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Kevin Rutherford

@kevinrutherford.bsky.social
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✔️ Autistic / monotropic ✔️ ADHD / kinetic ✔️ Mathematician / software developer (retired) Fairly opinionated about all three. Macclesfield, UK.

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UCL Constitution Unit @conunitucl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The effects of electoral systems: a new Constitution Unit project @alanrenwick.bsky.social launches a new project seeking to examine the extent to which different claims about voting systems are backed up by evidence, and how this might apply to Westminster elections. Read it 👇️
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The effects of electoral systems: a new Constitution Unit project
Many claims are made about the effects of different voting systems, but to what extent are these backed up by evidence? And how might this evidence apply to Westminster elections? Alan Renwick introduces a new Constitution Unit project seeking to answer these questions in a way that is accessible for politicians, campaigners, journalists, and the public at large.
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Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
...or spends hours looking for -- and ultimately building -- the perfect timer app, as I did
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 05/10/2026
An AuDHD man told to try the Pomodoro Technique as a way to overcome distractions and procrastination has reportedly fallen down a multi-hour rabbit hole on the history of the tomato.
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AuDHD man advised to try Pomodoro Technique falls down seven-hour rabbit hole on history of tomato
An AuDHD man told to try the Pomodoro Technique as a way to overcome distractions and procrastination has reportedly fallen down a multi-hour rabbit hole on the history of the tomato. Anand Trivedi,…
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m happy for the UK to use the Euro as a condition of rejoining. My worth and patriotism is not dependent on a currency. Those that say otherwise have a fragile identity.
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Waving European Union Flag
ALT: Waving European Union Flag
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Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Parking lot"? Did you mean "car park"?
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deedotkurses @deedotk.eurosky.social · 30/12/2025
TIL: Before Hans Asperger or Leo Kanner, a Jewish-Ukrainian psychiatrist named Grunya Sukhareva defined autism in 1925. Both men did not cite her work. She also had documented how it affected women and girls, where the men did not. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunya_...
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Grunya Sukhareva - Wikipedia
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Ewan Hoyle @ewanhoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The electoral reform collectively goes "OK, we got what we want. What do we do now?" You do this. You do this. YOU DO THIS. Please. 👇 ewanhoyle.substack.com/p/why-we-nee...
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Why we need electoral reform in this parliament, and how we deliver it.
Andy Burnham has promised electoral reform in the next manifesto. We need to persuade him to act now.
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DigitasMedia @digitasmedia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If it gets the olds out of our hospitals safely & quicker it’ll pay for itself. Hospitals are no place for healthy, mostly independent people.
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Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
But but but ... all of this tactical voting is only necessary due to FPTP. If we switched to AV right now, Reform would likely be done for.
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Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Absolutely hilarious! Go watch this now! I would least like a horse to be ... staring back at me when I look in the mirror.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
independent.co.uk
All but four constituencies would support reversing Brexit and rejoining the EU
New in-depth polling finds 35 per cent of voters would choose to rejoin the EU – with just 11 per cent wanting looser ties with the bloc
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
NEW MRP JUST DROPPED: All but four constituencies in GB support UK membership of the EU. In those four, the most popular option was 'Don't Know' (Ashfield, Clacton, Great Yarmouth and Boston and Skegness).
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hearing a lot of 'what can be done?' to stop mega donors buying British democracy So I asked a real expert- former Electoral Commissioner David Howarth - to explain how we can fix our broken system Would recommend reading his piece: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/stop-billi...
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Stop billionaires buying our politics
Ex-Electoral Commissioner David Howarth on Reform's £72m crypto donation, the loopholes that allow big money to buy our democracy – and three ways to close them
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Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
100% agree with this. And I would press for compulsory voting, too.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Lyve longe and prospir, blue skye friendes! #StarTrekDay
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Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"his 23A bus" 😉
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Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@drdon.bsky.social 👆
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In the Guardian’s review of ‘The Great ADHD Myth?’, Lucy Mangan writes that the mother of a boy featured in the documentary “decides to keep him off the drugs”. In the end credit sequence of the programme, it says she put him back on the medication “after poor exam results”.
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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I've written an essay for @ippr.org about why democratic reformers need to expand their horizons beyond trying to finish the work of Charter 88, and should now shift their focus towards rebuilding the public sphere and confronting private power 1/4
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Against Private Power: A Democracy Agenda Beyond Charter 88
Since Charter 88, democratisation efforts in the UK have focused on constitutional reform to change the internal structures of the Westminster state. Today, however, the major challenge for democracy...
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Dark Archangel @d4rk-arch4ngel.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
📍 Clacton - It's not actually an 'invasion', is it? #UK #immigration #Farage #racism #taxes Via www.instagram.com/p/Dbxfs8oD1p...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026
Shame liars out of public life; prosecute white-collar crime; regulate away all the business practices built on cheating people. Or just let society decay into incurable anomie and cynicism.
