Picky
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"House owners", as in, well under 1% of house owners. Many of whom will undoubtedly be (often foreign) investors.
So, so sad they'll be hit with a tax far, far below the average growth in value of their notoriously reliable and profitable asset.
So, so sad they'll be hit with a tax far, far below the average growth in value of their notoriously reliable and profitable asset.
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 5:41 PM
"House owners", as in, well under 1% of house owners. Many of whom will undoubtedly be (often foreign) investors.
So, so sad they'll be hit with a tax far, far below the average growth in value of their notoriously reliable and profitable asset.
So, so sad they'll be hit with a tax far, far below the average growth in value of their notoriously reliable and profitable asset.
The electorate aren't whiney babies, they're struggling. Just because Reeves has done the most notable actual tax hike since the 70s doesn't make up for the half century of trickle up economics that preceded it.
What point are you even making? That the public sector is actually well funded now?
What point are you even making? That the public sector is actually well funded now?
Starmer and Reeves run probably the most economically left-wing government of past five decades and yet bleeding support to its left thanks to dumb strategy www.economist.com/britain/2025...
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The electorate aren't whiney babies, they're struggling. Just because Reeves has done the most notable actual tax hike since the 70s doesn't make up for the half century of trickle up economics that preceded it.
What point are you even making? That the public sector is actually well funded now?
What point are you even making? That the public sector is actually well funded now?
Details aside, I never really understood why there's a need to just assume history is inevitably cyclical.
New things can happen and new patterns can develop. We can influence the curve of history, it's naïve and intentionally defeatist to suggest otherwise.
New things can happen and new patterns can develop. We can influence the curve of history, it's naïve and intentionally defeatist to suggest otherwise.
James is chin-stroking about the end of democracy here, and I’d point out that the key issue for almost two decades has been a political/media class increasingly making it very clear they will choose actual Norsefire fascism over any kind of backsliding on Thatcherism, if pushed archive.ph/qBzgr
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Details aside, I never really understood why there's a need to just assume history is inevitably cyclical.
New things can happen and new patterns can develop. We can influence the curve of history, it's naïve and intentionally defeatist to suggest otherwise.
New things can happen and new patterns can develop. We can influence the curve of history, it's naïve and intentionally defeatist to suggest otherwise.
Some kind of effort should be made to reconnect schoolchildren with the practise of farming - mainly animals.
It's the worst example of how the modern world has babied us and detached us from reality, and it's been done without computer or internet technology.
It's the worst example of how the modern world has babied us and detached us from reality, and it's been done without computer or internet technology.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Some kind of effort should be made to reconnect schoolchildren with the practise of farming - mainly animals.
It's the worst example of how the modern world has babied us and detached us from reality, and it's been done without computer or internet technology.
It's the worst example of how the modern world has babied us and detached us from reality, and it's been done without computer or internet technology.
All aboard the merry-go-round, yet again, for the ride of conflating the Israeli govt. with Jewish civilians everywhere, and for conflating condemnation of anti-semitism as somehow needing to be balanced with the actions of the Israeli state.
This is exactly what the terrorist would have wanted.
This is exactly what the terrorist would have wanted.
October 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
All aboard the merry-go-round, yet again, for the ride of conflating the Israeli govt. with Jewish civilians everywhere, and for conflating condemnation of anti-semitism as somehow needing to be balanced with the actions of the Israeli state.
This is exactly what the terrorist would have wanted.
This is exactly what the terrorist would have wanted.
