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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 8h

The people saving money were @bupauk.bsky.social for not supporting the highly competent Boots Pharmacy with their voucher scheme this year, who I have used every other year without issue.

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 8h

I did 𝘯𝘰𝘵 get my flu jab today, as I was not on the system, despite booking it successfully. That's Asda Incompetence...

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European Greens @europeangreens.eu · 05/10/2026

Our statement on the recent Green Party of England and Wales motion 'Zionism is Racism'. europeangreens.eu/news/egp-pos...

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I mean, one of the female characters does have the line: “Men… and your… sales”… right?

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

England's nearer 20 at it's closest point and we're hardly even on the Atlantic.

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes, this is why the internal campaign is needed.

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Though the EHRC transphobic mess should be technically easier to fix than either our place in the EU or electoral reform.

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I agree with your frustration, but Burnham talking about electoral change and EU re-membership (both forboden until very recently by Labour leadership) shows that these campaign groups can work (whether they end up achieving the ultimate goal is another question).

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My concern is that the only part of the triple lock that needs binning is the "automatic 2.5%" (even when inflation / wages are below that). But that low inflation level isn't looking likely anytime soon, so financially this wouldn't be worth the political cost to removing the totemic protection.

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, after the debacle of the Office for Students, what people want when they say "protect free speech" maybe quite complicated, and sometimes comes down to "in order to really protect my speech, you have to remove someone else's free speech".

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I got 4… tbf they were both complete randos…

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I liked the first series, but stopped after the second as, like Orange is the New Black, the plot was “unrealistic scrap the characters get into… try to get out of… immediately rinse and repeat” which irked me. Loved the X-Files episode that inspired the character though.

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“Look” doing a lot of work there…

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Almost as if presenting (what will be) live TV is an actual skill which she was the only one experienced in. I think everyone needs a first chance, I just can’t imagine 2 women getting their first foot into the live TV presenting door with Strictly Come Dancing main show.

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The US school buses appear to also have stop signs (in the YouTube video you can see them) which you’d probably need to make it mandatory (we also don’t have distinct colours for school buses so it’s hard to actually know about the bus in front of you).

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh I love the “weird things in video games” guy… so many questions about his hair metals.

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sad news, she was fab. Loved her Question Time comments about Ireland and the US, to temper the idea that the UK had all the cards:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39w4xqw4r2jo

bbc.co.uk

Bonnie Greer: British-American author and critic dies at 77

Her husband says the playwright and cultural and political commentator died after a brief illness.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lukewarm take: I feel a lot of pessimism about the present is built on not realizing just how bad the past was. Like if you just read a book about poverty in a first-world country in the 1950s it's staggeringly worse than now.

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And when this happens we think this is a good thing? Sounds awful to me and not something an ethical campaign group would ever want to do themselves.

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The law that was not passed was about terminal illness only. Why would I assume it’s about anything else?

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yes, thought the exact same thing bsky.app/profile/duff...

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We would never let any other group continue to suffer in pain and horror UNTIL the right conditions are met (scores of messages and I’m not sure if a specific metric has been suggested by anyone). Why is it acceptable to do this to the dying?

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Disabled people deserve better healthcare options on the NHS, but I believe it is immoral to deny dying people vital assisted dying treatment until disabled people are satisfied with the level of care in an ever more stretched NHS that needs more resourcing.

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

But that’s not what’s happening? This isn’t even government policy (the wonks think that this would only pass with a government led Royal Commission). This is people needing this end of life treatment now.

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

How can anyone take anything you say seriously after acting like an absolute freak.

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Jesus, what are you doing, you fucking psychopath.

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It just sounds like dying people are the sacrifice (you are) willing to make to end capitalism. Why should they be denied their right to die safely and painlessly with heir family until *checks notes* the end of the capitalism. How can we treat the dying so cruelly as some political ping pong.

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yes, saw the same stat in Scott Bryan’s Guardian article about the early queer children’s TV show and it was shocking… but sadly not surprising.

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

No it’s not. People have the right to ask to end their suffering for terminal illnesses, irrelevant of any other factor. Also, what is this magic metric or threshold that we must meet before dying suffering people are given the choice of their own lives? No one has been able to quantify it at all.

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Both have bodily autonomy at their heart. Both have these ridiculous slippery slope analogies, both rely on people’s (often religious) belief that death is always the worst possible outcome.

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Everyone should have the choice between palliative care or assisted dying, and removing the choice for those who want the latter until the former is (better? perfect? what is the metric here?) is absolutely leveraging them.

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

No, you’re deliberately misrepresenting me. Palliative care doesn’t make a difference if someone lives or dies (it’s very important care). I’m saying it’s basically the same as assisted dying only the patient had the choice with the latter (instead of the arbitrary wishes of a doctor).

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I consider these arguments abusive as they are using dying people’s pain as leverage to get improvements to systems that often won’t make much difference when the person is already dying (i.e. palliative care).

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m sorry, this is such a nonsensical and abusive argument. It’s like denying the right to abortion until we defeat child poverty. Especially when palliative care and assisted dying are so similar (just you know the patient actually gets some agency in the latter).

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

How have other countries tended to do it? Government led bills?

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Another massive disappointment by Parliament. I'm just grateful that (based on my current economics... god knows what the future holds), when the time comes, I'll likely have options that poorer families will not. Shameful.

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"It's dilapidated." "Oh... OK, we can work with that... anything else?" "No... well, except the haunted doll in the corner... but that's normal, right?"

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I invited my (now) husband to live in my flat after 18 months together... absolutely no way I could have done that if marriage rights were automatically granted to him. Marriage is an active choice to enter into a legal framework.

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

To ensure that you get a choice over the rules (and restrictions) that will apply in the event of your relationship ending. The idea that someone who I cohabit with could end up having split access to my entire assets (after a week, month, year?) is crazy.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 05/09/2026

It's craven, it's politically stupid, and it's morally wrong. Number 10 does not struggle to get Andy Burnham in front of a camera when it wants him to be there. Every minute he's not on show over this is the result of a deliberate decision.

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The amount of times I've mentioned poor Fatima since the AI boom started... poor girl being pushed around like a yo-yo.

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David Duffield @duffster84.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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