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William Avery @willavery.net · 3h

And now I've read the article to the end, where the artist literally receives a blessing from Pope Francis.🤣

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William Avery @willavery.net · 3h

I like how Sister Wendy enters the chat.🤩

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William Avery @willavery.net · 3h

Just an organisation sounding out what 'hot buttons' they might be able to push to get you to vote a certain way.

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William Avery @willavery.net · 9h

"Pension mortgages" have been a thing since I started working in the finance industry in the 1980s. "By dying" was also one of the ways to pay off a mortgage backed a life insurance plan. High net worth individuals wanting to bunk off a million in IHT would be accommodated by lenders.

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William Avery @willavery.net · 10h

From the article: "It can only image small objects, not human bodies."

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William Avery @willavery.net · 10h

And if they have already put a large sum into a personal pension, thinking that the 'excess' would be inherited free of IHT, they can possibly draw that down as income to fund a mortgage. On death the remaining 'pot' can go into their estate without paying income tax, and pay off the mortgage.

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William Avery @willavery.net · 11h

That's what I thought. Thinking Allowed is literally Laurie Taylor and one or two academics as guests, sometimes interviewed remotely, I can't believe Laurie Taylor was raking in enough money to seriously affect the BBC budget.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 12h

Solar panels are always the giveaway that any accusations of "overcapacity" are basically "we resent China winning" since the price keeps coming down even though China dominates the market, and that is changing the world - for good. ourworldindata.org/grapher/sola... ustr.gov/sites/defaul...

ourworldindata.org

Solar photovoltaic panel prices

Average price of solar modules, expressed in US dollars per watt, adjusted for inflation.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thames Valley Police have responded to claims by Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s lawyer that search warrants issued by officers at the Royal Lodge at Windsor were unlawful. From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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William Avery @willavery.net · 07/10/2026

I agree with a tightening up, but I've been in the position of having a limited company for my one-man consulting business, then accepting a series of overseas assignments that made me a non-resident. I think UK citizenship should suffice.

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William Avery @willavery.net · 07/10/2026

Pasolini's "Gospel According to St Matthew" is perhaps the best you could hope for.

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William Avery @willavery.net · 07/10/2026

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 06/10/2026

Exclusive: In 2010 letter, Trump pleaded with Macau leader to correct ‘outrageous’ trademark defeat, attaching TV ratings hongkongfp.com/2026/10/06/e...

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https://hongkongfp.com/2026/10/06/exclusive-in-2010-letter-trump-pleaded-with-macau-leader-to-correct-outrageous-trademark-defeat-attaching-tv-ratings

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William Avery @willavery.net · 05/10/2026

My feeling, from living in Bristol, is that almost everyone, even Tories, thinks a 20 mph limit is a good idea on the street where they live.

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William Avery @willavery.net · 05/10/2026

Working in the pensions industry, I remember warnings about treating water companies as normal utilities for investment purposes, because of these issues that would depress their profitability in the medium term.

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William Avery @willavery.net · 05/10/2026

Allowing housing developments without planning GP surgeries, schools, etc, also earns an eye roll. Do they really think that the magic of the free market is going to sort that out?

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Apparently it's Banned Books Week in the US. Well, a few words, as a HKer: 1) Buy physical copies of books, especially those which you know can be taken away, just like that 2) Know who are the brave ones who sell books 3) Know which are the safe third spaces to read and discuss books

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Afraid there has always in my lifetime been a fair number in the further-left that are antisemitic, who tend to move around parties because of how completely toxic they are.

