Space Yak
@spaceyak.bsky.social
Continuity Corbyn hipster analyst. He/him
Who is this for exactly? If I was a Democrat I'd focus on the second half, the shitty stuff Trump is doing now, I think I'd avoid talking about Biden's awful record on Gaza.
October 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Who is this for exactly? If I was a Democrat I'd focus on the second half, the shitty stuff Trump is doing now, I think I'd avoid talking about Biden's awful record on Gaza.
I just find it shocking how wrong and what ignorant he is here. Has he missed the last 17 years of discourse?
September 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I just find it shocking how wrong and what ignorant he is here. Has he missed the last 17 years of discourse?
There is only one true poster who "tends towards the controversial".....
September 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
There is only one true poster who "tends towards the controversial".....
Post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam
September 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam
In Soviet Russia....
![After 1957, the USSR built 2.2 million units every year. Due to the institution of basic housing rent,[3] rent only made up about 5% of a family's monthly budget,[4] although in Moscow, the average family only spent 3% of their budget on rent.[5]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k5a7cayoxmp33pzrisp7xasy/bafkreih3z5bu4bh3roikdwalhzj2egdgchq3rwi4mwtjwllfvuuj6qdxau@jpeg)
August 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
In Soviet Russia....
Not sure Turkey is that much of a cautionary tale, they may have experienced high inflation but GDP seems unaffected.
August 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Not sure Turkey is that much of a cautionary tale, they may have experienced high inflation but GDP seems unaffected.
Bad taste, but I felt I had to go here.
August 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Bad taste, but I felt I had to go here.
I've been far too kind to Lindsay Hoyle over the years,the guy should be in the Hague.
August 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I've been far too kind to Lindsay Hoyle over the years,the guy should be in the Hague.
Feel there's definitely something in the whole "politics as a calling" vs "politics as a job" and how we need to work to refuce the latter type of person.
August 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Feel there's definitely something in the whole "politics as a calling" vs "politics as a job" and how we need to work to refuce the latter type of person.
When I read stuff like this I often think "How much do I pay in taxes, and how much do I pay in housings costs bills etc" it's private sector rent seekers who need to trim the fat here.
July 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
When I read stuff like this I often think "How much do I pay in taxes, and how much do I pay in housings costs bills etc" it's private sector rent seekers who need to trim the fat here.
There's virtually no difference between the different regions here, it's also stuff like "Announced that over 1,000 more GPs will be recruited" which is a long way from"recruited" or even"funded"
July 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
There's virtually no difference between the different regions here, it's also stuff like "Announced that over 1,000 more GPs will be recruited" which is a long way from"recruited" or even"funded"
It's amazing that we refer to a period in which ordinary people did incredibly well as "financial repression"
![Here's the log of real median family income (I use a log so that equal proportional changes are equal in height) since 1947:
[Graph showing family incomes rising quickly until about 1975 after which they rise more slowly]
The first half of this figure is, according to Reinhart the era of financial repression. It's also as you can see, the era of the great post-war boom. Surely one's response to this history should be "Yay financial repression!"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k5a7cayoxmp33pzrisp7xasy/bafkreib5ypagd2yb6jkuz7syanqw2j2clytao4dchd5cci4azatniovfly@jpeg)
June 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
It's amazing that we refer to a period in which ordinary people did incredibly well as "financial repression"
This seems like the classic "voters like the idea in abstract but hate it once they discover how it affects them and people they know" error that gets made so often by politicians.
June 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
This seems like the classic "voters like the idea in abstract but hate it once they discover how it affects them and people they know" error that gets made so often by politicians.
Definitely a connection between these two
May 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Definitely a connection between these two
When I think about New Labour, I often think about the case of Saptal Ram and how the then Home Secretary Jack Straw intervened to prevent his release.
![Satpal Ram is a British man who was charged and convicted of killing Clarke Pearce in Birmingham, England during a fight in 1986. His case has drawn some controversy due to alleged mistreatment by the courts and the British prison system due to his racial background.[1]
Release
Satpal Ram was released from Blantyre House Prison on parole in June 2002. His initial release, as recommended by the parole board in 2000, was overturned by the Home Secretary at the time, Jack Straw. His release in 2002 resulted from a European Court of Human Rights ruling which stated that government executives such as the Home Secretary had no right to overrule a decision of a parole board.[6]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k5a7cayoxmp33pzrisp7xasy/bafkreihxxzzshaidjpus3yayccsdvig4zjtijseizh4nnyaymrvmf5nra4@jpeg)
May 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
When I think about New Labour, I often think about the case of Saptal Ram and how the then Home Secretary Jack Straw intervened to prevent his release.
Very weird guy, wouldn't be surprised if this was projection.
March 6, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Very weird guy, wouldn't be surprised if this was projection.
Thermonuclear terf/genocide fan to block here
February 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Thermonuclear terf/genocide fan to block here
Well yes, if the ultimate owners (and therefore beneficiaries) of these projects are European energy companies and not the people in the countries hosting the solar farms, then that is a problem.
Here's the relevant passage.
Here's the relevant passage.
February 28, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Well yes, if the ultimate owners (and therefore beneficiaries) of these projects are European energy companies and not the people in the countries hosting the solar farms, then that is a problem.
Here's the relevant passage.
Here's the relevant passage.
This one is holding up well
January 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This one is holding up well
This bit is just beautiful..
January 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This bit is just beautiful..
I don't like "populist right" Worrying trends here, but:
- Please can we just say "fascist"
- I hate the pejorative use of the term "Populism", our elites are corrupt just not for the reasons the fascists say
- Why is the age based trend so different between US/UK and the EU?
- Please can we just say "fascist"
- I hate the pejorative use of the term "Populism", our elites are corrupt just not for the reasons the fascists say
- Why is the age based trend so different between US/UK and the EU?
December 30, 2024 at 11:36 AM
I don't like "populist right" Worrying trends here, but:
- Please can we just say "fascist"
- I hate the pejorative use of the term "Populism", our elites are corrupt just not for the reasons the fascists say
- Why is the age based trend so different between US/UK and the EU?
- Please can we just say "fascist"
- I hate the pejorative use of the term "Populism", our elites are corrupt just not for the reasons the fascists say
- Why is the age based trend so different between US/UK and the EU?
Had quite a nice Christmas, lots of people round on Christmas day, was doing most of the cooking, messed some stuff up but held it together.
Boxing day was nice, now just enjoying a Lebkuchen though these Lidl ones just aren't as nice as the Aldi ones.
Boxing day was nice, now just enjoying a Lebkuchen though these Lidl ones just aren't as nice as the Aldi ones.
December 27, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Had quite a nice Christmas, lots of people round on Christmas day, was doing most of the cooking, messed some stuff up but held it together.
Boxing day was nice, now just enjoying a Lebkuchen though these Lidl ones just aren't as nice as the Aldi ones.
Boxing day was nice, now just enjoying a Lebkuchen though these Lidl ones just aren't as nice as the Aldi ones.
These hardware requirements read like something from a very different time.
December 13, 2024 at 4:31 PM
These hardware requirements read like something from a very different time.
Give me a single screenshot from a video game that immediately makes you hear the soundtrack in your head.
December 12, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Give me a single screenshot from a video game that immediately makes you hear the soundtrack in your head.