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Paul McNamara

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Sovereign Debt “veteran” (retd.) apparently

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · Nov 12

Big flow of new followers. Lmk if we were mutuals in the other place, decent starter pack from @tobyn.bsky.social here bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 3h

(Via @thomasfuchs.at )

Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 3h

I mean

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 7h

I know which way I’d bet

Altman "has the power to crash the global economy for a decade or take us all to the promised land," Stacy Rasgon, an analyst with Bernstein Research, wrote in an investor note this week. "Right now we don't know which is in the cards."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Celestial M Weasel @celestialweasel.bsky.social · 20h

"investment grade"

Andrew Brooks @taxbod.net · 20h

What could possibly go wrong?

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 20h

I do.

Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 21h

Reading a comments thread about road signs in Irish as well as English in Belfast. Someone makes the point that more people speak Polish than Irish in Belfast (likely true I imagine) and *instantly* the thread descends into a argument about why the council is putting up signs in Polish. Magnificent.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1d

I know plenty of politicians 'working classify' their backgrounds, but this from Jenrick is taking the piss.

His father's linked in is here: uk.linkedin.com/in/bill-jenr...

He was a managing accountant who ended up as the Managing Director of Cannon Industries

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Katie Lam says there are some schools in London "where 3/4 pupils don't speak English to the standard needed to for education"

Are there? London school results are outperforming everywhere else, partly + migration/diversity effects

[CPS livestreaming this if want to check the quote.It was 915am]

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

Shocked to learn that the world’s preeminent transphobe is also a genocide apologist.

JK Rowling:

"Pro-Palestinian demonstrators couldn’t give it a rest – not even for 24 hours. They were chanting all the old slogans and ducking all the hard questions. ‘Globalise the intifada,’ they cried – does that mean killing Jews in Manchester?" ✍️@NickCohen4

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 2d

v good.

Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 2d

A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou

(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 2d

„Might be”?

Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 2d

I think they should give relegation another try.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 2d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 2d

Well put and will mean a lot coming from him

Michael Emonds @michaelje67.bsky.social · 2d

Well said, Gary Neville! 👏

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2d

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 2d

So, judging by my daughter’s reaction, Travis Kielce is the new Yoko.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

Kemi Badenoch asked where she would send the 150,000 people she says she would deport every year, replies that it's an "irrelevant question".

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 3d

BREAKING: Heroic police officers save public from this terrifying terrorist who was holding a sign the government doesn’t like x

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, this really happened. The Met police has been arresting so many anti-genocide protesters that they’re complaining about how much they’re having to work overtime.

Poor cops. It’s tough being forced to arrest someone’s grandma because she doesn’t want kids starved to death.

Itsalladeepend @itsalladeepend.bsky.social · 3d

This article is absolutely bananas - 'There aren’t enough of us. Hard-working police officers are continually having days off cancelled, working longer shifts and being moved from other areas to facilitate these protests.' - Paula Dodds, chair of the Metropolitan Police Federation.

‘Enough is enough’ says chief of police federation over Palestine Action rally

Met Police said many of those arrested needed carrying away after they refused to walk from Trafalgar Square – but Amnesty International says arresting hundreds of people at the demonstration is ‘not ...

www.independent.co.uk

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 3d

Liverpool lost

Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe not.

Charles Watts @charleswatts.bsky.social · 4d

All over. 2-0 Arsenal. Routine win.

Arsenal hit top spot in the Premier League, albeit maybe only for a couple of hours.

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 3d

Finding a Chelsea win unusually easy to stomach, ngl.

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