Renting a campervan for the first time and truly, cannot understand why anyone ever does this. It's not even that it's worse than being in a tent, I love being in a tent and being outside, it's a whole new different type of bad.

Capitalism so efficient at allocating resources wow

Rob Larson@ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’ve been writing about the rich for years and ho boy, this one

The discourse on this match is extremely strong evidence for my 'being a true football fan means making it impossible to experience joy' theory...

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

Did you know a barrister is facing prison just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has existed since 1670. We can't let it be silenced in court now. Add your name to help protect Britain's juries: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

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Juries have had the right to acquit based on their conscience for centuries. Now, a barrister is facing jail just for mentioning it in court. Add your name to help save Britain's juries.

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A BIS analysis argues the AI buildout is outpacing prior infrastructure booms and warns, “The larger the boom, the deeper the eventual bust.” Their model suggests that investment is 50% above the efficient level. www.bis.org/publ/work136...

put up the licence fee QR code now, you cowards

Teenage boys show major declines in suicide across the globe as their social media use grew 83% of countries with reliable reporting show plunging suicide rates by teenage boys as social media proliferated.

Teenage boys show major declines in suicide across the globe as their social media use grew

83% of countries with reliable reporting show plunging suicide rates by teenage boys as social media proliferated. Does social media actually prevent suicide?

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Nothing like football for just constantly affirming my superstitions

Norm Charlatan@normcharlatan.bsky.social · 4w ago

Egypt wearing Falcons colors in Atlanta and holding a big lead in the fourth quarter makes me a bit nervous.

Game on, Nige.

Worth reminding ourselves just how derangedly one sided the taxation of labour Vs capital is. Appreciate dividends/interest captured by income tax but the miniscule contribution of capital gains tax is to me the whole story of the UK's fiscal 'issues'.

Dan Neidle@danneidle.bsky.social · last mo.

Andy Burnham is probably going to raise tax by at least £4.7bn, and maybe much more. Here's my list of 37 ways he might do it: every potential tax rise, how much it would raise, and what the downside would be. There's always a downside. Thread:

I wouldn't say that coprolite is my favourite fossil, but it's a solid number two

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

Breaking News: the algae has agreed to accept $300 billion to consider vacating the reflecting pool

I think what American food posters miss is that lots of people over here in Europe drink nice wine with their dinner, so they want food which goes well with wine, rather than being overwhelmed with vinegar and peppers.

A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same.

Imagine being the government of the UK and not having banned Twitter. Twiddling your thumbs while a foreign fascist foments violence on the streets and preaches ethnic cleansing and an end to democracy.

Singapore. And it's not even close.

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 2mo ago

Let’s do some discourse. Who has the best breakfasts? My vote is Mexico: huevos rancheros/divorciados, chilaquiles, molletes, tetelas, papas con chorizo, churros, migas… plus café de olla I dunno, I think they figured it out?

... things would be different if we were an emerging market borrowing in hard currency, but we aren't. The constraint is the real productive capacity of the economy, not financial investors. That's "developed market privilege" and we have it.

Left wing I think because I'm tired and on the left and obviously yes?

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Not sure if this is one of my most rightwing or my most leftwing takes, but if you believe there is such a thing as “excessive profits” in a sector you really should just go ahead and insource the service you’re paying for:

1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0

Ok I've designed an LLM prompt to make Google AI just give you a list of links. It's longer than you might think because it kept ignoring the instructions. This is efficient. This is The Future™

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Braise@braise.substack.com · 3mo ago

The newsletter is agonisingly close to hitting 1,000 subscribers, and I have a little something planned for when it does — if you’ve not signed up for free yet, then please do so!

Tell you what, number 1,000 gets a free paid sub… for life. Value: literally infinite.

Economic theory has so little to say about time - how long these processes take - but we can say some sensible things right? People mostly have a bit of flex in their affairs - they can deal with increased costs without changing behaviour for a few months.

Tomas Hirst@tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I think a global negative supply shock is growth negative but the delay in it showing up in macro aggregates is convincing too many people that it’s actually maybe something else going on. Accept that more than 1 thing can be true but honestly I’m just Occam’s razoring here.

A cursory look at makerfield makes me think Burnham can win it. Suburban car dependant and working class gives greens a low ceiling, and the right block overall share fell overall at the last election.