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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Love the new layout. Just one thing though. The glossier paper makes really distracting reflections under some lighting conditions. I am finding myself having to continuously tilt the magazine this way and that to be able to read it. Photo with last month's issue for comparison

Glossy magazine paper reflecting light making it hard to read

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Protesters blocking a road is terrible! Except when it isn't!

Goodwin posts on Facebook a few days ago castigating Just Stop Oil protesters for blocking a road, and saying that the police should DRAG them out of the road and lock them up if they resist

Goodwin posts on Facebook yesterday that he STRONGLY supports the right of small boats protesters to blockade a port

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Has anyone looked into what this mysterious "Democracy Volunteers" organisation is? Never heard of it before this incident! Are they really unbiased? The manner of their announcement was not in keeping with the claims on their website

Screenshot of Democracy Volunteers website claiming they aim to report on their observations in a "constructive and encouraging way to benefit the delivery of democracy"

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

They need to read their own mission statement

Excerpt from Democracy Volunteers website that says: "We aim to report on our observations in a constructive and encouraging way to benefit the delivery of democracy and to benefit the electorate as a whole"

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Only quite bland ones on the UK govt website

Screenshot of UK govt travel advice for the USA

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Superb piece by @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social in this month's @bylinetimes.bsky.social mag: "Britain's Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism - Why?" This article alone was worth my annual sub to one of the very few news outlets still doing proper journalism

Snippet of Byline Times, November 2025, pointing out how the British mainstream media has created a "perfect circle of self-perpetuating hype" around Nigel Farage, i.e. how his prominence in MSM feeds his popularity which in turn justifies further coverage, and so on. Author proposes that this is a predictable consequence of an industry that has restructured itself around virality.

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

No, rapid chargers are not just about allaying "range anxiety", but making long journeys in an EV practicable and not too much slower/more hassle than doing the same journey in a combustion vehicle

Screenshot of Guardian piece on 22 June 2025 about govt change to EV charging funding. Text reads: Increasing the number of public chargers is seen as crucial to persuading people to switch to electric cars. However, the focus has shifted from rapid chargers, which can allay “range anxiety” on longer journeys, to the slower on-street chargers needed for car owners who do not have private parking spaces

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Wait so it will become *mandatory* for everyone to own a smartphone? Have they thought that through?

Screenshot of an excerpt of an article about the ridiculous "BritCard" proposal, which appears to imply that smartphone ownership would become mandatory

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

But according to this guy, £74K household income is enough to pay for private schooling. So that fake news article family on £345K must be easily able to cover the fees!

Screenshot of a post about how affordable private schools are. Please note I am only summarising the post, not agreeing with it

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

It think it's not Bluesky but an independent labeller. They've done it to me too, just because I have the hashtag FBPE, I suspect. It's a bit like the wild west and I think Bluesky will have to rethink this way of working.

Screenshot of a supposedly follow farming moderation list

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

In my case it was probably something like this

Chart showing lack of transparency about funders of thinktanks

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I would venture onto the other place to retort, except the thin skinned one blocked me long ago

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

All true, but unfortunately the Guardian itself isn't averse to casually bandying this misleading word about. Here we have a "landslide" headline about an election in which more people voted for other parties than did for the winning one.

Guardian front page of 5 July 2024. The headline is "Labour Landslide"

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

If you want to do something about *all this*, then one thing you can do is support the endangered species called fearless independent journalism. My copy of @bylinetimes.bsky.social dropped onto my doormat today and it's one of the high points of my month

Byline Times front cover, March 2025.
Main headline reads: From Murdoch to Musk - Hacking the State

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Huge crowd in London marched to the Russian Embassy today for the #RallyForUkraine

Large crowd of protesters at the London Rally For Ukraine, 22 Feb 2025

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Definitely the HQ of a £5B financial institution...

