Gary
@garyduffynl.bsky.social
Has something changed here, the font size it chooses on my phone is tiny! I'm now forever 'stretching 'and moving around the screen
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Has something changed here, the font size it chooses on my phone is tiny! I'm now forever 'stretching 'and moving around the screen
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Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
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A curious approach from people who don't like the concept of immigration
October 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A curious approach from people who don't like the concept of immigration
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How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
October 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
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“He has been killed for saying things that used to be simple common sense. He has been killed because he had the courage to stand up publicly for reasonable opinions held by millions and millions of ordinary people both in the US and Britain.”
- Boris Johnson
- Boris Johnson
“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”.
-Charlie Kirk
-Charlie Kirk
September 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
“He has been killed for saying things that used to be simple common sense. He has been killed because he had the courage to stand up publicly for reasonable opinions held by millions and millions of ordinary people both in the US and Britain.”
- Boris Johnson
- Boris Johnson
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This is the second in a series of posts I am writing on how to think about economics using some of the ideas in quantum physics, seeking parallels to aid understanding. Links to the foundation articles are in the post. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...
Quantum economics, part 2: Money as Particle and Flow
This post continues the story of quantum economics, which began here. That post provides important background information on how this series developed and was drafted. There is a summary of posts to d...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
September 8, 2025 at 6:28 AM
This is the second in a series of posts I am writing on how to think about economics using some of the ideas in quantum physics, seeking parallels to aid understanding. Links to the foundation articles are in the post. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09...
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No, Carswell and others like him haven’t been ‘radicalised’. They’ve always thought like this. The only thing that has changed is that they now realise they can get away with saying it out loud.
August 31, 2025 at 8:54 PM
No, Carswell and others like him haven’t been ‘radicalised’. They’ve always thought like this. The only thing that has changed is that they now realise they can get away with saying it out loud.
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Remains a source of genuine astonishment to me that governments are deemed recurrently failing in so many countries and there's no apparent systemic analysis.
August 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Remains a source of genuine astonishment to me that governments are deemed recurrently failing in so many countries and there's no apparent systemic analysis.
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I sort of want to write about this but I'm not sure how, but essentially: a lot of policy making has to take into account the fact that a lot of people are quite to very stupid, and that's fine, it's just not usually spoken about, but it's something we need to take into account wrt AI
This is why i think "It's not intelligent, it's just generating words" criticism sometimes misses the point. I mean, have you seen how much damage words can do?!
a huge part of the problem with AI and delusional spirals at the moment is that the "AI safety" people were busy with their own fantasies of Skynet, AGI, and paperclip maximization being the danger and seem to have done zero due diligence on the *actual* risk factors of the product.
August 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I sort of want to write about this but I'm not sure how, but essentially: a lot of policy making has to take into account the fact that a lot of people are quite to very stupid, and that's fine, it's just not usually spoken about, but it's something we need to take into account wrt AI
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Call me old fashioned, but I think it might be best if the news media went back to reporting things that have happened, if significant, rather than reporting on the 8am news that something significant *might* happen later that day, then finding what actually happens is not really that significant.
August 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Call me old fashioned, but I think it might be best if the news media went back to reporting things that have happened, if significant, rather than reporting on the 8am news that something significant *might* happen later that day, then finding what actually happens is not really that significant.
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fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you
August 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you
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Got to be. Surely !!
August 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Got to be. Surely !!
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Strangely they haven’t mentioned his ethnicity or immigration status. Ah yes, we only do that when we want to inspire a far right riot.
Ex-priest found guilty of 17 indecent assaults www.bbc.com/news/article...
I’m sure angry young white patriots will be assembling around churches right…now!
I’m sure angry young white patriots will be assembling around churches right…now!
Ex-priest Chris Brain found guilty of 17 indecent assaults
Chris Brain led a Sheffield-based religious movement in the 1980s and 1990s.
www.bbc.com
August 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Strangely they haven’t mentioned his ethnicity or immigration status. Ah yes, we only do that when we want to inspire a far right riot.
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And every year they crown the "Tax King" and the "Tax Queen", i.e. the man and woman that paid the most taxes in Iceland that year.
