zatapatique
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The modal British voter thinks that pensioners are the group who gets the least good deal from the state! You can't have a serious conversation either about shrinking the state or expanding the tax base from that starting point!
November 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The modal British voter thinks that pensioners are the group who gets the least good deal from the state! You can't have a serious conversation either about shrinking the state or expanding the tax base from that starting point!
That video of Mamdani name dropping random back catalogue Arsenal players has revived peak "men only like one thing, and that's sitting back and quoting obscure sports people's names at each other for hours" discourse in the French speaking group chats.
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
That video of Mamdani name dropping random back catalogue Arsenal players has revived peak "men only like one thing, and that's sitting back and quoting obscure sports people's names at each other for hours" discourse in the French speaking group chats.
Personally also convinced that the ubiquity of delivery services has made the actually good bits of the policy (lower quintiles wage growth outperforming) feel like an additional injury.
Some have mentioned unresolved COVID trauma to explain that phenomenon and I remain skeptical.
Personally, I'm a partisan of the "it's just inflation" theory. Human beings seem to love Ze Price Stabilité more than life itself, and appear willing sacrifice *anything* to achieve it.
Personally, I'm a partisan of the "it's just inflation" theory. Human beings seem to love Ze Price Stabilité more than life itself, and appear willing sacrifice *anything* to achieve it.
The biggest blackpill for me was a poll that found that, despite Trump's abysmal approvals and Dems cleaning house lately, an hypothetical 2024 rematch would still be a tossup. The insane reality is that a majority of US voters really experienced the Biden years as some kind of epochal catastrophe!
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Personally also convinced that the ubiquity of delivery services has made the actually good bits of the policy (lower quintiles wage growth outperforming) feel like an additional injury.
This has been commented ad nauseam already but the part that always jumps at me in those screeds is how the 'dismiss intergenerational bonds' is always painted as going one way only.
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
This has been commented ad nauseam already but the part that always jumps at me in those screeds is how the 'dismiss intergenerational bonds' is always painted as going one way only.
This snippet is literally about Fortunato asking Montresor for more of that delicious amontillado
@stephenkb.bsky.social Good to see she's taking advice from the person who played a large role in making the inheritance so bad...
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This snippet is literally about Fortunato asking Montresor for more of that delicious amontillado
Randomly remembering that one of main state interventions in education during the pandemic was to come up with an algorithm which main effect was to make sure the grades/uni rights of kids from good places were adjusted back to the history of said places, and kids from bad places, can you guess?
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Randomly remembering that one of main state interventions in education during the pandemic was to come up with an algorithm which main effect was to make sure the grades/uni rights of kids from good places were adjusted back to the history of said places, and kids from bad places, can you guess?
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Literal channel stuffing. Text book case
November 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Literal channel stuffing. Text book case
You too can enjoy the thrill life of the senior business executive who slowly realises he's not going to meet his FY budget by frantically trying to force feed Spotify with the tracks you want to be in Wrapped, by any means necessary
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
You too can enjoy the thrill life of the senior business executive who slowly realises he's not going to meet his FY budget by frantically trying to force feed Spotify with the tracks you want to be in Wrapped, by any means necessary
Imagine, if you wish, the manager of a football club shouting at the fans that parking the bus and general hacking and shit-housery all over the pitch is, unfortunately, the only viable plan to win games. And then you look up the league table, and the club is 14pts off the first Europa League spots
November 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Imagine, if you wish, the manager of a football club shouting at the fans that parking the bus and general hacking and shit-housery all over the pitch is, unfortunately, the only viable plan to win games. And then you look up the league table, and the club is 14pts off the first Europa League spots
Just walked past a huge poster for the apparently upcoming Nuremberg movie and I thought to myself, wow, John Goodman as Goering, that's some piece of casting. Until I read the fine print and and realised it was, in fact, Russell Crowe
November 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Just walked past a huge poster for the apparently upcoming Nuremberg movie and I thought to myself, wow, John Goodman as Goering, that's some piece of casting. Until I read the fine print and and realised it was, in fact, Russell Crowe
brings me back to COVID travel ban discourse, one of the moments of that era where I was the most ready to completely lose the plot
Also I mean I hate rehashing this stuff because OF COURSE I WOULD BE HAPPY TO TAKE A BULLET TRAIN INSTEAD IF ONE EXISTED, SHUT THE FUCK UP, but the idea that people with invariably Anglo names have that the main convenience of flying is for foreign holidays remains very darkly funny.