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 In July 1967, 19-year-old PFC Robert L. Hunt Jr. (below) returned home on leave to Cairo, IL. Hours after being arrested, he was found hanged in a jail cell. The ruling: suicide. Pull up a seat🪑, my friends. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 03/10/2026

Finally, my scapula will be returned to me.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nicholas Garland for the New Statesman 1974 on the Wilson renegotiation with the EEC - via Richard Johnson, QMUL

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 03/10/2026

Given that these bozos don't actually "invest" in anything except by buying up property and leaving it empty, I do not think this is the big stick they think it is.

theguardian.com

UAE may halt UK investments after Manchester City guilty verdict

The Premier League’s actions would ‘have an influence on the bilateral state relationship’, Emirati officials said

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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fascinating. The motion doesn’t mention trans rights at all, it is about equalities law in general, but Nation.Cymru, normally a big fan of devolved rights, is against this because it might benefit trans people. nation.cymru/news/plaid-c...

nation.cymru

Plaid Cymru activists want devolution of equalities law to increase trans rights

Martin Shipton Plaid Cymru is to debate a controversial motion at its annual conference that would commit it to getting equalities legislation devolved to Wales. The motion will be considered by party...

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William Avery @willavery.net · 02/10/2026

Keminaissance gathering pace... Oh!

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wait. This all happened this past month!?

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William Avery @willavery.net · 02/10/2026

Reminds me of this head that I saw in the Archaeological Museum in Taranto. He's going to end up looking like this, isn't he?

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William Avery @willavery.net · 02/10/2026

The Guardian seems to be unaware that the Weston family controls Associated British Foods, who are the owners of Twinings Tea, Hovis Bakeries, British Sugar, etc, etc.

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William Avery @willavery.net · 02/10/2026

Physics lab skills are transferable.😎

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William Avery @willavery.net · 01/10/2026

And horrific violence in Northern Ireland.

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William Avery @willavery.net · 01/10/2026

In this case they were talking specifically about their resident status in France. One of them being an EU citizen made a big difference.

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William Avery @willavery.net · 30/09/2026

All EU passports have to be burgundy red, right?

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William Avery @willavery.net · 30/09/2026

Most annoying, being told "Oh, my husband's grandmother was Irish, so that won't affect us."

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William Avery @willavery.net · 30/09/2026

I still remember walking round HK on 10/10/96. Taiwanese flags left, right and centre.😁

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William Avery @willavery.net · 30/09/2026

Not going back to driving a car with a gear box; I'm not a barbarian.🧐

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William Avery @willavery.net · 30/09/2026

I'm afraid, in my (limited) experience, not hearing back is normal now.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 30/09/2026

📈 Only one policy option gets £92bn in growth. 💪 Only one policy option boosts our exports by £43bn every single year. 🇪🇺 Britain needs to rejoin the EU. And the EU needs Britain.

independent.co.uk

Burnham says he could go ‘all the way’ and rejoin European Union in Brexit warning

PM said one option was to back George Osborne’s call, made in an interview with The Independent, to rejoin the EU custom

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William Avery @willavery.net · 30/09/2026

I suspect those examples have been somewhat revitalised by the process of going out of copyright, being given a last flogging for all they're worth by the IP owners, then becoming PD for anyone to adapt.

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William Avery @willavery.net · 30/09/2026

So odd that AI cannot count. The page to which it links clearly shows the required five lines above a treble staff. (The clef is the curly-wurly letter G on the left of the treble staff. I think it's a music theory fail if you call a staff a clef, too.)

Screenshot of Google AI stating "A standard concert flute can officially play up to High C (the fourth octave C, four ledger lines above the treble clef)..."

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is an outstanding point

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William Avery @willavery.net · 30/09/2026

Often, there's been a "ratchet effect" caused by a lag between inflation and workers managing to drag wage increases out of employers. A year of high inflation causes an increase of the State Pension above earnings, and the next year SP increases with wages, at a rate above inflation.

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have said before and will again: any electoral reform commission must NOT rule out a change of system BEFORE the next election if needed. We cannot risk a minority vote handing a huge majority to any party that would take a shredder to democracy itself.

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Marlowe_UK @irishdreamer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“I know it’s bad news for you” says Lucy Powell to the Head of Racism at @lbc @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social as the RAF “attackers” aren’t actually “terrible forrins” Absolutely class!

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William Avery @willavery.net · 28/09/2026

Signs saying you can be arrested for taking photos recently appeared on the fence of the Rolls-Royce works in Filton. Crazy difficult to enforce, with double-decker buses going past on the A4174!🤣

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