Samuel Karlin
@samuelkarlin
Physicist, software developer, keen on photos of gorgeous landscapes, space and nature. 🏠 Oxford. 🌹 Leftie. He/him. Here for pretty pictures and a political conversation hopefully more civilised than Musk's Twitter.
You have to give Joe Hart, on the BBC, the final word on this. "For him [Tuchel] to [do those defensive subs] as soon as he did, that is him saying he didn't believe in his team, that he didn't think they could land any more punches on Argentina." The point is devastating and unanswerable.
It's cooled down (thank God!) - and it's been a gorgeous day. Here's where we stopped for lunch - under this tree. Beauty.
Allegedly I'm to the left of Jeremy Corbyn and about the same as Rosa Luxemburg. Lol. I'm more like Ed Miliband. But this is clearly American-based, so saying "no, unions aren't evil, minimum wage is good, and markets aren't always efficient" makes you a revolutionary communist. findmypolitics.com
I saw some beautiful, huge old trees while out walking today, and I want you to get to see them too 🙂
When you live somewhere it's easy to not appreciate it as much as it deserves. But Oxford is unutterably beautiful. Taken with OxUni Walking Club yesterday.
I love the LinkedIn-speak translator. This is exquisite. 😂 (from r/ProgrammerHumor)
In Paris, it's sunny with a cool breeze, the croissants are crisp, and for running there are pretty places of blue and green. Life is good 🙂
Typical conspiratorial thinking - anyone who questions your thinking must be a bot or troll. FYI, I was out on the streets for 13 hours volunteering for Remain on 23rd June 2016. Did you? Going on my morning run now, so kindly fuck off.
Good old Argos. I had the thought only this morning, went to a Sainsburys, here now. What would I do without them? Melt, probably. 😃
Fairford to Letchlade was absolutely gorgeous today. Strongly recommended for a hike, if you're that way inclined.
It isn't a lie. Here's John Swinney attacking the EU deal as "surrender". Precisely the same sort of language as is used by Reform and the Tories. (While Scottish Salmon approves of the deal.) Zero surprise to see Reform and the Tories being bastards, but I thought the SNP were better than this.
It's striking to see it like this. Practically all of British business agrees Labour's deal improving our economic links with the EU is good for us. The Tory, Reform and SNP politicians who are shouting and calling it betrayal are cynical opportunists trying to make hay. They don't care about us.
Everyone—remember to VOTE today! Whoever you are, you deserve your voice to be heard.
A lot of older people say this: "ah, young people are so entitled. We had it just as hard." But here's the reality: House prices are HUGELY more expensive compared to people's salaries than they were in the past. We DO bloody hard work. Then landlords take most of it. That's how it works, sadly.
Photo I took - Folgarida, the Dolomites, Italy I doubt I can do justice to how stunningly beautiful the landscape was, but here's a try.