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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival

@lappypercival.bsky.social
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chairman of the overseas committee for the promotion and defence of british interests | nanny-statist | anglican protestant (TEC) | grad student somewhere (econ) Philippians 2:12-13 | Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever.

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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 31m
by the end of the year every british politician will have been asked to rate or describe the hotness of another british politician of the preferred gender on at least one podcast
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 44m
interestingly here i have to say many if not most countries in the world have a definite national 'face of the 20th century', it's just that america and britain kind of don't?
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 3h
found an art book about genocides while hiding in the bookstore waiting for the bus and while i accept artistic licence on how precise the stories have to be and how they wanted the convention to act like a magic spell i can't take the font choice or the blackout poetry seriously
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 3h
very teenaged me core
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
idk why people use word/image as the pair corresponding to the sights of hearing and sight
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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 29/09/2026
Central banks always think interest rate rates operate on demand. But what if tighter policy makes people want to work more? That labour supply effect can be large. People with high debts worked more when Australia tightened, for example My newsletter: www.ft.com/content/a060...
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i have about 80 minutes to either go eat a crepe or type up some econ
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i think we need to convince governments and electorates to take a different tack on regulating The Internet going forward
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
two hits on the social sciences (i mean i know they're not talking about mine but i have the ability to extend analogies) at the talks this morning
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i'm now confused by what exactly the lutheran doctrine of the two kingdoms consists of
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David H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 29/09/2026
In this week's Economist / YouGov Poll, Democratic candidates have a 16-point lead among likely voters. That's bigger than they ever got in 2018. My @today.yougov.com writeup, with lots of charts: yougov.com/en-us/articl...
A line chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Democrats have a bigger lead among likely voters in 2026 than they had with a similar group at any point in the 2018 midterms."

The chart has the sub-headline: "In the elections for U.S. Congress in November, who will you vote for in the district where you live? (% who say the Democratic candidate minus the % who say the Republican candidate)."

The chart has the note: "Note: 2026 likely voters are U.S. adult citizens who meet two criteria: (1) They either are registered to vote or say they will be registered to vote by the November elections; and (2) They either say they will definitely vote in November or say they have already voted.
The 2018 group is defined as similar to 2026 likely voters: registered voters who said they will definitely vote in that year's congressional elections. Responses of "other," "not sure," "I would not vote," and "I will not vote" are not shown."
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i don't understand men who style their hair in a way that makes it look like the strands are all wet and clumpy. reminds me of this.
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i think some people are asking liturgy to do too much
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'i want a comic book hero who is really good at writing grant proposals' lmao bluesky
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Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 29/09/2026
brought to you by the Financial Times, Bluesky's newspaper of record
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alj8.bsky.social @alj8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
…do people not realise how this makes them sound?
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
a classics prof i took called this 'cultural capital' in his opening lecture like
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
changing profit margin of related products is one thing that shifts the supply curve!
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
already seeing DUP and SF content all over my fb feed
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We should raise taxes
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the eschatological tension inherent in postliberalism always already being here and also never actually arriving
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i like drawing comparisons between things happening in the church and things happening outside the church. for example, interpretations of marx and hcm's writings. or when i write my fictional country as short of heaven but still somewhat better than anything in this world.
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
wow relatable
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
overheard at the seminary: 'i call that a classical confusion between epistomology and ontology'
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Absolute first class name of the chap commenting on #ManCity given what's happened to their legal costs www.ft.com/content/88e0...
“Modelling the impact of Everton’s overspending in the Burnley case was very complex, and that concerned just a single season,” said Fred Snowball, a dispute partner at law firm Macfarlanes.
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i can't read about pelagianism without being reminded of that person on facebook who called it precolonial theology suppressed by empire
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
and specifically more costly relative to the alternative (building a really big house with a basement decked out with entertainment systems)
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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
when fertility has fallen low, it has tended to keep falling. there is no robust evidence for fertility rebound, or for a stable equilibrium point www.nber.org/papers/w35824
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Does Fertility Stabilize At Low Levels? Evidence from Period, Cohort, and Subnational Data
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the dollar system is "a global panopticon and choke point for everyone except criminals"
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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
More generally, in Western Europe we’ve collectively decided that if we ignore Russian hybrid influence operations hard enough, Putin is just going to get bored and move on.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 28/09/2026
hyperscalers, hold my beer
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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
that heavenly country
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i have to say that organ/band smoke/fog machine chart makes me feel incredibly puritan
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
oh no
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
it would be interesting for me to make a list of years that i remember some event happened for each country whose history i care about
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
interesting in how people come to think spelling things like 'sillycon valley' and 'zanu liebore' is witty
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
unfortunately *somebody* has figured out how to mangle the phrase 'diminishing marginal utility' into gibberish for going viral online www.instagram.com/reel/DdU5j8X...
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
the university in its various forms have evolved to survive under various political and technological regimes and IMV the main continuity is 'every society needs to train clerical workers', usually with the added dosage of 'imbuing such people with the right ideologies'
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i think i've been tired of life for a very long time
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
can I get a "are you one hundred per cent sure of that boss"
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Curtice identifies a key red flashing light in the MRPs - Labour are falling furthest in seats where Labour are first and con, ref or Nat are second. Labour therefore do a lot *worse* than uniform swing would predict (having done much better than uniform swing in 2024)
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
forgot that if i dive into humanities work i'm going to face up with people using 'colonise' to describe 'country music becoming popular in ireland'
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Sara Straw @oneoneder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How seriously should we take AI safety people when AI safety people think that promoting sex parties is more important?
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Agree with this. The equally annoying counterpart are the people in Eddie’s replies going “I’m proud not to have heard of it!” You shouldn’t be proud not to know something! You should just go “it’s a big world”.
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ok i might be libelling at least one of the parties here but this distinction reads to me like it's alongside the same axis as the difference between the synoptic and johannine perspectives on what counts as 'exaltation'
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
think all straight people who discoursed at great and punishing length about a western mass lesbian bar should have to give equal airtime to this. it’s your own community this time!
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
we're just diving straight into the bondage of the will today
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alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
installer being awfully presumptive today
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Aaaaaaaaaaand iiiiiiiiiiiii will always love yoooouuuuu
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