Daniel
@buckmeister.bsky.social
Muchas smooches por el conKISStador
I'll say one thing; I really wish the people in charge weren't so fucking ill-educated and stupid.
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I'll say one thing; I really wish the people in charge weren't so fucking ill-educated and stupid.
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this is all 'gender critical' has enabled.
this sort of shit just wasn't really a thing a decade ago.
this sort of shit just wasn't really a thing a decade ago.
A bank customer who claimed he has a “phobia” of materials related to Pride has lost a case against NatWest in which he alleged a display in one of its branches caused him “severe psychological distress”.
November 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
this is all 'gender critical' has enabled.
this sort of shit just wasn't really a thing a decade ago.
this sort of shit just wasn't really a thing a decade ago.
Do it, do it, do it
November 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Do it, do it, do it
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Child benefit for the average person:
First child: £1354 per year
Each additional £ 897
What MPs can claim:
£5,500 per child per year max £16,500 per year
First child: £1354 per year
Each additional £ 897
What MPs can claim:
£5,500 per child per year max £16,500 per year
November 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Child benefit for the average person:
First child: £1354 per year
Each additional £ 897
What MPs can claim:
£5,500 per child per year max £16,500 per year
First child: £1354 per year
Each additional £ 897
What MPs can claim:
£5,500 per child per year max £16,500 per year
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The top tax rate when Labour left power at the end of the 70s was 85%, this is abject nonsense written by people who are annoyed they're going to be taxed sllightly more on their big houses.
"This is the Labour Party of old – high taxation, high public spending, growth in welfare bills and all the rest of it.
"This puts Labour in a position where it is very much a party older people who lived through the 70s and early 80s would recognise"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/labo...
"This puts Labour in a position where it is very much a party older people who lived through the 70s and early 80s would recognise"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/labo...
‘Labour is trying to pretend it’s all fine – everyone can see what this budget is doing’ | The News Agents
Labour MPs have acted with “tetchiness” as they defend Rachel Reeves' budget, facing questions over whether it has raised taxes for working people. Has the government regressed to where the party was…
www.thenewsagents.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The top tax rate when Labour left power at the end of the 70s was 85%, this is abject nonsense written by people who are annoyed they're going to be taxed sllightly more on their big houses.
This is of course always missed. Nearly all benefits go to those who work. "benefits street" and nonsense about benefits fraud are just propaganda to to justify cutting benefits for those who need them.
Somehow this got missed off the "Benefit Street" front pages today
70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.
November 28, 2025 at 8:46 AM
This is of course always missed. Nearly all benefits go to those who work. "benefits street" and nonsense about benefits fraud are just propaganda to to justify cutting benefits for those who need them.
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Buying an asset and selling it for more money is the definition of capital gains. The only reason we don't do it is because we bribed the middle class with rising house prices to distract them from the dismantling and selling off of the public realm and the destruction of wages.
my unpopular opinion is if you sell an expensive house in London and move up north or a cheaper area on the coast then that she be capital gains taxed
oops i just subtweeted half of Hastings
oops i just subtweeted half of Hastings
All of this “woe is me my house is now really expensive and so a tax is unfair” stuff completely negates to acknowledge the implicit fact that the house owner has made an insane profit by doing absolutely nothing
November 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Buying an asset and selling it for more money is the definition of capital gains. The only reason we don't do it is because we bribed the middle class with rising house prices to distract them from the dismantling and selling off of the public realm and the destruction of wages.
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Felt like this when mortgage payments went up a few years ago - yes, it's horrible to now be paying an extra £200 a month, but that's been happening to renters year on year and there were no sadface articles on that, just "market forces" and "nobody has a right to live in a city"
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Felt like this when mortgage payments went up a few years ago - yes, it's horrible to now be paying an extra £200 a month, but that's been happening to renters year on year and there were no sadface articles on that, just "market forces" and "nobody has a right to live in a city"
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the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
People on BlueSky: AI is useless! A stochastic parrot!
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
arxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
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It doesn’t make any difference whether the public are getting second hand inhalation off the BBC and Radio Norwich, or whether they’re honking it pure straight out of the crackpipe. It is all the same. A great Nordstream horseshit incitement pipeline, blasting 24/7 into every home in the land.
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM
It doesn’t make any difference whether the public are getting second hand inhalation off the BBC and Radio Norwich, or whether they’re honking it pure straight out of the crackpipe. It is all the same. A great Nordstream horseshit incitement pipeline, blasting 24/7 into every home in the land.
I for one welcome that the budget brings with it higher tax for graduates, higher tax for electric vehicles and a massive expansion of PFI. Which are all very left wing policies for the left wing policy big brains.
November 27, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I for one welcome that the budget brings with it higher tax for graduates, higher tax for electric vehicles and a massive expansion of PFI. Which are all very left wing policies for the left wing policy big brains.
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PFI is just borrowing by another name, but with key differences in structure, cost, and accounting treatment that make it more expensive.
Starmer’s Labour…. repeating the mistakes of the past is NOT ‘change’.
Starmer’s Labour…. repeating the mistakes of the past is NOT ‘change’.
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
PFI is just borrowing by another name, but with key differences in structure, cost, and accounting treatment that make it more expensive.
Starmer’s Labour…. repeating the mistakes of the past is NOT ‘change’.
Starmer’s Labour…. repeating the mistakes of the past is NOT ‘change’.
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I really think people any level of left of centre spend far to much time and effort trying to chastise public figures for not adhering to beliefs and morals they never held in the first place.
