Richard J
@preachypreach.bsky.social
Tax nerd, still atrocious at amusing profiles
The lost New York of (checks notes) 2018
November 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The lost New York of (checks notes) 2018
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Don't worry, more gimmicky policies based on a simple reading of issue polling will sort this out
NEW from Ipsos
Satisfaction with the PM remains unchanged since September, continuing to be the worst ever recorded by Ipsos for a Prime Minister, going back to 1977…
Satisfaction with the PM remains unchanged since September, continuing to be the worst ever recorded by Ipsos for a Prime Minister, going back to 1977…
November 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Don't worry, more gimmicky policies based on a simple reading of issue polling will sort this out
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What I love most about this story is the NYT’s obliviousness to the fact that in other anglophone cultures the slang for tight male underwear or swimwear is ‘budgie smugglers’ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Man Who Stuffed Parakeets in His Pants Faces Smuggling Charge
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
What I love most about this story is the NYT’s obliviousness to the fact that in other anglophone cultures the slang for tight male underwear or swimwear is ‘budgie smugglers’ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Huh, generally not a fan of the nostalgic English pastoral, but A Month In The Country has the shard of steel in the nostalgia to make it a short book that will stay with me for a long time
November 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Huh, generally not a fan of the nostalgic English pastoral, but A Month In The Country has the shard of steel in the nostalgia to make it a short book that will stay with me for a long time
Unzoomed #667 5/6 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟢⚪️
unzoomed.com annoyingly my first guess was this or another city in the same country but I underestimated the country’s size
unzoomed.com annoyingly my first guess was this or another city in the same country but I underestimated the country’s size
Unzoomed
Identify cities using satellite images in this daily puzzle game, where each guess zooms out for enhanced clues.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Unzoomed #667 5/6 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟢⚪️
unzoomed.com annoyingly my first guess was this or another city in the same country but I underestimated the country’s size
unzoomed.com annoyingly my first guess was this or another city in the same country but I underestimated the country’s size
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incredibly funny side note that in the midst of all this one guy was actually exonerated via the horse’s mouth and it was this guy
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
incredibly funny side note that in the midst of all this one guy was actually exonerated via the horse’s mouth and it was this guy
So anyway, cars.
Oh yeah sure. I just meant like, clear individual benefits that do not actually add up to social/system wide benefits, because of the interactions
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
So anyway, cars.
CHOON
(Just a shame about the film itself)
(Just a shame about the film itself)
“A Clockwork Orange (Title music - based on Purcell's The Funeral of Queen Mary)” by Henry Purcell, Rachel Elkind & Wendy Carlos #nowplaying #radio3
November 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
CHOON
(Just a shame about the film itself)
(Just a shame about the film itself)
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Happy Nov 14th, everybody!
November 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Happy Nov 14th, everybody!
Unzoomed #666 3/6 🔴🟡🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️
unzoomed.com oh ffs
unzoomed.com oh ffs
Unzoomed
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November 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Unzoomed #666 3/6 🔴🟡🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️
unzoomed.com oh ffs
unzoomed.com oh ffs
youtu.be/6bfKredivMU middle aged British people on here contemplating the current government
Five Star on Going Live (no laugh track, uncensored)
YouTube video by Weathergoat
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
youtu.be/6bfKredivMU middle aged British people on here contemplating the current government
I would genuinely love to know what specifically has caused this cold feet at almost the last minute.
Lads you gave yourself an extra month or so to get this right.
Lads you gave yourself an extra month or so to get this right.
November 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I would genuinely love to know what specifically has caused this cold feet at almost the last minute.
Lads you gave yourself an extra month or so to get this right.
Lads you gave yourself an extra month or so to get this right.
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What is wrong with these people. They just spent two weeks rolling the pitch for a U-turn on a policy they didn’t even do yet?
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
What is wrong with these people. They just spent two weeks rolling the pitch for a U-turn on a policy they didn’t even do yet?
Once more with endless feeling
It’s a strangely recurring theme of the current government; solving a problem for X in what they think is a cunning way, and not thinking about what other problems it could possibly cause. Winter fuel payment, employer NI etc
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Once more with endless feeling
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Further proof if you need it that while the leadership circle of this government love to roll out rhetoric about hard choices, they don’t actually have the gumption for action.
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Further proof if you need it that while the leadership circle of this government love to roll out rhetoric about hard choices, they don’t actually have the gumption for action.
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Yay, the even worse option of lots of small taxes upsetting noisy lobby groups.
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Yay, the even worse option of lots of small taxes upsetting noisy lobby groups.
Just testing this on here - if you’re under 40 do you recognise the name Caruso without having to Google?
(I mean, they were over fifty years dead when I was born but were still floating around as a referent)
(I mean, they were over fifty years dead when I was born but were still floating around as a referent)
Unlikely. Not many educated people laymen can mention musicians from 1915. Much more likely to be a political figures or an inventor or a scientific genius.
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Just testing this on here - if you’re under 40 do you recognise the name Caruso without having to Google?
(I mean, they were over fifty years dead when I was born but were still floating around as a referent)
(I mean, they were over fifty years dead when I was born but were still floating around as a referent)
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Post an image that will always make you laugh.
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Post an image that will always make you laugh.
Me choosing condiments for my fish and chips
It’s not a HP obsession!
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Me choosing condiments for my fish and chips
Would not have expected there are lots of emails between the Chomskys and Epstein and none with Pinker, tbh
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Would not have expected there are lots of emails between the Chomskys and Epstein and none with Pinker, tbh
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Manzoni did the artist's-excreta-as-art thing better and earlier anyway
November 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Manzoni did the artist's-excreta-as-art thing better and earlier anyway
Ah, at long last we can finally admit that Piss Christ was just facile provocation
This is what male solidarity & collective action to oppress women looks like:
Artist Andres Serrano--successful, but nowhere near the same class as Thiel & other billionaires in the files--stating that he'll vote for Trump, despite his politics, out of *sympathy* with T's sexual assaults on women.
Artist Andres Serrano--successful, but nowhere near the same class as Thiel & other billionaires in the files--stating that he'll vote for Trump, despite his politics, out of *sympathy* with T's sexual assaults on women.
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Ah, at long last we can finally admit that Piss Christ was just facile provocation
youtu.be/8vI80AVdSzg I always thought this was too unsubtle
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
youtu.be/8vI80AVdSzg I always thought this was too unsubtle