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Channing Walton

@channingwalton.bsky.social
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Scala software developer, unison-lang wannabe dev, amateur pianist, dad, husband, and keeper of six small furry beasts.

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Offered without comment, because what can you possibly say? www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Two Tier Policing. Just Stop Oil got 21 years for planning to block a road. The Far Right block emergency vehicles they don't even get arrested.
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Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
@dieworkwear.bsky.social Help us here …
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Utter disaster, as the UK emters the American age of political fund-raising. If the country fails to harness this situation and treat it like a genuine crisis, our democracy will be in deep, deep trouble.
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Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
@vodafonegroup.bsky.social Your roaming settings/spend caps/controls are an absolutely confusing mess, and contradictory. It really needs some UX love.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Brexit is costing the UK £11.7bn a year in lost exports according to findings by Logistics UK. And a business survey by the European Movement UK has revealed that 73% of firms say that Brexit has had a negative impact on their businesses - with 98% wanting the UK to rejoin the EU’s single market.
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True cost of Brexit on UK trade revealed as calls to rejoin single market grow
Exclusive: The damning findings comes as a major new survey shows that 98.2 per cent of businesses want access to the EU single market restored
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 28/08/2026
Millions of oat milk drinkers worldwide are about to learn that a global super-majority of people want stronger climate action. Oatly, the largest oat drink company in the world, is printing summaries of what it calls “the ultimate climate solution” on every carton it produces.
The 89 Percent message on upcoming cartons of Oatly oat drink. (Caroline Reid / Oatly)
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Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ISAAC ASIMOV
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/08/2026
A 19-year-old in Texas has spent nearly a year raising her 13-year-old sister after their parents were detained by ICE and deported to Honduras. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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U.S. citizen teens left behind when ICE deported their parents
After their mom and dad were deported, two Fort Worth teens went nearly a year before seeing their parents.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Gosh it's lovely
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“IPP prisoners need justice, not another empty promise” Kim Johnson MP www.independent.co.uk/voices/ipp-p...
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IPP prisoners need justice, not another empty promise
IPP sentences were abolished more than a decade ago, yet hundreds of people remain trapped in their consequences. The government must not raise hopes again without delivering a clear route to justice,...
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?
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As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports
Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“So far, we hear a stream of seemingly disconnected stories: floods, droughts, food prices, energy bills, migration, and insurance. Rarely are we shown how they fit together in the bigger picture.” ✍️ Mike Berners-Lee
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Not the ‘New Normal’ Educating the Public on the Nature and Climate Crisis is a Step to Putting it Firmly on the Political Agenda – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
Professor Mike Berners-Lee, chair of the National Emergency Briefing, sets out the ‘civic moment’ he is trying to create as extreme weather events show no sign of slowing
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Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Watching Reacher. We have pirates day. We should have Reacher day in which everyone speaks dramatically without expression. The winner is the person that gets through the day without losing it.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bin Day cometh.
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Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The #eclipse is one hour away and runes are being written in the sky.
A blue sky with an upside number 4 painted by con trails
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
If you aren't angry then you aren't paying attention.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The Times corrects its splash story headlined "Migrant care workers bring dozens of family members." The Times got this totally wrong. It then used its own error as the basis for an editorial calling explicitly for forced expulsions of people living here legally. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...
In a headline and a leading article we said migrant care workers were each bringing up to 15 family members with them (News, Comment, Jul 6). This was incorrect. The ratio of 15 to 1 was that of new visa approvals for Cameroonian care workers to visa approvals for family members of all Cameroonian care workers already in the UK in 2025-26. The same applies to arrivals from Ghana, Bangladesh and India. There is no connection between new visa approvals for care workers, who are not allowed to bring any dependants at all, and visas issued to the family members of care workers who were here already.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Last week, there were two alleged plots to attack Muslim mosques and events uncovered by police in the UK. So why did they not grab national headlines or force government ministers into action? My latest for @zeteo.uk. Read/share/subscribe: zeteo.uk/p/people-are...
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People Are Trying to Murder Muslims and the Response From Our Political and Media Elites Is a Deafening Silence
Last week, there were two alleged plots to attack Muslim mosques and events uncovered by police in the UK. So why did they not grab national headlines or force government ministers into action?
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Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Wisdom youtu.be/vjPg_LZAR7I
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This Could Be The Most Life-Changing Video You Watch Today
YouTube video by Model Strangers
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Wigmore Hall @wigmore-hall.org.uk · 18/07/2026
Join pianist Ariel Lanyi this evening with a thoughtfully-crafted programme, concluding with the character studies and atmospheric impressions of Debussy's second book of Préludes 🎹 🕰️ 7.30pm 🎶 Beethoven, Debussy, R Schumann and Respighi 🎟️ www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/20…
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 18/07/2026
Yes take standing charges off gas but also do it for electricity - in both cases it’s regressive. But don't just reduce VAT, take it away completely. Energy is not a luxury, how often do we hear of this choice between heating and eating - neither are luxuries.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
There's gonna be a new PM. What he needs is an op-ed telling him what to do, of which there's no doubt a lamentable absence. Here's the time-hallowed method for creating one: 1. Set out the problem cleanly, as if the PM had literally no idea that growth, the cost of living and deficit matter. 1/
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
ICE killed someone else this morning. A Maine man aged 26 who was killed in front of his 3 year old child. That’s now 11 people ICE have killed on the streets of the US. A reminder that both Farage and Badenoch have said they’d introduce a similar style force here in the uk if they were PM.
