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SkippyTheBinKangaroo

@TheRandyPanda

He Eats, Shoots and Leaves....

Sumali Haziran 2011
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GTSmoz@GTSmoz·
What I’m seeing over the last few years is a lot of successful millennials from tech, finance etc starting to see just how bad most in gov are and the systems surrounding it. Totally incompetent, with useless backgrounds of fake work. Systems that are broken and would be rebuilt if it were a private sector project.
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Jools
Jools@JoolsJuevans·
@yuanyi_z You’ve finally lost your crown in the put down.
J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

This is a man who desires nothing more than to be admired, whose entire shtick revolves around presenting himself as a hero worthy of envy and emulation (lest we forget, he 'identifies with Gandhi and Martin Luther King'). To people like Maugham, any perceived diminution of what they believe to be their exalted status feels like a mortal attack, which is why every loss must be spun as a win, and black must be made to be white if the facts threaten his self-image. He's just the latest in a long line of people on social media who think they're dealing me a fatal blow by telling me I've lost popularity, that my legacy is tarnished or that former fans hate me. None of these people appear to grasped yet that I'm completely indifferent to being disliked by people I've never met, especially those I do not respect because of their online behaviour or what I believe to be their irrational and illiberal views. Maugham is a textbook narcissist who can't believe that everyone else doesn't live life with an unceasing thirst for validation from complete strangers. In spite of the fact that we've never met, and that as the years have rolled by I've been very open about the fact that I find his public behaviour increasingly bizarre, he seems to genuinely believe that the loss of his approval will cause me anguish. In reality, it's a welcome source of ongoing entertainment, so long may he continue.

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Yuan Yi Zhu
Yuan Yi Zhu@yuanyi_z·
I have owned Jolyon Maugham for many years and I'm happy to pass the torch to @jk_rowling of owning him.
Jools@JoolsJuevans

@yuanyi_z You’ve finally lost your crown in the put down.

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Pete North
Pete North@FUDdaily·
This is an issue we need to pay closer attention to otherwise we can expect an epidemic of street shitting akin with fly-tipping. It's especially problematic for the elderly and disabled and limits their ability to leave the house. It should be part of any DEI remit. It may not affect you now but it will eventually. We are all essentially pre-disabled. Age creeps up on all of us.
MaxC@ColeFusionHQ

14% fewer public toilets in england than 10 years ago. they aren't a council's statutory duty. SEND, social care and homelessness are. Most people can remember when their town had a staffed public toilet.

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Matt Forney
Matt Forney@mattforney·
This is literally a third world taxi scam. In places like Manila, taxi drivers will try and turn off the meter and quote you a "special rate" that is four times what the meter costs. Even if you convince them to use the meter, they'll intentionally take "shortcuts" that go out of the way so they can run up the fare. The easiest way to deal with this is to only get in cabs driven by older men. Young guys are far more likely to try and hustle you, middle-aged guys don't have the energy. Very neat and cool that we now have to use turd world defensive tactics to avoid being scammed in our own country.
Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry.@naomirwolf

Complete breakdown of society. I get into a NYC cab. Newly arrived gentleman with no cabbie license in the license slot asks me if I want to pay ‘the flat rate’ or ‘the hourly rate’. Neither of these of course exist in NYC, it is a metered rate. I express firmly that I am a New Yorker and know about metered rates and to please turn on the meter. But I have no reason to believe this is a licensed driver in his actual own cab. Scary feeling. @nyctaxi

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S2 Underground
S2 Underground@s2_underground·
For my friends over in the United Kingdom, I've mapped out all of the migrant hotels I could find, and plotted them on the same map below.
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S2 Underground@s2_underground

While it is hard to put a verifiable number on an unknown, the immigration problem persists and it's worse than anyone can possibly imagine. Now that the mass deportations have stopped (and we can argue whether or not they ever occurred in the first place), this will continue to be a problem for a while. Even on my maps alone, every single one of these yellow diamonds is a safehouse of an organization that openly states that they are working to help illegal immigration. Note the brazenness of this. I'm just one guy plotting these points in my spare time, and so far I've listed thousands of facilities which openly state on their own website that they are working to help illegals evade detection. Not even trying to hide it or state that "oh we're just a resettlement group that helps LEGAL immigrants after they get a greencard". Nope, none of that grey-area stuff that will have to go to court to confirm. I'm only plotting the groups that openly confess to crimes on their own website, and this is how many I have so far. If I start adding in the "immigrant support centers" which are more ambiguous, we're talking tens of thousands of locations. Note that on my maps, you will have to take the mailing address that I have listed for each location, and put it into google to find out what's at each location. I used to have a very neat explanation of all of the crimes that were being committed at each location, but I got a cease-and-desist letter from the law firms that are actively aiding criminals. Turns out that in America, criminals can sue you for exposing their crimes, so I've had to re-work a lot of my material. But this is what I have so far, and I've only just gotten started. Link to the map below:

