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@PeterMcCormack Meanwhile, significant numbers of UK citizens who would invest that amount of money in the UK are leaving because the tax burden (with no visible resulting improvement) is too high

Lol, the government learning economics on the job.

@FlorianGallwitz He got lucky - life sentence in the UK

A guy jokingly tweeted “olaf scholz you bastard what the hell is this” in frustration because Fortnite was stuck at 3% download. As a result, German authorities investigated him for committing a criminal offence (insulting a politician, §188 StGB) and forced him to delete it.

@Anna_Soubry lol 😂

I am deleting this I despair at what our country has become. And it all stems from the #Brexit #Referendum

“police arrest man who is bleeding to death because the stabber claimed he was racist” its literally impossible to satirize the UK anymore. even the most extreme, hamfisted memes are just real things that actually happen now

@Eggplant_Elon Love this. Wen full-length novel?!

The Last Englishman Part One: Tuesday, 12 May 2026 The pound was bleeding out, and the man on the screen was using the word 'sobering'. Tom Ashbury read the post twice. El-Erian had a gift for the polite obituary, the kind written while the body was still warm and the family still in the room. Thirty-year gilt at 5.77. A level not seen since March 1998, when Ashbury had been twenty-two years old and convinced, in the way only the young and well-paid are convinced, that money was a solved problem. He set the phone face down on the bar. The wine bar off Lombard Street was three-quarters empty at half past six on a Tuesday, which would have been unthinkable five years ago and was now simply Tuesday. A woman in her early thirties sat two stools down, reading something on her phone with the particular stillness of someone receiving bad news she had already half expected. The barman polished a glass that did not need polishing. Somewhere behind the bottles, a radio was running the BBC news at a volume calibrated not to be heard. Ashbury turned the phone back over. He had been reading the warnings for two years. Lyn Alden. Russell Napier. The quiet men at the back of the gilt desks who used to send him notes when he still worked at Cazenove and who now sent him nothing, because the notes had become legally complicated and the men had become tired. He had read them and stacked sats and said nothing at dinner parties, because saying anything at dinner parties was a way of finding out which of your friends had become informants without quite realising it. He thought about his daughter. Eliza was twenty-six. She worked in something called Permit Compliance at the GLA, a department which had not existed three years earlier and which now occupied four floors of a building in Southwark. She believed, in the careful way of people who had been to good universities recently, that the system was difficult but reformable. She had not asked him about his views in eighteen months. He understood this to be a kindness. The phone buzzed. A news alert, the licensed kind, from the only outlet still permitted on his device after the consolidation. Chancellor reassures markets. Fiscal framework remains credible. PM to address Commons tomorrow. Ashbury read it the way a man reads a weather forecast issued from inside a hurricane. He thought of the ukdecline counter he had bookmarked years ago, before the site had gone dark under the Information Integrity Act, before mere possession of its archived figures had become a Tier Three offence. £4,184 a second. He had memorised the number the way other men memorised football scores. Every second, somewhere in the Treasury, a young economist clicked through a model that did not include the variable Ashbury was looking at on his phone right now. He paid in cash, which was still legal, just, and walked out into the dusk. In fourteen years, he would be sixty. In fourteen years, the cottage in Norfolk would still be standing, though the licensed heating would not be reaching it, and the note pushed under his door would carry forty Bitcoin and a sentence in his old friend’s hand that he had not yet read and could not yet imagine. But that was fourteen years away. Tonight, the pound was bleeding out, and the man on the screen was using the word sobering, and Tom Ashbury walked east toward Aldgate with the particular slow clarity of a man who has just understood that the polite phase of something is ending.

@scottmelker I would really relish voting every one down

Elizabeth Warren filed 40 amendments in 24 hours to the Clarity Act for markup tomorrow. Can you imagine being another member of the Senate Banking Committee and having to sit through votes on 40 amendments because she decided to be difficult?

0/ Clear signing is now live. An open standard to end blind signing, making human-readable transactions default. This effort brings a major UX and Security upgrade to transaction signing on Ethereum.

@Keir_Starmer It's a bold plan - doubling-down on the approach that led to you losing c1300 councillors last week. By all means, see how you fare in the general election...

We will block far right agitators from traveling to Britain this weekend for a march designed to confront and provoke our diverse capital city. We will not allow people to come to the UK, threaten our communities and spread hate on our streets.

barely a day goes by when I don’t watch this

@GayTory Sir, he was the Head of Drama

He taught drama and thinks he fucking Einstein.

@markofagenius lol - Head of Drama

I know I was a teacher for 40 years but I am not responsible for so many thick people voting Reform. I only taught in three schools in Hampshire, so please don’t blame me.

Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually prompt Claude. Taught by the people who built it. Free. No signup. No paywall. I've watched $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.

@PeterMcCormack "Economist".

1. Not an economist 2. Emotionally rather than reality driven

@Heccles94 Surfs?! lol 🏄‍♂️

“But the interesting point here is that he thinks all the profit being generated by the workers should go to them” How dare the surfs think they are entitled to the fruits of their Labour!

@PeterMcCormack It's envy the whole way down

Here is another stupid take by a silly little socialist. They are two separate businesses. I don't take a wage from the coffee shop despite owning and operating it at the senior level. There is no money left to pay me. I do it out of love. The costs of the podcast are paid out of the profits of the podcast, which is a good little business. But the interesting point here is that he thinks all the profit being generated by the workers should go to them. But the silly little socialists can't fathom the following: 1. I took the risk to open the coffee shop - the £120k refurb, the 10 year lease, the business plan and the risk. My reward for the risk if the profits if it works, which I can share with the staff if I choose. 2. But even if we take the silly little socialist mildly seriously (we shouldn't, he's a dumb dumb), if the business fails and is losing money, should we blame the workers and should it be deducted from their salary? This is why these silly little revolutionaries should not be taken seriously. Firstly they don't understand economics, second they are fundamentally stupid, third their model is based on envy, fourth they have no answer to the coordination problem. I could go on, probably not worth it as you can't reason with silly little socialists.

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This is why you don't invite the Feds to talk about "free speech".

You have got to be kidding me. Yesterday, medical data leaks. Today, passports. Remind us again, @darrenpjones, why is it that a centralised ID database is such a good idea for the UK? Stop gathering people's data, or delete it already!

Wow… If there is no pardon for @keonne and Bill by then, these guys will deserve a very frosty reception at best…. Or boos and heckles at worst. If they delayed a pardon so they can make a big show of it at the Conference, that would be welcome news, but still shameful. Each day that has gone by has been an injustice. I do hope they feel the unrelenting pressure of the #Bitcoin community, and shame for not acting more quickly. #FreeSamourai #PardonSamourai

@nic_carter @SkyNews lol

@SkyNews against all odds, those crazy bastards did it. THANK You Macron and Starmer!

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