Reposted by Murray CarrLee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social · 6h"The ruling party"? A turn of phrase normally reserved for authoritarian regimes 151
Reposted by Murray CarrJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes 871026239
Reposted by Murray CarrSteve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!forbes.comKnobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of ManyAuto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back. 21691751683
Reposted by Murray CarrTyler King @tyleraking.com · 06/10/2026Everywhere you look billionaires are telling us to accept suffering as the price of their individual whims and wealth and I implore you to get real fucking comfortable with acting up. 013045
Reposted by Murray CarrJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/10/2026I’d suggest the genre of profile journalism has some shortcomings 31192270
Reposted by Murray CarrJohn O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Andrew Neil (an economic migrant to France) and his 'Ministry of Truth' joke. A reminder: Neil set up GBNEWS, the UK Far Right Disinformation Channel which hates 'foreigners' and the 'wealthy elite' ... but is funded from abroad by wealthy, elite foreigners. 4416
Reposted by Murray CarrDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability 512311837
Reposted by Murray CarrPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Around 40% of the world's dirty money, proceeds of corruption and crime, is laundered through the UK, its Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories. Successive govts promise new laws and enforcement but they make little impact. Why do govts continue to fail? Watch the Minister's reply. 19307152
Reposted by Murray CarrDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026There are bigger things to be angry about but tech's pivot from "no more ads if you pay" to "fuck you, pay and get ads anyway — and by the way the ads are so much worse now" always feels outrageous 4359285
Reposted by Murray CarrBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 19/11/2025It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend 121107772041
Reposted by Murray CarrVAL🦴HAL @valhal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Made a Deadly Spawn inspired pumpkin 🎃 The teeth are potatoes that I also carved 231003237
Reposted by Murray Carrflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026An entire politics and worldview animated by a lively terror that somewhere, somebody might be eating a free cheese sandwich 2993949701
Reposted by Murray Carrdaryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com... 2845501916
Reposted by Murray CarrDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/09/2026Yelling "stop the boats!" as I charge in to rob this NatWest at gun point so that I can later call the Home Secretary as a character witness and the BBC will spend two weeks telling all my potential future jurors how legitimate my concerns were. 242672684
Reposted by Murray CarrDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026If "legitimate concerns" were considered to excuse illegitimate methods, then nobody from Just Stop Oil or Palestine Action would have been arrested. So we know it doesn't. In fact that phrase is only ever used in one context. Only in that context is uniformed mob intimidation "peaceful protest" 211106400
Reposted by Murray CarrByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026“My profession smiles at hard-right figures when they walk into a TV studio and are given a disproportionate amount of air time to make their fact-free assertions while nodding along to their scapegoating of the weak.” ✍️ Patrick Howsebylinetimes.comThe BBC Is Just Nodding AlongThe corporation's news coverage has lost its soul as a bulwark against unaccountable power and extremism, writes a former BBC News producer 36868354
Reposted by Murray Carrceej @ceej.online · 03/09/2026I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on 193218924413
Reposted by Murray CarrEmber @ember-energy.org · 03/09/2026Europe can unlock 25 GW of new renewables by adding them to existing hydropower sites, bypassing grid capacity constraints 🇪🇺🔐 This strategy is called hybridisation – and it’s becoming increasingly important for countries facing gridlock. Elisabeth Cremona explains in our new #VideoBrief 🎥 12310
Reposted by Murray CarrMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/08/2026As @rajakorman.bsky.social noted yesterday, a major reason this keeps happening is because we, as Americans, have demonstrated a revealed preference that US sovereignty is not constrained at all by the international treaties we have signed & ratified, whereas we expect other countries' always is. 86318
Reposted by Murray CarrRicardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan 181204583053
Reposted by Murray CarrChristopher Owen @oysta.au · 20/08/2026found another new type of guy 4604263460
Reposted by Murray CarrJuliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 21/08/2026These days, whenever the UK print and broadcast news media, aka the Distraction Machine, are obsessing over the Royals or some trivial in the grand scheme of things showbiz/football story, I ask myself what news don't the billionaire press barons want us noticing, and go looking. 37012
Reposted by Murray CarrRobert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right 1101286016341
Reposted by Murray CarrThe Tiny Angry Witch @tinyangrywitch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026⭐ BOOK ⭐ The Tiny Angry Witch has got a book of magic - but when you’re tiny, turning the pages can be tricky… This is our longest video so far. Stop-motion animation, made with models, props, and patience! Written, built, animated, voiced, and scored by 4 x people (and 1 x Witch) 26857373
Reposted by Murray CarrOlly Gibbs @ollygibbs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026New official work: Kubo and the Two Strings 10th Anniversary for Laika Studios. Made at Empire Design. I'm thrilled to share this piece which was a joy to design and create. It pushed the boundaries of what I thought I was capable of but it ended up being my most favourite piece I've ever designed. 19725203
Reposted by Murray CarrSue Smith @suesmith.lol · 17/11/2024I bought the domain to match its predecessor so you can now access HTTP Golden Girls at www.goldengirls.codesgoldengirls.codesHTTP Golden Girls ( )An app for learning about status codes! 32916
Reposted by Murray Carrfesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Some mornings, I reread bug reports and fixes that I've written over the years, back when skill was valued and sloperators didn't exist. Then I get into my van and my new career of carpentry feeling relief that I don't have to deal with that crap again. 2251122
