Reposted by gurnaikDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 15hMicrosoft: The layoffs will continue until morale improves. 66411
Reposted by gurnaikAthena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 15hi have said this before and its alluded to in the piece, but this is a tech issue, tech no one asked for. In my area many new cars now have stop locks in the steering wheels, and people are installing driveway posts the security is so vulnerable, It's ridiculous www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukOne stolen every four minutes - inside the police battle against vehicle thievesOfficers tell the BBC they are overstretched and struggling to keep up with sophisticated criminals. 2269
gurnaik @gurnaik.bsky.social · 16hWent to Toolstation and bought some steel-toecap, waterproof boots for £45. Came with a spare set of laces. 020
Reposted by gurnaikSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 16hOur "independent reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation" would seemingly be happier in North Korea 25124
Reposted by gurnaikChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 16hMidlands Broadcasting: An analogy Pebble Mill: Imperial era Noele Gordon Crossroads The Mailbox: Crossroads 1982-1988 The Typhoo Building: Crossroads 2001 Portakabin in Solihull municipal landfill (5 years time): Crossroads 2002 2115
Reposted by gurnaikSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 13/10/2026it’s just great marketing 3182342037
Reposted by gurnaikLiberator_hen @lisatea.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Controversial opinion: Fox's biscuits are far superior to McVitie's. 7152
Reposted by gurnaikKirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 17hI wish I hadn't seen this post. It is now all I can think about 6398
Reposted by gurnaikChristopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 17hFrench far-right leader Marine Le Pen: “The honest thing to do with Mr Zelenskyy is to tell him, to warn him in fact that, listen, we can’t do more, we can’t manage more,” she told the FT “We’ve already done €90bn of loans, that’s €18bn for France. €18bn is really a lot.” www.ft.com/content/45e8...ft.comLe Pen casts doubt on future EU funding for UkraineAlso in this newsletter: EU leaders urged to rethink carbon costs for industry 286528
Reposted by gurnaikPodcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 17hYou can swap out the Russian government for the UAE or Israel or, for that matter, the Americans; Britain exists as a facilitator, a place to go shopping or buy a mansion - a place where the Establishment will quietly bend to your whims in exchange for a few small pennies and an Arsenal box seat. 12010
Reposted by gurnaikOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 20hThere’s really only one way to mark the 99th anniversary of Roger Moore’s birth 362601754
Reposted by gurnaikPaul Garrard @paulgarrard.bsky.social · 20hImagine how weak god must be to be offended by words. 2134
Reposted by gurnaikMatt Severn @mattsevern.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Naoroji swore his oath on the Zoroastrian religious text in 1895. Rothschild with the Torah in 1858 after 11 years of demanding his religious beliefs be respected. Five by-elections in a row Bradlaugh was reelected before being allowed to affirm as an atheist. Three centuries of political tradition 1381
Reposted by gurnaikCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 13/10/2026the first MP to take the oath on a Quran was Chaudhry Sarwar in 1997. this isn’t new. 20664108
Reposted by gurnaikPombal Stoat @pombalstoat.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Favourite bat-shit crazy is the Peugeot E-T16, designed to look like the 205-T16 Rally car.autoexpress.co.ukPeugeot 205 T16 rally hero returns as an all-electric E-T16 concept | Auto ExpressTriple-motor ‘hyperhatch’ could give us a battle for the ages with Renault, if Peugeot decides to build it 241
Reposted by gurnaikBen Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The UK with joint highest current growth and lowest forecast deficit in the G7 is… um… not what you might imagine from reading the newspaper. 930181
Reposted by gurnaikMatt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I think Chabuddy G should be in charge of the nation’s cybersecurity. 041
Reposted by gurnaikWindsLightToVariable @yingtongiddle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026#Wülferhampton D*mn the #Franks! No #Vikingish mailbox. Discrimination! 042
Reposted by gurnaikLiam Proven @lproven.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Linux boots on the iPhone 11, and we believe we’re the first in the world to do it. buff.ly/ULZ7GcCbuff.lyLinux boots on the iPhone 11, and we believe we’re the first in the world to do it. | Jose Angel TorresSix months ago we set out to boot a mainline Linux environment on the iPhone 11, on a bootloader that is entirely our own. As of last night, 031
Reposted by gurnaikBUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Everything is like have you watched this, or watched that? "another day, another shitshow", JK Rowling, fucking Strictly Dancing or baking or how I did a murder or "I'm in a cult", and Trump and Bradley Walsh and Romesh Ranganathan and "get ready with me to have a lobotomy" and I am so sick of it x 14799
Reposted by gurnaikflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13/10/2026To be clear on what that whole Brexit debacle was: the Sun and the Mail ambushed David Cameron because he was stupid enough to offer them what they wanted. We then argued about it for three years and eventually, our political/media class decided that Johnson and hard Brexit was best *for them*. 917239
