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I left my iPhone in a taxi and realised my existence and identity have gone with it. Buying food, travelling and all communication with other humans needs mobile apps to send texts, scan my face and tell robots I am not a robot. My child thinks I am in Slough, because the phone is. Cogito ergo sim?

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Moving house with ADHD is: Buy pretty notebooks, make lists. Colour-code the lists. Contemplate how I am both organising my move and not organising it at the same time. Sudden urge to read about the Barber Paradox and Schrödinger again, for an hour. FFS

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It makes me very happy that the German compound word for queue is 'waiting snake.' And even happier that the German wikipedia entry for 'queue' includes this wonderfully serpentine image.

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Today in ‘he told you who he was, why didn’t you listen?’

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Ofc this only works as a juxtaposition headline if you are massively ableist. www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Just had the best haircut (with bonus free head massage and Mandarin speaking practice) at the Chinese-Malay-run Cut Studio in Waterloo. Great service, v reasonable prices, highly recommend. thecutstudio.co.uk

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So there's thing that happens in markets where unleashing massive recession threats on the world makes the cost of borrowed money - via bond markets - fall. Just saying. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

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Ah OK, I get it

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It is 2027, the iPhone costs $8,000, social media has died out and here's Trump asking his 93 Instagram followers why Bitcoin is trading at $0.0028

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Folk tend to sell the 30-year Treasury when they really can't fathom what's coming up next for growth, inflation, rates etc. The yield on this debt, which rises when the price falls, is about where it was in mid '07 when the financial crisis (Bear Stearns hedge funds collapse) began to unfold.

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I often wonder if 'big tariffs' will ever happen or if they're an ideological tool designed - a bit stupidly because of inflation - to make people and companies in the U.S. spend money. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

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"We've got all these scenarios and then it turns out a week later you might as well just chuck them into the bin" www.reuters.com/business/fin...

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I suspect that because participating in the U.S. stock market ponzi scheme has become the best way to stay ahead of inflation, we'll all just keep shoveling money into it anytime doing so seems vaguely rational www.reuters.com/world/china/...

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This is a question from the B2 language test the UK government says people who want to settle in the UK will have to pass. I fear deportation 😀

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For now... www.reuters.com/markets/glob...

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We're yet to discover if Trump and Xi have finally matured beyond the 'making up and breaking' phase of childlike conflict resolution.

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My kid has autism and when he was 5 he ‘couldn’t’ spell mat, cat etc. Bit ‘behind.’ Then one day he came home and spelled these words independently. Star Wars was his special interest. Mat, cat etc was just boring. I want all teachers to be autism-aware and feel the force of special interests.

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If you've read the Mar a Lago accord, which threatens to nuke US bond markets, Japan's threat here is a rubber bullet www.reuters.com/markets/asia...

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Bit of a wake-up call for investors getting excited about Brexit being annulled at the UK-EU summit.

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You might assume from looking at the financial media that big investors are stampeding out of U.S. stocks. They really haven't. Via our pensions, ISAs etc we're all still knee-deep in Trump's stock market. Chart from BofA:

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Like Naga, I lived with adenomyosis for goodness knows how long before private doctors found it and after I’d been to NHS GPs for every symptom multiple times. So much life lost to indecipherable fatigue and pain. How many other women are suffering in the dark? www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...

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‘I didn’t write the headline’ has never been quite so meaningful.’ 🙈

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Can anyone with a highly trained editorial eye spot the mistake on this front page ? 😂

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Another way to read the US GDP decline is that as it was caused primarily by surging imports, Trump will become more convinced that global trade is a bad thing, that Vietnamese shoe factories are 'stealing' from him and that tariffs create wealth.

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'It will be fine after we ban all imports'

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Yes. One in every state school class. Totally normal.

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Brexit feels increasingly like a small, weird parlour game in comparison to the US right now.

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TELSEY begins tracking price increases over the past week. Some highlights: * Abercrombie jeans: up 33% * Amazon Echo: up 38.5% * Target / Barbie doll: up 42.9%

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Local elections are a UK tradition where we all admit we have no idea what district councils are for, then allow them to carry on regardless because we dislike change. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/is-my-counci...

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Walked through a village punctuation forgot

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Our campaign to register autistic people in no way resembles T4. The billionaires can buy their way off the list by purchasing meme coins. by RFK Jr.

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The BBC is running a story about chocolate digestives that it also published in November 2020. Its getting flat-earthed everywhere today as well.

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

Yay. This was in my fantasy cost-free banning things manifesto before the election, though I expected Rishi to do it. The rest of my ban list please Ed Davey: Chewing biros Not changing bog roll when it runs out Asking mums who work how they 'manage' Men offering to help women use gym weights.

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