Space Yak
@spaceyak.bsky.social
Continuity Corbyn hipster analyst. He/him
When Twitter added the algorithmic feed
2. When did social media start to go downhill?
November 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
When Twitter added the algorithmic feed
The storm of 1987
1. What was the first major news story you remember as a child?
November 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The storm of 1987
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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 1:09 PM
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
I despise pretty much everyone who works in the politics part of the MSM. Barely a decent soul between them.
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I despise pretty much everyone who works in the politics part of the MSM. Barely a decent soul between them.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Just abolish it altogether, a leaky institution that serves only to limit the scope of public debate on the economy.
As expected, and as the IMF recommended, Reeves says the OBR will now only assess the public finances against the fiscal rules once a year, at the Budget - to avoid the kind of mad scramble ahead of the Spring statement that led to the botched welfare reforms.
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Just abolish it altogether, a leaky institution that serves only to limit the scope of public debate on the economy.
Main thoughts in the per mile charging plan.
1) How's it supposed to work without massive surveillance?
2) My next car won't be an EV
1) How's it supposed to work without massive surveillance?
2) My next car won't be an EV
November 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Main thoughts in the per mile charging plan.
1) How's it supposed to work without massive surveillance?
2) My next car won't be an EV
1) How's it supposed to work without massive surveillance?
2) My next car won't be an EV
This would be a good excuse to shut down the OBR
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
This would be a good excuse to shut down the OBR
This is quite mean to the Rover 75 which I always thought was a quite good attempt at a modern car with retro styling.
Reeves: The disabled will have a Rover 75 and they’ll be grateful for it
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This is quite mean to the Rover 75 which I always thought was a quite good attempt at a modern car with retro styling.
This harks back to Gordon Brown's unopposed leadership election except that the political differences between Streeting and Starmer are even smaller and less clear.
Is Streeting just planning to nuke the NHS, lose the election and retire to a well paid private health sinecure?
Is Streeting just planning to nuke the NHS, lose the election and retire to a well paid private health sinecure?
“A coronation rather than a contest to install him as Labour leader”, you say.
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This harks back to Gordon Brown's unopposed leadership election except that the political differences between Streeting and Starmer are even smaller and less clear.
Is Streeting just planning to nuke the NHS, lose the election and retire to a well paid private health sinecure?
Is Streeting just planning to nuke the NHS, lose the election and retire to a well paid private health sinecure?
A British tabloid page with a person's photo and name in big letters at the top instantly says to me: "This is one of the most despicable humans ever to walk the earth"
for how awful american media is they don't hold a candle to the vileness of the british press. difficult to find a more contemptible group of people
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
A British tabloid page with a person's photo and name in big letters at the top instantly says to me: "This is one of the most despicable humans ever to walk the earth"
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If Chotiner was British/based in Britain, he'd be *loathed* by every mainstream journalist & politician in the UK for that very reason. People went mad went over the "Trojan Horse School Affair" podcast, when a young journo asked very normal questions (that were never asked in the first place).
it both rules and sucks that isaac chotiner continues to run circles around basically the entire media class using a unique genetic superpower known as "object permanence"
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
If Chotiner was British/based in Britain, he'd be *loathed* by every mainstream journalist & politician in the UK for that very reason. People went mad went over the "Trojan Horse School Affair" podcast, when a young journo asked very normal questions (that were never asked in the first place).
This seems like a case in point about how unevenly the press treats racism.
They used spurious racism accusations to destroy Jeremy Corbyn. Farage is on the other hand, despite his racism having been clear and obvious for ages is only now getting a little scrutiny.
They used spurious racism accusations to destroy Jeremy Corbyn. Farage is on the other hand, despite his racism having been clear and obvious for ages is only now getting a little scrutiny.
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
This seems like a case in point about how unevenly the press treats racism.
They used spurious racism accusations to destroy Jeremy Corbyn. Farage is on the other hand, despite his racism having been clear and obvious for ages is only now getting a little scrutiny.
They used spurious racism accusations to destroy Jeremy Corbyn. Farage is on the other hand, despite his racism having been clear and obvious for ages is only now getting a little scrutiny.
Reading this column has me absolutely shaking with rage, the callous way he talks approvingly of ICE raids. What an evil motherfucker Trevor Phillips is.
I mean why stop here? Why not just ban anyone who wasn't born here from having any recognisable family or community connections whatsoever?
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Reading this column has me absolutely shaking with rage, the callous way he talks approvingly of ICE raids. What an evil motherfucker Trevor Phillips is.
Feels like right now everything sucks, money is tight, small local businesses are struggling everywhere.
Feel I should mark this spot for when the AI bubble collapses and people retrospectively refer to the current period as a time of excess.
Feel I should mark this spot for when the AI bubble collapses and people retrospectively refer to the current period as a time of excess.
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Feels like right now everything sucks, money is tight, small local businesses are struggling everywhere.
