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Alan Graham

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Software Developer. Music and gig fan. General geek. Political anorak. @AlanGraham@mastodon.scot

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick
A man in a suit, standing on top of a van with loudspeakers on it, flinches as projectiles are hurled at him
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Alan Graham @alangraham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@ggreig.com dunno if you saw this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Was Scottish film Till the Bell Rings the first ever 'talkie'?
In 1927, The Jazz Singer made movie history with the first recorded dialogue on film - but new evidence suggests the first feature talking film was Scottish.
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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Rascal News @rascal.news · 10/09/2026
In Australia, a teacher runs Band of Blades every day for more than 30 students. @newmadras.bsky.social tells that story, alongside his personal recollections of the game and what makes it unique. It's not just a single narrative, it's...
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One Hundred Tales of Solidarity
The story of the greatest game of Band of Blades ever played and a love letter to the people I played two campaigns with.
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Alan Graham @alangraham.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@ggreig.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_of... weird that people came round to this position eh 🍿
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Why Your Company Copied Netflix's Architecture
YouTube video by ForrestKnight
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Alan Graham @alangraham.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Alba fans gonna Alba
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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 02/09/2026
NEW VIDEO: One of the designers of A Force More Powerful: The Game of Nonviolent Strategy reached out to me and we had a lovely discussion about how the game came to be, what nonviolent protest means, and whether any movements actually used the game as training. Please enjoy.
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A Force More Powerful designer interview
YouTube video by Alien Bob
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Alan Graham @alangraham.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The key result from the Pac-related trial should be the death penalty for whichever boomer is texting with sound on for keypresses over the recordings.
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
What would be more humiliating than trying to hit someone, failing and hurting yourself? Well what if that guy was a TikToker who does freestyle raps and you injured yourself so bad you had to just sit there and take it whilst waiting for paramedics
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.
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Alan Graham @alangraham.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Due to Starmer being an arsehole and the Labour Party being authoritarians I was just emailed by a video games company that I would soon have to verify my age. I put in a data request, and it confirms my account is at least 20 years old. Starmer thinks I need to confirm I played games before birth.
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sinéad @transsexual.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
celebrating the most draconian anti-trans laws in western Europe. declaring a state of mourning for a racist paedophile. driving a black academic to death after being tipped off by nazis. quite a month for the british press and it's only the 15th
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Seas, Starry @seasstarry.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Had a chat with out local paper about Cosy Boys www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/entertain...
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Aberdeen band Seas, Starry release album with song inspired by meeting with punk legend
Aberdeen post-rock band Seas, Starry release album Cosy Boys with an ironic cover image ahead of headline show in the Granite City.
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Melonball @melonball.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Is this Moss?
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The older I get, the more sure I am that Britain will never have a Prime Minister who is not absolutely committed to automatically obeying Washington, keeping the right tills ringing and never, ever opening the big bulging file marked “Northern Ireland (1969-1998).”
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...
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Liddle to be celebrated
An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that.
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Alan Graham @alangraham.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Very weird that many of the UKs most prominent TERFs, who claim to not hate trans folk, but just care about protecting women and girls have posted glowing tributes to a paedophile who was convicted of battering his pregnant girlfriend. No one can possibly understand this coincidence.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I will remember Rod Liddle for the fact that the lawyer who checked my book before publication had no issue with me writing that Liddle couldn’t be a teacher because he’d have had sex with the students. Why? Because Liddle wrote it in a national magazine.
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Alien Bob but also @jeremyoduber.com · 03/08/2026
NEW VIDEO: In 2006 a Washington DC based think tank hired future lead designers of Civilization and XCOM to make a strategy game based on a documentary about nonviolent protest. 20 years later I'm here to tell you why. youtu.be/dmL7Ph4Us8o
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A Force More Powerful: this game is political
YouTube video by Alien Bob
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Falastin Film, the Book Fringe and the Allan Armstrong Memorial Book Sale bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/07/26/f...
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Falastin Film, the Book Fringe and the Allan Armstrong Memorial Book Sale
lower case highlights events, new releases, & publishes short reviews. Our focus is on micro press, radical publishers, and events from independent bookshops. Plus other stuff. Readers & bo…
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Alan Graham @alangraham.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Sarwar being rewarded for his fail coup would be both pathetic and hilarious. Good luck to the rest of the UK who will find out how shit the failson nepobaby is
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ChainPaul Man: The Movie - Reze-less Arc. @plh85.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
DUNE: PART THREE Marketing: "Witness the epic conclusion" Me: "The fuck it is!"
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GG TRIBUNE @ggtribune.com · 10/07/2026
OPINION: I Think I Know How To Solve the Video Game Industry’s Problems ggtribune.com/2026/07/10/o...
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Alan Graham @alangraham.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Beavis at anns grave where it says "here lies anne she never scored". Her name has an "e" at the end to fit better, and also because that's how much respect she earned in her miserable hate-filled life.
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Elaine Burke @elaineburke.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
While you're cooking in the heat this week, do bear this in mind.
Screenshot from Politico.
Headline: Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says
Standfirst: Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.
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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I don't feel sorry for Starmer. I feel for the Palestinians whose slaughter he enabled, for the trans people and refugees he's victimised, and my colleagues who've had their careers wrecked by Labour's assault on universities. A record to be ashamed of.
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Alan Graham @alangraham.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
+++ HUMILIATION FOR LOSER KIETH +++
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martha shearer @marthashearer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
lmao
Keir Starmer is coming out.

There is loud applause from his staff and supporters.

He looks miserable.
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Alan Graham @alangraham.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Of all the days for my internet connection to go down it has to be when the genocidier may fall on his fucking sword
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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 12/06/2026
"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"
Various graphs related to AI coding adoption, titled "The Acceleration Whiplash"

Epics (features) : +66.2%
Features: +33.7%
Pull Requests: +16.2%
Code Churn: +861%
Incidents (per PR) : +242.7%
Monthly incidents: +57.9%
Bugs per developer: +54%
Bugs per PR: +28.7%
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AJ McTERROR @robertgalbraith.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Obviously for legal reasons it is important to point out THE AUTHOR HAS BEEN TWEETING is about an entirely *fictional* author and is not intended to be a depiction of any actually existing tervert, especially not one whose name may rhyme with 'Beyblade Fouling' or 'Staycay Trolling' etc
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/05/2026
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...
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Alan Graham @alangraham.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "Former SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford has accused the Greens of "treating the electorate with contempt" by selecting a candidate on a temporary visa. " Ian Blackford can go fuck himself
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Why is there a row about an MSP's immigration status?
Q Manivannan, originally from India, is on a student visa which is due to expire at the end of the year.
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Dr Kawashima's Clicker Training @katastrophe1312.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Wes Streeting, Thirty Barrels of Gunpowder, Found During Ceremonial Search Of Cellars Before State Opening Of Parliament
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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Fun fact: the magical child safety solution which Jess Philips cited in her resignation letter is a vendor-specific offering, which benefited from an intense PR and lobbying campaign, and was previously praised by ... Prince Andrew. I always keep the receipts. heatherburns.tech/2026/02/20/t...
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The Prince, The Paedo, The Palace, and the “Safety Tech” app – Hi, I'm Heather Burns
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
NEW | As we wait to see what happens with Keir Starmer, I took a close look at a ludicrous interview with his chief defender… THE POLITICAL INTERVIEW AS FARCE Nick Robinson interviewing Darren Jones was a case study in the ridiculous. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-politi...
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The political interview as farce
Nick Robinson interviewing Darren Jones, the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister, about his boss' future was a case study in the ridiculous.
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 12/05/2026
7 months to go
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Bethany~ @picklebee.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Harriet Harman is back as a political adviser in the UK government. On her appointment she says she has three objectives 1) Protect British interests 2) Invest in Britain 3) Expand competition to increase growth For more information on this government strategy Google Harriet Harman PIE
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I'm live and I'm inviting you all to join me in observing Starmageddon. The only local elections results show you'll ever need to watch www.twitch.tv/skthecrusader
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SKTheCrusader - Twitch
I'm SK (They/Them) and I just love doing things online
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Alan Graham @alangraham.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I wouldn’t have met with diplomats from a state committing a genocide but thats just me
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Alan Graham @alangraham.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Hearing that Starmer says he won't be walking away. We heard this before
screenshot from incredibly cringy video of a Rangers fan singing "we don't do walking away" before Rangers went into liquidation and a new club was formed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i9QhO5rzbg
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
WE WON. Amnesty named me People’s Human Rights Champion for exposing a scandal in British healthcare. My team and I found abuse, neglect, conversion therapy, and deaths, all ignored by NHS managers. See the story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S5w... Support our work: www.patreon.com/c/Philosophy...
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Britain Still Has Conversion Therapists. Here’s Why.
YouTube video by Philosophy Tube
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Michelleraiser @michellestringer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Watching the results come in:
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Ralph Wiggum's Heartbreak with Lisa
Alt: Gif from The Simpsons Bart watches frame by frame as Ralph Wiggum's heart breaks
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AJ McTERROR @robertgalbraith.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Reskeeting as I am gonna need at least a fiver to cover tomorrow's bus fare
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Alan Graham @alangraham.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Is it good when the people running a site block a huge chunk of the active users? :D
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
it *does* feel quite incredible that if you went back to 2022 and told people that Starmer would come undone over a scandal about an infamous paedophile, they'd have said "wow the Jimmy Saville stuff turned out that badly for him huh?"
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Alan Graham @alangraham.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Americans in 2026 "how could we have known?" Dead Like Me in 2004
Donald Trump being called an asshole in a tv show 20 fucking years ago.
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Katja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
There’s a part of my heart where I’m really happy right now that these pesky delivery robots in the city are treated just as poorly at traffic lights as we pedestrians are. What’s more: they depend on our help—which we’re allowed to withhold :D
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caffeine anxiety ego death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I don't think I could make a joke better than this
why saying that AI is incredible followed by a series of non-loading comments because the vibe-coded site is fucking broken
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