Just Another Dave
@daveype.bsky.social
From the UK, living in Czechia. Interested in science, technology, politics and football. Not an exclusive list.
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Chasing the votes of those who'll never vote for you while simultaneously losing the votes of those who may is a rare gift.
December 19, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Chasing the votes of those who'll never vote for you while simultaneously losing the votes of those who may is a rare gift.
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I feel seen
Overheard in the supermarket. Two teenagers.
1: 'Where's Dad?'
2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'
1: 'Where's Dad?'
2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'
December 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I feel seen
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The thing is we've known that housing the homeless is cheaper than neglect, we've known that Ubi is effective at eliminating poverty, we've known that heavily subsidized housing and education leads people into the middle class, we've known all of these things in some cases for 70 years.
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The thing is we've known that housing the homeless is cheaper than neglect, we've known that Ubi is effective at eliminating poverty, we've known that heavily subsidized housing and education leads people into the middle class, we've known all of these things in some cases for 70 years.
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"People who owe no tax are statistically the most likely to be fined."
Nobody should face a late filing penalty when they don’t owe any tax. It really is impossible to resist this suggestion from @danneidle.bsky.social.
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Nobody should face a late filing penalty when they don’t owe any tax. It really is impossible to resist this suggestion from @danneidle.bsky.social.
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
If Rachel Reeves Wants A Simple, Low-Cost Yet Progressive Tax Reform, This Is It
One tax reform should be easy for Rachel Reeves, writes Dan Neidle, who says an obscure technical change has become an ‘automated wrecking ball’ fo...
www.politicshome.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
"People who owe no tax are statistically the most likely to be fined."
Nobody should face a late filing penalty when they don’t owe any tax. It really is impossible to resist this suggestion from @danneidle.bsky.social.
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Nobody should face a late filing penalty when they don’t owe any tax. It really is impossible to resist this suggestion from @danneidle.bsky.social.
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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Imagine having a thumping majority in parliament and deciding to use it for something as squalid as this.
November 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Imagine having a thumping majority in parliament and deciding to use it for something as squalid as this.
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New YouGov polling. That’s a peak for the Greens. Amazing how a good communicator with vision can turn around a party’s fortunes.
RFM: 27% (+1)
LAB: 17% (-3)
CON: 17% (=)
GRN: 16% (+1)
LDM: 15% (=)
Also Labour’s lowest in a YouGov poll.
RFM: 27% (+1)
LAB: 17% (-3)
CON: 17% (=)
GRN: 16% (+1)
LDM: 15% (=)
Also Labour’s lowest in a YouGov poll.
October 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
New YouGov polling. That’s a peak for the Greens. Amazing how a good communicator with vision can turn around a party’s fortunes.
RFM: 27% (+1)
LAB: 17% (-3)
CON: 17% (=)
GRN: 16% (+1)
LDM: 15% (=)
Also Labour’s lowest in a YouGov poll.
RFM: 27% (+1)
LAB: 17% (-3)
CON: 17% (=)
GRN: 16% (+1)
LDM: 15% (=)
Also Labour’s lowest in a YouGov poll.
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Despite a very strong wind, I managed to salvage about fifteen minutes of exposure out of an hour and a half of tracking before it set, just enough for a last-minute farewell to Comet Lemmon, capturing it a second time after my first shot in early October. 🔭
#Astrophotography
#Astrophotography
October 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Despite a very strong wind, I managed to salvage about fifteen minutes of exposure out of an hour and a half of tracking before it set, just enough for a last-minute farewell to Comet Lemmon, capturing it a second time after my first shot in early October. 🔭
#Astrophotography
#Astrophotography
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There’s no upper limit to the amount of personal humiliation the average politics pundit is willing to inflict upon themselves, if the alternative simply admitting that they have absolutely fucked it *yet again*, and then resigning
October 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
There’s no upper limit to the amount of personal humiliation the average politics pundit is willing to inflict upon themselves, if the alternative simply admitting that they have absolutely fucked it *yet again*, and then resigning
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Seriously, this is amazing.
🧠 Alzheimer’s reversed in mice
A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪
A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪
Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy
Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport
www.nature.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Seriously, this is amazing.
