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Designer and Lecturer. I design boats, yachts and a number of transport related machines, as well as other products. I am interested in politics, technology, history and design. Lecture in Product & Furniture design and Interior Architecture. European.
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remember when yevginy prighozin decided he was more important than putin and his plane exploded and putin was just like well, I hope we’ve all learned a valuable lesson today

submitted 9 hours ago • 22 comments

Privatisation has been theft on a grand scale. Renationalise everything without any compensation.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Thames Water should be made an example of, arrest all their executives, let the company go bankrupt dissolving all their debts. Nationalise with no debt. It will teach the criminal bosses, the irresponsible lenders and the greedy shareholders all at once. And you pay nothing.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 755 comments

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

submitted 3 days ago • 2223 comments

Similarities between ICE & the Gestapo

submitted 4 days ago • 322 comments

This economist gives really good interviews. And that’s not a sentence you read very often.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

How much longer will the world put up with this?

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

A reminder, in case you need one, that women are incredible athletes

submitted 5 days ago • 654 comments

The spurs don't fall far from the bones.

submitted 5 days ago • 442 comments

Sounds like he should have been cutting back on his substance use, not our federal government.

submitted 5 days ago • 390 comments

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

submitted 7 days ago • 228 comments

Rachel Reeves vs reality: The economics of the two-child cap youtu.be/b3GFjLR0Wjs?... The government claims it cannot afford to pay benefits for the elderly, children in poverty, and people with disabilities. That is nonsense. Simple economic analysis shows that these benefits pay for themselves.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.

submitted 10 days ago • 686 comments

Do Cybertruck owners know that when someone stops to take a photo of them, it's not because they think the driver is cool, but because they're going to call them a wanker somewhere on the Internet?

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

The best part? During talks in Istanbul Russian delegation hinted Ukraine’s representatives could “lose family members”, deputy head of Ukraine’s MFA Kyslytsia shared. Bullying and even threatening to kill the loved ones as attempt to persuade. Classic Russia in nutshell, Soviets on the rocks.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I think we can put to rest the notion that offshore wind turbines spoil views and economies. The fact is that they can make coastal sites far more interesting and boost tourism as people travel to experience them, sometimes even up close. Boat tours to see the turbines are "surprisingly popular."

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments