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New episode of THE ABUNDANCE AGENDA podcast! This week: 🤬 The NIMBYs are striking back 📰 The Guardian's weird assault on the Planning Bill 🌳 And former Tory cabinet minister Sir Simon Clarke tells us why he fears his party is "pointless" And more! Listen: www.abundancepod.com/p/the-nimbys...

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She's going to... reduce the number of products Britain sells, put Britain's core software on a competing platform, and orchestrate the creation of the single most successful consumer product of all time?

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This has taken up full-time residence in my brain since I saw it. In the 2018 Taron Egerton Robin Hood, he gets a literal “Draft Notice”… to fight in the Third Crusade. The filmmakers genuinely think it was called “the Third Crusade” at the time (and they had "Draft Notices").

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I am very sceptical that this will turn out to be a massive conspiracy / deliberate attempt to steal data. I know we all hate Musk, but I'd still bet this is more just about bypassing annoying security stuff.

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Matt Goodwin's ideas are a dead end (and Neil O'Brien's too I guess). takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/matt-goodw...

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Premise here is that there is no majority British culture which Kemi Badenoch or Rishi Sunak can ever be part of, ie majority culture is defined in essentialist ethnic terms, so that British-born minorities, even once they are 2nd/3rd British-born generation are by definition inherently less British

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Catch up on the pod before a new episode drops tomorrow!

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Quite apart from anything else, these guys are EXACTLY CORRECT about the definition of staycation.

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Resharing cos I think it's a pretty good discussion, and because it's worth thinking about housing investment and industrial strategy ahead of the spending review

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💥 BREAKING: Ukrainian drones flew out of grain train car hatches and destroyed 13 Russian tanks and more than a 100 armored vehicles and other equipment being transported by the Russian train in occupied southern Ukraine. The hatches appear to have been opened by remote control, again.

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Mountainhead (2025): The Perfect Dark to Succession’s Goldeneye 64. Very enjoyable watch, and absolutely nails the language of the accelerationist tech right. Jesse Armstrong has been listening to a lot of podcasts.

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Here's the nightmare scenario for anyone who uses a password manager, 2FA, and other modern online security tools. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/06/ive-locked-myself-out-of-my-digital-life/

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This is fun on the madness of modern press tours www.vulture.com/article/new-...

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Fascinates me how at some point a large portion of the progressive left decided that the answer to racial stereotyping was to lean into them and make bizarre bullshit explanations up

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Do I have any comment on the Parthenon Marbles? Well, it's a big relief!

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The NIMBYs have learned to use AI 😩 (Odds and Ends #68) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-nimbys...

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Really, really want to wade in on the digital ID discourse but I have too much to do. You will have to wait until next week for me to officially decree the proposals Good or Bad.

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"[T]he cost of living crisis is the result of a chronic lack of abundance. If we prioritise achieving other goals over boosting our productive capacity, households will continue to feel squeezed in their everyday spending" 100%, @britishprogress.bsky.social! britishprogress.org/articles/the...

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Matt Goodwin's ideas are a dead end takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/matt-goodw...

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ICYMI:

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Post of the day.

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

> @dkthomp.bsky.social

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Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Obviously the Elon news is very funny on one level but don’t forget this fucks up the International Space Station if they follow through on their respective threats. (Not to mention future space progress - will the FAA still grant Starship launch licenses?)

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Matt Goodwin's ideas are a dead end takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/matt-goodw...

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Credit to Merz, he handles this quite deftly.

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Such is the power of "FOMO" that today I am regretting not pre-ordering a Nintendo Switch 2, even though (a) none of the launch games interest me and (b) I barely have any time to play games these days.

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How can the government effectively regulate the food industry when everyone from the Prime Minister is known to eat food multiple times per day?

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Really interesting post from Martin! I think this paragraph is the best way to reconcile stats with subjective feelings – it's not that things haven't got better, it's that the public's expectations have raised.

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Amazing news for one of the most deprived constituencies in Britain – but also breaking down the 100k figure into constituencies really makes it feel more tangible.

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As it is June 4th, here's my piece on why Britain should ban TikTok: takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/britain-sh...

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This reminded me of how funny the censorship on Deep Seek is:

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