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Past: Nurse, aid worker, social entrepreneur, councillor, governor, charity treasurer (NEON, Medact), famous blogger/essayist Present: Community energy generation schemer, well being organizer, ignored Blueskyer Future: Prophet of the New Enlightenment
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Quite interesting to see Grant Thornton invited to pontificate, given the big audit firms' role in damage done to local government finances under previous government.

submitted 32 minutes ago • 1 comment

I haven't got an exact date, but I'm reasonably sure that's it's 50 years this month since I ate meat products. It wasn't that easy in 1970s Salford, given lard's ubiquity, but I think I may have got the hang of it now.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

Today may be the day Tesla shares collapse #tinyjoys

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

It's sort of noteworthy that in response to Trump's "big, beautiful ocean" notion, nobody AFAIK could be bothered to do the obvious screenshot a picture showing the distance between Big and Little Diomede, and suggest Trump has never seen a globe. It's all just beyond trying to jokes about it.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Remember the kid who we were supposed to be impressed by because he used ML for scrolls? Well, he manually decided to let people die from HIV/AIDS.

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

This is a huge deal. The pool reporters provide all the coverage to the White House press corps (audio, transcription, video, photo). It's basically creating a form of state media.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Just a chance Tesla could lose 10% of its share value at close of trading today. Current 9.3% ish. It's quite addictive.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Quite enjoying the Tesla shares graph today. Better than Eastenders uk.finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/?...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Cutting international aid also harms the lives of the poor in countries impoverished by colonial and post-colonial extraction. This is the 2nd time in an hour (other on radio) I've seen/heard international aid defended *solely* in terms of its 'soft power' effect.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I do wonder whether some of the German election gender divide is driven by the particular experience of women's 'role' in Nazi Germany, and that being passed down the generations. *Reaches for copy of Reich's The Mass Psychology of Fascism*

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I do actually think this may be the week that Musk crashes and burns.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I think I might have a bet on Musk spending less time in 'office' than Truss spent as Prime Minister.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I never knew that Evensong from Trinity College in Cambridge is broadcast live on youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuWE... and now life in very marginally better. I think it's every week.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Feel free to ask me any questions you have about the German elections as the results come in, and I'll be happy to pass off @jonworth.eu's work as my own.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

My sense from afar is that Musk's federal worker 5 bullet point by Monday things may cross a line from his edicts being explainable as ruthless pragmatism to one that is only explainable performative cruelty, even for Americans who've gone with the flow of the glitzy shownanship so far.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

@vonbladet.bsky.social has helpfully pointed out what appears a close similarity between Farage's new party structure - a Co Ltd by Guarantee with two directors and promise of a 'governing board' that has no actual board power - and the one person party that is the Freedom Party under Geert Wilders.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

It won't be a 'governing board' in the usual legal sense of the term, as ultimate control of Reform 2025 remains with the two co-directors. It is possible all the 'governing body' members will become directors, but if not, it's an advisory board of some sort.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I did actually win a poetry prize. $15, from memory. I assume my travel costs will be covered. Come on, you know you want to hear it.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Oh, this is marvellous. St Cyril will be having a right laugh up in heaven there.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

A push in the right direction, of course www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/... but I still think likely to be less important to economy and to redevelopment of FoM of (all age) workers than flexing the current article 140 rules and associated, as I outlined here medium.com/@bickerrecor...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting enough interview, but it's all still stuck in the left think tank world of wishing you can create a fairer economy without serious state-led efforts to move from dependence on the transactional shares base mechanism to a non-transactional shares model at more than niche CBS level.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I note in passing that Farage has chosen to put 'Director' as his occupation on the Companies House record for the new Reform company, rather than, say, Member of Parliament.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

What I like most about this is the notion that fixing a church roof is quite easy and just takes a morning with a couple of retired mates, a ladder and some nails.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

You can tell it's a crucial time in world affairs when @paulmason.bsky.social hasn't even posted about the extraordinary Wigan-Leigh result #rugbyleague

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

It''s commonplace now to compare 2025 to the mid-1930s, but these pages from Laski's introduction to the 1937 edition of his 1930 Liberty in the Modern State still strikes home with its applicability and analysis of what's needed, "if it were done quickly enough", and what will happen if not.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Is Godwin's Law still a thing?

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

As a small consolation, I think a widespread, international boycott of Air BnB could develop quite quickly and effectively in respect of the DOGe thing, via a property owner/possible renter doubly whammy, given that the product is the same via any other rental search intermediary.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment