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Dear World: America is literally BORROWING the money we are using to terrorize the world. STOP lending us the money. Dump the treasury bonds you have and stop buying new ones. Just STOP. Our Congress is too pathetic to reign in the demented monster in the WH. So please cut off his MONEY!

Are you getting ready for a long commute to work on this chilly blue-Monday morning? Why not bring @monkemma.bsky.social and I with you on the journey with episode 2 of Bear and Monk Debunk? In it we discuss the so-called “perks” of immigration and poke a few holes in the narratives we often hear.

That too 😔 …. she squandered our #DemographicDividend #NorthSeaOil stole my milk and sold off so many of our assets 🤬 this dot to dot helps me occasionally 😉

It really was a very thought provoking piece - if you haven’t read it yet, you can find it here at this links. Thanks again @metaphorqu.bsky.social for writing it and making me think a bit. 🐻

All of these people - Mogg, Farage, Carswell, Jenrick, Hannan and the rest need to be forever reminded of what they backed and supported

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“We can continue to provide tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires or indeed subsidise jet fuel and aviation for millions of pounds. “Or we can put money into our local communities and into young people." www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politic...

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Time For A New, Blue Generation Of New Leaders, Especially Rational Folks AND Women.......

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We need to put the genie back in the bottle.

It’s staggering that even though the European Society of Cardiologists has stated we need vaccines our governments are cutting them. 13 million clinically vulnerable, many of whom shielded now have no NHS vaccine access. This is in huge contrast to countries like France & Thailand, offering up to 4

Kurzgestagt launched a new channel, and it's marvellous. Highly recommend finding 10 minutes and watching this amazing story. (Also, follow the main Kurzgestagt on YT, which is mostly science-based stuff, and also great). youtu.be/y2lkVlB96y4?...

See @russincheshire.bsky.social for potty mouth version 🙂

Tbf, at least he's utterly consistent.

Wtaf? It’s blatant now. Can we start calling them quislings now? Is this the same rag that lauded this that now wants us to be a vassal of the USA?? #Leveson2 #NeverBuyTheTorygraph www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Agree if we're talking about AI that people are using: 1. Because it's the latest thing and they can do useless stupid shit with it for fun 2. Because they're too lazy to research stuff themselves 3. Because they can save money by not having to employ someone to do it Some applications are good.

Exhibit A ….

Are synthetic relationships replacing real life connections? Scott Galloway exposes the damages of synthetic relationships, the growth of technology, and the disintegration of true human connection ▶️ linktw.in/vhAtQu 🧠💥 #BialikBreakdown #mayimbialik  #menshealth #AI #scottgalloway

Joy connects us – hate divides | Ronnie Barbour

From historic windmills to offshore turbines, East Anglia has been powering Britain for centuries – now it’s doing it carbon-free. The green revolution here is already underway. Andrew Stonor reports eastangliabylines.co.uk/energy/sense...

Found this website this morning, useful as a starting point if you’re trying to boycott American goods and services, which we absolutely all should! https://www.goeuropean.org

In the next episode of Bear and Monk Debunk, @monkemma.bsky.social and I get deep into the weeds on one of the most controversial subjects in the UK - migration. We’ll be discussing benefits and perks we’re told migrants get, and the actual context that’s missing. Out on Sunday at 18:30. 🐻

Why do Reform supporters always walk around in groups of three? One to read. One to write. And the other to keep an eye on the two intellectuals. (I know, it's a Russian joke about the KGB but I still think it's quite witty 🙂).

Palantir was a warning sign. Keir Starmer choosing to hand our data and security to US tech companies is an outrageous failure of judgment. All in the name of "investment." What about national security?

Why are onions turning up on Brighton beach?

Hot take: a way more worrying trend for the health of society than marriages or birth rates is the collapse in the number of close friendships people report, and that is quite closely related to the former trend.

Despite its seemingly consistent style, Burton Constable near Hull boasts a rich and complicated architectural history. The manor was acquired in the thirteenth century by the Constable family, the oldest surviving part, Stephen’s Tower, dates back to King Stephen’s reign in 1/3

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youtu.be/43m0LKNDz6M?... Ex-Guardian and Observer journo Carole Cadwalladr interviewed by UK Green Party leader Zack Polanski re bad actors on the stages of UK, Russian and US politics. #ukpolitics #palantir #ukjournalism #electioninterference #pmstarmer

The latest episode of PBS Weathered discusses climate sensitivity and the under representation in IPCC publications of likely future pathways of extreme heating. Worth watching!

My People’s Economist Tour across Australia and New Zealand is a month away. This Feb and March, I’ll be taking my journey from the trading floor to the public stage, sharing my perspective on inequality and challenging how we think about our economies. au.thinkable.events/gary-stevens...