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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Following a heavily-publicised recruitment drive last weekend assisted by DM, Express, GB News etc - the Reality Rules Runners protest group now has a whopping 113 signed up runners. For scale, there are 930 Parkruns in the UK

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

delighted to see the DNS registry pulled it

"This site can't be reached" DNS failure

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A-Level qualifiers 🤝 Elite athletes

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Increased levels of this on my feed in recent days. Maybe a bit of rain will help

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

This has fallen from 30% to 25 and now 11% in about an hour

Ft screen grab: SpaceX indicated to open 11% higher

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Unfortunately the electorate seems to reward them for it

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

It begins. And we only have ourselves to blame

Guardian most viewed headline: The perfect morning routine: how to build a happy, healthy start to the day – from showers to sunshine

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

So Mr Offord, what was it that first attracted you to the party of unapologetic racist Nigel Farage?

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Cloudflare is down at least partially, minimal disruption here thankfully

Cloudflare status page showing Internal Server Error for postcodes.io

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

how would you describe people who place in the middle of this graph?

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Did you hear it when I played the sound?

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

It’s entertaining for a minute or two to ask a LLM to write bad poetry. It seems to be one thing it’s quite good at

Leeds in the 80s, memories stay,
Brick chimneys, cold air every day,
School shoes scuffed on broken streets,
Rain that always met our feet.

Butter on bread, telly on mute,
Dad in his chair, everyone astute.
Shops with sweets in glassy jars,
Buses slow beneath the stars.

Mum worked hard, Dad silent, proud,
Neighbours nodded, never loud.
Dreams of leaving, dreams to stay,
Leeds held tight, wouldn’t let us away.

A life so normal, slightly sad,
Trying to be grateful for what we had.
New trainers, a Walkman, too,
Grey skies over everything we knew.

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Quite a mistake from the Apple lads here. My phone is iOS 26. This needs to be correct for feature detection

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I'll now actively advise young people against investing their time and money in an IT degree

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

There were no prior clues that he might be a sociopath

ANT MIDDLETON, the celebrity ex-special forces soldier, demanded the UK secure a no deal Brexit to "toughen Britons up", as he claimed that "hardship and suffering" would see the nation unite.

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Doing this before fully understanding why doing this a good idea

Screenshot of muted “greenwald” for 7 days

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Google is your friend. Meanwhile, I think the gist of your argument is that if they're welcome elsewhere then they should also be welcome at Eurovision, and I don't agree with that either.

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I was fairly sanguine with use of an OS app, until I got to this 100% record scratch

The source code contains hardcoded credentials and other vulnerabilities.

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

TBF he'd never been president before so he didn't know it was going to be difficult

At a CNN town hall in May 2023, Trump said: “They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours.” He said that would happen after he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin. And he keeps repeating the claim on the campaign trail.

The US will abandon its efforts “within days” to broker a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine unless there are clear signs a settlement can be reached, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has said, as Kyiv says it has signed a memorandum with the US over a controversial minerals deal.

Speaking in Paris on Friday after meeting European and Ukrainian leaders, Rubio said Donald Trump was still interested in a deal. But he added that the US president had many other priorities around the world and was willing to move on unless there were signs of progress.

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Ian McLaughlin @ianmclaughlin.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

They will not join SM, CU, EU. These things will not happen unless they resign, because they've chosen to call these 'red lines' to appease The Sun. Hoping for some special deal is the usual British exceptionalism which has achieved nothing but derision.