Macronin
@macronin1.bsky.social
Risk taker not influencer. Not advice. HF guy and a *gulp* fintech founder. Some clown got to macronin first. Elbows up.
Pinned
Their views of you literally ain’t worth shit. Like zero. Their comments should be ablated from your timeline, not passed on. Give them zero memory, which is what they deserve.
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Their views of you literally ain’t worth shit. Like zero. Their comments should be ablated from your timeline, not passed on. Give them zero memory, which is what they deserve.
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Continuing his exploration into what Reform might be do as a national government, Sam looks into the difficulties already faced in local government. He also points out the challenge any party faces when options are so constrained. (£/free trial). samf.substack.com/p/the-realit...
The Reality Trap
Reform's struggles in local government
samf.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Continuing his exploration into what Reform might be do as a national government, Sam looks into the difficulties already faced in local government. He also points out the challenge any party faces when options are so constrained. (£/free trial). samf.substack.com/p/the-realit...
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New post just out:
"The Reality Trap"
On Reform's struggles running councils.
What it tells us about how they'd fare if they won a general elections. And about how broken our system of local government is.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The Reality Trap"
On Reform's struggles running councils.
What it tells us about how they'd fare if they won a general elections. And about how broken our system of local government is.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
The Reality Trap
Reform's struggles in local government
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
New post just out:
"The Reality Trap"
On Reform's struggles running councils.
What it tells us about how they'd fare if they won a general elections. And about how broken our system of local government is.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The Reality Trap"
On Reform's struggles running councils.
What it tells us about how they'd fare if they won a general elections. And about how broken our system of local government is.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
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No! Come back! There's more!
We just revamped it so it's faster, more minimal and easier to use.
(Website reform turns out to be easier than tax reform)
taxpolicy.org.uk
We just revamped it so it's faster, more minimal and easier to use.
(Website reform turns out to be easier than tax reform)
taxpolicy.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:32 AM
No! Come back! There's more!
We just revamped it so it's faster, more minimal and easier to use.
(Website reform turns out to be easier than tax reform)
taxpolicy.org.uk
We just revamped it so it's faster, more minimal and easier to use.
(Website reform turns out to be easier than tax reform)
taxpolicy.org.uk
@rajakorman.bsky.social as a follow up to the French discussion, to the extent this is of interest, an output from a Gemini prompt:
November 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM
@rajakorman.bsky.social as a follow up to the French discussion, to the extent this is of interest, an output from a Gemini prompt:
Need to stop talking about “Bayesian Inference” and “Entropy” around the house. The family is starting to lose it.
November 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Need to stop talking about “Bayesian Inference” and “Entropy” around the house. The family is starting to lose it.
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With the US government absent from the COP30 global climate summit, it will be up to others to take action on climate change. Nature reports what can be done. 🧪
How to fight climate change without the US: a guide to global action
With the US government absent from the COP30 global climate summit, it will be up to others to avert catastrophe.
go.nature.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:29 AM
With the US government absent from the COP30 global climate summit, it will be up to others to take action on climate change. Nature reports what can be done. 🧪
Younger daughter really enjoyed Freakonomics. Any suggestions for a similar grabby book to keep the momentum for her?
November 15, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Younger daughter really enjoyed Freakonomics. Any suggestions for a similar grabby book to keep the momentum for her?
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It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.
Got a groan-laugh.
When your kid asks how they make beer, just tell them that they put root beer in a square cup.
November 14, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Got a groan-laugh.
Oh boy. That’s an actual adult. Like. A Beatles album when I graduated high school…
November 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Oh boy. That’s an actual adult. Like. A Beatles album when I graduated high school…
Fascinating. If the parliamentary party places a left-wing analog who is as economically illiterate as Liz Truss (there are many) as PM, look out below for the UK economy and prosperity. The good news, getting a house will be cheaper. The bad news, no one will be willing or able to pay for them.
Always interesting when conventions start to get bent. (Where I don't take a purist moralist view is that there is a perfectly reasonable use for these journalistic conventions, similar to the Chatham House Rule)
November 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Fascinating. If the parliamentary party places a left-wing analog who is as economically illiterate as Liz Truss (there are many) as PM, look out below for the UK economy and prosperity. The good news, getting a house will be cheaper. The bad news, no one will be willing or able to pay for them.
It’s Chinatown?
A friend of mine said like 40 years ago that the twist that makes Chinatown a great film is that the revelation that the plot is driven not by money but by perversion.
November 13, 2025 at 7:33 AM
It’s Chinatown?
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A friend of mine said like 40 years ago that the twist that makes Chinatown a great film is that the revelation that the plot is driven not by money but by perversion.
