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I think the opposition is weak and vibes-based and only exploitable if you concede the point from the go. Clear messaging all the way and it will be fine. Now, let me take a sip from this hot beverage and check what Labour's track record is with clear consistent messaging.

Trying to shape any deal to appease them is pointless. You can either get it done despite them, on the regular terms, or you can't. That's politics. And the regular terms, including freedom of movement, Schengen, and single currency, are fine. Sell to the 70+% who are reachable, not the nutters.

Yes the people who think another luxury package of opt outs will be offered are delusional. I don't think it's actually a big deal. Basically there's a faction, call it 20% ± x, that will be rabidly against joining no matter what. They will make up reasons if there aren't any.

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The obligation to join the single currency doesn't have an enforceable deadline. So Sweden and a few others just have to say “It's fine, we'll get around to it eventually” but not actually do anything to advance it.

Maik Zumstrull @maik.zumstrull.net · 23/09/2026

Germany's AfD was initially a single issue bring back the Mark party. They pivoted to immigration when it turned out nobody cares.

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The wild thing is that the owners are pretty much intentionally burning it to the ground because they've somehow convinced themselves that "make 1000% or higher profit margins and everyone loves you for doing it" is a shitty business model and they can do better.

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Maik Zumstrull @maik.zumstrull.net · 22/09/2026

But the first thing that people trying to defend the (insane) British system will go on about is the "constituency link". Which is not a thing! Not even on paper. No one is even asking you to have ever visited the place.

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Maik Zumstrull @maik.zumstrull.net · 22/09/2026

Such a weird quirk that MPs or candidates are not required to live in the constituency they want to represent. Now, such requirements are typically easy to cheat where they exist – just rent a small flat, register, and never go there.

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Maik Zumstrull @maik.zumstrull.net · 20/09/2026

If nothing else, you know she's not gonna do that because it would involve actually doing stuff.

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Maik Zumstrull @maik.zumstrull.net · 20/09/2026

Merkel's total refusal to ever acknowledge a problem or try to fix anything is kind of radical in her own way. But that's very different from actively working towards a totalitarian fascist takeover.

Maik Zumstrull @maik.zumstrull.net · 19/09/2026

Pretty brutal for anyone who still thinks mealy-mouthed centrism and "compromise" with the far right is the answer to anything.

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That sounds right, they use cf-bounce.ilands[.]app on the other path.

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Pretty sure whatever they're doing is against the Terms of Service of everybody mentioned, as well as anti-spam law.

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The "resend bounce" phrasing might mean they try via Mailgun and/or Cloudflare, and if it gets rejected as spam (because it is) they retry with SES on a subdomain?

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Maik Zumstrull @maik.zumstrull.net · 15/09/2026

Yes definitely shenanigans. The SPF for ilands[.]app has Cloudflare and Mailgun, so I assumed the bulk mail would be Mailgun. Your sample was routed through a subdomain, resend-bounce.ilands[.]app, which has Amazon SES in SPF.

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Did you ask Mailgun (their outbound email hosting provider) for comment? I'm a little surprised they're not kicking this off their platform, if it's this blatantly abusive.

Maik Zumstrull @maik.zumstrull.net · 15/09/2026

I quite like “runs at least twice per hour until at least midnight” as a baseline definition of a real transit line. It's a useful level of service, not an unreasonable demand for more budget constrained systems, and excludes nonsense once-a-day vanity lines.

Maik Zumstrull @maik.zumstrull.net · 14/09/2026

People want real risks taken seriously, but aren't worried about obviously made up fake risks. We pretend this is a mystery.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm so tired of people saying things without thinking about what the words coming out of their mouth mean!

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Maik Zumstrull @maik.zumstrull.net · 11/09/2026

You're also wasting more than half of the depth, unless you have it positioned as a room divider and put books in from both sides. That said I do have some books in mine. Not space efficient but otherwise fine. Looks okay, too.

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Maik Zumstrull @maik.zumstrull.net · 10/09/2026

Anecdotally, I've noticed that people who tell me they find navigation “doesn't really work” never look at the screen. Which you should, a map view is often so much less ambiguous than the voice message. (And that's why you want the screen somewhere on the dash, not down by the center console.)

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

As we are processing the disastrous Saxony-Anhalt election result, we're being flooded by people explaining why everyone voted like that. And I wrote earlier that the explanations tend to be wildly disparate, and can't all be true: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

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We don't know why people are voting like that, and the results are terrible - Bert Hubert's writings

We get tons of articles and reports explaining why people just voted like that. However, even for specific elections, these explanations are wildly inconsistent and can’t all be true. In essence, we d...

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Maik Zumstrull @maik.zumstrull.net · 06/09/2026

The constitution also has a lot of very tight restrictions on state abuse of power. A lot depends on if courts will be willing to do their job. If they go Trump style – maximalist interpretation of any powers granted, decide the text is just kidding about any restrictions – dark times ahead.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

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2) and 3) are intimately linked, in that the BBC (the organisation that really matters in the modern environment) treats 'claims by rival parties' as the operating frame for how it covers everything. The failure from Labour and the Conservatives to say 'this stuff is bad' is really, really bad.

