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I believe in a better world.
Where people are put before money.
Where we think about the legacy for the next generation
Not the next election.
We are not all born equal,
But we, all things being equal, doors should be opened
Not minds closed.
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teq2.bsky.social
The real problem with inflation isn't government deficits (when they are used to invest in infrastructure and growth, rather than tax reductions for the already-wealthy) it is the growth of private credit.

Sounds counter-intuitive, but there's a reason why: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ2p...
Screenshot from the video at 27 minutes 12, showing that the percentage increase in money supply caused by private banks (credit), rather than the government creating debt (Fiat), was 91% in 2000-2024
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
teq2.bsky.social
Someone explained it as

"Company A pays Company B to dig a hole, Company C to manage it, and Company D to supply the spades.

Company B pays Company A to fill in the hole.

GDP goes up, but nothing gets achieved."
Image of two men in grey camouflage trousers and light grey t shirts digging a hole in the ground, whilst another man looks on supervising, and another lies on the ground, possibly resting, in front of him.
November 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
teq2.bsky.social
Inspired me to create:
The Conversation is Absurd ========================== You say "both sides" please But only to keep you at ease For balance is understanding That "trans" is undemanding Whilst your strident calls That "only men have balls" Deny their very existence It's not just gay resistance Why is your discomfort that The person wearing a different hat Is "just as important" to be exact As their right to exist out flat? So, no I won't give your "side" credence For it's imagined Gender grievance Humanity comes in all shapes and size Your fear is of your own devise Based on an article by Iratus the Bear: '"Should These People Exist?" Live on the BBC at Ten' 13 November 2025 https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/should-these-people-exist-live-on
November 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
teq2.bsky.social
The Conversation is Absurd
The Conversation is Absurd ========================== You say "both sides" please But only to keep you at ease For balance is understanding That "trans" is undemanding Whilst your strident calls That "only men have balls" Deny their very existence It's not just gay resistance Why is your discomfort that The person wearing a different hat Is "just as important" to be exact As their right to exist out flat? So, no I won't give your "side" credence For it's imagined Gender grievance Humanity comes in all shapes and size Your fear is of your own devise
November 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
teq2.bsky.social
Just to cheer up a dreary Thursday,
my favourite recipe for Peppermint Chocolate Sauce
Peppermint Chocolate Sauce Ingredients 150ml milk or Double Cream for thicker sauce 150g sugar (I use brown for extra flavour) 4 tablespoons cocoa powder 1/2 teaspoon peppermint essence. Utensils Small pan Tablespoon Teaspoon Sieve Jug Method 1. Heat the milk slowly, don't let it boil 2. Add in the sugar and stir thoroughly 3. Sieve in the cocoa powder & stir thoroughly 4. When it starts to steam slightly, take off the heat & transfer to a jug. 5. Serve hot over icecream or brownies 6. Cool any remaining 7. Store in the fridge for up to 2 days (if it lasts that long)
November 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
teq2.bsky.social
This is what a 2p marginal tax rate impact would be on an median UK salary (or 3x the State Pension) of £36,000
Graph showing there is NO impact until your salary is above £48,000. Same applies for the current Green Party policy.
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
teq2.bsky.social
Maybe the first coffee just hit, but Curiosity Circuit had been activated: www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/art...
Screenshot from the website: Modal verbs are verbs that indicate likelihood, ability, permission or obligation. Words like: can/could may/might will/would shall/should must For example: The sea monster *should* go away In this sentence 'should' is the modal verb as it indicates the likelihood of the sea monster going away.
November 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
teq2.bsky.social
Worked after a bit for me, but also got this warning of an expired website certificate. Might be your Anti-Virus blocking the site?
Screenshot of the "Suspicious connection blocked" message
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
teq2.bsky.social
Sorry, that should have been Blackrock, not Blackstone: www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
teq2.bsky.social
Blackstone is in for regular "consultations" (along with McKinsey & others). That's why they've expanded the Freeports like this one in Hampshire: www.gov.uk/government/p...
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
teq2.bsky.social
Honestly, this was the only poll where I was surprised - that the percentage of Green voting intention of the viewers in the first group was so high (refugees from Labour, perhaps?):

Source: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... 30 mins in.