Screenshot showing 4,888 companies registered at an address

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I wonder if the helicopter pilots actually use this chart to follow the altitude restrictions? The 300 feet is for the other route but written very close to the route 1 the helicopter was on. Closer in fact than the 200 foot marking for route 1

Excerpt of Washington DC helicopter route map

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

How does he get away with such misrepresentation as this? Never mind fact checking social media - newspapers should not be allowed to publish such things (even labelled as "opinion")

A right wing headcase writing bollocks in the gutter press

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Bits of gold. In a drink. What sort of absolute fucking headcase would do that, or think it was a neat idea? I'm getting a sieve and straining the stupid stuff off

A cocktail with gold flakes in it. What a stupid fucking idea

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Had to check and there really is such a thing as a caterpillar that makes hats from its old heads. Uraba lugens moth aka the Mad Hatterpillar!

Photo of the uraba lugens moth caterpillar wearing a hat made from a stack of four of its old moulted heads. Known colloquially as the Mad Hatterpillar!

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Yes it's generally lacking nuance to use the word landslide when reporting on FPTP type elections

Guardian front page of 5th July 2024. Headline is "Labour landslide".

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The default alt text on some GIFs is hilariously poor 🤣

Screenshot of very poor default alt text on a GIF

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Doctorow calls it Nonconsensual Blue Tick

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

That's fine, but here is what can happen when one of those empty accounts later start posting... Note that over 100 people I follow are following it

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A vigil in Cambridge this evening marked 1000 days of Ukraine's heroic resistance against the brutal Russian invasion. 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine

A group of people with Ukraine flags and candles in the dark on King's Parade, Cambridge

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Plus you get to wear a lovely European Movement UK pin!

European Movement UK pin, featuring overlapping flags of the UK and EU

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Try the Mentions custom feed. Seems to do more or less what you want. Although I agree it should be built in as a core feature - some of the custom feeds I've tried haven't been very reliable

Screenshot of adding the "Mentions" custom feed to Bluesky

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

It does and there is a custom feed that you can add to your Bluesky app that presents posts that contain #FBPE, #RejoinEU and a bunch of related hashtags

Screenshot of the description of #FBPE Bluesky feed

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

This morning I checked the average overnight signup rate (250 per minute) and based on that estimated that it would crack 15 million by 15:40 GMT today. It's just passed that half an hour early - so signup rate is still increasing

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

It was a really interesting and slightly scary talk! Thanks for speaking @marietjeschaake.bsky.social - now to read the book!

Front cover of book, "The Tech Coup: how to save democracy from Silicon Valley" by Marietje Schaake

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Tyre Glider - gets bicycle tyres off and on the rims *so* much quicker and easier than tyre levers

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Guardian managed to find some right idiots to interview

Tory voter saying he would vote for Coco the Clown if he stood as a Tory

Ridiculous Tory voter wittering about not voting Lib Dem because of beards and sandals

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

No GP is paid that so very obviously either an error or a hoax and should not be spread. Quick search on twitter for "Harpenden GP job" found it originated from this person who has since deleted it. Please delete before more people get needlessly riled up.

Explanation of why a post was deleted on twitter

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

Great day at #RejoinMarch III - good turnout, fantastic vibe and some great speeches. Once again the weather was kind to us for this annual celebration of the pro-EU movement @marchforrejoin.bsky.social

Front of march with banner at National Rejoin March 3

Madeleina Kay and friends at National Rejoin March 3. Her placard reads: "You can't reach the stars if your wings have been clipped"

Madeleina Kay giving her speech at National Rejoin March 3. Her costume is a blue skirt, gold sparkly top and blue feather wings

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

I find it hard to square this decision with the following claim from the UKRI website. (Screenshot because of character limit, sigh)

Excerpt from UKRI website: "Our funding decisions are made independently from government, as per the Haldane principle. This states that decisions about which research projects to fund should be made through independent evaluation by experts, based on the quality and likely impact of that research."

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

I found this write-up very interesting. Seems they did try to avoid reinventing wheels, but did so when they found that existing technology had gaps that would hamper the overall experience of using it newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

Screenshot of snippet from Pragmatic Engineer article about the development of Bluesky that explains why they developed new protocols

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

A small but significant rearrangement of my home screen. I guess uninstalling the ex-bird can't be far away...

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