“Admittedly, he has strong views on traffic warden uniforms”
Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 22h agoIt's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.
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Finds things like yield curves interesting, needs to get out more
Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 22h agoAmerica’s cultural appropriation of the word ‘gooner’ is going to make being an Arsenal fan increasingly difficult
Quantian@quantian.bsky.social · yesterdayMister President, we must eliminate the tariffs on advanced Chinese gooning technology; despite being based on American technology transfer decades ago they have progressed leaps and bounds beyond our sheltered domestic champions
Fine for the Police Federation or the PCC to put out a statement like this. But a Chief Constable? Hmmmmm
Paul Brand@paulbrand.bsky.social · 2d agoNEW: Thames Valley Police is damning of Burnham’s early release policy, which will allow PC Harper’s killers to be let out early. Burnham will stop the early release of rapists and child sex offences, but not killers. “This decision is demoralising for all police officers.”
Moving from ‘just put 2p on the basic rate’ to ‘3p and cut the personal allowance to the ERNIC threshold’
Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social · last wk.stat of the day: "53% of the population gets back more from the state than they pay in" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Excellent example of the text not supporting the headline. “Most of the cost stems from paying gas-fired plants” “Rising gas prices are driving the bulk of the forecast increases”
Friend sent for mandatory Resilience training. Had to gently explain that this only happens when your employer is about to totally screw you over but wants to make your complaints seem down to your personality weaknesses.
Don’t generally get the Janan Ganesh hate on here but my god his column today is awful
I think the only thing reassuring about somebody with such, er, questionable political views amassing so much wealth and power is that he seems really miserable with it
Twlldun@twlldun.bsky.social · 2w agoL - and I want to make this very clear - MAO
‘“High leverage is awesome” […] said Shikhar Segal, a 19 year-old college student’ <adopts foetal position, sobs>
US day traders flock to ‘the most dangerous product in crypto’
Trump administration has opened American markets to highly leveraged perpetual futures
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What's great about VAR is that it makes the matchday experience worse while we still have clear and obvious errors.
Made the preceding 90 mins of dross suddenly worth it
The Secret Barrister@barristersecret.bsky.social · 2w agoInject that Enzo Fernandez red card directly into my veins
This half time show explains why the US is so keen not to be subject to the International Criminal Court #SPAARG
Introducing betting into a market that had virtually no existing experience, regulations or other natural defences is giving that real ‘bringing smallpox to the New World’ vibe edition.cnn.com/2026/07/17/c...
People are making wildfire bets on prediction markets. Experts say it could lead to disaster | CNN
As the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires raged last year, people placed bets on how how many acres the fires would consume, which locations they would reach and when they would be contained.
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That was fun (I choose not to think about Declan Rice pulling a facial expression at the end that in other sports would have the vets coming on with the screens)
Excited for an incredibly peevish post-match interview where the French explain that only the English would try to win 3rd place #FRAENG
Starmer got given a carriage clock and in return handed Polanski his genie
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Times reporting that Andy Burnham succeeded in persuading Shabana Mahmood to become Chancellor because it would give her more control over cutting immigration
I think the problem is this is one of those topics that has become heavily Right-coded. We should all be worrying *a lot* about falling birthrates even if I get why people don't want to be seen to be adjacent to frothers yelling about White Genocide and bringing back tradwifes
Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 3w agoWow. The Department for Education has just published new projections which estimate that the number of pupils in state-funded schools in England will plummet by more than 9% by 2031 amid falling birth rates And yet this issue receives probably 1,000th of the coverage the immigration debate receives
If we can somehow harness the energy of some of the takes we’re going to see, Britain’s Net Zero targets are sorted
Jim Waterson@jim.londoncentric.media · 4w agoTake one spoonful of England v Argentina football discourse, mix it with US Politics Bluesky users, bind it together with some historical takes based on late night half-remembered Wikipedia binges. Could be a good few days on here.
Still angry that Assassins Creed Valhalla made the Viking slavers the *good* guys #NORENG
Fantastic article from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com, this. My gut feel is this likely applies to SEND too: a mix of more need, previously unmet need *and* a big shift in diagnostic criteria increasing sensitivity over specificity. www.ft.com/content/063b...
What’s really going on with mental health?
Changing terminology risks misleading policymakers and harming those in most need
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Nice of Kemi to run a Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Lib Dems
Who wore it best: Sunak flying to Manchester to cancel HS2? Badenoch deciding the best time to oppose Net Zero is the middle of a record-breaking heatwave summer?
James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · 4w agoA sad and not a little shameful day for a once serious party. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
It’s fun to think how much of the secret sauce of the largest tech companies is simply a relaxed attitude to enabling crime
'Cool in 90 seconds' - the fake portable air conditioners sweeping the internet
The ASA says adverts claiming small devices can rapidly cool rooms were too good to be true.
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