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Andrew McDermott (Macca)

@maccamk.bsky.social
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Work: Open University From: Milton Keynes, Europe Music: Radiohead, Talking Heads, Willy Mason, LIFE, IDLES, Gomez, Billy Nomates, BEAK>, Tom Vek Football: Open University Vets FC, Liverpool FC, Woburn and Wavendon FC Tech: everything

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
🚨How Britain privatised itself into failure.🚨 Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. 
In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.
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How Britain privatised itself into failure
Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong
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Balcony Shirts @balconyshirts.co.uk · 27/07/2025
All the hardcore ravers from school who used to bully the indie kids are at Oasis.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
17 years on, the Tories still paint the £45 billion bailout of RBS as a once in a lifetime economic disaster that proves Gordon Brown was a terrible PM. Brexit costs just as much every 19 months. Tories spent last week demanding we keep it. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Taxpayers set for £10bn loss on NatWest as disgraced ex-boss takes £600k-a-year pension
Government expected to sell last shares in banking group this week, drawing a line under 2008 financial crisis bailout
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Stop chiding people for the closure and loss of things like shops, pubs, and cinemas like it's their fault. The reason people aren't using these things is BECAUSE THEY CAN'T FUCKING AFFORD THEM.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
One estimate is that the cessation of USAID funding could result in ~25 million additional deaths over 15 years. I would like to see a story written about how potentially murderous Trump could be, so that people in Congress who could stop him can ask themselves if that's what they want the US to be.
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25 million deaths: what could happen if the US ends global health funding
Models estimate the ginormous potential impact of foreign-aid cuts.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 08/05/2025
Congratulations, it's a Pope!
Pope up pirate
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Yup, that’s right. Chase Reform. Legitimise them. Punch down. Brag about cruelty. Abandon values. Lose elections to Reform. Rinse. Repeat. 🙄
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Labour targets international students claiming asylum after losses to Reform in local elections
Exclusive: Ministers understood to be drafting white paper this month in move to reduce legal migration
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Apparently getting masked thugs to snatch a student off the street and send her to a detention centre 1000 miles away - for writing an opinion piece - is "uncivil" but absolutely necessary. Just in case anyone had any doubts about who these people really are.. thecritic.co.uk/will-donald-...
Trump and Musk are wrecking balls where a scalpel is required, but their impact on higher education is prompting long-overdue reflection. While their methods are uncivil and overbroad — which should be criticised — the fact they are disrupting the titanic edifice that is the left-wing university means that their effect on academic freedom is likely to be net positive
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JosieF @josief.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
“Authoritarian populism is more willing to engage in lie-based politics that essentially condenses complexity down to simplicity.” Great article on why the over simplification of the vastly complex issues we face is so dangerous
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Elisa Mekler @elisamekler.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Is your PhD research on game design, game production, HCI, or design theory? I've got three 2-year postdoc positions in my ERC StG project to investigate what makes theory useful and usable in game design / interaction design. Reposts much appreciated. Thx! candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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Postdoc positions in HCI and Videogames Theory at IT University of Copenhagen
The IT University of Copenhagen invites highly motivated individuals to apply for a Postdoc position in HCI and Videogames Theory at IT University of Copenhagen
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The Employment Rights Bill was supposed to scrap draconian rules forcing 50% of workers to vote for a strike ballot to be valid - but the move appears to have been quietly delayed www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Ministers delayed repeal of Tory anti-union law and Union leaders are 'dismayed'
The Employment Rights Bill was supposed to scrap draconian rules forcing 50% of workers to vote for a strike ballot to be valid - but the move has been quietly delayed
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Andrew McDermott (Macca) @maccamk.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The more you think about it, the more the Ukrainian situation is like the plot of The Great Gabbo: - Putin is Gabbo - Trump is Otto - Zelensky is Mary - The EU is Frank
Image of a ventriloquist (The Great Gabbo from the 1929 movie of the same name) holding a dummy (Otto, from the same film) on his lap while sitting on a stool. Both are dressed in formal dress suits. Gabbo has a monocle and is holding a lit cigarette. Both stare forwards. The background is grey and featureless, perhaps a stage curtain.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
We know what’s going on here.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/02/2025
Selective outrage of the right.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Senator Rips Into RFK Jr. — And Gets Him To Admit He Spread A Conspiracy Theory www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...
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Senator Rips Into RFK Jr. — And Gets Him To Admit He Spread A Conspiracy Theory
Pretty sure Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) won't be supporting Kennedy's nomination.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Kemi Badenoch's spokesman repeatedly refuses to say whether she agrees with Suella Braverman's 'Sharia law in the UK' speech, insisting that "she hasn't read it", despite it being widely reported and her spokespeople having received multiple questions about it
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
who could be more suited for the role of Director of National Intelligence than such a master of Opsec
Tweet by Aaron Lund, "Tulsi Gabbard and her staff tried their best to obfuscate the identities of regime figures she met in Syria but then accidentally left all the details in a publicly accessible Google doc."
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Reuters @reuters.com · 21/01/2025
Haas claimed a Formula One milestone with Laura Mueller appointed as the sport’s first female race engineer, working with experienced French driver Esteban Ocon reut.rs/4hprJp6
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Haas appoint Mueller as F1’s first female race engineer
Haas claimed a Formula One milestone on Tuesday with Laura Mueller appointed as the sport’s first female race engineer, working with experienced French driver Esteban Ocon.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Just take a moment to imagine the reaction to Barack Obama pardoning 1,500 black people, involved in a riot, which led to five police officers dying, calling them "heroes" & "hostages".
