jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026This is insane. Clever Girl is Duncan Robinson. Do you guys understand. The Economist's Bagehot columnist is the band that my uni girlfriend sent me to explain what math rock is. 131
jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 28/04/2026This is a good way to design a policy. Subsidise the behaviour you want to encourage, and use the tax system to achieve your unrelated distributional goals. Unfortunately, the behaviour being encouraged here is fossil fuel consumption... 020
jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 23/04/2026I recently attended a party dressed as this encounter 010
jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 11/04/2026The Hungarian Deep State doesn't want you to know this, but you can make your old fashioned AND your Unicum taste better by combining the two (10ml Unicum in place of bitters) 000
jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I do think the American people are trying a hell of a lot harder than I am to stop American imperialism 000
jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Do you think there are too many people alive? Then die 🤷♂️ 000
jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 03/04/2026You'd get better macro-economic effects by keeping fuel duty and using the windfall to increase train and bus frequencies (e.g. by buying/subsidising additional buses & trains) Given the sheer braindead stupidity of the other parties, it's a shame the Lib Dems haven't distinguished themselves here 010
jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 20/03/2026UK officially no longer the stupidest country in Europe :) 000
jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Trump has comedic timing like the dog at the end of "Hey Bulldog" that makes everyone hoot n holler 000
jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 17/03/2026If you're wondering why NCP went out of business, the obvious answer is "this is a stupid business model" You just don't need this much parking in central London (inside the congestion zone no less!) 101
jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 24/02/2026For the record, you actually do already need a licence for that 000
jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 21/02/2026"Wahaca" is pretty straightforwardly an embarrassing spelling. It is basically an insult to British patrons, who are not trusted to learn how to pronounce a foreign word. Americans, however, actually cannot be trusted to pronounce foreign words, as with "Birming-ham" and "Noder Daym" (Notre Dame). 310
jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Story about left-behindest-Britain: Horden. Horden's railway station opened in 2020 (19 mins to Sunderland, 41 mins to Newcastle or Middlesborough) A full 750 square foot terraced house goes for just £50k (five zero) even 5 minutes walk from the station Sometimes, you just have to admit defeat... 100
jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Inside you there are two Groks: one has horny, one has antisemitism. You have horny antisemitism. 000
jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Farmers protests at 6:30am driving past my house. I no longer believe in free speech 010
jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 18/11/2025"Going for pensioners" is good. Pensioners are the richest people in the country. The median 25-44 year old has £52k The median 65-74 year old has £338k By contrast: People with disabilities are 4% poorer than those without. People born outside the UK are 60% poorer than those born here. 100
jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 08/09/2025When I worked at a video game company, we accidentally released a game that basically had the difficulty turned off. Would be funny if Silksong accidentally got released with "difficulty=DebugTestMaximum" or some such. 010
jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Fun trick: ask someone how to say "why" in their language, and then ask how to say "for what" or "what reason" as the realisation hits them. Works with Farsi and Russian. Russian even has "for this" for "because". Doesn't work with English's "why", but we do at least have "wherefore"/"therefore". 010
jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Rush: - The woke left are going to make guitars illegal and ban the word "I" - 'Live for yourself. Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more' - Song about a guy using his fortune to pay homeless people to beat each other up Nevertheless, bangers from the 1st album to the 19th 000
jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 04/08/2025What if I'm nostalgic for the golden age of uncontrolled immigration into the United States 020
jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 22/05/2025If they introduce through-running commuter rail to New York, I may be forced to concede that New York is better than London... 110
jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 22/11/2024November substack is up! Not as fun as the past few: motivated mostly by exhaustion, and a righteous disdain for millionaire rural landowners. Nevertheless, HERE'S a budget with some chest hair (Property Tax, UBI, and nerd stuff) open.substack.com/pub/distants... 010
jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Greens seeking to preserve tax loophole for millionaire landowners. Curious. 010
jakeolenick.bsky.social @jakeolenick.bsky.social · 28/09/2023Join the dakotas and cut new jersey in half. Benefits: 1. Bipartisan. Each party loses 2 senators 2. Dakota would be soooo big 3. Solve the bob menendez bribe scandal 4. New Jersey dumb state anyway 000
