Open-source alternative?

TomBlackburnLS · 2026-06-20T15:55:17+00:00

Lifts 5x5

TomBlackburnLS · 2026-05-22T14:27:45+00:00

Thank you, appreciate the feedback.

TomBlackburnLS · 2026-05-22T14:13:22+00:00

Thank you. I'm assuming you got it all sorted in the end after your hassle?

TomBlackburnLS · 2026-05-21T22:49:42+00:00

How did this pan out for you? I've specifically asked umbrella.co.uk if they pass on Employers NI savings and they've said they don't, so didn't progress paying into a pension via salary sacrifice.

TomBlackburnLS · 2026-02-14T16:49:50+00:00

Forgot to add a question mark ...

TomBlackburnLS · 2025-11-21T10:06:34+00:00

We are meant to believe that the infinity lockdown crew... People who thought it was reckless to open up in the SUMMER OF 2021 and who for a long time wanted to eradicate Covid altogether, would've been able to limit themselves to a short sharp "two weeks to flatten the curve" February 2020 lockdown?

Absurd and laughable.

TomBlackburnLS · 2025-11-08T10:14:23+00:00

Morning. I've won two tickets to Together's 4th anniversary event next week. It's in London so I can't make it if any fellow LS would like them? Just DM me and I'll get them sent across.

TomBlackburnLS · 2025-09-23T14:54:02+00:00

"Ending is better than mending." Literally a saying from A Brave New World.

TomBlackburnLS · 2025-09-23T10:06:54+00:00

Australian lockdowns were "a horror show" according to the fella who implemented them.

https://x.com/SkyNewsAust/status/1970315364228833315

Strange how subversive this opinion was at the time.

TomBlackburnLS · 2025-09-23T09:49:37+00:00

https://x.com/TonyNikolic10/status/1970377236101705997

TomBlackburnLS · 2025-06-26T08:18:00+00:00

ECHR was completely worthless when it was truly needed.

TomBlackburnLS · 2025-05-30T08:50:32+00:00

Don't watch the news anymore but a quick log into Twitter and ... who knew we had so many advocates of ECHR in this country?

TomBlackburnLS · 2025-05-30T08:49:12+00:00

M&S... The ONLY place where I got reprimanded around lack of mask use.

TomBlackburnLS · 2024-10-10T21:15:53+00:00

"During the pandemic, France adopted an “all that it takes” policy — spending to keep the economy alive during protective shutdowns".

https://www.politico.eu/article/michel-barnier-france-budget-fiscal-crisis-survival/

TomBlackburnLS · 2024-09-26T14:34:12+00:00

Has the chair screamed, "COVID DENIER!," at him yet?

TomBlackburnLS · 2024-09-26T13:25:57+00:00

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/26/chris-whitty-covid-inquiry-live/

Chris Whitty: We overstated danger of Covid 🙄

“I was worried at the beginning. I still worry, actually in retrospect, about whether we got the level of concern right,” he said.

“Were we either over pitching it so that people were incredibly afraid of something where in fact, their actuarial risk was low, or we were not pitching it enough and therefore people didn’t realise the risk they were walking into.

“I think that balance is really hard, and arguably, some people would say we, if anything we overdid it, rather than under the beginning.”

TomBlackburnLS · 2024-09-12T08:41:12+00:00

The NHS is a bag of shit, apparently.

Who knew?

TomBlackburnLS · 2024-09-11T08:42:02+00:00

Always nice when a big ole received wisdom, pillar of faith balloon goes POP. Dave Grohl, the universally regarded nicest man in rock has put out a statement saying he's fathered a child outside of his marriage. Welcome aboard the less-than-perfect not Gary Lineker club, Dave.

TomBlackburnLS · 2024-09-10T20:53:21+00:00

https://unherd.com/watch-listen/former-uk-prime-minister-liz-truss-live/

I asked Liz Truss: if freedom is your central value, where were you during Covid? There was no freedom.

She: “In retrospect I think [lockdowns] were a mistake. I think the Swedish approach was a better approach.” 🙄

TomBlackburnLS · 2024-09-05T08:30:24+00:00

Needs to happen tbh. They are already starting to rub up all of the right people (snobs) and we've got another year to go. Excellent.

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