Everyone else my age is calling their A.I. Joshua right?

“That’s some catch, that Catch-22.”

2002 - I remember getting increasingly enraged about the fact the article hadn’t deigned to tell why this person was famous (“How dare they!”)

And then I reached that line.

I want a movie about the poor untenured archaeologist who has to cover Indiana Jones' teaching and do his marking while he fucks off to do 'fieldwork'.

I understand why it kind of disappeared—a pandemic show in 2021/2 is a hard sell—but it is the best show of the last ten years.

10 year gilts entering their Dark Knight Returns period

Surprised to find that caused a slight twinge of residual jealousy.

7-year old me would strongly disagree. Don't underestimate the draw of the Welsh Elvis.

"Ernest Hemingway once wrote 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for in front of Zendaya.'

I agree with the second part."

Finally having my Claude code moment. Going to resist the urge to write 5,000 blogposts about it but, yes… wow.

Wake Up to Money - Something to declare? - BBC Sounds Consultation on a customs loophole allowing goods to come into the UK duty-free ends.

Really great to be back on #wakeuptomoney talking with @felicityhannah.bsky.social (and her Uncertainty Klaxon) about some of the economic implications of the war in the Middle East.

@ljmuofficial.bsky.social @ljmuimpact.bsky.social

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March 2020 Budget vibes.

The Castle - The Vibe YouTube video by thecomputerdude24 TV & Movie Clips

Those legal arguments in full

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There are going to be limits to what you can make other countries do by threatening to tax your own citizen's purchases of their products.

I believe handing over entire territories falls well beyond those limits.

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This is unacceptable. Anything post 1990 counts as “very recent past” and needs no nostalgia.

Columnists! People who make videos of their own heads! Do you know nothing about autism & its complexity? Never read a word about it, but seen something about SEND reform and what Badenoch/Tice said the other day? Top tip: Just sound off about "overdiagnosis" and get another week's beer money

Basically another version of DiCaprio's "GIVE ME THE OSCAR" stare to camera at the end of The Revenant.

Oh, look. A load of coverage about a new government inquiry into "overdiagnosis" that completely blurs autism & mental illness, and ends up leaning into all those tropes about people making it all up.

There was maybe a 45 minute window where you could get coverage of what was actually in the budget and it was, crucially, the period when it was leaked by the OBR but before it was announced.

Scene from OFFICE SPACE with Michael Bolton replying to Samir Nagheenanajar: “No way. Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.”

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

It's completely ridiculous. Pre-budget everyone thought the headroom gap was £20-30bn including policy changes (e.g. on welfare). It was in fact £16bn.

It's hardly a massive difference.

Watching Reeves being interviewed on Laura Kuenssberg and they’ve spent 10 minutes on (i) whether Reeves lied, and (ii) whether she broke the manifesto commitments.

Utterly futile.

It’s good. A little too kind maybe but good.

We'll do anything to increase tax revenues but we won't Do That (broadbased tax rises that might actually plug the gap)

Good Budget Eve reading from @jomichell.bsky.social

Please clap

Homes worth more than £2mn set to be hit by Budget raid ‘Mansion tax’ set to affect more than 100,000 properties, mostly in London and the south-east

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Continue to be confused by this strand of Labour MPs that appear not to want to raise any taxes at all.

Had my first "hey, where did the sound go?" moment on live tv today. Thankfully, I think I styled it out and definitely didn't end up looking like a giant head in a tank babbling silently to themselves.

Anyway the basic gist is that this government have decided businesses, universities and immigrants should pay the taxes that the median voter doesn’t want to pay. I’m sure that will have no worrying incidence effects or counteract ‘the singleminded focus on growth’.