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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 8h

One of my all time favourite museums

Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 13h

In the superb Handel/Hendrix house in Mayfair. They let me dress up as both at once. As they point out, they are celebrating two immigrants to London

Me sitting wearing a blue frock coat with gold decorations.

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 9h

Since the 1980s

Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 9h

It really is
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Clegg Says Silicon Valley’s Herd Behavior Drives It Toward Trump

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Riley Griffin and Kurt Wagner chat with former Meta executive Nick Clegg...

www.bloomberg.com

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 10h

Nick Clegg, for all his faults, hit the nail on the head when he said: these people have groupthink because they all pretend to read the same books

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Richard K @rkemb.bsky.social · 10h

Suspicious thing to feel you have to put on your website.

Wir sind
Eine ganz normale Bayerische Gaststätte
"We are a totally normal Bavarian inn"

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 10h

Quite. Getting a promoted tweet from a neo-Nazi group on Holocaust memorial day was enough for me.

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

The *real* life of a showgirl
youtu.be/rK5TyISxZ_M?...

RAYE - WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by RAYE

youtu.be

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FOHF @fohf.bsky.social · 15h

Double pledged invoice factoring.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 21h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 21h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 15h

EURCHF is blowing out.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 21h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 21h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 16h

We used to play the game of: you are a gentleman art thief, which 3 paintings are you stealing?

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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 20h

and I feel fine

jamma10.bsky.social @jamma10.bsky.social · 2d

Toilet, Bristol UK circa 2015

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Will - Absolute Shower 🇺🇦 @showerabsolute.bsky.social · 18h

The main thing I've learned from this is that Katy Perry has a remarkably tasteful yacht: a 1960s Feadship designed by Carlo Riva. Restored by Feadship themselves very elegantly about a decade ago with the addition of a fold down bathing platform and a smart if slightly bland interior.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 18h

It's almost exactly four years since Tim Shipman's notorious "Boris Johnson squats like a giant toad" tweet.

Seems like important context given how we often talk as though the next election – four years away – is a done deal.

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 20h

It's racist AND boring, they can't even be racist in an original way

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

But in case you missed it, Fr Dowling's statement takes the time to make it explicit: "Father, forgive the ones who do not know what they are doing. Have mercy on the souls of those who know exactly what they're doing."

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah they want the pre Charles I setup

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 20h

Oops just re-blooted a slop AI video

a woman in a hijab says shame in front of a crowd of people

ALT: a woman in a hijab says shame in front of a crowd of people

media.tenor.com

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 21h

The entire reply should be: LOL, Tulsi Gabbard

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Villa winning the European Cup
Botham's Ashes
The Challenger disaster
The Tiananmen Square massacre
Fall of the Berlin Wall

Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 1d

What five events defined your childhood?

Fall of the Berlin Wall
Italia 90 (marginally, over Mexico 86 and Euro 96)
Election of New Labour
1st Gulf War
Chernobyl

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

What five events defined your childhood?

The first moon landing
Thatcher stealing my milk
Vietnam war
Star Wars
The Clash

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Do you think the rule of law has any influence on equity market valuation ?

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

She really did

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

The *real* life of a showgirl
youtu.be/rK5TyISxZ_M?...

RAYE - WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by RAYE

youtu.be

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Anglo Russia

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 1d

i have met the paperclip maximizer and he is us

Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 1d

“I’ve spoken with over two-dozen rather senior people in the datacenter universe, and there was an interesting and overriding theme to our conversations; no one understands how the financial math is supposed to work. They are as baffled as I am, and they do this for a living.”

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Simone Conradi @sconradi.bsky.social · 2d

"I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games, while I was supposed to be doing mathematics. Then I realized that playing games is math."
John H. Conway
Made with #python #numpy #matplotlib

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