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martinelms.bsky.social @martinelms.bsky.social · 6h

An old Steinlager ad on the Tube must have been around 25 years ago. Selling NZ beer by mocking Aussies in London. (i) It's been a global economy for a very long time (ii) For the last 15 years Aussies learning German bc London is no longer the opportunity it once was.
#Australia #Brexit

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martinelms.bsky.social @martinelms.bsky.social · 9h

#fungus #slime
The Nikon micrography awards featured several moulds, fungus etc.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Rice weevil on a grain of rice wins 2025 Nikon Small World contest

Nikon Small World photomicrography contest is an annual reminder that science can be beautiful as well as informative.

arstechnica.com

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Dr. James H. Gundlach @pecanjim.bsky.social · 21h

Here is a graph I intended to post about three months ago. It shows the death rates for ages 20-64 of all races by party by year from 2018 through 2023. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Think #News

The most interesting thing I find in the graph is the differences in changes from 2020, the first year of COVID which was without immunization, and 2021 the first year with vaccine. I guess I should look at that and provide some numbers by party. Let me know if you would like to that.

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martinelms.bsky.social @martinelms.bsky.social · 9h

Farage and the Furtive Fascists

What is the point of MI5 & MI6? Why isn't Farage completely outed as a Russian asset?

Silly me, Tories like May and Jonson quashed any investigations - I mean 11 Cabinet members paid by Oligarchs might have hurt Chelsea. Far more important than national security.

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martinelms.bsky.social @martinelms.bsky.social · 9h

Why Europeans did not condemn Israel over their genocide is they have stated clearly, in the light of Putin's aggression to northern European states, and the drone/missile threat potentially Europe wide - they are dependent on Israeli technology to help counter Russia's threat. Appalling.

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 10h

Really pleased with this review by Sam Ben-Meir which nicely captures what I was trying to do with Citizen Marx

marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2232...

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martinelms.bsky.social @martinelms.bsky.social · 13h

Generation of youth/post grads who lost opportunities that cost Britain many millions in R&D. RW Transnational Corporations & Putin's think tanks dovetailed, correct that pride, pseudo-nationalism a project that undermined the Anglophone world. Fostering delusion, a currency worth more than gold.

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martinelms.bsky.social @martinelms.bsky.social · 19h

"How long is it going to take the Albanese Government to do something about this?" Until Deloitte start hiring Labor Party staffers for executive and boardroom positions. Until the debt is incurred by the ALP. Look at Tim Smith's history, State Liberal, Vic.

martinelms.bsky.social @martinelms.bsky.social · 19h

Dear Rupert, Andrew here, SAS superman, awesome Liberal Party leader In Waiting.

Go away Hastie you have nothing to offer. We're now at unless you're wearing a swastika, speak of inalienable corporate primacy, that public spending is Marxism gone Communistic (error intended) you're yesterday's man

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martinelms.bsky.social @martinelms.bsky.social · 19h

Anecdotal comment. My wife had a job vacancy for her department. Normally, maybe a dozen at max would apply - 120 applications and cutoff early. Quite a few from older women who were in more senior roles. It's tough out there.

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martinelms.bsky.social @martinelms.bsky.social · 19h

This is so simple and straightforward even the RW suckers will understand it.

www.facebook.com/reel/1228926...

28K views · 3.5K reactions | The far right is corrupt to the core #Reform | Grace Blakeley

The far right is corrupt to the core #Reform

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martinelms.bsky.social @martinelms.bsky.social · 20h

A simple cost-benefit table of rejoining the EU surely would work.

For every Reform advertisement you could show X billion saved and it's for you by rejoining Europe.

"It's not about bananas, that's misdirection by the RW - it's giving the British people back $20 billion a year and free travel"

martinelms.bsky.social @martinelms.bsky.social · 20h

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Just so you know - Adani has a private holding company where there is a $2 royalty paid to the company for every tonne. So Qld misses out on Royalties but these dubious bastards make sure they don't. Crisafulli works for who?

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martinelms.bsky.social @martinelms.bsky.social · 20h

More importantly, by beating Australia, the USMNT will be in a far better position for the world cup in the second pot.

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting paper on Germany's growth model based on a national income and financial accounting decomposition approach: "we find an extreme export-led mercantilist (ELM) regime during 1999-2009, a moderated ELM regime during 2010-2020, and a weakly export-led regime during 2021-2024."

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martinelms.bsky.social @martinelms.bsky.social · 21h

ABC 27 July Australian Bureau of Statistics and Overseas Arrivals and Departures data set.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

martinelms.bsky.social @martinelms.bsky.social · 21h

The US encouraged Argentina's beef export industry to supply US troops and US domestic population in WW2 then screwed Argentina over, post war. For that nation to struggle economically with the attendant social problems of poverty. US supported/trained RW Junta killed/disappeared over 50,000 people.

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martinelms.bsky.social @martinelms.bsky.social · 1d

Why Starmer's Govt have not passed truth in media laws is a lacuna only clown shoes, phone hacking, and a RW elite MSM can fill. Accountability and penalty are required after 60 years of deceit, manipulation that has resulted in national decline. As the Leveson failure attests.

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Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 2d

ew post: Populism and Economic Prosperity
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/10/popu...
We would expect populist governments to damage the economy, and the evidence suggests that they do so in a big way. But we know from Brexit that the media typically nullifies the impact of this evidence on voters.

Populism and Economic Prosperity

Mainstream political parties normally claim that populist parties, if they ever got to power, would damage the economy. We have clear evid...

mainlymacro.blogspot.com

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 2d

What does a Nobel Prize on ‘innovation-driven economic growth’ actually reward?

A historian’s perspective on how to deal with the Nobel frenzy

beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/w...

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martinelms.bsky.social @martinelms.bsky.social · 2d

Labor needs more apparatchiks - good on you. What next, a theses on my door why Labor is very distinguishable from the LNP. Also state, in exasperated voice, the NACC is a perfectly functioning organisation, Albanese is the Father of FOI integrity, that Dutch disease is not a bilateral issue.

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martinelms.bsky.social @martinelms.bsky.social · 2d

Only need to see how the GOP acts. It lies, it destroys industries in opposition to its largest donors, it denigrates your rights via threat, intimidation and illegal arrest. Nor is the GOP investing in American research - to the contrary the GOP destroys research universities. GOP = loss & decline

martinelms.bsky.social @martinelms.bsky.social · 2d

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 2d

When you ride in a Tesla, you ride with Yaxley-Lennon.

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acemaxx analytics @acemaxx.bsky.social · 2d

#RareEarths
#China was responsible for almost 70% of global output in 2024, chart @economics

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martinelms.bsky.social @martinelms.bsky.social · 2d

Unless there is a cohesive, unbreakable unity of an Occidental coalition - naivety at best, a pipe dream otherwise - irrespective of the necessity for it, we are, frankly my dear, cooked.

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