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Jack Allnutt

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He/him Public-sector Software Engineer 👨‍💻 Lib Dem 🔶 Living in #Manchester 🐝 (well, technically #Salford) Mastodon: @jack@allnutt.net (you can follow on bsky: @jack.mastodon.allnutt.net.ap.brid.gy) Twitter: @allnutt_eu (disused since 2022)

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 42m
JOINT STATEMENT OF THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF CANADA, DENMARK, GERMANY, FRANCE, ITALY, JAPAN, THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM "As committed supporters of the ICC we regret and strongly disagree with the announcement of sanctions to be imposed upon the Court by the United States."
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UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social · 1h
🆕📊 The first #UKHSAVirusWatch graphs of the season are here, showing both flu & COVID-19 increasing, with possible signs of an early flu season. 🟢 Flu positivity rose to 6.5%, up from 5.0% the previous week
Flu positive tests (%)
 Data: 06 October 2025 to 04 October 2026
 Green line chart showing flu test positivity peaking during winter 2025/26, remaining low through spring and summer, then rising again ahead of winter 2026.
 Source: SGSS, England only, 7-day rolling average.
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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 9h
I've seen posts and articles basically saying "Oh no! It's bad for the USA government to murder people in public! Bad countries do this!" and I feel that this missing the point that it's wrong to execute people in discreet private settings, too, and that any country with executions is a bad country.
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 9h
As expected, the Prime Minister's promise to sort out the mess of funding for Jodrell actually meant nothing - it seems the government would like it to be some sort of heritage theme park when you can go and see where we used to do science. 🔭
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 8h
Reminder that Wes Streeting has a Bachelor’s degree in history. That’s it. Not a doctor. Not any health experience. Just a career politician, hollow as a gourd.
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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 6h
The thing that pisses me off about about this is that loads of the people employed in the arts and entertainment and crucial to its success are unseen workers in jobs that are considered trade when they're not in services of the arts
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 9h
Just saw someone say that if Starmer was still PM, Labour would have lost this by-election and while I don’t doubt the analysis of his personal popularity, I do feel like they’ve misunderstood the conditions necessary for a by-election to be held in his former seat.
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 19h
Imagine not wanting to incorporate a council by-election count into your wedding reception. ‘Ladies and gentlemen, before their first dance, the bride and groom will now announce the number of valid ballot papers issued.’
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23h
The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 08/10/2026
Ban The Pervert Glasses ✨ Norway lays down a line for EU on AI glasses - as.ft.com/r/8d345f48-a...
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Norway lays down a line for EU on AI glasses
Proposed ban will be test case for broad restrictions on the eyewear after fierce backlash over their use
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Flydubai pilot was deep into manosphere content, routinely used derogatory sexual slurs about women, and wanted a tradwife Misogyny is a gateway drug www.ft.com/content/a92b...
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The online life of the Flydubai attacker
[FREE TO READ] Co-pilot of flight 1073 gravitated towards the ‘manosphere’ and expressed misogynistic views
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Night owls of the world: unite! People are finally taking our chronotypes seriously! Well, sort of. This week's New Statesman column: on the research showing the health pitfalls of a later sleep pattern, and why it matters for everyone - early birds included www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
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Night owls aren’t lazy – we’re being punished for our biology
Society rewards early risers. But what if our body clocks have other ideas?
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Ari is not actually here tbh @raantuva.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
I 100% blame ChatGPT for this. I'm in college with people fresh out of high school and they sound like this in class. They stand way too close in dangerous spaces. Never look things up. They don't THINK. it's awful. On that note please enjoy the comedic stylings of this wonderful comedian from IG.
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yes! Excellent post. Standards aren’t regulation or red tape. Europe’s success with the GSM standard (while the US allowed standards competition) helps explain success in mobile tech.
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Maarten Schenk @mschenk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
An example of FIMI (Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference) in action at the @disinfo.eu conference? Apparently someone in the U.S. did not agree with the topic of a session named "USA as a FIMI threat: acknowledge, adapt, push back" and applied pressure on the sponsors...
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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nfi @nfi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm afraid to report irony has been in a multi-car pile up, where it was thrown through a windscreen and smeared across the asphalt. rfk was seen at the crash site with a shovel, muttering something about 'good for bbq-ing'
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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It was always clear that David Goodhart's fairy tale of a struggle between rootless cosmopolitans and down-to-earth conservatives ("Anywheres vs Somewheres") was not influential because it was accurate, but because it confirmed the prejudices of right-leaning commentators. Now we have the evidence:
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The Road to Nowhere: Being Rooted in a Region Does Little to Predict Support for Populist Parties or Opposition to Migration and Social Change
In his influential book The road to somewhere David Goodhart claims that a split between a majority of people who are rooted in particular places or groups (the “Somewheres”) and a minority of people...
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 05/10/2026
YASS ban the pervert glasses, temporarily if you must, and then permanently
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 05/10/2026
...which Gulf?
