swork.bsky.social @swork.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Kinda shocked no one has taken it upon themselves to stand outsides these businesses and pass out pamphlets to tourists 000
swork.bsky.social @swork.bsky.social · 30/08/2025love em but Tracy and Joe are like death, they’ll take anyone 010
swork.bsky.social @swork.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Banner week for news about how much one billionaire can accomplish when they set out to ruin London 010
swork.bsky.social @swork.bsky.social · 16/08/2025This would be a huge loss for central London culture. Picturehouse has had great programming since the pandemic, especially their live Q&As. It functions as a great meeting space for Londoners, incl those in the industry. Turning it into a windowless hotel is almost comically villainous. 010
swork.bsky.social @swork.bsky.social · 12/08/2025From the country that brought you the “upload a photo of your passport to an offshore third party in order to access Bluesky DMs” comes the “please delete your emails in order to conserve water” www.gov.uk/government/n... 020
swork.bsky.social @swork.bsky.social · 22/07/2025London Centric once again doing the lord’s work on this one 010
swork.bsky.social @swork.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Some alarming news for the filmdrunk boys still on the fecal matter transplant beat @vincemancini.bsky.social 110
swork.bsky.social @swork.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Can’t wait for a border guard to pull up grok, feed it 15 years’ of my DMs and have it time out while running inference to determine how anti-American they are 000
swork.bsky.social @swork.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Late to the party but better than never I suppose 000
swork.bsky.social @swork.bsky.social · 19/05/2025It’s time for #pintofscience! Let’s see if I can add to my t-shirt collection #pint25 001
swork.bsky.social @swork.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Random Tim Hortons in Singapore, thank you for being an auspicious omen 🍁🎉🏒 000
swork.bsky.social @swork.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Which is really too bad because there are a lot of people who work in AI/academics who’d love to abandon the Bad place altogether but can’t really share research & discuss here without a certain type of commentator brigading the discussion 011
Reposted by @swork.bsky.socialArinbjörn @arinbjorn.is · 22/04/2025Working on an #ICLR2025 Pack with those attending and accounts connected to the conference go.bsky.app/AusRuod Let me know if you would like to be added 362
Reposted by @swork.bsky.socialBiking CO @bikecommuteco.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Apropos the discussion of creating more domestic manufacturing jobs, I enjoyed this episode of Search Engine that walked through some of the challenges. 1165
swork.bsky.social @swork.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Doing the lord’s work - really recommend subscribing to Londoncentric while you’re at it, it’s become my new must-read 000
Reposted by @swork.bsky.socialJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 20/03/2025I waded through human shit for this story the least you can do is click it. www.londoncentric.media/p/revealed-t...londoncentric.mediaRevealed: The London flats pushing raw sewage into the ThamesLondon Centric shows you the apartment blocks sending untreated human waste into the capital's waterways, causing "a quiet, steady, background poisoning". 2220691
Reposted by @swork.bsky.socialJeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 19/03/2025"I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comI’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnappedI was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky 13424661062
Reposted by @swork.bsky.socialDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 19/03/202565,000 UK companies are unlawfully hiding their beneficial owner. We've just published an interactive map showing them all. Thread: 11430229
swork.bsky.social @swork.bsky.social · 17/03/2025leaking through the ears level of brain rot, outstanding 000
Reposted by @swork.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 16/03/2025New post just out Ten books to help understand the world we're now in. Five recommendations on the US/Trump/Musk and five on Europe and the rest of the world. (This one is free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...open.substack.comTen books to understand the world we're now inTrump’s second term is on track to be more damaging than his first. 3124281
Reposted by @swork.bsky.socialRicardo Chejfec @ricardochejfec.bsky.social · 13/03/2025New @irpp.org tool for assessing impact from US tariffs across Canada. We may not know what products will be targeted or when, but we have a good sense of which industries rely the most on exports to the US. Explore where workers in those industries live using our new interactive dashboards.irpp.orgMeasuring community workforce exposure to U.S. exports - IRPPAs part of the IRPP’s Community Transformations Project, we’ve thought a lot about how external shocks can disproportionately affect local workforces. Even when the shock seems manageable at the natio... 34821
swork.bsky.social @swork.bsky.social · 04/03/2025So excited on the eve of yet another self-inflicted economic disaster I can barely sleep. Who knew I'd get to experience the joy of another Brexit, but with even higher stakes! 010
