Dan Wellman

Dan Wellman

@danwellman.bsky.social

Husband, father, and senior Front-end Developer. Screencaster, author, and trainer. Fanatical about TypeScript and all things Front-End 😀

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Finally in the new house and starting to feel less bewildered. What a struggle it was to get in! I don’t mean getting all the furniture in, the actual day of the move went well; I mean the actual process of selling and buying a house. We’ve dealt with solicitors, surveyors, mortgage advisors, and…

…estate agents, and let me tell you, none of them covered themselves in glory. All of them cocked something up at least once; in fact, the only people that seemed to have any degree of competence, were the moving firm - a crew of rough and ready local boys that cursed as often as they joked. They…

…had the whole house loaded in under 2 hours, with nothing lost and only a single breakage. It says something about the country when the professional people supposedly trained, and in some cases accredited, perform far worse than the people that, literally, pick it up as they go along.

The only reason anyone would doubt whether WWII was “worth it” would because their side lost. US Conservatives are becoming US Nazis. The near right always leads to the far right. Twats

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Was that the same security services you dumped to visit ‘ex’ KGB colonel Alexander Lebedev and party in Umbria just after the Novichok Salisbury attack? Or the same security services whose advice you defied to put his son Evgeny in the House of Lords? Those security services?

Ice Cream Man seems like a fun, if very gory, perhaps somewhat over the top, slasher movie. The trailer was gripping and wel cutl, but I very strongly disagree with the message - the kids in it are NOT “having a meltdown” - seems irresponsible to conflate a neurodivergent tantrum with dismemberment

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Is there an equivalent drop re RW posts in the UK after the Ukraine strikes, looking for some tech help?@@bellingcat.com @hopenothate.org.uk

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social

🇩🇪 MEP Tomáš Zdechovský noticed a “strange drop” in pro-AfD accounts’ activity after Ukraine knocked Russian data centers offline. Sound familiar? In 2025, thousands of accounts and groups pushing Scottish independence went quiet after Iranian servers were taken down.

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LOL Ukraine hit a Russian data center and Russian bot activity immediately dropped to practically zero. Elon is mad hahahahahaha

And the last decade will be as a summer’s picnic compared to what happens if this dangerous traitor ever gets into actual power

D.Moore@d-moore.bsky.social

Correctly blaming Putin & Farage for the demise of the UK in one day. G'wan lad.

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“Tariffs are a favoured diplomatic tool of President Trump and Reform could face significant legal challenges if it follows suit” (page2) Farage is a desperate, vindictive bullshitter who only appeals to racists with no idea how the world and trade and law actually work. Cos that’s a bit hard.

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Farage promoted Brexit benefits, and now won't #ApologiseForBrexit despite making us all poorer Now he wants more privstisaisation Perhaps he could explain how it made any of these public utilities cheaper, more efficient, less polluting, more accountable ... meme via Barry Lloyd

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NHS faces exodus of ADHD and autism services staff to private clinics. Low wages have caused brain drain, loss of skilled staff. Part of privatisation of the NHS by stealth. Private sector picks up NHS contracts, profiteers, higher cost to public purse, increases NHS queues.

theguardian.comNHS faces exodus of ADHD and autism services staff to private clinicsBrain drain of psychologists, psychiatrists and nurses leaves NHS ‘weaker’, driving patients to seek care elsewhere

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“Well, I never did”, as my dad used to say.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

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It's not just the endless bill increases. It's not just that 1/3 of your bill goes to paying shareholder dividends and servicing debt. It's not just the 1/2 million sewage discharges in one year. It's the corrupt system, which rewards water bosses for failure, that people can't stand.

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The target audience that the Times is addressing👇

Sarah Murphy@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social

For 14yrs, the Tories cratered our economy, added thousands to our cost of living, melted down public services and brexited us into decades of eye-watering expense and lost opportunity. That’s still their plan. With tax breaks for the super rich paid for by welfare cuts. So what TF is this headline?

This is really not that far from Running Man (they even have electro gloves). How long before live streamed executions become a Saturday night game show? And if the criminal being run isn’t quite evil enough, we can just AI deepfake them doing awful things to justify the punishment 🏃

Chris@oakymoron.bsky.social

The more one thinks of this the more one realises how unhinged the US has become The US belongs in the same group as North Korea, Russia and Iran for the abhorrence it has created US citizens should be ashamed of themselves www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

British waters, thanks in part to the RNLI, are among the safest in the world, with “open water deaths” near zero since the 1980’s. Safest *in the world* Is this not something the far-right so-called patriots can be proud of?

Anti-Reform@antireform.bsky.social

The more Reform spew hate the more British people show empathy, kindness, generosity You can donate at rnli.org/support-us/g... meme via Truth Against Hate

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"Offensive or extreme but apparently for everybody's sons and daughters to be taken away to die and or experience the horrors of war it is not offensive and extreme" via Mandy Shering

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Replying to @petergeoghegan.bsky.social

Delo and his fellow crypto tycoon Christopher Harborne have now given Reform £100m+ Reform has pledged to deregulate crypto. Delo and Harborne say there is no quid-pro-quo. But should crypto money buy British democracy? 🔴Read the full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-meg...

democracyforsale.substack.comReform mega-donor Ben Delo named in Bitcoin “theft” lawsuitExclusive: Class action seeks to hold BitMEX founders "accountable for fraudulent conduct". We spoke to the lawyer behind the case against the now-closed crypto firm

The Tories allowed this. Why hasn’t Labour put a stop to it?

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"Reform wants every school to regularly sing Christian hymns. Suella Braverman says there will be ‘consequences’ for schools that refuse. Schools should educate children, not impose religion on them" via Humanists UK" Protect pupils from Christian Nationalism petition: humanists.uk/action/keep-...

humanists.ukKeep Christian Nationalism out of our schoolsReform UK wants to force every school to sing Christian hymns – and says there will be ‘consequences’ for schools that refuse. Add your name and help us defend inclusive education. Reform UK has unvei...

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Funny how these errors always seem to head in the same direction. A bit like Richard Tice's tax mistakes.

John Springford@johnspringford.bsky.social

Conservatives double the cost of net zero with spreadsheet error. Spiky comment from the Climate Change Committee, whose estimates they messed up www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Why is Labour continuing with the batshit tory policy of letting energy companies constantly increase prices while making massive profits, but then give us a tiny bit our own money back to pay the bills? Just stop the fucking companies increasing prices all the fucking time 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Some say “major influencer” others say “filthy lying fat-right Nazi-loving dickhead” 🤷🏻‍♂️

Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social

Curtis Yarvin, a major influence on Vice President JD Vance, is openly fantasizing about Hitler again. Extremism isn’t fringe on the right.

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johndpoconnell Yet Another British Paedophile. Justice? He got a suspended sentence. The media? Silent.

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Voyager 1 is running on less memory than a single photo in your camera roll—69 KB. Its data is saved to an 8-track tape & software was developed when "the cloud" was in the sky. NASA sends commands and the old thing answers. And yet your brand new laptop freezes because you opened too many tabs.

How can people live with spreading such obvious lies? A BJ in Dubai is worth at absolute best 1/4 gram

KimBo@zapperfan7.bsky.social

johndpoconnell For a long time I have heard rumours of Oakeshott roaming the streets of Dubai giving blowjobs for a 1/2 gram of coke. I have never believed it and still don't.