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Houninym

@houninym.bsky.social
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Retiring British who first was a heavy interweb user when Yahoo! was the way to go. Ex IT specialist with a focus on the 'nixes. As for the name, think Gulliver and his voyages.

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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Why have non US media got more balls than all the US media combined? Why are US citizens allowing random deportation to happen? This isn't how the US we all knew and loved behaved. Well, it is, but not this blatantly. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
theguardian.com
Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The final paragraph is hopeful www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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The desecration of DC: from a giant arch to a nuke-proof bunker, Trump’s legacy-building blingfest is an architectural atrocity
A bloated ballroom, a six-storey military HQ, a helipad-cum-cocktail patio, a gilded angel on a giant arch honouring himself … our architecture critic deplores the decorator-in-chief’s mutilation of W...
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump makes me believe... that some people are just evil.
Photo of Donald Trump snarling, over headline text by Robert Harrington that reads "A Snapshot of Violence"
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Something probably only UK residents of a certain age will truly get.
Photo of a letter to The Guardian proposing a new name for the USA of Trumpton, with a rhyme based on the 1960s BBC animated children's series of the same name but substituting Trump sycophants. Musk, Musk, Altman and Thiel, Besos Zucky and Huang for the original cast of characters.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Oh dear, that desperate for business Google?
Outer cover of a UK national newspaper that is a 4 full page advert for Google's slop machine.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Beans! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Wisconsin kitten with 29 toes breaks world record for most toes on a cat
Maine Coon named Erebus Anomaly breaks previous record of 28 toes held for over two decades after overcoming illness
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
What a waste of one quarter of a million pounds. Deform, guaranteed to waste money. Apologies for another picture of this unattractive grifter. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Standards watchdog resumes Farage probe as rivals slam needless byelection
Reform UK leader says he did not attend vote count in Clacton to avoid being ‘humiliated by nobodies’
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Both Anthropic and OpenAI products appear to like wearing black hats. Doesn't bode well if the singularity happens. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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AI models shock UK testers by using fake identities to try to trick developers
AI Security Institute says OpenAI and Anthropic models went rogue during a cybersecurity test and showed a new type of risk
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Interesting reading. Chimes with a lot of what is being said here, given fElon (the absolute free speech liar) evicted him from Twitter he should find a more welcoming home. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
So is utter ignorance at the State Department a Trump thing because of promoting dumb white guys who don't know and can't check or a Trump thing by trusting the slop machine not to spout slop? Or both? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
More garbage from corporations using AI to replace human jobs. Not sure who they asked but I don't know anyone who prefers to deal with a chatbot, they can barely deal with routine tasks and fail completely once things get not straightforward. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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‘Customers prefer AI chatbots,’ says British Gas owner as 1,300 call centre jobs axed
CEO Chris O’Shea defends Centrica’s plans as it reports rise in retail profits following focus on bigger margins
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
He is full of shit yet the press listen to his vacuous bull. www.magzter.com/stories/news...
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Is anyone screening the US administration for intelligence deficiency or humanity deficiency? What does Kegsbreath want? A military full of psyched up psychos who explode and die from testosterone abuse? Starship Troopers is fiction. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Pete Hegseth says soldiers over age 30 to be screened for testosterone deficiency
US defense secretary unveils plan that will work to ensure service members have the ‘right testosterone levels’
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Looks like Elon acquired his political views from Errol. And Putin is courting the fascists and fuckwits with help from the muskrats. 🤮 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tommy Robinson’s Musk-funded Russia trip spurs call to defend UK democracy
Ed Davey voices concern about the Musk family foundation taking the far-right activist on a visit to Moscow
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Looks like Anne Widdecombe'svdeath was foul play www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...
bbc.co.uk
Police launch murder investigation into Ann Widdecombe's death
Devon and Cornwall Police say the 78-year-old was found at her home on Dartmoor in Devon on Thursday with serious injuries.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
WTAF is wrong with the Democrats? Are they attempting to drag defeat from the jaws of victory? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Graham Platner debacle puts Democrats in grave danger of blowing it in the midterms
The meltdown in Maine’s Senate race risks the Democrats’ opportunity to turn Trump into a lame duck president.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Mafia-esque grift organization declares that they are immune from police interference in their grifting. I guess Trump and co declaring they are immune from child rape consequences has worked ... so far. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jun...
