Ahead of the UK budget, government debt has dominated headlines. Threat of a UK “debt crisis” is used to justify cuts in welfare and public services. But the story is far more nuanced and the REAL global debt crisis isn’t getting nearly enough attention. @tim-jones6.bsky.social explains 🧵

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

"Research released this month by economists at the Bank of England, the Bundesbank, King’s College London and the universities of Stanford and Nottingham underscored the economic hit from leaving the EU. Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6-8%" on.ft.com/4p1NoHv

Sharks absolutely get cancer, and people claiming otherwise are pseudoscientific grifters preying on the desperate. Even if sharks did not get cancer, eating shark would not cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make you better at basketball.

From @joescott.bsky.social: AI Is Now The Biggest Bet In Human History www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Ct...

K. Alexi Shelby - My Medusa [US, Electronic/Techno] (1989) https://redd.it/853qpx https://youtu.be/ev3Mwv032iY

Nearly 1/4 of your energy bill is taken in profit Shareholders have received *£70 billion* in dividends since 2010 @cmmonwealth.bsky.social No need to choose between affordable bills and a safe planet for our grandchildren, if we TAKE BACK OUR ENERGY www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

She asset-stripped an entire country and squandered the money to buy votes. Most of the problems with Britain today can be traced back to her disastrous social and economic experiment.

"I just decided, when someone says you can't do something. DO MORE OF IT." -Faith Ringgold (1930-2024) #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

This is the biggest sale we have ever done and will ever do. Basically if we are going to be around in 2026 we need you to fill your boots. Our bank account is empty. We need your help. 🫡🌶️ sale ends Sunday 10pm

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Who owns Britain? How does privatisation of essentials services like energy & water shape your life? How does it impact the cost-of-living crisis? We’ve been digging into the data — what we’ve found will shock you. 🧵 

as soon as there's evidence the shooter's identity isn't easy to weaponize things magically become complicated

This is a real shame, not because I have an axe to grind with PRS (I mean, I do, on several issues, but...) This is a genuine scandal. Lots of companies (major affiliated) collect on unclaimed works. www.prsformusic.com/members-news...

Well I guess we gave 'the marketplace of ideas' a good old try.

Lovely day for it

D360,249 - issued in 1995 for a design for a "soundproof device for a person to scream into."

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Wow. Check this out. Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

We’re doing a rare Sunday opening tomorrow, 24th August. Putting out some choice used we bought recently. Some signed LPs and harder to find recent bits. Open at 1pm.

We are now surely past the stage of expecting even-handed analysis from a news source existentially bonded to toeing whatever the state line might be.

“Gentlemen, as you know, we’ve made shelter ruinously expensive - what’s next on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?”

Sam Altman Places Gun To Head After New GPT Claims Dogs Are Crustaceans For 60th Time theonion.com/sam-alt...

Stinson genius youtu.be/4Jab-7ypRoM?...

New Death With Indignity Law Lets Terminally Ill Be Crushed By Falling Vending Machines theonion.com/new-dea...

UBI would literally save lives.

great analogy

He’s just stating the facts…

Modern Capitalism

People think money has ruined football but the sight of a rapist dictator standing next to a corrupt football official in front of a big gold trophy at a competition bankrolled by Saudi Arabia reminds me the game still belongs to us.

Birth rates, AI fallacies & shifting global power. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2...

As always, a profound absence of chins in the Wimbledon crowd.

New Hodge record almost perfectly captures that moment in the strobe-lit oblivion, when you're skirting the edge of being engulfed by your own poorly judged dosage.

Morning youtu.be/b8WQ3_Lhq74?...

Morning youtu.be/B7Sn1HnHUDE?...

Morning youtu.be/EUWCCDI7_wI?...

Just going to consult this reference book, “The Consequences of Pursuing Godlike Power,” by The Entire Canon of World Literature

Where Dr Kraus from Hellboy gives us some empirical evidence for what we all intuitively already know about music, happiness and the brain podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

Morning youtu.be/M5VbNNtiL0g?...

It’s only “great bants” if it’s from the Bant region of France, otherwise it’s just sparkling repartee