Captain Haddock
@realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social
The tweeter formerly known as @jxb101 at the previous place
Brexit is shite
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Brexit is shite
🇨🇦🇬🇧🇿🇦🇨🇿☸️🔸
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
So just got forwarded a Linkedin post. Dude based in London says he’s spending Thanksgiving weekend (it’s not Thanksgiving in London and it’s a Friday) in a library and his 6 year old child just chose Winston Churchill’s History of the English Speaking Peoples as holiday reading.
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
So just got forwarded a Linkedin post. Dude based in London says he’s spending Thanksgiving weekend (it’s not Thanksgiving in London and it’s a Friday) in a library and his 6 year old child just chose Winston Churchill’s History of the English Speaking Peoples as holiday reading.
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“Brutal competition among models as the cost to compete goes down leading to an outcome like solar in the 2010s: the consumer wins, the producers do not.” (By @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social) syncretica.substack.com/p/ai-bubble-...
AI Bubble or Not
Getting specific about what bubble
syncretica.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“Brutal competition among models as the cost to compete goes down leading to an outcome like solar in the 2010s: the consumer wins, the producers do not.” (By @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social) syncretica.substack.com/p/ai-bubble-...
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‘The way Brexit was mishandled’ is designed to con you into thinking there is a Labour piloted Brexit that won’t carry those costs.
Labour’s James Murray "The report that the OBR put out alongside the budget shows the impact on productivity from the previous government"
"Austerity, the way Brexit was mishandled" #BBCQT
Labour Brexit right now costs us £90 billion a year in lost tax revenue
"Austerity, the way Brexit was mishandled" #BBCQT
Labour Brexit right now costs us £90 billion a year in lost tax revenue
November 28, 2025 at 7:37 AM
‘The way Brexit was mishandled’ is designed to con you into thinking there is a Labour piloted Brexit that won’t carry those costs.
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Talking to an LLM is like talking to an actor: it’s trained to give realistic-looking responses. You ask a question thinking you’re talking to Dr House but it’s really Hugh Laurie doing improv, and he’s not going to respond with “I don’t know, I’m not a doctor” because that would be terrible improv.
November 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Talking to an LLM is like talking to an actor: it’s trained to give realistic-looking responses. You ask a question thinking you’re talking to Dr House but it’s really Hugh Laurie doing improv, and he’s not going to respond with “I don’t know, I’m not a doctor” because that would be terrible improv.
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COME ON THIS HAS TO BE A SPOOF
November 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
COME ON THIS HAS TO BE A SPOOF
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I remember when Cleve Hill was just a twinkle in a planning officer's eye.
UK adds 1.9 GW of solar in 12 months – pv magazine International share.google/SXoR2Q8kcNvo...
UK adds 1.9 GW of solar in 12 months – pv magazine International share.google/SXoR2Q8kcNvo...
UK adds 1.9 GW of solar in 12 months
Latest government figures record 20.7 GW deployed PV capacity at the end of October 2025, up 10.4% in a 12-month period. Surge in contracts for difference (CfD) supported connections recorded in 2025 ...
share.google
November 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I remember when Cleve Hill was just a twinkle in a planning officer's eye.
UK adds 1.9 GW of solar in 12 months – pv magazine International share.google/SXoR2Q8kcNvo...
UK adds 1.9 GW of solar in 12 months – pv magazine International share.google/SXoR2Q8kcNvo...
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Thames Water’s lenders are not offering enough on.ft.com/4rkHi7f | opinion
Thames Water’s lenders are not offering enough
The water industry regulator should not let the utility’s bondholders take control too easily
on.ft.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Thames Water’s lenders are not offering enough on.ft.com/4rkHi7f | opinion
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The modal British voter thinks that pensioners are the group who gets the least good deal from the state! You can't have a serious conversation either about shrinking the state or expanding the tax base from that starting point!
November 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The modal British voter thinks that pensioners are the group who gets the least good deal from the state! You can't have a serious conversation either about shrinking the state or expanding the tax base from that starting point!
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Isolated: Peeping Light
Acrylic on canvas
25% of original sales tp @newcastlefoodbank.org
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Acrylic on canvas
25% of original sales tp @newcastlefoodbank.org
www.mickoxley.com/product/orig...