I think it kneecaps real progress and makes people look immature and incompetent.
I think it kneecaps real progress and makes people look immature and incompetent.
Getting mad that the Pope is Catholic and not my Cool Uncle
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I really think people any level of left of centre spend far to much time and effort trying to chastise public figures for not adhering to beliefs and morals they never held in the first place.
I think it kneecaps real progress and makes people look immature and incompetent.
I think it kneecaps real progress and makes people look immature and incompetent.
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In 2012, a Conservative government awarded April Ashley, a trans woman, an MBE for "services to trans equality".
How far are we from a Labour government revoking that award, because trans people don't deserve equality?
How far are we from a Labour government revoking that award, because trans people don't deserve equality?
the bbc changed their article from saying 'trans woman' to saying 'biological male who identifies as a woman'.
even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.
they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.
they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
November 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
In 2012, a Conservative government awarded April Ashley, a trans woman, an MBE for "services to trans equality".
How far are we from a Labour government revoking that award, because trans people don't deserve equality?
How far are we from a Labour government revoking that award, because trans people don't deserve equality?
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Seeing how horrible and wildly inaccurate front pages on rightwing newspapers are everyday against anything left of the far right, it truly amazes me how much of the mainstream media is scared to call a spade a spade when it comes to far-right politics
Clearly, anything goes
Clearly, anything goes
November 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Seeing how horrible and wildly inaccurate front pages on rightwing newspapers are everyday against anything left of the far right, it truly amazes me how much of the mainstream media is scared to call a spade a spade when it comes to far-right politics
Clearly, anything goes
Clearly, anything goes
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No surprise to me either as a 80s-90s home counties grammar school kid.
What if its not the "concerned" left behind vs the cosmopolitan elite? What if its actually the multi-ethnic majority vs the racist elite? What kind of politics could we build on that basis?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
What if its not the "concerned" left behind vs the cosmopolitan elite? What if its actually the multi-ethnic majority vs the racist elite? What kind of politics could we build on that basis?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Racism claims against Nigel Farage are no surprise to us | Letters
Letters: Readers describe the ubiquity of racist attitudes and behaviours at British public schools at the time the Reform UK leader attended Dulwich College
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
No surprise to me either as a 80s-90s home counties grammar school kid.
What if its not the "concerned" left behind vs the cosmopolitan elite? What if its actually the multi-ethnic majority vs the racist elite? What kind of politics could we build on that basis?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
What if its not the "concerned" left behind vs the cosmopolitan elite? What if its actually the multi-ethnic majority vs the racist elite? What kind of politics could we build on that basis?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Rachel Reeves says this Labour Governments decisions are "necessary."
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Rachel Reeves says this Labour Governments decisions are "necessary."
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?
When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
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The other kids had better toys than I did so now I'm proud to work for a company that steals their work and destroys their livelihood, and makes sure that kids like me can never, ever, ever actually make a living from music! Yay!!!
All AI music does is devalue the work done by human artists. It’s not accessibility, it’s exploitation. We need real protections for artists against AI!
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
November 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The other kids had better toys than I did so now I'm proud to work for a company that steals their work and destroys their livelihood, and makes sure that kids like me can never, ever, ever actually make a living from music! Yay!!!
Happy 20th anniversary to Charlie The Unicorn for all those who celebrate
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Happy 20th anniversary to Charlie The Unicorn for all those who celebrate
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Goodwin's palpable disgust for black and brown people is, of course, a colonial inheritance. But the "national" prosperity that made Britain's welfare state possible is in no small part a colonial inheritance too, plundered from places like Africa and south Asia. He might show a little gratitude.
Reflections on the budget from the head of Students4Reform
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Goodwin's palpable disgust for black and brown people is, of course, a colonial inheritance. But the "national" prosperity that made Britain's welfare state possible is in no small part a colonial inheritance too, plundered from places like Africa and south Asia. He might show a little gratitude.
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Aww I thought the head of Religious Paedophiles Incorporated had all the same far left social and cultural beliefs i do!! This sucks.
November 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Aww I thought the head of Religious Paedophiles Incorporated had all the same far left social and cultural beliefs i do!! This sucks.
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You could make practically every bus route in England free for the cost of extending the fuel duty cut.
Reeves says petrol is still expensive.
So the 5p cut in fuel duty will be extended until 2026, she says.
Great. So polluters get to continue to poison us. Yet EV drivers get penalised with pay per mile.
🙃
Climate change. What’s that?
So the 5p cut in fuel duty will be extended until 2026, she says.
Great. So polluters get to continue to poison us. Yet EV drivers get penalised with pay per mile.
🙃
Climate change. What’s that?
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
You could make practically every bus route in England free for the cost of extending the fuel duty cut.
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Faisal Islam and others are talking about the OBS report leak 2 hours early as "historic" and "catastophic". Why? Who cares? Boo-hoo, Reeves' literal speech wasn't quite the exact moment a few hundred people learned the details. What an asbolutely weird bubble Westmister correspondents live in!
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Faisal Islam and others are talking about the OBS report leak 2 hours early as "historic" and "catastophic". Why? Who cares? Boo-hoo, Reeves' literal speech wasn't quite the exact moment a few hundred people learned the details. What an asbolutely weird bubble Westmister correspondents live in!
Journalism by Thesaurus. "Fast food restaurant" is obviously the class of restaurant.
new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped
November 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Journalism by Thesaurus. "Fast food restaurant" is obviously the class of restaurant.