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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@rovelli.bsky.social I’m enjoying your fascinating Order Of Time. On the arrow of time, if I understand you correctly, you argue that we remember yesterday but not later today because yesterday was lower entropy than today will be. What I’m struggling to grasp is how finely tuned we must be 1/3

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m reading Carlo Rovelli’s The Order Of Time. In it he deconstructs time as we know it. One of his arguments is about the ‘arrow of time’- why we can remember the past but not the future, cause and effect etc. All the fundamental laws of physics have nothing to say about the direction of time 1/n

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social great show as always. I recently looked into solar film on windows. if you have double glazing, you have to put the film on the exterior of the windows to avoid bouncing the heat off the interior back into the space between the panes. This can cause problems e.g. cleaning etc

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

@benkentish.bsky.social on party funding via taxation: What if a taxpayer can choose which party their tax goes to from a published list, which includes an option for it to simply go into a pot for distribution amongst all parties if they have no preference? Could include option to exclude parties.

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Amidst all the siren calls to ignore the rules and use a bit of common sense, it’s useful to remember why we have the rules in the first place. It’s because common sense is an opinion and is different for everyone, mostly driven by gut-feeling and usually evidence-free. Update the rules, yes 1/2

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This is shaping up to be the ‘never mind the quality, feel the width’ World Cup. Almost no group stage games of any interest to the neutral as all the half-decent teams are in different groups. Not even a ‘group of death’ this time. Maybe a ‘group of slight inconvenience’ at a stretch.

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Crazy as it is, ten years after the Brexit vote when we opted to chop our own arms off, even those who said at the time ‘we’d be mad to chop our own arms off’ have only just begun to say ‘chopping our own arms off was a really bad idea’. Crazier still, those same people still daren’t go near 1/2

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

@lewisgoodall.com Labour needs to frame the leadership situation as something they owe to the country- listening to & respecting the electorate’s verdict at the recent elections & responding to it appropriately to bring about the improvement in direction and delivery that the country has asked for.

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

@lewisgoodall.com the current situation with Starmer, & previously with Johnson and Truss with the Tories makes me wonder-what would be the mechanism for a Reform government to remove Farage as Prime Minister? As far as I’m aware, Farage isn’t an elected leader. So how could he be challenged? 1/2

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social whilst the current problems on Labour suggest a different footballification- that of managers not being given enough time to turn round performance- it highlights something else. Is the leadership of the Reform Party UK still an unelected position? If so that raises 1/2

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I think Starmer’s problem is that he’s a manager, not a leader. He’s a steady hand at the tiller, running things in a calm, incremental way. Yet he put his finger on the problem yesterday- incrementalism will not solve the problem for the UK. However, he doesn’t have boldness in his bones 1/4

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social I’m enjoying JOB Daily on a trip down the M40 to see my brother. On Labour’s failure, I have an analogy which may be useful. I work for an IT company which took over a contract last September. We inherited a mess- outdated hardware and a dysfunctional helpdesk 1/n

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It’s a bit like Eurovision, isn’t it? You think you know how it’s playing out as the judges’ votes come in, then they add the public vote at the end and everything changes.

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Withdrawing 5000 US troops from Germany as a retaliation for Mertz not supporting his war of choice in the Gulf. Is this the same guy that berated Zelenskyy ‘you’re gambling with World War Three’?

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

It can’t be right if someone buying house A with a 100% mortgage pays less per month on that mortgage than someone renting an identical house B if 25 years later as a result the buyer of house A owns it outright and the renter of house B owns nothing. 1/n

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Give him his due- despite being objectively the worst human in the world, Trump can pronounce the word ‘nuclear’ correctly, unlike most of the British political establishment and political journalists.

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Regime change Trump style, a lot of people are saying it’s probably regime change the likes of which the world has never seen- so true: Here comes the new boss; same as the old boss.

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

So Trump has now ended 10 wars, apparently-although he did start some of them. Maybe a more meaningful metric would be the wars he’s ended minus the wars he’s started, then divided by the number of deaths he’s responsible for. For instance, my own Trump war quotient would be (0 - 0)/0= infinite.

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Starmer ‘insufficiently curious about the vetting process.’ Insufficiently curious = plausible deniability. I wonder if the vague steer to the Foreign Office at the start was ‘we want this to happen, whatever it takes’ and they went along with that.

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I’ve said it before, but it feels like it even more now- this feels like the last days of Randall Flagg in @stephenking.bsky.social ‘s The Stand. Things are getting flaky for Trump.

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

@lewisgoodall.com living the show as always, particularly the Ed Davey interview. However, did you realise you rightly berated him for short term thinking on nuclear power, then reverse ferreted and extolled short term rather than long term thinking on nuclear weapons straight after? 1/2

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

We often hear that the Trump administration isn’t the United States- that it’s some kind of aberration that it isn’t representative of the wider US people. But it is, though, isn’t it? The public knew what they were voting for- Trump had already had one term, he’d incited an insurrection 1/3

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Meanwhile, on the moon...