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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 16/09/2026
I spent 8 years living in a village in the middle of nowhere not far from an immigration detention centre. On one evening I was locking up the pub (for clarity I worked there I hadn’t just broken into it) Two men appeared from the pub car park shadows. They were walking slowly towards me
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So many people already dealing with parents/grandparents with the toxic combination of diminishing mental faculties, online radicalisation via social media and AI slop, and chatbot seduction. Unfortunately we are now all getting to see what happens when one of those cases is the president of the USA
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Kevin McKenna MP @kevinmckenna.co.uk · 03/10/2026
It should have been a much bigger wake-up call to the risks of online radicalisation associated with more and more unlikely topics for such inexcusable violence Instead, from too many who should know better, there was excuse-making about using a bomb in a political campaign they supported
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Elizabeth DeLoria II: THE GHOST DIMENSION @yourdadloves.me · 03/10/2026
A two panel meme of the Simpsons. The top panel has kirk van houten gesturing to a race care bed. The text reads "im an AI guy. How many local models do YOU run?" The bottom panel is homer with a pope hat photoshopped onto his head. The bottom text reads "I run the catholic church."
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 02/10/2026
Great way to demonstrate the club isn't state owned and is a totally independent business, honest.
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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michael veale @michae.lv · 01/10/2026
The proposed social media ban, the EU KIDS Act, is perhaps the most chaotic law I have ever read! New paper: Are EU Kidding Me? Notes from a Poorly Drafted Social Media Ban. files.michae.lv/papers/veale_areEUkiddingme.pdf In the spirit of the proposal I have stayed offline and read no takes.
In September 2026, the European Commission published a proposed EU KIDS Act, responding to the demand for restrictions and further design obligations applying to digital services accessible to children, including social media. This Article argues that regardless of what one believes about the merits of this policy direction, the EU KIDS Act is not the legislative text we need. The scope and drafting are little short of chaotic, full of holes, enormous ambiguities, and unintended consequences. Recitals contradict articles. The use of scope borrowed from other pieces of legislation not designed for this purpose brings services into scope that should not be subject to the relevant provisions, like book-recommendation websites, music services, or exercise trackers. The infrastructural requirement for assurance of age and parental responsibility attestation simply omits enormous issues of complex families and childhoods. Complex design obligations are written in ways that can be plausibly interpreted as implicitly prohibiting entire swathes of products, such as voice assistants. This Article outlines these issues, and many more. The Commission should withdraw this proposal and reissue a workable and realistic text.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The reaction of most elections academics if you suggest introducing SV for any election is roughly similar to the reaction they would give if you proposed setting fire to their favourite pet
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 30/09/2026
At this point I would honestly prefer that the UK authorities said nothing on this than they kept dribbling out cryptic clues like it's a murder mystery evening. "What if I told you one of them rang 999 himself?" "We've bailed them, but it's still Iran, what might that mean?" Not. Helpful.
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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 30/09/2026
We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are really good reasons *not* to do it, but both this Labour government and the last are hamstrung by the inability to just clearly state 'Donald Trump is bad and has bad consequences'.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 29/09/2026
Lord give me incremental change, but not today
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think it is very good that the PM is being so publicly vulnerable about grieving his father. That is also a form of leadership
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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After all Labour's previous dalliances with PR for the Commons, let's hope they see this through - first past the post cannot cope with the modern state of politics.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every private conversation in Westminster: "Well the triple lock obviously has to go at some point". Every commentator on Burnham: "completely mad to propose getting rid of triple lock - political suicide".
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta muse saying why would I deceive you?
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/09/2026
Luckily the oil traders know what's going on... .... Right?
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
!!!!!
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For any confused Americans, dogging is a traditional British term for walking the dog, if you're ever over here and see someone with their pet make sure to tell them how much you love dogging. That nothing makes you happier than seeing that wagging tail and panting mouth out on the heath.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."
​A screenshot of an online article headline from "Inspecting Gender" by Genspect. The main heading reads: "Germany: A Glimmer of Hope for Sex Realists?" Below the title, the summary text asks: "Is the victory of the AfD in Germany a dark day for democracy or a glimmer of hope for sex realists? By David Allison." The bottom metadata displays the Genspect logo, "5 hours ago," and a "Listen" audio option button. In the top right corner, there is a teal "Subscribe" button alongside a circular profile avatar.
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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah because nothing says “I’m not a creepy voyeur weirdo, honest” like a middle aged man loitering around young women with a cuddly toy round his neck
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Ian @ianpatterson.com · 28/09/2026
Its amazing how little impact all of the grey zone events, and war in Ukraine, have had in UK. Where is the comms campaign even Starmer promised. Other countries are rebuilding their bunkers - and what are we doing? Where's the sign of life in UK politics. Its like autopilot bsky.app/profile/step...
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it’s quite possible, stay with me, that Donald Trump had no idea what he was talking about when claiming they’d been under surveillance for a long time
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Helen @socialsoup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As an aside mining communities were incredibly creative and literate. People always want to paint working class people as idiots. Please look up Ashington Group, Miners’ Weekend School, Welsh National Memorial Association. Or the longevity of Lit&Phil or Baltic gallery from working class members.
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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 27/09/2026
sort of nuts that Kurt Vonnegut buying an envelope would become a manifesto in ways he or anyone else could have ever imagined
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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 27/09/2026
as someone who has been really critical of a lot of the initial breathless "teehee, weird sex" reportage, i really appreciate this thread for nailing the actual fucked up immoral thing that is happening; you CANNOT consent if your employment or job success are on the line
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