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ukbababa.bsky.social
Finds things like yield curves interesting, needs to get out more
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This "people will kill themselves" blackmail is increasingly popular (now seen in multiple policy areas) and utterly disgraceful.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

Solving unaffordable housing by stopping housebuilding and ‘cracking down on £740m debt’ via 20 grand’s worth of migrant driving lessons. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Revising this opinion: Action Fraud just took 26 days to reply that, despite having the phone number *and bank details* of the person who tried to defraud a relative, there are ‘no lines of enquiry‘. An OOO email would be 25 days faster.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

As somebody who suspects that *some* of the rise in these conditions is down to an over-loosening of the diagnostic criteria, can I just say how unexcited I am that it’s now going to be full culture war topic

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

How I arrived on bluesky

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I did think it was unwise for Evan to have an entire episode calling for woodburning stove owners to be beheaded

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I reckon I’ll be using this a lot

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve been meaning to firm up my blood feud/Labour strategy theory. Broadly it goes like this. 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

This by @stephenkb.bsky.social rings true. Nothing like having your kids’ school* new Head boasting they’ve cut exclusions/suspensions and reduced bullying (by redefining it in their school policy) to see the obvious harms. *Now kids’ previous school on.ft.com/3Gz8ETW

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I think this is true: a lot of SV libertarianism is little more than “you can’t force me to tidy my room, mom”

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Top gift idea for that person you really hate: this and a UV light

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Genuinely fascinated as I don’t even have a theory of mind for this. What is it meant to achieve? Who is it for? Which voters do they think will be attracted to Trump analogies? Have they seen his approval ratings? Or Mark Carney’s?

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Not the point of the article, but really refreshing to see a newspaper discuss computer games as they would any other type of culture, rather than as some wacky out-there thing for nerds and priapic teens.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments