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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 1h

Somehow the industry is paying £13.03 per hour for floorers and can't economically build houses in a country with some of the highest house prices in the world. They should stop moaning about not being able to find workers.

Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 1h

From an immigration policy point of view though, this seems like a pretty big miss to say YIMBYs aren't engaged. This is how skilled immigration works now. Especially since half the people in the thread are saying there's actually a shortage of demand for building houses at current prices.

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 1h

you also don't hear about it from YIMBYs because construction trades are already on the Skilled Worker visa: temporary shortage list, so its not a relevant battle.

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 1h

That's fine too but it still is unrelated to Stephen's point about YIMBYism's bling spot on migration, labour and house building. We're just nowhere down the chain of causality where lack of access to immigrant labourers is holding back house building.

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 3h

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 5h

This work really helps to illustrate the role of public and academic security research. Yesterday there were people at satcos who knew these unencrypted links were dangerous, but weren’t empowered to do anything about it. Now they will be.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 15h

This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

🛰️ SATCOM Security

Research project homepage for SATCOM Security: papers, source code, and recent satellite communications vulnerabilities.

satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 16h

The best part of these is theres basically no win-condition once you enter the octagon with him

99 @ninetynine.bsky.social · 18h

A little frustrating that bsky moderation prevents us from seeing violence like this

Interaction between Derek Guy and Matt Stoller on X, the Everything App. Stoller: "Your weird insecurities aside, you consistently lie that native born Americans can't and never have made clothes, and push offshoring in sleazy ways. Then when confronted you have to talk about your left wing views. You're slime." Guy replies: "not true. i've been writing about and promoting US-made clothes for about fifteen years. an early article that comes to mind is my love for 3sixteen jeans, which are made in los angeles. that was published in 2011, the year the second iraq war ended, a war you promoted."

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Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 9h

Dune is a nice book, Star Wars is good, LotR is well written, why are we so edgy

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 18h

Not only is translation not real but neither is reading old books now. Your father is meant to read Charles Dickens books to you and your family aloud, in monthly serial. You're meant to discuss it with friends afterwards. You can't really read War and Peace, and you can't read Bleak House either.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 20h

Picard would have loved Bluesky.

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eggnog slut @deus01.bsky.social · 21h

postmodern finance theory

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21h

"Madagascar’s president, Andry Rajoelina, is reported to have fled...On Saturday, some Capsat soldiers had posted a video...: “Let us join forces, military, gendarmes and police, and refuse to be paid to shoot our friends, our brothers and our sisters..."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Madagascar president flees after losing support of key army unit

Elite Capsat unit that played a major role in Andry Rajoelina’s rise to presidency joined gen Z protests against corruption

www.theguardian.com

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 23h

They're taking your plus away

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 23h

Apple TV+ has rebranded to Apple TV

It's their 'vibrant new identity'

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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, of COURSE it does. bsky.app/profile/toma...

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

great story, this chart RULES

Charts showing average battery pack cost in 2024 $/kWh and battery storage capacity additions globally in GW

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 1d

Amongst other things, appropriate this is posted on the same day Mokyr gets the Nobel. Lots of people have taken the idea that ideas matter, and that supporting ideas you like matter. www.astralcodexten.com/p/acx-grants...

ACX Grants Results 2025

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www.astralcodexten.com

Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 1d

How's the model train collection?

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 1d

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jawanaka.bsky.social @jawanaka.bsky.social · 1d

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 1d

Please no

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Gil @guy-normal.bsky.social · 1d

'Nature's Labubu': why are Gen Z 'unboxing' conkers?

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 1d

In the same category as "Warren Hastings was impeached by Edmund Burke."

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 1d

You will absolutely never guess what the context is for this rather ominous passage

www.thenational.scot/news/2553640...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

underrated part of this is that stoller very clearly has no idea what "the passive voice" is

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 1d

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
@dieworkwear • 2h
i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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