Anya Martin
@anyamartin.bsky.social
Housing affordability wonk & number cruncher. Former director @ PricedOut
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Column on the government’s Buckaroo! strategy - keep piling obligations and charges on certain sectors and hope they don’t kick you in the head. Housing, energy, pharma, immigrants…
economist.com/britain/2025...
economist.com/britain/2025...
Buckaroo! The British government’s favourite game
Heaping burdens on business works. Until business begins to buck
economist.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Column on the government’s Buckaroo! strategy - keep piling obligations and charges on certain sectors and hope they don’t kick you in the head. Housing, energy, pharma, immigrants…
economist.com/britain/2025...
economist.com/britain/2025...
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This new database will fix almost everything annoying about driving (FREE TO READ!)
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/fix-annoyi...
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/fix-annoyi...
This new database will fix almost everything annoying about driving
The government is quietly building something excellent
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This new database will fix almost everything annoying about driving (FREE TO READ!)
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/fix-annoyi...
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/fix-annoyi...
[Blog post] A year ago I picked up Kafka's Metamorphosis, and could barely understand a word. A year later, I'm happily reading German literature for fun.
What happened? I bit the bullet and finally started using Anki... (1/2)
What happened? I bit the bullet and finally started using Anki... (1/2)
October 23, 2025 at 5:50 AM
[Blog post] A year ago I picked up Kafka's Metamorphosis, and could barely understand a word. A year later, I'm happily reading German literature for fun.
What happened? I bit the bullet and finally started using Anki... (1/2)
What happened? I bit the bullet and finally started using Anki... (1/2)
Cozymaxxing upgraded
December 7, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Cozymaxxing upgraded
Crazy how much time there is to do other stuff when you scroll less
December 4, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Crazy how much time there is to do other stuff when you scroll less
Seems pretty crazy it's such a well-functioning country, considering
Rhee: Exiled
Yun: Coup
Park: Assassinated
Choi: Coup
Chun: Sentenced to death. Pardoned
Roh: Imprisoned. Pardoned
Kim: Finished term.
KimD: Finished term.
RohM: Finished term. Suicide
Lee: Finished term. Imprisoned. Pardoned.
Park: Impeached. Imprisoned. Pardoned
Moon: Finished term
Yoon: ???
Yun: Coup
Park: Assassinated
Choi: Coup
Chun: Sentenced to death. Pardoned
Roh: Imprisoned. Pardoned
Kim: Finished term.
KimD: Finished term.
RohM: Finished term. Suicide
Lee: Finished term. Imprisoned. Pardoned.
Park: Impeached. Imprisoned. Pardoned
Moon: Finished term
Yoon: ???
December 3, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Seems pretty crazy it's such a well-functioning country, considering
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So proud of the great work happening in Minneapolis, which shows that boosting housing supply helps make homes more affordable.
December 3, 2024 at 3:02 PM
So proud of the great work happening in Minneapolis, which shows that boosting housing supply helps make homes more affordable.
Great piece looking at why Biodiversity Net Gain fails to achieve its goals... and makes it harder to meet housing need
yimbyalliance.org/2024/12/02/t...
yimbyalliance.org/2024/12/02/t...
The biodiversity bottleneck - YIMBY Alliance
Image: a disused that does little for biodiversity. Source: Wikimedia Commons This is a guest post from Alfie Robinson. Alfie is a historian and heritage consultant operating across England, with a ke...
yimbyalliance.org
December 3, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Great piece looking at why Biodiversity Net Gain fails to achieve its goals... and makes it harder to meet housing need
yimbyalliance.org/2024/12/02/t...
yimbyalliance.org/2024/12/02/t...