November 13, 2025 at 1:22 AM
A friend of mine said like 40 years ago that the twist that makes Chinatown a great film is that the revelation that the plot is driven not by money but by perversion.
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The Economist is looking for a China Researcher/News Assistant in Taiwan. This is a great opportunity for a Mandarin-speaking journalist seeking to hone their skills with one of the best China teams in the business. Details are in the link. www.telummedia.com/jobs/view/ta...
China Researcher / News Assistant
The Economist is looking for a Researcher / News Assistant in Taipei. The successful candidate will work with our correspondents in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mainland China and across the world, as we cover ...
www.telummedia.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
The Economist is looking for a China Researcher/News Assistant in Taiwan. This is a great opportunity for a Mandarin-speaking journalist seeking to hone their skills with one of the best China teams in the business. Details are in the link. www.telummedia.com/jobs/view/ta...
To those that served: Thank you for your service, your sacrifice, and your pain. #lestweforget
November 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
To those that served: Thank you for your service, your sacrifice, and your pain. #lestweforget
Amazing opportunity if you are in the area!
For anyone in Oxford, I am speaking to the Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre (SST-CCW) at All Soul's today at 1.30pm, on the topic of how we can best make sense of US foreign & defence policy.
www.ccw.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...
www.ccw.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...
Reflections on American foreign and defence policy by Shashank Joshi — The Changing Character of War Centre
Tuesday 11 November, 13.30 Old Library, All Souls
www.ccw.ox.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Amazing opportunity if you are in the area!
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Inchoate personal remembrances. Iraq then and now. The weight of history.
At the Going Down of the Sun and in the Morning
Personal Remembrances
crackingdefence.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Inchoate personal remembrances. Iraq then and now. The weight of history.
Just a note... the income tax burden for the median earner in the UK is the lowest it has been in 50 years.
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Just a note... the income tax burden for the median earner in the UK is the lowest it has been in 50 years.
This is also an important article.
Opinion: With the Budget due this month, the debate has focused on how UK chancellor Rachel Reeves can restore the headroom against her fiscal targets that she thought she had secured last year. That is not unimportant. But other areas of policy are just as important. on.ft.com/4nMTcnq
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This is also an important article.
This folks, is how productivity growth should be defined.
Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
This folks, is how productivity growth should be defined.
Correct take.
Stephen really does have the best take on this. It’s not clear that the BBC Board or indeed the rest of the News team really understood the message of the previous reviews, which were about getting detail right. Instead they wanted to know what was ‘biased’ or not like they were blotting out stains.
The impossible dream some people on the British right are chasing is that you can have a BBC News operation that retreats from detail and expertise, that takes dictation from the government, but this will only create incompetence and failure when it suits you:
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Correct take.
Totally disagree. There are truth in her arguments, even if people don't want to hear it. She may hang out with fash for the lolz, but her points remain. The bitchiness here almost sounds like envy.
Jemima “I hang out with fash for the lolz” Kelly?
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Totally disagree. There are truth in her arguments, even if people don't want to hear it. She may hang out with fash for the lolz, but her points remain. The bitchiness here almost sounds like envy.
www.ft.com/content/eb0c...
This is one of the most important op-ed pieces the FT has released this year. It is about fairness, financial sustainability, and having a system that works. Nearly 1/4 of the UK's working age population is now defined as disabled by the gov't. Insanity.
This is one of the most important op-ed pieces the FT has released this year. It is about fairness, financial sustainability, and having a system that works. Nearly 1/4 of the UK's working age population is now defined as disabled by the gov't. Insanity.
It’s time to stop passing the parcel on welfare
A lack of political will has turned the problem of too many out of work into a system that fails everyone
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
www.ft.com/content/eb0c...
This is one of the most important op-ed pieces the FT has released this year. It is about fairness, financial sustainability, and having a system that works. Nearly 1/4 of the UK's working age population is now defined as disabled by the gov't. Insanity.
This is one of the most important op-ed pieces the FT has released this year. It is about fairness, financial sustainability, and having a system that works. Nearly 1/4 of the UK's working age population is now defined as disabled by the gov't. Insanity.
Think of how much Americans are paying for worse health outcomes than the bottom quartile of Italians. The premiums likely equal the earnings of those Italians. That is not productivity growth. It is madness. It also distorts the GDP figures.
demand shock incoming
I asked my subscribers to send me their new ACA premium quotes. OH MY GOD. Republicans are sending us into a full on healthcare crisis. You’ve got to see this.
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Think of how much Americans are paying for worse health outcomes than the bottom quartile of Italians. The premiums likely equal the earnings of those Italians. That is not productivity growth. It is madness. It also distorts the GDP figures.