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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 6h

Look, you can't be a frontline social care worker unless you can explain what the dagger in Macbeth is a metaphor for. I don't make the rules.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 9h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 1h

(Just filing this post under “things I’ll regret posting on Bluesky”.)

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 1h

Interesting that the sceptics have now fully moved from “it doesn’t work” to “it’s a bubble”.

(It probably is a bubble! But who cares? There’s been a fundamental breakthrough and it will drive the build-out of compute and energy infrastructure.)

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 2h

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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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 12h

🧵/ Our major new study on young men, masculinity, and misogyny questions the extent to which Gen Z men are really more likely to hold misogynist views than older generations of men

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 5h

Mostly. It'd require coordination across basically every other rich, western country to stop capital flight.

And it's also just trying to pretend that if you want to fund public services better, as rich as rich people are, you need broad based tax rises!

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 5h

I am on a slightly more modest income and I also think that wealth taxes aren't a very workable idea.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10h

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 6h

Look, you can't be a frontline social care worker unless you can explain what the dagger in Macbeth is a metaphor for. I don't make the rules.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 9h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 11h

That's... not how nationalisation traditionally works?

They are aware that we had water and electric bills prior to privatisation, right? It doesn't just become a service like the NHS (nor should it - surely everyone can see the incentive issue there!)

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Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 23h

Martin's Churchill impression was literally the worst thing that's ever happened to me

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 23h

I'm afraid to say it's not the first time it has appeared! The episode about Peter Hitchens' war on daylight saving is worth digging through the archives for...!

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 1d

Evening crew! Have a listen to this week's pod!

James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 1d

New episode of THE ABUNDANCE AGENDA!

🐌 How snails stopped the build of *20,000* homes in Sussex
🌳 Have the Tories been abundance-pilled on energy?
🏠 And we speak to @prafulnargund.bsky.social from @goodgrowthfdn.bsky.social about housing, Eurostar and more!

www.abundancepod.com/p/natural-en...

Natural England's war on Sussex

Plus have the Tories embraced energy abundance?

www.abundancepod.com

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Ed Jennings @edjennings.bsky.social · 1d

Another one falls in Kent.

Reform has suspended county councillor Robert Ford after a complaint was made about him by 'several female members of staff.'

The party said that Cllr Ford refused to engage with the complaints process, so he has had the whip removed pending a disciplinary process.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 1d

This is very good:

www.noahpinion.blog/p/americas-f...

America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints

If the economy's single pillar goes down, Trump's presidency will be seen as a disaster.

www.noahpinion.blog

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 1d

The latest CityEd video is so damn good.

youtu.be/VPkLUOfugjo?...

How Manchester became the UK's economic miracle

YouTube video by CityEd.

youtu.be

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 1d

A Disney World-style queuing system could prevent a Brexit-induced border meltdown this Christmas <-- Important following the introduction of the new EU entry/exit system!

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/a-disney-w...

A Disney World-style queuing system could prevent a Brexit-induced border meltdown this Christmas

It's time to stop trucking around and fix a recurring problem permanently

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 1d

This week's pod is a good one!

James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 1d

New episode of THE ABUNDANCE AGENDA!

🐌 How snails stopped the build of *20,000* homes in Sussex
🌳 Have the Tories been abundance-pilled on energy?
🏠 And we speak to @prafulnargund.bsky.social from @goodgrowthfdn.bsky.social about housing, Eurostar and more!

www.abundancepod.com/p/natural-en...

Natural England's war on Sussex

Plus have the Tories embraced energy abundance?

www.abundancepod.com

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 1d

This isn't an original observation but it's still so strange to see Trump at international meetings, and everyone treating him like the kid of the Twilight Zone* who could read minds, who nobody would dare upset.

(*My actual reference point here is the Simpsons parody of the famous episode.)

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 1d

Some personal news: I am now a Marxist.

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1d

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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 1d

This is tremendous and I dare say wherever you come from politically does a lot more to explain Britain's problems than stupid whingeing.

James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 1d

New episode of THE ABUNDANCE AGENDA!

🐌 How snails stopped the build of *20,000* homes in Sussex
🌳 Have the Tories been abundance-pilled on energy?
🏠 And we speak to @prafulnargund.bsky.social from @goodgrowthfdn.bsky.social about housing, Eurostar and more!

www.abundancepod.com/p/natural-en...

Natural England's war on Sussex

Plus have the Tories embraced energy abundance?

www.abundancepod.com

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 1d

"Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up this situation."

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 1d

Not that I've seen...

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 1d

Huh! Another weird massive outage of some critical national infrastructure! I guess this must be completely unrelated to the previous incidents.

Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 1d

Vodafone seems to have had a catastrophic outage. My fibre broadband is down, but worse Vodafone's website is inaccessible and calling its phone number gets a "this phone is switched off" message...

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 1d

"News-flavoured content" is such a good way of putting this

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

I've been blaming memes for this, and I think it fits. A lot of the angriest people out there aren't actually consuming news, they're consuming news-flavored content, and the content is a funhouse mirror version of reality that they're mistaking for being real.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 1d

A Disney World-style queuing system could prevent a Brexit-induced border meltdown this Christmas <-- Important following the introduction of the new EU entry/exit system!

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/a-disney-w...

A Disney World-style queuing system could prevent a Brexit-induced border meltdown this Christmas

It's time to stop trucking around and fix a recurring problem permanently

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 1d

I distinctly remember a few GCSE IT lessons that took place in... classrooms without computers.

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