August 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
And every year they crown the "Tax King" and the "Tax Queen", i.e. the man and woman that paid the most taxes in Iceland that year.
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A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells. For the first time, islet cells have been edited so they wouldn't be rejected by the patient, removing the need for immunosuppressant drugs.
www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its...
www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its...
First-Of-Its-Kind Cell Transplant Brings a Cure For Diabetes Closer
A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells.
www.sciencealert.com
August 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells. For the first time, islet cells have been edited so they wouldn't be rejected by the patient, removing the need for immunosuppressant drugs.
www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its...
www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its...
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If you are upset about DC‘s crime rate while voting for a felon, you are a special kind of stupid.
August 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
If you are upset about DC‘s crime rate while voting for a felon, you are a special kind of stupid.
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If going to space for 3 minutes makes you an astronaut then my last boyfriend was a gynecologist.
August 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
If going to space for 3 minutes makes you an astronaut then my last boyfriend was a gynecologist.
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Displaced Palestinians return to refugee camp Jabalia, bombed by Israel, in northern Gaza, during a ceasefire, 19 January 2025.
By Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP in
www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/d...
By Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP in
www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/d...
August 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Displaced Palestinians return to refugee camp Jabalia, bombed by Israel, in northern Gaza, during a ceasefire, 19 January 2025.
By Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP in
www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/d...
By Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP in
www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/d...
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Amazed it took 40 years to reach this conclusion. It was obvious in the 80s, if you bothered to look.
Thatcher used the working-classes' own money to bribe them into voting to destroy their futures, and the Tories have been worshipping her for it ever since.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Thatcher used the working-classes' own money to bribe them into voting to destroy their futures, and the Tories have been worshipping her for it ever since.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Right to buy in England ‘fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers £200bn’
Common Wealth report calls discounted sales of council homes one of the ‘largest giveaways in UK history’
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Amazed it took 40 years to reach this conclusion. It was obvious in the 80s, if you bothered to look.
Thatcher used the working-classes' own money to bribe them into voting to destroy their futures, and the Tories have been worshipping her for it ever since.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Thatcher used the working-classes' own money to bribe them into voting to destroy their futures, and the Tories have been worshipping her for it ever since.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Nature’s masterpiece! Behold the beautiful Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
July 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Nature’s masterpiece! Behold the beautiful Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
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Members of the public applauded the 8 brave people arrested on the steps of Truro Cathedral yesterday for the "crime" of holding signs saying: I OPPOSE GENOCIDE. I SUPPORT PALESTINE ACTION.
These protesters are not terrorists. They are the best of us.
These protesters are not terrorists. They are the best of us.
July 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Members of the public applauded the 8 brave people arrested on the steps of Truro Cathedral yesterday for the "crime" of holding signs saying: I OPPOSE GENOCIDE. I SUPPORT PALESTINE ACTION.
These protesters are not terrorists. They are the best of us.
These protesters are not terrorists. They are the best of us.
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They've managed to criminalise legitimate protest and undermine anti-terror laws in one move. They should be goddamned ashamed of themselves.
July 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
They've managed to criminalise legitimate protest and undermine anti-terror laws in one move. They should be goddamned ashamed of themselves.
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What the latest Trump tariff shenanigans should remind us is that the top priority should be disentangling ourselves from
dependence on the U.S.
dependence on the U.S.
July 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
What the latest Trump tariff shenanigans should remind us is that the top priority should be disentangling ourselves from
dependence on the U.S.
dependence on the U.S.
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It would be good @mrjamesob.bsky.social if you could have a spokeperson from the DWP on your show to answer questions from your listeners. Particularly some of the brilliant as usual calls you had this morning. Do you think it could be arranged.
June 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It would be good @mrjamesob.bsky.social if you could have a spokeperson from the DWP on your show to answer questions from your listeners. Particularly some of the brilliant as usual calls you had this morning. Do you think it could be arranged.
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Who would have guessed that someone for whom all business and legal negotiation is based on bluff and bluster would have had nothing other than bluff and bluster in international affairs.
June 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Who would have guessed that someone for whom all business and legal negotiation is based on bluff and bluster would have had nothing other than bluff and bluster in international affairs.