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MaxC
MaxC@ColeFusionHQ·
Ignore the 4.9%. Here are five numbers that actually tell you what's happening: 1. Vacancies: 711k - five-year low, down 8.3% YoY 2. Redundancies: 136k - up 16% YoY, highest outside Covid 3. Payrolled employees: 13 months of YoY decline 4. Long-term unemployed: 455k - up 34% YoY 5. Unemployed per vacancy: 2.5 - was 1.6 two years ago
Julian Jessop@julianHjessop

FYI, the headline UK unemployment rate unexpectedly fell from 5.2% to 4.9% in the 3m to February. Good news? Not really... This mainly reflects an unwelcome jump in economic inactivity (i.e. people not looking for work so not counted as unemployed), rather than more jobs.

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Object Zero
Object Zero@Object_Zero_·
The UK is 51-55° North, it is on the same latitude as Siberia, and Alaska. In the UK, 26.6 million of the 28 million households are heated with natural gas. The British government is concerned about the country’s vulnerability to natural gas shocks. The government’s solution is that the UK must produce less natural gas domestically. So a 70% windfall tax is applied to domestic gas production. British voters agree. 🤔 As a result, there now isn’t enough gas for electricity generation. Electricity prices are rising. The British government is concerned about the country’s vulnerability to electricity price shocks. The government’s solution is that the UK must produce less electricity. A 55% windfall tax is now applied to electricity generation. British voters agree. 🤔 It’s difficult to be sympathetic here, maybe a sympathetic approach is that the UK is a good case study for mass delusion? Maybe people have been manipulated to feel this way? If they haven’t, then it’s difficult to be sympathetic.
Rachel Reeves@RachelReevesMP

Working people shouldn't bear the brunt of global gas price shocks while electricity generators make exceptional profits. So we're taking action to help break the link between high gas prices and high electricity prices, meaning stronger protection against future energy shocks.

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Geiger Capital
Geiger Capital@Geiger_Capital·
110 foreign men moved into a small town of 8,000 people in the Netherlands against the native population’s will… They are demanding their removal. The same pattern all across the West.
Tom Olthof@olthof_tom

Inwoners van Loosdrecht zijn woedend op de gemeente. Ze zeggen dat ze pas afgelopen vrijdag zijn geïnformeerd over de komst van 110 alleenstaande mannelijke asielzoekers. De ME is aanwezig en af en toe klinkt er zwaar vuurwerk. #azc #loosdrecht

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Faytuks Network
Faytuks Network@FaytuksNetwork·
Japan’s Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, has confirmed that all “defensive equipment” is now eligible to be transferred or sold to foreign partners. The change marks a significant shift in Japanese policy that has been in place since the end of World War II, originally intended to limit the growth of its defense industry.
高市早苗@takaichi_sanae

本日、「防衛装備移転三原則」とその「運用指針」を改正しました。 これまで国産完成品の海外移転は、救難・輸送・警戒・監視・掃海(いわゆる「5類型」)に限定していましたが、今回の改正により、原則として全ての防衛装備品の移転が可能となります。 安全保障環境が厳しさを増す中、今やどの国も1カ国のみでは自国の平和と安全を守ることはできず、防衛装備面でもお互いを支え合うパートナー国が必要です。 現に、日本の防衛装備も、他国からの輸入やライセンス生産を通じ、様々な国によって支えられています。 こうした中、パートナー国からは日本が「専守防衛」の考え方の下で整備してきている防衛装備品に期待する声が寄せられています。 このようなニーズに応え、防衛装備移転を行うことは、これらの諸国の防衛力向上、ひいては、紛争発生の未然防止に貢献することとなり、日本の安全保障の確保につながります。 また、パートナー国が日本と同じ装備品を保有していれば、部品等を相互に融通しあうこともでき、相互の連携が強化されます。 同時に、装備移転に際しては、国際的な輸出管理の枠組みを遵守し、案件ごとに一層厳格に審査を行います。 移転先での適正な管理もしっかり確保します。 更に、移転先は、国連憲章に適合した使用を約束する国に限定します。 戦後80年以上にわたる平和国家としてのこれまでの歩みと基本理念とを堅持することに、全く変わりはありません。 新たな制度の下、より厳正かつ慎重に移転の可否を判断しながら、装備移転を戦略的に推進してまいります。

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Ben Pile
Ben Pile@clim8resistance·
We have substantial coal, oil and gas deposits. The decision not to use them and to phase them out was one made by Parliament, by a green industry lobby sponsored cross-party consensus. The public was not asked, was given no choice, and offered no debate. It's your mess.
Ed Miliband@Ed_Miliband

We’re facing the second fossil fuel shock in less than 5 years. Events far away are once again impacting families and businesses here at home. We can’t go on leaving our country so exposed. The solution lies in clean homegrown power we control. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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