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John Lyle

@johnlyle.com
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British parent with interests in technology, security, and 90s computer games. Previously a software engineer at a large social network (not this one) working on trust and safety. He/him.

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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 02/10/2026
Today I was reading one of my friends technical accomplishments and I thought “I couldn’t do that in theory, but I bet I could do that in practice”. That’s what AI gives you now - the ability to mask your fundamental skillset inadequacies with a magical automaton that lets you fake it.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 02/10/2026
Is it possible for a millennial man to sing “Goldfinger” without thinking of (and thus sounding like) Alan Partridge? youtu.be/9ured0oVW10?...
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Alan Partridge singing Goldfinger
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 01/10/2026
Fun test - 12axes.vercel.app
My political ideology test results, showing I am aligned with being in a “Nordic Social Democracy “
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 23/09/2026
Defend the RNLI, you cowards.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“We think it will be of public interest that the most expensive house in British history was acquired in a way that saved £18.5m of stamp duty.” Sold by Reform's treasurer, no less open.substack.com/pub/londonce...
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London’s most expensive house, Reform UK’s treasurer, and a massively reduced tax bill
A £265m mansion in the heart of the Chelsea • Sold by billionaire Nick Candy and his ex-wife Holly Valance • Bought by a Labour-donating hedge fund boss • Why was the tax bill so small?
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 19/09/2026
Spurs scoring and then having the goal disallowed, thus continuing their streak of failing to score in the premier league, may be the funniest development yet. Well done whoever wrote that.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 19/09/2026
Bluesky doesn’t handle intermittent internet connections well. If I can’t connect to the internet it’ll not just stop me from logging in, it will also log me out even when I have a connection again next time.
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 14/09/2026
It’s taken me a long time to understand that we need to tax the ultra-wealthy because they otherwise simply have too much power. Wealth taxes won’t generate much money but they will limit the influence of a small set of people who otherwise may try to run the world solely for their own benefit.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 08/09/2026
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
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Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads
Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Surprise! The outfit blocking roads and the port in Dover includes seriously violent thugs
Description of the criminal record of one of the thugs (there are more) from the article
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 05/09/2026
“Cowardly racists inconvenience thousands” would be my headline. Not that the BBC headline is wrong, I just think everyone involved deserves extreme contempt. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
bbc.co.uk
Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads
Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 25/08/2026
One of the unquestionably best people has died. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...
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Dolly Parton, legendary US country singer, dies aged 80
The singer died at her home in Nashville, Tennessee, earlier today, her family confirmed in a statement.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 23/08/2026
In London Fields and I could be forgiven for thinking this was somewhere in Sydney - so many Australian voices everywhere.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 20/08/2026
I’m struggling to imagine how AI should be regulated or organised to mitigate the imbalance of frontier labs / companies profiting from its adoption but not being accountable for externalities felt by broader society (climate change, cybersecurity, education, job losses, craft degradation).
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026
Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 12/08/2026
as ever I do not wish to beef but do people posting like this not realise that Bluesky is in fact a business and not a charity retirement home for said 38 year olds, and will shut down if it can't find a way to make money, which is the whole problem
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 11/08/2026
It's now been confirmed that this summer will be the hottest on record. For those opposing bold action on the climate crisis - you're not just putting lives and the planet at risk today, but dooming future generations.
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This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq Khan
Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 11/08/2026
"Vaccines are overwhelmingly safe. Vaccines are effective. Vaccines DO NOT cause autism." I rarely quote Republicans but Bill Cassidy is spot on with this one.
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"No UEFA national teams will participate in any FIFA competition for so long as these proposals remain alive, unless this proposal has been abandoned in its entirety and binding assurances have been given that FIFA will never again open its governance or competitions to private ownership".
uefa.com
Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 national associations
UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 25/07/2026
Happy London Trans Pride. I’m very proud to live in a city that is gifted with many wonderful trans people.
