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Gareth Faull @lotsofrobots.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Also Adolf is far more relaxed about it (more practice I guess?). Elon is such a try hard fascist.

Gareth Faull @lotsofrobots.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Exactly. Its a limited work type of visa scheme - if visas like that aren't allowed then what is going to happen to all the other limited work visas we have in place?

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Proportional Commons @propvoting.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

2024-11-29: Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading The 330 MPs voting 'Aye' represented 14,399,763 voters. The 275 MPs voting 'No' represented 12,100,690 voters. Aye majority = 2,299,073 See ALT text.

This chart is a proportional recount of a vote in the House of Commons.

The top two bars show the number of MPs from each party who voted Aye or No in the division.

The bottom two bars show the number of voters those MPs represent. For example, if a party won two million votes in the general election and half of that party's MPs voted in the division, that would represent one million voters.

In many cases, more voters are represented by the MPs on the losing side. This is because seats don't match votes with First Past the Post (FPTP). Recounts are shown in terms of ideal MPs who all represent the same number of people.

The method is not a simulation of a PR elected Commons. It is intended to highlight the distortion of FPTP.

For more details, see the FAQ: https://tinyurl.com/4hxyc8e7

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Gareth Faull @lotsofrobots.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I ridiculous minor conviction that shouldn't be a conviction. A person gets convicted for making a mistake after they were a victim to a crime? Crazy.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

“Some 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers. The revenue per acre is too low to warrant the purchase, unless you are extremely wealthy and are avoiding inheritance tax” yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-af...

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Whose land? Tax avoidance and the broken economics of British farming

Noise in the billionaire press about inheritance tax changes hides a basic fact: the non-farming rich own too much land

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Gareth Faull @lotsofrobots.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

They - Jaguar (@jaguarlandrover.bsky.social) - should have an add campaign that says "Not owned by Elon Musk" and "Our cars actually look good" and only post on Bluesky. www.demandcurve.com/newsletters/... @nealogrady.bsky.social

demandcurve.com

Growth Newsletter #225 from Demand Curve

This weeks topics are: How to ruin your brand with 1 tweet

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 19/11/2024

8. Bluesky is an open ecosystem with an API that is guaranteed to always be open to developers. Developers, we're eager to see what you create! Our API docs are here. docs.bsky.app

docs.bsky.app

Bluesky Documentation | Bluesky

Explore guides and tutorials to the Bluesky API.

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Gareth Faull @lotsofrobots.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Probably because Meghan Markle told him to.

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Gareth Faull @lotsofrobots.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

So the Torys were playing the long game! Was it phase one of making the UK so shit nobody would care enough to become our enemy? Brilliant!

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Gareth Faull @lotsofrobots.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I think "Farmer" in this context is not 'people who work the land to provide food' but 'people who own land that happens to have farms on it and people who are trying to get something out of the situation (grifters)' NOTE: grifters are often called 'populists', which is far too nice sounding.

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Gareth Faull @lotsofrobots.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

There's only about 10 actual farmers in the UK (ok, slight exaggeration... but sounds like most of these 'farmers' are actually landed gentry or similar)

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Gareth Faull @lotsofrobots.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Sorry, but I'm just a naive NZer... What's the difference between aristocracy and royalty? (and aren't all the officers in the MOD from either of the other things?)

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Gareth Faull @lotsofrobots.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I was going to say this was like an extended episode of Colin from Portsmouth :) Some material for @explodingheads.bsky.social

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Gareth Faull @lotsofrobots.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Their work must be pretty important for them to be slacking off, sorry, protesting and blocking all the roads so ambulances can't get through!

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Joe Perticone @cheetah.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I regularly read the Italian papers, both to help with my language proficiency and because they're often funny. Here's how Trump noms are described: Tulsi "Moscow's girlfriend" Hegseth "a Crusade fan" RFK "No-Vax Kennedy Who Betrayed His Family" Noem "shot her dog in cold blood"

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Gareth Faull @lotsofrobots.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

First post on Bluesky! I did try out bluesky a while back, but not many people were on it. It seems to have reached a tipping point now. Looking forward to some sanity.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

In case you missed it ... Here's proof that Brexit is directly responsible for the rise in net immigration. The simple truth is that we need foreign workers – and while EU workers generally came alone, workers from further afield need to bring their families with them. Otherwise, they won't come.

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Gareth Faull @lotsofrobots.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Red lines have worked so well for politicians and Brexit in the past...

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Gareth Faull @lotsofrobots.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The same way he built the wall with Mexico... Which, for some reason, hasn't been mentioned this time.

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