Frank B
@flyingspaniard.bsky.social
Data Engineer. ex Commercial Pilot. Likes travel, cycling, photography, great outdoors & politics. Cycled to Africa once. 🇬🇧🇪🇸
https://x.com/mrfrankbazan
https://x.com/mrfrankbazan
Imagining the reactions to a semi circle at Stonehenge because the Greeks thought those giant slabs belonged in a museum in Athens.
RW press would have declared war years ago.
#ElginMarbles
#Elgin
RW press would have declared war years ago.
#ElginMarbles
#Elgin
December 4, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Imagining the reactions to a semi circle at Stonehenge because the Greeks thought those giant slabs belonged in a museum in Athens.
RW press would have declared war years ago.
#ElginMarbles
#Elgin
RW press would have declared war years ago.
#ElginMarbles
#Elgin
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There are 1 key things to learn about programming in C - the first is pointers - and the second is counting from 0
November 27, 2024 at 7:53 PM
There are 1 key things to learn about programming in C - the first is pointers - and the second is counting from 0
I'd like to see Cool Britannia resurrected and the #Fender StarmerCaster brought to UK shores.
consequence.net/2024/11/gibs...
consequence.net/2024/11/gibs...
Gibson hits Trump Guitars with cease and desist for resemblance to Les Paul body design
Gibson has hit Trump Guitars and 16 Creative with a cease and desist due to the new guitar line's resemblance to Gibson's Les Paul design.
consequence.net
November 26, 2024 at 12:29 PM
I'd like to see Cool Britannia resurrected and the #Fender StarmerCaster brought to UK shores.
consequence.net/2024/11/gibs...
consequence.net/2024/11/gibs...
Another great thread on #FamilyFarmTax Unless and until we start to hear a more balanced view, it'll be those farmers in genuine need who continue to struggle.
Painting IHT as though it's the key issue that's killing off farming when it's a red herring.
Painting IHT as though it's the key issue that's killing off farming when it's a red herring.
Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵
November 25, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Another great thread on #FamilyFarmTax Unless and until we start to hear a more balanced view, it'll be those farmers in genuine need who continue to struggle.
Painting IHT as though it's the key issue that's killing off farming when it's a red herring.
Painting IHT as though it's the key issue that's killing off farming when it's a red herring.
If 6,000,000 signatures two years after a very slim majority and vague prospectus for Brexit wasn't enough for a new plebiscite, I'm not sure 1.5 million signatures 5 months after a landslide is going to go anywhere.
#ukpolitics #petition
#ukpolitics #petition
November 25, 2024 at 1:26 PM
If 6,000,000 signatures two years after a very slim majority and vague prospectus for Brexit wasn't enough for a new plebiscite, I'm not sure 1.5 million signatures 5 months after a landslide is going to go anywhere.
#ukpolitics #petition
#ukpolitics #petition
Remembering one of my favourite #cycling trips. Where you could pedal through two countries in time for lunch, take on one of cycling's most iconic climbs ( #Poggio ) and be home in time for dinner.
#SanRemo #cycling #CoteDAzur
#HaveBikeWillTravel
#SanRemo #cycling #CoteDAzur
#HaveBikeWillTravel
November 23, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Remembering one of my favourite #cycling trips. Where you could pedal through two countries in time for lunch, take on one of cycling's most iconic climbs ( #Poggio ) and be home in time for dinner.
#SanRemo #cycling #CoteDAzur
#HaveBikeWillTravel
#SanRemo #cycling #CoteDAzur
#HaveBikeWillTravel
Some things, the Strava app does well. I can't help but think that they've lost sight of what brought people to their platform in the first place.
When I joined Strava ten+ years ago, its focus was first on enabling people to pursue their goals...
www.theverge.com/2024/11/22/2...
When I joined Strava ten+ years ago, its focus was first on enabling people to pursue their goals...
www.theverge.com/2024/11/22/2...
Strava’s API debacle highlights the messiness of fitness data
As a fitness data middleman, Strava has a lot of power.
www.theverge.com
November 23, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Some things, the Strava app does well. I can't help but think that they've lost sight of what brought people to their platform in the first place.
When I joined Strava ten+ years ago, its focus was first on enabling people to pursue their goals...
www.theverge.com/2024/11/22/2...
When I joined Strava ten+ years ago, its focus was first on enabling people to pursue their goals...
www.theverge.com/2024/11/22/2...
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Now that she owns Jeremy Clarkson (net worth £55m) Victoria Derbyshire's family have to pay inheritance tax on him when she dies.
“So it’s not about you, it’s not about your farm and the fact you bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax?”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social speaks to Jeremy Clarkson at the farmers’ protest in Westminster where thousands of farmers are protesting the government’s inheritance tax plans.
#Newsnight
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social speaks to Jeremy Clarkson at the farmers’ protest in Westminster where thousands of farmers are protesting the government’s inheritance tax plans.
#Newsnight
November 20, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Now that she owns Jeremy Clarkson (net worth £55m) Victoria Derbyshire's family have to pay inheritance tax on him when she dies.
Reposted by Frank B
These are real problems that need real & carefully thought through long-term solutions … & we should thank you for flagging them … but favourable tax regimes for super wealthy landowners is not it
November 17, 2024 at 6:57 PM
These are real problems that need real & carefully thought through long-term solutions … & we should thank you for flagging them … but favourable tax regimes for super wealthy landowners is not it
This is a great piece. Balanced and actually captures a perspective that you don't really hear in the debate... The business of news. iandunt.substack.com/p/twitter-is...
Twitter is dead. Long live BlueSky.
The exodus is real.
iandunt.substack.com
November 16, 2024 at 2:49 PM
This is a great piece. Balanced and actually captures a perspective that you don't really hear in the debate... The business of news. iandunt.substack.com/p/twitter-is...