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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

I'm not a fan of podcasts - preferring to read a transcription at my own pace. Which may be a slow read or a quick skim. But I always listen to IfG's output, which is really good and stuffed with information that I don't know and really should. Recommended. Look at the cast!

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

Eggsterminate......... www.bbc.co.uk/archive/edib...

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

👀👀 Not presented as a thread, so look 'em up. 🪐🪐🪐

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

Every day since 2016 the Daily Express has discovered, with accompanying outrage, that leaving the European Union meant leaving the European Union.

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George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

Pretty much my experience of being on a London jury last year.

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

My only contribution to the UK food discourse is that if you want to understand Britain you should be aware that we invented a condiment featuring a delicate, tangy, sweetly sharp blend of tomatoes, molasses, dates, apples, tamarind, allspice, vinegar and raisins and gave it the name “brown sauce”

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Pleased to report that @robert19pearson.bsky.social has signed up - he'll be remembered by other exiles as an ex-pro and now commentator on finance, especially banking in general and the money markets. Same username as on X. Say hallo!

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Anyone in Paris? jeudepaume.org/en/evenement... I'm a huge fan of Ben Rivers - so much so that I even have two of his works on 16mm film, and they don't work too well on an Apple. I'd avoid "The Sky Trembles". Cinematic marmite in Technicolor.

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Rod Potter @yolkregion.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

It's instructive and fun to search for space images, to get a feel for the technical and artistic approaches to #astrophotography. My first Bubble Nebula attempt is pretty far down the list in terms of quality, but it was a still a thrill to capture this jewel (soft focus & wonky stars and all!)

Bubble Nebula in Cassiopeia stacked from 100x60second subframes. I had issues with guiding, so this was unguided. Equipment: Edge HD800 at F7 with ZWO ASI 294MC and Optolong L-Extreme filter.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 15/11/2023

Just going to check out the front page of London’s only major newspaper to see what’s going on in my city of 9m people… JESUS IS EVERYONE OK THERE.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Weird. It's 5th November and in my part of London I've heard just a couple of bangs so far. It's 10.50 pm, and it's the weekend too. In past years a cacophony. My roof a landing site for rockets. Any reasons? Do others see a difference? In the past I could also see/hear public displays. None.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Woo hoo, This will strike everyone as silly, but I'm SO excited. Having replaced my dying Mac laptop (keyboard losing keys, software no longer supported, after only 15 years dammit), I then bought an external DVD/Blu-Ray drive.

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Michael Lewis @opsprof.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

Some wonderful pictures at the National Gallery’s Frans Hals exhibit, including these portraits of a married couple, “reunited” for the first time since they were sold into different collections in the 19th C …

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

The theft of Arabic Numerals by the West is the greatest tragedy of cultural appropriation ever recorded.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 02/11/2023

This is what giving Israel a blank check yields. Death for children. It's really that simple. America is doing this with its weapons transfers and its refusal to hold the Israeli government to account for its war crimes. And yes, this is a war crime.

A Hamas terrorist was taken out of the debris, carried in his father's arms. His face is covered in dust, his body jerking like a sack, his stare blank. It's not clear if he's alive or dead. He is a toddler of three or four, and his desperate father rushed him to the Gaza Strip's Indonesian Hospital, which was already bursting with wounded and dead people.

Another terrorist was extracted from the wreckage. This time she's clearly alive, her fair, curly hair is white with dust; she's five or six, being carried by her father. She looks right and left, as though asking where help will come from.

A man in a tattered vest scribbles here and there, a white sheet folded like a shroud in his hands, covering an infant's body, and he's waving it in despair. It's the body of his son, a newborn baby. This infant hadn't yet had a chance to join Hamas' military headquarters in the Jabalya refugee camp. He had only lived a few days - a butterfly's eternity - and was killed.

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

I like it that the IFS has become so much punchier

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Seminal Chris Dillow post, injecting some needle in to the UK's longstanding Bad Management debate. This drive-by on LinkedIn leadership culture is especially good stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...

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Stefan Gerlach @sgerlach.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Today the SNB Observatory (consisting of Yvan Lengwiler, Charles Wyplosz and me) released a report on whether the SNB should continue to pay interest on bank reserves. The report is here: snb-observatory.ch/en_US/intere...

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Stefan Gerlach @sgerlach.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Here is an opinion piece related to the report by the SNB Observatory published today on whether the SNB should continue to pay interest on bank reserves. themarket.ch/meinung/shou...

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Should the Swiss National Bank pay interest to banks?

The practice of remunerating commercial banks for reserves they hold with the central bank is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the new world of higher interest rates, it should be scrapped.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Incredible message from Simon Case released by Covid Inquiry. I mean we all knew, but to see it set out so clearly by someone who was there...

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Perhaps it's me, but Bsky seems to be quite a British and European thing. Lots of my favourite posters from these regions are here (I was surprised how many), but few from the US and elsewhere so far. Is that because I haven't been around long enough to know, or do others also see it?

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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

My kid just told me he wants to grow up to be a landlord. This one’s broken. I’m gonna try again.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

A very clear, and balanced, letter.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Don't want to start reposting whole threads. But just did this one on twitter and thought worth putting the link here because it's a really important report. x.com/Samfr/status...

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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 24/10/2023

🚨🚨My central banking newsletter is out. It’s on the logical fallacies and tired thinking in the inflation debate The top 10 inflation crimes and misdemeanours 🚨🚨 The top 10 inflation crimes and misdemeanours on.ft.com/45ImJpk

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The top 10 inflation crimes and misdemeanours

[FREE TO READ] The end of price stability has unleashed an epidemic of rigid or sloppy thinking

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