Reposted by Murray CarrLouis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Trojan horse propaganda is a very good way to describe what much of the free speech/cancel culture discourse was about. A very obvious good, defense of free speech, became the way to introduce and build consensus for authoritarian repression of those accused to be enemies of freedom: 210024
Reposted by Murray CarrLuca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 16/08/2026“As we try to keep everyone cool and calm at the rescue centre during the heatwave, I thought I'd repost a compilation of everyone's favourite clips of the dogs choosing their own toys!” #rescuedog #toys #joy IG: @fetcherdog Animal Shelter, Kent, England 21365661317
Reposted by Murray CarrAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Much of the crisis of the high street in towns like Chesterfield or Southport comes down to huge expansion in the 1980s and 1990s of retail development on the assumption that the era's in person shopping boom would last forever Well, it didn't and here we are with the task of rethinking urban space 7487
Reposted by Murray CarrDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The standard rule of administrative burdens: if you increase the time tax for doing something, you make it less likely that people will do it. That is what the Trump administration is trying to do with vaccines. 28530147
Reposted by Murray CarrJohn Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Todd Blanche: “I am not sure of the uproar of having a Border Patrol or ICE agent at a polling location. What's the risk?” Uhm, maybe because it’s illegal? Federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 592 prohibits deploying “troops or armed men” to locations where elections are held. An AG should know this. 978215007455
Reposted by Murray CarrDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Your leaders call these "hybrid attacks". Because if they called them "attacks" you would expect them to do something about it. p.dw.com/p/5IMQAp.dw.comInterior Minister Dobrindt says drone incident treated as 'hybrid attack scenario' 18895260
Reposted by Murray CarrBuckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The Archive but it's a videogame from 1998. 251098296
Reposted by Murray CarrMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026“We’ve moved into the Age of the Oligarch which is defined by a network of the rich and powerful and the authoritarians they prop up. The group transcends national borders and has zero interest in the countries that elevated them to power.”open.substack.comThe Third World War Is HereAnd it's not what you think 32606279
Reposted by Murray CarrMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/07/2026It's actually worse. They're still doing the The Problem Is The Democrats And Here Is What They Must Do shtick: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 315428
Reposted by Murray CarrNatalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Nanjing Paleontological Museum has an in-house traditional Chinese artist, Li Chen, creating paintings of famous Chinese dinosaurs. These are from 2022 exhibition "From Dragon to Bird" and can be purchased in the museum as postcards or book《从龙到鸟系列 科学艺术化石复原图》 172152940
Reposted by Murray CarrSophie Hall @sophlouisehall.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Finally, someone asking the important questions 1391313251
Reposted by Murray CarrDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...nytimes.comTrump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for UniversitiesMichael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science. 362277966
Reposted by Murray CarrMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/06/2026- No clerks - No building - No shadow docket - No docket control at all in fact - No pay raises - 25 justices - 47 justices - 101 justices - Riding the circuit, preferably on horseback 1119237
Reposted by Murray CarrBradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 16/07/2026"Be quiet or we'll keep killing you" is one hell of a message for the midterms. 47980334
Reposted by Murray CarrEoghan Walsh @eoghanwalshbxl.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Will may I introduce you to The Dutch 🇳🇱 081
Reposted by Murray Carrheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 16/07/2026i am reminded also of how dunkirk saved a lot of money by using prison labour. i think of this every time nolan brags about how his films always come in under budget 7481139
Reposted by Murray Carrtheturk.bsky.social @theturk.bsky.social · 16/07/2026This is brilliant. #META #Resist hyperallergic.com/guerrilla-lo...hyperallergic.comGuerrilla London Bus Ads Mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta Glasses Campaign“Billionaires could fund cures for cancer — so why are they funding glasses for perverts instead?" asked the protest group Everyone Hates Elon. 0158
Reposted by Murray CarrTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Not to point out the obvious, but Ann Widdecombe was not an MP, hadn't been an elected official in nearly 6 years, or a Reform spox in 3, and it's incredibly unclear why either side would be building policy around such a broad definition of politician. 823755
Reposted by Murray CarrMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026It’s one of the great ironies that people across the world who’ve spent years and years whipping up hate and dividing countries are now complaining that people hate them. 421390340
Reposted by Murray CarrAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The shamelessness of a political party which is led by a man who just weeks ago called for "pure cold rage" on the streets, shortly before migrants were literally burnt out of their homes, now accusing their opponents of "stochastic terrorism" against them, is quite something 642543757
Reposted by Murray CarrDan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 14/07/2026"I can't afford security so I was given £5million, which I didn't spend on security, so I need the state to protect me, oh wait they're cops and will rat on me, oh woe is me" 511436
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The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a heuristic in systems thinking coined by the British management consultant Stafford Beer,[1] who stated that there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do".[2] It is used in systems theory, and is generally invoked to counter the notion that the purpose of a system can or should be read from the intentions of those who design, operate, or promote it. When a system's side effects or unintended consequences reveal that its behaviour is poorly understood, then the POSIWID perspective can balance political understandings of system behaviour with a more straightforwardly descriptive view.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xa4eltdd2z3scndtv4yvb65p/bafkreiem4i55e3gqp6endhcbz2voh2vgqd4y5xdo7bd5qgkrvnz745riby)
