?
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NOTHING TO SEE HERE.
December 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
NOTHING TO SEE HERE.
BMA asked repeatedly for talks with the Health Secretary, he turned them down knowing that this scenario would happen and that he could them blame them for being irrisponsible.
I can't help but then support the doctors now.
It was irresponsible of the Health Secretary to wait this long.
I can't help but then support the doctors now.
It was irresponsible of the Health Secretary to wait this long.
Callum Parr from the BMA explains that the NHS needs more doctors & it needs NHS doctors to stay & thats why the issues of jobs & pay need sorting out
Its a real mystery why a health secretary who's taken large amounts of cash from the private healthcare sector isn't sorting it out, right?
Its a real mystery why a health secretary who's taken large amounts of cash from the private healthcare sector isn't sorting it out, right?
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
BMA asked repeatedly for talks with the Health Secretary, he turned them down knowing that this scenario would happen and that he could them blame them for being irrisponsible.
I can't help but then support the doctors now.
It was irresponsible of the Health Secretary to wait this long.
I can't help but then support the doctors now.
It was irresponsible of the Health Secretary to wait this long.
I mean.... this is police inspector drebin at a fireworks factory fire saying 'please move along nothing to see here, right?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Freemasons launch legal challenge over Metropolitan police’s disclosure rule
The force says the move was aimed at boosting transparency, but the organisation says it is unlawful and discriminatory
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I mean.... this is police inspector drebin at a fireworks factory fire saying 'please move along nothing to see here, right?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Read this. Then read it again.
December 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Read this. Then read it again.
Siri show me a headline of a journalist who obvisouly hasn't really researched their material*
*If there is a running gag since the 50's about record labels - it's that they really don't like artists.
*If there is a running gag since the 50's about record labels - it's that they really don't like artists.
December 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Siri show me a headline of a journalist who obvisouly hasn't really researched their material*
*If there is a running gag since the 50's about record labels - it's that they really don't like artists.
*If there is a running gag since the 50's about record labels - it's that they really don't like artists.
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If only ChatGPT worked like this...
On a related note, my husband @tealcartoons.bsky.social (a real human artist) is open for commissions.
On a related note, my husband @tealcartoons.bsky.social (a real human artist) is open for commissions.
December 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If only ChatGPT worked like this...
On a related note, my husband @tealcartoons.bsky.social (a real human artist) is open for commissions.
On a related note, my husband @tealcartoons.bsky.social (a real human artist) is open for commissions.
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2016 Daily Mail: We want foreigners out! We don’t care if it makes us poorer. Brexit means Brexit!
2025 Daily Mail: Foreigners are leaving Starmer’s Britain because this country is poor and shit!
This country would be so much better off without this hypocritical, incendiary, irresponsible rag.
2025 Daily Mail: Foreigners are leaving Starmer’s Britain because this country is poor and shit!
This country would be so much better off without this hypocritical, incendiary, irresponsible rag.
December 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
2016 Daily Mail: We want foreigners out! We don’t care if it makes us poorer. Brexit means Brexit!
2025 Daily Mail: Foreigners are leaving Starmer’s Britain because this country is poor and shit!
This country would be so much better off without this hypocritical, incendiary, irresponsible rag.
2025 Daily Mail: Foreigners are leaving Starmer’s Britain because this country is poor and shit!
This country would be so much better off without this hypocritical, incendiary, irresponsible rag.
I hate to say it.... but once again China is right.
December 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I hate to say it.... but once again China is right.
That's what you get for abandoning the left Labour... You did this all to yourselves.
I'm just over 100 days as the leader of the Green Party.
We've had several polls where we're in second place above Labour.
And today we found out we are closing in on overtaking Labours membership.
Then we're coming for Reform.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
We've had several polls where we're in second place above Labour.
And today we found out we are closing in on overtaking Labours membership.
Then we're coming for Reform.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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December 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
That's what you get for abandoning the left Labour... You did this all to yourselves.
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Sewage dumping near swimming spots in England getting worse.
Govt expects end to illegal dumping into waterways by mid-century.
Despite illegality corporate permits not cancelled, puny fines, execs not prosecuted, bills hiked, dividends paid, investment neglected.
archive.ph/qMctS
Govt expects end to illegal dumping into waterways by mid-century.
Despite illegality corporate permits not cancelled, puny fines, execs not prosecuted, bills hiked, dividends paid, investment neglected.
archive.ph/qMctS
Sewage spills near swimming spots still getting worse, report finds
Water companies have been ordered to end the release of untreated sewage into waterways by mid-century. Thursday’s report found progress to be well off course
www.thetimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Sewage dumping near swimming spots in England getting worse.
Govt expects end to illegal dumping into waterways by mid-century.
Despite illegality corporate permits not cancelled, puny fines, execs not prosecuted, bills hiked, dividends paid, investment neglected.
archive.ph/qMctS
Govt expects end to illegal dumping into waterways by mid-century.
Despite illegality corporate permits not cancelled, puny fines, execs not prosecuted, bills hiked, dividends paid, investment neglected.
archive.ph/qMctS
Why are we not hearing anything anymore about the humanitarian crisis happening in Gaza?
Just because there is a ceasefire doesn't mean Israel has stopped with it's shenanigans. It is STILL committing a genocide.
Just because there is a ceasefire doesn't mean Israel has stopped with it's shenanigans. It is STILL committing a genocide.
Jonathan Fowler from UNRWA: "The weather conditions are horrific.. not enough supplies are being allowed in.. we remain banned by the Israeli authorities from bringing anything into the Gaza strip"
Two more babies have died from exposure in Gaza.
Two more babies have died from exposure in Gaza.
December 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Why are we not hearing anything anymore about the humanitarian crisis happening in Gaza?
Just because there is a ceasefire doesn't mean Israel has stopped with it's shenanigans. It is STILL committing a genocide.
Just because there is a ceasefire doesn't mean Israel has stopped with it's shenanigans. It is STILL committing a genocide.
Hey @theguardian.com - I'm happy for you to report on this... but not that you think this is more important than that Israel has by now killed over 360 people in Gaza since the CEASEFIRE.
Israel is constantly breaking this and not a peep.
But PS should know it's Israel, not 'the Jews' that is evil
Israel is constantly breaking this and not a peep.
But PS should know it's Israel, not 'the Jews' that is evil
December 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Hey @theguardian.com - I'm happy for you to report on this... but not that you think this is more important than that Israel has by now killed over 360 people in Gaza since the CEASEFIRE.
Israel is constantly breaking this and not a peep.
But PS should know it's Israel, not 'the Jews' that is evil
Israel is constantly breaking this and not a peep.
But PS should know it's Israel, not 'the Jews' that is evil
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Sounds like we should then also kick out all of their bases unless they pay up....
"The US can no longer be relied on... Rather any US involvement will be transactional, and the UK needs to rapidly unpick 80 years of defence integration with, and dependence on, the US."
✍️ Andrew Dorman on the US National Security Strategy & Starmer's defence dilemma
ukandeu.ac.uk/starmers-def...
✍️ Andrew Dorman on the US National Security Strategy & Starmer's defence dilemma
ukandeu.ac.uk/starmers-def...
Starmer’s defence dilemma - UK in a changing Europe
Andrew M Dorman reflects on UK defence policy and argues that while the UK must deintegrate its defence capabilities from the US and implement the recommendations of this year's Strategic Defence Revi...
ukandeu.ac.uk
December 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Sounds like we should then also kick out all of their bases unless they pay up....