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Paul Tyreman 〓〓

@drpaulitious.bsky.social
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Kernow. Nag usyans na tegen. Cornishman. Neither use nor ornament. Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably Priced Love! And a Hard-Boiled Egg!

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 5h
As I say the domestic politics of this are going to become more and more obvious.... samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...
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The route back into the EU
Back in 2022 I wrote about the long-term prospects for undoing Brexit and made two predictions.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 2h
No matter how bad you're imagining this is, I guarantee it's worse -- explicitly being sold to record sex without consent
One couple, a man and a woman whose TikTok account is dedicated to shopping content designed to garner affiliate commissions on TikTok Shop purchases, have made several videos promoting less-expensive smart glasses. In some of these videos, they market what they claim are light-free glasses by pretending that the woman is unaware that her partner was recording her during sex due to the lack of an indicator light.

“Whew! Dang, baby. That was real good — and a good video, too,” the man tells the woman in one such video. The woman, who’s filmed point-of-view-style as she pretends to zip up her pants, feigns confusion. “Video?” she asks.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 2h
NEW: Now that Meta's provided the blueprint for creepy camera glasses, a whole ecosystem of influencers has sprung up to promote cheap knockoffs that don't have that "annoying blinking light" futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Influencers Are Promoting Cheap Dupes of Meta AI Glasses that Don't Have the "Annoying Blinking Light" When They Record
Creators are promoting cheaper dupes for Meta smart glasses. Often, the lack of any recording light is central to their pitch.
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Paul Tyreman 〓〓 @drpaulitious.bsky.social · 31m
Someone somewhere will be pervy enough to have a device embedded. It won't be me, just so everyone knows.
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>IIRC arguments are not resolved and problems not fixed by such a remembering technology.
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Paul Tyreman 〓〓 @drpaulitious.bsky.social · 33m
Holy shit. I overheard a john Lewis sales assistant describing them to an old (older than me!) couple the other day, and the word "pervert" was never mentioned. The lady seemed very impressed that she'd be able to remember what she'd seen. I'm sure there's a Ted Chiang story on this theme, and >
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 20h
Very good piece by @guardianheather.bsky.social on why Kemi Badenoch’s idea of exempting family homes from inheritance tax makes no economic sense for a variety of reasons. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Badenoch’s inheritance tax gambit makes no economic sense | Heather Stewart
The Tory leader’s proposal to slash the tax would shovel £6bn of taxpayer money to the already-wealthy
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Andy Wheeler @andy-whee.bsky.social · 2h
Agreed. It works like every other tax avoidance opportunity, e.g. offshore tax havens. Lots of money avoiding tax sitting there and doing nothing to help the economy.
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 5h
Also, if you genuinely think IHT is immoral because it means taxing wealth twice / taxing aspiration / the human urge to pass assets down to children or whatever, it shouldn't matter what form those assets take. Encouraging people to treat property like a wealth bank rather than a home is bad!
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 5h
I'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes
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raistlin71.bsky.social @raistlin71.bsky.social · 16h
The man I'm most wary of in public or in the woods is a white man, any age. That's not some social media bullshit, that's real life experience. Dad in the 90s: "Know how white men came to rule the world? We're the most violent sons-a-bitches on the planet."
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mrscottpayne.bsky.social @mrscottpayne.bsky.social · 7h
The constant 2 siding of every headline turned me off years ago. I do wonder if there are tapes of debates between Goebbels and Attlee from the 40s.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 9h
‘Now we turn to the controversy that is what is it to be English?’ Nick Robinson says on radio 4 today before talking about Badenoch and Braverman Couldn’t turn the dial quick enough
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8h
There is a rather wider minority for abolishing the Monarchy (about 1 in 5 to 1 in 4) than for the controversy of whether only white people can be English (1 in 10). It is weird the media classes are so rarely across how niche this 'controversy' is - about 1/4 Reform voters, but few others
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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 8h
Andy Burnham's proposals are sadly incoherent. It's unpopular to say this. But you cannot want a National Care Service and an end to rough sleeping while making huge, detrimental changes to the immigration system. The Earned Settlement proposals need to be scrapped. Sign our petition.
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 9h
Soooo get ready for another round of Labour trying to explain how trillion dollar tech companies need special legislative care while creative work is some kind of spurious non-profession, I guess.
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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 9h
I prefer the i headline “Reform UK clears itself in donor row investigation”. Presumably if saying things that are “wrong, careless [and] untrue” they’d have a membership crisis.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 9h
The chances of Reform taking aggressive legal action (rather than briefing a threat to do so to pitch for media gullibility) would seem to be v slim, given what would come out in the court
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 9h
Silly from Jo Johnson: Our government added layers of extra regulation and market competition upon Universities at a time when the value of each home student place was declining in real terms, then we killed international recruitment, but we didn't cause the HE crisis: wonkhe.com/blogs/jo-joh...
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 10h
Cortes was not motivated by “knowledge”, lads 😬
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 10h
#OtD 8 Oct 1978 the fascist National Front's Sunday League football team, the Lillywhites, were turned over (literally) as the Luton box van they were using as a changing room was attacked and rolled over by members of the anti-fascist Manchester Squad stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1085...
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 18h
