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Smile and wave boys

[. @playboicurrryy]

one of the easiest ways to tell if a book is good or not is to take a quick look at the cover

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

If you are of the view that millions of your fellow Britons are angry only because they have been “whipped up” by a few right-wing bogeymen, you truly do not understand your own country.

[Simon French @Frencheconomics]

I am a big fan of the Treasury who are so often the (much needed) grown up in the room. But whoever this source is demeans the great office. We spend £335bn/year on welfare, less than 1% of that bridges the gap to the DIP ask from MoD. The choice is not as presented.

[TriNitroToluene 🔻 @PEGmacrogol]

What do even reply to this

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

Andy Burnham seemingly entertaining the WASPI stuff is depressing. We've gone through much more process than necessary to decide rightly that there isn't a case. It's a huge amount of money at a time where we should be investing in growth.

[Claire Adams @claire_adams694]

Nothing says “fight the wealthy elite” quite like delivering the lecture in a Gucci blouse. 🙄

We see you.

[Tom Tugendhat @TomTugendhat]

We all know this isn't going to happen. It's another empty promise. Andy shouldn't be saying this as he knows it won't happen. Worse, he knows it shouldn't.

There are many who will disagree with me but the reality is that this would require a huge transfer of wealth from kids (loans secured over many years) to older people who were adults at the time this was being debated and announced in the media and in letters.

I think that's the wrong way to address intergenerational unfairness.

[David Gauke @DavidGauke]

Of all the demands for additional public spending, this is surely one of the least deserving. If he’s caving in on this, God help us.

[Leo @SpartanPsyche]

You think you need more discipline. Reality is, you need less internal noise.

When your mind is crowded enough, even obvious action starts feeling heavy.

Think about this.. Most actions are not complex,,

But you perceive them so..

Because your nervous system is already carrying too many open loops.

Unfinished decisions.
Unanswered messages.
Background stress.
Things you need to say.
Things you need to end.
Things you are pretending are not draining you.

This is why high performers sometimes stall on moves that should take five minutes.

The task is not the task anymore. It is the task + everything else your brain is holding at the same time.

That is the hidden tax.

People call this procrastination.

But often it is just cognitive overcrowding.

Just too much shit in there, most unresolved, almost all taking up more space than it deserves

Execution reliability improves the moment your inner world becomes less congested. You need fewer unresolved things competing for working memory.

Sometimes the fastest way forward is not pushing harder.

It is clearing enough internal space for the obvious move to finally feel light again.

[Jo @junker_jo]

They’re using the guy beheading your brother in the street to distract you from your real enemy: Jeff Bezos delivering medicine to your front door overnight

[Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant]

I just love the idea that after presumably coming out to her community, doing IVF and raising two children with her non-Muslim, tattooed, lesbian life-partner, the woman in question remains committed to full Islamic modesty dress

[Schtal @Schtal2]

Women are sexually aroused by what they claim to hate.

[erin 𓆱 @btwntwinpeaks]

i got outed as trans to my grandmother and her response was “oh well that makes sense, your father used to have sex with men for heroin so it runs in your genes”

[Andy @PositivFuturist]

When your entire worldview is based not on knowledge, but on what others think - the only possible rebuttal is a performance.

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

Six years ago today, the most important piece of pandemic-era journalism was published.

[Jack Elsom @JackElsom]

Tony Blair: “I always used to say the greatest source of election-losing advice was the Guardian”

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

You've worked hard, you get a 10% pay rise from £100k to £110k. You get an extra £3.8k and the State gets £7.7k.

Inflation is 3%. So you end up with an extra £800, which just about covers the increase in your council tax.

Why bother.

[Ben Meiselas @meiselasb]

You are seeing in real time why Trump companies went bankrupt so many times. Set aside your politics. This guy is incapable of making a deal or meaningful decision and it follows the same cycle. Big flashy announcement (Epic Fury). Adversity hits (Hormuz closed). Defraud stakeholders (promise two week solution). Freeze up (endless two week cycle loop). Compound the problem (resource depletion). Final chance to save face rejected (what you’re seeing now). Bankruptcy strikes and blame others during chaos. Rinse repeat.

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

Almost bought a new Porsche today. We got 95% of the deal done but couldn’t agree on a price, exact model, color or accessories.

[Gareth Baines @DrGABaines]

£98,599 a year and she’s taking a summer break on full pay.

If she can’t cope with the demands of her elected position, she should step down