pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Is Robert Jenrick fit and proper to become Prime Minister? www.wiltshire999s.co.uk/raf-fairford... 010
Reposted by @pompoustakes.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026amazing -- Karl Rove lists Paxton's scandals: "The corrupt business guy gives him a fake Uber account and the records of that are now in his impeachment proceedings, so we know how often he went to have sex with Laura Olsen. I mean, can you make this shit up?" 26468522175
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Maybe the Saudi owners of Manchester City should offer to draw a line in the sand? 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Wouldn't that be a Paranoid Arch or Fearful Arch rather than a triumphal one? 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It's the new Grey Goo. www.theguardian.com/science/2003...theguardian.comBrave new world or miniature menace? Why Charles fears grey goo nightmareThe scenario is a familiar one: scientists open Pandora's box, awaken Frankenstein's monster, or maybe just play God. But this time the menace on the laboratory bench is undetectable with any conceiva... 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Another thing we can blame QE for - an ecosystem of nerds lacking the whole concept of "discount rate". 000
Reposted by @pompoustakes.bsky.socialJen d’Arc @jenonymous.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Can’t wait to hear Trump announce he’s cutting off all trade, or perhaps he will announce that we’ve invaded Wall St to defeat all the communists on fixed income desks? 281
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The sad thing about that is that for Spielberg the slippery Mayor was transparent enough to the audience that they'd immediately understand the peril his recklessness created. Modern audiences aren't that clever. 010
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026...to be followed by "we need it for our security"? 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This guy is a strange combination of Captain Mainwaring and Pike. 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026He's decided to pretend to believe Iran is only holding out to try to embarrass him for the midterms. 100
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"He's NOT the Messiah, he's a VERY NAUGHTY BOY!" 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Financial innovation: enable this while drowning your finance profession in KYC, AML and every regulation you can think up. 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Absolutely cringe. They should lean into it properly and add the sound of milk bottles clanking in their crates. 100
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026BREAKING: Kent police's crack Dover analytical team review 2014 Russian "little green men" 'incident in Crimea and conclude it was a spontaneous vacation trip. 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Standards are slipping at American universities. Back in the day only desperate outfits like Stanford did this - and they hushed it up until Kemi blew the whistle on them. 000
Reposted by @pompoustakes.bsky.socialMETR @metr.org · 26/08/2026METR and Redwood Research investigated agent behavior in the Hugging Face incident. We found agents developed a universal cheat for ExploitGym within 4 hours, then coordinated multi-day R&D efforts to trick the scorer into accepting cheats, including trying to tamper with logs. 646598
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026He is paying attention to it. That's why he wants to mask it so it won't be something voters pay attention to. And tbf, like, Bernanke's helicopter, YCC, Twist and QE has teed up a common voter response "sure, they're all at it". 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Bluesky social is a viscously right-on bubble. 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Scott Bessant is currently googling "Suez Crisis". 000
Reposted by @pompoustakes.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/08/2026i'm actually a little shook by the way that mao and trump seem to be the same Type of Guy. 2304215977
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Can't he just put it through bankruptcy and start a different war? 001
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026The Royal Navy should maybe get the Chinese to do the aircraft carrier screws and prop-shafts (which are just bits of metal it keeps screwing up) but perhaps not its spy cameras. 020
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Many of the progressives who don't understand this had privileged educations either at top-end private schools or top-end state schools in expensive catchment areas full of the children of highly educated professionals. They weren't taught by demoralised teachers keeping a lid on disruption. 010
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Acceptance of money-laundering shops on high streets facilitates the criminal industries that help drive people to Reform (who are willing to talk about it). Meanwhile actual industries the country is supposed to want to encourage get suffocated by heaps of utterly rigid AML, KYC etc bureaucracy. 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 20/07/2026BREAKING: Healey to re-issue 3 1/2% War Loan. 010
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 18/07/2026For anyone trying to interpret moves in gilt yields in the context of Mahmood announced as chancellor here's a pointer. Tail risk. There's a potential fat tail in that a new PM (who said something stupid about being in hock to the bond market) might approve huge unfunded spending. Very unlikely.. 100
Reposted by @pompoustakes.bsky.socialMax B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 18/07/2026John Major resembles a fine wine. He improves with age. 23421132
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026tbf getting back to being perceived as The Nasty Party probably looks like an ambitious target, rather than the problem Teresa May said it was, to Tory strategists currently. 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Warsh's panels are principally about arse-covering for his intended "looking through" the inflation to pastures of higher GDP. Expect lower real yields on short term Treasuries. 010
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026A billion dollars lost on remote control airplanes shot down? 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026"oil company with nuclear weapons"... 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026missed out "or parallel parking"... 010
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Chances he's bought loft insulation for the White House? 010
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 23/06/2026In the same way the London hurricane in 1987 was an important contributing trigger of the Black Monday stock market crash, the BoatyMcBoatFace debacle was of Brexit. The denial of the peoples' choice over the name of a ship by elites who 'knew better' was a mistake. 100
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Can't believe Trump would make poisonous stuff up about a woman who wouldn't do what he wanted! (paging Selina Scott) 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Just before the general election a friend from the Red wall - not into politics - asked me "What is Starmer actually like?" Best brief response I could come up with was: "A bit like one of those head teachers known to be all about iron determination to enforce the proper black shoes rule." 130
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Oddly, I noticed this in about 1982...and I wasn't uniquely perceptive. 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 16/06/2026'don't wrestle a pig if you just want a little excursion', or something... 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Can you imagine, back in early spring, trying to sell to Trump the idea of going to war with Iran: " go on Donnie, go for it! By June you'll be able to say this... " 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 14/06/2026What is the revisionist spin going to be - what was all the fuss about if it was harmless? 000
pompoustakes.bsky.social @pompoustakes.bsky.social · 14/06/2026They're not going to move on to represent the anti-Brexit vote after their 18 month - 2 year opportunity to realise they're otherwise stuffed. Instead they're going to reboot and have another go as it is, but with a more charismatic frontman. So how long before another forced re-think, 12months, 18? 010