The combination of "everyone has to be in a car all the time" and "everyone is now performing for a camera and creating content all the time" is a bad combination and not a sign of a healthy society.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 20h
🤣👏 @mrjohncrace.bsky.social
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 21h
Spectrum Allocation xkcd.com/3307/
Comic: Modern Spectrum Allocation Chart. [Long line of rectangles of different widths in shades of gray. From top to bottom: radio (shouting), TV test patterns, 1G cellular, radio (music), radio (static), reserved for zeppelin navigation, TV channels 2, 5, 7-13, 16, 17, and 28 with 2G cellular in between, interference, WKRP in Cincinnati, spaceship beeps, all other TV, car dealership ads, numbers stations, weather balloons, amateur radio, HAM radio, “weather balloons”, *Choosing Texas* 24/7, [extra large rectangle] boat captains say they need this for something and we don’t ask what because they’re scary, the secret radio waves that make planes stay up, defunct satellite phone company, radioastronomy, radioastrology, [extra small rectangle] all modern wireless infrastructure, death rays, LoFi hip hop beats to relax/study to, security guard walkie talkies, amateur military satellites, left open in case aliens try to call, one brand of garage door openers with a lot of political pull.]
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Paul Tyreman 〓〓 @drpaulitious.bsky.social · 18h
Who the hell would want to claim *his* identity for their own?
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18h
I can assure Conor that the rest of us are also tired of this stupid conversation which would end if he and his mates fucked off back to the pit they crawled out of.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 20h
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Lyam Mc @lyamelbandino.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Remember the Tories don’t care about people, they never did and this will never change. All the issue we face started with them forcing Neoliberalism on us. 😡
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch accurately notes that the common sense consensus that black people can be Englsh was pretty settled by the early 1990s. It was being contested vocally by the NF in 1984 (when Barnes scored in Brazil) with the Daily Mail vocal against the NF but much less by 1993 (when Ince was captain)
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I see Reform UK's internal inquiry has cleared their internal people.
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Security Guard Greets People
ALT: Security Guard Greets People
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 07/10/2026
Well, that’s me convinced.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Paddington is polite, kind and full of integrity and loved by just about everyone he meets. Maybe she doesn't have a clue...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires
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European Briton 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺 #RejoinEU #FBPE @europeanbriton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Brexit in one picture #RejoinEU
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 07/10/2026
on October 7, a chunk of my family were nearly wiped out. my teenage cousin had been here in Toronto for my sister's wedding, we sent him back, and two days later the attack happened. the kubbitz my family is from was attacked, but there had been just enough forewarning.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Whether policies, polls or performances, the gulf between the reality I think I inhabit and the world according to Kemi seems almost inconceivably enormous, and yet so complete is her belief in her own brilliance that I frequently find myself checking whether my own memory of events is accurate.”
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Ryan Stauffer @ryanswx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Haha, this fucking sucks.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots
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Sodhva an Yeth Kernewek | Cornish Language Office @saykernewek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🎶 Lowender Festival | 15–18 October 🎶 Four days of Celtic music, dancing, culture and Kernewek are coming to Redruth! Click here to see the the full programme and book tickets. www.lowender.co.uk/festival/pro...
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2026 Programme - Lowender
Lowender Festival thursday 15 – Sunday 18 October Lowender Celtic Festival is back in 2026 with more opportunities for cultural exchange, dance and song! Sign up to our enews to be the first to find o...
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 07/10/2026
“He got rich here and then made off to Monaco to save himself money…He avoided giving back to the economy that made him a billionaire…He and anyone else who leaves here to not pay tax should be stripped of their honours.” Bravo @dalevince.com #TaxTheRich www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
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Apparent exodus of super-rich suggests UK is no longer billionaires’ playground
If recent complaints are believed, London and the UK are no longer welcoming for ultra-high net worth individuals
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Maturity is resisting the urge for a gotcha about the comments regarding Barnes and Wright, and recognising that instead she’s said something that is necessary to be said, and this is a first step to recalibrating the conversation away from ethno-nationalism.
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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Your regular reminder that a couple can already pass down a £1m property to their kids/grandkids (pass your home to spouse tax free; they get your £325k tax-free allowance - so £650k; you each get £175k "main residence allowance" if you pass to a direct relative - so £350k - total £1m).
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Paul Tyreman 〓〓 @drpaulitious.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Most people think he's lovely and needs looking after even if he makes the occasional mistake?
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As I was saying yesterday there is an obvious switch in approach and it's a welcome one. Let's see if it sticks with Katie Lam, Nick Timothy etc... on the front bench.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Long tribute from Kemi Badenoch in her conference speech to Jeffrey Archer, complete with round of applause. The world is a "less colourful" place without him, she says, which is one way to describe a serial fraudster, fantasist and liar who wrecked several lives in the process.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/10/2026
"Tell Truss it was me."
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is incredibly important. I feel deeply that curbing sexual violence will come from raising social expectations of men, not from ‘educating’ them. I fear this is an unpopular view, because people are afraid to face up to the scale of the issue.
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