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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm not saying this as an uncritical admirer of Polanski by any means, but it's strange that the narrative seems to be "questions raised over Polanski's leadership". (While he performs very creditably in a by-election he was never going to win.)

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Corned beef was much more palatable after 24 hours in the fridge.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Do not know if true, but I like this as an explanation.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Turns out there's a reason why Aldi corned beef is so cheap. Won't be buying that again. (But not sure what I was expecting for £2.19 in this day and age.)

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just been reading an edited transcript of that Jacob Rees-Mogg thing, and the awkward thing about it for me is that he seems to sees England and Britain as being essentially one and the same.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've seen a few people reacting to this with shock, which surprises me: surely it's quite well known that a lot of people's opinions are highly cognitive dissonant / incoherent?

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Whatever strain of COVID it is that I managed to pick up, it seems to have been both extremely rapid onset and (touch wood) clearing up surprisingly rapidly.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just come across something about a far-right website calling on people to "move to Ulster, the most British part of Britain", and I cannot stop laughing.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Is the BBC on a mission to cut all of the radio programmes that I think are worth listening to, because if so it's going about it in exactly the right way? newyddion.s4c.cymru/article/rhag...

newyddion.s4c.cymru

Rhaglen drafod Dros Ginio ar BBC Radio Cymru i ddod i ben

Mae Newyddion S4C yn deall fod Dros Ginio, un o brif raglenni newyddion a materion cyfoes dyddiol BBC Cymru, yn dod i ben

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The cat is evidently somehow aware of the autumn equinox because she has suddenly flipped from wanting to be outdoors all of the time to being an indoor cat.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Drove into Wrexham this morning to visit Welsh bookshop. Still bloody flags flying from what seems like every lamp post as you drive into town. It's grating for me, because they're flying y Ddraig Goch for very much the wrong reasons.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I didn't think that the trajectory of Nina Power could surprise me any further, but this thing about the Reform crypto donor guy essentially having become her landlord is wild.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I took out a digital subscription to a Welsh magazine. I've subsequently realised that I never getting around to reading it in digital form, so have been emailing them to say "I would like to send you *more money*, in exchange for you upgrading it to a print + digital subscription".

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Safety instructions: follow all instructions.

Safety instructions from an audio interface that I'm trying to get to do what it's supposed to. Great emphasis is laid upon reading the instructions, keeping the instructions, heeding the instructions, and following the instructions.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just got home from work to see my cat quite aggressively trying to follow someone else into their house. Six Dinner Sid was a documentary, basically.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think they should let Piddington secede from the United Kingdom and see how long it manages to function as an autonomous entity.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I kind of feel like we're at the point with gaming where the improvements are only small-ish incremental ones anyway. But I've mostly just been playing Fallout: New Vegas on a refurbished Dell Optiplex 5000 SFF (£399) & 2nd hand GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (£75, eBay), so, am not really the target market.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Was going to see if I've managed to end up on any more blocklists, but Clearsky isn't behaving.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One of these days I might resort to making patronisingly overgeneralising posts to see if it makes me more popular.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I really don't understand how somebody who is sincere in their beliefs can defect from Reform to Plaid. Like, how can you go from very right wing British nationalism to centre-left Welsh nationalism? Does not compute.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bloody hell. Should have filled up tank. (I mean, I did so two weeks ago, and I've still got, I dunno, 5/8ths left.) Buying petrol at the moment. It's a bit like trying to decide whether to stick or twist.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thought my reflections on the direction of history might be a bit pessimistic, but then I heard on Radio 4 throughout the afternoon that the chance of all of humanity being wiped out by AI is greater than 10%, according to experts.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is the funniest edition of The World At One I've ever heard. (Never did I think I'd hear the following top story: "an employee of Anthropic has said that AI has got a greater than 10% chance of wiping out all of humanity within a decade".