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The gap between the rich and the poor in the US only keeps growing. The top 10 per cent of society are now responsible for 49.2% of consumer spending. Soon the 50% mark can be “celebrated”. Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
September 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
The gap between the rich and the poor in the US only keeps growing. The top 10 per cent of society are now responsible for 49.2% of consumer spending. Soon the 50% mark can be “celebrated”. Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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So Mandelson’s close and deep relationship with Epstein gets him sacked while Trump’s close and deep relationship with Epstein gets him the rare honour of a second State visit to Britain?
September 12, 2025 at 7:43 AM
So Mandelson’s close and deep relationship with Epstein gets him sacked while Trump’s close and deep relationship with Epstein gets him the rare honour of a second State visit to Britain?
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There is nothing that highlights more strikingly how pathetically far the United States has fallen than that its president imposes a dress code on a hero who is fighting against a despotic aggressor for the very existence of his own country.
Trump is not fit to lace Zelensky’s boots.
Trump is not fit to lace Zelensky’s boots.
It’s absurd that the White House cares more about whether Zelensky will suit up than the toddlers and teenagers Putin killed a few hours ago in Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia. But if he does wear a suit… make it a tan one.
August 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
There is nothing that highlights more strikingly how pathetically far the United States has fallen than that its president imposes a dress code on a hero who is fighting against a despotic aggressor for the very existence of his own country.
Trump is not fit to lace Zelensky’s boots.
Trump is not fit to lace Zelensky’s boots.
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"About five minutes later, the arresting officer approached him again. “He said: ‘I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news.’ I said: ‘What’s the good news?’ He said: ‘I’m de-arresting you.’
“And I said: ‘What’s the bad news?’ He said: ‘It’s going to be really embarrassing for me.’"
“And I said: ‘What’s the bad news?’ He said: ‘It’s going to be really embarrassing for me.’"
great story from @robynvinter.bsky.social and @benquinn75.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Protester arrested over ‘Plasticine Action’ T-shirt: ‘How ridiculous is this?’
Miles Pickering says crowd at protest over Palestine Action ban was laughing at ‘silliness’ of scene as he was detained
www.theguardian.com
August 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"About five minutes later, the arresting officer approached him again. “He said: ‘I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news.’ I said: ‘What’s the good news?’ He said: ‘I’m de-arresting you.’
“And I said: ‘What’s the bad news?’ He said: ‘It’s going to be really embarrassing for me.’"
“And I said: ‘What’s the bad news?’ He said: ‘It’s going to be really embarrassing for me.’"
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The Labour Party is currently:
– Providing intelligence and material support to a right-wing religious ethnostate carrying out a genocide
– Arresting pensioners for holding signs
– Legally classifying a significant portion the public as terrorists
– Attempting to ban trans people from public life
– Providing intelligence and material support to a right-wing religious ethnostate carrying out a genocide
– Arresting pensioners for holding signs
– Legally classifying a significant portion the public as terrorists
– Attempting to ban trans people from public life
You’re saying Labour is a far right party. I’m saying Labour isn’t a far right party. One of us is spouting utter nonsense and I’m afraid it’s you.
August 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The Labour Party is currently:
– Providing intelligence and material support to a right-wing religious ethnostate carrying out a genocide
– Arresting pensioners for holding signs
– Legally classifying a significant portion the public as terrorists
– Attempting to ban trans people from public life
– Providing intelligence and material support to a right-wing religious ethnostate carrying out a genocide
– Arresting pensioners for holding signs
– Legally classifying a significant portion the public as terrorists
– Attempting to ban trans people from public life
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EJ Antoni has never worked in statistics collection. He is 5 years out of his PhD. He's only ever written one economics paper. His explicit, only qualifications are that he works in ultra-conservative think tanks & believes Trump's conspiracies about the BLS. Grim stuff.
Donald Trump named EJ Antoni, chief economist of the conservative Heritage Foundation, to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Trump Names Heritage’s EJ Antoni to Lead Bureau of Labor Statistics
President Donald Trump named EJ Antoni, chief economist of the conservative Heritage Foundation, to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics after firing the former head of the agency earlier this month.
bloom.bg
August 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
EJ Antoni has never worked in statistics collection. He is 5 years out of his PhD. He's only ever written one economics paper. His explicit, only qualifications are that he works in ultra-conservative think tanks & believes Trump's conspiracies about the BLS. Grim stuff.