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

@simonmarksfsn.bsky.social Reform’s pitch seems to be to throw as many people overboard as they can because they don’t need their votes to win an election, but this will keep the boat afloat for the people left. The bonus for them is that some of the people in the water hate others in the water 1/2

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Energy bills rise 'inescapable' if oil prices stay high, says British Gas boss. How about if instead of the energy companies making bumper profits because of higher prices, or even just making normal profits, they are made to take at least as much of a hit as the consumer who has to pay higher bills

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Why the concern over expats potentially having to pay UK tax if they spend too long in the UK? These people left the UK specifically to avoid paying UK tax. That benefits them only, as presumably as they would otherwise pay more than the average amount of tax, it disadvantages the rest of us 1/2

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

It goes without saying that whilst ‘I have plan, but you don’t know what it is’ is a fair enough thing for a commander in chief to say, ‘I may have a plan, or I may not’ is deeply worrying.

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Oh good. So either the world economy suffers because the Hormuz straight is closed, or Trump blows up Iran’s oil infrastructure, destroying Iran’s future, and they retaliate, and the world economy suffers because of that. Thanks a lot. All to distract from the Epstein Files.

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Trump’s administration is beginning to disintegrate just like Randall Flagg’s in The Stand by @stephenking.bsky.social

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social I just caught your comment on landlords selling up. Is it possible for government to buy these and then rent out as council houses? Big cost but also buys an asset so not affecting fiscal rules?

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

@lewisgoodall.com isn’t it funny how all the people who reference ‘Trump derangement syndrome’ themselves sound completely deranged. That American defending Trump sounded completely barking mad.

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

@lewisgoodall.com is being rebuffed for the Nobel Peace Prize a factor on his u-turn on starting wars and making military incursions and threats on other countries? Until recently, was he obsessed with having what Obama achieved to the extent that it led him away from his warlike instincts?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one. #NoBrainer www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...

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Cost of Net Zero by 2050 less than a single fossil fuel price shock – CCC - Climate Change Committee

The independent, statutory body tested its cost and energy security conclusions against different scenarios. It found that the total additional cost of a single fossil fuel price spike of 2022 magnitu...

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social on young people (I have 3 myself), I believe it is a mix of 1/fewer young people tend to vote 2/not knowing how to address it without creating losers amongst pensioners or breaking the bank & 3/a heavy dose of Micawberism- something will turn up in the coming decades to fix it

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social I love you like a brother but- surely you should be playing the ferret dinking/doking/deeking backwards?

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I locate myself firmly left of centre, politically. I definitely wopp bam boogie, and never, ever boogaloo.

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

@lewisgoodall.com I wish you’d picked Philp up on his braindead statement that the Tories would only look at safe legal routes once illegal immigration had been solved. Clearly the main pull-factor for small boats is that there are no legal routes to the UK. Given the vast majority 1/2

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Why can no UK politicians who have responsibility in the defence space pronounce the word ‘nuclear’ correctly? It’s not a difficult one.

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

@lewisgoodall.com please don’t be like all the other journos & badger government ministers with gotcha questions you know they can’t answer, because they need to maintain strategic blurriness. To do otherwise risks harming national interest/relationships. You know this.

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

There’s been discussion of if this law isn’t legal, can it be moral? Stepping back, shouldn’t all laws be first and foremost moral? If not, what are they for? The thing is, laws are also there to keep order. What is order? It is maintaining the status quo. 1/4

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The order of the day: I’ll do anything for love, but I won’t do that.

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social here’s an analogy. School playground. Someone you know punches someone else. You disapprove and decide not to join in. The person who was punched fights back, and fists are flying and hurting other people too. You join in the fight to defend them.

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The Green by-election victory must serve as a wake-up call to Labour. Hannah Spencer is right that the rich are bleeding the rest of us dry. Economic growth is useless to most of us if that growth merely further enriches the billionaires. That is why we need a more progressive tax system.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

It doesn't matter what country you are in. The reason things are 'unaffordable' is because billionaires are demanding vast profits on everything. They don't need their profits and we don't need billionaires.

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I’m recovering from hernia surgery so reading a lot on here & Substack. I’ve noticed in a lot of posts a similar cadence- a few what I would call ‘normal length’ sentences followed by 2/3 sentences of no more than 2/3 words, then repeat. It’s quite jarring and difficult to un-notice. AI?

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

What if we discovered that playing the fade-out backwards, it says ‘come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough!’ It was recorded in the 1970s…

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The breakdown of Community and the rise of ‘Me First’. Bear with me, I’m getting this down as it occurs to me. We seem to be seeing a breakdown of the social fabric, of community. I believe this is largely due to the growing influence of social media and online communities. 1/7

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social I love you like a brother but… I think two things can be true at the same time. All workers by reason of fairness deserve a living wage. However, I am also concerned that this makes it harder for businesses to survive, and employ as many people. For businesses that 1/2

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

For billionaires, no amount of money is ever enough-that’s why they are so rich in the first place. We seem to have reached the point where, in order for them to continue to enrich themselves whilst avoiding popular backlash against them, they need to control everything- information, news, govts 1:2

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Steve G @talismanbassman.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social is it childish of me to have immediately thought when your caller said all the people on the left ‘wap bam boogie’?

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