Marton Caffeine 🏴🇪🇺
@martoncaffeine.bsky.social
IT professional in Cymru, Geography PhD, feminist, Europhile, and bit of a nerd.
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"If Amazon is taxing merchants 45-51 cents on every dollar they make, and if merchants are hiking their prices everywhere their goods are sold, then it follows you’re paying the Amazon tax no matter where you shop"
#corydoctorow #enshittification #amazon
"If Amazon is taxing merchants 45-51 cents on every dollar they make, and if merchants are hiking their prices everywhere their goods are sold, then it follows you’re paying the Amazon tax no matter where you shop"
#corydoctorow #enshittification #amazon
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...
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October 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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"If Amazon is taxing merchants 45-51 cents on every dollar they make, and if merchants are hiking their prices everywhere their goods are sold, then it follows you’re paying the Amazon tax no matter where you shop"
#corydoctorow #enshittification #amazon
"If Amazon is taxing merchants 45-51 cents on every dollar they make, and if merchants are hiking their prices everywhere their goods are sold, then it follows you’re paying the Amazon tax no matter where you shop"
#corydoctorow #enshittification #amazon
The BBC had literally been taking the piss out of ordinary folk for decades
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BBC Archive 1981: People try
That’s Life took to the streets, armed with a cornucopia of “exotic” flavoured crisps.
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August 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The BBC had literally been taking the piss out of ordinary folk for decades
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Frugal Tech is about recognising our own creativity and power, and taking it back
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Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world | Eleanor Drage
Titans like Musk would love us to believe innovation means top-down solutions that only enrich the wealthy. In fact, we all have the power, says Eleanor Drage, research fellow at Cambridge University
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August 3, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Frugal Tech is about recognising our own creativity and power, and taking it back
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Hey @jasperjolly.bsky.social home charging isn't VAT free, VAT is charged at 5%
Hey @jasperjolly.bsky.social home charging isn't VAT free, VAT is charged at 5%
English councils urged to install pavement gullies for home charging of electric cars
Scheme aims to stop cables trailing across pavements and encourage drivers to switch to electric vehicles
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July 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Hey @jasperjolly.bsky.social home charging isn't VAT free, VAT is charged at 5%
Hey @jasperjolly.bsky.social home charging isn't VAT free, VAT is charged at 5%
8 traversals of this holding pattern now for this flight inbound from New York. How busy can the Nuuk airport runway be?
July 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
8 traversals of this holding pattern now for this flight inbound from New York. How busy can the Nuuk airport runway be?
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July 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Be more French
Eating fine cheese is also part of that.
Eating fine cheese is also part of that.
July 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Be more French
Eating fine cheese is also part of that.
Eating fine cheese is also part of that.
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"Imagine you and 12 mates are going out ... [9 of you] want coffee but can’t quite agree on which specific one... [T]he remaining four want to go out to get battered on Special Brew.... Under first-past-the-post,.. you are all condemned to go out on the piss."
"Imagine you and 12 mates are going out ... [9 of you] want coffee but can’t quite agree on which specific one... [T]he remaining four want to go out to get battered on Special Brew.... Under first-past-the-post,.. you are all condemned to go out on the piss."
Here is the single thing Labour can do to see off Reform and make British politics work | Will Hayward
Farage’s party could win 42% of Commons seats with only 26% of the vote. That’s not the way civilised countries do democracy, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward
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June 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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"Imagine you and 12 mates are going out ... [9 of you] want coffee but can’t quite agree on which specific one... [T]he remaining four want to go out to get battered on Special Brew.... Under first-past-the-post,.. you are all condemned to go out on the piss."
"Imagine you and 12 mates are going out ... [9 of you] want coffee but can’t quite agree on which specific one... [T]he remaining four want to go out to get battered on Special Brew.... Under first-past-the-post,.. you are all condemned to go out on the piss."
Fuck Israel
June 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Fuck Israel
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My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:
June 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:
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See that red circle?
That's the whole of the city of LA "burning" under siege by "extreme left wing insurrectionists", right there.
Of course he had to send in the troops.
That's the whole of the city of LA "burning" under siege by "extreme left wing insurrectionists", right there.
Of course he had to send in the troops.
June 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
See that red circle?
That's the whole of the city of LA "burning" under siege by "extreme left wing insurrectionists", right there.