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BacktheBBC 📺📡📻🔴📱 @backthebbc.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
What did Obama say to George Bush at the #inauguration today?
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
A paper that understands its responsibility, in a country that knows it when it sees it. Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was. Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”
A screenshot of the Die Zeit website. It is a photo of Musk in black and white doing the Hitler “seig heil” salute - but the actual salute is blocked out by blue material on the left hand side of the photo. The headline is underneath.
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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Please buy books and read them. It will matter moving forward.
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Trump's inauguration should mark a turning point. Time for the UK to stop trying to ride the US's coattails and start working with those who share our values and want the things we want.
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Andrew McDermott (Macca) @maccamk.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Reuters can go eff itself. Triumphant?! 2 attempts?! What has happened to news...
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
When someone has Nazi views and you know that because they tweet them & say them out loud & did a speech where they did a Nazi salute but when you call them a Nazi everyone goes ‘WOAH HANG ON A MINUTE THATS REALLY HYSTERICAL AND OFFENSIVE’ and you have to scream into a pillow for 3 hours.
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Andrew McDermott (Macca) @maccamk.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Ah no, the sex bots have arrived on BS.
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a woman in a purple dress and wig is standing in a room .
ALT: a woman in a purple dress and wig is standing in a room .
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James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Konstantly Griftin featured in Private Eye
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
“No Mr Elon Musk, we do not want you to buy Liverpool Football Club. Not now, not ever. From a lifelong LFC fan”
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No Elon, just no – not our Liverpool FC
No Mr Elon Musk, we do not want you to buy Liverpool Football Club. Not now, not ever. From a lifelong LFC fan
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Emily Darlington MP @emily4mk.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I had the pleasure of speaking in yesterday’s debate on tackling violence against women and girls. Surprised that some of the MPs who have suddenly expressed an interest in the subject this week decided not to show up.
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Yes
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Moog @andytoots.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
It looks like the 1993 Champions League final was going to be decided by answers received from 100 people surveyed.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the French far right leader, died today. If you wonder how many French people feel about that, these are the scenes of celebration on the streets of Paris this evening. One sign reads “The dirty racist is dead”. (🎥 Luc Auffret)
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Andrew McDermott (Macca) @maccamk.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
AndrewMcDermott #Braille200 @rnib.bsky.social
"Andrew McDermott" in text with a visual representation of the braille above, separated by a pink line. The text "Remember - braille is read by touch, this is just a visual representation" and the Braille 200 logo is in the corner, with a visual representation of braille, and RNIB and EBU logos.
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Andrew McDermott (Macca) @maccamk.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
You've got to laugh at companies like Next bemoaning the rise in NI and National Living Wage as 'unwelcome', when they still expect to be making more profits this year than last year and will still make a profit of about £1bn. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Next blames clothes price rises on Budget wage costs
The retailer expects employee costs to increase by £73m due in part to rising National Insurance
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Nick @finch4077.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The Tories further attempt to turn the UK into America by the backdoor. Which is what Brexit was really about all along
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Callum Anderson MP @callumandersonmp.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Did you know that it is 200 years since Louis Braille invented the 6-dot tactile written code which has empowered blind and partially sighted people globally to read, write and communicate? Here's my name in braille. @rnib.bsky.social has loads of resources to help you learn braille. Get involved!
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WEFAIL @wefail.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
March of the Blue Ticks.
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Daryl: Part One @hotdonkeybear.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
World's smallest director
Opening credits to episode 1 of Return to Lonesome Dove (1993). Most of the frame is taken up by what looks like a wide shot of a frontier settlement. To the right of frame, centred is a woman on a brown horse. She's wearing a white blouse with dark hat, brown ponytail, and dark trousers. Centre frame in large white text reads: DIRECTED BY MIKE ROBE
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Musk’s latest intervention is objectively hilarious but the problem of a hideous human using his enormous wealth & power to promote lies & liars in the U.K., despite having no links to or other interest in the country, remains acute.
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Bohdan Pavuk @bpavuk.neocities.org · 26/12/2024
if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Well well. Happy Christmas in the end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1VH...
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Christmas Special 2024 – No More Jockeys with Alex Horne, Tim Key + Mark Watson
YouTube video by No More Jockeys
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23/12/2024
They're still trying to find a way to blame Gisèle Pelicot Telegraph]
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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
We celebrated half a year of answering questions by recording an episode at a party, while everyone else was just having a nice time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqWF...
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YHCIH AT A CHRISTMAS PARTY | Mark Watson | YHCIH E26
YouTube video by Mark Watson
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The Conservative MPs, which include the Shadow Business Minister Greg Smith, want basic workers' rights to holiday and annual pay scrapped. They are also resisting workplace protections against harassment, describing them as an attack on "free speech", that will stop "banter"
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Conservative MPs Want to Scrap Workers' Rights to Paid Holiday and Annual Leave
They are also seeking to overturn workplace protections from sexual harassment, calling them an attack on "free speech"
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Gutting to discover that Mishal Husain was in the final three for the job that went to Laura K and led to this kind of nonsense
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Andrew McDermott (Macca) @maccamk.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Star Trek S3 E12. Bashir to Sisko: 'You know, Commander, having seen a little of 21st Century, there's one thing I don't understand. How could they have let things get so bad?'
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
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