alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 31mby 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 000
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 44minterestingly 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? 100
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 3hfound 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 110
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 29/09/2026idk why people use word/image as the pair corresponding to the sights of hearing and sight 110
Reposted by alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percivalChris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 29/09/2026Central 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... 2195
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i have about 80 minutes to either go eat a crepe or type up some econ 000
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i think we need to convince governments and electorates to take a different tack on regulating The Internet going forward 020
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 29/09/2026two 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 000
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i'm now confused by what exactly the lutheran doctrine of the two kingdoms consists of 000
Reposted by alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percivalDavid H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 29/09/2026In 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... 092
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i 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. 000
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i think some people are asking liturgy to do too much 000
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 4578
Reposted by alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percivalShadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 29/09/2026brought to you by the Financial Times, Bluesky's newspaper of record 051
Reposted by alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percivalalj8.bsky.social @alj8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026…do people not realise how this makes them sound? 2122
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 29/09/2026a classics prof i took called this 'cultural capital' in his opening lecture like 240
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 28/09/2026changing profit margin of related products is one thing that shifts the supply curve! 110
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 28/09/2026already seeing DUP and SF content all over my fb feed 000
Reposted by alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percivalJames Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We should raise taxes 754020
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the eschatological tension inherent in postliberalism always already being here and also never actually arriving 020
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i 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. 000
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 28/09/2026overheard at the seminary: 'i call that a classical confusion between epistomology and ontology' 151
Reposted by alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percivalGeneral Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Absolute first class name of the chap commenting on #ManCity given what's happened to their legal costs www.ft.com/content/88e0... 1285
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i can't read about pelagianism without being reminded of that person on facebook who called it precolonial theology suppressed by empire 141
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 28/09/2026and specifically more costly relative to the alternative (building a really big house with a basement decked out with entertainment systems) 130
Reposted by alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percivalMatt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026when 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/w35824nber.orgDoes Fertility Stabilize At Low Levels? Evidence from Period, Cohort, and Subnational DataFounded 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... 2323
Reposted by alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percivalDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the dollar system is "a global panopticon and choke point for everyone except criminals" 24619
Reposted by alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percivalLeonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 28/09/2026More 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. 418932
Reposted by alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percivalKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 28/09/2026hyperscalers, hold my beer 4321
Reposted by alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percivalBCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 28/09/2026that heavenly country 073
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 27/09/2026i have to say that organ/band smoke/fog machine chart makes me feel incredibly puritan 120
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 27/09/2026it 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 020
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 27/09/2026interesting in how people come to think spelling things like 'sillycon valley' and 'zanu liebore' is witty 010
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 27/09/2026unfortunately *somebody* has figured out how to mangle the phrase 'diminishing marginal utility' into gibberish for going viral online www.instagram.com/reel/DdU5j8X...instagram.comInstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. 010
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 27/09/2026the 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' 160
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 27/09/2026i think i've been tired of life for a very long time 000
Reposted by alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percivalDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026can I get a "are you one hundred per cent sure of that boss" 97618
Reposted by alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percivalRob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Curtice 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) 42811
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 27/09/2026forgot 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' 020
Reposted by alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percivalSara Straw @oneoneder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026How seriously should we take AI safety people when AI safety people think that promoting sex parties is more important? 0111
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 27/09/2026shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! 030
Reposted by alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percivalStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Agree 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”. 1426317
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 27/09/2026ok 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' 000
Reposted by alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percivalrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026think 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! 102071407
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 27/09/2026we're just diving straight into the bondage of the will today 000
alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 27/09/2026installer being awfully presumptive today 020
Reposted by alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percivalTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Aaaaaaaaaaand iiiiiiiiiiiii will always love yoooouuuuu 1293