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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

An obituary for my Mum. www.theguardian.com/society/2025... RIP. I miss her every day.

dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I wandered along to both the 'Unite the Kingdom' and 'Stop Trump' rallies in London over thr last week. Here are some photos from each...

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

St Mary's Island, March 2025.

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

5 years ago today, Covid 19 was declared a pandemic.

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Also known by the beautiful name 'Collop Monday'.

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Looking for a Hard Bona... anyone seen a Hard Bona...

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Tbf we don't know for sure he didn't say it.

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Every so often this letter from Alex Ferguson to Eric Cantona goes around. Many years later, Cantona said "Sir Alex Ferguson will be my boss forever."

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

A nice, annual milestone this week: The point at which the sun starts to rise before 7:30 and sets after 5pm again.

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Always nice light this time of year when the sun starts setting a little later.

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

When you're on the X Factor at 8 but need to get a bag filled with iPhone 16s and Galaxy S24s by 7.

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I liked it. Lucked into seeing a showing where he did a talk afterwards.

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Graham Matuszak @grahammatuszak.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Ran along Irvine beach during the week to have a look at the minke whale that had washed up. Quite a creature and sad to see it in this state. Hoping it died simply of natural causes. #whaleofatime

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Sunday morning picnic on someone's grave. Slightly unusual.

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Man in a fez. London, December 2024.

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

100+ Trends & Predictions Reports for 2025: bit.ly/2025trending (from Adobe, McKinsey, Goldman, Meta, PWC, Deloitte, Youtube, Statista, and many more)

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Cecil Court, London, December 2024.

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I usually ask on Twitter, but thought I'd give it a go here instead: Which good books have you read this year? Which would you recommend wholeheartedly (optionally why)? I'll compile the list if there are enough responses. (feel free to repost for a broader spread of recommendations)

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

probably a clue. enron.com/pages/decent...

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

probably a clue re what's going on here. enron.com/pages/decent...

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The 2024 Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree has arrived.

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Not the most promising sign when Instagram suggests your account is similar to Phillip Schofield and Hannah Ingram-Moore.

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

reflection is sensible & interesting. go for it! fwiw: In the past I think people often overestimated the power of the campaign itself; now generally underestimate. The Harris campaign seemed extremely poorly run.

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

It feels ill-considered for her to just make things up about a life and death bill. Do you think she just panicked?

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Is the Gladiator 2 team faking Google Reviews? These don't really ring true as casual, amateur reviews.

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Re your first sentence, see 'informs a small part'.

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Indeed, as said, I've read the bill, and I've watched the marketing campaign roll out to this stage, including appointing a friend of Keir Starmer as chair of the organisation pushing for it. Interested to see what happens this week, and following that. Thanks for the chat! Night to you too.

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I am thinking of it logically, rather than emotionally, having looked at how it has rolled out elsewhere. Oddly my thoughts on it changed around 10 years ago, sitting on the Eurostar next to a professor who specialised in it.

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I'd agree re your wager, and I'd suppose that informs a small part of the positivity around assisted dying.

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I believe it is useful to know the facts on a literal life or death topic if I am going to encourage others to form an opinion on it.

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

On your final point: that has not been a crime for 60+ years, which makes me wonder how much you have researched any of this?

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The option is there today, but there is not a legal/societal prompt to specifically examine whether you want the state to show you to the door.

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I also recognise it has come about essentially through a marketing campaign, and that campaign will continue after it becomes law. Worth reading the bill, and the evolution of MAiD, if you have not, and if interested in it beyond the principle.

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dan barker @danbarker.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I see it as flipping to a system where, if someone is told 'you have 6 months to live' (which is of course ambiguous, meaning potentially pressure to push for prognosis), there is a new prompt, in law, to choose whether to die early. For some = no issue, for some = inherent pressure.

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