Adam

Fix the money, fix the world

[Adam @adamjoy]

@peterrhague @PeterMcCormack We are no longer a serious country

[Adam @adamjoy]

@meadwaj You’re confused. Inflation can come down while prices are still rising. You’re confusing first and second derivatives. You might call yourself an economist, but basic understanding of economics seems to elude you.

[Adam @adamjoy]

@AndreasSteno What did you expect….?

[Adam @adamjoy]

@zerohedge “Wide respect at home” lol

[Adam @adamjoy]

@EdwardJDavey You think you’re saying something popular but you just come across as an economically illiterate fool. If you want to watch it, go to the pub and support the hospitality industry that’s being decimated by morons like you.

[Adam @adamjoy]

@Keir_Starmer You, and your successor, will be gone soon enough and we can start to dig ourselves out of this hole

[Adam @adamjoy]

This

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

VAR

I enthusiastically welcomed it. Was sold on the higher percentage of right decisions so we could all go home knowing football justice had been done and we could concentrate on which player was crap instead.

But I was wrong. Woefully and completely wrong.

Waiting 5 minutes for a decision to be made alone means the system isn't fit for purpose. Why? Because I sat with TV producers who said everything would be wrapped up in 10-30 seconds. It has literally taken the spontaneous joy from the most important part of the game. A goal.

Then, one thing completely blindsided me and many others.

Subjectivity.

I thought there would be science and a nailed on guarantee of a successfully and universally accepted decision. How wrong we were. Instead, arbitrary lines are drawn that simply can't with any certainty say whether a player is offside or not. So a human in a portacabin, 200 miles away only does what the referee can do, make a best guess.

Likewise handballs, dives, any penalty decision to be honest. A subjective decision decided out of stadium allowing an increasingly small and poor refereeing pool a get out of jail free card. Instead of them making a shit decision and owning it, they just pass it on 200 miles away so 3 men in a portacabin can make a shit decision instead. Lunacy.

For the love of the game, let's go back to investing in getting more referees, respecting them so that they join the trade and don't feel constantly abused. In short, treat them like rugby referees. Ultimate respect.

Then, fuck VAR off, it's ruined the game, made it petty and chaotic, and taken that one ingredient that you simply can't replace, instantaneous joy.

As a player and fan I accepted a referee making a bad decision in a game in the same way I accepted fucking up a shot or pass. We're all human.

Let's get back to that, humans doing their best, everyone walks away from the ground accepting that and less unrealistic pressure put on officials to be perfect when perfection doesn't exist in any walk of life.

VAR stinks. A system designed to help is a massive hindrance and it's about time pundits, fans, players, referees, clubs put pressure on authorities to get rid of it. We only need goal line tech, the rest can and should be refer refereed by humans making their best judgement. A best judgement that was over 98% right( audited fact pre VAR).

Enough is enough, fuck it off.

[Adam @adamjoy]

This is, without doubt, the best thing on the internet

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

THIS GUY BUILT AN ENTIRE WIKIPEDIA THAT IS 100% AI HALLUCINATIONS AND IT'S OPEN SOURCE ON GITHUB

it's called Halupedia.

nothing on the site existed before you clicked. every article was generated the second you arrived.

the site has one rule: the universe only exists when you visit it.

it looks exactly like wikipedia. same fonts. same layout. same scholarly citations. same "stumble" button for random articles.

the only difference is none of it is real.

here are some actual articles currently in the encyclopedia:

> the great pigeon census of 1887
> the ministry of slightly wrong maps
> chaldic arithmetic — a branch of mathematics where subtraction is forbidden
> armund the river mapper — a cartographer who mapped 14,000 leagues of river without leaving his chair
> the society for the prevention of unnecessary tuesdays

every article page also tells you how many people are reading it right now. it says: "you alone are consulting this folio at present."

the creator's own tagline for the site is the most unhinged sentence i've read this year:

"an encyclopedia of a universe that does not exist until you visit it"

the entire backend is a single open source repo called vibeserver. one guy. one description on github: "a little webserver making things up just in time."

we built the largest knowledge base in human history and the very first thing a guy did with it was make a hallucinated mirror universe and put it on the open web.

the internet is healing.

[Adam @adamjoy]

@PeterMcCormack @NewStatesman Democracy is the problem

[Vodka & Seledka 🇬🇧 @seledka_vodka]

There is a scene in @HBO's Chernobyl that most viewers miss. A scientist presents evidence of the disaster to a Belarusian party official. The official dismisses her expertise, then boasts that he used to run a shoe factory.

It is not central to the plot, but it explains everything. The Soviet Union was governed by a snowball of incompetence - decades of nepotism where ministries were handed to people with no relevant knowledge, provided they had the right party connections. Pedigree was political, not professional.

