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Lee Porte

@leeporte.co.uk

Systems geek that rides motorcycles with a penchant for experimentation

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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6mo ago

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

Bylines Network@bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 9mo ago

Wealth taxes are back on the agenda – and Prof Richard Murphy shows why the data demands them. 200 years of evidence: capitalism funnels wealth upward unless govts intervene. So what's stopping them? His must-read analysis👇 @eastangliabylines.co.uk @richardjmurphy.bsky.social with thanks

How capitalism drives inequality: and how to stop it

Wealth taxes are on Rachel Reeves’ agenda. Thomas Piketty has shown why it matters, and how we could stop the growth of inequality

eastangliabylines.co.uk

Phil Moorhouse@philmoorhouse.bsky.social · last yr.

Sure. We're in this mess because we leaned too much on USA resources which left us unable to defend a European country against a nation with a tiny economy and tanks that get stuck in the mud. Why not spend what extra money we can find on the most expensive weapons which we never intend to use?

Benjamin Tallis@bctallis.bsky.social · last yr.

Europe needs nuclear weapons. With Poland & other willing states Germany should develop national capabilities in coord w. UK & France (which need to add rungs to their escalation ladders). A mix of Continuous at Sea, mobile land launched & air delivered. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2y ago

Brexit was a test run for politicians telling lies, it carried on without consequence Now social media companies are removing fact checkers What's the point of an Online Safety Act if it doesn't require platforms to filter out lies?

Eric Neustadter (e)@thevowel.com · 2y ago

DAMMIT NPR. I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded. Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.

NPR@npr.org · 2y ago

People feared the computer glitch would mean "the end of the world as we know it." Thankfully, Y2K didn't live up to the hype after years and billions of dollars were spent on painstaking preparation.

Terence Eden@edent.tel · 2y ago

I doubled my salary by leaving the Civil Service. I don't claim to have been a lynchpin or a massive talent, but I was one of a number of people who couldn't afford to stay. Technical ability & strategic thinking is undervalued compared to managerial & budgetary skills.

Andrew Sissons@acjsissons.bsky.social · 2y ago

And the pay erosion meant a lot of the best civil servants - particularly after 2016 when relative pay had really fallen and things got a bit chaotic - just decided enough was enough and hopped off to the private sector.

Eddie Robson@eddierobson.bsky.social · 2y ago

JONI MITCHELL: They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum / And they charged the people a dollar an' a half just to see 'em TECH BRO: Sounds awesome but can we make it a monthly subscription

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2y ago

"The country needs conviction politicians, not politicians with convictions," says Kemi Badenoch, who has previously admitted to hacking and vandalising a Labour MP's website, which was an offence carrying a sentence of up to five years in prison #pmqs

Amra Watson@amrawatson.bsky.social · 2y ago

"If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it we put them on the cover of Forbes" and much worse, we excused them from having to follow laws, morals..

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