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There are now so many of them who will be first up against the wall once the revolution comes that I really am going to have to start building a very big wall soon :)

I'm imagining the reaction of all those old Brexiteers who thought the "colonies" would be running into the arms of the old country once we were no longer part of "the EU superstate which robbed us of the Empire". Apoplexy in Telegraph land.

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It would be somewhat ironic if Canada ended up with a closer relationship to the EU than Britain.

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Privatisation probably caused more long term damage to the health of the British economy than anything else in the past 60 years. Far from making things more efficient, it guaranteed both low investment in infrastructure and more or less guaranteed profits for large companies.

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It’s amazing how many contenders there are!

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Honestly, how fucking stupid is this man?

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Betteridge’s Second Law.

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 12/09/2026

Good post as always. One thing that always riles me about the whole "snowflakes" thing is that it's not young people who get upset because, for example, they might have to use different pronouns. It's the right. As always, whatever they accuse others of, that's what they are.

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Well tbf it's still charging

Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 12/09/2026

Anyone with the wherewithall to donate £36m to a political party should not be allowed to donate a single penny to a political party.

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 12/09/2026

OK kids, I'm going to haul that old Microsoft Surface Duo out of the drawer and charge it up. Let's see how it goes.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026

The thing liberals fundamentally don't understand is that trans people are losing rights they already had. We're not asking for more, we're asking not to lose what we already had for decades. Most sports leagues and the Olympics had inclusion criteria for decades without issue.

Screenshot of an X (formerly Twitter) exchange discussing political pragmatism and the Overton window.
The initial post by onion person (@CantEverDie) reads:
> "doesn't matter, this is about what the right is able to push with the overton window. first its democrats needing to disavow trans women in sports to get elected, next it'll be agreeing to ban access to HRT to get elected. we've seen how this plays out"
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A reply from Nick Pappas (@NickAPappas) reads:
> "Are you insane? The Overton window didn’t even include this discussion until recently. The public has never been in favor of desegregating the sports by sex.
> Personally I’m glad Barack Obama ran against gay marriage in 2008. Not because that was the right position, or one he even actually held, but because he knew the public wasn’t with him on it. If he hadn’t won he wouldn’t have been able to appoint 2 of the justices who ultimately voted in the majority for Obergefell.
> Lincoln in 1860 didn’t even run on abolishing slavery! He just wanted to stop its expansion. And thankfully he did that and won because a more extreme and morally correct position would have lost. As a result he was able to win the Civil War and push through the 13 amendment.
> Political practicality is the entire history of progress in America. There’s no other way."
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Matt spent the last few years doing a bad Elon Musk impersonation and it looks like the board finally had enough. I can only guess that it’s because the money is running out. Boards tolerate a lot so long as the money is flowing. www.404media.co/wordpress-au...

404media.co

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence'

Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress, wrote in a company-wide Slack messages on Wednesday, viewed by 404 Media, that board members "conspired" behind his back to vote to put him on leave.

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New in the Ulsterisation of UK national life. If the authorities don't confront far right paramilitaries in part of the state, expect this sort of group in other parts of the state to want a piece of the same action.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Did I just imagine section 7 of the Public Order Act 2023?

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John Ternus needs to apologise to me personally. By immediately sending me an iPhone Duo.

I have both the first one and the second. Every now and then I take them out of a draw and stroke them.

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Thing is, the Surface Duo was absolutely my favourite Android (sort of) foldable, because of its ergonomics - shape, form, and so on. I always wanted an iPhone which had the same. Bastards. Stop making things I like.

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Look that outer display to inner display transition is just beautiful. God damn you Apple.

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It’s very “the director has made me practice this walk 199990907 times“

Crap I might actually have to buy a new Watch

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I don’t know how does the wardrobe for Apple events, but they are always VERY on point.

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Finally they came for the Daily Mail and my irony meter just packed up and left and I never heard from it again.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

For a sign of how absurd this is, *Theodor Herzl* did not observe dietary laws particularly closely, did not keep Shabbat, and was not in any way religious!

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I'm not totally clear on why someone who has just left a company falls into the category of "trying desperately to sell a product".

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