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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 2h

I heard one thing loud and clear in Andy Burnham's landmark speech: we need to liberate the Postcode Address File.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 7h

The good, the bad and the YIMBY of Andy Burnham’s conference speech takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-good-t...

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The good, the bad and the YIMBY of Andy Burnham’s conference speech

Plus the one thing that was inexplicably missing.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 17h

I don't want to harsh anyone's buzz as Andy Burnham gave a reasonably good speech, but the reaction on here is so breathless it makes it sound like he gave the Gettysburg Address.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 19h

Happy birthday to my YIMBY Pod co-host and Britain’s youngest Jag owner, @mjrobbins.com!

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 29/09/2026

"There's one final thing we need to change if our plan for Britain is succeed," Burnham said, inexplicably not then going on to talk about the Postcode Address File.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Looking forward to local authorities buying and building homes with all of that spare money they have.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 29/09/2026

"Hope Again" is surely a coded reference to a plan to free the Postcode Address File.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 29/09/2026

The staging at Labour conference is really something else this year!

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 28/09/2026

“If the Security Council refuses to comply with my demands, I will activate the Torment Nexus.”

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 28/09/2026

This week’s pod is a good one!

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 28/09/2026

For the real sickos I've created a US version of the game called Congress Chain. Congress Chain 🏛️ · Senate I recognised 8️⃣ senators in a row. How long is your chain? toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/congresschain/

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Congress Chain — Senate and House recognition game

Pick the named senator or representative from two portraits. One wrong answer ends your chain.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Starship is in orbit, and we're not ready for the imminent explosion in space technology (FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/were-not-r...

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We're not ready for the imminent explosion in space technology

Elon is good again (at least until his next tweet)

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 28/09/2026

NEW YIMBY Pod! - Why progress almost necessarily has winners and losers (and one poor loser from the new Universal theme park) - And we speak to @anyamartin.bsky.social about why we need an autonomous vehicle tax now, before it's too late! Listen/subscribe: www.abundancepod.com/p/progress-h...

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Progress has winners and losers

Plus why we need to tax autonomous vehicles now, before it’s too late!

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 28/09/2026

New party-specific mode! MP Chain 🏛️ (Labour) I recognised 1️⃣6️⃣ MPs in a row. How long is your chain? toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mpchain/

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MP Chain — How many MPs can you recognise?

Pick the named MP from two portraits. One wrong answer ends your chain.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In awe of the main character from the Last Ditch Lesbian Bar story grappling with a *Hamas are bad because they're landlords* take.

"Nothing will radicalize you against Capitalism more than learning that Palestinians have to pay rent on the tiny patches of land they put those tents on."

"The concept of Hamas, a political party, being every landlord in Palestine is frying me. Genuinely need to ask people who believe that shit how much rent they pay to the GOP/DNC uniparty."

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 28/09/2026

abundancepod.com

Progress has winners and losers

Plus why we need to tax autonomous vehicles now, before it’s too late!

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Just in case anyone is up late at Labour conference, I have added party-specific modes to MP Recall and MP Chain: toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mprecall/ toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mpchain/

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MP Recall — How many MPs can you remember?

Name as many current UK MPs as you can in five minutes.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Just in case anyone is up late at Labour conference, I have added party-specific modes to MP Recall and MP Chain: toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mprecall/ toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mpchain/

toys.jamesomalley.co.uk

MP Recall — How many MPs can you remember?

Name as many current UK MPs as you can in five minutes.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 27/09/2026

If you were writing American politics as a drama, there's no way the writers would think they could get away with having the pivotal Senator switch parties at the most dramatic possible moment.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It is strange how much LLMs turned out to be able to solve such a wide range of hard problems that would not, instinctively, seem to be problems that a model of human language would be able to solve This is from a Stanford project that let Astra drive a robot in a kitchen tml.stanford.edu/homebody/

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 27/09/2026

(Spoilsport alert) This fundamentally misunderstands what Jev is for or how it works.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 26/09/2026

To be serious, think the December election talk was, like a lot of other Westminster pathologies, a result of politics that purely looks at Comms and nothing that is actually happening in the world.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 26/09/2026

Best one yet and it’s still not good. MP Chain 🏛️ I recognised 2️⃣1️⃣ MPs in a row. How long is your chain? toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mpchain/

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MP Chain — How many MPs can you recognise?

