🔗 Mapped: Which Countries Produce the Most Silver?
… in case you are wondering;
Mexico is at number one - and double the country in second place.
The U.S.A. is at number nine - producing around a third of that same country in second place.
Number 2? JINA https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/which-countries-produce-the-most-silver/
📸 Walking home last night. 
Now I am reading that GenZ (yes - that GenZ) is suffering from ‘decision fatigue’ and are increasingly wearing uniform clothing on rotation to the workplace. (I think you’ll find that we used to call these suits - grey or blue used to be the ‘go tos’.)
Read It Here
"They’re copying Steve Jobs and showing up to the office in uniforms."
So much for the revolution in the workplace that the youth were promised to bring. Then again - this was posted on LinkedIN about on article in FORTUNE - so anyway … about that bridge. BUT, if true …
Might I suggest something more 2025 … 
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/gen-z-embraces-work-uniforms-6383236
Not sure if Billy Bragg created the idea … but it was on his Substack I first saw it … I will be adopting it …
Tяump
Just posted this on LinkedIN …
"Go back a while and I used to explain the difference in the politics of the US, where I lived and the UK, where I’m from .. in that the vast majority of the ‘left’ in the US were still to the right of the vast majority of the ‘right’ in the UK. No analysis, just how I felt as a dude on his life’s journey. Thank you for providing the explanation that supports my long held feelings."
… as a comment on a Simon Wardley post - 🔗 which you can find here
I love how he is broadening out his subject matter from his maps - but still ties them in. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/simonwardley_x-is-china-communist-me-no-its-more-activity-7315911553201958912-W7fT
💬 Think of this one as a bonus to the ‘Inspired By People’ series … 
https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=%F0%9F%95%B5%F0%9F%92%AC+Inspired+By+People
Dear Apple - those tab things you finally moved into Apple Mail - Primary, Transactions, Updates, Promotions.
One more please, Newsletters.
They don’t fit into any of the above.
At a pinch .. updates - but really - NO.
🔗 Super-rich flee London: Capital suffers biggest exodus of millionaires in the world, new study shows.
‘Flee’? ‘Suffers’?
What percentage are Russians?
What percentage are non Doms?
What percentage actually contributed to the economy?
With those answers we might find that this is good news. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-millionaire-exodus-moscow-b1221474.html
🔗 David Brooks: I Should Have Seen This Coming - The Atlantic
Yes you should David .. yes you should. It was all pretty clear. The fact you are surprised and seem to be on some kind of world apology tour does not change my opinion. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trumpism-maga-populism-power-pursuit/682116/
🔗 The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X
I have 3 questions …
Why aren’t I surprised?
Why do I feel that this Is totally true .. and false .. at the same time?
Did the Onion buy Wired .. or the other way round? https://www.wired.com/story/social-security-administration-regional-office-elon-musk-x/
🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Mother Teresat
🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=%F0%9F%95%B5%F0%9F%92%AC+Inspired+By+People
If only your nation were blessed with the steady hand of a very stable genius like ours, you too could enjoy the soothing predictability of a stock market that never swings wildly, crashes overnight, or reacts to, say, courtrooms or coups like this.
Imagine the poor souls living under the tyranny of u... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/11/if-only-your-nation-were.html
Just been strolling through Daniel’s site and decided to resurrect my slash pages and consolidate them on Craft.
/Travel is the first.
🔗🎵💿 More - Pulp
The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale 
https://albumwhale.com https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin
He blinked … or bought a pile of stock at the low just before making the announcement
Sounds’s About Right …
"Anyone invested in a mutual fund that owns Tesla shares could be about to bail out Musk and his billionaire friends."
💬 Fred Lambert https://electrek.co/2025/04/07/elon-musk-sets-stage-tesla-bail-out-twitter-xai-insane-valuation/
The Overview features on no less than 4 public AlbumWhale lists - turns out all 4 are mine.
Neo Progressive
English Progressive
Steven Wilson
and
Surpises. In some ways not a surprise at all. Terrific album - but you do need it to marinate.
The Surprise? He has an 🔗🎵Orchestral version …
"From The Alterview boxset, all rights to Wilson/Fiction Records"
Now on 🔗🎵📼 YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfRAJKFHqbE https://youtu.be/mfRAJKFHqbE
🎬 Seriously? The Accountant 2?
Looks like what you are doing is illegal, but we are going to let you carry on … while we think some more about it, said a passing cop as he spotted a guy absconding withh a tv that had been passed through the broken window of a house. the Supreme Court to the clown on whether Federal firings were legal.
WaPo headline ..
"Americans Are Sitting on a Cash Pile as Stocks Reel"
It seems a miracle has occurred. It seems only yesterday that I read that
🔗 Millions of Americans are just one paycheck away from ‘financial disaster’ (40%)
🔗 Millions of Americans are only $400 away from financial hardship (50%)
Truly a miracle of financial recovery OR
Fake News OR.
We really do have two Americas https://www.marketwatch.com/story/half-of-americans-are-just-one-paycheck-away-from-financial-disaster-2019-05-16 https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/23/millions-of-americans-are-only-400-away-from-financial-hardship.html