@Rowan_Connell

Alleged technician

 Liverpool
Joined November 2010
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  • Followers235
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Caught in 2015, frozen in ethanol in the -20C freezer for 4.5 years and somehow STILL alive.
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Anon Opin.
@anon_opin17h
UK water privatisation is staggering. Companies were effectively handed monopolies over an essential, inelastic good on two basic conditions - don't exploit customers, and reinvest in infrastructure. Instead we got shit in rivers and and million pound bonuses to execs.
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andy@heyitsandy_Oct 18
you’re 3 missed paychecks from being on the streets where you would need the benefits system in place. your child/children were born in an nhs hospital. if you have an accident at work you are taken to an nhs A&E in an nhs ambulance and treated without seeing a bill for any of it
Fynn
@fynnvestorOct 17
I’ve paid £8,000 in tax this year £2,160 gone to people on benefits £1,760 gone to the NHS £940 gone to government debt interest £520 gone for foreign aid What a waste of hard earned money
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The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar! - Karl Marx, The Civil War in France
Christoffer Jonsson
@kurrejonssonOct 17
Jag vill inte längre höra folk säga att det rör sig om ”vanliga” skolprotester. Bilderna och filmerna från Frankrike visar på ren och skär ondska.
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Skores
@Skores9qOct 16
This is what flood control looks like when you have government officials and contractors who do not steal your money.
Redd
@ReddCinemaOct 16
This is how the Netherlands used engineering to beat the sea.
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It's incredible how well the bread and circus has captivated the minds of the dumbest people
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnsonOct 16
These 3.5 seconds did more to fortify American Identity than any establishment politician or political party in the last generation. 100 years of neoliberal rule was vaporized in 3.5 seconds. Rejoice, we are still America. 🇺🇸
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£10 spent on benefits isn't just £10 lost, it's £10 that will then be spent on food, or rent which keeps circulating in the economy. £10 given to big businesses in a tax cut just ends up in a profit margin, or a millionaire shareholders pocket. Its likely never spent again.
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Netflix has 16,000 employees. If they kept half of that profit and paid the rest out equally to everyone, they could give each worker a $426,000 bonus this year and still pocket $6,825,000,000. Instead they fired 1000 people.
Fight for a Union@FightForAUnionOct 15
Netflix cleared $13.65 billion in net income this year. Up 33%. So naturally they’re celebrating by laying off 1,000 people. 6% of their workers that built those profits. All to save a little extra cash for shareholders. Apparently $13.65 billion isn’t enough for these ghouls.
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Passive income should be taxed at a HIGHER rate than earned income. I don't know why this would be remotely controversial.
Financial Times
@FTOct 13
Healey rejects calls to equalise capital gains and income tax rates ft.trib.al/9CvrGGl

Healey rejects calls to equalise capital gains and income tax rates

UK proposal had been backed by senior Labour figures, triggering nervousness among entrepreneurs and investors

ft.com
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G.T
@gingerrtomOct 12
Jason Arday’s plagiarism attracted a total of 249 articles, which led to his death. Michael Gove’s own girlfriend was charged with possessing indecent images of children, yet the media remain silent. Gove wrote about Arday AFTER her charges. THIS IS FUCKING OUTRAGEOUS!
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It cannot be overstated how every one of these tankers going down either in Europe or the Middle East is its own massive ecological disaster. Once you add them all up we’re talking about ecocide at that point. We’re killing everything with these wars. Not just us.
The Hormuz Letter
@HormuzLetterOct 10
BREAKING: Iran announces a large oil tanker attempting to exit the Strait of Hormuz through the US-backed southern Omani corridor has exploded with a massive blast after hitting a naval mine, now fully engulfed in flames.
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We DO NOT in fact have to 'accept severe cyberattacks' as the price of 'freedom'
Jaynit
@jaynitxOct 9
Sam Altman says society will have to accept severe cyberattacks from open-source AI as the price of preserving freedom "I support open source models. There is a coming tidal wave of cybersecurity problems that are going to come from these open source models" "There are people in the industry who say we should ban open source, because otherwise a bunch of systems are going to be hacked" "We're going to, as a society, I think, have to just accept some fairly severe cyber incidents from open models, in exchange for the liberty that comes with that"
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Bethany wore a T-Shirt that said ‘Protect the Dolls’ during #Strictly rehearsals. After posting a video, the BBC quietly replaced it with a new one that doesn’t show her from the front. During the show, they actually blurred out the T-Shirt completely. Absolutely despicable
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In 2015 David Cameron privatised the National Fostering Agency, it's now being paid £160m a year straight to a New Jersey tax haven to manage the fostering of just 2,616 children A tax free profit of £61,000 per child, and they don't even provide any care, that's the fosters job
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The billionaires are trying to convince us that when jobs dry up, said billionaires will voluntarily pay us more of their profits? How stupid do they think we are? #StopAI
RT Intl@RT_on_XOct 7
Bezos claims AI advancements will mean ‘you’ll no longer need to have 2-earner household’ ‘I think you’ll have a labor shortage’ ‘Because productivity in economy is gonna make it so that if people don’t wanna work 2 jobs, they won’t have to’
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When I was at university we had to write an essay about Starbucks and their tax avoidance. This was in 2012. Essentially they pay a ‘Royalty and Licence fee’ to a non UK company each year. This strips out their profits and enables them to avoid almost all corporation tax. I thought I would check whether things have changed since I wrote the essay back in 2012. This is the Corporation Tax paid each financial year: 2021: £5.4m 2022: £4.5m 2023: £7.2m 2024: £0m 2025 -£13.7m Total: £3.4m Royalty and License Fees: 2021: £26.5m 2022: £34.4m 2023: £40.4m 2024: £40.4m 2025: £43.2m Total: £184.9m Assuming a 25% corporation tax rate would be £46.22m in taxes brought in. If these loopholes were closed off, maybe our personal taxes would be reasonable.
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Some of these people have returned to work in our schools, hospitals and offices today. How are we meant to feel safe? @andyburnham
Mukhtar
@I_amMukhtarOct 4
They're protesting in Dover saying "get them dirty n*ggers out, dirty little darkies"
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Niños y niñas, observad detenidamente como se para una carga policial.
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