Pick the named MP from two portraits. One wrong answer ends your chain.

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Anna Hirschfeld @annahirschfeld.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Well this is addictive

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Calling it now: the emerging Meta deepfake Chase ad controversy will turn out to be massively overblown or otherwise not as it appears.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 25/09/2026

I'm very sorry everyone, I made *another* new game. MP Chain 🏛️ I recognised 1️⃣5️⃣ MPs in a row. How long is your chain? toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mpchain/

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MP Chain — How many MPs can you recognise?

Pick the named MP from two portraits. One wrong answer ends your chain.

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Thank🔸You🔸Europe @thankyoueurope.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I know a lot of Lib Dems so I should be better than most normal people, but this still pretty hard. You need a lucky run of famous faces and people that just look like an Emily. MP Chain 🏛️ I recognised 1️⃣6️⃣ MPs in a row. How long is your chain? toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mpchain/

toys.jamesomalley.co.uk

MP Chain — How many MPs can you recognise?

Pick the named MP from two portraits. One wrong answer ends your chain.

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵

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Eliot Andersen @eliotandersen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ve beaten my own record somewhat… MP Chain 🏛️ I recognised 2️⃣8️⃣9️⃣ MPs in a row. How long is your chain? toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mpchain/

toys.jamesomalley.co.uk

MP Chain — How many MPs can you recognise?

Pick the named MP from two portraits. One wrong answer ends your chain.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Probably never beating this run: MP Chain 🏛️ I recognised 2️⃣5️⃣ MPs in a row. How long is your chain? toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mpchain/

toys.jamesomalley.co.uk

MP Chain — How many MPs can you recognise?

Pick the named MP from two portraits. One wrong answer ends your chain.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 25/09/2026

After an hour over 6000 games have been played, 26,000 guesses have been made and 78% of guesses have been correct. I feel like we need a TIkTok of Andy Burnham trying the game.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 25/09/2026

If you play my fun game you also need to read my worthy piece about something important. I don’t make the rules.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Access to AI compute is a social justice issue (FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/ai-compute...

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Access to AI compute is a social justice issue

A new cause for the left to fight for?

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Someone already claims to have got… 288.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Got an incredible match-up from a YIMBY perspective here.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Enjoy how this ranges from "I recognise at least one of those" to "Guessable from name/ethnicity clues" to "Literally just two interchangeable men/women" MP Chain 🏛️ I recognised 3️⃣3️⃣ MPs in a row. How long is your chain? toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mpchain/

toys.jamesomalley.co.uk

MP Chain — How many MPs can you recognise?

Pick the named MP from two portraits. One wrong answer ends your chain.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 25/09/2026

I'm very sorry everyone, I made *another* new game. MP Chain 🏛️ I recognised 1️⃣5️⃣ MPs in a row. How long is your chain? toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mpchain/

toys.jamesomalley.co.uk

MP Chain — How many MPs can you recognise?

Pick the named MP from two portraits. One wrong answer ends your chain.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

People on this app will post anything. “Chris Philp has hoes.” No he doesn’t. That’s not true.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 25/09/2026

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/ai-compute...

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Charlie Matthews @charliematthews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

fun game here esp for anyone brushing up on faces & names ahead of party conference (courtesy of @jamesomalley.co.uk) toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mprecall/

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MP Recall — How many MPs can you remember?

Name as many current UK MPs as you can in five minutes.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 25/09/2026

The people united will never be deleted!

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 25/09/2026

If the Tech Bros are right and AI is as transformative as they expect, the left will need to grapple with the problem of how to share the fruits of AI fairly. takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/ai-compute...

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Access to AI compute is a social justice issue

A new cause for the left to fight for?

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