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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · Aug 12

FWIW - this is how food prices spiked in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and how the cost of essentials is spiking again now.

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Debbie Tann MBE @debbietann.bsky.social · 3h

We are being sold a false story that nature is the enemy. That newts, bats, snails and spiders are somehow responsible for the so-called housing crisis and a blocker to economic growth. This is a deliberate lie - using a cynically chosen group of species that could be found in a witches cauldron.

Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 1h

Salaries down -1.22% in just one month in London in September. After 11 months of growth.
It's obviously just a single month's data, but similar drops in wage packet seemed to happen everywhere.

Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 2h

3 - Other regions of the UK, may be showing signs of jobs recovery - lots of region and sub-regions showing payroll growth since June, though still down year on year.
4 - N.Ireland continues to go under the radar as a place where there's been significant jobs and wage growth in recent times.

Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 2h

A few key trends emerging from latest pay and employment data out today:
1 - Wage rises look to have peaked everywhere in August with significant cuts to the median wage pretty much everywhere.
2 - London & "South East"continue to do very badly for employment.
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 2h

It was a like a "go to" way to wind people up. Often without any acknowledgement of just how racist it was.

Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah I used to work in and around social housing in Basildon. There was a long standing trope / fear among predominantly white people on those estates about people of colour being "dumped" on the estates. Whipped up wilfully by the local media at times too.

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Even Spookier Malloy @spooksmalloy.bsky.social · 2h

It was a huge thing in the south east, South Essex is largely unrecognisable now due to the estates that were thrown up to house white flighters from London and the rest of the county was warped by the same forces.

Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 2h

Yes I think we all "know" that this is not an uncommon conversation, right?

Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 3h

And honestly I'm utterly pissed off with the consequences of it.

Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 3h

This really is so obvious. Why does no one in the media have the balls to point it out?

Well you see the political media and commentariat is dominated by people who've spent their whole lives refusing to integrate beyond their own class circle mores. They cannot see the nation in front of them.

Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 3h

It's not that white working class & brown w/c communities cannot live alongside each other. They do!!

But the last thing those communities need is a bunch of dickheads in Westminster and Fleet St stirring up shit from the safety of their own country piles in racially pure constituencies.

Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 3h

It's just pure gaslighting. These nasty, posh know nothings who want to make an often already delicate situation immeasurably worse because, ultimately, they are cunts.

It really is this simple and tough shit if you don't like my tone.

Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 3h

Of course our public schooled political, media and commentariat class know sod all about this despite seeking to whip up racism in our communities.

Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 3h

Defo a thong in Bradford, at least it was.

Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 3h

Social housing landlords in Bradford, despite their valiant efforts, were well aware that eg - Pakistani families felt unsafe living in predominantly white working class estates of the city. It's a major reason why there are so many terraced houses with dormers on the roof in the city centre.

Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 3h

I mean, how do you reason with this? Robert Jenrick represents a constituency that is 90% white. He's the one unwilling to integrate not the communities he seems to vilify.

Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 3h

Nowadays the right get pissed off cos there's too much integration and also pissed off because they claim minority communities don't integrate enough. It's as if these people are just racist or something.

Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 3h

We never talk about how housing estates in many cities in the UK were a no-go area for people of colour. Literally. No one talks about the original unwillingness of often white communities to integrate. To this day places like Bradford where I grew up are segregated by neighborhood.

Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 8h

Disney lost 1.6 million subscribers and up to $6 billion in revenue after sacking Jimmy Kimmel.
Corporate America getting a punch in the face for utterly misunderstanding who its real paymaster is: the consumer.
More please.
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Unpacking claim Disney lost $4B in market cap after suspending Jimmy Kimmel's show

The stock did not drop this much overnight, but it did fall this much, and more, over several days following the suspension.

Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 8h

In fact I'm waiting for some kid to use ChatGPT to build a DIY alternative to Spotify / Soundcloud.

Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 8h

People will still make VASTLY more music of far greater beauty and value than AI ever will. We will just have to find different ways to access it.

Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 8h

What was mad about it was that even back in 2012 or whatever there were thousands of people like me willing to pay £60 a year to subscribe. But all Soundcloud ever did was enshittify the place. So, yeah I get that AI music is a problem but the music platforms have always hated music.

Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 9h

It's a crime what they did to Soundcloud. I used to be part of a really vibrant "scene" on there that brought together people from literally all around the world. I even moderated a left field music group that used to get so many weird and amazing surreal submissions. But Soundcloud smashed it up.

Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 9h

Partly cos I'm older and can't handle gigging or playing out like I could before children and partly cos life stood short to be making tunes and making video content so you can share said tunes / being a slave to a digital platform. Though I do remember fondly the 2010s when Soundcloud was good

Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 9h

I know AI music is becoming a new moral panic, possibly correctly, but as someone who makes a lot of tunes - and has done on the sly for 25 years - I don't see it impacting me in the slightest. But then, over the years, I developed a real aversion to wanting to share my music.