Charlie Merry

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22, blind, don't use social media quite as much as I once did. I'm good with computers, but they're not very good with me. feel free to say hi nonetheless.
Fuck British gas. That is all. They're stupid registration system requires me to enter a reference number which they have not included in any of the letters they've sent me, and the account number they have given me apparently isn't good enough. At least I'm a little while from the end of the month, but it's taken them this long just to get in contact with me.
Curious, does the Mastodon API actually contain the ability to get pinned posts? Just asking because literally no client that I'm aware of has dysfunctionality, and it seems like kind of a shame.
Really quite laughable that EE are trying to recommend me a TV and broadband deal even though they know, or ought to know, that I already have broadband with them and at faster speeds than would be on offer with the broadband plus TV plan, and anyway I'm not eligible because of the aforementioned broadband contract. You often hear about the amount of money these companies spend on marketing, but frankly I'll believe it when I see evidence of it because this is utterly abysmal.

Trump Jr to visit Greenland after dad says US should own the territory
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yv10knyd9o?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Top Stories @top-stories-BBCNews

Donald Trump Jr arrives in Greenland after dad says US should own territory

The president-elect has said Denmark's territory "will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our nation".

Russia claims capture of Ukrainian front-line town of Kurakhove

Ukraine has not acknowledged the fall of Kurakhove in the war-torn region of Donetsk.

Everybody knows how to raise children except some people who have them apparently.
Trump's first day frenzy: Everything he promised to do on "day one"

The tone of the next four years will be set on Day One.

Axios
Excuse me, I think your cat is broken.

No one is calling it a fake election.

No one is trying to find 11,780 votes.

No one is storming the Capitol.

Because Republicans suddenly respect democracy…

… when Democrats lose.

#uspol

💬 "russia faces a rare combination of accelerating inflation, a falling ruble, and high interest rates.... sooner or later, the economy will have to pay the price, whether through a decline in GDP, a further rise in prices, or both simultaneously"

By Vadim Belkin

https://theins.ru/en/economics/277696

Fever rising: Russia’s 2024 macroeconomic check-up results are in

“Russia is largely in the state we have been striving for,” Vladimir Putin said shortly before the end of 2024. However, while the country’s GDP appears to be growing, this statistic is largely the result of government spending, which at 37.3% of GDP increasingly resembles the rising temperature of a critically ill patient (in Celcius, where standard body temperature is 36.6). The symptoms are evident: Russia faces a rare combination of accelerating inflation, a falling ruble, and high interest rates. This façade cannot hold up forever — sooner or later, the economy will have to pay the price, whether through a decline in GDP, a further rise in prices, or both simultaneously.

The Insider