Of course he had to send in the troops.
That's the whole of the city of LA "burning" under siege by "extreme left wing insurrectionists", right there.
Of course he had to send in the troops.
"What I'm trying to engage with here, is your untapped potential to think a little bit." -unknown, Fargo.
May 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"What I'm trying to engage with here, is your untapped potential to think a little bit." -unknown, Fargo.
In case anyone was wondering, yes, there is a town in Pennsylvania called Intercourse.
May 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
In case anyone was wondering, yes, there is a town in Pennsylvania called Intercourse.
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Some of the nicknames currently being used on Social Media about "you know who".
"I've made America respected again!"
Sure. Fine. Whatever.
"I've made America respected again!"
Sure. Fine. Whatever.
May 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Some of the nicknames currently being used on Social Media about "you know who".
"I've made America respected again!"
Sure. Fine. Whatever.
"I've made America respected again!"
Sure. Fine. Whatever.
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Latest Guardian column:
Owners of second homes in Wales are having to sell up. That’s no disaster: it’s a godsend | Will Hayward
Owners of second homes in Wales are having to sell up. That’s no disaster: it’s a godsend | Will Hayward
Council tax hikes on holiday homes aren’t ‘anti-English’ or detrimental to tourism. This is about preserving embattled communities, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward
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May 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Latest Guardian column:
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I suspect I wouldn't get along with these guys and concur with the "mindless, moronic" charge, but a lengthy custodial sentence for essentially cutting down a tree? Seriously? Put them to work, they have a debt to pay, but don't lock them up.
I suspect I wouldn't get along with these guys and concur with the "mindless, moronic" charge, but a lengthy custodial sentence for essentially cutting down a tree? Seriously? Put them to work, they have a debt to pay, but don't lock them up.
Two men found guilty of ‘mindless, moronic’ felling of Sycamore Gap tree
Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, found to have criminally damaged tree and Hadrian’s Wall
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May 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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I suspect I wouldn't get along with these guys and concur with the "mindless, moronic" charge, but a lengthy custodial sentence for essentially cutting down a tree? Seriously? Put them to work, they have a debt to pay, but don't lock them up.
I suspect I wouldn't get along with these guys and concur with the "mindless, moronic" charge, but a lengthy custodial sentence for essentially cutting down a tree? Seriously? Put them to work, they have a debt to pay, but don't lock them up.
Make America Papal Again
May 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Make America Papal Again
This week marks the 15th anniversary of the tragic survival of Nigel Farage, when the light aircraft he was travelling in crashed into a field. A minute's silence will be observed tomorrow morning for anyone wishing to reflect on the impact on all of us of that terrible event 15 years ago.
May 5, 2025 at 7:23 AM
This week marks the 15th anniversary of the tragic survival of Nigel Farage, when the light aircraft he was travelling in crashed into a field. A minute's silence will be observed tomorrow morning for anyone wishing to reflect on the impact on all of us of that terrible event 15 years ago.
Llanerchaeron today
March 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Llanerchaeron today
Once again, BST just stole an hour, and will hold it hostage until October, when nobody will want it back.
March 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Once again, BST just stole an hour, and will hold it hostage until October, when nobody will want it back.
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Put your fkn foot in it man. Oh, you did. Ok, put something bigger in it then. Jesus. Idiocy is a prerequisite of the senior positions, isn't it?
Put your fkn foot in it man. Oh, you did. Ok, put something bigger in it then. Jesus. Idiocy is a prerequisite of the senior positions, isn't it?
Justin Welby: Former Archbishop of Canterbury forgives serial abuser John Smyth
In his first interview since resigning, the former Archbishop of Canterbury reflects on the scandal which led him to quit.
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March 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Put your fkn foot in it man. Oh, you did. Ok, put something bigger in it then. Jesus. Idiocy is a prerequisite of the senior positions, isn't it?
Put your fkn foot in it man. Oh, you did. Ok, put something bigger in it then. Jesus. Idiocy is a prerequisite of the senior positions, isn't it?
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New interview! On our current political crises, how we got here, and my new book, THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2l4...
She Predicted It All 10 Years Ago!! The Last American Road Trip, Sarah Kendzior
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
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March 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
New interview! On our current political crises, how we got here, and my new book, THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2l4...