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cldx.bsky.social
Perpetually semi-retired software architect, living between UK and Greece. Economics, philosophy, long-distance bike rides. Real life is poetry, Greek language and Griffon Vultures.
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#ManUtd seems to be in the same place as #Labour UK. High and rising debt, low returns on investment a desperate shortage of firepower and a belief, against all reason, that glory days will return. Brace, Brace.

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Article 5 - that an attack on one Nato ally is an attack on all - has only been invoked once, after 9/11, by the United States

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

Trump's gripe is that $ supremacy may confer huge powers on US gvt & ruling class, but, ultimately, foreigners are using it in ways that guarantee US decline. So what most consider to be America’s exorbitant privilege, he sees as its exorbitant burden. unherd.com/2025/02/why-...

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

«It feels like more than just a car brand» From a Norwegian newspaper today, reflecting some serious soul-searching in a country where Tesla has had about a 20 % share of the personal car market.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

"Ukraine is a country that's at war and USAID plays a huge role in Ukraine also in ways that people probably don't know," said @anneapplebaum.bsky.social. "It has a role in restarting the Ukrainian energy grid, ... it has a role in helping Ukrainian farmers get back to work."

submitted 15 days ago • 18 comments

On Channel 4 discussing Trump's tariffs and, toward the end, what this means for the (clueless) Starmer gvt - full program youtube.com/watch?v=9vnm...

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 17 days ago • 617 comments

Watch this. And then watch it again.

submitted 18 days ago • 181 comments

This.

submitted 23 days ago • 35 comments

I wonder, has anyone engaged in writing poetry ever found the magic word in a rhyming dictionary?

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I have fallen in love with her poetry.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

www.amazon.co.uk/Heimat-Germa... A few years ago my life became tangled with that of a group of ethnic Germans exiled forever from their Heimat in the Czech Republic. This book is fascinating, and should remind us why we should treasure our democracy, and the cost of dictatorship.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

TUI BY4590 B738 to Tenerife returning to Gatwick. Emergency. @emergency-alerts.grndcntrl.net

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

The most effective editing move is still the one I stole from George Saunders: read your draft over and over and over again, out loud, until you have to fix the bad parts because you will literally die if you have to read them more time

submitted 66 days ago • 92 comments

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

submitted 80 days ago • 580 comments

Keep politics out of talks on future of i360 www.theargus.co.uk/news/2475884... Backside covering has begun. Don't get deflected from the scandal - the council loaned taxpayer money to finance what commercial lenders wouldn't touch. #Brighton cocktail bar on a pole - £500 per household.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the Bluesky team and how impressive what they’re doing is? They’re a team of 20 who are adding a million users a day right now and scaling up with aplomb! Incredible

submitted 100 days ago • 252 comments