Jon Hyslop

We have a shed at the end of our garden, where I like to drink beer with my mates. Just had a great drink-up after a long break. Jack White, the rock god, has made the atmosphere there so much over the years. From Dead Leaves through to Icky Thump, it's electrifying, psychedelic and soulful […]

America invades its own capital city. Go USA! Trump is clearly not aware that Rubicon is now available as a delicious mango drink you can cross without leaving your couch!

@LeftistLawyer Does sound like a floater* TBF

*UK joke

Currently, it is hot here, Making the best use of it to ripen Camembert. A cheapo I bought last week from a well known German chain now tastes like it was plucked from the plate of an 18th century aristocrat seconds before the guillotine sliced his bread. Vive la France! And hooray for global […]

@solar cool!

@keefeglise Same dilemma. Having arsed about all morning in the mistaken belief that it would be too wet, do I now venture out just in time to hear the thunder god laugh in my face? Or arse about for another hour vainly waiting for vindication.

@keefeglise Yet

@keefeglise 👌

We're selling our house in #Oxford.

If you know anyone who wants to live somewhere with world-famous solar panels, a big garden, off-street parking with car-charger, and a short bus-ride to the city centre - please send them our advert […]

@keefeglise Yeah, I've stopped 'liking' the memes now.

Any thoughts on this @paulcallaghan.bsky.social l, @tom-clark.bsky.social , @guardianheather.bsky.social , @jburnmurdoch.ft.com , @danneidle.bsky.social , @adamlbrown.bsky.social , @peterlevell.bsky.social? Most of what I read suggests tariffs are batshit crazy and doomed, but YV thinks otherwise.

@GottaLaff They're starting to look like villains in comics, aren't they?

I'm a guy who would rather see people getting along. I'm not up for all of this 'we hate' stuff. Everyone who is escalating that can fuck off. And then come back when they realise they were being dickheads - we still love you, dudes. #DrunkPost #ILoveEveryone

This seems appropriate to share today.

Wait till his senior aides find out they're going to be buried alive alongside his tomb in a giant pyramid built by Palestinian slaves ...

@keefeglise But will you be part of the goes to Weatherspoons for a burger/chips and non-alcoholic drink afterwards club, too?

Disabled people ‘have been betrayed’, 20 years on from groundbreaking Life Chances report Disabled experts who advised the Labour government on its ground-breaking Life Chances report – which was published 20 years ago on Sunday – say successive governments over the last 20 years have a…

I have three articles spinning in my head at the moment, and have been thinking about what connects them. The first @johnpring.bsky.social 's article commemorating the anniversary of Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-peo... 🧵1/n

You were always on min mind ...

@VeroniqueB99 Satan again, then?

Trust issues...

How many Louise Caseys are there? is there a factory somewhere? Or has it just become a job description.

@keefeglise I loved their "The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & The Johnsons". Didn't undertstand how anyone their age could have heard of Robert Wyatt (certainly not the product of recording devices or friends, neither of which had been invented at that point).

@jonglue.bsky.social "We discuss how windfall profits taxes could be used to both lower inequality and accelerate the energy transition as increasing geopolitical tensions and climate impacts portend continued volatility in oil and gas markets" https://peri.umass.edu/images/publication/WP611.pdf

I reposted this earlier in the week, and replied to several of the posts in the thread. Mysteriously none of these are visible in my timeline. I am hoping the fossil fuels industry has not yet found a way to NERF this kind of material.

@heidilifeldman Thanks for sharing. Hard to risk the left would risk a fascist government by pushing this though. Irresponsible IMHO.

So, I read Project 2025 in its entirety (RIP me) to ensure that I am well-educated on what they intend to do. Reader, I have never wanted to be able to open my skull, remove my brain, and wash it off more than during the many hours I spent reading this 900-page horror. I am not exaggerating when I tell you that their wildfire mitigation plan is to just have the timber industry cut down trees (page 308). It is nightmare fuel for emergency managers, disaster researchers, and anyone who does not want to have their life destroyed by a disaster. Not a single emergency management policy in Project 2025 will help minimize impacts and address disaster-related needs across the country. Not one. I want you to know that I looked really hard because we could all use a silver lining. I wrote a lengthy analysis of what Project 2025 proposes for FEMA.

From Samantha Montano (Disasterology):

"So, I read Project 2025 in its entirety (RIP me) to ensure that I am well-educated on what they intend to do. Reader, I have never wanted to be able to open my skull, remove my brain, and wash it off more than during the […]

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Keith (@keefeglise@mastodonapp.uk) 431 Posts, 595 Following, 473 Followers · If any of my toots are about economics it means my account has been hacked. Inane ramblings, music, books, long walks. Please don't follow me if you have less than three types of paprika in your kitchen.

@keefeglise Not entirely true. Better headline would have been "Govt. discontinues petty and legally flawed argument with teenagers." Still, not taking anything away from the FT. Rock on!

Elon should see if he can get the number of Kid Rock's dentist https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/trump-elon-musk-boris-epshteyn-mar-a-lago-sc575tph8?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1731967905 Don't bother with the article - paywall, Murdoch etc.

My view: if that tax treatment is aimed at achieving desired savings for pensioners, we shouldn't take it away by directing their investment [that will be the effect; lowering returns, increasing risk]. If the tax treatment is too generous, increase taxes.

@keefeglise I was on a walking holiday in Wales once, when I saw a small group of 4 people smartly dressed in bright, not-warm-enough clothes walking around the edge of a field. They were trying (and failing) not to get covered in mud. I don't know why, but I always imagined they might have […]