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9to5Mac @9to5mac.com · 13/07/2026
Free Mac app WhatCable tells you what each of your USB-C cables can really do
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Free Mac app WhatCable tells you what each of your USB-C cables can really do
We’ve talked on a number of occasions about the problem with USB-C cables: namely, they all look alike but can have very different capabilities. Google addressed this issue in Chrome OS several years ago, and we suggested at the time that Apple should copy it. That hasn’t yet happened, but there’s now a free Mac app, WhatCable, to turn your Mac into a hardware cable tester …
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Mike Sperber @sperbsen.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Recordings of many of the talks of FLOPS 2026 are now available! functional-logic.org/events/flops...
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Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming 2026 - Schedule | Functional Logic Programming
18th International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming - Schedule
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Due to overwhelming public backlash, Meta abandoned its invasive AI feature, which would have allowed public profiles to be used in AI-generated images unless users proactively opt out. Big Tech wanted to strip away our right to privacy. But the people spoke up, and we won.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
View from 🇬🇧, having spent decades as a criminal lawyer including prosecuting. I cannot tell you how shocked I am at the handling of the investigations (or not) into these two killings. I don’t know how 🇺🇸 will recover from what looks like state corruption this deep & at a very senior level
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Small Dorset Town stands up to racism. Local anger in Wimborne is through the roof. But nothing reported anywhere. Meanwhile - six flag waving idiots turns up outside a hotel in Epping and its front page news.
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Wigmore Hall @wigmore-hall.org.uk · 03/07/2026
Stunning Schubert 🎹 Pianist Lukas Sternath performs the opening of the third movement of Franz Schubert's Piano Sonata in B flat D960 as part of our 125th Anniversary Festival 🎶 You can listen back to this concert on BBC Sounds 📻
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Andy Burnham is set to ban Palantir from the NHS if he becomes Prime Minister 👏 www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Burnham set to ditch Palantir from NHS
Left-wing critics have called for deal to be axed over US tech giant’s work with Israeli Defense Forces and US immigration
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Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Still being judged by the animals that live with me. #Cat
A very fluffy, black, ragamuffin cat lying inside a white fluffy box. He is looking straight at the camera with large, yellow eyes, with an expression of utter contempt.
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Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan
The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words
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Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0cu... A beautiful Chopin nocturne brilliantly performed. #music #piano #classicalmusic #mariajoaopires #chopin #nocturne
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Chopin Nocturne, op 27 no 1 - Maria João Pires live at Jardin Musical
YouTube video by Jardin Musical
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IT Revolution @itrevolution.com · 29/06/2026
LLMs don't produce correct answers—they produce statistically likely ones. Jonathan Snyder's paper on AI-assisted engineering is one of the more honest guides to what working safely with that reality actually requires. Read more in today's article: itrev.io/4vnatbe
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
📌 ICYMI — How Nigel Farage Twists the Facts About White Boys in Schools to Manufacture Racial Tension — @nafeez.bsky.social Official data completely contradicts Nigel…… bylinetimes.com/2026/06/26/how-nige…
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How Nigel Farage Twists the Facts About White Boys in Schools to Manufacture Racial Tension
Official data completely contradicts Nigel Farage’s false claim that ethnic minorities are favoured at the expense of white children, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
It's not the heat, it's the humidity; or, why you should worry about "wet-bulb" temperature Released from the paywall before it stops being relevant
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What is “wet-bulb temperature” anyway?
It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
📌 ICYMI @nafeez.bsky.social Official data completely contradicts Nigel Farage’s false claim that ethnic minorities are favoured at the expense of white children, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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How Nigel Farage Twists the Facts About White Boys in Schools to Manufacture Racial Tension
Official data completely contradicts Nigel Farage’s false claim that ethnic minorities are favoured at the expense of white children, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The London authorities have produced this map of places where you can cool down for free:
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Cool Spaces
Cool Spaces Map displays indoor venues open to all where Londoners can take respite on hot days.
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Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
@benkentish.bsky.social doing sterling work batting away Brexiteers on @lbc.co.uk
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
It’s stuff like this that makes me believe the conspiracy theory that we all died during COVID and are now trapped in purgatory. youtube.com/shorts/TEfBm...
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Reform UK post DISGUSTING World Cup message on women! - Sarah Pochin
YouTube video by Femi - F Politics!
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Remember all those articles about how young men are becoming much more right wing and pro-Reform than older men? Well it turns out the opposite is actually true
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
As I understand it, when they proscribed Palestine Action it was on the back of evidence of coordinated attempts to organise trespass and cause damage. Everyone who supported them by so much as holding a paper became arrestable for terrorism. Are they going to do the same for "Patriot Platform"?
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Jay @pescado70.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This transition will affect roughly 2.5 million civil servants as part of a 2026 strategy to achieve "digital sovereignty." France already has a successful precedent; the national police force has operated 100,000 computers on Linux since 2008, proving that such a massive shift is feasible.
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Philosopher Jersey Flight @jerseyflight.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This is the way. To stop MAGA one must use the law.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Politicians who fanned these flames should hang their heads in shame. Time and again we've seen this story play out. Single incidents used to fuel a far right narrative - and communities across the nation paying the price.
Huge fires encompassing a street with buildings, cars and the majority of the street on fire with plumes of black smoke.
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