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These ramblings must be the result of a bet right?
2 Sep 2024
The reason the Democratic Party is so soft on criminals is that criminals vote overwhelmingly Democrat – they don’t want to offend their customers! Democrat Party is literally the party of criminals.
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We had a sudden drip drip drip from our bedroom ceiling as we were going to sleep. Bonus feature of @katerusby frisbee discovered, after carefully placing it in the loft. Lasted several months until the roofers could fix. Guardian angel, "While Mortals Sleep"? 😉
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A reminder that this is Conservative central office masquerading as an independent factcheck on Twitter tonight (they did the same thing in 2019).
26 Jun 2024
Keir Starmer wants to talk about what he did before politics. He should tell the British people about the terrorist groups and hate preachers he defended. Don't put Britain's national security in his hands. Don't let him surrender our borders. #BBCDebate
Community note
Keir Starmer was a barrister. Barristers are obliged to take on any case provided that it is within their competence and they are appropriately compensated under the "cab rank" rule. It would be a breach of professional regulations to refuse to provide representation. barcouncil.org.uk/resource/cab-r…
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Feels a bit weird to pick on one candidate in a foreign election when you could easily level the same criticism at his opponent. It's quite sad that the system selects old men to lead them, when they both should be retiring.
This is elder abuse. I am tired of seeing these videos of poor President Biden. The US and the Democrats should have enough respect for him to have him stand down. This ritual of deception and humiliation is unacceptable.
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John Hodrien retweeted
Congratulations to Dr Hannah Dee, who is awarded MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours list for services to ‘Technology and to Women in the Information Technology Sector’ @bcs_lovelace bcs.org/articles-opinion-and…

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Hadn't realised @DPJHodges had joined the sinking ship.
13 Jun 2024
That puts the count at ....FOURTY-ONE times that Labour have failed to rule out an increase to Capital Gains Tax. #ITVDebate
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I do like the sneaky switcheroo in the wording here. How many people actually know how much tax they paid last year? Don't forget to include all indirect taxation, as to not include that would be highly deceitful.
If you’re a UK citizen, did you pay £17,000 in taxes last year? If you’re a family of 4, did you pay £64k of taxes as a household? If not, someone else did on your behalf. A tiny group of people (1%) pay about 30% of the income taxes. This tiny little group of Brits aren’t just our Dentists, Doctors, Professionals, Engineers, Pilots, Entertainers, Executives, Business Owners and Entrepreneurs, they are also the biggest tax slaves for everyone too. A person earning £150k is paying £60k in tax. A person earning £30k is paying £6.2k in taxes. The high earner is making 5x more and paying 10x more in tax. Given the government spends £17k per person - The higher earner generates a surplus of £43k in taxes while the lower earner requires £11k of someone else’s taxes to cover their portion of government spending. It takes an income of £60k to generate £17k of taxes. So, very few people in the economy are able to cover the costs of themselves, let alone their families too. A tiny number of people can cover their own costs and generate a surplus for society. When you hear people talking about how greedy the rich are, and how we need to make life harder for them, it’s worth considering that if they were to stop earning or to leave, the entire system would collapse. The issue we have in the UK is not enough rich people. We need to either develop them ourselves or import them from elsewhere. We absolutely can not afford to lose them. As we approach an election, be sceptical of any party who claims they can fund spending through higher taxes on the rich. We already have that! What we need is a party that has a plan to create more rich people or invite them from abroad. It’s never been easier for rich people and high earners to live and work anywhere - of course they’ll go wherever they are treated best. The UKs survival is directly linked to the number of high earners - best not to drive them away.
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Happy UK Civil Service tweet anniversary to all who celebrate 🥳
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Farage: It's all about me!!!
Nigel Farage claims that Rishi Sunak called an Election because he was planning to announce he was running next week (which he has cancelled). Of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most.
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16 May 2024
We are proud to announce results of the first #HPC Community Container Survey! 🎉 This survey aimed to capture simple metrics that reflect container usage across the high performance computing community, and our first year was a great success. 🧵
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If Russian leadership would rather not be accused of committing war crimes, they should stop bombing hospitals.
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Today in @thenation we have a piece by Lujayn, a 14-year-old girl in Gaza, that has floored me every time I've read it. It's about what happened when an Israeli bulldozer came to destroy the house she was staying in, and you must, must, must read it. thenation.com/article/world/…
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Replying to @johnhodrien
“To pay the tax charge, you must: 1) register for Self Assessment 2) fill in a Self Assessment tax return each tax year and pay what you owe …you need to register by 5 October following the tax year you need to pay the tax charge” gov.uk/child-benefit-tax-cha…
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John Hodrien retweeted
21 Apr 2024
New polling evidence from Tax Policy Associates and WeThink shows that half the public doesn’t understand a basic principle of income tax: the way that tax rates apply to income above a threshold. Thread!
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John Hodrien retweeted
10 Mar 2024
🇬🇧 British people are now the 2nd most miserable people in the world Previous happiness studies are based on income, wealth and healthcare quality, simply putting Western countries on top always, very very biased The new Mental State of the World report is the first happiness ranking that actually makes sense and is based on surveys of satisfaction People in many low-income countries are actually MORE happy regardless of income: in this case for example 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic and 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka are VERY happy While people in a high-income country like United Kingdom are VERY unhappy Added the data to Nomad List for the [ ☺️ Happy ] filter
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cat is the most misused thing by programmers new to linux. I cringe every time someone uses it wrong in a bash script. Thread below with proper uses of cat only
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Replying to @ThePOTSPostman
For me, there's a big difference between degenerative conditions compared with ones where there's a fixed loss. I had a serious accident that resulted in balance issues and a loss of hearing in one ear. The balance mostly returned, but the hearing loss is permanent.
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I don't think I grieved. What was done was done. I had moments where I felt like if things didn't improve, that would be okay. But then I knew it wasn't going to get worse. Somehow I managed to avoid dwelling on the ”what if it hadn't happened?”.
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I really did think this level of gutter politics was beneath Rishi Sunak. How foolish I was.
so much for Rishi Sunak's integrity & professionalism surely he's not too stupid to know the principle of British Law is that everyone deserves a fair trial? is not, this is a shameful low slur from a Prime Minister - and Piers Morgan doesn't challenge him #Sunk
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The sols won’t be the same without the #MarsHelicopter. #ThanksIngenuity, for being my partner in exploration from the very beginning. go.nasa.gov/42b77KA
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24 Dec 2023
"We, the Palestinians, will recover... I feel sorry for those who are complicit. Will you ever recover from this?" Munther Isaac, pastor of Christmas Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem.

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