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Filo25

@filo25.bsky.social
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Center left NE Londoner, politics and Economics nerd. #LFC #NYGiants

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 18/03/2025
huh, really fascinating piece
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Would love to see #Glastonbury artists doing collaborations decided by an FA Cup style draw - "number 18.......that's Rod Stewart, and he'll be duetting with.......85........Charli XCX"
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kristo jorgenson @kris.to · 27/02/2025
USB-C: 🚀 we created one cable to replace all! 🤖 oh ya each cable charges at a different speed, and others do data, there's also thunderbolt! and don't forget video... ⁉️ tell them apart? no they all look exactly the same! even your computer can't tell you the difference! isn't that great!
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 21/02/2025
Trump is on the brink of betraying Ukraine and the UK. Britain must lead in Europe by increasing defence spending immediately and all political parties should get round the table to make that happen. I fear what happens if we don't take this step.
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Darren Jones MP @darrenpjones.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
For the first time in 17 years, government will review how every pound of tax payers money is being spent. In the spending review, we will make sure public spending delivers our Plan for Change.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
If you haven't read it yet this is a very good opening substack from @mjrobbins.bsky.social. And this issue of good regulations building up into something bad is generally applicable and hard to stop.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
At some point people will look back at the rates available in the 2010s and be utterly bemused that we didn’t take the chance to hugely upgrade our national infrastructure. on.ft.com/4fNdIQN
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UK long-term borrowing costs hit highest level since 1998
Investors worry economy faces increasing risk of stagflation
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Tom Baldwin @tombaldwin66.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Completely agree. The BBC is letting itself down badly by treating this as a story to be balanced between two competing claims. But Musk’s argument should be treated with the disdain reserved for people who think Covid vaccines implanted microchips in our brains or that climate change is a hoax.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
my prediction is that 2025 will be the year BlueSky truly comes of age as people realise their main social media feed doesn't need to be a permanent toxic bin fire
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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 19/12/2024
The Guardian long read on the deranged world of Sam Smiths pubs is as good as everyone says, an incredible study in self-defeating petty tyranny www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...
One reason so many Samuel Smith pubs are shuttered is how difficult it is for the brewery to find staff willing to accept the diktats of Humphrey Smith. In 2019, Smith sacked Eric and Tracey Lowery, the couple managing the Fox and Goose in Droitwich Spa, reportedly after he overheard a customer tell his wife a dirty joke. “He said he heard a man talking to a woman and the man swore. It wasn’t aimed at him,” one witness told the Mail Online. “He’s shut the pub for one swear word.”
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 06/12/2024
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The 44⚽️ @thefortyfour.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Accrington Stanley player, Josh Woods, reacting to getting Liverpool in the FA Cup🤩 This is what the competition means!❤️
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Brian Moore @brianmoore666.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I'm in favour of rejoining the EU but in recent days some pro-EU accounts have become increasingly shrill in demanding our Govt choose between the US and EU. Recently I've had several meetings with very senior services people.
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
There is no level at which what Badenoch did is not more serious than what Haigh did. news.sky.com/story/tory-v...
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Tory vice-chair Kemi Badenoch admits hacking Labour MP's website
The Saffron Walden MP, a rising star, is apologising for accessing the website and changing it to "say nice things about Tories".
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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Despite the pain of the assisted dying debate, it has been good to disagree with people in good faith - and that’s because there’s compassion on both sides. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
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Bluesky Safety @safety.bsky.app · 15/11/2024
Bluesky has grown by over 3M people in the last week — welcome! With every wave of growth naturally comes an increase in moderation reports. Here’s a status report on how the Trust & Safety team is handling it:
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/11/2024
well crikey it's done, deleted just under 110,000 DMs from my Twitter account, all sent over the course of 14 years, the great burning of my own personal library of Alexandria, fuck Elon Musk today and forever
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
"why are you flouncing off X, you need to talk to people who don't agree with you" "well yes but I'm not sure @jewkiller144592 is open to Socratic dialogue"
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
In the last few years, HMRC charged 420,000 people with £100 late filing penalties when they earned too little to pay tax. People earning under £6k received twice as many penalties as people earning more than £83k. Rachel Reeves should reform the penalties system.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 13/08/2024
"It's simple, Prime Minister: X is for people who think that Britain is about to lock up everyone who isn't woke, Bluesky is for people who think that sounds like a terrific idea, and Threads is for people who have no idea what either of the others are on about."
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 13/08/2024
As a beneficiary of BuzzFeed’s fuck-ups in this area, it is always a delight when US tech firms consistently fail to realise they actually have to abide by European countries’ employment laws. www.theguardian.com/technology/a...
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Ex-Twitter worker wins £470,000 for unfair dismissal over Musk ‘hardcore’ email
Gary Rooney was told he had resigned voluntarily by not replying to the billionaire’s email about Twitter 2.0
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 14/08/2024
It's a shame Reach's local news sites are unreadable due to adverts because they deserve a click for this piece of excellent court reporting. www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...
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