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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 1h

The not-a-Nobel-but-we're-gonna-treat-it-like-a-Nobel in economics goes to

Joel Mokyr "for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress"

Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt "for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction"

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merritt @merrittk.com · 7h

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 2h

Little bit shocked the hostages are actually out? Hopefully this actually leads to things improving in Gaza (obviously hard to get much worse).

Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 2h

Food comes from Argentina and control of the sea lanes.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 17h

Kaleb Cooper, the breakout star of Clarkson’s Farm, has called for farming to be taught in schools so that children understand where their food comes from ⬇️

Teach farming in schools, says Kaleb Cooper — it saved me

The star of the TV series Clarkson’s Farm tells the Cheltenham Literature Festival that ‘everyone should know how to grow potatoes and other vegetables’

www.thetimes.com

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Scary Tea Lately @sassytealady.bsky.social · 5h

imgs.xkcd.com/comics/brass...

An xkcd stick figure comic with three people next to a giant redwood tree. One is saying to the other two "did you know the mighty redwood is actually the same species as broccoli and kale it's just a different cultivar" and one of them responses "wow!"
The text below the comic says "every year or two botanists add another plant to brassica oleracea and see if anyone calls them out on it"

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 22h

It's Actually Romantic

TACJ @tacj.bsky.social · 22h

Unironic question: why is he so obsessed with us?

Elon Musk tweeting: Am starting to wonder how anyone made it through childhood in Britain without severe trauma

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 1d

It was the second ever religiously motivated murder of a Jew in the UK since after their expulsion by Edward I.

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 1d

There was a terrorist attack on a synagogue last week, what are you talking about declining?

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 1d

Good this. The thing is that Macmillan could be a one-nation Tory because British capitalism then was working for millions. Today it is not. That removes the economic base of one-nation Toryism.

Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 1d

"For the first time the right are open and honest about what they're about, and it's best for us to face them as they are ... There are no good Tories. Only class conscious defenders of a decaying system."

What Happened to One Nation Conservatism?

The jamboree of delusion and extremism that was Conservative Party conference birthed a small, fleeting genre of political centrist-to-soft...

averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 2d

his brain is so cooked

scrambled egg globalist @matthewraskob.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Benedict XVI “overdosed on red pills”?
Peter, what the fuck are you talking about.

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Yiannis @yiannisbab.bsky.social · 1d

They didn't, I'll give him this one

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · Aug 14

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed, allegedly the first American to hear Stalin was dead

josephstrummered.bsky.social @josephstrummered.bsky.social · 2d

That's pretty fucking cool too.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2d

hmmmmmmmmmmm

surely the point of being a digital native and being Online is to be able to sniff out stuff like this

not sure the BBC gets to put this on our people

Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: A false claim about Euan Blair found its way into Have I Got News For You.

It was from an X post seen almost 3m times - and it was wrong.

Production chief blames a "digital native" culture.

A very online media class drinking in social media = danger:

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

BBC airing false claim about Euan Blair blamed on young producers ‘marinated in social media’

Broadcaster apologised after Have I Got News For You falsely said former PM’s son had won digital ID contract

www.theguardian.com

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 3d

Janen Ganesh is just Liz Jones for people that max out their ISA allowance.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 3d

I just mistyped ‘which’ and auto-correct offered me ‘feuchtwanger’. I’m not even joking.

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 3d

The two of you actually look quite similar, at least in that photo, has anybody ever said that?

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 3d

We need way more empty houses. What sort of an idiot thinks we can't build enough homes to house people and also have some spare?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3d

It's never the comms. Labour's comms is grey because in the absence of a clear strategy for what the government wants to achieve, no-one can defend or articulate what the government says in an interesting or exciting way.

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 3d

I do wonder if Labour might look at the sorts of people dominating the discourse and dominating the content wars and maybe, just maybe, rethink the sorts of grey figures they routinely put up for interviews, instructed at that to be as cautious as possible. Things have changed. Their comms hasn’t.

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 3d

In 2024 across the whole of the UK just one pedestrian was killed by a cyclist.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

One day - *one day* - a UK newspaper will do a similar count of motor vehicles speeding inside a 20mph zone.

In 60 minutes I saw 172 cyclists run these lights – it’s a matter of time before they kill someone

The offenders included Lime bike riders, school children and a woman in high-heeled boots

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3d

This is why I’m extremely skeptical of any attempt to add ‘ideological diversity’ to academia, despite thinking that there are fields where some version of it would genuinely epistemologically healthy: I simply do not believe that modern conservatism actually can supply people who are not this:

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3d

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 3d

I'm actually a truther on this. No it wasn't. They were cattle ranchers, some people ran some canning factories and ports and they built a nice downtown, where's the rest? They had none of the supply chain or development of Oz or even the Western Cape. It's just Angus Maddison's dodgy data again.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

at the start of the twentieth century Argentina was one of the richest nations on earth per capita, and not even in, like, the way that Nauru was in 1968.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 3d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 3d

WHAT NOW - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKELITON AT THERE COMPUTER " CANT BELIEVE I DIDNT LOOK UP MORE COOL SHIT WHEN THE INTERNET STILL WORKED" ,,, THE FUNNYEST THING ABOUT A SOCIETY IN DECLINE IS YOU DONT REALLY EXPECT IT TO HAPPEN TO YOU AND WHEN IT DOES IT FEEL'S LIKE A PERSONAL OFFENSE, WE WATCHED COMPUTERS AND NET GET BETTER AND BETTER FOR SO MANY YEARS THAT IT SEEMED OBVIOUS IT WOULD CONTINUE, WHY WOULD THINGS GET BAD ON PURPOSE, HOW CAN YOU MAKE MORE MONEY WITH WORSE PRODUCT'S , WELL THEY FIGURED OUT HOW TO DO IT , THEY SOLD OUR COMMUNITYS AND RESOURCES UP THE DAMB RIVER TO MAKE A FEW MORE TRILLION'S, AND WHAT CAN THEY EVEN BUY WITH IT, OBVIOUSLY NOT THE ABILITY TO ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE IN PEACE - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN BBUT IM STILL KICKEN A$$ AND ADDING CUSS WORD'S TO MY GOGGLE SEARCHES SO THEY DONT SHOW ME AI SHIT !!!! - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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