Marius S.
@unmariuss.bsky.social
I still think Tumblr is the best social media.
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Oh god AI powered NIMBYs this really is the worst timeline
‘A new service called Objector is offering “policy-backed objections in minutes” to people who are upset about planning applications near their homes.’
Another reminder that AI can be used for things you don’t like as well as things you like…
Another reminder that AI can be used for things you don’t like as well as things you like…
Bloody hell www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Oh god AI powered NIMBYs this really is the worst timeline
Controversial but I think this is a great idea and would love to see it applied in the West too. Willing to debate to what extent it should apply, but if you’re a content creator, you should help some knowledge on the content you are creating.
🇨🇳 China passes new law requiring Chinese influencers to hold a degree in the topics they discuss in their content.
November 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Controversial but I think this is a great idea and would love to see it applied in the West too. Willing to debate to what extent it should apply, but if you’re a content creator, you should help some knowledge on the content you are creating.
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Orban's effects will wear off the moment Macron, Merz, Starmer and Meloni call Trump.
Trump's brain is mush. All that sways him is the last person he's talked to.
Trump's brain is mush. All that sways him is the last person he's talked to.
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Orban's effects will wear off the moment Macron, Merz, Starmer and Meloni call Trump.
Trump's brain is mush. All that sways him is the last person he's talked to.
Trump's brain is mush. All that sways him is the last person he's talked to.
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You can't compare the stock of *value* like corporate valuation to economic *output* like GDP. It's like saying your car makes up "30% of your annual income" because it's worth $30k and you make $100k.
A $5T valuation is big but total US household net worth is like $167T
A $5T valuation is big but total US household net worth is like $167T
NVIDIA is now 16% of the US economy, in case you're wondering if your labor has any remaining value
The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP
With 16% of GDP riding on a single chipmaker, the U.S. economy is dangerously over-leveraged — and Wall Street is betting blind
medium.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
You can't compare the stock of *value* like corporate valuation to economic *output* like GDP. It's like saying your car makes up "30% of your annual income" because it's worth $30k and you make $100k.
A $5T valuation is big but total US household net worth is like $167T
A $5T valuation is big but total US household net worth is like $167T
Can’t wait for his humiliating defeat. I hope he crawls back to the hole he came from and never coms out again.
So here's Andrew Cuomo reacting to Maria Bartiromo wondering if Mamdani will "change the look of New York" and have Muslim women "completely covered up," telling her that Mamdani "doesn't understand New York culture" because he has "dual citizenship" and "he's a citizen of Uganda."
October 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Can’t wait for his humiliating defeat. I hope he crawls back to the hole he came from and never coms out again.
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Ah yes, the years 1997-2010, definitely a period the former chairman of Northern Rock should be casting a stone at the public sector over
October 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Ah yes, the years 1997-2010, definitely a period the former chairman of Northern Rock should be casting a stone at the public sector over
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1980:
NHS spending as a % of GDP: 5.1%
Defence spending as a % of GDP: 5%
2024:
NHS spending as a % of GDP: 10.9%
Defence spending as a % of GDP: 2.2%
This is such a common applause line, but it’s also total bullshit.
NHS spending as a % of GDP: 5.1%
Defence spending as a % of GDP: 5%
2024:
NHS spending as a % of GDP: 10.9%
Defence spending as a % of GDP: 2.2%
This is such a common applause line, but it’s also total bullshit.
There is always money for war, never for the poor.
Every penny spent on bombs, tanks and missiles is stolen from our homes, schools and hospitals.
We are not going to take it anymore.
Every penny spent on bombs, tanks and missiles is stolen from our homes, schools and hospitals.
We are not going to take it anymore.
October 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
1980:
NHS spending as a % of GDP: 5.1%
Defence spending as a % of GDP: 5%
2024:
NHS spending as a % of GDP: 10.9%
Defence spending as a % of GDP: 2.2%
This is such a common applause line, but it’s also total bullshit.
