Michael

@britmonkey.bsky.social

https://www.youtube.com/@BritMonkey

those genetically modified babies who are all 6'8", jacked, no diseases, never aging past 38, are going to be the biggest dickheads in human history when they grow up.

podcast idea: every episode is a different famous person and they have a conversation with 3 people who have never heard of them, so the celebrity can experience what it is like to not be famous.

fwiw I think Labour will U-turn on ID cards like they have U-turned on literally everything else so far. That said, I'm interesting in seeing how far I can go while refusing to get a cringe little app that probably won't even work. What are they gonna do? Arrest me? Bring it on!!!!

I received an email from Octopus today saying they're hiking their time-of-use tariff rates, in part, because consumers were too good at shifting their use to cheap periods, so they were losing money. This tells you how powerful price signals are in driving efficient use of the power system.

🤓"heh...bet you didn't know Saint George was actually Turkish!" Saint George WAS English. He DID kill a dragon on St George's Day in 1066, then he wrote the Magna Carta with his blood, sending every European to Brexit jail. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🌹 Don't like it I'll help you pack.

I can tell if you *actually* hate AI or if you just performatively hate it because it's the "correct" socially enforced opinion in your friend circle. I know because I am also in this second group and I can spot you a mile off.

Every fucking time >enquire about renting an apartment >they don't reply for 2 weeks >"yeah you can come see it 2 weeks from now" >wait 2 weeks >morning of viewing >we are cancelling your viewing because somebody already rented it FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's not giving away the islands that bothers me, it's about paying for it. My entire life I've been told "um...we don't have enough money for nice things, sorry" and suddenly there's £30bn for a random African country to abolish their income tax.

Michael@britmonkey.bsky.social · last yr.

Remember to email your Labour MP and ask them to explain why they cut PIP payments "because we can't afford it" but then simultaneously agreed to give £101 million per year to Mauritius in exchange for literally nothing.

Remember to email your Labour MP and ask them to explain why they cut PIP payments "because we can't afford it" but then simultaneously agreed to give £101 million per year to Mauritius in exchange for literally nothing.

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Interesting that the US minimum wage is so low now that it has effectively been abolished, only 0.1% of the workforce are getting paid as little as that. For comparison 5% of the UK workforce is on our minimum wage of £12.21/hr.

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"Noooo!! We need to stay on permanent summer time so we have lighter evenings!!" "Noooo!! We need to stay on permanent standard time so we have ligher mornings!!" Hmm...What if... we had a system... that ensured we would have appropriate daylight hours for appropriate times of the year....???