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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Jose Andres is the absolute GOAT. turbolib who has brought meals to disaster zones after the Haiti earthquake & to war-stricken families in Ukraine and Gaza and now he’s YIMBYposting in the face of Spain’s severe housing shortage

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Incredible to see the "experts" on resolving the housing emergency that Spain is experiencing! On every television! @telediario_tve @ANoticias
@tele5_noticias @noticias_cuatro The reality is that we have politicians who try to create decrees and solutions when they lack the preparation or knowledge to devise a real solution to the problem we're facing.
Spain doesn't have a problem of a lack of decrees. It has a problem of a lack of housing.
And as long as the Government keeps confusing announcing measures with solving problems, we'll keep paying the consequences of its inaction.
Subsidizing demand without increasing supply pressures prices. Regulating a market more and more without building new housing doesn't eliminate scarcity: it manages it. Taxing a type of rental can change incentives, but it doesn't lay a single brick either.

Because housing doesn't get cheaper by distributing scarcity. It gets cheaper by ending it.
Spain needs to build. A lot.
More available land. Permits in months, not years. More density wherever possible. Legal certainty. Much more public housing and also private housing.
But the Government isn't doing what's necessary. It prefers to intervene on the few homes that exist rather than create the conditions for there to be many more. It prefers to present patches as solutions and load the cost of its failure onto owners, developers, and citizens.
The rest can serve to redistribute, protect certain groups, or change incentives. But let's not confuse that with solving the underlying problem.
You don't fix a lack of housing by better distributing the few homes that exist. You fix it by making many more exist.
Less propaganda. Less patches. Less obsession with intervening on the same apartment.
More supply. More construction. More homes.

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James Celis Jones 🇺🇦 @jamescelisjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Caring about things is cringe; scolding people is based

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James Celis Jones 🇺🇦 @jamescelisjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wonder if Gove and Johnson had their time again they’d do things differently. I suspect maybe.

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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...

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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.

California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...

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James Celis Jones 🇺🇦 @jamescelisjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Is anyone doing a think piece on why the Financial Times comments are overrun by pro-Putin propaganda? It’s a bit weird…

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James Celis Jones 🇺🇦 @jamescelisjones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So for 24-25 tax year I paid £592 in self assessment using their governments own HMRC portal. Two letters and two phone calls (during which they acknowledged I had paid the money) I now get an emergency tax code saying they’re collecting it again.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You know who else was obsessed with dancing around on the pinheads of imagined classifications based on where great grandparents were born and what they believed? The Nazis.

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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

43 people wounded, 2 killed by Russian attack on Kyiv today .

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026

If you knew he was abhorant and dangerous but were perfectly happy to let Farage drum up the vote for Brexit because you thought it was the surest route to UK-EFTA or whatever dumb shit you convinced yourself would magically happen, I'm just not that interested in hearing from you in public life.

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James Celis Jones 🇺🇦 @jamescelisjones.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m setting out to listen to the entire back catalogue of War with a Mate; they say this podcast is so ridiculously complicated and self-hating nobody has ever made it all the way through it; this will take several years

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James Celis Jones 🇺🇦 @jamescelisjones.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Can we let City of London police do a reverse takeover of the Met?

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One side of this war has an elected legislature but it doesn't really have any power compared to the supreme leader and the council of guardian jurists, and the other is Iran.

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James Celis Jones 🇺🇦 @jamescelisjones.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Brexit people weren’t the best people

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I did have a look at recent pedestrian deaths last night and it is shocking. It is almost invisible - many of the deaths don't even get reported in the local news. Here are a few of the recent ones:

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James Celis Jones 🇺🇦 @jamescelisjones.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I keep hearing “they’re not listening to the British people”. What these people mean is that the government isn’t doing what precisely they want to do. We had a general election in 2024 and c28m people voted. That’s ‘listening to the people’. These people are thugs and fascists.

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James Celis Jones 🇺🇦 @jamescelisjones.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You watch all those documentaries and dramas about the collapse of liberal governments into fascism in the 30s and it seemed so alien, now so familiar

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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James Celis Jones 🇺🇦 @jamescelisjones.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My contribution to the discourse today is that I am owed an apology for all the times I had to listen to Labour Party types bang on about Cable Street. Whatever it is now, it certainly isn’t an anti-fascist movement.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.

