Silur
@silurian.bsky.social
Father. Husband. Engineer. Brit living in NL. Runner. Hurdy-Gurdy player.
It’s all rather academic if you can’t rely on those military to show up.
January 25, 2026 at 11:08 AM
It’s all rather academic if you can’t rely on those military to show up.
Wait. What? Has the budget happened?
November 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Wait. What? Has the budget happened?
People still use cash in the US?
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 AM
People still use cash in the US?
I think this is awfully unfair on all the good Kings in the world. The UK has a very nice King that can’t and doesn’t do any of these authoritarian fascist things…
October 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I think this is awfully unfair on all the good Kings in the world. The UK has a very nice King that can’t and doesn’t do any of these authoritarian fascist things…
Will the same apply to Reform voters?
October 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Will the same apply to Reform voters?
Not sure they’re very convincing in their attempt to persuade us to let them run the country. Piss-ups and breweries come to mind…
October 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Not sure they’re very convincing in their attempt to persuade us to let them run the country. Piss-ups and breweries come to mind…
Bizarre to see my fellow Brits so exercised over this, given the large number of uncoordinated government systems people are already on. And yet virtual silence over the creeping suppression of the rights to protest…
September 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Bizarre to see my fellow Brits so exercised over this, given the large number of uncoordinated government systems people are already on. And yet virtual silence over the creeping suppression of the rights to protest…
Brit living in NL here; the Dutch have had the DigiD for years now and it allows seamless access to all local and central government data and services, including personal health records, local and central taxation, pension information, etc, etc. Excellent system.
September 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Brit living in NL here; the Dutch have had the DigiD for years now and it allows seamless access to all local and central government data and services, including personal health records, local and central taxation, pension information, etc, etc. Excellent system.
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This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.
Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.
Melania has dressed up as a standard lamp.
September 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Melania has dressed up as a standard lamp.
I live in The Hague. I can assure you it is not a prison. It is the second city of The Netherlands and the seat of the Dutch parliament. It hosts the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice. It also has a small prison where indicted international criminals are held.
July 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I live in The Hague. I can assure you it is not a prison. It is the second city of The Netherlands and the seat of the Dutch parliament. It hosts the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice. It also has a small prison where indicted international criminals are held.
I am shocked how a nation that was formed out of the horrors of the holocaust can then impose its own genocide on another nation, using much the same approach of dehumanising people and creating horrific ghettos, death and starvation, with such indifference. Awful.
July 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I am shocked how a nation that was formed out of the horrors of the holocaust can then impose its own genocide on another nation, using much the same approach of dehumanising people and creating horrific ghettos, death and starvation, with such indifference. Awful.
Was he named after the tea? Or was it the other way round? 🤔☕️
July 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Was he named after the tea? Or was it the other way round? 🤔☕️
You’re missing the point by obsessing about trickle-down. I agree with you on that. But the idea of freeing up the financial sector to better invest in new enterprise is desperately needed, if economy is not set to further shrink. How else will you get the tax revenues to pay for services?
July 15, 2025 at 10:55 AM
You’re missing the point by obsessing about trickle-down. I agree with you on that. But the idea of freeing up the financial sector to better invest in new enterprise is desperately needed, if economy is not set to further shrink. How else will you get the tax revenues to pay for services?
UK economy was already underperforming before we left the EU. It’s hasn’t grown in real terms since the financial crash.
July 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
UK economy was already underperforming before we left the EU. It’s hasn’t grown in real terms since the financial crash.
Well, duh! But that will take 5-10 years of negotiations and even so will not solve the fundamental issues of the UK having shockingly low productivity compared with other EU and competitor nations, and being unable to grow new businesses beyond a small size - without being sold to US investors.
July 15, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Well, duh! But that will take 5-10 years of negotiations and even so will not solve the fundamental issues of the UK having shockingly low productivity compared with other EU and competitor nations, and being unable to grow new businesses beyond a small size - without being sold to US investors.
Maybe. But you’re not understanding the statistics!
July 15, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Maybe. But you’re not understanding the statistics!
Well, yes and no. Not all money trickles down. But the point here is to loosen regulation to allow the financial sector to better invest in businesses. Without something like this, the economy will continue to stagnate. What would you do instead?
July 15, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Well, yes and no. Not all money trickles down. But the point here is to loosen regulation to allow the financial sector to better invest in businesses. Without something like this, the economy will continue to stagnate. What would you do instead?
As a practical example: my son and his mate pay £2300 per month to rent a small two-bed, grubby ground-floor student flat in Camden, London. What would a two bed student flat cost in Scotland?
July 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
As a practical example: my son and his mate pay £2300 per month to rent a small two-bed, grubby ground-floor student flat in Camden, London. What would a two bed student flat cost in Scotland?
Very misleading statistics! Housing in the SE is way more expensive than the rest of the country, so of course energy costs are lower as a percentage of weekly costs - even if they are the same or more in absolute terms!
July 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Very misleading statistics! Housing in the SE is way more expensive than the rest of the country, so of course energy costs are lower as a percentage of weekly costs - even if they are the same or more in absolute terms!
Indeed. But most of the replies to this thread seem to imagine that arts grads are magically immune to this.
July 14, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Indeed. But most of the replies to this thread seem to imagine that arts grads are magically immune to this.
It’s perfectly possible to be able to write and communicate succinctly and convincingly with a STEM degree - and be able to solve complex scientific and engineering problems. A lot of confirmation bias going on in the replies to this thread by the arts majors…
July 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It’s perfectly possible to be able to write and communicate succinctly and convincingly with a STEM degree - and be able to solve complex scientific and engineering problems. A lot of confirmation bias going on in the replies to this thread by the arts majors…
Interesting comments here. One of the reasons (Brexit aside) that the UK economy is tanking is that businesses area struggling to get investment as the UK stock market is dying. If you want tax revenue, you need income, which means business investment. This is not about nationalisation 🙄
July 12, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Interesting comments here. One of the reasons (Brexit aside) that the UK economy is tanking is that businesses area struggling to get investment as the UK stock market is dying. If you want tax revenue, you need income, which means business investment. This is not about nationalisation 🙄