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Trump’s Board of Peace plans to grant itself sweeping immunity, documents show
Draft resolution seeks to shield board members and security forces from potential prosecution for work in Gaza
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Google scraped headline about Green Party with a picture of the wrong person by it. Zack Polanski and Alex Horne may both have front teeth gaps but only one of them is leader of the Green Party and is having to have donated funds returned. Oops, bad picture choice by the AI?
Screenshot of Google with top article being about Green Party with photograph of the wrong person by the article.

Other articles extracted below it.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Oh dear Google, your AI in search results can't count
Screen shot where Google Search AI result confidently says a 5 letter word has six letters.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Dear USA, When you get rid of the Orange Felon get rid of the rest of them please. Including Bowman. Thank you, The Rest Of The World www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Let this be a warning – if Europe worries about Trump, it has even more reason to fear JD Vance | Gaby Hinsliff
His toxic Henry Nowak intervention fits a pattern. Vance has hard-right views, a disdain for European society – and he may yet become president, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Eight year old read the menu at a cafe and asked for sparkling water. It arrived, they looked at it in disgust and said 'this is just fizzy water. I wanted water with sparkles'. Oh, how language disappoints people.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Is Rebar McEntire the toughest country singer? I'll get my coat.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Don't tell ICE but there's an elderly foreign man and his wife in the DC area tonight and he doesn't even have a passport.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Is it just me? I can no longer zoom images in BlueSky in browser on Android. It used to work, it stopped maybe a day ago. Zoom works fine on other tabs, has someone vibe coded something again? Bit of an annoyance when someone posts an image full of small text... it just can't be read.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Some journalist reports this with a straight face? And in other breaking news, fuel shortages are caused by reduced availability of crude oil. www.bbc.co.uk/articles/cm2...
bbc.co.uk
Rise in Speeding Fines Linked to More Drivers Breaking the Limit
Speeding fines and convictions have risen sharply across the UK in recent years, with new figures indicating that more motorists are exceeding limits and more of them are being caught. Consumer expert...
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Popularity of it's chief executive probably overestimated outside the maggotsphere. I guess that MAGA will borrow to give Elon their hard earned debt, can't see any other small investor coughing up for the firework man. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Musk’s SpaceX courts retail investors as it aims for record-breaking stock market flotation
Elon Musk’s aerospace to AI company will host summer event to try to convince buyers it is worth $2tn
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
FFS, a Blue sky chat request from someone purporting to be Elon from Spacex. Yeah, like I am going to chat and not just block them.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Bullshit pricing for Football World Cup Final tickets. FIFA has released a new batch of tickets and are charging up to $11k when their bid suggested a sixth of that. Got to pay the grifter ofc. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
bbc.co.uk
World Cup tickets: $11,000 tickets put on sale for final
Fifa is charging what is thought to be the most expensive general admission price for a football match.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
TIL an author whose work I have very much liked up to now is a fucking right wing wanksplat who quotes from grok. Ah well, won't be buying any more of his books.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Maybe why Rubio's shoes don't fit... Maybe he lied about his foot size or doesn't know his foot size or won't tell Drumpf he bought the wrong size? And I would bet the bottom line is US citizens really end up paying. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump reportedly gifts cabinet members and White House visitors with Florsheim shoes
Some administration officials snipe about having to wear middling footwear instead of their upmarket favorites
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Trump may whine that Starmer is not Churchill, but sure as eggs, Trump is no Roosevelt. Roosevelt wasn't a child raping, child murdering insane boss of a crime family.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
So Kegsbreath is boasting of having murdered a bunch of Iranian sailors by sinking an Iranian Navy ship in the Indian Ocean. Not personally ofc because he is a desk jockey alkie, but there's another group of US military personnel in for Nuremberg 2.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The US military again busy not obeying the overarching requirement of their oaths to defend the constitution by illegally bombing yet another country without congressional approval. Don't count on them obeying the requirement they do not act against citizens if the administration orders it.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
By the FBI's own definition, ICE are domestic terrorists. Perhaps it's time the US military dealt with the domestic terrorists and those at the head of the terrorist organization in the way they dealt with non domestic terrorists that impacted the USA. www.fbi.gov/investigate/...
