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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Friends, I'm turning 40 tomorrow. I can't celebrate now because I'm too damn busy with the election. I'll celebrate afterward. So, to help me celebrate now, please--oh, please--check your voter registration. It takes a few moments. It's easy. Do it for me: midterms.voteamerica.org/vote/verify/...

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Debates are for things like „should we build more houses“ not „are people I don’t like really English.“

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The government acting, broadly, in accordance with the wishes of the electorate is not mob rule, it’s democracy.

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A world where movies are made by AI is a world without “I’m walking here!” or “Alright, alright, alright.” It’s a world where Aragorn doesn’t break his toes kicking the helmet. Most of all it’s a world without “tears in rain.”

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Dr. Strangefella or how I stopped worrying about Russian nukes @doctorstrangefella.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If anyone is reading this from Spain or Greece or know people from those countries. Please write or encourage others to insist that the Patriots are donated. Be loud.

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I‘m not an albatross, I still know how to pronounce it. He’s just utterly incurious, only interested in his own circle of experience, utterly unfit for office.

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Regulations are written in blood. But also, regulations are necessary for markets to work. The tories have never behaved as if they understand either point.

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Me too, I knew a lot of people wouldn't care, but I thought it would make enough women voters stay home to make the difference. Still boggles my mind it didn't.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Early voting is already underway in some states. From now until Nov 3, I urge you all to... 1) Help get out the vote 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism We are the only ones who can end this nightmare.

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pax-nw.bsky.social @pax-nw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

👇In a nutshell.

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm actually not against this. Missile defence is an important part of modern warfare. But - it needs to be developed alongside our European allies, so we can share interceptors and technology with them.

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As ever, and for the last time in connection with lying shit Jeffrey Archer, we remember Monica Coghlan, whose life he destroyed.

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Movie: The fight between Max and Furiosa. It's so, so good, and like all good action scenes tells you a lot about the characters. TV: Yeah, gotta be the Daredevil hallway fight. Honourable mention: Every car chase in the movie Ronin.

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Was thinking that, billionaires weren’t planning on going to Mars in Carl’s day, the whole quote feels too modern.

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Irish bar in town has a donation box for them. Which surprised me because the town I live in is in Switzerland.

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’ve lived in a German speaking country for years, so when I have to speak “foreign” I default to German. Even when that’s very not helpful 🤷‍♂️

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sigh. It’s not the prosecutors job to “give them a fair shake.” That’s what the judge and jury are for.

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Absolute Unit” he may be, but can he work in a team? Does he understand tactics? How are his drone piloting skills? How does he handle adversity?

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But I think I’ve answered my own question. Within Europe, the UK, France, Spain, Portugal and maybe Italy should form a mini alliance with expeditionary capability. Let each country in Europe do the job in front of it.

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

France, Spain and Portugal might feel differently about that, as might the UK when we rejoin. And while we still depend on overseas oil, we should probably have the ability to protect those supplies.

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The US was the best in the world at that, and now they struggle to keep a carrier operating off the Straits of Hormuz. But anyway, we’ll soon find out what that 20% actually do.

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Quite a few of these specialists are going to be beardos or weirdos, etc. it’s kind of tragic. US victories in WW2 were not built on “high T warriors” dominating the battlefield, but rather the fact that US logistics were capable of pouring vast quantities of manpower and material into the field.

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hegseth is fucking around and will shortly be finding out. Thing is, modern warfare is complex. Yes, you need rough men willing to do violence. But you also need people who can rebuild a drone with their eyes closed or who know everything there is to know about getting supplies to the Indian ocean.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

IMPORTANT: There are 15 states that require in-person registration 28–30 days before an election, meaning this maybe your last week to register. Check your registration at Vote.gov.

vote.gov

Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s 2026, warfare is as much about drones and cyberwar as anything else. Might find you need some of those weirdos.

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah, we need to think about kicking them out, or creating a new alliance.

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It seems to me that the world has changed utterly since the brexit vote. It is obvious that the countries of Europe have to stand together. Yes, NATO is part of that, but the EU is the other half of that particular equation.

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think the only exception is the Z9, which is expensive, heavy, doesn't use SD cards and uses a different type of battery to other Nikons. It's the most beautiful camera Nikon ever made, but entirely unsuited to the travel/wildlife photography I do. Even if I could afford it 🙁

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Canon makes some good stuff, I prefer Nikon for cameras, but I always go for Canon printers. The annoying thing is that all Nikons work with external GPS modules, so they have the code to handle location data, they just need a $10 chip 🤦‍♂️

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

...which is very useful when ripping off, um, I mean, "adapting" other people's code and I need a pair of editors next to next along with putty sessions into a test box.

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bigger is better with screens, although I'm going to cause controversy by suggesting a pair of smaller screens :-) At home I use a single 30 inch screen, but in the office they have a pair of smaller screens (not sure how big). Two screens lets you spread work horizontally...

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Exactly, blend in with legitimate travellers rather than travellers who automatically attract scrutiny.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We can spend our lives debating the justifications (I more or less have); but we are wasting our time. What we need is a massive clampdown on the influence of money over politics, including lobbying transparency, campaign finance reform, an end to the revolving door between politics and lobbying.

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Gareth Owen 🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿(🇨🇭) @mib2259.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Infiltrating as an asylum seeker would be a pretty stupid way to do it. “Yes let’s send our agents via a route that might not work, might get our people killed and guarantees being registered by the authorities.” Classic Schneier style movie plot threat.

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