I would wager that if you were to poll Brits, you would find that they vastly underestimate the number of CCTV cameras in the country, and wouldn't know we're on of the most surveilled countries in the world
I realise the audience for this would just be "me, and also maybe other foreigners" but I would love to read something on why Brits, who are happy to live in a country where their every movement outside is filmed by CCTV, hate the idea of having ID cards, something plenty of countries happily have
September 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I would wager that if you were to poll Brits, you would find that they vastly underestimate the number of CCTV cameras in the country, and wouldn't know we're on of the most surveilled countries in the world
I wonder if any of my calls have indeed been used for training and monitoring purposes
September 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I wonder if any of my calls have indeed been used for training and monitoring purposes
Profoundly depressing that foreign social media platforms that are clearly damaging British society are not banned because successive govts would rather avoid irritating Facebook users than provide space for a regulatable British tech firm to plug the gap left behind by banning it
Increasingly of the view that British democracy is straightforwardly doomed because we have given politicised tech platforms total impunity to promote libel, conspiracy, violence, and race hatred
We’re so fucked:
1) TikTok being used to upload family videos which are inadvertently shown to big numbers because peoplestopped flicking for half a second
2) The profitability of libellous “what’s up here” Blue Tick X
3) the fact the whole town had seen it means this looks a lot like the true MSM
1) TikTok being used to upload family videos which are inadvertently shown to big numbers because peoplestopped flicking for half a second
2) The profitability of libellous “what’s up here” Blue Tick X
3) the fact the whole town had seen it means this looks a lot like the true MSM
August 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Profoundly depressing that foreign social media platforms that are clearly damaging British society are not banned because successive govts would rather avoid irritating Facebook users than provide space for a regulatable British tech firm to plug the gap left behind by banning it
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I always love it when people get up on their high horse about this, because I do know lots of people who were Tories for decades and are now Reform and let me tell you, getting to know them is a highly instructive and helpful experience with many useful lessons. Give me a minute here.
August 14, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I always love it when people get up on their high horse about this, because I do know lots of people who were Tories for decades and are now Reform and let me tell you, getting to know them is a highly instructive and helpful experience with many useful lessons. Give me a minute here.
Just summarises how corporate our mostly private university sector has become now, I wonder how much these consultants made off of students and the taxpayer
I posted this earlier, but came back to it again. It's just unbelievable. Warwick's consultants telling people how to write terribly so they are "on brand". It's Beyond ridiculous. Or rather "Beyond is ridiculous".
brand.warwick.ac.uk/en/brand-gui...
brand.warwick.ac.uk/en/brand-gui...
Tone Of Voice - Warwick University
Find out about our key pillars and traits and how to write in our tone of voice — the Voice of Beyond.
brand.warwick.ac.uk
July 23, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Just summarises how corporate our mostly private university sector has become now, I wonder how much these consultants made off of students and the taxpayer
Booted up Akinator to escape to the past, but there is just no running from the present
July 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Booted up Akinator to escape to the past, but there is just no running from the present
This conversation about a wealth tax is ludicrous. Look at what happened to the countries that use one.
You don't see any rich people in *checks notes* Switzerland and Norway now do you!
You don't see any rich people in *checks notes* Switzerland and Norway now do you!
July 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This conversation about a wealth tax is ludicrous. Look at what happened to the countries that use one.
You don't see any rich people in *checks notes* Switzerland and Norway now do you!
You don't see any rich people in *checks notes* Switzerland and Norway now do you!
Bluesky, define: "post-autism"
July 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Bluesky, define: "post-autism"
Seems as though you have a fan @tomnicholas.bsky.social
I’ve written a lot about Labour strategy this year. With the first anniversary here, seemed a good time to pull it all together. Seven reasons Labour are in a hole, and six things Starmer could do about it. It starts with him and his dislike of ideology in politics. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
Where Labour has gone wrong and what to do about it.
