Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 22hThis snark will come back to haunt you when Hezbollah take Belgium 0110
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 22hRebranding my Magic Money Tree as Welfare Savings and giving it a good shake 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I’m still confused as to why we should worry about these threats. AFAICT the UAE isn’t exactly bringing gigafactories and mass employment, it’s real estate investment - much easier to replace 2401
Reposted by Ben AChris Weatherspoon @cweatherspoon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Idea City were only spending as others is complete crap From 2009-18 over wages, transfer amortisation and impairments, City spent: • £272m more than United (despite United hiring far more staff) • £301m more than Chelsea • £802m more than Arsenal • £840m more than Liverpool 3272
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It’s a tricky podcast market, with this being in direct competition with putting a knitting needle through both eardrums 030
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026My inner hedge accountant screaming that a gain is 98% as bad as a loss if you shouldn’t have been taking the risk in the first place 120
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026When it’s next suggested it’s a moral panic to suggest that AI slop will rot our brains I’m whipping out an 87ft tapestry… 010
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Just let out an involuntary ‘Um Gottes Willen!’ in the café. Dirty look from table next to me. 160
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hang on, is this real? I’d assumed the tweet was a pisstake 😱 1190
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If Man City are certain what they did was perfectly fine, I’m sure they’d be happy to confirm in writing that they continued with such arrangements *after* 2018, no? If not, what changed? 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Pretty existential for the PL at this point: if it doesn’t burn City to the ground, every fan will assume the league’s bent and has caved to threats 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That absolute sweetest spot in the accountancy/football venn diagram… 010
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Not Octopus, but can recommend Heat Geek as they tend to do options that involve less radiator changes but still guaranteed efficiency. 110
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The dumbed down version of Goodhart’s Law is far preferable to the actual version IMV 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“We come highly recommended” www.ft.com/content/bea3...ft.comFirst Brands chose BDO for ‘less rigorous’ audit, witness saysFormer executive told investigator examining company’s failure that firm had ‘most unsophisticated’ process 020
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Burnham’s speech omitted his main policy change: cancelling Keir Starmer’s secret plan to Dim The Sun www.gov.uk/government/p...gov.ukSolar radiation modification approaches - the government's viewThe UK Government does not support the deployment of solar radiation modification and does not plan to do so. 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Five kids strongly regretting cheating their Duke of Edinburgh hike 060
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It’s not a bad idea but I think we’d still see unrealistically high reserve prices 100
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Apologies, I’ve been busytheguardian.comThe hunk shortage: where are England’s handsomest men hiding?When the Mr England contest put out a call for entrants, only seven people signed up. Now, with 13 days to go until the final, the organisers are getting desperate 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“But Ethel across the road got 200k more” is the driving force behind why transaction volumes plummet during a house price correction. Takes the three Ds (death, divorce, dole queue) to force the market to establish the new clearing price. 130
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Literally just finished my first HA automation earlier today... it's not *too* bad but I'm glad I bought Home Assistant Green with it pre-installed rather than trying to do that bit myself. But then I'm probably in that category... 110
Reposted by Ben AAlex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026On the one hand, the source of the money is fake, but on the other hand, the way it would be spent is bonkers. What a compelling policy 3493
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The way the Times has declined from a decent centre-right paper into shouty culture war stuff suggests quite a few brains fried in the editorial dept as well 030
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The rule that people who start tweets with ‘Breaking:’ are insufferable twats remains itself unbroken 130
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 25/09/20263 points deduction per charge, negative points at the end of a season carry forward, is my final magnanimous offer 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I reckon City leaked it so they could complain about it getting leaked when they appeal the rulingstatic.klipy.comCharlie Day Conspiracy: Pepe SilviaALT: Charlie Day Conspiracy: Pepe Silvia 010
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Me, telling the grandkids about how back in my day we lived in a high-trust society 030
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026You can see why EA and AI research linked up, they’re perfect matches: Really useful ideas undermined by their main advocates often being such colossal bellends. 100
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Agreed - it’s a reasonable aim even if an unrealistic expectation that everyone will optimise. (I’m also a hypocrite on this, having moved my donations from malaria to a charity that researches a medical condition that affects somebody close to me) 100
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026* IMV little different from hardline Catholic views on contraception 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Yeah that’s fair. I still think longtermism* is the true enemy and the basic message of ‘malaria nets > donkey sanctuary’ seems alright even if it has some level of spurious precision around it. 312
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I’m still torn between 1) EA was a good, if flawed approach but that just got more culty and weird when it couldn’t fend off a Pascal’s Mugging from longtermism; or 2) it actively embraced longtermism because they all secretly wanted to work on the AI robot war and it provided an excuse 251
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Basically like Day 3 of the London riots, where I move from wet liberal to Baton Charges Now Please 020
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Every UK party’s tax policystatic.klipy.comSuccession Logan Roy: You Are Not Serious PeopleALT: Succession Logan Roy: You Are Not Serious People 0182
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026As my OH has a courtesy car extended to month *seven* while a dented bumper is replaced, I am starting to understand why UK car insurance premiums are so high 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Always thrown by the Northbound/Southbound signs on the Jubilee, when it definitively an East/West line 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is very accurate - but a lot of the problems with EA is really due to longtermism rather than the idea of effective giving 000
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026These constituencies seem like the type where ‘had enough of experts’ did real damage by making the brand ‘Tory = uneducated’ 020
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I know this is a rhetorical question but it’s Bluesky so will answer with a half-evidenced theory anyway: I’ve spoken to literal millionaires who see the post-Brexit Tory party as a bit downmarket. 100
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Presumably their ALCO were away golfing the week SVB went under 110
Ben A @ukbababa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Not sure if they were lucky or prescient but BIS predicted rates would revert higher this decade and that it would be the new norm, so hopefully policymakers are thinking about this as well… bsky.app/profile/flip... 000
