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James Haughton

@jameshaughton1992.bsky.social
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Professional software developer and amateur quizzer not-so-extraordinaire who loves sports, films, TV and books

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
BREAKING: Several Xbox studios, including Compulsion, Ninja Theory and Double Fine, are negotiating with Xbox as they try to avoid closure. Some or all could spin off. Lots still in flux as many studios remain unsure about what's happening. Here's the latest: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Studios in Microsoft’s Xbox Division Brace for Closures
The studios, which include Compulsion Games and Double Fine, are in active negotiations with Xbox and may be given the chance to go independent.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
‘I spent 20 mins writing an article on my personal website titled "The best tech journalists at eating hot dogs". Every word is a lie… Less than 24 hours later, the world's leading chatbots were blabbering about my world-class hot dog skills’ www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic... (HT @sambrook.bsky.social)
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I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI - and it only took 20 minutes
I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Would be good to have @jeevunsandher.bsky.social's view on this official Home Office proposal -that someone who came here in 2022 to work in a care home should have to wait until 2037 to escape "temporary" status.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 19/12/2025
And they’re doing it. How pathetic is this?
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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
So, “Order of the Sinking Star” by Thekla was just announced, which takes several small free games (two of which are mine) and gives them a major graphical upgrade and mashes up their rulesets. I haven’t been very involved but it’s a great concept and looks cool.
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James Haughton @jameshaughton1992.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Strengthening the centre of midfield is more important for us than buying a new centre forward. The Everton game highlighted that, and it really should be our number 1 priority before the end of the transfer window as opposed to getting involved in a transfer saga over Sesko.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
The dead have a right to remain dead. An animated skin put over a computer model and given the same name as the dead son of grieving parents is a cursed golem and a full delusion. By interviewing the computer model, Acosta has asked us to accept this as true or real. Gun control deserves better.
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Chirag Lala @cthelala.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
He's discarding the best progressive opportunity in decades by: - refusing to raise taxes and borrow - prioritizing welfare cuts for the poorest and disabled - slowing planning reform and balking at EU re-integration - ignoring the voting system - embracing Reform's language and logic on migration
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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.
Post from "The Rundown"