‘The British public decided in the 1930s that they would not tolerate black-shirted militias marching through their streets. They would cherish robust political argument; they would not accept thuggery and intimidation. When Oswald Mosley led his Blackshirts to Cable Street, local people turned them back. A new law – introduced by a Liberal, backed by Labour and carried by a Conservative majority – banned private militias, political uniforms and ‘the use or display of physical force in promoting any political object’. The British people are as determined today as in the 1930s that they will not accept the methods of Mussolini and the Munich Beer Hall. This government will uphold the law and defend the traditions of British democracy’.

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James Celis Jones 🇺🇦 @jamescelisjones.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This isn’t a policing issue this is an insurrection and should have been dealt with accordingly

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kurin.bsky.social @kurin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A. It's a small coal plant and usually running at full power. B. The transmission lines don't go to the city unless it's another state south. C. Most people use far more power than solar provides, especially at night. D. Literally the only beneficiaries are a small number of asthmatics. No one el

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I simply do not understand what's going on in Labour that renders its leaders incapable of finding a TV camera and speaking out against street violence. Even if you assume they agree about immigration, violence is wrong, unpopular AND against the interests of any even vaguely left wing govt.

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James Celis Jones 🇺🇦 @jamescelisjones.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

What the fuck even is this? Water cannons and batons ready plz

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James Celis Jones 🇺🇦 @jamescelisjones.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

So yeah we have fascists on the rise here and both Labour and the Conservatives seem to have absolutely no thoughts about this whatsoever

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/09/2026

It's only collaboration if it's from the 1940-45 era of France; otherwise, it's just:

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"The Falklands have long been core to Argentine identity, appearing on posters and graffiti across the country." - deeply odd country

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Milei dials up Argentina’s claim to Falklands

Domestic politics, oil drilling and UK-US tensions drive libertarian leader to amp up sovereignty dispute

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

They've literally never been there! It's like, what next, me saying to you "Mark, you don't understand. Your teapot is of great emotional significance to me". It's deranged!

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James Celis Jones 🇺🇦 @jamescelisjones.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I don’t know if I’m defective as a human being but can someone explain to me why your average person in Argentina would care the slightest amount about the Falklands? I can’t imagine they want to go and live there

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In the BBC, the Electoral Commission and Ofcom, the UK's far-right has three very willing little helpers. But it does not have to be that way. All it needs is a government to remind them of their responsibilities. Sadly, we don't have one of those.

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Possibly the most shocking revelation in this whole thing is that Nigel Farage was at one point in Clacton.

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James Celis Jones 🇺🇦 @jamescelisjones.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“The relationship we have with James is a really discrete one” is kind of up there with “we’re currently clean on opsec”

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James Celis Jones 🇺🇦 @jamescelisjones.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Is the whole of UK Bluesky watching this documentary?

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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Fun fact: during WWII when Britain was rationing food and wanted to ensure good nutrition for all (which was a big part of the reason for the rationing) - one of the first things they did was decrease beef and lamb production because they knew that high veg diets are a more efficient use of space.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Can I shock you? I like the war on motorists

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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.

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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In Devon County Hall *the radiators* are listed. Makes low-carbon heating almost impossible. The rules are absolutely insane and need to go in the bin ASAP

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Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

No he should...never be allowed to drive ever again?

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 19/08/2026

This stopped me in my tracks. An independent study by @qmul.bsky.social has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew faster in Central London and have now caught up with children outside of the capital. Incredible.

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James Celis Jones 🇺🇦 @jamescelisjones.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Feel free to pile onto me in my mentions but the risk of a false positive (that can be corrected, as it was here) is a price absolutely worth paying because shoplifting is a scourge

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Another day, another impeachable offense: The White House ordered federal agencies to block resources to Colorado because it had punished an election denier. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...

As President Trump fumed late last year over Colorado's imprisonment of Tina Peters, a convicted election denier, a White House special assistant organized an urgent "brainstorm call."
The goal, outlined in an email sent to officials at five federal agencies, was to "prioritize Colorado for the purposes of ensuring grants and federal support are in line with administration priorities," the assistant, Emily Underwood, wrote on Dec.
15.
"Please come prepared to discuss immediate actions that your department or agency can take with respect to Colorado," Ms. Underwood added.
The next day, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Energy, whose representatives were invited to the brainstorm, announced they were canceling hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants for Colorado projects.

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James Celis Jones 🇺🇦 @jamescelisjones.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’m okay with the push alert you should all stop using bbqs

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