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Luke Rackstraw

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Bob Ballentine @raballentine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Luke Rackstraw @lrackstraw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm not sure how to do that without increasing electricity costs for everyone 🤔
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Luke Rackstraw @lrackstraw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I agree with the idea (we should definitely be taxing data centres), how do you propose we actually do this? What would you consider taxable "compute"?
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Luke Rackstraw @lrackstraw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We're only 40 years from that being an actual typo someone could make
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Luke Rackstraw @lrackstraw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Academics have already considered AI vs Stamps (humans are collateral in that scenario too)
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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Christ the stupidity with which much of the UK screeches that Heathrow needs a 3rd runway infuriates me. No it fucking doesn't. You just tax airline fuel the same rate as fuel for a car. (currently its untaxed). You cannot pretend to give a fuck about climate change and keep building more runways.
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Luke Rackstraw @lrackstraw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BYOD (as long as it's not water)
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Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Share of official congressional e-newsletters using the word "woke" over time, by party
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
Every line of this article is just completely stunning
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was told by a guy on Truth Social who wears orange makeup that leaking to the press was treason and people should be prosecuted for it.
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026
23/23 That is my takeaway from this. The moment private political actors begin physically interfering with SAR operations, the Coastguard / rescue services now has another threat to manage. And every additional threat consumes attention and assets and endangers more lives.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is from a company that has been criticised for allowing ads and content that feature depictions of child sexual abuse.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I remember outrage about Just Stop Oil blocking a street, just in case an ambulance had to drive down it. Not because an ambulance was prevented from doing so, you understand. Just the abstract idea that one might have to.
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Luke Rackstraw @lrackstraw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Occam's in the corner using his razor to give himself a shave before the big fight
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Luke Rackstraw @lrackstraw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lego Robocop?
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Spring McparlinJones @mcparlinjones.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Not the main takeaway from this but worth saying: If you're trans you should be in a union.
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Luke Rackstraw @lrackstraw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I heard he was the first to walk on the sun (at nighttime, of course)
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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A statement from End Deportations Belfast. English far right are ‘learning’ from paramilitary groups in the north, according to Jonathan Hall. The North of Ireland is a test bed for ethnic cleansing. Where was this terror watchdog, the expert in the ‘paramilitary vibe’ for the last three pogroms?
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Dover’s ‘paramilitary vibe’: The state’s downplaying of terror crafted in Belfast.
Since 2001, the UK government has taken advice from an independent terrorism legislation reviewer, otherwise known as the ‘terror watchdog’. Its role is to address the efficacy and enfo…
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 06/09/2026
"Masked activists bring chaos to Dover in protest against migrants" "Trans activists show who they really are: a violent mob"
Telegraph page 5 today - Masked activists bring chaos to Dover in protest against migrants and Who are the disguised protesters who brought port to a standstill?Telegraph 20 April 2025 - Trans activists show who they really are: a violent mob"
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Luke Rackstraw @lrackstraw.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"In other words, [proceeds to repeat himself using the same words]"
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Actually, I do have some advice, but it only applies to you as an individual, and that's to not be "a fan" in the sense it's generally meant. Don't make liking a person or a media property or a sports franchise or anything else a load-bearing part of your identity.
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onlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.
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Luke Rackstraw @lrackstraw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I find it funny that some of the people who are against Onshore Wind Farms and Battery Banks are strangely quiet when it comes to AI Data Centres 🤔
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The actual Home Secretary publicly summoning fascist football thugs to London to “protect the cenotaph” from members of the public protesting against genocide, those fash thugs finding nobody to fight with, then attacking the police. This happening with little more than media tutting and eye-rolling
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Holy shit. No wonder Carney told the US to pound sand.
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Luke Rackstraw @lrackstraw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
If only the US had done some fictional simulations where they were fighting an enemy in the Persian Gulf, oh well, they weren't to know this would be the inevitable outcome 🤔 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenn...
en.wikipedia.org
Millennium Challenge 2002 - Wikipedia
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Luke Rackstraw @lrackstraw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
HR is to employees what Customer Services is to Customers.
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Luke Rackstraw @lrackstraw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Can you please tell this to the other city mayors? Even just a night bus service (which London has had for much longer) would be a great benefit to a lot of cities and stop private companies (Uber, etc.) making heavy profits when they become the only form of public transport running!
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is a lovely site which helps remind us of much of what we take for granted in material progress ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)
ordinaryabundance.com
Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Luke Rackstraw @lrackstraw.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
1. Find a cheap (or free) source of bio-oil (maybe try snakes?). 2. Sell it as a cure-all. 3. Profit
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Kemi Badenoch's Nazi advisor compares himself to Britain's first black female MP" is a headline that could be written today, but won't.
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Luke Rackstraw @lrackstraw.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
That sub-heading leaves more questions than it answers!
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A quick summary of why you should definitely, definitely trust Nigel Farage with your vote. Definitely.
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mitch said @mitchsaid.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
if we all lived in a shared reality, it sure would be tough to make this argument while the president you serve is trying to win himself complete tax immunity and establish a $2bn slush fund
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
They made X-Men woke!!!!! X-Men in the 90s:
Charles: I’m more concerned with the third member of this debate. Graydon Creed is the man behind the so-called “Friends of Humanity” … a grassroots hate group that cloaks its message of radixal intolerance in respectability by hiding behind the First Amendment right to free speech.

