Michael Parsons

Ah, man. That '25 album was a banger.

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Camino Del Sol - YouTube

This morning's listening

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When internet search was brand new the joke was people who didn't get it assumed there was a little guy at the other end sharing links in response like a distance librarian

Turns out they were right, just early

Stopping at nothing to 'reduce the incentives' would imply wrecking everything

Two Russian Blue cats

This is Yoko Ono and Beans on Toast

This is how Rachel Reeves could deliver a progressive budget The chancellor has an opportunity to boost the public purpose and deliver redistribution

UK govt can save over £20bn a year by ending payment of interest on commercial banks’ central bank reserves.

Subsidy implemented after the 2007-08 crash. Banks are very profitable.

Since 2023, the EU stopped paying interest on central bank reserves.

UK can find better uses of £20bn+.

Public goods, built through shared endeavour, enclosed as a source of private wealth, with the immiseration of millions as the effect

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Slightly diminish a band: The Metropolitan

How does private renting fuel wellbeing poverty?  | PBE What does a decent life look like in the UK today? A safe, settled home is a keystone on which individuals and families build a decent quality of life, good health and the connections with place and p...

A hidden wellbeing penalty: private renters are 3 times more likely than homeowners to have persistently low life satisfaction.

Even after accounting for income & health, private renting comes with an estimated wellbeing penalty of around £3,700 per person each year.

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There's a strategy for moving the Overton window wherein you say extreme stuff so even if you don't persuade centrists you recalibrate their sense of where the reasonable compromises lie and thus get things a bit closer to your preferred point of view. My sense is the Right can do this and we can't.

"Cutting off food, water and electricity IS genocidal. All on its own! Before you even consider the comprehensive bombing of civilians for weeks and weeks with stated intention of forcing population transfers. Even simply forcing civilians from north to south Gaza is genocidal!"

It's true, it's awesome, people will high-five you

What a relief.

I’ve had sleepless nights, I’ll tell you.

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What a brilliant initiative. We need, like, millions of community economists - and we do, of course, we have millions of people who understand the economy in both a felt sense and a structured rational sense if not a credentialed academic sense whose voices should be amplified in ways like this

... yes, although mechanisms to stop rent continuing to rise - through a cap - needs to go alongside that to avoid yet more, yet more money that could be building homes or services heading straight back out through rising rents.

and if it stopped, it would take 13 days to reach us, and any life on that cold dark planet would hear it stop, and feel peace for the first time

Do you ever think about that

Why not

Do you ever think about the fact that if sound traveled through space that if it did so at the level it travelled through earth's atmosphere it would be as loud as a jackhammer, all the time;

Do you ever think about the fact that the sun is loud, like really, jackhammer loud.