UK unemployment is 5%. Making job creation a criterion in public procurement is stupid, and making it the centerpiece of social value while increasing the weight of social value to 20% is totally daft. Britain should be focusing on productivity instead. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

UK to strip back procurement rules to focus on job creation, says Louise Haigh

Andy Burnham’s de facto deputy PM says requirements for businesses vying for Whitehall contracts will be streamlined

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SNMP remains extremely underrated for being the GOAT API. Built in audit, just works.

NYC I am inside you!

Godzilla Final Wars: City Rampage

ALT: Godzilla Final Wars: City Rampage

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This is an excellent lesson in political double speak. From the clips I have seen, RFK never said New York City, just New York [State]. And despite the impracticalities of what that would actually have been, he is not technically lying. The statement will be used on talk radio and grow legs.

Patrick Meyers@pmeyers7.bsky.social · 3d ago

Here's the thing: I (and millions of other New Yorkers) know that RFK is lying. I remember when the ambulance sirens started, and then again when they became so frequent that they didn't stop at night, so you had to play music to drown them out. I remember the morgue trailers six blocks away, too.

A friend’s recent photo of civic shading in Malaga

I am once again calling on every American to lose their drivers license. As someone who has been licensed in both America and the Netherlands I can confidently say everyone of you sucks at driving.

Bernie Sanders on Financial Support

ALT: Bernie Sanders on Financial Support

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Kevin Wilson@kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 4d ago

Shocking.

One of my favorite moments back when I was in the life safety industry was telling a Starchitect I need to ruin their $50 million lobby by placing a life safety antenna in it... Because physics!

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️@jgbollard.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...

The European mind cannot comprehend the inferiority of tilt and turn windows. I think I bought this thing for $99 25 years ago. Still going strong!

I have not gone in a "normal" American grocery store in 4 years, holy crap hard to believe Stop & Shop is owned by the same parent as Albert Heijn.

Kenneth Parcell Overwhelmed and Happy Crying

ALT: Kenneth Parcell Overwhelmed and Happy Crying

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Here in America's true heartland you can have the best bread in the world (Jewish) made by Latinos, with bacon, egg, and cheese, while Credence is playing at 6:00am. Hear English, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Dutch. The local bullshitters are being openly racist with each other while having coffee.

Why is the modern American socialist a party for the bourgeoisie?

Diana Moreno@dianaforqueens.com · last wk.

This morning, I stood with small businesses outside a vacant storefront in Chinatown, now advertised for an outrageous $16,000 a month. I am proud to co-sponsor the Small Business Rent Stabilization Act, which would create reasonable standards for commercial lease renewals.

I have a dream for Amsterdam.

Hugo von der Thüsen@hugovdthusen.com · 2w ago

Towers as far as the eye can see

Honestly the American mins cannot comprehend political consequences of the 1.8 million or so bullshit administrative jobs that are at risk with single payer. Unless the solution is everyone gets a pony subsidies with zero cost reform.

The Opinionated Lab 𓅄@opinionatedlab.bsky.social · last wk.

“The DSA will destroy the Democratic Party!” Meanwhile…

It is kind of funny seeing people who have obviously never been on EBT medicaid tell other people that government run grocery stores are better than Walmart.

"Enforcing immigration status at airports is fascism! I am moving to liberal paradise Europe!" Meanwhile is liberal paradise Europe.

Is it safe to eat lettuce in the USA yet?

Half a million Dutch buildings have failed wooden foundation pilings and need to be replaced. To which I say, an opportunity to demolish a bunch of shitty old low density canal homes and build better, high density new things! www.nu.nl/economie/640...

Funderingsproblemen nemen toe: bijna half miljoen gebouwen getroffen

Bijna een half miljoen gebouwen hebben verzakkingsschade of krijgen daar tot 2035 mee te maken. Zonder ingrijpen loopt de totale schade op tot 54 miljard euro. "Anders omgaan met de grond is noodzakel...

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It may be illegal for me, punishable by a prison sentence, to insult my king, his heirs, his consort, and regent. But can I point out that both his father and grandfather were literal Nazis?

This Bloomberg piece on Austin housing affordability is pretty straightforward. youtu.be/gNwx1Z_8vHw?...

How Austin Is Beating the Affordable Housing Crisis

YouTube video by Bloomberg Television

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Is there any place in the world that does fare inspection on a moving bus? Seems really impractical/not safe. The no fare / no move solution we use here in Holland is much better. Bus fare evasion is non-existent because of it.

Shabazz Stuart@shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is really not the way. I’ve seen it many times personally. The bus should move onto the next stop, while they check payment, instead we just sit there.

I will never understand why the full blooded Dutch go to campgrounds in France, to be surrounded by other Dutch people and eat Dutch food, during the few weeks of the year when the weather in this country is absolutely perfect. Meanwhile France will be in a heatwave. - least cultured people.

If there was one candidate for "Demolish shitty old things, build better new things." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/w...

Hitler’s Birthplace in Austria Is Now a Police Station (Gift Article)

The government repurposed the 17th-century building in hopes of preventing the site from becoming an attraction for Nazi sympathizers.

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Dutch central bank in-effect says "ALL regulations need to be reduced in order to enable housing construction." This includes rent, environmental, parking, etc. nltimes.nl/2026/07/22/n...

Netherlands needs better investment climate to increase rental home construction: DNB

To realize its construction ambitions for rental housing, the Netherlands will have to improve its investment climate, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) concluded in a study into the financing of private re...

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I wonder if British PMs even bother unpacking. Ungovernable kingdom.

This is the correct way. Socialism for kids, eat what you killed for the olds.

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2w ago

Andy Kim suggests a new health care policy: -Enroll every child in Medicaid until the age of 26 www.notus.org/healthcare/a...

By what metric is there a trust concern here? In terms of media consumption they are almost rounding errors today.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w ago

Breaking News: A judge temporarily paused Paramount’s $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. to consider if it violates antitrust laws.

Everybody bitches about the Garden, but it is probably the most used / most transit / most walkable venue in the world. MetLife stadium only hosts what? 30 events per year? It is fine out there in the swamp.

Gernot Wagner@gwagner.com · 2w ago

Notice the difference?

Basketball remains the best sport. Knicks brought it home!

Demolish shitty old things, build better new things. Including here in Europe. Let the skyscrapers bloom!

Marco Chitti@chittimarco.bsky.social · 2w ago

My most radical take after a month on the market is that everything built before 1980s in this country should be demolished to make room for proper housing built to "not shantytown" standards. The notion of heritage should not exist here. Nothing is materially worth saving.

Call a spade a spade. Conservative cranks.

Hell Gate *subscribe today!*@hellgatenyc.com · 3w ago

Abundants rejoice! Even with down-to-the-wire negotiations, neighborhood opposition, a socialist regime, claims of a stolen website domain and a strident city council member, luxury high-rises will still be built in Mamdani's NYC. hellgatenyc.com/monitor-poin...