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Chris Baldie

@chrisbaldie.bsky.social

Designer and cartoonist from Perth, Scotland. Store: https://chrisbaldie.etsy.com Website: Chrisbaldie.com Mastodon: @chrisbaldie@mastodon.scot

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Nettlecake@nettlecake.bsky.social · 2w ago

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Chris Baldie@chrisbaldie.bsky.social · 4mo ago

After the chat recently of people jailbreaking their old kindles, I dug out mine (haven’t used it in a long time) and managed to get the battery kicking again! Has anyone tried jail breaking theirs and do you have any advice?

An old kindle from 2010 shows a Virginia Woolf portrait on its e-ink screen
Joe List@joel.ist · 4mo ago

What exactly is 'attacking' wealth? Is it not just redistributing? James Dyson does everything he can to avoid paying his share, he'll move operations to tax havens, hoard farm land, anything he can.

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Andrew Fisher@fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Feel like this should have got bigger pick-up last week The General Secretary of Labour's largest affiliated union and biggest donor over last 10 years writing in the @financialtimes.com they might disaffiliate in 2027. And if this is happening in Unite, other unions will be considering similar...

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Hannah Berry@streakofpith.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A few years ago I learned that to a highly financialised state (eg the UK), a person in debt is considered far more valuable than a person just working and paying taxes. After reading that, suddenly every government policy made much more sense…

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The debt burden of UK students is one of those things where, the more you look into the details, the more insane and predatory it is. So I tried my best to explain the numbers involved without making my, or your, head explode.

The Conservatives are, after all, well placed to know a lot about this morass, since they introduced it. In 2012, the coalition government launched the Plan 2 system of student loans and raised university fees across Britain to £9,000 per annum. To put Plan 2 in simple terms, loan repayments were laid out via a seemingly innocuous series of calculations. The first to consider is the threshold at which repayments begin. If you left education with, say, £27,000 worth of debt, you would only start paying it back once you met a predetermined salary. On its face, this might not seem like a particularly onerous demand. “Low-earning” graduates would avoid being saddled with repayments before they were financially able to begin making them, while their “high earning” peers could start chipping away at their debt, and provide an income stream for the state.