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Roy Dickinson @rjohndickinson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I think if Spain win, they should unfurl a banner saying “Territorial disputes are best resolved by patient negotiation leading to constructive and mutually beneficial outcomes.” But in Spanish.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 15/07/2026
I still don’t think this Argentina team are that good. So disappointing.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 14/07/2026
“They’re going to ruin Bastille day in France”
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 14/07/2026
0-2 to Spain courtesy of Pete Leek and Mickey Wide Forest.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 12/07/2026
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 07/07/2026
Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 05/07/2026
This appears to be Arsenal vs Arsenal but with guest stars who happen to be ridiculously good strikers. Ideal, in other words.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 03/07/2026
Apple have made the podcast app horrendously buggy. What should I use instead?
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 30/06/2026
Viva Paraguay! If only there was a word to describe taking pleasure in the misfortune of others…
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 26/06/2026
I couldn’t agree more with this. I will judge Burnham on whether he takes this opportunity to step back from performative cruelty around immigration. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs
Exclusive: Labour peer who fled Nazis as a child says Andy Burnham has chance to ‘correct mistakes’ on refugees
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 20/06/2026
Does the result of the Makerfield by-election suggest that voters will tactically support the not-far-right party *if* that party stands a decent candidate and offers a hopeful path forward? I really hope so, because Labour could actually do that with new leadership.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 14/06/2026
Bad choices I’ve made - only watching the first half of Netherlands / Japan.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 14/06/2026
My money (hypothetically) is on Japan.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 14/06/2026
I like to apply methods used to “prevent welfare fraud” to instead prevent greed amongst billionaires. For example- make all income over a certain level take the form of food stamps or other non-fungible tokens. You can earn as much as you like but you’ve got to spend it on food/essentials.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 14/06/2026
Ok Germany, you’ve made your point.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 14/06/2026
Scotland vs Haiti is a very enjoyable game so far. Scotland look good and both teams are making chances. Suspect Scotland’s bit of quality will make the difference.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 13/06/2026
Beautiful finish by Balogun. Impressive goal.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 13/06/2026
Paraguay are not very good at football.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 07/06/2026
“Built on merit”. The UK. The country with the monarchy and empire? What? This country was built on exploitation and colonialism. It now benefits from that wealth. While it has become more progressive, this origin story is just obvious nonsense.
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Helen Warrell @helenwarrell.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If you read one thing today, make it @stephenkb.bsky.social's admirably clear and rational analysis of the police's actions following Henry Nowak's murder, from the @financialtimes.com Inside Politics newsletter www.ft.com/content/aa94...
ft.com
What Henry Nowak’s murder does — and does not — tell us about policing
Kemi Badenoch says his killing needs to be seen as a ‘Stephen Lawrence moment’ but the failures in both cases differ
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 16/05/2026
The racist morons attending this hateful “Unite the Kingdom” march are awful and I despise them. As a Londoner, I cannot emphasise strongly enough how this goes against everything I love about the city. The diversity and multiculturalism of London is the strongest part of it.
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Angri Bundel @anibundel.com · 11/05/2026
We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 10/05/2026
Labour need to give the public a reason to vote for them, as they can’t pitch “change” anymore (unlike the Greens) and 25%+ of voters don’t care about Reform’s cruelty. I would like them to move away from “cost of living” as they can’t control or deliver on it as well as “be mean to migrants”.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 09/05/2026
There seem to be two schools of thought- 1/Starmer should leave because he is unpopular & will lose the next general election 2/Starmer should stay because leadership elections are chaotic, he’s been overly criticised & there’s not an obvious alternative. Unfortunately both are basically correct.
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John Lyle @johnlyle.com · 08/05/2026
Based on the local election results, it seems that most people in Barnsley, Wakefield, Sunderland, Thurrock, etc – the newly Reform-controlled councils – are at best indifferent to and unmoved by racism and xenophobia, and at worst outright supporters of fascist policies. I hate this.
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