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Isolated: Peeping Light
Acrylic on canvas
25% of original sales tp @newcastlefoodbank.org
www.mickoxley.com/product/orig...
Acrylic on canvas
25% of original sales tp @newcastlefoodbank.org
www.mickoxley.com/product/orig...
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Brexit reminders. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Brexit may not be in the headlines, but many current news stories carry reminders of it, including the Hallett Inquiry report, the Gill scandal, the Budget & the latest net migration figures: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/brex...
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Brexit reminders. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Brexit may not be in the headlines, but many current news stories carry reminders of it, including the Hallett Inquiry report, the Gill scandal, the Budget & the latest net migration figures: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/brex...
If only Keir Starmer was in a position to order an investigation into Reform-Russia links!
Oh wait…
news.sky.com/story/starme...
Oh wait…
news.sky.com/story/starme...
Starmer demands investigation into Reform-Russia links after party's ex-Wales leader jailed
The former leader of Reform in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years after being paid £40,000 to make pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament.
news.sky.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
If only Keir Starmer was in a position to order an investigation into Reform-Russia links!
Oh wait…
news.sky.com/story/starme...
Oh wait…
news.sky.com/story/starme...
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Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving.
A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.
Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.
Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK net migration falls sharply with drop in arrivals for work and study
Provisional figures for net migration to the UK show levels dropped to 204,000 in the year to June 2025.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving.
A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.
Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.
Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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A quick reminder of who Nigel Farage was most concerned about when Putin's tanks first rolled into Ukraine
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
A quick reminder of who Nigel Farage was most concerned about when Putin's tanks first rolled into Ukraine
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Graham Linehan is a normal and well man.
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Graham Linehan is a normal and well man.
Billions are being shovelled - and the atmosphere fried - to create a lying machine
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Billions are being shovelled - and the atmosphere fried - to create a lying machine
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UKIP/Brexit's David Coburn has finally been tracked down for a comment... at his home in France.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#R4Today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#R4Today
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 AM
UKIP/Brexit's David Coburn has finally been tracked down for a comment... at his home in France.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#R4Today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#R4Today
This has always been the aim
Trump says he may cut income tax 'completely' because of tariff income reut.rs/4p65j0l
Trump says he may cut income tax 'completely' because of tariff income
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday his administration may slash income tax completely over the next couple of years because of government revenue generated from tariffs.
reut.rs
November 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
This has always been the aim
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Almost as if those people you keep trying to satisfy on immigration will never be satisfied, while the parties you are competing with won't react to the outcomes you deliver in good faith, and the unsatisfied voters listen to and trust them more than they trust you. Who could have predicted this?
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Almost as if those people you keep trying to satisfy on immigration will never be satisfied, while the parties you are competing with won't react to the outcomes you deliver in good faith, and the unsatisfied voters listen to and trust them more than they trust you. Who could have predicted this?
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
You can’t make this stuff up - ex UKIP MEP’s living in France
‘Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn answered "no" when a BBC journalist asked him whether he had ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners.’
Great work from @BBCWales. Keep going
Great work from @BBCWales. Keep going
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
You can’t make this stuff up - ex UKIP MEP’s living in France
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HSBC forecasts that OpenAI is going to have nearly a half trillion in operating losses until 2030
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
HSBC forecasts that OpenAI is going to have nearly a half trillion in operating losses until 2030
Canada doesnt need F-35 for its needs (just as it didnt F-111 or A-10 in the 70s and 80s)
Gripen E would be an assertion of Canadian independence and sovereignty
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Gripen E would be an assertion of Canadian independence and sovereignty
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Why the Gripen vs F‑35 Debate Isn’t Really About Hardware or Software — It’s About Canada Refusing to Be a Vassal
Should the maple apologise for its shade?
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Canada doesnt need F-35 for its needs (just as it didnt F-111 or A-10 in the 70s and 80s)
Gripen E would be an assertion of Canadian independence and sovereignty
open.substack.com/pub/hushkit/...
Gripen E would be an assertion of Canadian independence and sovereignty
open.substack.com/pub/hushkit/...