Parksy Phil
@donnyoddlegs.bsky.social
A source of constant disappointment
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Uber rewrites contracts with drivers to avoid paying UK’s new ‘taxi tax’.
Portrays itself as an agent instead of a supplier to dodge VAT.
Big business always willing to circumvent tax laws to boost profits, makes laws longer and complex.
Portrays itself as an agent instead of a supplier to dodge VAT.
Big business always willing to circumvent tax laws to boost profits, makes laws longer and complex.
Uber rewrites contracts with drivers to avoid paying UK’s new ‘taxi tax’
Hailing app will now act as agent rather than supplier outside London, avoiding VAT requirement
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:19 AM
Uber rewrites contracts with drivers to avoid paying UK’s new ‘taxi tax’.
Portrays itself as an agent instead of a supplier to dodge VAT.
Big business always willing to circumvent tax laws to boost profits, makes laws longer and complex.
Portrays itself as an agent instead of a supplier to dodge VAT.
Big business always willing to circumvent tax laws to boost profits, makes laws longer and complex.
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
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pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
December 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
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Remember to stock up on lemons today for your New Year Lemon Pig-making needs! 🍋
December 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Remember to stock up on lemons today for your New Year Lemon Pig-making needs! 🍋
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BLOG UPDATE! I've gone and made a full rundown of the fifty TV programmes that have been broadcast most frequently throughout 2025. With the bonus added prize of revealing which FOUR television programmes appeared on all four BBC channels in 2025. brokentv.uk/2025/12/28/t...
December 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
BLOG UPDATE! I've gone and made a full rundown of the fifty TV programmes that have been broadcast most frequently throughout 2025. With the bonus added prize of revealing which FOUR television programmes appeared on all four BBC channels in 2025. brokentv.uk/2025/12/28/t...
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All the best, etc.
December 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
All the best, etc.
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Happy Christmas to all you lovely people in my phone!
December 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Happy Christmas to all you lovely people in my phone!
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Ah, my favourite Sound of Music scene, when Reverend Mother calls Maria a cunt face.
December 29, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Ah, my favourite Sound of Music scene, when Reverend Mother calls Maria a cunt face.
This is a beautiful thing - just what the internet was invented for
The extra special 1975 Christmas Radio TV Times starts today!
Yuletide felicitations! The 1975 Christmas 'Radio TV Times' magazine is now available! 🎁
Explore 10 days of December 1975’s TV listings across both BBC and ITV.
Open the PDF, click on a programme title and start streaming from various platforms. 🤶
visualmutterings.com/1975-christm...
Explore 10 days of December 1975’s TV listings across both BBC and ITV.
Open the PDF, click on a programme title and start streaming from various platforms. 🤶
visualmutterings.com/1975-christm...
December 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This is a beautiful thing - just what the internet was invented for
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Any organization that rejects Robin Ince but rewards Chris Mason, should be put on a sense offenders register.
December 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Any organization that rejects Robin Ince but rewards Chris Mason, should be put on a sense offenders register.
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"Don't worry, the 1970s Eggplant Penguin can't hurt you."
The 1970s Eggplant Penguin:
The 1970s Eggplant Penguin:
December 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"Don't worry, the 1970s Eggplant Penguin can't hurt you."
The 1970s Eggplant Penguin:
The 1970s Eggplant Penguin:
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Happy #Duckerday 🦆 @cornduck3.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Happy #Duckerday 🦆 @cornduck3.bsky.social
A great thread
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
A great thread
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Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
Yes, definitely this!
Couple of things the BBC could do to improve their standing: 1) confirm that Donald Trump is indeed an oily heap of shit and 2) Put the entire back catalogue of John Player League Cricket on the iPlayer. That’s all for now.
November 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Yes, definitely this!
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Sly Stallone would have given his ALL to become Sly Stone
October 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Sly Stallone would have given his ALL to become Sly Stone
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The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for
October 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for
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Scum. Ignorant, un-British, slime-wallowing scum, and proud to be so.
The Reform UK conference gives a standing ovation to "special guest" Lucy Connolly, who pled guilty to stirring up racial hatred after she called for asylum hotels to be set on fire with people inside them.
September 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Scum. Ignorant, un-British, slime-wallowing scum, and proud to be so.
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph
Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement
Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty
Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence
[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]
Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent
29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg)
![The Telegraph
Money > Property > Second homes
How to avoid tax on your second home
From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net
[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]
Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer
29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
On the same day in the Telegraph:
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Trying to get a tan in the hot weather.
July 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Trying to get a tan in the hot weather.
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Gashapon (or Gachapon) are vending machines found all over Japan that dispense capsules containing miniature toys and other items. There are thousands of different kinds. Here’s a thread of the best ones I saw on my recent trip. 🧵
June 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Gashapon (or Gachapon) are vending machines found all over Japan that dispense capsules containing miniature toys and other items. There are thousands of different kinds. Here’s a thread of the best ones I saw on my recent trip. 🧵
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Captain it's Wednesday
June 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Captain it's Wednesday
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Been thinking a lot about the premise of Bodger & Badger.
It makes no sense how many clients who would be prepared to hire a handyman named ‘Bodger’, who brought along with him his badger puppet.
No proper work could ever get done due to ‘antics’, and he’d probably be charging by the hour too.
It makes no sense how many clients who would be prepared to hire a handyman named ‘Bodger’, who brought along with him his badger puppet.
No proper work could ever get done due to ‘antics’, and he’d probably be charging by the hour too.
May 31, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Been thinking a lot about the premise of Bodger & Badger.
It makes no sense how many clients who would be prepared to hire a handyman named ‘Bodger’, who brought along with him his badger puppet.
No proper work could ever get done due to ‘antics’, and he’d probably be charging by the hour too.
It makes no sense how many clients who would be prepared to hire a handyman named ‘Bodger’, who brought along with him his badger puppet.
No proper work could ever get done due to ‘antics’, and he’d probably be charging by the hour too.
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And politically stupid, too. Alienates core vote (& they do have places to go) in pursuit of votes he'll rarely get, & demolishes his core policy agenda of growth, making his re-election more unlikely. Even those (inc. me) willing to cut him a lot of slack feel betrayed. A truly awful day for UK.
Hard to say how disappointing this morning‘s speech really was. Morally AND intellectually.
Agree with every line here by @iandunt.bsky.social 👇
Agree with every line here by @iandunt.bsky.social 👇
Starmer is as bad as those who came before him. What a bitter disappointment
Echoing the far right on immigration, his moral and intellectual stature has fallen away
inews.co.uk
May 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
And politically stupid, too. Alienates core vote (& they do have places to go) in pursuit of votes he'll rarely get, & demolishes his core policy agenda of growth, making his re-election more unlikely. Even those (inc. me) willing to cut him a lot of slack feel betrayed. A truly awful day for UK.