leeblackshawtax
@blackshawtax.bsky.social
Chartered Tax Adviser
Plus a bit of cycling
And perhaps some indie pop
www.blackshawtax.com
Plus a bit of cycling
And perhaps some indie pop
www.blackshawtax.com
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If you're stuck, simplify. If you're still stuck, simplify again.
December 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
If you're stuck, simplify. If you're still stuck, simplify again.
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Whatever make it 10 factor authentication.. I don't want to be able to sign into anything ever again
December 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Whatever make it 10 factor authentication.. I don't want to be able to sign into anything ever again
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hard to remember the last time a Wednesday felt this much like a Friday
December 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
hard to remember the last time a Wednesday felt this much like a Friday
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‘Stakeknife spymaster living in luxury in France’
In 2003, I unmasked the highest placed spy for British intelligence in the IRA: Stakeknife. As the ‘final report’ into his crimes is published I turn the spotlight on the military intelligence chief whose team ran him
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
In 2003, I unmasked the highest placed spy for British intelligence in the IRA: Stakeknife. As the ‘final report’ into his crimes is published I turn the spotlight on the military intelligence chief whose team ran him
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
How can there be an ending to the Stakeknife saga when no-one has heard from Kerr?
Our Writer at Large Neil Mackay unmasked IRA leader Freddie Scappaticci as the spy Stakeknife in 2003. As the ‘final report’ into Stakeknife’s…
www.heraldscotland.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
‘Stakeknife spymaster living in luxury in France’
In 2003, I unmasked the highest placed spy for British intelligence in the IRA: Stakeknife. As the ‘final report’ into his crimes is published I turn the spotlight on the military intelligence chief whose team ran him
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
In 2003, I unmasked the highest placed spy for British intelligence in the IRA: Stakeknife. As the ‘final report’ into his crimes is published I turn the spotlight on the military intelligence chief whose team ran him
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
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December 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Given Christmas songs start playing in most big shops some time around early September* then the plot by the Woke Liberati to cancel the festive season isn’t going very well.
*I exaggerate but only a bit.
*I exaggerate but only a bit.
The UK far right is increasingly infiltrating the Anglican church so this is bang on trend.
December 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Given Christmas songs start playing in most big shops some time around early September* then the plot by the Woke Liberati to cancel the festive season isn’t going very well.
*I exaggerate but only a bit.
*I exaggerate but only a bit.
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It's like the old joke about the man who receives a phone call begging him to be careful as there are reports of someone driving the wrong way down the motorway.
"It's not just one, there's hundreds of them," he replies.
"It's not just one, there's hundreds of them," he replies.
December 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM
It's like the old joke about the man who receives a phone call begging him to be careful as there are reports of someone driving the wrong way down the motorway.
"It's not just one, there's hundreds of them," he replies.
"It's not just one, there's hundreds of them," he replies.
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I wil never take ozempic, because what if the time finally comes to eat the rich and I have no appetite?
December 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I wil never take ozempic, because what if the time finally comes to eat the rich and I have no appetite?
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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White men, imagine you go for a job. The interview panel is three black women. The board of directors is all black women and has been, without exception, forever. You notice that all supervisors are black women and the only white man you see is cleaning. The company insists they appoint on merit /1
December 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
White men, imagine you go for a job. The interview panel is three black women. The board of directors is all black women and has been, without exception, forever. You notice that all supervisors are black women and the only white man you see is cleaning. The company insists they appoint on merit /1
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I think if i won the under-14 title for the British Women’s Chess Association (BWCA) Girls Championship, you would probably hear me say quite a bit i was the champion. The Telegraph's own chess correspondent points out here why Reeves's is quite right to do so www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
December 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I think if i won the under-14 title for the British Women’s Chess Association (BWCA) Girls Championship, you would probably hear me say quite a bit i was the champion. The Telegraph's own chess correspondent points out here why Reeves's is quite right to do so www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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The sad thing about this is when you talk to girls they will mention in passing “there’s a trans girl in our class she’s really nice, what’s for tea?” this is just cruelty towards children.
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The sad thing about this is when you talk to girls they will mention in passing “there’s a trans girl in our class she’s really nice, what’s for tea?” this is just cruelty towards children.
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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
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This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
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I posted on X for the first time In ages. Immediately deleted the post. Holy Christ. It’s bad bad. Like sticking your head in a wasps nest
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I posted on X for the first time In ages. Immediately deleted the post. Holy Christ. It’s bad bad. Like sticking your head in a wasps nest
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A hearty "FOR GOD'S SAKE STOP THIS" to Xero accounting software, which now, every time I log in, prompts me with an undismissable box to turn on AI-powered auto-reconciliation of bank account entries. No. I don't want your AI to GUESS this stuff based on an algorithmic hunch. So MASSIVELY annoying.
November 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
A hearty "FOR GOD'S SAKE STOP THIS" to Xero accounting software, which now, every time I log in, prompts me with an undismissable box to turn on AI-powered auto-reconciliation of bank account entries. No. I don't want your AI to GUESS this stuff based on an algorithmic hunch. So MASSIVELY annoying.
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People on here are constantly sharing screenshots of stories they think are important without linking to the original work, and then wondering why the media ecosystem is so broken. If you can't be bothered to even link to the work you're sharing, you're part of the problem!
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
People on here are constantly sharing screenshots of stories they think are important without linking to the original work, and then wondering why the media ecosystem is so broken. If you can't be bothered to even link to the work you're sharing, you're part of the problem!
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It’s always “YOU NEED YOUR HEARING CHECKED” and never “I’m going to get tested for mumbling”
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It’s always “YOU NEED YOUR HEARING CHECKED” and never “I’m going to get tested for mumbling”
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This is the most absolute-state-of-everything-in-2025 news story imaginable
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 7:47 AM
This is the most absolute-state-of-everything-in-2025 news story imaginable
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Just want to emphasize here that this is an image of an INTERSTELLAR COMET taken by a camera orbiting MARS. Space is so cool!
NASA's pix of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS are now up science.nasa.gov/solar-system...
This is the HiRISE/MRO image ⬇️
This is the HiRISE/MRO image ⬇️
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Just want to emphasize here that this is an image of an INTERSTELLAR COMET taken by a camera orbiting MARS. Space is so cool!
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I struggle to see why turning ourselves into a society so unwelcoming that even those afraid for the lives are deterred from coming is something we would actually *want*.
November 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I struggle to see why turning ourselves into a society so unwelcoming that even those afraid for the lives are deterred from coming is something we would actually *want*.
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absolutely. which is why this was the definition for AI that @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I included in our recent TiCS article
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
absolutely. which is why this was the definition for AI that @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I included in our recent TiCS article
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I told people at work that I don't like hot drinks. Truth is I do , but I'd rather go without than face the hassle of doing a tea round for a bunch of fussy bastards who can't agree on the correct shade or what milk is.
November 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I told people at work that I don't like hot drinks. Truth is I do , but I'd rather go without than face the hassle of doing a tea round for a bunch of fussy bastards who can't agree on the correct shade or what milk is.
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It’s ironic to resign over editing a bunch of lies to reflect the truth.
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It’s ironic to resign over editing a bunch of lies to reflect the truth.