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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Yes, but 1kg of Lithium battery can, over it's lifetime, deliver far more than can 1kg of jet fuel. However, I think there will always be an economic and practical limit on the size and range of a battery aircraft. Hydrogen is probably more likely.

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

general reminder that you absolutely do not need to have an opinion on everything. social media just makes you think you should. "i don't know enough about this to have an opinion" is one of the most liberating thoughts you can have in the modern world.

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Many such have already left, and joined the Greens.

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

How long before someone quotes that as their defence in court?

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It's becoming more and more important that we demonstrate that we do not support the USA's actions in the Middle East in any way.

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Good. Now uphold the right to choose a jury trial, restore protest rights, and curb mass live facial recognition. The toolkit for tyrants Labour is building is a huge risk to democracy and must be reversed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Burnham to scrap Starmer’s digital ID scheme in ‘reset of priorities’

Incoming PM will reallocate unspecified resources from unpopular plan to helping with cost of living

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

After the Argentinian protest about the Falklands, would banners saying: Argentina is Spanish be appropriate?

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Henry Hyde @battlegames.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Another little reel about something I bet most wargamers do…

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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Humans should not be forced off pavements by delivery robots, but that's exactly what's happening. The people who pay the price are those with the least room to give it up.

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Which doesn't appear to be entirely true. According to IMDB & Wikipedia, Philippe Vuillemin played the lead role in that film.

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Google AI mode says: "This image portrays French actress Vuillemine Regnier playing the role of Alexina/Herculine Barbin in the 1985 historical drama film The Mystery of Alexina (Le Mystère Alexina)."

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Here’s a poem called ‘What Don Corleone Did Next’. #worldotterday

What Don Corleone Did Next

upon retiring
from the mafia,

he wove aquatic mammals
out of raffia

let me tell you
how I learnt this news:

he made me an otter
I couldn’t refuse

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 29/05/2026

The UK's water systems are crumbling. Thousands have been left without water in Kent. Our rivers are polluted. Our bills keep rising. This experiment of privatisation has failed. Public Ownership now.

A tap with a singular water droplet flowing from it with text that reads "Public Ownership Now" over the top

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Brexit puts our children at risk. Brexit removed independent product safety controls.

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justiceseer.bsky.social @justiceseer.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Excuse me? #Streeting has ORDERED #GPs NOT to TELL #Patients that THEIR #Private&Confidential, #GPRecords..have been HANDED OVER to #NHSEngland" (without their *knowledge,permission and consent!* ) WHY?🤬 I DON'T WANT my #GPRecords handed to ANYONE including #NHSEngland (ie #Streeting'sPrivateers!)

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

THESE ISLES: Betsi Cadwaladr (1789-1860), was a Welsh nurse who served in the Crimean war at age 65, where she clashed frequently with Florence Nightingale and fought bureaucracy to give soldiers the treatment she believed they needed. She later died in poverty. 1/7

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celli @aliascelli.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

And evergreen advice for any kind of alarming email/phone call. Something I have struggled to remember when I've been phished, for real.

The defense, increasingly, is a single habit: when an email tells you something alarming about an account, don't respond to the email. Go to the service directly, on your own, the way you always do. If something is really wrong, you'll see it there. If you don't see it there, the email was lying.

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The definition of Zionist seems to vary depending on what the definer wants to say.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

We've now raised £50,000. Anything you can spare, will go towards challenging this Labour Government and taking the fight to Reform. And most importantly - to creating the hopeful alternative. 👇🏼

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

There's a third option, which I think is far more likely: 3. "He's going to be ambassador and I don't want to hear of any excuses or problems." Still means he should resign. How many more issues has he taken this approach to?

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

And in the next 38 days it would generate another gallon's worth of energy, but the gasoline would not.

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

"Integrity is returning to the USA". Really?

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Henry Hyde @battlegames.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I should mention that I watched a fascinating interview with Jess Butcher MBE who organised this campaign & she specifically mentioned “building little war figures” as a highly positive alternative to scrolling. It’s all about the flow, folks! See from 24:09 in the video. youtu.be/OpkdzfFizKw?...

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Rory Sutherland, Elfried Samba and Jess Butcher MBE on the age of distraction

YouTube video by The Bottleneck Podcast

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I have the one volume paperback of Lord of the Rings, so that's allowed. No appendices though - had to get volume 3 for those.

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Also amused by all the talk about complexity and computer assistance. They did this in the 60's when their computers were less capable than a modern washing machine!

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I had to laugh when the NASA guy talked about enthusing young people. As a young person in the 60's I was enthused by space exploration, then felt let down.

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Randeep Ramesh @stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Government claims to prioritise NHS recovery. Yet gvt threatens to shrink the future workforce - contradicting its own staffing plan.Using training posts as leverage turns a pay row into a gamble with the NHS’s future capacity.Starmer's own escalate to de-escalate www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Keir Starmer gives resident doctors 48 hours to call off strike or lose training offer

PM says union’s decision to reject deal for extra training posts and 7.1% pay rise without putting it to members in England is ‘reckless’

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

When office space was in surplus because of Working from Home, the property companies got worried and WfH was vilified. Now companies are laying of lots of people because of AI. That will also release a lot of office space. Will property companies oppose AI? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Why tech CEOs suddenly love blaming AI for mass layoffs

More tech leaders are pointing to job cuts caused by AI tools - and a need for more investment cash.

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

If you don't say it people will assume you support Reform. Can you live with that?

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Shouldn't that be "Chancellor Rachel Reeves tells MPs she is meeting with North Sea industry leaders tomorrow to discuss the fact that, because the price they can charge will go up, they'll be taxed more."

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Hardly "winning hearts and minds".

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

So, Trump's so annoyed by Zelensky saying that Putin's started WW3, that he's trying to steal that credit!

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I would guess that schools adopting more "active" uniforms is now being reported because it's just happened at a school where a BBC reporter is a parent. My daughter's school did this about 35 years ago! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Why some schools are pushing for 'active' uniforms over traditional ones

Proponents say relaxed uniforms make life easier for children and are much more practical for physical play.

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Obviously not a photo, although may be based on one. What's your point?

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Wasn't Ash Wednesday about smokers burning their stock of cigarettes so they could properly abstain during Lent. Many fewer smokers these days.

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Celts: Damn Anglo Saxons coming over here and taking our jobs.

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Similarly, vampires couldn't be photographed as the sensitive component of film was silver nitrate. Digital cameras don't use silver so it should now be possible to photograph them. . . . Perhaps we can't because they don't exist? . . . That's what they want you to think.

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Robert Lloyd Parry @nunkie.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This Saturday at 8pm(UK) there's a live telling of H P Lovecraft's influential short story, "The Outsider." Just click hereL youtube.com/live/X1mkYpO... It's free-to-view, and available to watch anytime after the live broadcast. But... 1/2

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The Outsider, by H P Lovecraft

YouTube video by Nunkie Films

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Here’s what the UK Labour govt got in exchange for providing military, weapons & logistics support to the far right Israeli govt, in their genocide* in Gaza. Maybe all those Labour MPs, who get financial support from the ‘friends of Israel’ lobby groups**, might reconsider?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot

It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I suspect the GMC would have something to say about that.

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John Haines @johnhaines.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I've heard a story that he wrote plays/acted after his disgrace but the dates seem to indicate that it was before. I'm sure you know he was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.

Grave of James Manby Gully in Kensal Green Cemetery. Upright stone with gothic style outline. "In memory of James Manby Gully MD formerly of Great Malvern." Also commemorates his wife, Francis, daughter Fanny; Sarah, Anne and Ellen, who appear to have been his sisters.

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