Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 9hInteresting constitutional conundrum. Article 29.4.9: “The State shall not adopt a decision taken by the European Council to establish a common defence pursuant to Article 42 of the Treaty on European Union where that common defence would include the State.” 000 0
Reposted by Roy LonerganStefan Tiron @tironstefan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Fredric Jameson on JG Ballard. Such a delight. 063 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 16hAgreed. And the individual savings are a system that is more costly and capricious. The debate is framed about costs rather than transfers and most of the commentary just doesn't get the basics. 010 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 16hIt's maddening. Create some sort of compulsory certificate for sums and then a proper maths curriculum for those who are interested. 020 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 17hIn their very weak defence the new lock does seem to try to true-up to earnings over time, but from the current base which is just too low. This is a latent wealth transfer from poorer to wealthier retires down the line. Madness 100 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 17hHe's right about the wrong thing. The problem with school mathematics is that it teaches things that can be done with a calculator rather than fundamental mathematics. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWe are teaching children maths they will never use. Isn’t it better to help them speak fluently? | Simon JenkinsThe education secretary is right to focus on what students need most: the ability to express themselves. As for maths, grab a calculator, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins 132 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 17hWorrying about whether an execution is in public or private is missing the point. 020 0
Reposted by Roy LonerganDavid Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 17hI was also somewhat confused by Bell’s thread, particularly the claim that raising the SP in line with prices would prevent pensioner poverty since I thought that Thatcher’s decision to index it to prices had caused pensioner poverty. 121 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 17hYup. But that was in 1979 so nobody (bar thee and me) remembers. 100 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 17hThank fuck we've done away with triple-lock to own the boomers. 220 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 17hYup. It's a mortality tracker for boomers/early gen-X 000 0
Reposted by Roy LonerganThe Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 17hDo you think there’s a danger of looking at extremely cool shit like the first ballistic rocket smashing into granddad’s terrace and convincing yourself it’s actually lame because the guy funding it is a Nazi. Also, everyone is 12. 3201 0
Reposted by Roy LonerganSpook-ass, Christ oh boo! boo! @loukas.bsky.social · 22hDon't be mean, Dawkins's girlfriend drew that. 091 0
Reposted by Roy LonerganAdam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 23hI think I missed publication day for my own novel! I am far from ept as a self-promoter. Anyway, it's out now: profadamroberts.substack.com/p/frankenste...profadamroberts.substack.comFrankenstein RexOut now 127024 1
Reposted by Roy LonerganRobert @robertd1.bsky.social · 22hIt probably doesn't perforate the LinkedIn toxic silo, but the amount of middle to upper management quitting their jobs to start their own business built around a rudimentary function of open-source AI is STAGGERING. 111 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 22hI'd missed the English Assassin and Rogue Male allusions in the first chapter. Distracted by his name perhaps but I'm probably just inattentive. It's about time for Jerry to start popping up. We're in one of his times again. 010 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 16/10/2026I guess that it was the sweep of south-facing glazing that swayed things for the American Air Museum at Duxford. Not so impressive now with mesh solar shielding spoiling the view. 000 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Weirdly old-hat too. I remember presentations 2019ish with various legacy finance businesses trying to get a fintech respray because of the multiples. 020 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I'd forgotten about that! One go, subject to not robbing certain people. 010 0
Reposted by Roy LonerganSir Arthur @sirarthurindeed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026London, according to @iandunt.bsky.social and very much agreed by me. 062 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Picked up my copy of @adamroberts.bsky.social 's Frankenstein Rex yesterday and have read the first fifty pages or so. Great front cover. One War of the Worlds joke. One Shelley reference (which Shelley?). And some fairly horrific torture. Very entertaining so far. 010 0
Reposted by Roy LonerganОлександр Бузько @oleksa79buzko.bsky.social · 14/10/2026HMS WARSPITE at sea during Madagascar operations. 1224 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026They will in part of the wave function. With luck it's yours. 000 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026That's the plan! But they won't - usually, roughly - be able to sustain super-profitability in a soft market as capital can flow in so easily. If they are then it's probably someone like Quinn Insurance. 120 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Reinsurance is a bit more mathematical (and they have much better climate models). But for GI you're still roughly going to come back to recovering last year's losses out of this year's premium and hoping that the reserves will cover short-term misestimations. 120 0
Reposted by Roy LonerganJeff Noon @jeffnoon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The ghost book haunts the real book. The ghost story hovers above the real story, quite invisible, quite unreadable, unless you’re drunk, or stoned, or heartbroken. Or a ghost yourself. 0135 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026All in lovely IWM editions. I'd put a word in for Keith Douglas's poetry too. 020 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Yup. Lots of post-WW2 cars in the scene on Cornhill. I guess there's no harm in disconnecting it from the timeline so long as they don't try remaking the early books. 000 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026You might be right about 9/11. But the credibility of that movement was all Dennett. Not sure it gets the same attention without him. 000 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Are they in danger of falling into regulation? 100 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026It's a full 29 HP (with the 602cc engine). Plenty. The "2" was a tax class. 020 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Looks like they've done a pretty nice job of recognising design elements. 120 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Well she wrote a column once and has been copynpasting the snark from it now for many years. Still, sounds like pretty much zero cost for Goalhanger to test the model. 100 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026USGAAP was revised on this tenish years ago (I'm out of date past then). An entity determines the total expected revenue after any discounts etc. Booked at the time control transfers to the reseller. So either one of them is getting it wrong or has some massive contingencies. 191 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026You're not imagining it. The rate of change of the length of the day is maximum at the equinoxes. 020 0
Roy Lonergan @roylonergan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"Open Access" supposed to have editorial scrutiny. 000 0