NHS spending as a % of GDP: 5.1%
Defence spending as a % of GDP: 5%
2024:
NHS spending as a % of GDP: 10.9%
Defence spending as a % of GDP: 2.2%
This is such a common applause line, but it’s also total bullshit.
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We are watching some of the key training and recruitment pipelines into America's foreign policy and national security institutions being destroyed in real time
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
We are watching some of the key training and recruitment pipelines into America's foreign policy and national security institutions being destroyed in real time
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Nothing is real to MAGA, that's what you need to understand. Everything can be true or false at any time, or even the same time, depending on what they need to believe in order to feel catharsis. They have created vast, insular social environments for the purpose of endless emotional indulgence.
October 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Nothing is real to MAGA, that's what you need to understand. Everything can be true or false at any time, or even the same time, depending on what they need to believe in order to feel catharsis. They have created vast, insular social environments for the purpose of endless emotional indulgence.
This is the literal definition of threatening with a good time
Betfred threatens to close all 1,300 UK high street shops if taxes rise on.ft.com/47lrRm3
Betfred threatens to close all 1,300 UK high street shops if taxes rise
Raising gambling tax could put 7,500 jobs at risk, warns chair
on.ft.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is the literal definition of threatening with a good time
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As you know, I'm a fan of Zack - he's been on QR twice. But I am worried that a lot of people are transferring extremely unrealistic expectations to yet another politician they want to hail as a saviour - based on a very short period - and, in doing that, setting up yet another good person to fail.
October 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
As you know, I'm a fan of Zack - he's been on QR twice. But I am worried that a lot of people are transferring extremely unrealistic expectations to yet another politician they want to hail as a saviour - based on a very short period - and, in doing that, setting up yet another good person to fail.
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America: No Kings
Britain: No Dukes of York
Britain: No Dukes of York
October 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
America: No Kings
Britain: No Dukes of York
Britain: No Dukes of York
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immigrant grocery store owner who voted for Trump to lower grocery prices and then got wrecked by tariffs. mfer you run a business called "Wong Kai Imports" what the hell did you think was gonna happen
"A beloved family-run grocery store in Florida may have to close its doors after 43 years because of tariffs." www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/ar...
October 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
immigrant grocery store owner who voted for Trump to lower grocery prices and then got wrecked by tariffs. mfer you run a business called "Wong Kai Imports" what the hell did you think was gonna happen
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Happy 100th birthday *checks notes* Margaret Thatcher
October 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Happy 100th birthday *checks notes* Margaret Thatcher
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Excellent article. With a very grim chart.
on.ft.com/4odeaMH UK consumers curb spending more than anywhere else in G7
on.ft.com/4odeaMH UK consumers curb spending more than anywhere else in G7
October 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Excellent article. With a very grim chart.
on.ft.com/4odeaMH UK consumers curb spending more than anywhere else in G7
on.ft.com/4odeaMH UK consumers curb spending more than anywhere else in G7
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If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure
October 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure
This is why people have lost faith in politics.
Lecornu nominated as French Prime Minister again, having just resigned 27 days in. Is still three weeks short of a Truss
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/10/e...
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In shock move, French president reappoints prime minister who quit Monday | CNN
French President Emmanuel Macron has reappointed Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu to his post, despite accepting his resignation Monday following the collapse of his overnight government.
edition.cnn.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This is why people have lost faith in politics.
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France right now is further proof of my longstanding theory that Italy from the 90's onward was the forerunner for modern politics and the template every other country is emulating, each with its own unique twist and on its own schedule.
October 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
France right now is further proof of my longstanding theory that Italy from the 90's onward was the forerunner for modern politics and the template every other country is emulating, each with its own unique twist and on its own schedule.
