Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Worst conceivable case Musk still remains a multi-billionaire. But I'm going enjoy the histrionics and flailing as his oh-so-fragile ego is pummelled relentlessly, as his power fades and his businesses fail. Such sweet, sweet joy. 000
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 15/05/2025FFS. They did that first, this is a reply to it. bsky.app/profile/ukcl... 1250
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Fair point. I think I need to ponder this some more. Removing the weird spike in marginal rates around £100k income would inevitably be balanced by adjustments elsewhere, but this could be paid for by shifting from 45% to 50% at the top end. Losers, yes, but not sympathetic ones. 030
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Because ANY change, not matter how sensible, will have winners and losers, and the losers will be endlessly paraded by the media as a totem of Labour incompetence. Less risk with business tax, perhaps, but structural changes to personal tax is a political shitstorm in the making. 220
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Given they did more harm than good, repeatedly, then that's not necessarily a bad thing (as long as they keep providing key defence systems). 020
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 02/05/2025It's like a melange of croquet, cricket, and bowls. It's the way there's no punchline that makes it genius, somehow capturing the absurdity - and joy - of English summer sports. 110
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 24/04/2025"Let's set fire to all our soft power, aggravate our allies, and then start a trade war." What. A. Plan. 0654
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 24/04/2025That explains why Zuckerberg is living on toast in a one-bedroom apartment and crying himself to sleep each night. Should have quit when he was ahead. 000
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 23/04/2025What larks. "The saying "trousers are better with treacle" is a Cockney rhyming slang phrase for "trouble". Treacle refers to treacle tart, which rhymes with "trouble," and "trousers" is just a placeholder word to make the rhyme. The saying is used to imply that someone is a source of trouble." 010
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Why would any country want to attract elite computer science graduates? Get him out of the USA! [Sent from the UK. He's more than welcome here] 050
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Indeed. For what was primarily a reassertion of the historical rights of women, to view the judgement solely through a trans lens - with or without the tasteless glee - is missing a rather large point. 0110
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 17/04/2025I agree it would be hard (thankfully). Trying to push it through without ratification from the States would run a real risk of secession. 110
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 17/04/2025With a large enough majority, many governments can change a written constitution, as in the USA (the Amendments). So having a written constitution is not the silver bullet you seem to think it is. 200
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 10/04/2025The yellow cross (on the poster, not your hat) has strong KKK vibes. I do not consider that to be good. 0160
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Is this one of those "normal for Norfolk" things, but in Swedish? 010
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 09/04/2025This is a hard one to answer, but I'd be delighted to hear your response: If you were High Overlord and Dictator for Life of the EU, how would *you* respond? 230
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 09/04/2025On the other hand, went to Disneyland Paris last year and got piss wet through, for three days in a row. [Thankfully it's the only Disneyland in the world that has booze. God bless the French.] 020
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 09/04/2025"the only country that escalated on trade" where to even start with that... 020
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 09/04/2025I [genuinely] take delight in how much you're invested in exposing and disparaging him. A bright spot in a dark world. 020
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 03/04/2025If 50% of UK product originates in China then 50% of Chinese tariff rate will apply when exporting to US. * It's much more complicated than this, but that's the general idea. Google "rules of origin" if you are brave. 100
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Markets close at 4pm. Let's them sleep on it rather than create an instapanic. 000
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 31/03/2025He saw "Greenland" and turned up with a set of golf clubs, didn't he. 000
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 27/03/2025So a gearbox made in America but using gears imported from Mexico and a casing made in the Philippines would be, say 70% American. So even if a US car maker buys the gearbox from an American gearbox maker, it will still attract a tariff cost which will hit the purchaser. Is that right? 120
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 25/03/2025You have thought he would have learned from the binfire Twitter became when he fired half the staff. 000
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Apt, for once.media.tenor.coma cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine . 020
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 13/03/2025media.tenor.coma woman wearing a hat with feathers and flowers on itALT: a woman wearing a hat with feathers and flowers on it 060
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 07/03/2025A majority of Democrats do not believe in allowing bio males in women's sports. His position on this is sensible and neuters so many attack lines. 421
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Seems to have an affinity for a certain citrus fruit, mind. 020
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 03/03/2025"I never have gaffes... I never have to clarify.. Because I think very carefully about what I say" - Kemi Badenoch Anyone who says that with a straight face is incapable of self-reflection. The arrogance and ego are off the chart. 010
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Until both parties realise that chasing reform is strengthening, not challenging them, we're going to see more of this garbage. Tories in particular are unrecognisable as the party they were, and probably should be. 100
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Fun fact: if you watch 12 hours of "biased" BBC footage per day it would take you over 3 years to watch the 14,000 hours mentioned in the article. "Get a life" doesn't even come close. 190
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Still a ceremonial county with its own lord-lieutenant! [Also shorter to write rather than listing both, as they did with Norfolk and Suffolk] 010
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 04/02/2025GOP would be fine. They be forced to shift their platform and rhetoric to the middle ground to have a chance at power. The US system does not realistically allow a third party to arise. 110
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Also a cool animation of Alaska to India from t'other place. x.com/A16XJD/statu...x.comx.com 020
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 30/01/2025I always think of great circles as "the line you get if you stretch a piece of string across a globe". 111
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 21/01/2025I love that movie. The second one lacked the zero-budget charm but was redeemed by the amazing Hammer Girl scene. 110
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 20/01/2025I hear Mr Reeves has a company that makes pink stetsons and phallic novelty straws. 000
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 20/01/2025I honestly can't think of another person I hold, or have ever held, in more contempt than that man. 020
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Yeah. It could be ignored when everyone was getting richer fast (50s-80s). Even when people were getting richer more slowly (90s-00s). But when the country is stagnating you can't get around the fact that US politics is very, very broken. 000
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 17/01/2025'tis the U.S. of A so probably a NASCAR track with Trump in a monster truck belching black smoke*. * the truck, not Trump 020
Newton's Apple @newtonapple.bsky.social · 17/01/2025media.tenor.coma man wearing glasses , a hat , and a t-shirt is sitting in a chair and talking .ALT: a man wearing glasses , a hat , and a t-shirt is sitting in a chair and talking . 000
