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sidney @sidneyfalco.bsky.social · 7h

Really sorry you are going through this, but well done for taking care of yourself. DM me if you need anyone to talk to.

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sidney @sidneyfalco.bsky.social · 12h

Except the CIA isn’t going to sabotage it.

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sidney @sidneyfalco.bsky.social · 1d

This is my worry too. One clarification, I think the offensive set pieces are the best they have been in a while, do you agree?

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sidney @sidneyfalco.bsky.social · 1d

I like the policy, it’s just there’s a wider context where Ireland’s inflated GDP per capita (because of offshoring) gives it more freedom to try these things.

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sidney @sidneyfalco.bsky.social · 1d

That’s not what happened, it’s a €1.39 return in value on a €1 investment (quantifying the social value and wellbeing benefits).

The net cost of the scheme was €72 million.

www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Basic Income for the Arts pilot produced over €100 million in Social and Economic Benefits

The findings of this external report from Alma Economics show that the real net fiscal cost of the BIA pilot over the period 2021–2025 was just under €72 million

www.gov.ie

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sidney @sidneyfalco.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a good scheme, but the left probably needs to acknowledge that Ireland can fund it through being the corporate tax haven of Europe.

It’s like Norway funding EV infrastructure from fossil fuel sales.

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sidney @sidneyfalco.bsky.social · 2d

I think the point of Britain is facilitating elites to commit sex crimes, but everyone has an opinion I guess.

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sidney @sidneyfalco.bsky.social · 4d

There’s also just a complete lack of any coherent, animating principles.

This is a government that is simultaneously legislating for people to choose the moment of their own death whilst determining that people are incapable of choosing whether to have a second glass of Coke.

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sidney @sidneyfalco.bsky.social · 4d

Give the police space to be responsible for 50% of the fatalities.

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sidney @sidneyfalco.bsky.social · 7d

Maybe they’ll pull a Corbyn-era style false flag, like that Brexit Party pensioner who threw milkshake on himself.

sidney @sidneyfalco.bsky.social · 9d

Atlanta nailed this

Paper Boi (Acoustic Cover - Bryce Hitchcock)

YouTube video by TheBryceHitchcock

www.youtube.com

sidney @sidneyfalco.bsky.social · 9d

They wrote pieces such as Exiting the V C.

No that’s too obvious, pieces like E the Vampire Castle.

sidney @sidneyfalco.bsky.social · 12d

the wise man builds his house on the shifting sands of change

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sidney @sidneyfalco.bsky.social · 12d

It’s literally the “interesting you want to change society and yet you participate in it” comic.

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sidney @sidneyfalco.bsky.social · 12d

ok this show sounds great

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sidney @sidneyfalco.bsky.social · 12d

because in Britain they will be used to e.g control access to gendered changing rooms and toilets.

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sidney @sidneyfalco.bsky.social · 13d

It is my long held belief that journalists shouldn’t reference someone’s role/position if they won’t make those political statements under their name.

Fine, be anonymous, but all you get is “an anonymous source said…”.

Not “an anonymous Senior Cabinet Member…”.

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 13d

On the contrary I think they are aware of it and they don’t really care. From the things I’ve read from people in the Labour camp still, the impression I get is that they view a lot of ethnic minorities as Corbyn sympathetic and therefore not worth their time

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14d

Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.

Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 14d

Also frankly I am quite desperate! A party that’s at best ambivalent on the question of whether I’m English and wants to deport my friends is 9 points ahead in the polls and the current leader is floundering and visibly out of his depth!

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