July 18 at 5:30 PM
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DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. 
The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. 
While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material.
Source: TechCrunch
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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
“AI will help with pointless interactions like item descriptions and NPC barks” if it’s pointless it shouldn’t be in the game. If there’s nothing interesting about something, cut it
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
⚽️🧨💰Fit and proper person? Profile of Manchester City owner, coddler of warlords and named co-conspirator in US’s ‘largest kleptocracy’ case Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Months long investigation with @declanwalsh.bsky.social Free to read on link below: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/w...
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The Sheikh Who Conquered Soccer and Coddles Warlords
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
NEW: Labour's planned disability benefit cuts could affect the majority of current working-age claimants with ischaemic heart disease, inflammatory arthritis, hip and knee disorders and Crohn’s disease, according to analysis of new DWP data By me, for the Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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Majority of PIP claimants with heart disease, arthritis and Crohn's at risk of cuts
DWP data obtained by Big Issue shows that the majority of people with heart failure, HIV and arthritis are at risk of losing their benefits.
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Europe's humiliation reaches new depths: As if yesterday’s cringey texts weren’t enough, Mark Rutte just called Trump 'Daddy.'... www.youtube.com/shorts/Gi8ZE...
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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte refers to Donald Trump as 'daddy' at summit | ITV News
YouTube video by ITV News
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Praṇay Manocha @pranman.com · 25/06/2025
Over on X, the right wingers are melting. Some of my favourites 🧵 1. "NY will turn into London" 😂
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The government is at risk of losing next week’s vote because a) the policy is bad and b) the political operation is bad:
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Keir Starmer’s malfunctioning political machine
Dissent against leadership is partly a result of poor policy rationale, partly poor MP management
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David Emmett @motomatters.com · 25/06/2025
Meanwhile, Putin and Netanyahu are treating him like a doormat and Trump just rolls over and plays dead. No point in flattering a narcissist. Treat 'em mean and keep 'em keen
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
It's notable that the only student speech frequently shut down on university campuses is a) pro-Palestine b) pro-trans-rights. The OfS seems *deeply* unconcerned about that speech being limited. In fact, they want academics who oppose those positions to have the right to 'shock and offend' students.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Wikipedia has a chance to be a free, universally recognized, and comprehensive counterpoint to slop, at a time when that is badly needed
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
There are a good number of X accounts celebrating, encouraging and inciting violence in Nothern Ireland. The platform, the regulators & the government are too casual about the weak response to the incitement of violence in every flashpoint situation
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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Sponsored MindsEye streamer can't keep it together when telling viewers where they can buy the game.
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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Media corporations that self-censor and cave to the authoritarian regime's demands end up becoming state propaganda outlets. The transformation of Turkey's media landscape is a sad testament to this.
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Tune into the Xbox showcase on Sunday where they'll reveal the next Call of Duty, made by a solo dev and 2,999 of his friends
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James Haughton @jameshaughton1992.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Still gonna worry that this deal will collapse until we get the official club confirmation, but what a move this would be. Like Cunha, proven PL-quality and a goalscorer in a problem position. If this gets done, then let's go and sort out the midfield.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 21/05/2025
These people will do literally anything besides making themselves useful by finding out what people need and providing it
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/05/2025
Rupert Lowe recorded making antisemitic remark at parliament
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Rupert Lowe recorded making antisemitic remark at parliament
Exclusive: Former Reform UK MP made comment during a meeting with staff earlier this year, leaked video shows Rupert Lowe, the MP for Great Yarmouth, made an antisemitic comment during a meeting in parliament earlier this year, the Guardian can reveal. Lowe, who was suspended from Reform UK earlier this year after a fallout with Nigel Farage, made the remark at a meeting where parliamentary staff were present. Continue reading...
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This is coming from a Israeli source who is frustrated by Israeli decision makers and US involvement - probably an accurate take. Barring last minute surprises, we can conclude that Trump's visit to the region - the most serious opportunity to end the war in a while - was missed.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
“We’re not Powell we are Wilson/Callaghan” is not really the clever defence Downing St imagine it to be when briefing BS the house magazine of Blue Labour. Wilson passed racially discriminatory legislation and betrayed the Kenyan Asians, leaving them stateless for decades
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Leaving aside the "strangers" language, the "defence" of Starmer here from @georgeeaton.bsky.social is that he is emulating the 1964-70 Labour government. This is the government that passed the - deliberately. explicitly and admittedly -racist Commonwealth Immigrants Act.
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This was a very well made film. Link here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Palestinian activist’s home ‘raided’ by Israeli soldiers for appearing in Louis Theroux documentary
Issa Amro shares videos of confrontations with balaclava-clad military who he claims ‘want revenge’ after the BBC film The Settlers
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
A friend who is a trans woman and who plays women’s football received an email from the FA about the decision which contains this paragraph. Free therapy to cope with the fact you’ve been transphobic bigots, fucking brilliant.
This is not a decision that we have taken lightly, and we know that this news will be deeply disappointing. In the immediate aftermath of this news to help support you through this, we have partnered with Sporting Chance to provide you with free, fully confidential, online talking therapy with specially selected therapists, should you wish to do so. Up to six sessions can be provided to you and to do this you simply need to contact Sporting Chance by email at
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On a clear day @icanseeforever1.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.
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Jonathan D. Beer @jonathandbeer.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
People are going to be hurt by this. Literally hurt - trans people are twice as likely to be victims of crime, and that statistic comes from before the press began its campaign against them. People will, without question, be hurt by Starmer's cowardice. www.theguardian.com/society/2020...
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Trans people twice as likely to be victims of crime in England and Wales
ONS figures show 28% trans people experienced crime compared with 14% of cis people
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 17/04/2025
This is very clearly disgusting and will result in sex assault for absolute certain I actually think the people who want this know that. They want the sexual assault. It is punishment for us daring to exist
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
you know what? I HATE, HATE that autistic/other nd folk feel like they have to defend their existence or skills or abilities all on account of this evil, greedy, cynical, nepo-baby with a burnt-up lump of coal for a heart and a brain incapable of perceiving the humanity of anyone not him.
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James Haughton @jameshaughton1992.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I've aged 10 years in the last few hours. Football, bloody hell
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Will Jeanes @willjeanes.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Tonight is the first time Manchester United have won a game 5-4 since February 1, 1958 vs Arsenal at Highbury. Duncan Edwards, Bobby Charlton, Tommy Taylor (x2) & Dennis Viollet were the scorers that day. Edwards & Taylor both died in the Munich air disaster later that month.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/04/2025
“commonsense facts about sex and race”
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...
Dear Dr. Abdelhadi,



The Keough School of Global Affairs, which houses the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, recently learned of your keynote speech at their student conference next weekend. The University of Notre Dame requires that all events or lectures related to Israel/Palestine have ND Police security and planning.  We were unaware of your planned lecture, and since this conference overlaps with two other annual events on campus, we cannot provide security at short notice. For this reason, we respectfully request that you do not participate in the conference. The Kroc Institute will honor any honorarium that was awarded for this event. We apologize for any inconvenience. 



Sincerely,

Mary Gallagher


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Mary E. Gallagher
Marilyn Keough Dean
Keough School of Global Affairs
University of Notre Dame
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Some leftists need to grasp that when far right voters tell pollsters they want mass deportations and also wealth redistribution, that's not two separate parts of their brain talking. They're not secret socialists who are just kidding about the racism. They want economic benefits *for whites only*.
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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Trump will destroy universities through malice, Labour will destroy them through sheer indifference. At the end of the day I’m not sure it’s all that different.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
As Badenoch publicly admitted, the Tories made key appointments, set up organisations and commissioned reports to legitimise transphobia and give it the veneer of neutrality
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
“It has not talked to anyone apart from Professor Stock.” Institutionalised transphobia does it again
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This article by Sussex university’s vice chancellor about how the Office for Students seemingly oversaw its investigation into worries about free speech at Sussex is… quite something. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
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The Kafkaesque investigation into our university looks like political scapegoating
The Office for Students' so-called investigation into the University I represent was flawed and politically motivated. The implications for the hig...
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 21/03/2025
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
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Aisle424 Has Fallen @aisle424.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Unfortunately, those 2% are all Democratic Senators.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
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