Jon close
@joeyclose.bsky.social
Wealth editor and formerly credit guy at with intelligence.
Oh exactly, in the sense that an abstract approach is great for painting or a freestyle approach is fine to jazz (or swimming for reasons I'm not clear on).
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Oh exactly, in the sense that an abstract approach is great for painting or a freestyle approach is fine to jazz (or swimming for reasons I'm not clear on).
What are you planning to cook for dinner?
I'm literally not planning anything, it's a smorgasbord approach.
I'm literally not planning anything, it's a smorgasbord approach.
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
What are you planning to cook for dinner?
I'm literally not planning anything, it's a smorgasbord approach.
I'm literally not planning anything, it's a smorgasbord approach.
Also also, like most crime is fraud, also also also loads of it happens through his platform and he can't stop it there even when it's super obvious.
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Also also, like most crime is fraud, also also also loads of it happens through his platform and he can't stop it there even when it's super obvious.
Appart from all the other ways this is crazy. If it could somehow do that, why would it only do it after people have committed crimes and not all the time?
November 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Appart from all the other ways this is crazy. If it could somehow do that, why would it only do it after people have committed crimes and not all the time?
Absolutely incredible he saw that list of things and thought 'I've watched fifth element'
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Absolutely incredible he saw that list of things and thought 'I've watched fifth element'
This is my preference. Except, with him still in the kitchen, and we are in the pub.
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This is my preference. Except, with him still in the kitchen, and we are in the pub.
I want to agree, but OTOH my entire family has been trying to get my sister to leave her partner for like 20 years because he insists on always cooking and he is really really really bad.
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I want to agree, but OTOH my entire family has been trying to get my sister to leave her partner for like 20 years because he insists on always cooking and he is really really really bad.
sort of, but firstly, I'd argue it's the advertising, social media is the...medium. But also, it turns into a real thing where having the same lifestyle costs more, even if like-for-like goods cost less.
November 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
sort of, but firstly, I'd argue it's the advertising, social media is the...medium. But also, it turns into a real thing where having the same lifestyle costs more, even if like-for-like goods cost less.
I mean, buying a filter coffee out is getting harder as premium coffee places expand, and they lower their prices overall, that stops it showing up in averages, but the only people who have their regular coffee get cheaper are those who could already afford premium before.
November 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I mean, buying a filter coffee out is getting harder as premium coffee places expand, and they lower their prices overall, that stops it showing up in averages, but the only people who have their regular coffee get cheaper are those who could already afford premium before.
Oh yea, so I'm saying the reason people feel poorer/less equal is because advertising spending has risen 3x faster than consumption. (Not to mention new methods and the quasi/free advertising on social media) And got more efficient. People are buying more, but missing out on even more.
November 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Oh yea, so I'm saying the reason people feel poorer/less equal is because advertising spending has risen 3x faster than consumption. (Not to mention new methods and the quasi/free advertising on social media) And got more efficient. People are buying more, but missing out on even more.
And some of that pressure is real world stuff too. Like you need a phone with a data plan for everyday stuff now. And there's a premiumisation I think, for eg, you now have to put more effort in to find a cheap filter coffee than a frappe for lots of people in every day life.
November 9, 2025 at 6:54 AM
And some of that pressure is real world stuff too. Like you need a phone with a data plan for everyday stuff now. And there's a premiumisation I think, for eg, you now have to put more effort in to find a cheap filter coffee than a frappe for lots of people in every day life.
My hunch is that the societal pressure to consume more has gone up a lot. Advertising has revolutionised in our generation. And while smartphones are a drag on inflation, they've moved from a luxury to almost a necessity.
November 9, 2025 at 6:37 AM
My hunch is that the societal pressure to consume more has gone up a lot. Advertising has revolutionised in our generation. And while smartphones are a drag on inflation, they've moved from a luxury to almost a necessity.
Well, yea, but which human?
November 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Well, yea, but which human?
Wait. That looks suspiciously to me like some circulars. I have been shockingly misinformed about ancient navigation.
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Wait. That looks suspiciously to me like some circulars. I have been shockingly misinformed about ancient navigation.
Because bombs are notoriously long, and make a waffle sound? Impressive to confuse a metaphore twice like that in just three words.
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Because bombs are notoriously long, and make a waffle sound? Impressive to confuse a metaphore twice like that in just three words.
For a second there I thought this was next Tory leader.
I guess I'm dangerously out of touch with the issues in the UK. Better get strictly on.
I guess I'm dangerously out of touch with the issues in the UK. Better get strictly on.
November 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
For a second there I thought this was next Tory leader.
I guess I'm dangerously out of touch with the issues in the UK. Better get strictly on.
I guess I'm dangerously out of touch with the issues in the UK. Better get strictly on.
The irony is that self evidently the answer is yes, if as a commentator you're versed in school policy in one state as well as their broader national agenda.
November 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The irony is that self evidently the answer is yes, if as a commentator you're versed in school policy in one state as well as their broader national agenda.
I particularly love how desperate they always are for the entire left to be blindly following a leader, so they say about a different person every six weeks, which somewhat undermines the point.
October 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I particularly love how desperate they always are for the entire left to be blindly following a leader, so they say about a different person every six weeks, which somewhat undermines the point.
Don't forget coordinating with each other and central government to get their ethnicity quotas.
October 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Don't forget coordinating with each other and central government to get their ethnicity quotas.
I mean...okay, sure, if you're drunk in a Croatian tattoo parlour that just openly does Nazi tattoos, you might not have realized at the time. But as a man with suspect tattoos, I'd say being in that situation is strike one against public office, strike two would be never googling your own tattoo.
October 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I mean...okay, sure, if you're drunk in a Croatian tattoo parlour that just openly does Nazi tattoos, you might not have realized at the time. But as a man with suspect tattoos, I'd say being in that situation is strike one against public office, strike two would be never googling your own tattoo.