Luke ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
@lukebbz
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a work of art is never complete, merelyโฆ abandoned
Manchester, England
Joined July 2009
Evening chaps. There's a 1960s office building in Gateshead that the council are preparing to demolish as the beginning of their regeneration program. It was built circa 1965, when the future was possible. In the spirit of midcentury futurism, they called it Computer House
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The whole damn fleet needs to be painted like this. Damn itโs good.
After a night of flying from Seattle's Paine Field, this brand new Dreamliner, operating as #LH9919โpainted in the striking @lufthansa 100 Years Anniversary Liveryโis soon arriving at its new home in Frankfurt. Track here: https://t.co/N6nFPcNAHC
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How delightfully American.
World Cup supporters to be charged to attend fan park for first time
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My husband used to be the personal chef to the Dowager Duchess (now long since departed). He lived here, for a while.
Christmas decorations at Chatsworth House, the 318-year-old stately home in Derbyshire, England.
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NEW: Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook has just announced the BIGGEST EVER reforms to national policy to deliver more homes! Here are the five biggest: ๐งต
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The main reason is the financialization of everything from the 80s onwards. Where once designers, engineers, architects etc were allowed to dream of innovation, utopian futures & build them, now everything is stifled by the dead hand of venture capital, leveraging & rent seeking
the past looks more like the future than the present does
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Incredible really, how this Entire Party would Fall apart if we had a functioning Media That Reported accurately, & hadn't been acting as Farage's Personal PR & damage control Machine for the last 10 years.
Low earners to pay council tax in Durham as Reform UKโs changes approved. Reform UK Durham Leader, Andrew Husband and Deputy, Darren Grimes both defended the plan to โsqueeze money out of somebody who doesn't have any." https://t.co/I5qgvN9DPl
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UK media is literally just millionaire presenters calling doctors greedy for wanting to be paid more than ยฃ18/hr for saving your lives in the middle of the night.
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At long last, a positive shared vision for railways in the North. ๐๐ป #BeeNetworkRail will be a game-changer for GM. ๐ https://t.co/Xb4YMd9c3U
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Considering Greenwood has now declared for Jamaica, that makes ignoring this rapist dickhead incredibly easy.
๐จ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฉ๐๐ฌ: Mason Greenwood has now produced 13 goals + 4 assists this season. How much longer can Thomas Tuchel ignore one of the most in-form English players this season? ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐ค
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Some cursory research indicates Ikea have old sold the bear since 2018 so that begs the question, were they inspired after watching Die Hard? I am going fully deep-diving on this.
Having my annual Die Hard rewatch (not entertaining โitโs not a Christmas movieโ discourse FYI) and is this an @IKEAUK Djungelskog bear?!
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satisfying, therapeutic: Duolingo pivoted to AI this year and lost 50% of its market value.
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Wait. The government bunged a bunch of money at energy companies to cut bills, but included no mechanism to stop them from just trousering the cash if they wanted to...?
Labour has taken ยฃ150 off the costs of energy bills. Energy companies need to pass on every penny. Alongside @Ed_Miliband Iโve written to suppliers calling for action. https://t.co/SBrS71db09
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Child mutilation rate by country:
Male Circumcision Rates by Country โ๏ธ 1. ๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan 99.9% 2. ๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria 99.9% 3. ๐ง๐ญ Bahrain 99.9% 4. ๐ง๐ฉ Bangladesh 99.9% 5. ๐ง๐ณ Brunei 99.9% 6. ๐น๐ฉ Chad 99.9% 7. ๐ฐ๐ฒ Comoros 99.9% 8. ๐ฉ๐ฏ Djibouti 99.9% 9. ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt 99.9% 10. ๐ฌ๐ฒ Gambia 99.9% 11. ๐ฌ๐ณ Guinea 99.9% 12. ๐ฎ๐ท Iran 99.9%
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to
OpenAI is a loss-making monster, with new analysis that projects even IF it can hit $200bn revenue by 2030, it'll still need over $200bn in funding just to stay afloat. Platforms are increasingly turning to debt to keep this gravy train going ... https://t.co/slGCfl06UG ๐
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Having a pre-Drumsheds pint in a ropey Silver Street pub and just paid ยฃ6.50 for a Carlsberg AND a Heineken Blue. I mustโve crossed a portal into 2015.
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