PS the male/female split that preceded it was also fascinating
Screenshot graph from Newsnight 6 Nov. 25 showing a poll of viewers of The Traitor "If you were on The Traitors, would you rather be a Faithful or a Traitor. Then, for each group, what was their voting intention. Traitor: Reform 25% Labour 21 Conservative 21 Lib Dem 16 Green 12 A Faithful: Reform 20 Labour 26 Conservative 21 Lib Dem 14 Green 16
November 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
teq2.bsky.social
In the meantime we would have cleaner air and less lung disease.

Not that Farage seems to worry about that.
Image of Farage in a dark suit, with flaming red eyes and smoking a small cigar. To his right is an oil rig and the slogan "DRILL BABY DRILL" from a similar image showing Trump saying the same thing.
November 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
teq2.bsky.social
Full lyrics to the song "The older I get" via www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bryan... (there's more than this second part)
Screenshot of the submitted lyrics: "Raise your right hand, plead the 5th Tryna cover up names on a list Lie and say that it doesn't exist What the fuck kinda place am I in? Work 2 jobs try to make rent Heaven help ya if you've got brown skin Watch em starve on Gaza Strip How the fuck is this the older I get? They say you'll get it when you're older But I just understand it less How's the world so god damn ugly The older that I get It's like it just keeps gettin' colder And it's fuckin' with my head I woulda stayed young if I'd known This was the older The older that I'd get"
November 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
teq2.bsky.social
I missed one of the biggest factors: belief that their policies were realistic.

Shows that Republicans are increasingly living in a fantasy world of their own creation.
November 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
teq2.bsky.social
There's a lot of them:
Snapshot of the Results from NBC showing over 1m voted for Mandami
November 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
teq2.bsky.social
Blinkered or Perspective?

You choose.
Cartoon showing a list of expenditure of the US Government on arguably non-essential items: $170B for ICE $117B in tax cuts for the rich $40B for Argentina $250m for a vanity ballroom $230m in DoJ payments to Trump $172m for Kristi Noem's jets $100m on golf Looking away from the list are two rotund men in blue jeans and white teeshirts wearing red caps (presumably with the word MAGA on them). The first man is proclaiming "FOOD STAMPS ARE DEFINITELY THE PROBLEM. Cartoon credit: JDuquette
November 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
teq2.bsky.social
When billionaires fund campaigns against Tax Wealth not Work,
do they really work this many times as hard as a Nurse or a Doctor?

Excludes National Insurance, but remember that there is no NI above the Upper Earnings Limit, and no NI on rental income or share dividends.
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
teq2.bsky.social
A visual reminder of the difference between:
* your £50,000 salary
* the salary + dividends of a FTSE CEO (or Farage's income from his 12 jobs)
* the wealth of a Billionaire
A diagram showing * 50K as a single dot * 1 Million as 20 dots * 1 Billion as 1000 * 20 dots Imagine You, the size of a double farm gate, and the size of a field.
November 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
teq2.bsky.social
tldr:
Screenshot of Intro to article: "Accusation in a mirror (AiM)[a] is a technique often used in the context of hate speech incitement, where one falsely attributes one's own motives or intentions to one's adversaries.[3][4][5] It has been cited, along with dehumanization, as one of the indirect or cloaked forms of incitement to genocide, which has contributed to the commission of genocide, for example in the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and the Armenian genocide. By invoking collective self-defense, accusation in a mirror is used to justify genocide, similar to using the right of self-defense as a defense for individual homicide.[5][6][7] The Office of the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide (OSAPG) defines mirror politics as a "common strategy to create divisions by fabricating events whereby a person accuses others of what he or she does or wants to do", and includes it as a factor in their Analysis Framework on Genocide, when analyzing whether a given situation poses a risk of genocide.[8] Scholars such as Kenneth L. Marcus and Gregory S. Gordon have investigated ways in which accusation in a mirror has been used to incite hatred and how its impact can be mitigated."
November 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
teq2.bsky.social
On the bright side, The Green Party are doing well under Zack Polanski with the Under 55 age groups:

(Even if Reform's deputy leader doesn't understand mathematics www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQQn...)
Screen shot of post from No Justice showing poll. 18-29 GP 34% of the poll (Reform 2nd 24%, Labour 16%) of 229 30-39 GP 26% (Lab 23%, Ref 21%) of 224 40-54 GP 15% (Ref 29%, Lab 19%, Cons & Libs 15%) of 357
November 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
teq2.bsky.social
So the US government tries to come to BlueSky... and hits mass-blocking as we don't want what they're selling.

