Tipping Point
@tippingpoint24.bsky.social
Born at 330.19 ppm. Data scientist, economist, markets professional and climate campaigner. Purveyor of Dad jokes and Liker of cats. Returning member of UK Green Party
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News report on ai replacing creative jobs on the local news. Not the slightest mention of the data theft or environmental damage driving it. Just arseholes making money off it and the unemployment of talented artists.
December 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
News report on ai replacing creative jobs on the local news. Not the slightest mention of the data theft or environmental damage driving it. Just arseholes making money off it and the unemployment of talented artists.
Extremely timely article. The arts are what we look to as the pinnacle of civilisation. It's getting very hard for musicians to get their training and experience, even harder to just put food on the table and a roof over their head.
My column in tomorrow’s FT: on how Netflix and streaming created a huge consumer surplus, but at the cost of a supply side crisis for the artists that produce their material:
The Netflix age has been great for consumers but terrible for artists
Returns to musicians and writers are dwindling fast
www.ft.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Extremely timely article. The arts are what we look to as the pinnacle of civilisation. It's getting very hard for musicians to get their training and experience, even harder to just put food on the table and a roof over their head.
5mo ago.
I maintain that Biden dropped the ball, he should have packed SCOTUS to rebalance it as soon as he was elected
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
5mo ago.
Every time I think I understand how the world works, the excellent @georgemonbiot.bsky.social disabuses me of that naive notion.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Every time I think I understand how the world works, the excellent @georgemonbiot.bsky.social disabuses me of that naive notion.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Problem: you have two left wing parties in British politics.
Solution: start a new left wing party to unify the movement
Problem: you now have four left wing parties in British politics
Solution: start a new left wing party to unify the movement
Problem: you now have four left wing parties in British politics
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Problem: you have two left wing parties in British politics.
Solution: start a new left wing party to unify the movement
Problem: you now have four left wing parties in British politics
Solution: start a new left wing party to unify the movement
Problem: you now have four left wing parties in British politics
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A DOD "Memo" saying no prosecution will happen isn't going to save you from life in a military prison for murdering civilian fisherman. Taking orders from a Fox News host who ordered you to do it isn't going to look real good to a jury.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Pete Hegseth’s order to ‘kill everybody’ included alleged drug boat survivors: report
More than 80 people killed in campaign that law-of-war experts have labeled extrajudicial murder
www.independent.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
A DOD "Memo" saying no prosecution will happen isn't going to save you from life in a military prison for murdering civilian fisherman. Taking orders from a Fox News host who ordered you to do it isn't going to look real good to a jury.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Why wouldn’t you want to know? What have you got to fear? Losing your precious Brexit? Being revealed as a traitor and a liar?
Surely, anyone decent and honest who genuinely cares about our country and our democracy has nothing to lose from this. So, sign up.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Surely, anyone decent and honest who genuinely cares about our country and our democracy has nothing to lose from this. So, sign up.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Why wouldn’t you want to know? What have you got to fear? Losing your precious Brexit? Being revealed as a traitor and a liar?
Surely, anyone decent and honest who genuinely cares about our country and our democracy has nothing to lose from this. So, sign up.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Surely, anyone decent and honest who genuinely cares about our country and our democracy has nothing to lose from this. So, sign up.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Every cloud etc etc
If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.
November 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Every cloud etc etc
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The UK is losing up to £250m a day in lost tax revenue due to the economic impact of Brexit, House of Commons Library analysis for the Lib Dems suggests.
Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn
Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The UK is losing up to £250m a day in lost tax revenue due to the economic impact of Brexit, House of Commons Library analysis for the Lib Dems suggests.
Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn
Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn
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Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
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It's January 31st, 2020, and Nathan Gill is celebrating our imminent departure from the EU.... and that terrible idea of a European Army.
Hmm, now I wonder who else would have been delighted about that.
Hmm, now I wonder who else would have been delighted about that.
November 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It's January 31st, 2020, and Nathan Gill is celebrating our imminent departure from the EU.... and that terrible idea of a European Army.
Hmm, now I wonder who else would have been delighted about that.
Hmm, now I wonder who else would have been delighted about that.