Charlie Munger on envy. I don't know whether psychology textbooks have stopped neglecting it since he wrote this, but I have noticed myself that it's underrated in popular discourse as a factor in sociopolitical behaviour
November 28, 2024 at 10:18 PM
Charlie Munger on envy. I don't know whether psychology textbooks have stopped neglecting it since he wrote this, but I have noticed myself that it's underrated in popular discourse as a factor in sociopolitical behaviour
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We need occupational licensing for using the word ‘neoliberal’ immediately
November 28, 2024 at 8:14 PM
We need occupational licensing for using the word ‘neoliberal’ immediately
Same. I warmly invite all neural networks to be trained on me. Pls do not miss this opportunity to train your neural networks on me and set millions of them out all over the web
i exclusively consent to my tweets being used for training neural networks. if you are not a neural network, stop reading this immediately
November 28, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Same. I warmly invite all neural networks to be trained on me. Pls do not miss this opportunity to train your neural networks on me and set millions of them out all over the web
This is a great salad tip btw. Get the pink pickled ginger from the Asian supermarket & chuck it on some cucumber, and you've got an instant fresh & sour salad which goes great with spicy food. And pleasingly colourful. I eat it all the time
November 28, 2024 at 6:55 PM
This is a great salad tip btw. Get the pink pickled ginger from the Asian supermarket & chuck it on some cucumber, and you've got an instant fresh & sour salad which goes great with spicy food. And pleasingly colourful. I eat it all the time
Made mapo tofu. Can't feel my lips any more
November 28, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Made mapo tofu. Can't feel my lips any more
Wtf I've just used the Clearsky thing and three people have blocked me already?! I haven't even done anything on here yet
Is there a way to find out which starter packs you have been featured in? I’m assuming quite a few of you have followed me from people’s starter packs, so I’m curious as to which.
November 26, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Wtf I've just used the Clearsky thing and three people have blocked me already?! I haven't even done anything on here yet
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According to me go.bsky.app/D34oYEo
November 25, 2024 at 10:29 PM
According to me go.bsky.app/D34oYEo
Had my car for six months and I've only just realised the speakers are Bluetooth enabled. I've been listening to such shite on the radio... bro
November 25, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Had my car for six months and I've only just realised the speakers are Bluetooth enabled. I've been listening to such shite on the radio... bro
Really grinds my gears, this genre of video which has someone proving wrong a statement that no one has ever said. Like omg just show off your outfit without making up a guy to justify showing off your outfit
November 20, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Really grinds my gears, this genre of video which has someone proving wrong a statement that no one has ever said. Like omg just show off your outfit without making up a guy to justify showing off your outfit
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Appreciate this may not be a universally popular opinion but the less you treat BlueSky as a crusade or cause, and the more you position it as simply a superior user experience with a better governance approach, the more sustainable the growth will be.
November 20, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Appreciate this may not be a universally popular opinion but the less you treat BlueSky as a crusade or cause, and the more you position it as simply a superior user experience with a better governance approach, the more sustainable the growth will be.
There was an interesting question as to whether LLMs would be an equaliser. Judging by the utterly hopeless way some people seem to be using them, I'm guessing not.
The heat in my apartment doesn't work and my landlord sent me instructions from ChatGPT on how to fix it
November 20, 2024 at 8:33 PM
There was an interesting question as to whether LLMs would be an equaliser. Judging by the utterly hopeless way some people seem to be using them, I'm guessing not.
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Since I've been here for a while… here are some useful features on Bluesky that you might not have discovered yet! 🧵
November 20, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Since I've been here for a while… here are some useful features on Bluesky that you might not have discovered yet! 🧵
I want to know about the people who said they'd support the measure but think that we can't afford it 🤔
YouGov polling shows more support for UBI than I would have guessed... or, it does until you ask people whether the nation can afford it, which causes half of that support to evaporate? yougov.co.uk/economy/arti...
November 19, 2024 at 11:42 AM
I want to know about the people who said they'd support the measure but think that we can't afford it 🤔
Only just started deadlifting recently but managed 100kg today 🦵🦵 Reckon I can get this up quick too
November 15, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Only just started deadlifting recently but managed 100kg today 🦵🦵 Reckon I can get this up quick too
They got some sick fits in Wolf Hall. I'll tell you that for free
November 14, 2024 at 8:24 PM
They got some sick fits in Wolf Hall. I'll tell you that for free
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Why I keep saying the Tories should pivot hard to student loans and housing. These are the people they won in the 80s with British Gas shares and tax cuts.
This week’s column on weird politics of wage compression - Britain’s big squeeze: middle-class and minimum-wage
www.economist.com/britain/2024...
www.economist.com/britain/2024...
November 14, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Why I keep saying the Tories should pivot hard to student loans and housing. These are the people they won in the 80s with British Gas shares and tax cuts.