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@robertwoolley.bsky.social

Cynical mid-50 something -Gen X'er. British/English/Irish 48er. Personal politics complex. Undiagnosed Aspergers. Transport person who became a software dev in late 40s. Brent, London/Dublin/Kilkenny/ASEAN. (But mainly Brent). Blocks arseholes.

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We would be delighted if this researcher would be willing to join our nonprofit research organization!

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The funeral for irony will be held next week.

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The University of Surrey, which was built up to provide for advanced science and technology in the 1950s and 1960s, has been in difficulties since 2019 and is suppressing... science and maths. Britain really is the thickest country in the world. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/course-...

timeshighereducation.comCourse closures at University of Surrey raise concernsScience and maths programmes among those suspended in recent months, with UCU claimingย decisions are being madeย โ€˜in hasteโ€™

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This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.

Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social

Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...

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Periodic reminder most politicians -- especially on the right -- don't really thank you for your service. They thank you to shut your mouth and look like you love it when they treat you like crap because they think you're a chump for serving.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump claims heโ€™s going to replace migrant truck drivers with veterans

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That would be interesting

Sven-Erik Volberg@volberg.bsky.social

On 29 August 2026, Icelanders will vote on whether the country should return to the negotiating table, more than a decade after Iceland withdrew its EU membership application in 2013. 1/2

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'Too crooked for Concacaf' is a really impressive bar to clear, congrats to Giovanni Infantino.

Pardeep Cattry@pcattry.bsky.social

NEW: Concacaf joins UEFA in rejecting FFE, instead imploring FIFA to find ways to increase funding for FIFA Forward through its current means and asking that "any matter follows the proper governance processes" in future full statement: www.concacaf.com/competitions...

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So Concacaf sides with Uefa. FIFA's financial power grab is done. What's funny is Infantino would probably have just about got away with this if it wasn't for the Balogun thing. As i said at the time, that scared the absolute shit out of the European FAs. So they instantly closed ranks on this.

concacaf.comStatement on behalf of Concacaf and its 41 Member Associationsย  | ConcacafStatement on behalf of Concacaf and its 41 Member Associations

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Kemi Badenoch, 47, born 2nd January 1980 in London, and comes back to Britain in 1996 in the final year of the Major administration. Joins the Conservatives, aged 25 in 2005. So she is herself in receipt of the intergenerational transmission of this from the Conservatives of the mid-90s & 2000s.

Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social

'[Badenoch] accused the new PM of pining for โ€œendless strikes, rubbish not being collected, bodies not being buried, inflation at 25% and a chancellor going cap-in-hand to the IMF." This is more incantation than argument, a ritual fondling of beads on the Tory rosary.' ๐Ÿ‘ @rafaelbehr.bsky.social

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Allister Heath in 1940: โ€œWeโ€™ve lost the war against Germany. Time to scrap the RAF.โ€

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Huh weird turns out the police can also royally screw up rape and sexual offence cases in which the perpetrators are white males as well.

Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social

Every detail of this is miserable and horrific and in a truly just world Tate will die in prison, but it's hard to get into the details of the various cases against him and not come away full of rage at the utter failings of police to take women seriously. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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*cough* Vingroup *cough*

Matt Steinglass@mattsteinglass.bsky.social

Yes. It's the combination of nationalist-marxist administrative governance with Schumpeterian capitalist creative destruction. An amazing thing--Vietnam has struggled with the creative-destruction aspect, it has ended up trapped with a lot of corrupt chaebols too politically connected to die.

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Don't think Americans on this and the other site fully understand how far Trump's capture of FIFA has the potential to fuel further anti-Americanism in Europe

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Selling the public equity stakes in order to concentrate on illiquid holdings is it?

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UEFA has announced they will boycott the World Cup. Italy has announced theyโ€™ll extend their boycott for another four years.

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If your vote is undecided in the Clacton by-election this might be the clincher for you

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If this is is a character reference well...

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social

Another character reference is from someone in Ukraine Walker apparently helped (but annoyed others) "He is not a horrendous thug...Walker has a great sense of duty and is a hero to us. We told him he is welcome back anytime, but only a day at a time and probably only once a year."

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just became aware of William Howard Taftโ€™s 1908 campaign poster