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#Finnegans woke #Adoptee #guest #Cisgender #Trans Ally #Sufic @ishraq. 📽️ #Comfortably cosmopolitan: #English-Irish (non-Brit). Spero ergo sero sum Pronouns: Thee & Thou & Yon

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · Jan 29

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Toshiro Mayuzumi [黛敏郎]: Nirvana-Symphony

YouTube video by Rique Borges

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 1d

Ear grow hero next time nearo

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joycecaroloates.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social · 1d

Alain Delon may not solve the case but who cares? #NotICE

The Good Kraken @thekrakensays.bsky.social · 1d

Another look. The way the cops are looking at him. 😂

French police state at the detective in charge of investigating the Louvre heist.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

The actual regime that these people are hankering after is Dubai: a small elite of citizens, most immigrants to be transient, insecure and all immigrants to be second-class. In reality they would hate the world they would create and would find ever-more ridiculous scapegoats for their failure.

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 2d

If you can’t find a partner use a wooden chair (Elvia, Jailhouse Rock)

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Saddletramp🇪🇺 @saddletramp.bsky.social · 2d

Tories claim taxing the rich will force them out without a recognising that the Brexit they voted for caused exactly that. Over 440 firms in the financial sector alone have re-located to the EU taking up to £1.3 trillion in assets with them plus their employees , and that’s just in finance!

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Katja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 2d

Dutch Railways: social profit of €1.33 billion, financial loss of €141 million. It delivers 11x (!!!!) more value to society than it costs.

Via:
social inclusion
increase in property values near stations;
welfare of employees and consumers;
productive use of travel time.

www.eur.nl/en/news/rese...

Research shows that NS generates social profit: 1.33 billion euros

This is according to a new study by Professor Dirk Schoenmaker (Rotterdam School of Managemen) and Wander Marijnissen of strategic consultancy firm ftrprf.

www.eur.nl

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 2d

Charles 111 is the child of a migrant

. And is the Civil List a benefit?

jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 3d

I enjoyed the one that you based on Barry Lyndon.

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Seb Schmoller @schmoller.net · 3d

Fungus on fungus. Honey Fungus, of which there's been a glut this year in Sheffield Gleadless Valley's Lees Hall Woods, now being consumed by mould.

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Seb Schmoller @schmoller.net · 3d

Clear FT piece on budget options, by @jdportes.bsky.social, calling for decisive and beneficial long term changes, rather than a cobbling together of piecemeal adjustments around the edges.
www.ft.com/content/a06d... (£)

The good news is that such a package is on offer, and commands a wide consensus among economists. First, reform to the taxation of housing, including progressive abolition of stamp duty and council tax and a move to a property tax. Even better if this could create dedicated funding for social care. Second, switch the burden of direct taxes from national insurance to income tax, increasing taxes on “unearned” income. Third, reform the absurdly complex tax structure for those earning £50,000 to £150,000.

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 4d

Give that guy Jeff Epstein’s number

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 4d

Yikes. Yikes. Yikes.

Paging @jvagle.me and @amwhelan.bsky.social. arstechnica.com/features/202...

Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?

Doctors share top concerns of AI surrogates aiding life-or-death decisions.

arstechnica.com

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 4d

That’s not what the Financial Times is reporting:
“ Donald Trump urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning that Vladimir Putin had said he would “destroy” Ukraine if it did not agree.”

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 4d

The movie shows:
1. The political economy and the organised resistance to it.
2. The libidinal economy and its repressions and expressions.
The Slave Power represses migrants; yet has an expressed need for their labour.
The soldier sulks in his tent; yet when teased out stands proud in his trousers.

jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 4d

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Trump warned Zelenskyy in meeting that Russia could ‘destroy’ Ukraine

▸ Details emerge of fractious encounter
▸ Putin’s talking points echoed
▸ Call to cede Donbas region

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

most people don't want politics that hurt other people. we just want a long overcoat like david bowie and affordable housing

David Bowie in Japan. He's waling up some steps while wearing a long black coat and smoking a cigarette.

David Bowie in Japan. He's standing in front of a train while wearing a long light-colored coat.

David Bowie in Japan. He's riding a subway car while wearing a long dark-colored coat.

David Bowie in Japan. He's walking away from a train while wearing a long black coat, gray checked scarf, charcoal trousers, and black shoes.

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe The Illiad? Bronze Age warriors sweltering in Joussance as they strip the armour from their butchered opponent? Or, as in Honey Don't: Steam the skin off the other's face.

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 5d

'One Battle After Another' 📽️

A movie that segues well with 'Honey Don't ! ' in a combo assault on the dicked-hater-ship

thekoolaidmom.bsky.social @thekoolaidmom.bsky.social · 5d

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 5d

Now, I have given up booze, so until I start again, the landlord is welcome to put my personal tankard to other uses.

HEADLINE
" My jar bar borrow!"

jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 5d

Wow! That crowd must have cost a fortune!

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you to the organizers of today's wildly successful (and peaceful) "No Kings" rallies. You did an amazing job. And thanks to all the millions of people who showed up to give us faith. And a special shout out to the White House regime and the Speaker of the House for all the free publicity!

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 6d

Tim Snyder on “the Stephen Miller terror memo about this giant Antifa conspiracy, and therefore we have to have, effectively, a state of emergency. The whole government has to be turned against liberals & Democrats & everybody who tries to organize themselves in the U.S.”
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Timothy Snyder on lying and authoritarian politics

YouTube video by Conversations with Bill Kristol

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 6d

Posh is aging into Cliff Richard.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 6d

Well this is a proper head scratcher.
But yeah, fiddling around with tax and getting rid of consumer protections should sort it.
Wonder what those ‘former chancellors and prime ministers’ had to say about this shitshow. Any mention of Brexit at all??

(Times and Private Eye)

UK standards of living set to fall behind
Max Kendix Political Correspondent
Living standards in Britain will fall behind those of Lithuania in less than five years and Turkey's in less than 20 years, according to forecasts.
The UK will fall from the 30th richest country this year to the 46th richest by 2050, according to research by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr). The Czech Republic will eclipse British GDP per capita in 2031, and Poland will do the same in 2034.
The research was commissioned by the authors of a new book, Prosperity Through Growth, who interviewed former chancellors and former prime ministers to come up with policies to prevent the relative decline.
Douglas McWilliams, the founder of Cebr, said: "With GDP per capita in the UK growing extremely sluggishly, we are likely to be overtaken by more dynamic economies unless we change policy." The book suggests merging national insurance and income taxes into one flat tax, cutting business regulation and refocusing public spending on infrastructure and defence.

BREXIT
NUMBER
CRUNCHING

0.08% Expected growth by
2038 from 'Brexit win' of Trans-Pacific CPTPP trade deal
0.08% Expected growth by
2035 from Australia trade deal
0.07% Expected growth by 2035 from CEPA trade deal with Japan 0.03% Expected growth by
2035 from New Zealand trade deal

-4% Long-term loss of growth caused by the Brexit that enabled these 'wins'

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 6d

ft.pressreader.com/article/2819...

Relief of a dark-haired woman, wearing a purple dress. She is rising phoenix-like from flames that have consumed her previous incarnations. She retains the bonds and bounds of those other selves—as symbolised here by their bones.