Feel I should mark this spot for when the AI bubble collapses and people retrospectively refer to the current period as a time of excess.
Feel I should mark this spot for when the AI bubble collapses and people retrospectively refer to the current period as a time of excess.
Something that's often not remarked upon is that a lot of "wealth" is a claim upon future income,and in order to realise that income a share of output needs to be diverted to provide it.
Wealth, in a sense, is a hidden tax.
Wealth, in a sense, is a hidden tax.
November 24, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Something that's often not remarked upon is that a lot of "wealth" is a claim upon future income,and in order to realise that income a share of output needs to be diverted to provide it.
Wealth, in a sense, is a hidden tax.
Wealth, in a sense, is a hidden tax.
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This one really is useful because you won’t see a more clear demonstration of one of the most damaging political phenomena of the era: the reactionary professional mind rejecting unacceptable reality, only able to process and comprehend it via something close to conspiracy theory.
Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz says Jewish students shouldn’t have smartphones until they finish high school — so they don’t see the “carnage” Israel and the U.S. have carried out in Gaza.
Video: Mel via X (@Villgecrazylady)
Video: Mel via X (@Villgecrazylady)
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This one really is useful because you won’t see a more clear demonstration of one of the most damaging political phenomena of the era: the reactionary professional mind rejecting unacceptable reality, only able to process and comprehend it via something close to conspiracy theory.
Main memory that sticks with me is that Twentyman interview. And his "could you imagine Corbyn in charge, hur hur" before going on to praise the furlough scheme, a policy the Corbyn Labour party fought for.
November 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Main memory that sticks with me is that Twentyman interview. And his "could you imagine Corbyn in charge, hur hur" before going on to praise the furlough scheme, a policy the Corbyn Labour party fought for.
It's really absurd feature of the UK tax system that rich people taxes (dividends, capital gains) are far lower than poor people taxes (income tax, NI).
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It's really absurd feature of the UK tax system that rich people taxes (dividends, capital gains) are far lower than poor people taxes (income tax, NI).
Definitely how I've come to feel about our situation. The Soviet Union by doing nothing more than existing kept capitalism's excesses in check.
Social democracy was a capital strategic retreat. Let the workers have dignity for some time while we regroup and plan for the next raid. After the Fukuyama "end of story" there was no reason for the capital to hold the horses anymore.
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Definitely how I've come to feel about our situation. The Soviet Union by doing nothing more than existing kept capitalism's excesses in check.
The key thing here is that Labour voters having been taken for granted by Labour's leadership for years now have somewhere else to go.
I've been out canvassing quite a lot in London lately. Labour's vote has absolutely evaporated.... it is quite extraordinary to go to places where Labour were on 50-60% of the vote at the last locals and find nobody, or virtually nobody, supporting them.
The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
November 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The key thing here is that Labour voters having been taken for granted by Labour's leadership for years now have somewhere else to go.
Labour have spent 30 years using incumbency, FPTP and the lack of a party to the left to prop themselves up in power.
There's no point in keeping their corrupt little clique in power now a strong far better left wing party exists in the form of the Greens.
There's no point in keeping their corrupt little clique in power now a strong far better left wing party exists in the form of the Greens.
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Labour have spent 30 years using incumbency, FPTP and the lack of a party to the left to prop themselves up in power.
There's no point in keeping their corrupt little clique in power now a strong far better left wing party exists in the form of the Greens.
There's no point in keeping their corrupt little clique in power now a strong far better left wing party exists in the form of the Greens.
What is the actual "doom loop" here? Like, I get the austerity doom loop, it goes:
- OBR produces low growth forecast
- Government makes cuts
- Cuts lower growth meaning...
- OBR produces low growth forecast
This feels like they've found a new word they can't stop using.
- OBR produces low growth forecast
- Government makes cuts
- Cuts lower growth meaning...
- OBR produces low growth forecast
This feels like they've found a new word they can't stop using.
Well, well, well.
Would you look who it is warning of "doom" if you don't invest in the world's most dangerous financial bubble ever.
Would you look who it is warning of "doom" if you don't invest in the world's most dangerous financial bubble ever.
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
What is the actual "doom loop" here? Like, I get the austerity doom loop, it goes:
- OBR produces low growth forecast
- Government makes cuts
- Cuts lower growth meaning...
- OBR produces low growth forecast
This feels like they've found a new word they can't stop using.
- OBR produces low growth forecast
- Government makes cuts
- Cuts lower growth meaning...
- OBR produces low growth forecast
This feels like they've found a new word they can't stop using.
The collapse of the AI bubble is less a case of "if" and more a case of "when"
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The collapse of the AI bubble is less a case of "if" and more a case of "when"
For most 35 year olds, "Retire at 65" is looking impossible.
Sky News ran a 5 minute piece called 'Retire at 35'. The long and the short of it? Just stop being poor.
November 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
For most 35 year olds, "Retire at 65" is looking impossible.