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Domino meme Small domino: people upset about high food and energy prices Large domino: higher food and energy prices

This is going to get really old

A lot of the elite became very online for the first time in the pandemic and it’s hit them like smallpox in the Americas

Interesting interview but I am, ah, skeptical that the solution to Nimbyism is... better leadership and taking people on a journey.

Nimbyism is normally about a clash of incentives/interests and you cant just magic that claah away with better leadership/narrative/process.

you are the expert but I had been led to believe that egyptian geese are actually ducks

Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music

Several dozen folks did

Some even dubbed music over the original clip.

I haven't been able to get this out of my head.

So I give you

A Bluesky exclusive:

Reservoir Ducks

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The distribution of letters in English words.

Really bad out there, has happened more quickly than I'd realised.

Until recently a former Tory party operator, now outright white supremacist and fantasist.

The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born, now is the time of the death of liberalism by John Gray, available in the new statesman in all good news agents.

The thing that makes me most pro-natalist is how bitter and backward looking the politics of the developed world are getting as the population ages. We haven’t gotten stability with a greying electorate, we’ve gotten more volatility as there’s increasing hay to be made of grievance-mongering.

TIL:

Every U.K. job ad is like “we seek a dynamic, world-leading expert to care for priceless, load-bearing activities. Salary: £28,000 p.a.”

@jdcmedlock.bsky.social get in here

Anti-tax left such a perverse development

Yeah that's right

We went from 'are the straights ok?' to 'are the Straits ok?' really fast.

One of the most wholesome online communities I've accidentally joined is the Facebook one where the chief engineer maintaining the retired UK HST trains that were exported to Nigeria asks retired UK railway people for tips that aren't in the formal manuals, and they provide it with great enthusiasm

They are fifth in the polls. Much as it would be good for specific understanding, the vibes have punished them.

Surely you people are enjoying this chaos

Things can be better than the worst they could be but still be inconceivably bad, which is where we're heading. TACO!

"In the whole written history of the strait, it has never been closed, ever," said JPMorgan Chase analyst Natasha Kaneva. "To me, it was not just the worst-case scenario. It was an unthinkable scenario."

collecting takes

Surely some sort of release like this is already priced in. Then you're into nostradamus territory where its down to how long the staits are closed for.

G7 to discuss joint release of emergency oil reserves Middle East war has triggered surge in crude prices that threatens global economy

This is fairly obviously the right thing to do. What’s the point of having strategic reserves if you’re not tapping into them when the Strait is closed?

www.ft.com/content/e114... G7 to discuss joint release of emergency oil reserves

Financial market participants dragging themselves to the office:

I'm just saying surely it's a flood damage location. Imagine if the ISS kept claiming for bird strikes and windscreen replacements.

How does your city keep catching fire

Excellent, persuasive* piece.

*i.e. it has persuaded me

Byker Grove gritty reboot. In universe PJ and Duncan had their chart success. PJ had Ant's struggles with drink and drugs, the cast struggle to reconcile their divergent fortunes.

Sometimes merely responding to skeets