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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1h

Pope dunking on you from the Popemobile while he's blessing and waving to the rest of the crowd means you have to convert to Lutheranism it's in the Bible

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 6h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 1h

Put tariffs on most of our exports.

Control much of our media

Fund disruptive political movements.

Just general bring the government down stuff.

Oh....

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 2h

Not really the main point for these witnesses statements but this is unbelievably low grade stuff to be passing on.

Tugendhat did not in fact get a cabinet job and Jeremy Hunt endorsed Rishi Sunak. Did the Chinese realise how crap all this intelligence was?

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 1h

Fish in a barrel, mate

Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 1h

Part of the thing about being the leader of his majesty's loyal opposition is turning up to nat security briefings when invited. We know that KemiTrails has ducked this duty on more than one occasion.

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 2h

I enjoy his podcast. Seems like a thoughtful man

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 3h

Folks, I have great news: despite removing FBI agents from violent crime beats so they can do traffic stops and abduct day laborers, the FBI has arrested a record number of violent criminals this year

America-hating leftists will say this is a lie, but they have CHARTS. Checkmate libs

Kash Patel looking geeked out gesturing to a Chart with Graphs. The bust of Abraham Lincoln that sits on Trump's desk is, as ever, bowing his head in sorrow

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 2h

Brexit

Micah @rincewind.run · 5h

Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man

"C.M.O.T. Dibbler liked to describe himself as a merchant adventurer; everyone else liked to describe him as an itinerant pedlar whose money-making schemes were always let down by some small but vital flaw, such as trying to sell things he didn’t own or which didn’t work or, sometimes, didn’t even exist."

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Simon Parker @simonparker.bsky.social · 4h

The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 2h

Actual social engineering.

Scum.

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 2h

I might have a look for that one. Eventually

Having an SFA binge. A mate got me tickets!

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 3h

open.spotify.com/episode/6Wto...

137. Jacinda Ardern: Why I Stepped Down as Prime Minister of New Zealand

Spotify video

open.spotify.com

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 3h

If you can cope with the Eton polished turd, Stewart. The Leading interview with her is really interesting.

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 4h

"The policy unfolds as planned."

Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 14h

Starmer 19/20. Unfortunately, he chose to embrace the brexit lies instead.

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 15h

Maybe Reeves should go Total Thatcher:

Top rate tax: 60%
Lower rate: 30%
Corporation tax: 34%
VAT: 15%

Windfall taxes

Join the Single Market.

A fitting centenary present.

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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 17h

NEW EPISODE: The story of how eco activists end up rubbing shoulders with oil barons and tech businesses at #COP climate summits.

Insight from Josh Appignanesi whose new film "Colossal Wreck' is out next week.

@goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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Byline Podcast: Inside The COP Climate Summit

Film maker Josh Appignanesi takes us inside the COP Climate Summit in conversation with Adrian Goldberg. Josh's new film, "Colossal Wreck' about his participation in Cop 29 in Dubai last year, is b...

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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 15h

I was in a meeting yesterday warning that if we lose the ECHR we are Royally Fucked. I think people think it could never happen - but remember everyone said that about Brexit. Let’s not be as stupid as then.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 15h

"PM", "control."

Sorry, you've lost me.

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 15h

At the time of the Rayner panicshuffle, I heard several well placed Westminster bubbleheads suggest the whole point of it was to get Mahmood the HO gig.

If true, this ugliness is who they are. A labour government dragging us towards ethnonationalism, shocking

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 15h

Endless screaming.

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 15h

"Fix the foundations," "no more sticking plaster policies."

Yeah, right.

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 16h

"Mustn't grumble."

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 16h

Hmm. PPE, Oxford. Future cabinet minister.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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