I grew up there. My parents were subject matter experts who spent their careers battling apparatchiks enforcing decisions they did not understand. That is why I flinch when I hear the same logic here in Britain.

@UKLabour politicians celebrate the "right background" - the poorer, the more deprived, the better. Council house to government, presented as triumph. Progress and resilience deserve recognition. But in these jubilations, merit vanishes. And celebrating ascent without competence is not progress. It is the embryo of disaster.

Look at the Labour Party's front bench. Britain's central challenge is wealth creation - economic growth. Yet these are former charity workers, public sector lifers, people who have always been on the receiving end of funds rather than generating them. They have never had to create value others willingly pay for. So they look to regulators for growth ideas. It is farcical. It is only possible in a culture where navigating party structures replaces proven ability.

A friend told me recently his wife had to close her coffee shop - high traffic, real revenue, still unprofitable due to taxes and business rates. In his frustration he said something raw: he no longer cares if folks running the government are toolmakers' sons or landed gentry. He wants competence. He found himself saying he would rather be ruled by Old Etonians.

Not because Eton College guarantees talent. It does not. But sheer competence - knowing your subject - has become so scarce in British governance that the impulse is understandable.

We are not the Soviet Union. We are nowhere near collapse. But on the left of our politics, the distance is shrinking faster than we admit.

[Adam @adamjoy]

It’s time for mass-protest against this government. The reasonable people of this country need to stand up and banish this incompetent administration forever. We can’t wait for the next election, the stakes are too high, the damage to our country will be too great. Now is the time

[Adam @adamjoy]

It’s time. We need anti-government mass protest in the UK. We must get rid of Labour and the failures of left wing politics for good. We can’t wait for the next election, the stakes are too high, the damage will be too great.

[Adam @adamjoy]

This 👇

[Higgy @higgyboson]

CV.

Completely ruined a major 126 year old political party in less than 2 years.

Became the most hated UK Prime Minister in history.

Unilaterally gave away billions of £'s of taxpayers money with no accountability required from the recipients.

Wrecked the economy.

Failed to control mass immigration, both legal and illegal.

Failed to address the problem of muslim rape gangs.

Increased welfare payments to a point where benefits now cost more than the entire income tax take.

Allowed weekly pro-Palestinian hate marches on our streets.

Consistently referred to people with concerns about the proliferation of migrant violence as "Far Right".

Promoted one of his friends to high office despite knowing he was a buddy of one of the most prolific paedophiles on the planet.

Consistently worked to reverse the result of the biggest democratic vote in British history by stealth.

Placed tax dodgers, fraudsters and CV fantasists in Ministerial posts.

Invited a known islamist terrorist to No.10 while simultaneously banning foreign commentators from the UK for merely reporting on the border fiasco.

Took two weeks to find a Royal Navy ship that actually worked.

Introduced legislation that will destroy the private rental market and create hundreds of thousands of homeless families.

Promised to build 1.5 million homes in five years despite everyone telling him it would be impossible.

Failed to help motorists and hauliers after the rise in the price of fuel caused by the war in Iran.

Continues to allow Ed Milliband to wreck the UK's energy industry with his insane Net Zero policies.

Raised the minimum wage and employers National Insurance contributions leading to thousands of job losses and businesses folding.

Introduced VAT to private school fees leading to many excellent seats of learning closing their doors.

Consistently refused to answer questions during the session in the parliamentary week set aside for this specific purpose.

Consistently failed to accept responsibility for any wrong doing, preferring to sack others instead.

Alienated "working people" while claiming to be on their side.

And the lies. The constant lies.

Failure. Failure. And more Failure.

Time to go.

[Adam @adamjoy]

1. The government keep telling us they have an economic plan and it’s working

2. Announcements like this are happening almost every day

3. WTF?

[ITV News @itvnews]

Up to 150 former WH Smith stores to close 'as direct result of government policy'
https://t.co/TgOs4KNLsq

[Adam @adamjoy]

@PaulGregor26129 @RupertLowe10 Government can invest it wisely? Pull the other one buddy

[Adam @adamjoy]

@British_Airways is an embarrassment to the country. Online check-in is completely broken. It’s 2026

[Domino's Pizza UK @Dominos_UK]

we've delivered 88,989,898 pizzas since Spurs last won a game

[Adam @adamjoy]

@PeterMcCormack The problem is, too many people are now dependent on the state. It becomes a self-sustaining system, deliberately

[Adam @adamjoy]

@Keir_Starmer What an absolute clown. Inflation = prices going up. You’re an idiot or a liar (I suspect both)