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TACJ @tacj.bsky.social · 22h

Labour MPs call on Rachel Reeves to scrap council tax www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Labour MPs call on Rachel Reeves to scrap council tax

Exclusive: 13 mainly northern MPs say a new system should better account for higher house prices in south-east

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

i am going to try to give a framework of my own understanding which laypeople can understand.

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 1d

yeah - I was impressed by the token-prediction as being as powerful as it is, but there's more going on than that and I don't really follow it any more.

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 1d

Not only is translation not real but neither is reading old books now. Your father is meant to read Charles Dickens books to you and your family aloud, in monthly serial. You're meant to discuss it with friends afterwards. You can't really read War and Peace, and you can't read Bleak House either.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 2d

Had understood that it was common language, and people to tweet at when America is asleep.

So less that UK is woke, and more just that it's awake.

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TACJ @tacj.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. There’s something deeply cursed about spending your day working with an instrument of logic that is so seemingly inexplicably irrational.

innes @innes.bsky.social · 2d

The problem with computer jobs is that it's all in your head. You can't touch or eat the code you write, it's too abstract. You need to find something to make with your hands if you want to stay okay

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TACJ @tacj.bsky.social · 1d

“We haven’t been self-sufficient in food since 1850, and our greatest national achievement was because we *didn’t* have a large agricultural workforce.”

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 2d

Food comes from Argentina and control of the sea lanes.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 2d

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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TACJ @tacj.bsky.social · 1d

>Be me
>See some old book is getting buzz on Tw*tter
>Immediately buy the only reasonably priced second hand copy at the book place
>Put it on my shelves
>Never read it

TACJ @tacj.bsky.social · 2d

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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TACJ @tacj.bsky.social · 2d

*I* didn't leave Twitter.

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TACJ @tacj.bsky.social · 2d

It's weird how Singapore manages to combine an actually positive vision of far-right and far-left authoritarianism.

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TACJ @tacj.bsky.social · 2d

Singapore, where they made it prohibitively expensive for normal people to own cars, nationalised all the land, and everyone gets a council house.

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 3d

What with all this the UK should emulate Dubai stuff, following hot on the heels of Singapore model, are there any other niche authoritarian city states we could go for? Brunei? Machiavelli’s Florence? Ancient Sparta?

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TACJ @tacj.bsky.social · 2d

Figure 1. The conscious processing of stimuli and endogenous feelings, according to Schopenhauer.

TACJ @tacj.bsky.social · 5d

I took a hefty pay cut to change careers a few years ago. I suspect the horrifying truth is that I just… don’t care that much about money?

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TACJ @tacj.bsky.social · 5d

Lads. I think I may be turning down a job offer for more money than I’m on now… just because I kind of like the project I’m working on now?

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 7d

In Manchester and appreciated how something so simple - making all buses yellow - can really improve public space. Feels neater

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James Hughes @dystopian-fashion.bsky.social · 10d

1955 Chrysler Falcon concept car

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Archillect @archillect.bsky.to · 9d

A detailed black-and-white close-up of a large jet engine, showcasing its complex inner mechanisms, with a prominent turbine fan, numerous pipes, and wires against a dark background, highlighting the engine's intricate metal components and reflective surfaces. *) Alt text generated by AI

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 9d

Why is the chicken Big Mac not available all year around?

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TACJ @tacj.bsky.social · 9d

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 10d

So what I don't understand is that, if the standard definition of a species is a group of organisms that can produce fertile offspring, and if Neanderthals were a different species to Homo Sapiens, then why is it we have Neanderthal DNA

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TACJ @tacj.bsky.social · 10d

Cummings Thought is ultimately constrained by the fact that his political idols of Bismarck and LKY could not operate in modern Britain, for reasons that go far beyond “the law” and “parliamentary sovereignty”.

TACJ @tacj.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah I kind of got the vibe that “unconstrained executive action” was going to end up being unpopular at some point.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11d

There are lots of reasons not to leave ECHR. But apart from anything else, it just doesn't solve the problem the Tories/Reform think it does.

E.g. the Supreme Court judgment re Rwanda being unsafe explicitly said it was not based on ECHR.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 10d

One of those books likely to bring out your inner Robert Moses, this, but it’s a grimly fascinating example of how the 60s/70s American wave of New Left community organisation actually ended up in practice.

CONSTRICTINS COMMUNITY
Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development,
and Inequality in Boston LEVINE, JEREMY

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 10d

It is amusing that young policy wonks have a view of the working class that dates back to before they can remember.

The blokes standing round braziers in donkey jackets have mostly retired. They now vote as retired homeowners not as workers.

flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2021/05/21/l...

Labour’s problem is not the Red Wall – it’s the Grey Wall

The Labour Party is in danger of losing its nerve again. Ten years ago, the story that Labour spent all the money and caused the country’s massive debt was allowed to go unchallenged. The Lab…

flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com

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