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ballyshann.bsky.social
Known as Simpganassi on the other place. Mainly housing, data, economics, policy and cats
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omg it’s a crossover episode with @ballyshann.bsky.social

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder that the Luftwaffe wasted a load of high explosives bombing Britain. They should instead have found a way to drop 20-30cm of snow nightly. Would have crippled the economy.

submitted 162 days ago • 11 comments

An MRP? 4 years from an election?

submitted 169 days ago • 2 comments

the Malaysians to Singapore, 1965

submitted 171 days ago • 7 comments

I have about three on my road, they’re always busy and they’re not cheap either. The one I use is cash only so I assume it’s probably not paying its true tax bill but I also doubt its the front for anything more nefarious, they’ll be making more than enough money to make a tidy profit

submitted 174 days ago • 1 comment

Guys I’ve lost Mushroom can you help me find her?

submitted 178 days ago • 0 comments

life imitates art 😍

submitted 181 days ago • 0 comments

The fishing industry is worth about £600m in GVA to the British economy. To understand just how tiny that is, the British wine industry is worth £8.9 *billion*

submitted 182 days ago • 0 comments

I have no idea what she’s doing

submitted 182 days ago • 0 comments

The kids are alright

submitted 183 days ago • 0 comments

Great piece. The first paragraph hits the nail right on the head: its connectivity. Brighton is ~1 hour from London by train, Scarborough is 1 hour 37 from Leeds and you need to change at York. Brighton has the M23 and A23, Scarborough has the single lane A64

submitted 183 days ago • 4 comments

We're gonna have lots and lots of attempts to classify and categorise Mangione because the big picture is just too banal and futile to even bother wheeling out anymore - that in a society where gun violence is normalised, gun violence is normal.

submitted 186 days ago • 4 comments

I keep reading pieces that say Reform came from nowhere to win 5 seats and 14% of the vote in 2024 - did everyone forget 2015? Or even June 2019?

submitted 187 days ago • 21 comments

In France the rebuild the Notre Dame in 5 years, in Britain we dither at the planning stage for years over extending a provincial church

submitted 188 days ago • 2 comments

It’s sort of impressive how Macron has managed to turn the Notre Dame reopening into a big international occasion out of nothing. There’s no reason a tonne of world leaders need to be there, but they are!

submitted 190 days ago • 6 comments

It’s a good day for wind power ⚡️

submitted 190 days ago • 0 comments

Reservoirs. We gave up building them in the early 1990s. Great to hear @Keir_Starmer raise on of my favourite symbols of Britain's low investment disease - here's the relevant section of Great Britain? www.penguin.co.uk/books/461720...

submitted 192 days ago • 9 comments

My daughter has been given a role in the school nativity play. She's one of the three wise men. Well, she's a five-year-old girl, so this is clearly yet another example of wokery gone mad.

submitted 192 days ago • 188 comments

I knew it

submitted 193 days ago • 0 comments

Local NIMBYs: nooo don’t build solar farms, we need the land for agriculture! also local NIMBYs:

submitted 193 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine waking up to this every day ❤️

submitted 193 days ago • 0 comments

The lack of numeracy in right-wing "think-tanks" is a real problem. Given that the OBR *explicitly* stated that the yellow line represented earnings at the 25th percentile (lower quartile) for new working-age migrants, Karl Williams is objectively wrong.

submitted 194 days ago • 12 comments

literally today

submitted 194 days ago • 4 comments

It’s times like this I’m glad Britain is a constitutional monarchy

submitted 194 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe it would be easier just to list the countries not having a war or political/constitutional crisis?

submitted 194 days ago • 12 comments

Fun fact: Reform, the Greens and the SNP together got more or less the same number of votes (6.7 million) at the general election as the Conservatives (6.8 million)

submitted 195 days ago • 0 comments

Massive away win for the little fella.

submitted 195 days ago • 584 comments

Every time somebody is outed as a wrong-un it rapidly becomes clear there was a tonne of evidence they were up to no good for ages but nobody did anything about it. Why does this keep happening?

submitted 196 days ago • 1 comment

Call me old fashioned but I don’t want foreign oligarchs buying elections www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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submitted 197 days ago • 2 comments

Meow

submitted 197 days ago • 0 comments

If philosophers were builders: Sucks through teeth. “Who put that argument together? Dodgy premises. Enthymemes all over the places. Going to cost a fortune to make it sound and valid.”

submitted 197 days ago • 6 comments