Most blocked accounts 20 October 2025
Screenshot of the 20 most blocked accounts with US gov accounts highlighted (.) (.) (.) (.) 1 @jd-vance-1.bsky.social 168,797 (.) (.) 2 @whitehouse-47.bsky.social 99,202 3 @jessesingal.com 84,681 4 @nowbreezing.ntw.app 73,566 (.) (.) 5 @homelandgov.bsky.social 72,612 6 @brianna.bsky.social 63,315 7 @taromagico.bsky.social 53,609 8 @mcuban.bsky.social 51,426 (.) (.) 9 @deptofwar.bsky.social 49,898 (.) (.) 10 @state-department.bsky.social 45,763 11 @hhsofficial.bsky.social 45,159 12 @felipeneto.com.br 44,405 (.) (.) 13 @commerce-gov.bsky.social 43,617 14 @us-dot.bsky.social 43,233 (.) (.) 15 @dol.gov 42,730 (.) (.) 16 @homelandcbp.bsky.social 40,336 17 @go4know.com 40,253 (.) (.) 18 @departmentofenergy.bsky.social 39,512 (.) (.) 19 @usdagov.bsky.social 39,379 (.) (.) 20 @sba-gov.bsky.social 38,763
November 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
teq2.bsky.social
New poll from @findoutnow.bsky.social (sadly not posting on Blue atm) shows that the Greens are ahead in the under 40s age group and 1 point from overtaking the Cons & Lib Dems for 3rd place in the 40-54 age group.

Now needs get those groups to register, and turn out to vote.
Screen shot of post from No Justice showing poll. 18-29 GP 34% of the poll (Reform 2nd 24%, Labour 16%) of 229 30-39 GP 26% (Lab 23%, Ref 21%) of 224 40-54 GP 15% (Ref 29%, Lab 19%, Cons & Libs 15%) of 357
November 4, 2025 at 8:19 AM
teq2.bsky.social
Not as far as I can see, but this from 2015 may explain his promoting private health care (& dislike of immigrant doctors):

Also: he has ball, rather than balls www.independent.co.uk/news/people/...

There's rumours that he's ill: www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/nig...
Fair use extract from the linked article: 'Nigel Farage has claimed the NHS almost killed him when he was misdiagnosed with an infection which actually turned out to be testicular cancer nearly 30 years ago. In extracts published by The Telegraph from his forthcoming book, The Purple Revolution: The Year That Changed Everything, the Ukip leader encourages anyone who can afford to pay for private health care to do so, warning: “The NHS is so over-stretched that if you can afford private health care, you should take it, particularly for diagnostics and preventative medicine.” He claims a cancerous tumour was missed by a series of NHS doctors when he was 21, who first concluded he had a twisted testicle. Farage said this process of misdiagnosis continued when an “Indian doctor” incorrectly told him the source of his pain was actually an infection and prescribed antibiotics, a diagnosis his GP also agreed with six weeks later. “'Keep taking the antibiotics,' he preached, and that was that." The 50-year-old says he was eventually forced to visit a private GP when the pain became so severe he had difficulty walking and was left with a testicle “as large as a lemon and rock hard”. It was this doctor, he says, that referred him for scan and discovered the tumour in his testicle.'
November 4, 2025 at 7:53 AM
teq2.bsky.social
Quote from Steve: "He needs to get marmalade more often"
November 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
teq2.bsky.social
"20 hours - This number is an estimate" for X Corp of San Francisco one of many entries on the Register. (Most of which he still hasn't got around to updating - despite being informed he's in breach of the rules back in July).

members.parliament.uk/member/5091/...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Extract from the linked Register of Interests showing the first two payments from X Corp
November 1, 2025 at 10:09 AM