Claude Lynch

Reverting to type via Bluesky word cloud (but also see: horse)

See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest

Hope is here.

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We’ve mapped the mansion tax.

You can see who's paying - which constituency, which postcode - and how many "mansions" are near you.

Full interactive map here 👇

Government to ditch day-one unfair dismissal policy from workers’ rights bill Flagship Labour plan to be replaced with six-month threshold after Peter Kyle vows to not let businesses ‘lose’ under new law

This is the guy who spent his last ministerial role kow-towing to lobbyists from AI and big tech. You could tell from the way he interviewed on this subject that he never sincerely believed in it.

Does anyone in the current government?

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

NEW | Our latest research exposes just how lightly private jet users are taxed — and how much the UK is losing because of it.

It’s time the biggest polluters paid their share.

The words GENERAL STRIKE with a large 100 placed behind

kind of obsessed that the Centenary of the general strike has a logo

The pope, at the head of a dense crowd of clergy, leaning into a microphone with his eyes closed as if singing.

I WAS LOOKING FOR A JOB
AND THEN I FOUND A JOB
AND HEAVEN KNOWS I’M MISERABLE NOW

A map with gritters on it called William Wall-ice, grit tok, Gritney Spears and The Grittist Snowman

A map with gritters on it called I've grit a crush on you, grit a bit, polar patroller, I want to break freeze

A map with gritters on it called bear chills, thistle do icely

A map with gritters on it called Gritallica, Olaf snow free roads, salt shaker and sled zepplin

It's the most wonderful time of the year: Scotland's gritter tracker is back! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❄️🧊

www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...

CASA academics posting AnyAustin?? I never thought my work and home lives would collide like this

‘Build, baby, build’: the pro-development Labour activists — and their backers in big business

So brazen, they celebrate temporary eclipse of Angela Rayner. Labour Yimby now a membership organisation dedicated to sidelining social & affordable housing

I could say this is (further?) evidence of south west London being the n-th circle of hell, but this could just as easily be Angel, Camden or Clapham.

We need to call this out before it's everywhere.

Norbert the singing and dancing nordic pine. He's slightly cursed and pretty depressing

Why does Norbert look like this Christmas will be his last

For the doubters: the first five return tickets have EXACTLY THE SAME CONDITIONS

A big pile of sick on a screen.

yeah that's a functional ticketing structure

Forget Looking for Growth cleaning tube carriages, this is the real good stuff.

🔔 New study🔔 What is the relationship between air transport and economic growth in Europe? Dr Felix Pot and I break it down like never before in our new report for @neweconomics.bsky.social and T&E: /1

I'd absolutely love to see someone do this for London.

Jesus Christ.

This is not the gift of a government. This is the gift of the sun. And it has some really interesting implications… #actuallyexistingsolarpunk

This totally lines up with her press releases as transport secretary. So much bigging up SAF... really makes you wonder if that was the reason for the change

The header image chosen by the BBC also appears to be AI generated, ft. strange non-chairs, partially abled people with no legs, a nonsense table with a person holding its parasol up

New city on Suffolk and Cambridgeshire border proposed - BBC News The men behind the idea say it will be entirely filled with affordable homes.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This isn't a serious proposal.

It's a grift from a think tank called Looking for Growth, with connections to Dominic Cummings and Katie Lam.

The housing crisis is real. This proposal is anything but.

I don't usually go in for Ian Dunt, but it's good to see him calling this out.

Miliband being shunted off stage every time he *actually does his job* fighting the climate crisis is really insidious - and mind-bogglingly counter-productive, given this is a priority for the British public!!

I was opening a bunch of PDFs in acrobat yesterday and my computer's fans were going wild. I have a lot of RAM so this was surprising to me. Turns out Acrobat now generates AI summaries by default when you open a file, instead of just asking if you want one (which I never do).

The full quote: "I think the sublime confusion is from nineteen to twenty-nine. You think you are late for everything, you're a has been, nothing is happening, there's no opportunity for you, the world is closed, everything is a disaster, you wanna die. And then you're thirty. " "You young people are in the exact age of desperation. I never felt more done and old than in my twenties. I'd say 'life has passed me and I did nothing.' But I'm here to tell you that's not true: you have a lot of fucking time."

I love Guillermo del Toro calling ages 19 to 29 "sublime confusion"

A thread from 2018 I made on the other place.

Venice, Italy

Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.

Did a new one

A picture of a foggy street

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

After some major bodging I have managed to deploy
@chris-larkin.bsky.social's code to generate LTNs for Ipswich! This is a really cool code base I'd recommend to anyone (it comes with its own visualiser!) siskiyoucedar.github.io/LTN%20Detect...

The Nation's Most Central Location was an absolute killer. Didn't realise he had another one out!