Harry Williams
harryjwiliams.bsky.social
Harry Williams
@harryjwiliams.bsky.social
Believer in Spring.

“All the important questions of the world have been settled, all but the eel question”
Reposted by Harry Williams
"An unelected individual, whose sole qualification is spending about $44.2 billion on the last election...is making wildly illegal budget, staffing, & policy decisions [and] stacking federal agencies with his cronies who are all doing Watergate-grade crimes about 300 times/day" -@ryanlcooper.com
Elon Musk, General Secretary of DOGE
The richest man on Earth is setting himself up as dictator of the United States.
prospect.org
February 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Have long suspected there is a hidden sexual assault epidemic burgeoning beneath the rise of the dating app machine.

That Match Group - basically a monopoly on internet dating - largely abandoned its safety duties in favour of growth and profit is despicable www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Rape under wraps: how Tinder, Hinge and their corporate owner chose profits over safety
Match Group has known for years about abusive users on its dozen dating apps, but leaves millions of people in the dark
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Yeah, I mean he wasn't going to hand Trump $300m without some guarantee of a return on investment.

Musk's empire was built on taking US tax-payer's cash - and that was before he got parachuted into the Oval Office
Elon Musk now holds huge sway over the world's most powerful leader — and the US government. Here is how his companies stand to fare in Donald Trump’s administration. www.ft.com/content/7892...
February 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Shocking but unsurprising to see landlords taking full advantage of the last days of S21.

Once outlawed, expect a surge in illegal evictions to follow.

Govt thinking needs to be on how to prevent this, because those at the bottom end of the market will suffer most
www.bigissue.com/news/housing...
Surge in renters losing their homes due to no-fault evictions ahead of ban
More than 11,000 households lost their home to a section 21 'no-fault' eviction in 2024, government statistics show.
www.bigissue.com
February 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Maybe the FT can better it
February 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Not sure anything better captures the economic zeitgeist quite like today's LinkedIn top news stories.

These are signals, clear as day: a big financial crash is coming
February 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM