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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 18h

Surely it depends on how it ends…? I for one want centre auditorium seats and popcorns if it ends with mass convictions of the right people and jail-time retribution.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sorry, Roy. I’m a Scotsman, lived in the streets of tough towns where there’s little but anger, violence and complaint. We need cleverer thinking than just blaming the English for everything. Even today, instead of taking the North Sea skills out to the world, we sit and complain about Westminster.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sorry, Roy but I don’t think you’re educating anybody. There is no Celtic Alliance. It takes more than figments of the imagination to build economic, social and political health. Scotland is a beautiful place but it harbours resentment from every angle, not hope or opportunity, as you demonstrate.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just as broken inside its borders but with less international presence and clout. It will take decades to get to a point where we row together to take advantage of Scotlands resources, by which time the billionaires will have usurped us - as they always did.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Numbers) it also has Scots capable of preventing them from their own way (and they have done many, many times). Dissolution of the Union may solve that problem for all participants, it also creates enormous problems for almost no tangible result. An independent Scotland is like a UK outside Europe…

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Whilst it is reasonable to want the world to work that way, it doesn’t. The parliaments were joined, the banking arrangements rearranged and the borders no longer contested. England is now trapped in a small space, by its own making. While it has control of the wider country (through weight of…

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Orange Order should wind their necks in. They have done nothing for the ongoing peace process and should be alienated for their active disruptions of it. Their marches should be viewed like those pro-paedophilia marches in the 70’s, disgraceful but possibly good for identifying society’s shits.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Agree with the sentiments. The problem with all these ‘means testing’ limits at the same £100k mark (there’s loads of things) is that it creates a a point at which it’s not beneficial to go past. That permanently puts a dead zone between the workers and the rich that’s becoming impossible to cross.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Zelensky just needs to decide whether to ease off on hitting Lukoil or bomb it into the history books. I know which I’d prefer.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Agreed. However, it’s the degree of chaos and destruction that they are allowed to inflict before they fail that is concerning. Caught early enough, we won’t have to watch our children and grandchildren die to undo our mistakes and laziness.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Condemning vigilantism is often the other side of a coin to “snitches get stitches”; it’s officials trying not to be shown up as corrupt or incompetent. If they do their jobs honestly then there is no need for people to take matters into their own hands. It’s not condoned by me but it’s understood.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

None of this will help Putin in the end. He’s only tightening the noose around his neck.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That was observation of your specific response, which was aggressive and nasty. You have so far conjectured that I know nothing about AI and follow conspiracies avidly, doubling down on the AI point. You could not be more wrong.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dont be soft. You dont know me at all.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nope. I see distrust and nastiness are your thing. Are you sure you wouldn’t be better off in X?

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Possibly, but, again, I see that as a highly aggressive viewpoint (quite unusual for Canadians). Carney isn’t a career politician but an economist and academic; he seems to be distrusted by some like one, though. My suspicion is that he prioritise managing economic risk until he can safely quit.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wow - such an aggressive, negative viewpoint. Look - if he gets the economy problem sorted, building diversification into Canada’s import/export chains and increasing inwards investment, then that croc goes away and you can start to have your say on less structural issues. Without an economy…fckd.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wow… Talk about presumption. I am literally sitting here writing the AI deployment strategy for a global company after a near 40yr IT career which included several yrs working on Expert Systems, Natural Language Processing and Pragmatic Inferencing. Perhaps take a break from all your pontification?

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not so. It’s called Copyright. You own the rights to what you produce. It’s a civil offence to recreate or publish copyright material without prior consent and criminal offence to do so with the motive of making money, whether authentic or counterfeit (sec 107 Copyright, Designs, etc Act UK 1988).

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

True… but you dont expect the reader to then remove every other copy of your work, rebrand it, and then charge everyone (including you) when they read it.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah, I’m getting funny looks from the dog at all the laughter

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Excellent… Let’s hope they wax lyrical about their experiences in the front line

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh no they are not! An image of a candle for something that is supposed to be stuffed where the sun doesn’t shine?

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But according to Vlad, NATO has been attacking for nearly 5 years already, after more than 7 years of threats before that… and Russians are starting to notice how Ukraine can hit oil refineries with balsa wood planes but NATO weapons apparently can’t get through?

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not much tax take in that lot then.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We’ll just have to see how it pans out. Personally, I’m fucked off with the whinging and negativity that covers 90% of the narratives. There was a time when I was a kid when we didn’t let the news and politics rule our day, we asked leaders to manage day to day and not dream up utopian futures.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Understood, and I largely agree. My challenge is that we are giving our political leaders no opportunity to change if we drive them towards the exit before they’ve begun their term. When he actually cuts pensions and the growth agenda fails, then hound him out. Til then, just get on with your day.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But all of these are simply fears at this stage. If you are scared someone is going to hit you, do you just grab a bat and smack them first? Your attack on a policy change is just that. It is unwarranted and unnecessary at this time.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Perhaps. Given the problems he is dealing with (very competently), this may say more about some Canadians than about their leader.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He’s never been a CEO of a large organisation. This article is bullshit. The immediate problem facing Canada is the economic threat from the breaking of close ties with USA. All others pale into insignificance. Carney is dealing with the croc closest to the canoe, the author is pointing at the trees

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ve watched the culture of a great school that educates it’s boys and girls on respect, sexual boundaries, consent and diversity and the teenagers and young adults that emerge totally get it… and then they go into a world where it’s ok to throw all that away. It’s not enough to just educate kids.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What foot pedals are you going to use?

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Removing the triple lock is not an attack on pensions. It stops pensions from continuing to rise at the highest government rate standard, that’s all. It’s more likely that Reform of the Tories would then use it to reduce or stagnate pensions. Stop peddling bullshit.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Define ‘save’, fuckwit. Then imagine how bollocks you sound saying you’ll sack everyone else rather than step down? Nothing but empty words. He’s worse than just a clown - he’s evil.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Is a specific case all on its own. It’s centralised government and incredibly low labour/investment costs are being strengthened with a solid STEM-led Productivity strategy. This is something the other nations cannot compete with (except, possibly, thru AI implementation at an economy-wide level).

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That, we are still working out. My point was that relatively speaking, UK is actually doing well against the majority of G7 in PMI, and the numbers are actually positive. Actual production output (vs sentiment) is slightly down but there’s usually a lag between rising PMI and rising Output. China…

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It appears that Journalism itself has to come into the spotlight. That parties are considering banning journalists says less about the parties and much more about the definition of journalism. In this age of information, journalism in some domains has descended into vilification and disinformation.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Starbucks also refused to shut down their operations in Russia… I’ve been boycotting them since 2022 for that reason. Their stance on Palestine is just another reason to ensure I only ever cost them money.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m sure it really IS “Super Intelligence” to someone whose only intellectual output is a firehose of falsehoods based on not bothering to understand the world before bloviating to a gushing, inexpert and lazy audience. He daren’t use the word “Artificial” since it represents exactly who he is.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Government change is measured in ‘parliaments’ and decades. If you let the clock do its thing, then maybe you’d have an argument if we have nothing to show for it. Til then, your impatience underpins the knee-jerk politics that have been ruining this country for 20 years. Let the man get to work.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yesterdays Gilt/Bond auction failed. From what I’ve read, offered prices / amounts were pitiful and turned down. They’ve chosen to head towards default, so the doomsday clock is ticking louder on their economy. Even if they try another auction, chances are it’ll get worse responses again.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bollocks. It was a vote directed by pathos and lies. The subsequent economic, political and geopolitical fallout have demonstrated this. There never will be ‘sunny uplands’ for a UK that is adrift in a world of alliances and mega-trade deals.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Production output decline of so little in the middle of the current ME crisis and the ongoing Information Revolution is actually not bad at all! By contrast, PMI (future indicators) rose 0.7%.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m just recycling. With parts that old, it’s only the O/S and apps that are a problem anyway.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good insights. This will be debated in depth by world leaders and soon, no doubt.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I actually dusted off a 7yr old laptop that I was going to scrap. Intel i5, 8gb RAM. Standard comms pack. It couldn’t upgrade to Windows 11 and ran like a sog on Windows 10. Runs like a Porsche on Linux Mint. Probably has a few good years left in it now.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Removing the triple lock is not picking their pockets. It is calling an end to the rebalancing of pensions caused after 1980/90s policies left pensioners destitute; a rebalancing that has persisted long enough to bring pensions back in line with other benefits.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mint’s fine. After nearly 40yrs of using Windows, I needed to stay close in look/feel. The only hassle is the constant updates; you really need to set up for admin time in your day/week.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Already got a second machine running all my dev activities on Linux Mint with Libre Office and Esta Security. Had to create a US-free machine as contingency. Also setting up a Mistral LLM server in the office soon, to switch off Claude and CGPT.

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Atticus Hawk @atticushawk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They can be both. It’s a balancing act. Some are a net benefit, most are not.

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