Nando @blinkcursor

Ex-this, ex-that, ex-economist, ex-writer @blinkcursor.bsky.social Online Joined April 2013

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Nando @blinkcursor

4 months ago

Thinking of @AVIVAIRELAND for car insurance if you have a teenager learning to drive? Think again. If you want them to learn in your car you have to sit in the car with them during all driving lessons and in the driving test to be covered.

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Nando @blinkcursor

6 months ago

Thinking of switching to @eir ? Don't! They've no modems. They'll activate your broadband but can't tell you when they'll send a modem because they've none in stock, leaving you days with no internet.

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Nando @blinkcursor

7 months ago

Pre-sale tickets have gone live for the @AerLingus College Football game in Dublin this summer, and most years I'm there with my family. This year? Meh. More likely to be protesting and telling them to go home. @cfbireland

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Nando @blinkcursor

8 months ago

If you were on the fence about whether the actions in #palestine amount to #genocide or "just" crimes against humanity, adding ethnic cleansing to the mix should pretty much settle that question for you.

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Nando @blinkcursor

8 months ago

Yes, but can we be *sure* Elon Musk really did a Nazi salute? Or might he have paid someone to do it for him? #elonmusk #nazisalute

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Nando @blinkcursor

10 months ago

Good, but slightly misses the point. Insurers are responsible for expensive healthcare in the same way car insurers are responsible for high repair costs. They don't exert downward pressure because they are not the ultimate payers, they just pass costs on via premiums.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

10 months ago

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Nando @blinkcursor

10 months ago

Hey @Trustpilot 360posters.co are infringing your copyright with fake recommendations & reviews on their homepage. There are no reviews on trustpilot.com, and the ones for 360posters.nl are terrible (aside from the fake Dutch ones).

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Tiberius @ecomarxi

a year ago

Listening to reasons why Israel massacres defenceless civilians in a territory it occupies is like listening to why a rapist rapes women. I don’t fucking care. I want it to stop and I want the perpetrators held accountable, as should everyone who cares about justice or humanity.

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Dario Perkins @darioperkins

a year ago

After decades of central-bank watching, I think I've managed to decipher the hidden code behind monetary policy moves: 25bps - "measured", precise, CHILLED 50 bps - "I'm not panicking, YOU are panicking" 75bps - OMFG we are so f***ed Works in both directions. Hope it helps

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Assal Rad @AssalRad

a year ago

Witnesses: Israeli soldiers shot and killed an American protester 🇮🇱: We shot at the demonstrators 🇺🇸: We don’t know who shot her but we’ve asked Israel to investigate

The Associated Press @AP

a year ago

Witnesses: Israeli soldiers shot and killed an American protester 🇮🇱: We shot at the demonstrators 🇺🇸: We don’t know who shot her but we’ve asked Israel to investigate

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Michael Spicer @MrMichaelSpicer

a year ago

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Nando @blinkcursor

a year ago

Oh lovely. The cat just came in my office and puked up a giant tape worm.

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Randa Abdel-Fattah @RandaAFattah

a year ago

In response to the Oslo Accords, @DrHananAshrawi said, “They made the people under occupation responsible for the security of their occupier.” Throughout Israel’s savage 11 month (and continuing) genocidal campaign in Gaza, zionists have made the people opposing genocide…

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Zoe Keller @KellerZoe

a year ago

@RachelReevesMP Boring. Really. You've won. Stop whining and start to do your job which is not supposed to be another round of austerity, but investments, investments, investments.

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz

a year ago

It’s wild when you realize that nobody can actually articulate a reason why Israel should be supported that is both logically coherent and morally defensible. Westerners grow up being indoctrinated with the understanding that this tiny country in the middle east is super duper…

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Nando @blinkcursor

a year ago

Interesting, I've always puzzled over this.

Princeton University Press @PrincetonUPress

a year ago

Interesting, I've always puzzled over this.

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Nando @blinkcursor

a year ago

I've never understood the business model of fancy bakers that run out of all their bread by 10am

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Assal Rad @AssalRad

a year ago

Imagine how different things could be now if Biden officials had put as much effort into ending Gaza’s genocide as they have defending it.

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Kenneth Roth @KenRoth

a year ago

1. This horrible ending to these hostages' ordeal is a blatant war crime by Hamas. 2. It shows the extraordinary danger of Israel trying to rescue the hostages militarily rather than negotiate their release, but Netanyahu keeps stalling on a deal.