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A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
July 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
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We're in a parallel universe where P. Morgan is asking the tough questions...
July 18, 2025 at 7:03 AM
We're in a parallel universe where P. Morgan is asking the tough questions...
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Italy court sends 11 executives at a chemical plant to jail terms of up to 17 years for polluting water, a total of more than 141 years.
Puts UK to shame.
UK buries corporate crimes - water, Post Office, Grenfell, infected blood, bank frauds.
Govts/Regulators serve corporations, not people.
Puts UK to shame.
UK buries corporate crimes - water, Post Office, Grenfell, infected blood, bank frauds.
Govts/Regulators serve corporations, not people.
Italy chemical plant execs jailed for pollution
An Italian court on Thursday sentenced executives at a chemical plant to jail terms of up to 17 years for polluting water used by hundreds of thousands of people with PFAS, or "forever chemicals".
www.france24.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Italy court sends 11 executives at a chemical plant to jail terms of up to 17 years for polluting water, a total of more than 141 years.
Puts UK to shame.
UK buries corporate crimes - water, Post Office, Grenfell, infected blood, bank frauds.
Govts/Regulators serve corporations, not people.
Puts UK to shame.
UK buries corporate crimes - water, Post Office, Grenfell, infected blood, bank frauds.
Govts/Regulators serve corporations, not people.
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"Corbynism has twice demonstrated it has more popular appeal than Starmerism at its height, and so there is a constituency for the taking."
Zack Polanski's Green-Left Populism
Zack Polanski's announcement that he's standing for the leadership of the Green Party has set the hares racing. Over the last couple of day...
averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com
May 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
"Corbynism has twice demonstrated it has more popular appeal than Starmerism at its height, and so there is a constituency for the taking."
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@jefftimmer.bsky.social: "It is actually quite an accomplishment to have lived nearly 80 years without gaining so much as even the slightest kernel of knowledge about anything and everything known to mankind."
Trump: "We were losing a trillion dollars a year on trade. Now we're not losing anything, you know? That's just the way I look at it.”
ht: @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social
ht: @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
@jefftimmer.bsky.social: "It is actually quite an accomplishment to have lived nearly 80 years without gaining so much as even the slightest kernel of knowledge about anything and everything known to mankind."
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V good letter in The Guardian on Labour’s flailing hopelessness in the face of Reform.
Come on, Labour. The country is crying out for better. We’re sick of this ugly rightwing agenda. It brings nothing but failure.
It’s disloyal to your voters and to the country. You’ve got power and time. Use them.
Come on, Labour. The country is crying out for better. We’re sick of this ugly rightwing agenda. It brings nothing but failure.
It’s disloyal to your voters and to the country. You’ve got power and time. Use them.
May 6, 2025 at 6:32 AM
V good letter in The Guardian on Labour’s flailing hopelessness in the face of Reform.
Come on, Labour. The country is crying out for better. We’re sick of this ugly rightwing agenda. It brings nothing but failure.
It’s disloyal to your voters and to the country. You’ve got power and time. Use them.
Come on, Labour. The country is crying out for better. We’re sick of this ugly rightwing agenda. It brings nothing but failure.
It’s disloyal to your voters and to the country. You’ve got power and time. Use them.
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Last month I did a little experiment.
I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.
The results were...interesting...
[Thread]
I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.
The results were...interesting...
[Thread]
March 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Last month I did a little experiment.
I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.
The results were...interesting...
[Thread]
I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.
The results were...interesting...
[Thread]
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Reminder for those Americans hating on Ukraine: Ukraine gave up their nuclear warheads in 1994 after signing a deal with America that guaranteed their security. America has fucked Ukraine over twice.
March 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Reminder for those Americans hating on Ukraine: Ukraine gave up their nuclear warheads in 1994 after signing a deal with America that guaranteed their security. America has fucked Ukraine over twice.