They can learn from Zohran Mamdani and...Robert Jenrick
open.substack.com
July 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Seems as though you have a fan @tomnicholas.bsky.social
Science journalism in mainstream media outlets strikes again
far be it from me to tell scientists how to do their jobs but i feel like there might be value in surveying the <365 hot dogs per year demographic
July 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Science journalism in mainstream media outlets strikes again
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1/3 There are two truths about the IDF that feel almost paradoxical, which is why discourse is a mess
The IDF have killed countless innocent Palestinians, protect violent settlers, and have raised Gaza to rubble
The existence of the IDF has meant Jews in the Israel & MENA haven’t been wiped out
The IDF have killed countless innocent Palestinians, protect violent settlers, and have raised Gaza to rubble
The existence of the IDF has meant Jews in the Israel & MENA haven’t been wiped out
July 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
1/3 There are two truths about the IDF that feel almost paradoxical, which is why discourse is a mess
The IDF have killed countless innocent Palestinians, protect violent settlers, and have raised Gaza to rubble
The existence of the IDF has meant Jews in the Israel & MENA haven’t been wiped out
The IDF have killed countless innocent Palestinians, protect violent settlers, and have raised Gaza to rubble
The existence of the IDF has meant Jews in the Israel & MENA haven’t been wiped out
Why does MSM keep asking what she thinks lmao, she's not a Road Dahl character, she's an infantile lunatic
This is the second time this woman (“Britain’s strictest headteacher”) has claimed there’s a secret school in London she won’t name that has replaced Shakespeare with me. It’s complete bullshit of course but why’s she so obsessed with me
June 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Why does MSM keep asking what she thinks lmao, she's not a Road Dahl character, she's an infantile lunatic
I personally feel very sceptical about people no longer caring about "whether the artist is human or not"
People already consume content due to WHO is making it, even if you can find better quality content doing the same thing, but made be lesser known people
People already consume content due to WHO is making it, even if you can find better quality content doing the same thing, but made be lesser known people
7) That 70% will increase as the tech gets better and as people get better at using it. And, possibly, as people stop caring, to the extent they care at all now, about whether the artist is a human or not.
June 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I personally feel very sceptical about people no longer caring about "whether the artist is human or not"
People already consume content due to WHO is making it, even if you can find better quality content doing the same thing, but made be lesser known people
People already consume content due to WHO is making it, even if you can find better quality content doing the same thing, but made be lesser known people
This cat is my favourite guy
June 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
This cat is my favourite guy
Have the done some silly maths again and just banned people coming from the 12 countries with the fewest people coming to the US to maximise political capital with minimal real consequences?
June 5, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Have the done some silly maths again and just banned people coming from the 12 countries with the fewest people coming to the US to maximise political capital with minimal real consequences?
Great grassroots campaign to help the survivors of one of the most brutal prisons to ever exist, Assad's Sednaya in Syria.
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June 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Great grassroots campaign to help the survivors of one of the most brutal prisons to ever exist, Assad's Sednaya in Syria.
Please consider donating to support those who were brave enough to stand up and ask for freedom in the face of brutal persecution:
tasharuky.com/en/p/219
Please consider donating to support those who were brave enough to stand up and ask for freedom in the face of brutal persecution:
tasharuky.com/en/p/219
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I think there's a divide between people who think posting is fun and people who think it's praxis and if you think posting is a way to make real change, and not a way to shoot the shit with your online friends, it's a great way to drive yourself insane and act like an asshole
May 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I think there's a divide between people who think posting is fun and people who think it's praxis and if you think posting is a way to make real change, and not a way to shoot the shit with your online friends, it's a great way to drive yourself insane and act like an asshole
Knew I'd forget something for my holiday
Bloody forgot to rinse Tesco for the heavily reduced Easter products to eat on the flight didn't I
Bloody forgot to rinse Tesco for the heavily reduced Easter products to eat on the flight didn't I
May 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Knew I'd forget something for my holiday
Bloody forgot to rinse Tesco for the heavily reduced Easter products to eat on the flight didn't I
Bloody forgot to rinse Tesco for the heavily reduced Easter products to eat on the flight didn't I
Labour try to win this guy's vote challenge (impossible)
youtube.com/shorts/NO46F...
youtube.com/shorts/NO46F...
LBC caller: "You might think I'm racist but I'm not"
YouTube video by LBC
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May 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Labour try to win this guy's vote challenge (impossible)
youtube.com/shorts/NO46F...
youtube.com/shorts/NO46F...