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Roddy Boyd @roddyboyd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The Flamin Groovies' "Shake some action" is probably one of the most underrated rock songs ever. It just drives and slaps so damned hard.

Roddy Boyd @roddyboyd.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Being a China hawk (at least on trade issues) is the only rational position. I've covered corporate fraud for decades and it's one of their biggest exports to the US.

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That strikes me as a pretty good bargain, with the proviso that I've no idea what a real bargain is for sporting events in GBP. The sad thing about the cost of attending live sport "fixtures" in the US is they're ~ out of reach for all but the richest fans

Damn that looks like a pretty civilized way to take in a match. Probably doesn't murder the banking account either? I guess the US equivalent would be AA or AAA minor league baseball.

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Recently, no. I would point to the GFC as evidence the first at what G-S would have ably prevented. Although that crypto currency contagion thing in the summer of '23 was pretty funny

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Navigable paper lines. A hard and fast firewall that worked for 60 years was the only real solution (Regulations that industry pushes for is no kind of regulation)

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Roddy Boyd @roddyboyd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This is silly. Where were the Senate votes for any of this anti-corruption legislation? What about enforcement initiatives and budget allocations in Democratic admins? She knows that Clinton took apart Glass Steagall? That Obama, with a mandate to regulate too big to fail banks, punted?

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I am alive at a time when a reporter who wrote the words below would not be immediately fired for being on acid, primarily because what they wrote is true The US is doing a CBE on invading a friendly sovereign's territory

On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

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31 years ago today, this joke first aired on TV.

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Roddy Boyd @roddyboyd.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

This is.... entirely correct? Or was that it just couldn't be monetized at scale?

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Roddy Boyd @roddyboyd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

In a few weeks, I have gone from viewing the USA as a nation where the rule of law was under pressure, to where it doesn't exist in a meaningful sense. A girl who wrote an op-ed in her college paper was disappeared; $NKLA's Trevor Milton, a corporate crook, was just pardoned

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Roddy Boyd @roddyboyd.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Astonishing how POTUS can force one of the world's largest, most profitable law firms to its knees over a meaningless, virtue signaling piece of paper The network of private and public entities that made up the institutional United States is in total disarray

Roddy Boyd @roddyboyd.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

All these years on and @irisdement.bsky.social "Our Town" still floors me with its starkly haunting elegance. IMO it ranks with Billie Holliday's "Strange Fruit" and John Prine's "Paradise" for lyrically illuminating what so many Americans (myself included) work hard to avoid thinking about

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Roddy Boyd @roddyboyd.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Black Bag was really good. I do, however, wonder if a lot of the reason I liked it was simply because scripted movies are so rare. Probably though, it was legitimately good. Michael Fassbender was excellent, you can take that to the bank

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Roddy Boyd @roddyboyd.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Seven-figure advances and significant royalty packages require franchises that generate nine figures

Roddy Boyd @roddyboyd.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

www.cvs.com/shop/nature-... Cheaper?

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Roddy Boyd @roddyboyd.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Is there a tipping point where voters reject dismantling the institutions that truly make America exceptional? People seem to be fine with the elimination of American scientific and medical supremacy

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Roddy Boyd @roddyboyd.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I feel this; I have been there. This does, however, answer the question of how they can be a core sponsor of Yankees' broadcasts for the last 35 years

Roddy Boyd @roddyboyd.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

POTUS banking performative non-events that appear to be deliverables to his base. All before, you know, millions of US citizens have to choose between food and light

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Totally! 99% of the conference attendees are liberal-to-centrist Dems, and we all see it as performative foolishness. It's honey, however, to Bari Weiss and the GOP, who can weave it into whatever narrative they need That's the far left for you

Yes, a bunch of times. I attend an annual journalism conference at Cal Berkeley. (One of my favorite conferences, and one of my favorite places, btw)

I agree, it's a fair point. Everybody but the far left thinks it's stupid, and it motivates the assholes in the GOP (most of them)

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Land acknowledgments are the stupidest thing the left does.

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It also has extremely complex accounting that has long attracted critical scrutiny. @roddyboyd.bsky.social looked at Brookfield Asset Management in 2013, what @johnhempton.bsky.social said at the time "is as black-box as they come"

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Brookfield’s Looking-Glass World – The Foundation for Financial Journalism

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Roddy Boyd @roddyboyd.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The institutions collapsed after a multi-generation struggle where one party argued government is a combination of corrupt and incapable of delivering efficient services

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 04/03/2025

what bank would have the balls to make a collateral call to Musk as the value of the Tesla shares he pledged falls?

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Roddy Boyd @roddyboyd.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I agree! Except it is very much us. The majority of the American electorate thinks, at least in the abstract, this is a good idea.

Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 01/03/2025

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The worst day in geopolitics since... idk, it is far worse than Watergate and media treating it like a TV show

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Roddy Boyd @roddyboyd.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

How are people not getting put against the wall for this stuff?

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I think we’re all fucked. I hope future archaeologists don’t look too unkindly on us. I think we have some legitimately impressive accomplishments.

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Roddy Boyd @roddyboyd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Stottlemeyer's BBQ in Sarasota. I hope there's always space in America for a funky BBQ joint located behind a Texaco station.

Roddy Boyd @roddyboyd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Remember when Louise Mensch was one of the stranger people in public life?

Roddy Boyd @roddyboyd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This guy, essentially: "Apparently, I have been fired, or at least, I'm no longer 'employed.'" Not included: The thing this guy did to warrant being fired

Roddy Boyd @roddyboyd.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I miss Twitter's old "Sweet Meteor O'Death" account. But yes, the joke only worked because an extinction level event was broadly seen as sub-optimal

Roddy Boyd @roddyboyd.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Known him for 25+ years; HG has known him for 40. Your PM friend is 100% right. He's always been strange, but he had some real attributes as a human. In the wake of Copper River's collapse+$GS suit, he used Twitter as a validation mechanism He is the use case for how that can go off the rails

Roddy Boyd @roddyboyd.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Thx! What more can be said of this cat.

John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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I asked @senatorwarren.bsky.social why Republicans hate the consumer protection bureau. “The C.F.P.B. is living, breathing proof, every day, that we can make government work for regular people...it really gets under the skins of the most extremist Republicans.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

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Elizabeth Warren Fights to Defend the Consumer Protection Agency She Helped Create

Elon Musk’s campaign to shutter the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will end up hurting the very people Donald Trump promised to safeguard.

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They REALLY don't want us to know what they are doing

Russia, whose GDP is ~ Spain's, and features: No private sector, rule of law, an impoverished consumer sector, and a track record of zero pharmaceutical and tech IP development. "Good work everyone! Take Friday off and come back Monday ready to tackle North Korea!"

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I appreciate it TP. He's really not even worth talking about, TBH. People don't have to suffer like I did. And alcohol/drug abuse is a disease that wounds your family and friends. Just using what modest platform I have to try and help on that front.