This post goes some way to explaining the dire financial straits the UK is in... "Britain has almost run out of taxpayers, or at the very least, it’s slowly running out of people who pay enough taxes to plausibly finance the state." "...in 1998, about 43 per cent of British earners paid sufficient tax to cover the Government’s average per-capita spending. During Covid, that figure fell to an absolute low of circa 20 per cent, then by 2025 recovered modestly to 26.6 per cent." No wonder if fewer than 27% of people are net contributors to the state It's stats like this that make me want to leave. Big new project in the US in the next few months might be just the springboard I need @griffitha @LiamHalligan open.substack.com/pub/ieains…

From Jan, Brits will have highest energy bills ever. How the hell are Brits expected to magic up £2,192 a year for energy bills? A 27% increase. Subsidising penguins farts whilst sitting on oil

Can we also talk about how Wikipedia entries are no longer at the top of a search 😭

no bcos like are we gunna be attacked ??? This genuinely terrifies me

New poster for ‘BLADE RUNNER 2099’, starring Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer. The series is set after a replicant uprising where the humans lost and replicants rule. Releasing November 25 on Prime Video.

being white means another white person you don’t even know will be completely comfortable saying some racist shit to you if you talk to them for more than 5 minutes

Germany, France, UK, Lativa and Italy plan to join Ukraine war with Russia. Kyiv calls European countries to prepare for full scale war with russia. if these countries get involved into war with Russia, Article 5 of NATO will be activated at once , 30 NATO countries will jointly attack russia

We are the new Soviet Bloc

In Cyberpunk, they had to shut down the internet because of evil rouge AIs. Everything ended up being run on local networks instead of a World Wide Web That just seems to be the way we are going honestly

If there's one thing the closure of @bioware has taught me, it's that the majority of racists are straight, white males from low income brackets with low educations who are pissed off because they couldn't win a race that was literally rigged in their favor from being born straight, white males. And if they don't have somebody to blame, eventually they'd have to admit that the person responsible for most of their problems stares back at them in the mirror every morning. But they'll spend more time obsessing over immigrants, blacks, gays, and DEI "agendas" than they ever have trying to improve their own lives. An immigrant didn't blow your paycheck at the bar. A gay couple didn't get your truck repoed. A trans kid didn't make you drop out of high school, lose your job, and get divorced. A black family didn't keep you from learning a trade, showing up to work, or acting like a decent human being. YOU did that. All by yourself. So when you're standing there screaming that everybody else is getting special treatment, maybe ask yourself why you're getting lapped by people who had to climb over fences that you never even saw. Racism isn't strength. It's what insecure people wrap themselves in when they don't have accomplishments to brag about. Homophobia isn't toughness. It's fear wearing work boots. And all that DEI whining is just you saying "I'm too scared to compete" when everyone else finally gets their fair shot. The hard truth is that if your identity depends upon somebody else staying beneath you, you never stood very tall in the first place. Quit blaming minorities for your misery. Quit blaming LGBTQ+ folks because your life's a train wreck. Quit looking for scapegoats and just grab a mirror. Because that reflection has cost you more opportunities than every immigrant, every pride parade, every DEI program, and every person of color combined.

In my 60 years I've never heard anyone in Scotland say "it's raining cats and dogs"