November 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
brings me back to COVID travel ban discourse, one of the moments of that era where I was the most ready to completely lose the plot
Truly a battle of wits
November 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Truly a battle of wits
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This is basically the biggest thing I have changed my mind on in adult life. Having been raised in a Land Of Plenty soc dem, I was convinced of the 'insane subsidy to the rich' case for means testing until I came over here, saw the alternative, and I am now an Universal Coverage absolutist
The UK just has incredible attention to detail when it comes to making sure the people who pay all the taxes can’t have nice things. Child benefit? No. Free Child car? No. Cut price bike to cycle to work? No.
Functionally we are telling people they pay too much tax to get anything from the state.
Functionally we are telling people they pay too much tax to get anything from the state.
Rachel Reeves is setting the Cycle to Work scheme on fire as part of the war on salary sacrifice policies! on.ft.com/4oKXNrC
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 AM
This is basically the biggest thing I have changed my mind on in adult life. Having been raised in a Land Of Plenty soc dem, I was convinced of the 'insane subsidy to the rich' case for means testing until I came over here, saw the alternative, and I am now an Universal Coverage absolutist
From: <jeevacation@gmail.com>
To: literally NKVD liaison officer
Subject: Gefilte fish
Where are we on this?
To: literally NKVD liaison officer
Subject: Gefilte fish
Where are we on this?
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
From: <jeevacation@gmail.com>
To: literally NKVD liaison officer
Subject: Gefilte fish
Where are we on this?
To: literally NKVD liaison officer
Subject: Gefilte fish
Where are we on this?
The equivalent of what the Americans are going through right now would be me being handed the actual voice recording of DGSE operatives explaining the exact tramadol dose they subreptitiously gave Ronaldo on the evening of 11 July 1998
The only conspiracy theory I've ever believed in trending towards being true is making me feel like I'm going crazy
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The equivalent of what the Americans are going through right now would be me being handed the actual voice recording of DGSE operatives explaining the exact tramadol dose they subreptitiously gave Ronaldo on the evening of 11 July 1998
Even a simple factoid like this gets overlooked, but it was not long ago that *everyone* directly knew multiple examples of people taken away by this at something preposterous like age 22
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Even a simple factoid like this gets overlooked, but it was not long ago that *everyone* directly knew multiple examples of people taken away by this at something preposterous like age 22
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The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
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November 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
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Corporate rap is very rarely a good sign
November 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Corporate rap is very rarely a good sign
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There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles
Trump 2028
There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles
econ.st
October 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
There is a legal case for a third term—but it is strewn with obstacles
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lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight
October 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM
lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight
Still strongly on the side that thinks prediction markets are more something like money-weighted consensus snapshot machines than whatever their names pretends they are, but precisely because of this, it's notable that 1) this market is 10c and 2) that it's offered at all in the first place
October 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Still strongly on the side that thinks prediction markets are more something like money-weighted consensus snapshot machines than whatever their names pretends they are, but precisely because of this, it's notable that 1) this market is 10c and 2) that it's offered at all in the first place
Consumers and voters being sometimes completely different cohorts (and sometimes starkly so in some product silos) is the source of a lot of this frustration. How dare the execs at Procter & Gamble not run their businesses according to the combined rules of FPTP and party selectorates?!
It's also the conviction that *British people who sell biscuits* are part of a grand conspiracy to pretend that *British people who buy biscuits* are multiethnic at some given %.
October 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Consumers and voters being sometimes completely different cohorts (and sometimes starkly so in some product silos) is the source of a lot of this frustration. How dare the execs at Procter & Gamble not run their businesses according to the combined rules of FPTP and party selectorates?!