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Qualified ACA. More recently, Data Consultant (SQL, Excel, PowerQuery, Python, R, Modelling, ETL, Machine Learning), mainly in Financial Services. Guitar, Piano. Colchester United FC. Occasional runner. Pun-tastic
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Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
BOSTON—Stressing that the move would help keep digital currencies liquid through the coming year, crypto leaders called for an infusion of 20 million dopes Thursday to stabilize the market. “We’re cal...
theonion.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
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Given there is an entire information-economy between politicians, advisers, officials and the media of intentional pre-Budget leaks, it is telling that the only resignation is when someone leaks it unintentionally.
December 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Given there is an entire information-economy between politicians, advisers, officials and the media of intentional pre-Budget leaks, it is telling that the only resignation is when someone leaks it unintentionally.
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Verdict: 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
December 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Verdict: 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
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Is Richard Hughes 'honourable'? Not a clue. But what I do know is time and time again, someone in the British state fucks up, the head of the organisation quits, and the person who actually fucked up stays in the state and gets promoted.
December 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Is Richard Hughes 'honourable'? Not a clue. But what I do know is time and time again, someone in the British state fucks up, the head of the organisation quits, and the person who actually fucked up stays in the state and gets promoted.
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Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
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“Does anyone care about the rules anymore?”
“INDIANA REPUBLICAN Sen. Greg Walker turned down an invitation to the Oval Office, accuses the White House of violating federal law in its push to pressure Republicans to redraw IN’s congressional districts…” dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
“INDIANA REPUBLICAN Sen. Greg Walker turned down an invitation to the Oval Office, accuses the White House of violating federal law in its push to pressure Republicans to redraw IN’s congressional districts…” dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
November 30, 2025 at 3:22 AM
“Does anyone care about the rules anymore?”
“INDIANA REPUBLICAN Sen. Greg Walker turned down an invitation to the Oval Office, accuses the White House of violating federal law in its push to pressure Republicans to redraw IN’s congressional districts…” dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
“INDIANA REPUBLICAN Sen. Greg Walker turned down an invitation to the Oval Office, accuses the White House of violating federal law in its push to pressure Republicans to redraw IN’s congressional districts…” dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...
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I've been happily using Kagi as my search engine for a while now. The search results are so much less noisy!
If you'd like to try 3 months free, DM me. They're doing a holiday promo where users can share a longer free trial with friends.
If you'd like to try 3 months free, DM me. They're doing a holiday promo where users can share a longer free trial with friends.
November 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I've been happily using Kagi as my search engine for a while now. The search results are so much less noisy!
If you'd like to try 3 months free, DM me. They're doing a holiday promo where users can share a longer free trial with friends.
If you'd like to try 3 months free, DM me. They're doing a holiday promo where users can share a longer free trial with friends.
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Q4 & Q5: Farage’s ally Steve Bannon used Cambridge Analytica’s data machine alongside Russian troll farms to weaponise Brexit and Trump, while journalist Isabel Oakeshott privately warned editors that Banks appeared to be an “agent of influence” for Russia. 9/10 pdjukes.substack.com/p/how-online...
How Online Radicalisation Works: What the New X Study Reveals About Cambridge Analytica, the IRA, and the Dark Triad Machine
The debate is over. A major new experiment shows how effective Cambridge Analytica and Russian troll farms were in shifting political emotions with hostile, anti-democratic content online
pdjukes.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Q4 & Q5: Farage’s ally Steve Bannon used Cambridge Analytica’s data machine alongside Russian troll farms to weaponise Brexit and Trump, while journalist Isabel Oakeshott privately warned editors that Banks appeared to be an “agent of influence” for Russia. 9/10 pdjukes.substack.com/p/how-online...
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Marco Rubio knew the truth 9 years ago, but he sold his soul for power. Yet he was correct: He will one day have to explain his support for Trump, and this is not going to end well.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Marco Rubio knew the truth 9 years ago, but he sold his soul for power. Yet he was correct: He will one day have to explain his support for Trump, and this is not going to end well.
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Can’t remember budget ‘case studies’ ever being quite so funny. Especially in newspapers that recently anointed Liz Truss a fiscal genius.
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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November 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Can’t remember budget ‘case studies’ ever being quite so funny. Especially in newspapers that recently anointed Liz Truss a fiscal genius.
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1
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The average American household owes $10,000 in credit card debt, $58,957 in student loan debt, $241,840 in mortgage debt and $22,612 in auto loans according to a survey by PolicyGenius.
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The average American household owes $10,000 in credit card debt, $58,957 in student loan debt, $241,840 in mortgage debt and $22,612 in auto loans according to a survey by PolicyGenius.
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Two tankers from Russia’s shadow fleet were damaged in near-simultaneous Black Sea blasts. Bloomberg reports the Kairos caught fire after an explosion near the Bosphorus, while Reuters says the Virat was hit in a separate incident off Turkey’s coast.
A Gambia-flagged tanker heading to Novorossiysk mysteriously caught fire after "external impact" in the Black Sea, with Russian media carefully avoiding specifics about what exactly impacted it.
November 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Two tankers from Russia’s shadow fleet were damaged in near-simultaneous Black Sea blasts. Bloomberg reports the Kairos caught fire after an explosion near the Bosphorus, while Reuters says the Virat was hit in a separate incident off Turkey’s coast.
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Hagueseth
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hagueseth
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We need a Project 2029 that includes explicit plans for our own version of the Nuremberg Trials.
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
We need a Project 2029 that includes explicit plans for our own version of the Nuremberg Trials.
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AI generated content of any kind undermines the credibility of whatever is being communicated
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
AI generated content of any kind undermines the credibility of whatever is being communicated
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The BBC budget "analysis" consists mostly of voxpops by people complaining bitterly about Labour taxing too much and roughly an equal amount of people complaining bitterly about Labour spending too little.
November 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The BBC budget "analysis" consists mostly of voxpops by people complaining bitterly about Labour taxing too much and roughly an equal amount of people complaining bitterly about Labour spending too little.
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Q: Officials say the suspect in the DC shooting was vetted & it came up clean
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
November 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Q: Officials say the suspect in the DC shooting was vetted & it came up clean
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
TRUMP: He went cuckoo. He went nuts. There was no vetting
Q: Actually, your DOJ IG says there was thorough vetting of Afghans. So why blame Biden?
TRUMP: You're just asking questions because you're a stupid person
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Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
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New net migration figures at 930am.
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
New net migration figures at 930am.
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023
56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down
2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
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HEGSETH SAYS TRUMP HAS ASKED FOR 500 ADDITIONAL TROOPS TO BE DEPLOYED TO WASHINGTON, D.C., AFTER TWO NATIONAL GUARD WERE SHOT
November 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
HEGSETH SAYS TRUMP HAS ASKED FOR 500 ADDITIONAL TROOPS TO BE DEPLOYED TO WASHINGTON, D.C., AFTER TWO NATIONAL GUARD WERE SHOT
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"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...