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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺

@chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy
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Part-time geek, part-time cyclist, part-time dad, part-time husband [bridged from cyberplace.social/@chiefoldmist on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Worth reading to see that what is happening now, has happened before, Original post: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5mqpgxjffc…
In May of 1940 there was a mass panic in Britain - stirred up by the tabloid press - about 'fighting aged men' who had come to Britain as 'refugees' posing a threat to the women and children of this country - and essentially forming a 'fifth column' that could, at any moment rise up against everyone
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026
I'm a bit tired but I'd like to help if I can... #caturday
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026
Original post: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w5dk6pygx5…
-Microsoft adds Teams bot protection
-Windows WSL containers are here
-Swift Package Index joins Apple
-Amazon fined for ignoring scam victims
-First sub-nano chip
-Iranian cyberattacks surged this year
-Russia's national IMEI database close to passing
-Austria wants Anthropic to move to the EU
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026
No comment needed...
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026
It really could all be this simple... @simonkuper
The text of an article by Simon Kuper in the FT Weekend Magazine, entitled "A dangerous new season of Trump TV"
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026
This is a incredibly important point for our future And seems to hark back to what Shoshana Zuboff’s idea of surveillance capitalism describes www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026…
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2025
Quite the paragraph from @rafaelbehr.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…
In theory, that would open space for revival of an old-fashioned, pro-enterprise, fiscally disciplined, mild-mannered Tory party, offering sound economic management and rejecting Reform’s swivel-eyed school of crank conspiracies and race-obsessed grievance mining.
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025
Fuck my timeline when two such diverse commentators repost the same message ( @iandunt.bsky.social @nixonsimon.bsky.social)
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025
www.ft.com/content/650aafa9-1447-41… @iandunt I can only imagine this is music to your ears..
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2025
Word! Original post: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:q5gcp6cimv…
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2025
@davidallengreen This brings back some memories... Couldn't find your Bluesky account, think you may have blocked me, sorry, for whatever I said...
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2025
Google starting to charge for AI search is indicative of the way the whole web is going... We've seen newspapers decline as news sources for most, with the best content creators setting up independently, @iandunt, @nixonsimon.bsky.social, @lewisgoodall
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2025
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2025
Look at these numbers... Original post: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:le3snqzui2…
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2025
Original post: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ubocpvxpto…
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2025
@alanbeattie.bsky.social Evening... Did you know you had an imposter?
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2025
Whisper & Ivy helping with my civic duty... #DogsAtPollingStations #dogsofmastodon
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2025
Original post: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w5dk6pygx5…
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2025
Original post: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:td7ymvnnnt…
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2025
Original post: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4jajixlbh3…
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2025
Original post: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ubocpvxpto…
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2025
Original post: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:y3xjyk7cpv…
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2025
This seems to be such a gun - > foot moment... What is this for? Just to appease people who have been fed misinformation by the UK's right-wing press? Original post: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gytztkbj6t…
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2025
Mr Carney isn't the only one dripping in contempt in this latest from @nixonsimon.bsky.social One choice extracts: "egged on by the the myopic advice of the right-wing media to whom it consistently shows baffling deference" nixons.substack.com/p/what-can-stop…
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2025
Next level... Original post: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nxb36xbu3f…
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2025
What a lucky man I am, gaining new followers for my insightful posts...
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2025
Who thought this time six months ago, serious political commentators in serious newspaper would end up having to write these words about trade policy... inews.co.uk/opinion/trumps-downfall… @iandunt.bsky.social @DavidHenig
That’s unfortunate because Trump’s manchild minion Elon Musk has been setting fire to the American state while his boss sits in the White House playing with fantasy trade numbers.
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2025
Original post: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bybhkdeow6…
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2025
Original post: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jjbsxatjvw…
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2025
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2025
@moira infosec.exchange/@SteveD3/114220593…
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2025
Two takes, from @iandunt.bsky.social and @lewisgoodall.com on the same worrying news
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2024
Yet another great piece from @rafaelbehr on the strategic dilemma the UK finds itself in after #Brexit and #Trump www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…
Screenshot of a paragraph from the article


The abrasive reality of a post-west America will take some getting used to. It represents an acute crisis for Britain, which counts the US as its paramount defence and security partner, while relying on European trade for its prosperity.