swork.bsky.social @swork.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Every @theguardian.com article I read on Ukraine has obligatory doomerism baked in and it’s beginning to feel intentional rather than just lazy 010
swork.bsky.social @swork.bsky.social · 27/02/2025The important lesson here is that nobody learns anything ever 010
Reposted by @swork.bsky.socialThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/02/2025Exclusive: Over the years, Elon Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits, often at critical moments, helping seed the growth that has made him the world’s richest person.wapo.stElon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government fundingGovernment infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth. 74722345
Reposted by @swork.bsky.socialPam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025They're dismantling the agency that can, if it did robust enforcement, fill the deficit. For every $1 it spends on enforcement it generates $5-$9 in revenue. We lose ~1 trillion dollars each year to tax fraud, mostly from the rich. Musk paid no income tax in 2021 www.propublica.org/article/the-...propublica.orgThe Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income TaxProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev... 10976371
swork.bsky.social @swork.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Winnipeg never beating the weirdest place in Canada allegations 120
swork.bsky.social @swork.bsky.social · 19/02/2025The ol’ Trump polling boost for domestically beleaguered incumbent politicians. Tiniest of silver linings 000
Reposted by @swork.bsky.socialLizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Here it is! Subscribe to London Centric for the full story on the horrors of a Croydon flat block linked to West End landlord Asif Aziz Featuring an interview with a resident who had to have a cockroach removed from inside her ear in hospital www.londoncentric.media 0123
Reposted by @swork.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 17/02/2025The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/ 10873613426
swork.bsky.social @swork.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Catching up on old Guardian issues, aging well 🙃 010
Reposted by @swork.bsky.socialSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 12/02/2025In 2023, it was revealed that Vitaly Churkin — described in the paragraph below and in other passages of HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT — was a longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein: www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...forbes.comJeffrey Epstein Set Up Meetings With Trump Associates—Including Peter Thiel And Thomas Barrack—Before 2016 Election, Report SaysThiel told the Wall Street Journal he was “naive” to meet with Epstein. 7294109
Reposted by @swork.bsky.socialBodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 11/02/2025🚨 Help us locate 'lost' Jewish books! 🚨 The Leo Baeck Institute’s Library of Lost Books is calling on citizen scientists to report sightings of books looted by the Nazis. Read about the initiative & how you can help here: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtraine... #LibraryOfLostBooks #CitizenScienceblogs.bodleian.ox.ac.ukHave you seen this book?Since we as trainees get the chance to visit many libraries, and spend a lot of time in them day-to-day, I thought I would introduce to you a different kind of library today: The Library of Lost Bo… 27754
Reposted by @swork.bsky.socialKatie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 09/02/2025NEW: How did Elon Musk actually recruit for DOGE? Using Palantir-linked, young engineers who fanned out across online chat groups and Discord servers: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...wired.comThe Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE ArmyAt least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned. 58817269
Reposted by @swork.bsky.socialDannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025All these bros conveniently forgetting that the U.S. government was instrumental in creating the Internet through NSF grants to universities and research hubs through the 80s and 90s. 521362355
Reposted by @swork.bsky.socialJoe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social · 05/02/2025This is the payments system that Elon Musk now has access to. Must listen with @nathantankus.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comThe Treasury Payment System Elon Musk Now Has Access ToPodcast Episode · Odd Lots · 02/05/2025 · 29m 51606199
swork.bsky.social @swork.bsky.social · 04/02/2025big tech capitulation this time round has truly been something to behold 000
Reposted by @swork.bsky.socialNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Neither the mainstream press nor our political system seem to have digested the fact that the U.S. president is trying to illegally annex a NATO ally using economic coercion. 26378472290
swork.bsky.social @swork.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Sometimes you do, unfortunately, gotta hand it to him 000
Reposted by @swork.bsky.socialNikhil Datta @handle.invalid · 31/01/20255 years ago today Britain left the EU. Between 2020-2023, Brexit drove up food prices by 4% a year on average. Research from Jan David Bakker, @joshdelyon.bsky.social , @richarddavies.bsky.social and myself. You can read the paper here: tinyurl.com/27vjakwa 04220
