Simpike

New kid on the blockchain.
Keeping it virtual (between a crematorium and a dildo shop)

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2026-06-10 16:32:01 UTC

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in general terms, in the UK, a hamlet is a few houses without a central community space. If it's big enough to have a hall it has become a village

2026-03-25 08:55:26 UTC

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what amazes me is how easy it is to manipulate the markets. He only has to say some random garbled nonsense about peace talks and the price of oil goes down.
Nobody waits for proof or validation.
I thought markets were supposed to be rational?

2026-03-24 10:44:58 UTC

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not in my line of work, no, that would be cheap. But I presume museums, arts, public bodies etc would be more price sensitive

2025-11-18 11:29:58 UTC

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perhaps small investors have not put enough money into AI for this kind of news to be reported yet ?

2025-10-31 09:09:11 UTC

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can highly recommend the current "This is what you get" exhibition at the Ashmolean. Think they have an online version

2025-10-31 09:06:00 UTC

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It's funny, I grew up in a fishing community and the church was very sea god focussed. We had 'blessing of the fisheries' and incense waving over the dock. So maybe a bit of Poseidon / Neptune / Yam / Aruna / Dylan ail Don lived on....

2025-09-02 14:56:39 UTC

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I think Wingspan is ok (not fantastic, just ok). Wyrnspan I loathe.
I know no one asked me :-)

2025-07-31 11:07:07 UTC

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Reform will likely pick up a lot of the disillusioned votes - the (captive) media portrays them as antiestablishment (which they are not) and downplays their racism (which is systemic). It's very depressing because Starmer is playing right into their hands

2025-07-31 08:23:06 UTC

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I don't know how dodgy it is in terms of "the rules" (as opposed to just morally dodgy) but they have picked up a lot of corporate sponsors.
Wes Streeting (Health Secretary) enjoys a lot of financing from US based private health care companies. As do a lot of the cabinet. Shady af.
No longer a party of the workers

2025-07-31 07:26:33 UTC

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Labour have enough seats to push through whatever agenda they choose but Starmer (#cardboarddboy) does not have the political will. Difficult to know what he believes in beyond, presumably, what his paymasters tell him. The government has been a huge disappointment, for those desperate for change, and is playing directly into the hands of Reform who are dragging the main political parties to the right

2025-07-13 06:59:18 UTC

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as a warrior class they probably made the peasants pay some kind of protection money

2025-06-19 08:02:58 UTC

The next time my boss, or one of my team, asks me about my goals (it is mid year, after all) I am going to say
"Nobody knows what I am going to do"
#taco

2025-04-27 10:29:20 UTC

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agree. I did so in the GE and am pleased I did not give my vote to the labour shit show

2025-03-16 14:06:23 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-03-14 12:55:07 UTC

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the use of the words "human resource" rather than personnel says all you need to know

2025-03-02 09:26:52 UTC

#SilentSunday
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/092/115/844/962/078/original/e944c0720a548caf.jpg

2024-10-18 08:48:25 UTC

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I always thought the signal was when Personnel was renamed to Human Resources.
Words matter. We are perceived as resources, no different to wheat, sheep and ore

2024-09-27 16:54:03 UTC

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always interesting to note that people completely misunderstand the differences between type 1 and type 2