Andrew Williamson

Seeking refuge @ [email protected] and Threads and everywhere else Musk isn't.
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@CountBinface Still following, but I wish you'd post on somewhere with less Nazis like Mastadon or Threads!

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@birdzilla6 @kenklippenstein I keep hearing that too but it's only partially true - The feed is basically posts from your followers first, then other random posts after. Kinda the same as Instagram's really, except without the "up to date" divider when you've finished.

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@alistaircoleman You can tell it's from a legit source because they knew the official term of "North Korea looking" uniform.

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@kevfquinn @RealSexyCyborg @ashraenews @CDCgov Those convertors need to have that warning about it being "for travel" and "temporary" purposes. Which people just ignore anyway, but I'm not sure if it could be justified for an item that clearly wasn't just for travel.

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@alistaircoleman Kim Jong Un gets the chippy teas in.

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@StarryZannah @posspossduo @DanTwoHundred @songlin221 The small ones are generally water mains stopcocks. The larger ones in the road could be electric, or telecoms, or even controls for the traffic signals. We stick a lot in the ground in cities.

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@Parody_PM And almost all the people in the UK have it already so it's going to make bugger all difference if a few hundred more people arrive with it. I thought we were past this xenophobic scaremongering.

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@MrPurple_DJ @WhaleChart @elonmusk People are generally not personally liable for the bankruptcy of companies they are CEO of, and the tweet was that SBF (personally) bought the twitter shares, not FTX. Though there was a lot of misuse of company funds to buy property so who knows.

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@damnthatcursor @katrinanavickas The London council tax payers fund TFL, who pay for the improvements. You should lobby for a levy on the council tax of other councils for rail improvements elsewhere. (And I lived in the North for 39 years!)

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@web3isgreat They got off lightly from an Oracle software licensing audit!

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@tidy_christine @ingridoliver100 The majority of the parliamentary party that wanted him gone don't want him back - it's the minority that didn't want him to resign that still want him. There is no chance he'll get close to half the Tory MPs (~175) but it's possible he'll get over 100 and end up on the ballot.

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@Mattsmercury7 @mollison_n @ElectionMapsUK Local council wards often have 2 councillors per ward - (I believe) it's for continuity when half of the councillors are elected every 2 years, for a 4 year term. Some councils have 3 per ward.

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@clangwith @Carnage4Life @amazon I believe when the word "revenue" is being used here, they're meaning "profit" - operating income - rather than sales. Amazon makes most of its profits from AWS.

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@web3isgreat $820k taken from fools expecting to cash out before the rug pull they must have known was coming, at the expense of greater fools. They deserve it.

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@Abadesi Globally, for all permanent full-time staff.

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@Abadesi yeah, there are some occasional internal training sessions too (sometimes led by external training providers). Those are covered by internal budgets - the $3k is external spend.

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@MaxRTucker The "human shield" argument is just ludicrous - human shields are only a thing when you think your enemy has a conscience. Where is the evidence that Russia has ever avoided attacking because there are civilians there?

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@baseballscot @BeckettUnite Yes, both dividends and rental income is subject to income tax at 45% (after the first £100k-ish of income). (And if they sell those assets for more than they paid for them, capital gains tax)

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@baseballscot @BeckettUnite *No-one* has £500million in the bank - the vast, vast majority of a billionaire's wealth will be in investments (shares, etc) and assets (property, etc).