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Scopperil @scopperil.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Bridget Jones’ Diary-a
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Only just found out about this For the record, you don't get multiple genetic markers and one of the most effective medications known to science with 'social constructs' Channel 4, this is, in scientific parlance, an absolute fu*king disgrace that will genuinely endanger lives #c4 #ADHD
New Channel 4 documentary, The Great ADHD Myth?, seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This Cabinet statement on Rewiring the State is fascinating, has clarity about what it is trying to (and the challenges therein) and is full of goodies for place-based advocates like me...
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Rewiring the State – Cabinet Statement (HTML)
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Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Brilliant episode today 👏👏. Conan the Librarian!! 🤣🤣
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Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
💯 agree. But I suspect it would work best if accompanied by a switch to AV or STV too.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
@drdon.bsky.social 👇
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Star Trek The Original Series scene. We're on planet somewhere and in a room backlit in purple and red. There's a human looking man standing and looking off in the distance with a determined face. He's wearing a snug white long sleeve shirt and white spandex pants that fit a bit too tight if you ask me. Definitely rocking some moose knuckle. Kirk and Spock are standing on either side of him, Spock is holding his arm and leaning in as if whispering sweet nothings in his ear. Closed caption reads, "Logic is a little tweeting bird."
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Just 11 of 632 constituencies would vote to stay out of the EU in second referendum www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
independent.co.uk
Mapped: Just 11 of 632 constituencies would now vote to stay out of the EU
Ten years on from the 2016 referendum, nearly half of Britons say they would vote ‘rejoin’ should they now be given another choice
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Don't think people realise quite how deeply split by age current voting intention is. This is the latest YouGov for under-50s: Green: 26% Lab: 18% Reform: 14% Tories: 12% LD: 11% And over 50s: Reform: 36% Tory: 22% Lab: 16% LD: 12% Greens: 9%
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Criminal Checks for MPs, Donations Caps and Electoral Reform: Labour Rebels Push for Tougher Elections Bill From banning crypto and oil company cash to radical reform of our voting system, Labour backbenchers are testing how far their own Government is willing to go to protect British democracy,…
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Criminal Checks for MPs, Donations Caps and Electoral Reform: Labour Rebels Push for Tougher Elections Bill
From banning crypto and oil company cash to radical reform of our voting system, Labour backbenchers are testing how far their own Government is willing to go to protect British democracy, reports Josiah Mortimer
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Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Labour won't win a GE with FPTP. PR has to be implemented before that.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The Rejoin petition has just hit 💥90,000💥 signatures!
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Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK
We believe Brexit's not working. The OBR judges that the UK economy is smaller and trade is weaker because of Brexit, and it will just get worse. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin ...
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Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
1. Croatia 2. Cyprus 3. Bulgaria #Eurovision
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Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
How about we stipulate that political parties must be funded solely by (capped) individual membership fees and, say, the Electoral Commission (or similar independent body)?
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Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I'm convinced that only the introduction of Proportional Representation will avoid a Reform government next time around. With Labour's current huge majority, any decent leader ought to be able to make that happen.
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Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
So have I, and I'm not a Labour MP either 🤔
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Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
It seems to me that our only hope of avoiding a Reform government is for the Labour PM (whoever that be) to introduce Proportional Representation for the next general election. Slim chance of that, I fear.
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Make Hate Weird Again.
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Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Haha, brilliant idea! I'm definitely trying some of these on my Staffordshire las... 😉
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Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
These are the reasons why I cut my own. It ain't stylish, and it's often missing chunks, but those hair clippers are one of my best ever purchases.
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Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Star Trek's biggest mistake? Q.
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Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I used to work with a team in which everyone was over 6'2". I'm 5'10". Daily standups could be quite intimidating...
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 13/04/2026
1/8 The UK energy headlines are about to get loud again. Before that happens, here’s a simple explanation of how the systems actually work, that I created for my students a while ago and have updated to 2026. It explains why the risk is often misunderstood. #UK #Energy #EnergySecurity
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Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
That's a great article! I switched us to Vivaldi a couple of years ago, and now it's time to move the rest. So I need a guide focused on Linux and Android alternatives in the UK/EU. Or maybe do the leg-work of researching it myself...
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Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I think that's only the electricity grid. Millions of homes (etc) are still heated via gas boilers.
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Kevin Rutherford @kevinrutherford.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
"man" is a stretch
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
🌑 🌍 ☀️ - lunar eclipse 🌍 🌑 ☀️- solar eclipse 🌑 ☀️ 🌎 - apocalypse 🌑 🚀 🌏 ☀️- Artemis
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