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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Looking forward to them getting round to some of his other bangers, including: “The king must die so that the country can live.” and “A true revolutionary should be ready to perish in the process”

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Just make sure to keep any classified material out of sight

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Although Ghislaine might not have lived in college, since Maxwell was renting out Headington Hill Hall at the time...

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Did either of them overlap with Ghislaine?

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

And yet the 2008 financial crisis was already close to four years old by that point, austerity was well underway and the PM who would eventually crash the UK out of the EU was already in Downing St. The writing, as they say, was already on the wall.

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The most important thing is that no police get hurt.

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

He's seeking out what's familiar. The Cotswolds are England's answer to Appalachia.

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Can't put a robot on trial in the Hague

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Morally, someone's always accountable - either you took the decision yourself or you knowingly allowed a robot to make the decision the decision for you. Killer robots don't just deploy themselves. A human being is always at the end of the decision-making chain, whether they like it or not.

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

"Debate me!" screams Enceladus into the void.

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

None of what is described here is very obviously different from the conduct of hardcore climate or animal rights activists, none of whom are dealt with by way of terrorism legislation.

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Plenty of criminal law exists to deal with groups who commit criminal damage. You don't have to use terrorism laws.

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

It will be a meta-regulator. OfOfWat.

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

And it was pretty humiliating to be caught out at the opera back in the day. The "main story" might be overstating it though.

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Counterpoint: they went to a public event and were recognized. Absent the giant videotron, it's the stuff of de Laclos or Henry James, not Orwell.

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Planning a conference in Wannsee? Grok's got you covered.

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Whereas the UK's most famous comic character is a satire of Clint Eastwood.

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Are the Met Police going to arrest everyone displaying the flag? If so, good luck with that.

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I don't know what the symbols of Palestinian Action are but I'm guessing the Palestinian flag probably plays a big part. Did the Home Office really intend to criminalise displaying the flag at protests?

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

If a constitution falls in a forest and there's nobody around, does it make a sound?

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The UK constitution, too, is badly signposted, filled with strange relics and useless appendages, and has several pubs that only those who work there know about.

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I haven't read the article. Is the answer that they put on sunblock?

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

"A cabbie told me 'London is dead most nights' unless you are the global high net worth set or top 1%" This is how cabbies often talk in London. If you tip them extra, though, they will take you to party with the global high net worth set. Then you're sorted.

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I don't know but maybe the best way to 'restore public confidence' in human rights would be for politicians not to trash them at every opportunity, rather than spout useless talking points about 'reform'...

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

There is, fwiw, nothing Cummings would like better than to be told that international law protects lawyers....

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

TFW you are so much in favour of big business and economic growth, you are willing to denounce the right to property

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Sooner or later a desperate party is going to use an LLM to generate an actual fake judgement to support their fake citation and the whole degenerate cycle will begin anew. Most will be easy to spot but eventually someone will manage to produce a plausible fake.

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Bring up the bodies, says Stephen Miller, deputy White House Chief of Staff and well-known ghoul

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Hey look, either the boat follows the straight path beyond the earth's curve or he turns around and heads back to hobbiton

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I'm sorry to hear that. Can you explain why?

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The Paris- Marseilles TGV covers roughly the same distance as NYC-TO in about 3hrs

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I've heard there's a dark horse candidate currently working in Afghanistan

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

But we have the best exorcists

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Great visualisation but how does geolocation data from a social media platform tell you whether the movement in question is temporary or permanent, legal or illegal?

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

tbf Musk doesn't appear to pay taxes or go on dates.

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Trump now makes laws by a series of grunts and emphatic gestures

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

You want to say in this scenario that they've fallen from the path of wisdom but the truth is, they were never on it nor, indeed, anywhere near it.

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Or, I dunno, maybe we should separate the machine users from the pedestrians instead of forcing bike users into pedestrian spaces and then expecting them to behave themselves.

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The Invertebrate Era of American Universities

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

And Jesus said unto them, let he that has not tried to steal a living from whiskey manufacturers in Scotland cast the first stone.

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Eric Metcalfe @emetcalfe.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

In the new version, they are stuck in an Amazon fulfilment center as the floodwaters rise.

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