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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 39m

This is very good

The Rest Is History @theresthistory.bsky.social · 3d

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Enoch Powell: Rivers of Blood🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

In the 1960s, rising anger over immigration left many people disillusioned with established political leaders, whose careful rhetoric increasingly didn’t chime with the rising passions the issue conjured up. Enter Enoch Powell.

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Peter Teffer @peterteffer.bsky.social · 3h

Isnt’t it funny that the same Europe that wants to ban “veggie burgers” because the name is “confusing”, simultaneously has a Council of the EU, a European Council and a Council of Europe?

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 3h

"Gentlemen you can't declare war on us, we are the Nobel Peace Prize committee"

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 7h

from Bloomberg.

I would like to see the arrow representing the final consumers of the AI product sending money into this tangle

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 7h

But number go up

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 7h

You can't fool me, that's Bill Bailey

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 8h

Investor relations, quant research, portfolio manager, risk manager

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 21h

Turns out that when Americans said "If it weren't for us you'd be speaking German now..." their objection was to learning a second language, not fascism.

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 10h

"No increase in taxes means your pint of beer will cost just the same"
"So you can promise we'll get the same amount of beer for our money?"
"Absolutely!"

(h/t @dsquareddigest.bsky.social )

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 11h

Big D Peanuts retvrn

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 11h

I'm halfway through, it's really good isn't it. I went to the same school as Tolkien and Powell and had never considered the parallels.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 13h

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 22h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 23h

FUN FACT: The current population of India is 1,467,229,354 as of Wednesday, October 8, 2025.

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

TESLA SELLS 61 CARS IN INDIA IN SEPTEMBER 2025

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Onlyfans is another form of bottom trawling tho

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 1d

I mean

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Fun bit of trivia this morning

*LEHMAN BROTHERS EUROPE ADMINISTRATION CONCLUDES AFTER 17 YEARS
*LONDON JUDGE SAYS ADMINISTRATION IS ENDED AT HEARING

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a suit and tie is holding a bag of cereal while talking to another man .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a bag of cereal while talking to another man .

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Mark Osterloh @osterlohatlarge.bsky.social · 1d

A Few Good Menus

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Bames Nond's having a stronk

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

David Attenborough was born before Anne Frank

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Message from my friend who's been trading crypto since the early 2010s

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

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 👀
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