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@joseph-yossarian.bsky.social

Trying to live my best life as the world goes to hell in a handcart

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It is embarassing not to see the BBC pulling up Reform leaders claiming that Nathan Gill was just some fan who got photos taken with Farage - he was an MEP for them & their leader in Wales while taking cash from Russia to act against the UK! Literally the very basics of your job to point this out

10.10.2025 14:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 918    ๐Ÿ” 334    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 40    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14

Do intelligent people listen to Radio 4 anymore?

Rotating eye person Humphrys finished it for me.

10.10.2025 11:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A personal vendetta against the committee members will be next.

10.10.2025 11:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m sure a garden bridge over the Thames will fix it

10.10.2025 11:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The ghastliness of proposing removing stamp duty by cutting welfare by ยฃ14bn.

These are empty, soulless people.

Removal of stamp duty would simply raise house prices - another gift to affluent house owners

10.10.2025 11:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thatโ€™s nothing compared with the cost of Baileyโ€™s mishandling of QE

10.10.2025 10:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ecstatic

10.10.2025 10:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thoughts and prayers to the great Orange peace president

10.10.2025 09:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I can help feeling that the country is a better place without the Dysons and Ratcliffes with their faux patriotism.

10.10.2025 07:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 66    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

People have made up their minds about Starmer. He might well continue as PM for another 4 years but nothing will change.

Majorโ€™s fate was sealed on Black Wednesday.

Starmerโ€™s fate has been sealed by his serial underperformance.

10.10.2025 07:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œDecentโ€ would be the title I would use

10.10.2025 07:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

He won but they cheated

10.10.2025 06:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Donโ€™t tell Don junior where this leads

10.10.2025 06:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

America is marching backwards to 19th and 20th century technologies.

10.10.2025 06:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Essays will definitely win votes

10.10.2025 06:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

At this point nothing will surprise me. Bigger organisations than the Nobel Committee have bent the knee and kissed the ring.

10.10.2025 05:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s different for him. Only Democrats have to abide by norms.

It will be interesting if the Democrats ever get into power again, in maybe 20 or 30 years time, how they explain that โ€œnormsโ€ prevent them from doing anything meaningful.

10.10.2025 05:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

True. Of course shoes and handbags.

I guess itโ€™s the men that collect the truly weird stuff like soda siphons, monopoly games etc

10.10.2025 05:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Talk to any collector and the ideal size for his collection is N+1, where N is its current size.

It doesnโ€™t matter how big or small N is.

Completion can never be achieved.

10.10.2025 05:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

All spontaneously put up by adoring Indian citizens and nothing whatsoever to do with an authoritarian, controlling government

10.10.2025 05:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Too weak and afraid of their own shadow

10.10.2025 05:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Collecting must be some aberrant mutation from our hunter-gatherer past.

Odd that itโ€™s middle aged men it affects.

You donโ€™t find obsessive female collectors.

10.10.2025 05:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Total banana republic stuff

09.10.2025 20:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A horse with a hump

09.10.2025 20:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

?

09.10.2025 20:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It could be that sheโ€™s a senior officer in the provisional wing of antifa and that ICE has rescued America from a major outrage. We should give them the benefit of the doubt.

09.10.2025 20:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just like Vietnam

09.10.2025 20:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s a great shame that the European chemical industry upon which his fortune rests is immolating.

A great many people will lose their jobs in this destructive cycle of capitalism, as the petrochemical industry moves to China and the US. Even the Middle East petrostates struggle to make a bean.

09.10.2025 20:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You only have his word for it that he passed.

Trump always lies.

09.10.2025 20:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Blair is a one man contaminated brand

09.10.2025 20:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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