Once upon a time, that was a geopolitical balance with huge benefits. The UK was Washington’s best friend in Brussels and Europe’s hotline to the White House. Surrendering that status made Brexit a terrible idea in 2016. It hasn’t aged well.
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2024
Cambridge for Europe (@cambsforeurope.bsky.social) bsky.app/profile/cambsforeurope.bsk… > The thing about mistakes is that it's very difficult to make them well...or indeed to make them work! #BrexitHasFailed
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2024
Whoda thunk it...?
Overseas student and worker curbs to cost £40bn

DELPHINE STRAUSS AND ANNA GROSS LONDON

The UK's clampdown on international students and overseas skilled workers will cost business more than £40bn and provide no overall benefit to soci- ety, according to government estimates of the policies' impact.
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2024
This is a staggering chart from @simonwrenlewis - > mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2024/09/wh…
Seasonally adjusted economic inactivity rates across G7 countries
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2024
Exactly this. This is just the EU / France (?) bringing some order and rules to these platforms. As #SpaceKaren is showing, completely free speech, or at least his interpretation of it, isn't good for civil discourse, and users don't want that […] [Original post on cyberplace.social]
Screenshot of the linked #BlueSky post
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2024
@iandunt@bird.makeup @iandunt@toot.community Which leads neatly on to this very worrying, actually, terrifying piece from Tim Snyder on the potential #faschist takeover in America... archive.is/08H80
Screenshot of the physical FT newspaper article
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2024
@GossiTheDog Dont know if you'd seen yourself quoted in the weekend FT
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2024
@catsalad You have mixed up competition... github.com/kleprevost/saladcat
Screenshot of the Saladcat Github repository
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2024
Voted! One of the lucky ones in the world to have this right... #DogsAtPollingStations
Two Dalmatians outside a UK Polling station, looking away from the camera at something more interesting than their owner
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2024
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
A tortie cat curled up asleep on a nook windowsill in the sunshine, nestle between two photos, an orchid and some niknaks
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2024
#ShowYourStripesDay
Temperature stripes, bar chart, for Bristol, United Kingdom for #ShowYourStripes day

From here https://showyourstripes.info/b/europe/unitedkingdom/bristol
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2024
@GossiTheDog Thought this might be of interest / good for a laugh... Comes from this presentation - >https://www.fairinstitute.org/resources/is-it-raining-risk-what-data-says-about-cyber-risk-in-the-cloud?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Screenshot of "Attack Paths in the Cloud" showing Active Directory accounting for 82% of exposures...
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2024
@riskybusiness @metlstorm I don't know if someone else has pointed this out, but the Chinese have been studying their Greek mythology...
Screenshot of Wikipedia page on Aegis

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2024
Great article from the @FT on how the economics of green / clean energy is beating the political culture wars by #JohnBurns-Murdoch
Full article from the @FT@press.coop by @johnburnsmurdoch on energy transition in Texas
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2024
Just came third on the stage of the Giro d'Italia fantasy cycling @road.cc
Screenshot of the leader board
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Tim Schofield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 🇪🇺🗺 @chiefoldmist.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2024
Such a great couple of opening paragraphs in this article on yet more performative politics by the UK government: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/bi… #cycling
Article header photograph of some cyclist waiting at some traffic lights in Richmond Park, London, next to three cars also waiting. 

UK’s new dangerous cycling offence will achieve pretty much nothing
Peter Walker

Move reflects wider state of politics around active travel – arguing around the margins and doing little to change lives for better

Tue 21 May 2024 09.00 BST
Last modified on Tue 21 May 2024 10.47 BST

In the six days since a law to prosecute dangerous cyclists was announced, somewhere close to 30 people will have been killed on UK roads, none of them struck by bikes. About 500 more will have suffered serious, potentially life-changing injuries, with pretty much all connected to motor vehicles.

Again, going on the statistical averages, over those same six days, slightly more than 1,600 people across the UK will have died due to illnesses associated with physical inactivity. Riding a bike cuts your likelihood of developing such conditions by about half.

None of this is to argue that having new offences of causing death or serious injury by dangerous cycling will necessarily make the roads less safe. The worry is simply that it will achieve pretty much nothing, beyond the venerable political imperative of “doing something”.
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