Reposted by gurnaikNewsThump @newsthump.com · 13/10/2026NEWS! Britain considers cooperating with Europeans to solve all the problems caused by refusing to cooperate with Europeans newsthump.com/2026/10/13/b...newsthump.comBritain considers cooperating with Europeans to solve all the problems caused by refusing to cooperate with EuropeansBritain is considering closer cooperation with the European Union to address the trade barriers, bureaucracy and other problems created by Brexit, after Andy Burnham told MPs the current relationsh… 0206
gurnaik @gurnaik.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It's really useful for extracting data out of XML files. Previously, I'd have to write a multi-line script and then do rounds of testing and tweaking. Now I can do it with a one sentence prompt. But yes, niche application. 010
Reposted by gurnaikDave Kirby @dave19.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Britain launched a “world wide lobbying exercise” to overturn a landmark United Nations (U.N.) resolution which recognised Zionism as racism, states a private exchange between John Major’s Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd & pro-Israel lobbyist Sir Trevor Chinn in 1992, recently declassified. 112
Reposted by gurnaikThe Register @theregister.com · 13/10/2026'123456' password linked to Denmark data breach affecting 8.8M peopletheregister.com'123456' password linked to Denmark data breach affecting 8.8M peopleLocal media reports three weakly protected accounts at small IT biz whose access to national register was abused 3189
Reposted by gurnaikQuixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026"why does the fridge have an internet connection?" "So it can download security updates" "Why does it need security updates?" "To protect against new vulnerabilities" "Surely if we didn't connect it to the internet, we wouldn't need that..." "Oh" 3830
Reposted by gurnaikRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13/10/2026After over 5,000 people (including the entire Communist Party Central Committee) were arrested by state thugs in India this week, workers across the country organised blockades and protests against the repression. 6265127
Reposted by gurnaikOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It is, today, 115 years since navy surgeon and Antarctic explorer George Murray Levick saw his first Adélie penguin, after which he wrote several pages of notes about their sexual habits, concluded “there seems to be no crime too low for these penguins”, and saw his findings suppressed for 97 years 11334103
gurnaik @gurnaik.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Share your face for the week!static.klipy.comIt Crowd: Richard Ayoade's Shocked ReactionAlt: It Crowd: Richard Ayoade's Shocked Reaction 010
Reposted by gurnaikZᐰphod Beebledoc ❤️❤️➕🟦 (🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ally) @zaphodbeebledoc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Share your face for the week!static.klipy.comBarbie DisgustedAlt: Disgusted Barbie She saw what you did... 161
Reposted by gurnaikThe Crazy World of Arthur Brownlow @wazzock.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026This is what BlueSky is for, folks, and why we love it (sometimes) 091
Reposted by gurnaikASH TRAY The First, Popetato of Wülferhampton 📎 @thomasashman64.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I still hate this woman 6292
Reposted by gurnaikDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Russia knows as well as Ukrainians do that as bad as our terrorism on Ukraine is now, it will be worse if they surrender and let us occupy them. The only person who doesnt know this is Donald. 28697130
Reposted by gurnaikOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It’s too scholarly to be a true hatchet job, but this is still a joy to read. Goodwin is “a drop-out from academic life who prefer[s] the public exercise of his own unedited anxieties to empirical rigour”. More of a scalpel job. Really good stuff 36118
Reposted by gurnaikPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Weird how this has been the problem for my whole life, and yet all the policies suggested to fix it by all these people haven't solved the problem, but have made life much worse for everyone while funnelling money into the pockets of well-connected bastards. 37020
Reposted by gurnaikKate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026static.klipy.comMan Blinking Eyes MemeAlt: Man Blinking Eyes Meme 32413
Reposted by gurnaikRav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 13/10/2026Mark Zuckerberg trying to drink Guinness like a hoo-man. 112821175
Reposted by gurnaikAtul Haria (immigrant) @atulharia.bsky.social · 13/10/2026This is what the players have been told: that everyone's against them. The club did nothing wrong and everyone's against them. Seems like nobody is willing to question what a guilty judgement means... No sympathy for the fans or players. 121
Reposted by gurnaikASH TRAY The First, Popetato of Wülferhampton 📎 @thomasashman64.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Good morning Wülferhampton have a tantalising Tuesday you troublesome tearaways 22774
Reposted by gurnaikPicture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Sunset from Goatfell, Isle of Arran. Pic: IG/afocusforadventure 110724
Reposted by gurnaikJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I always say that both Londoners and those who live in the regions underestimate the city's size, in relation to the rest of the UK. If London's municipal cycle hire scheme were a city, for example, then it would be the third largest city in England. (if membership became citizenship) 1011213
Reposted by gurnaikChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Great. Americans have discovered the Personal independence Payment. Let joy be unconfined. Anyway to qualify for a Motability car you need 12 points from this assessment - you can combine scores from both categories, but the highest scores you get in each category are the only points you can count: 97120