Colin Bruce Milne
@cbmilne33.bsky.social
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MEDIA RELEASE: "Right now, AI data centres can be consented behind closed doors, with no community input. Experience overseas has seen these projects turn local water supply to sludge and suck huge amounts of energy, driving up prices for regular people," says Green Party Co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick.
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w agoCongrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
Why the Reserve Bank inflation target should be replaced with jobs and wages quotas - Newsroom newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/13/w...
Rob Campbell: Our economic settings engineer unemployment by design, not by accident
“If we must have an arbitrary number why not make 2% an upper limit on unemployment rather than a target for price movements?”
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if we don’t tax the rich, eventually they will own everything. This is capitalism working exactly as it is designed. Money makes more money - without doing anything at all. That's compound interest, that's capital accumulation... #TaxWealthNotWork
And getting rid of property taxes is the hot new slopulist idea, yeah that should work out great for opening up housing to millennials
Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 3w agonew housing crisis driver just dropped: * 28% of America's 3+ bedroom homes are owned by empty-nest boomers, who are upsizing in retirement rather than downsizing * Millennials with children own just 16% of such homes www.wsj.com/economy/hous...
Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer' www.theregister.com/os-platforms...
Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer'
More a rewrite really, and of a very early version: Linux 0.11 – in Rust
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Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one).
Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 4w agoThere's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...
Northwich residents asked to take down street's World Cup flags www.bbc.com/news/article...
Northwich residents asked to take down street's World Cup flags
Residents in Northwich say hanging flags in the street has been fun and the council is "over the top".
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Chris Nolan having increasingly better opinions while being a rich British guy in his mid 50’s is one of the great wonders of our age
Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · 4w ago"So much energy has been expended on bringing in AI, but if you look at that generation’s reaction, they’re utterly rejecting it." www.ign.com/articles/the...
Bringing one of the best tweets of all time over to Bluesky in honour of the Three Lions QF victory
Would that be easier or harder than building a single affordable home?
"We've seen the expansion of the illegal settlements in the West Bank, settler violence increasing and what is effectively in many cases settler terrorism." Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper discusses the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and settler violence in the West Bank at our 2026 London Conference.
A large and powerful typhoon is moving toward China, bringing heavy rain and strong winds ahead of its expected landfall later Saturday and triggering an emergency response in the Zhejiang province
Typhoon Bavi Tracks Toward China With Heavy, Widespread Rains
A large and powerful typhoon is moving toward China, bringing heavy rain and strong winds ahead of its expected landfall later Saturday and triggering an emergency response in the Zhejiang province.
bloom.bg
Britain backs Count Binface to beat Nigel Farage in Clacton by-election, poll shows | The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Britain wants Count Binface to beat Nigel Farage in Clacton by-election, poll shows
Some 33 per cent of British adults would prefer Count Binface to win, while only 21 per cent back the Reform UK leader
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Trump launched an attack and sent American kids to war, and then attended a glitzy fundraiser at his country club. This is the life of the Epstein class. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...
Trump Stays Out of Public View After U.S. Launches Military Assault on Iran
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There are more billionaires in the Epstein files than cases of undocumented immigrants voting over the last 25 years. But those same billionaires, including Trump and Musk, want you to focus on their voter suppression bill so you won’t focus on their alleged Epstein crimes.
Trump’s DOJ drastically increased the number of criminal cases to drop, especially the types of crimes Trump has been accused of: Labor violations +129% National security +93% Organized crime +86% White collar crime +59% Corruption +32% Civil rights +17%
Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...
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With the revered Tibetan leader over 90 years old the rivalry between New Delhi and Beijing over who speaks for the Buddhist world is entering its most consequential phase.
As the Dalai Lama Turns 91, India and China Are Fighting for the Future of Buddhism
With the revered Tibetan leader over 90 years old the rivalry between New Delhi and Beijing over who speaks for the Buddhist world is entering its most consequential phase.
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BINFACE NEWS! To those humans asking where you can see me in the flesh: I don't have flesh, but after my Makerfield triumph I'm having a (Moral) Victory Rally at the Museum of Comedy, London on Thurs 9th July. 20:30. Come get some space, satire and sanity! www.museumofcomedy.com/count-binfac...
Any Clacton residents who want to nominate your friendly neighbourhood intergalactic space warrior, ping me a line!
Whether it’s politics or sides of the Mersey, I’m uniting red and blue.
What’s that, Dale? You want to give me an unconditional personal gift of £5million to do whatever I want with? Sure! I just need to fill out a form. If I didn’t declare it that would be silly.
Count Binface on the BBC 'Today' programme: Q: “What is your appeal going to be to the people of Clacton?” Count Binface: “Well… I’m not Nigel Farage.” Farage called this by-election to dominate the headlines. Instead, he’s handed Count Binface a national platform.