Jean: I’ve read about the man, came out of nowhere, incredibly charistmatic. 

Charles: Which makes him all the more dangerous, Jean. That charisma enables the “Friends” to hise in plain sight, allowing him the popular support of the people. Yesterday’s tragic confrontation upstate with the acolytes only provides him with fuel to speead the flames of anti mutant hysteria spreading across the country.Angel: It seems the Acolyta didn’t know what Teddy Matson’s latent abilities were when they attempted to kidnap him … nonmore than they knew he had down’s syndrome. In Uniscione’s words, that made him “unfit” to take part in their new world order. Funny, as mutants they, more than anybody, should know diversity is something to be celebrates not ashamed of. 

Mother Superior: You are the one they call the Archangel

Angel: Yes mother superior, don’t bother calling the police. I’ll be gone before they arrive
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Luke Rackstraw @lrackstraw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
During the Victorian era it was believed that Women weren't going to be using the toilet outside of their homes so the public toilets were made for Men only. When Women (rightly) said "uh, we don't want to only go places within a short distance of home" did they add additional toilets for Women.
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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 03/08/2026
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Luke Rackstraw @lrackstraw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I'll never forgive that government for standing up in parliament and telling people it was their "Civic Duty" to go out to the pub, in July of 2020, after which there was an inevitable spike in COVID cases 😡
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Blake Tapper @blaketapper.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Sorry guys, humane prisoner treatment is woke.
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Luke Rackstraw @lrackstraw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Are you telling me he isn't a horse named Cy Clops?!
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Luke Rackstraw @lrackstraw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
They should at least mention in the headline the Amazon show the three of them were (are?) on
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Luke Rackstraw @lrackstraw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I like how first (last?) 5 letters are still valid, I would just start calling it "uoods" and point to the sign if anyone asks 😂
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Luke Rackstraw @lrackstraw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
In the front-on shot, his shirt and the microphone made me think he was dressed as Darth Vader for a second 😅
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Luke Rackstraw @lrackstraw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"Sweet" is the appropriate response to that news!
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It turns out that Nigel Farage is in favour of compassion, forgiveness, two tier justice (but just for his mates) memes via We Demand UK
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Luke Rackstraw @lrackstraw.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
If this stuff gets normalised, I'm going to be so glad that I removed myself from the dating pool when I did 😅
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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Someone was arrested in Scotland yesterday for reading the poem "Don't mention the children" by Michael Rosen, @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social The West really doesn't want us to mention the children of Gaza that Israel has murdered and continues to murder. #poetry #Scotland #Gaza
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
No doubt Farage & Reform UK will not be complaining about the two-tier justice of years of police non-action in relation to thousands of explicit violent threats against Diane Abbott and other Black women MPs, and then ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Man arrested over social media post threatening to shoot Nigel Farage
Met Police says a man in his 20s was held in south London this week on suspicion of sending threatening communications to an MP.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
📌 ICYMI @josiahmortimer.bsky.social EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage's party propose amendment to the Government's elections Bill which would mean candidates using Irish and Scottish Gaelic would face up to six months in prison
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Reform UK Plans To Jail Candidates For Using Irish, Gaelic Or Cornish On Election Leaflets
EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Farage's party propose amendment to the Government's elections Bill which would mean candidates using Irish and Scottish Gaelic would face up to six months in prison
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Weird to be told by politicians that gender studies has no place in higher education when our politics are ALL GENDER ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
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