CHA 25, +7 reaction adjustment
November 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
CHA 25, +7 reaction adjustment
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“For the year she’s been in the job, Nandy has maintained a level of silence more usually associated with taking holy orders.”
Yep. Useless. Worse than useless.
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
Yep. Useless. Worse than useless.
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
The Culture Secretary Who Wasn't There
Lisa Nandy tries to keep her vow of silence
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
“For the year she’s been in the job, Nandy has maintained a level of silence more usually associated with taking holy orders.”
Yep. Useless. Worse than useless.
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
Yep. Useless. Worse than useless.
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
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The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
Brilliant stuff - worth a read!
Just written something on critics, Wings and onanism open.substack.com/pub/richardf...
The Critic’s Paradox
On Wings, and the Art of Standing Outside
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Brilliant stuff - worth a read!
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November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Combine this with Zohran's election in NYC, the mood music is clear. Trump is being rejected by Americans and the only way he will survive is by staging a coup against the nation, perhaps by cancelling midterms
BREAKING: PROP 50 HAS PASSED IN CALIFORNIA
November 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Combine this with Zohran's election in NYC, the mood music is clear. Trump is being rejected by Americans and the only way he will survive is by staging a coup against the nation, perhaps by cancelling midterms
Couldn't agree more with you. This is pure panic.
Yeah, this looks like an absolute panicked mess of a plan. There are ways to cut energy bills without undermining energy efficiency and clean tech investment. But cutting VAT and efficiency programmes is a short term saving for long term pain.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reeves considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills
Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill but industry insiders say move would be ‘disastrous’
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Couldn't agree more with you. This is pure panic.
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new print now in my shop!
An electron's journey ✨
(Link in bio)
An electron's journey ✨
(Link in bio)
![Print of a comic strip by me who is Stephen Collins. The imagery of the comic starts off with a single electron and then each panel zooms out one step - first to the microchip, then the OLED screen, then the iPhone, the person holding the iPhone, and onwards
Script:
An electron, forged in the first fire of the Big Bang
Courses through a deeply intricate maze of transistors and diodes
mined with unfathomable ingenuity from our planet’s deep geological past
and assembled from all over the world
Into a device perfected through centuries of technological evolution
to perform a beautifully synchronised pixel dance on an OLED screen
in an intricate moving pattern of shifting light
[Show a phone screen with an Instagram post featuring Ryan Gosling and bearing the legend:]
WATCH RYAN GOSLING EAT A PASTY FOR THE FIRST TIME!
whose choreography is powered by an global information network of unknowable complexity
which is specifically tailored to the interests of the being observing the screen
who is a member of the most advanced species on Earth
[Show a shlubby looking GUY idly looking at the Ryan Gosling/sausage roll Instagram reel on his phone while sitting in his pants and a stained t-shirt and eating a massive bag of crisps]
with a brain perhaps more capable of reconfiguring these signals into conscious thought than any other for billions of miles around
[Guy has a thought]:
“Mmm…"
in this endless, silent void.
[Pull back to show the Earth as a tiny blue dot among the stars with a thought bubble coming from it]
"… I want a pasty.”
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreighnpydnplb5ldc7a4xvoxwcpkgi6kluz4z6onzzedvcvmipplkgm@jpeg)
October 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
new print now in my shop!
An electron's journey ✨
(Link in bio)
An electron's journey ✨
(Link in bio)
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Braverman deleted this tweet which made me wonder who that previous prisoner was. His name was Junead Ahmed. He was a conman mistakenly released in 2023. She was Home Secretary at the time. Oh.
news.sky.com/story/migran...
news.sky.com/story/migran...
October 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Braverman deleted this tweet which made me wonder who that previous prisoner was. His name was Junead Ahmed. He was a conman mistakenly released in 2023. She was Home Secretary at the time. Oh.
news.sky.com/story/migran...
news.sky.com/story/migran...
I am loving the talk of the mansion tax.
Set it at 5m and take 1% pa of anything over that amount.
Set it at 5m and take 1% pa of anything over that amount.
October 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I am loving the talk of the mansion tax.
Set it at 5m and take 1% pa of anything over that amount.
Set it at 5m and take 1% pa of anything over that amount.