Tagishsimon

Privatised rail Rolling Stock Companies (ROSCOs) make huge profits.. All holed-up in tax havens. Paid £409.7m dividend last year. Profit margin of 41.6%. UK taxes dodged. UK Govt's rail nationalisation plans will not apply to ROSCOs. Why might that be? leftfootforward.org/2024/07/the-la…

@TonyVolpon @DarrigoMelanie What part of oligarchy are you not understanding, Tony?

@DarrigoMelanie Sorry, how mich has Biden raised from Hollywood donors, wasn’t that Clooney diner $30 million?

The legal max a person can donate to a candidate is $3300. But, when billionaires like Elon Musk exploit our broken campaign finance laws to donate $45 million a month to a candidate, we’re no longer a democracy and it’s no longer an election — it’s an oligarchy and an auction.

@TomTugendhat Tom, please consider deleting your account. Your every tweet just reinforces the impression that you're an idiot.

@PhxSnw @_cageagainst_ @tmorello Things retards say: ☝️

@_cageagainst_ @tmorello They played at the democratic national convention. Nuff said.

No offense but you’re a fucking idiot. RATM has played 19 shows in the last 13 years and ZERO of those shows have required vax. Pass this along to your idiots friends por fa vor. Also, while you’re mewling about Big Pharma, how about Big Oil and Big Tobacco and Big Landlords and Big Military and Big Elon? It’s called Big Capitalism vs human beings and the our planet. So I accept your apology and let’s aim at the right target bubba.

@PeterReavill @johnhenry185 Good work; thank you.

@Tagishsimon @johnhenry185 A quick search of our field names database (of 1840's) also reveals 7 similar place-names in other parishes. There are also 103 for camps (but could be other camps rather than romany ones) and another 44 for tinker / travellers. So some sifting to be done

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@PeterReavill The tramway is the Kington Railway [1816-20] * historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-li…

@PeterReavill Don't know the story. This seems to be the hall in contemporary times; not listed. * rightmove.co.uk/properties/146…

@antib69 @Martin_Abrams @DefraGovUK @SteveReedMP @thameswater TW spends 28p in the pound on servicing debt taken out to pay dividends. It's a bankrupt company. Nationalise it at zero cost. Require the bondholders to take a massive haircut. The savings obviate the need for a bill increase. I guess you prefer the status quo, though?

@Martin_Abrams @DefraGovUK @SteveReedMP @thameswater From empty even Salomon won't pour. As the customer I prefer 23% increase than 44% which TW wanted. I'm also not a dreamer like you. What would you do?

BREAKING: Following talks with water bosses, the Secretary of State @SteveReedMP sets out his first steps for cleaning up our rivers, lakes and seas.

Knocking off peers faster than Kind Hearts and Coronets; now at 921 from about 3.5k. Need to reduce this to about 810 & then add some eligibility qualifiers. Mainly victims of the House of Lords Act 1999 cull, and the odd stray bishop. * w.wiki/AeGV

Fortunately, Wikipedia's List of members of the House of Lords looks like a fantastic & well maintained page. * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_m…

Me: Ima download this list and sort out Wikidata's peer records. Parliament dot uk: no. members.parliament.uk/members/lords?…

@RealMattCouch What a sexist POS you are, Matt.

You're not one to critique anyone on bowing down sweetheart...

Okay, so maybe we still do count things (new content pages per month). And actually, that's not looking too shabby. * stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia…

22 years. Rambot is the little hill of beans around 2003. * #2002" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_W… Interesting period, those early years: huge growth on a very small base; then years of moaning about decline, then we just stopped measuring things.

Hindi Wikipedia does Rambot, 20 years later, but using a much more dodgy source. What could go wrong?

@tmtm I think few editors understand SPARQL, nor the effect their modelling choices have on reporting. Misuse of rank is the crime I see most often; but, then, I only visit P39 on special occasions.

@Tagishsimon It also doesn't help that the vast majority of wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:… are far too simplistic, almost entirely avoiding complex dates (precision, P1326/P12506/…), deprecation, noval/unknown, !Q5, multiple routes to the same data, etc etc that are needed for most real world use

Wikidata represents that ~450k dead people are current holders of positions (like MP, mayor of this, CEO of that, or whatever). That's probably not good. For instance, says there are ~3,000 people sitting in the UK House of Lords right now. * w.wiki/AdQE

@tmtm Sure, but it begs the question of whether and how we can get reports which do show current postholders. Mostly, across the board, we cannot.

@Tagishsimon Assuming a lack of P582=current officeholder isn't particularly safe: a huge % of those don't have a P580, or indeed _any_ qualifiers, and I think it's still useful as a "held this office at some point" claim. A P580, no P582, and dead probably needs more attention.

@karl_amort The incompleteness of the data is wrong. Show me the accurate report on members of the HoL.

@Tagishsimon It doesn’t say that. They’re all P31/Q5 as well, even though personhood arguably seizes at death. The data is incomplete, but not wrong.