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JonGlue

@jonglue.bsky.social
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Community Worker, Tomato Grower, and Ageing Hippy/Biker. Yesterday's centrist Dad, today's angry young man. Also @jonglue.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy - follow @ap.brid.gy and interact🌱

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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 6h
Too late
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 9h
TBF it wasn't implemented in Ukraine before the invasion either, and they'd already had Crimea as a wake-up call. Voters will not react in advance of a crisis, which makes it difficult for politicians who want to do things that cost money.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 12h
Corn husks, shucked of their context! I'm imagining the tool. Being poor and single increases food waste, in my experience - buy three for two, and end up chucking one away. The fridge in your bedsit (or your share of the fridge in the house) isn't big enough to freeze.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 12h
They're going to pay for it by abolishing one tax a year.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 12h
The Gresham College ones? Their stuff is consistently good.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think it's more about the dynamics between central and peripheral control during periods of rapid expansion. Sure Labour experienced it when they (deliberately) reduced fees to increase membership, but you can see the same processes in other structures - charities, companies limited by share etc.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yeah. Not sure that's going to work out so well for him.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Aren't all cops armed in the USA?
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Even the far right in Italy (home of the original fascists) are distancing themselves from Trump.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Matilda Martin @matildamartin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I've spent the last couple of months looking into how Green-run councils are exploring safer drug consumption facilities/rooms and other harm reduction spaces Campaigners and experts argue they could be introduced without a change in the law if arrangements were made with local police forces👇
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Green Councils Fight For Drug Consumption Rooms
The Green Party’s success in English local elections has put fresh impetus behind efforts to follow Scotland in providing safer drug consumption fa...
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
meep meep
Trolley problem but the roadrunner is on the track. When the coyote pulls the lever, the streetcar lurches sideways off the track and flattens him instead.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Try pears with blue cheese, and rosemary if it's available where you are. 93.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The same way Trump was going to end all those wars within a week (or was it a day? Can't remember).
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wait 'til she finds out she'd going to get invited to Butlins Skegness in November to fight it out with all the other 'winners' to become this year's champion-of-champions! Free caravan (lager not included).
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is that Jonah's Whale? (I know whales don't have scales, but I've also seen some medieval paintings of other beasts that were ... not very anatomical).
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Beautiful, Don
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don Wallis
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Me neither, but the asymmetry between the financial power of the state and the criminals is a necessary precursor for state action. This is being eroded.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Got to make themselves personally ultra-rich, though. Can't do that without cashing in some chips. The first $10bn is the hardest, apparently, then you can just make shit up and people believe it because... you're rich.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That almost makes up for all those New Labour politicians in their Paul Smith suits knocking about with Oasis and imagining they were down with the kids.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The problem is that the 'housing ladder' is now hard-baked into policy. With approx. 1/3 of first-time buyers receiving parental support, even left-leaning parents will see their first responsibility as to their children. So it's politically necessary to get the money from older adults another way.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yeah, I think they're probably going to need a longer run-up than 2029. Good to build cross-party support.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I remember the consequences of making children do something they really, really didn't want to do. None of them were good.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Looks like a great event, but to get real care equity, people with lived experience must be part of the discussion. Maybe next time have experts-by-experience, too? @johnpring.bsky.social @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social @gmcdp.bsky.social @socialcarefuture.bsky.social
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I saw this documentary about surveillance in China which was eye-opening www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
bbc.co.uk
Storyville - Total Trust: Surveillance State
A Storyville documentary that explores, in intimate detail, state surveillance and digital social control in China by following the experiences of two families and a journalist.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Got any sources on that?
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Him being called 'Healey' is a bit weird, too. As I get older, by experience of the progress of time is getting less linear anyway, and finding myself with a Chancellor from late 70s just amplifies that.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Julian, Ricard, Anna, Georgy and Tyoma?
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I recommend alcohol ;-)
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yeah, but this allows them the chance to run the 'economic damage' story, maintaining the lump-of-labour policy until public opinion catches up with the cabinet's views. Political comms. in the post-truth world.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Your probably fine. I expect it's just old people. We walk slowly because our hips and backs are f*cked, rather than because of an alien mind-eating virus, but from a distance it can look similar. Best to wind up the windows and get the crossbow out of the boot just in case.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anomaly, or just the first time he's managed to ring the bell? Next time* someone manages to stir up a racist mob and if he manages to bully the beeb into inviting him on Question Time, he could double it. Conflict of interest? * I hope there won't be a next time, obv.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I could have sworn I'd seen him play in red and white. Must have been some other team?
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
That would be a start!
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Link to the Hero Foundation, which has helped Russ and many other creators www.heroinitiative.org
heroinitiative.org
Charity for Comic Book Creators | Hero Initiative
Hero Initiative is a charity for comic book creators providing medical, financial, and career support when artists and writers face hardship.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And it will also act as a pizza delivery hub, distributing magic golden pizza made out of thin air by DJT himself, in a secret factory at the north poll. The free golden pizza will make true Americans immortal, but be poisonous to the treacherous far-left Democrats and foreign-born nationals!
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
About capitalism being unable to prioritise human interest over profit. Clue: apnews.com/article/anti...
apnews.com
Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made illegal agreement on AI slowdown
A new lawsuit claims that Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google illegally agreed to slow their AI development. Filed Friday in the U.S.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Perhaps less so when you consider the financial interests involved?
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Billionaires can live where they like. This is just an attempt to exert financial power over the state in support of their narrow interests. As usual.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yeah, this is the only viable path for the UK now, and personally I'm glad about that.
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Islington Mind @mind-islington.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"ChatGPT gave me continuity, language and a way to interrogate my care. It also flattered, over-validated and mirrored my framing. Ultimately, however, it responded to me as a person asking a question, rather than first and foremost as a bipolar patient"
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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🚨Join DR UK's Online Roundtable Discussion! Following our strategy survey, this event is an opportunity to share your experiences & contribute to the future direction of Disability Rights UK. 📆Monday 21 September ⏰5:30–7:00pm 💻Online via Zoom More👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/help-sh...
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Help Shape Disability Rights UK’s Next Five Years: Online Roundtable
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yeah, but no-one know the size of the bribe to the coach. Yet.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The problem is, we already know human beings can destroy society. All AI needs to to is make them.
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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 16/09/2026
🚨On Thu 1 Oct, join protests at 20+ locations across England against US spy-tech company Palantir. We're demanding the government uses the break clause and gets Palantir out of our NHS. We need you to join us ⬇️ amnesty.org.uk/issues/inter... #PeopleVsPalantir
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My understanding is that the evidence shows LLM-based assessment gives better 'marks' to LLM-written things (essays, grants etc). So by choosing to use LLM-based assessment, UKRI will likely penalise every academic who actually writes their own grants unassisted. Grim.
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#MementoMoriMonday
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JonGlue @jonglue.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yeah, those double-handed axes would probably contravene health and safety regulations now. It's political correctness gone mad!
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The folks who want flock cameras in your neighborhood, the folks who wanna read your emails without a warrant, the folks who say, “If you’re not doing anything wrong, why do you wanna hide it?” have withheld 3 million Epstein files and redacted the rest (Thomas Massie) x.com/RepThomasMas...
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Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) on X
The folks who want flock cameras in your neighborhood, the folks who wanna read your emails without a warrant, the folks who say, “If you’re not doing anything wrong, why do you wanna hide it?” have w...
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