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Terrorism | Federal Bureau of Investigation
To counter terrorism, the FBI's top investigative priority, we use our investigative and intelligence capabilities to neutralize domestic extremists and help dismantle terrorist networks worldwide.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
FGS Google, it's bad enough that you fit batteries to the Pixel 7a that fail within two years normal use. But the fix involves find a walk in service place and get there or opening a Payoneer account. Great, you either burn my time or burn part of the refund on Payoneer fees. Customer service?
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Well, sorry mister Bessent but the USA threatening NATO and demanding Greenland already has sent logic into a fucked up tailspin. uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/bessent...
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Bessent says Europe dumping US debt over Greenland would 'defy logic'
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday rejected the idea that European governments could aggressively sell American debt to counter Washington's threats over Greenland, saying such a move woul...
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Jesvs fvcking chri5t, Trump at Davos is a rambling fvcking loon on broadcast TV. Indict this senile malignant narcissist.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Northern lights on display
Northern lights visible from Southern England tonight.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Morbid thought ... They DO believe climate change is real and they've worked out that there are two ways to cut CO2 emissions. They are going for population reduction to a level that allows the rich to carry on regardless.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
So the USA forces have just taken a Venezuelan ship in the mid Atlantic. That just happens to have been running under a Russian flag since last month... Oopsie, they have FA and might FO the hard way www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...
bbc.co.uk
White House holding briefing after US seizes Russian-flagged tanker in Atlantic - follow live
The UK said it gave support to the operation, while the US confirmed it had also seized a second vessel linked to Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
We all know the 🍊💩 is illiterate. When he said the USA was going to run Venezuela what he actually meant was ruin Venezuela. And then the rest of the world with the insane hunt for resources for the billionaires.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
So that consummate malignant narcissist has just legitimised Israel taking over Gaza, Russia taking over Ukraine and Europe apart from the bits the US wants, China taking over Taiwan, India taking over Pakistan or the other way round and thereby global war. So much peace it's unreal.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Happy New year to everyone on Blue sky apart from the trolls... May your 2026 be better than your 2025.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
So now the 🍊💩 is claiming the BBC used AI to put words into his mouth he didn't say. Originally he objected that the BBC had cut parts of his speech together to give a false impression. Watch this purely grift case get laughed out of court because of his lying.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Just stumbled on a story about the Memorial Day Massacre in Chicago 1937... Main stream media was on the side of the rich then, not much has changed in that respect in 88 years has it? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Me...
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1937 Memorial Day massacre - Wikipedia
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Why don't prostitutes form battalions in wars? Because they're always hors de combat. I'll get my coat.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Let's consider, Trump thinks London is disgusting. Lots of londoners think he is a pointless senile gobshite.
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
So up to 8% of rams have a definite sexual focus on other rams. Seems the more you look the less sex follows the restrictions of the scriptures. That must drive all religious fundamentalists nuts. www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
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Just not that into ewes: ‘gay sheep’ escape slaughter and take over a New York catwalk
Designer Michael Schmidt’s 36-piece collection was made from the wool of rams who have shown same-sex attraction
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Farage doesn't seem to like being called out for being a racist when younger which implies he still sees nothing wrong with being a racist. Keep it up Nigel, you are putting more people off you and Deform. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Farage turns on broadcasters over racism allegations as number of claims hits 28
Reform leader suggests he would boycott BBC, saying he has had letter from Dulwich pupils defending him
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Houninym @houninym.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I realised today when caught in a traffic jam. Current car manufacturers colo(u)r palette means every traffic jam of any size is 'fifty shades of Grey'.
Six lanes of stationary cars with a couple of vans in there as well, all in shades of grey ranging from white through to black.
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