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Emyn Dean @emyndean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this is probably due to the vast volume of AI written queries/complaints we get

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I don't like to question people's motives; I'm interested in evidence. Campaigning doesn't make you money, unless you're spinning it into some kind of side gig/personal brand, or you're (likely illegally) seeking big donations which you don't spend.

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mate if you're paying council tax on chips something has gone terribly wrong

That's not how political parties or elections work. You pay, or your political party pays. You pay VAT on anything that has VAT. You do not get any money back. Running for an election is expensive. If you're running for elections for profit, you're being paid by Russia, not HMRC.

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you do not get money back for things claimed on expenses this is not how anything works

you still have to pay for everything you claim on expenses claiming on expenses just means it counts towards the statutory election maximum (you don't have to claim reasonable refreshment for volunteers)

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As a politician, he might consider speaking in language the public understands, rather than of relatively obscure procedures few people understand

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marrying a Kardashian maybe

Emyn Dean @emyndean.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ahaa. true, now that you mention it, I have never eaten spaghetti in a Ghanaian bar

Emyn Dean @emyndean.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

they're transing the snacks

Emyn Dean @emyndean.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

a gender neutral snack what?

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Emyn Dean @emyndean.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think the demand is stoked less by the size of the things and more by the fact that there's now several hundred billion of them

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Emyn Dean @emyndean.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Well yes, but also silver and gold were massively oversupplied at the time, compared to today's market. In the era before solar panels and chips gold and silver were about 1/5 their current value minimum wage has indeed been stagnating, but this isn't the best example of that

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i feel personally attacked but yes

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also, I'm convinced Nigel is completely uninterested in power and is really only interested in personal enrichment

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because their voters are completely different and have wildly different expectations(?)

Emyn Dean @emyndean.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

this is really useful, thanks. I was in Canada at the time and never really grasped the contemporaneous British response (aside from vaguely following new atheist racism)

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I agree with much of what is written here, but to nitpick, nobody has been excommunicated for being trans-positive

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Emyn Dean @emyndean.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm more bothered by the fact that he seems to have a copy of his book strategically propped up against a lamp

Emyn Dean @emyndean.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

a conservative in Wales wtf

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Reposted by Emyn Dean

At the center of my message to faculty yesterday was: 1.) We may not be adequately prepared for how angry students are about tech. 2.) They are not all angry for the same reasons. 3.) Being angry at it doesn’t mean they aren’t using it. The sense of entrapment fuels the anger.

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Emyn Dean @emyndean.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

this is how I feel about most TV

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Emyn Dean @emyndean.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

it definitely exists, it is in Bielefeld

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Emyn Dean @emyndean.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It is reasonable to infer that this man's "views" are what caused his hounding. Moreover, I know of no academic who is not ready, even excited, to defend their "views". It's literally the thing we do every day. What we don't want is people asking us if we can play football or not