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Maik Zumstrull @maik.zumstrull.net · 05/09/2026

But saying stuff that is technically true, just totally irrelevant, has become a favorite disinfo tool. Partly because it short-circuits fact checking as a countermeasure.

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Maik Zumstrull @maik.zumstrull.net · 05/09/2026

Also it's a solar panel. You put it on the roof. You don't sprinkle it over your cereal in the morning. Even if there is arsenic or whatever safely sealed up inside the thing, it doesn't matter.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 04/09/2026

I have been a 1Password customer since 2006! My whole family is on it! I have moved multiple enterprises to it! Let me just tell you how stoked I am to move 20 years of shit because these people insist on being fascist assholes

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Maik Zumstrull @maik.zumstrull.net · 02/09/2026

Google: “Hey, you wanna use Gemini?” Me: “No.” “But we put it in everything!” “I noticed, and I hate it.” “What if it had a paid endorsement from one of the creepiest people you know?” “… … Were you bonked on the head or something?”

theverge.com

Google is sending MrBeast into the wilderness, armed with AI

MrBeast’s videos are about to feature a lot more Gemini.

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Maik Zumstrull @maik.zumstrull.net · 01/09/2026

“Need to check your bag for drugs” My guy, if someone wants to get blasted at an @originstorypodcast.bsky.social live recording just let them. They sound cool.

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Maik Zumstrull @maik.zumstrull.net · 01/09/2026

Very funny case of economist brain; his argument is, basically: But if you ban this, people can't do it anymore! Surely an unintended side effect of the policy? Here's the thing though: they banned it because they don't want people doing it. That's the policy.

Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

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“people who want ever-lengthening sentences in the harshest possible conditions are the fantasists, since they leave us all with only two options - return prisoners to society as dangerous as before, or keep them inside for ever. “ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Why are prisons overcrowded? Because no government will stand up to the tabloids | Zoe Williams

Whatever happens to the early release scheme, Andy Burnham needs to consider the possibility that sentences are just too high, writes Zoe Williams

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Preventing even one hospitalization for a CV event pays for quite a few £400 shots.

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A lot of health systems around the world are really reluctant to pay for this shot; at minimum, it's usually age gated. If this link is confirmed, the reduction in CV issues alone would probably financially justify giving it to everyone, before even taking into account the shingles savings.

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And the weaselly wording of “a more generous offer on Youth Mobility” sounds to me like they're saying, we think we can get those big concessions for only pretending to agree to YM, but still stopping short of actually signing up. Guys. Grow up.

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Matt Linton @amuse.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The first paragraph quoted is particularly delusional. Brussels has been clear that Youth Mobility is the minimum they need to see just to show the UK is finally willing to have an adult conversation. There are no concessions to be had “in exchange” for YM. It's just the ticket to get in the door.

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I applaud sites/services who try to go "Passwordless" for security reasons but PLEASE, I'm begging y'all: Stop going passwordless with "We'll email/text you a sign-in confirmation every time you sign in". This adds a bunch of useless friction to an already-solved problem!

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 21/08/2026

More broadly, the defining character of our era is "person who chose 'Contrarian' as a career but is traumatised by people disagreeing with them"

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Maik Zumstrull @maik.zumstrull.net · 21/08/2026

Bankruptcy doesn't mean it's free, it means the people who provided the money are out more than a trillion dollars, and thanks to the Private Credit craze, that's not just degenerate gambler VCs, it's pensions and insurance.

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Google too, however, it only shows if you do online check-in from a phone / mobile browser. On desktop, the button just isn't there. It's also a recent addition, I was still using a third party tool to get it into Google Wallet earlier this year.

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This may be too hard to implement because you'd need to keep track of all views, but a @bsky.app feature I would love is “Hide self-reposts of posts I've already seen”. Some of y'all are spammy.

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Yes I understand the headline is often written by a different person, no that doesn't make any of this okay. They can just do a better job, too.

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Maik Zumstrull @maik.zumstrull.net · 17/08/2026

Misplaced how? If there's a lie in the headline, I don't think that's okay if there's a correction many paragraphs in. If the headline is an insane take, I don't think that's okay if you rephrase it in a more nuanced way later. You can just not do either of these.

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“Huge row” is, of course, used in the usual British press sense: “One guy cares, and we made him up.” ☀️

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Maik Zumstrull @maik.zumstrull.net · 15/08/2026

You keep conflating "despite the restrictions, MV3 ad blockers mostly still work" with "people are lying about there being restrictions in Chrome". "If you wish to use uBlock Origin with all intended features fully available, you can't use Chrome" is a correct sentence.

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Maik Zumstrull @maik.zumstrull.net · 13/08/2026

Because “You should pay a living wage, but it's okay to be racist about it” is just not a position anyone holds? Obviously?

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Maik Zumstrull @maik.zumstrull.net · 13/08/2026

Yes, I have also used them and it was fine.

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Maik Zumstrull @maik.zumstrull.net · 11/08/2026

A pet peeve of mine about the "entitled" language is that big tech aggressively advertised these perks when hiring, and IMO workers are in the most literal sense of the word entitled to things they were expressly promised when recruited.