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Phrases I'd like to ban. (1) "The right side of history". There is nothing to say that history is moving in a direction that one finds pleasing or edifying. If I had to put money on it the world will get less democratic and more unjust.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I know this is extremely naive, but part of me feels like the Israelis really ought to go "yeah, y'know, there's no two ways about it, those West Bank settlements *are* illegal, so we can't really argue in good faith against these sanctions".

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Just when I thought things couldn't get any weirder. (I say, having recently watched a clip of the guy dressed as Richard the Lionheart incoherently talking about stuff.)

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Getting really sick of people moaning about the BBC reporting something that Farage said. For example: "Farage tells BBC he 'wasn't listening' during foreign donor talks". This is what the man said. In an interview. You can therefore report it.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"In what must be the most plausible line of dialogue in any film about litigation, one member of Coyote’s legal team wonders aloud about who will pay for the photocopying." I love it.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I must admit, I had been thinking: what kind of Christian theologian is actually okay with facilitating corruption? I find it hard to get my head around that one.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sidebar to all this (and noting the FT’s long profile of Orr yesterday) is that it looks terrible for Cambridge University, which already looks terrible after the sad and awful Arday affair (with criticism coming both from the left and the right).

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

As usual, Wales doesn't get its fair share.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Reading that Nick Wallis's about me section on his blog. He literally goes "I read Helen Joyce, Hannah Barnes, Abigail Shrier" - you can tell that he's really tried to consider the trans issue from all sides.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Bought replacement batteries for home scales. Weight came out at 65kg. I have actually lost 5kg over six months without meaning to. This is slightly worrying.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

(a) What sort of terrible legislation allows a successful prosecution to occur even without properly establishing ownership of the vehicle? (b) Some people need to get a bloody life. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

London mayor Sadiq Khan says conviction for untaxed car was due to a scam

City Hall officials say the Nissan Micra does not belong to the mayor or Transport for London.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My God, I've actually just seen someone referring to this as a scandal.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Starting a new Welsh course in just over a fortnight. Need something to do other than work, which is kind of doing my head in.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Wispr Flow. I don't get it. I'm pretty sure that I can type more efficiently than I can speak. And that if I were dictating there would be more verbal tics that I'd just have to go back and edit out anyway.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Over the past couple of days I've kept seeing posts about an academic book that got a negative review in an academic journal and been quite amazed at the amount of fuss being made about it. Like, not everybody is going to like your book, and there's probably nothing more to it than that.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Rain I don't mind, but rain when I'm in a building with a tin roof? Ugh.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The great thing about Fallout: New Vegas is that it's simply too irritating to play for too long.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Blokes driving never fails to amuse me. Man in white van slams foot down on the accelerator, with junction up ahead. Very predictably slams on brakes seconds later. What a senseless waste of petrol.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I hate Fallout 2 but I can't stop playing it.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I accept the implications of the birthday paradox, but at the same time I find it hard to accept that there is no underlying cosmic meaning to the fact that Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldread and Anthony Ainley all shared the same birthday.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Sounds great, to be honest. None of your mistakes would ever come back to haunt you.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Watching Pobol y Cwm for the first time in donkeys' years. One of the characters developing AI psychosis. Someone just mortally wounded when a firearm accidentally discharged. Cwmderi is a dangerous place.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

People always moan about the fundamentalist Christians turning up at Chester Pride, but they're pretty easy to ignore. But yesterday we actually had some of the worst people in Britain turning up: that absolute scrote English Ned and a mate of his who goes by the name of Jardine.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Just to return to moaning: is there a reason why the entertainment at Pride events is always so unimaginative? It's almost like they devise the line-ups with reference to a check-list of cultural stereotypes, and it's really, really tedious.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Tom Jones was performing at Chester Racecourse last night. We went out for a bit of a walk to see if it was possible to freeload a bit and listen to his set. As it happened, you could get a reasonable view and hear pretty well from Nuns Road. Amazing how well his voice has held up, really.

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David Hughes @daihuws.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Part of me wants to manufacture a placard reading "When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books, and above all the parchments." (2 Tim 4:13) and stand next to the fundamentalist Christian demonstrators and attempt to blend in.

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