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Andy
Andy
@ab-initio.me.uk
🏳️🌈🇪🇺❄️ He/Him. Control(s) Freak. Interested in tasteful thirst, politics, green transport & energy. There is no LGB without the T! Inauthentic followers will be blocked 🚫 Chorley 🏡 Macclesfield 🧑🏻💻
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Just had both parents telling me about this breaking news…. Severely tempted to add Facebook’s domains into the piHole blocklist
It is truly astonishing to me the speed at which people believe clear fake news without doing even the tiniest bit of research. 2 separate people today have asked me about the 'Jamie Oliver proves McDonalds isn't fit for humans in court' - a court case that never happened and is made up on facebook
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I think we need to validate this theory by progressively taking out additional Russian internet infrastructure.
Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.
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Perhaps something @wikipedia.org can ask their devs to improve
The W app makes me touch twice and move my finger a lot, but at least it’s visually indicated.
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Replying to @disappoptimism.bsky.social
Just enjoying threads of people declaring the new income tax declaration approach for HMRC is taxing small business on money they haven’t earned yet And asking “How much income did you declare last year? Oh that’s right. You lied. This is the HMRCs response to everyone lying.”
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7pm: alright I'm going to have a super early Sunday night tonight, be responsible, watch something early then head to sleep 10.20pm: knowyourmeme.com/editorials/g...
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Is it: join a local group objecting to wind turbines / solar farms / pylons? Asking for a Nimby.
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I was bingeing this yesterday - I’m up to 42 up - 2 years before they we’re originally due to be the “shop stewards and executives of the year 2000” Some show real self-awareness and others, none…
Great documentaries, like life, happen while the director is busy making other plans. I’ve written a little bit about Up in the FT Weekend:
When you know that @smmt-ukauto.bsky.social EV target moans are BS ‘Meanwhile EV discounts fell to 10.7% from 11.1%, which the group said was mainly down to companies such as Mercedes-Benz and MG “scaling back their incentives as they close in on their required ZEV mandate levels for the year”.’
Three-quarters of UK’s popular plug-in hybrid cars unable to use rapid chargers
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Ever wondered what that wind farm or gas plant nearby is? Well wonder no more as my patent-pending* Energy Radar will tell you! radar.robinhawkes.com *Not really patent-pending, it just sounds cool
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Look, you have to understand Bibi: it really deeply upsets and frightens him that a Muslim reached the age of 34.
Netanyahu directly attacks Zohran Mamdani (and his wife) from the UNGA podium, calling him the "antisemitic mayor of New York City," parroting The Free Press's stories about Rama Duwaji, tying Mamdani to Hasan Piker, and claiming the mayor is "buddies" with Hamas.
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It seems like the police are assuming the far-right losers are 'looking for an excuse' to do more damage and so must be given maximum space. In fact, they are turning a big dial that says 'thuggery' on it and constantly looking over at the state for the slightest sign of consequences.
No, arresting ‘Danny Tommo’ won’t make him a martyr. *Not* arresting him will fuel his agenda.
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1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Mark Carney could fully fund Alto and Andy Burnham could build HS2 in full with this one simple trick! Bus commuters playing music loudly, putting feet on seats face fines of up to $500 from Sept 23: LTA www.straitstimes.com/singapore/tr...
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@irishtimes.com Can you please learn to distinguish between e-bikes (legal, safe, convenient, limited to 25km/h, you have to pedal) and electric motorbikes. The picture is of the first type, the story is about the second www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
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@support.bsky.team can the alt text screen be fixed so that we can scroll to click the button when keyboard is visible - seems to broken when pre-populated?
Oh no, what’s Crafty Wank been up to? 🫣
Three more councillors have left Reform at Durham County Council, pushing the number of departures since the party seized control last year to 16. Allegations of bullying, ignored safeguarding concerns and contempt for mental health now surround the administration.
@bggyoneandonly.eurosky.social Freepost Licences don’t work like that You’ll spend £5 and it won’t cost Reform a penny bsky.app/profile/ab-i...
It generally won’t work because freepost licence requires a pre-printed envelope that includes a machine readable barcode (you are correct it changed in 2015) If the code is wrong (or missing) the item will be rejected at sorting = no delivery = no charge to Reform
@evmusings.bsky.social Husband picked up an error on latest episode around BUS value - you kept saying £5k
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