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A reminder of how Mrs Thatcher's Conservative party in 1983, an era featuring much more widespread racial prejudice in the public, approached the issue of race and national identity:
October 8, 2025 at 10:14 AM
A reminder of how Mrs Thatcher's Conservative party in 1983, an era featuring much more widespread racial prejudice in the public, approached the issue of race and national identity:
Quite literally I now have daily conversations with SMEs that need to adjust their valuations to UK/EU numbers and who get angry that we can’t match US numbers. But how do I explain to them that US numbers are based on a wish, a prayer and an acid induced hallucination?
"Why does the US have so many unicorns?"
I don't know, but being a place where Bari Weiss can sell her long-form Libs of TikTok blog to Paramount for $150 million and a job offer might have something to do with it.
I don't know, but being a place where Bari Weiss can sell her long-form Libs of TikTok blog to Paramount for $150 million and a job offer might have something to do with it.
October 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Quite literally I now have daily conversations with SMEs that need to adjust their valuations to UK/EU numbers and who get angry that we can’t match US numbers. But how do I explain to them that US numbers are based on a wish, a prayer and an acid induced hallucination?
I expect this to become a cultural wedge issue in some European countries. France's secularist model remains the best.
An EU lawmaker is campaigning to ban the use of the hijab and other Islamic headscarves by people who work for the legislature, according to an email circulated among all members of the European Parliament today.
Conservative MEP launches petition to ban Islamic headscarves in European Parliament
Charlie Weimers says he expects broad support for his initiative, but other lawmakers slammed it as sexist and Islamophobic.
www.politico.eu
September 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I expect this to become a cultural wedge issue in some European countries. France's secularist model remains the best.
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Sandu has faced a Russian full court hybrid-war press for 4 yrs & double the money spent on the entire UK elx dumped on her head by the FSB in tiny country w 0.5% the GDP. Lessons?:
Ban & prosecute election wrongdoers, don't 'leave them to fight the battle of ideas'.
Democracy matters to ppl.
Ban & prosecute election wrongdoers, don't 'leave them to fight the battle of ideas'.
Democracy matters to ppl.
It's looking like PAS is going to get an absolute majority right now. It will definitely lose seats versus 2021, but given that this very poor country has been suffering from Russian economic warfare over the last 4 years, deeply impressive to manage to hold on.
September 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Sandu has faced a Russian full court hybrid-war press for 4 yrs & double the money spent on the entire UK elx dumped on her head by the FSB in tiny country w 0.5% the GDP. Lessons?:
Ban & prosecute election wrongdoers, don't 'leave them to fight the battle of ideas'.
Democracy matters to ppl.
Ban & prosecute election wrongdoers, don't 'leave them to fight the battle of ideas'.
Democracy matters to ppl.
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Would push back here — the collapse in public finances in Ingolstadt is because corporate tax revenues are dwindling, and Ingolstadt is a car city.
Germany losing 50% of its net car exports to China is the culprit, not “the green economic wonder” or some such.
Germany losing 50% of its net car exports to China is the culprit, not “the green economic wonder” or some such.
September 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Would push back here — the collapse in public finances in Ingolstadt is because corporate tax revenues are dwindling, and Ingolstadt is a car city.
Germany losing 50% of its net car exports to China is the culprit, not “the green economic wonder” or some such.
Germany losing 50% of its net car exports to China is the culprit, not “the green economic wonder” or some such.
Kaja Kallas is a terrible diplomat and should be replaced asap. It was very difficult to be worse than her predecessors but she consistently manages to do just that.
Disappointed to hear Kaja Kallas dismiss my July reporting as a "Chinese leak".
I'd remind Kallas that soon after my story came out, multiple respected journalists from Western publications followed with their own stories, confirming what I'd reported.
I'd remind Kallas that soon after my story came out, multiple respected journalists from Western publications followed with their own stories, confirming what I'd reported.
September 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Kaja Kallas is a terrible diplomat and should be replaced asap. It was very difficult to be worse than her predecessors but she consistently manages to do just that.