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Douglas Hall

@mrdouglashall.bsky.social
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Building and managing internet infrastructure since 1994. Currently leading teams operating a regional XGS-PON network, with a focus on performance, reliability, and scale.

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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Here’s hoping.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Does this site have fewer climate deniers, racists, flatearthers, pro russian supporters, disease deniers, and other morons than the other place?
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Hi there, if you message me here, I can find out what’s going on with your road. Or you can drop an email to ask@lightningfibre.co.uk and the team can check the plans. (I’m on the network side, not sales, just trying to help you get a straight answer.)
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RELEASE EPSTEIN FILES Fella 🇺🇦 🇺🇸📎🦋 @thehillshaveayes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I am no fan of either but those stickers on the back of teslas will get mileage
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Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @oksii33.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Russian military stuffs carcasses of wild animals with explosives for subsequent drone drop, - Para Pax God, they are f disgusting m0nsters🤬
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
As a poncy southerner I was thoroughly surprised and delighted the first time I visited Liverpool. Fantastic city, and great people.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Steed has finally discovered the fledglings…
Cat scratching at window with bird table and baby starling on the other side of the glass.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Splicing fibre in a field being watched by a very curious sheep.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
And yet you give the middle finger to the person pointing out that the duck may be in distress?
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
In related news I am currently suffering the effects of opiate withdrawal symptoms. Ugh, fml, etc.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Restless legs medication is one of life’s little ironies. They all have terrible side-effects some of them are addictive and some initially work but then make the symptoms worse and guess what? You can’t stop them straight away due to withdrawal symptoms, effects. And RLS itself is a living hell.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Typical clueless american.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I was out on Friday evening with two Americans. They’d have been fine.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Don’t forget Harambe, that’s when everything started to fall apart…
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Windy🇺🇦 @sayravem.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
We're collecting $5500 to buy Navara for my brother who serves in the 68th, Pokrovsk. ⭕️ $3887 are still to be raised and there is very little time left. Please join in by sharing the post. ℙ𝕒𝕪𝕡𝕒𝕝: TuttiBap@Gmail.com send.monobank.ua/jar/5eNa31jZNy
send.monobank.ua
Безпечний переказ коштів
Надсилайте безкоштовно та безпечно кошти
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
What are these? Do they help? My RLS has recently taken a turn for the worse and medication is no longer working.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
You selfish knob.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Gutted to read about Chris in the news today. What a legend, who selflessly gave his life whilst trying to disarm russian mines and protecting countless others from the same fate. www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/7550d36...
telegraph.co.uk
Former British Army soldier killed in Ukraine
Investigation launched into death of Chris Garrett, 40, who was clearing mines and unexploded bombs near Izyum
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Wait, what, why?
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Until I managed to quit the habit, I used to sneakily use mine on the train on my daily commute. I don’t think anyone noticed, and if they did they never said anything.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I have recently been using Aliexpress to evaluate some cheaper Chinese versions of the cripplingly expensive (£5K and upwards) fibre optic test equipment we use at work. You can buy pretty much anything from there. Including x-ray mammogram machines. 😵‍💫
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
My car, just returned from the garage after 356 days(!), seems to be very confused. The remote app thinks it’s offline because the car hasn’t been driven for more than 4 days, but won’t let me change any settings because it thinks I’m currently driving it. It also thinks it’s still in Cambridge. 🙄
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
An anniversary worth marking. I'm sure we're going to see the very people who have trashed its legacy seek to appropriate WW2 today - so let's remember what was really fought for: peace, a more united Europe, a land fit for heroes (mark 2) and the defeat of fascism.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"At Pulse Fibre, we have never raised our prices mid-contract. Our customers deserve reliable service with no surprises or hidden fees. This is what sets us apart in the industry" What nonsense. Thank you for at least highlighting that many other ISPs have fixed prices for contract duration.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I have lived and worked in the USA, worked for 5 US based companies and flown to the US dozens of times since 1993. I stopped going to the US when he got elected last time around. No intention of going back there ever again.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
It's all a bit fucking mental. I had very low expectations for this administration, but I can't bear to see what fresh hell he brings each day. Screwing everyone, everywhere. Just not everyone realises it yet.
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Windy🇺🇦 @sayravem.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
🔱 $765.17 collected for pickup truck for 68th unit, AFU, Pokrovsk. ⭕️$234.83 to go to cross the first 1k mark. 🟧🟥🟥🟥🟥 Thank you. ℙ𝕒𝕪𝕡𝕒𝕝: TuttiBap@Gmail.com
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I’m sure I’ll do them again one day…
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I really don’t have the time to make them at the moment, sorry. I currently spent the majority of my time working away from home.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
It’s an Easter miracle!
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I don’t know why stories like this about russian behaviour continue to surprise me with their depravity. Awful.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I’m not sure who else needs to hear this, but threatening a potential employer with legal action after being rejected—especially because there were stronger candidates and you haven’t found work in four(!) years—only makes you appear desperate and reaffirms that we made the right decision.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I figured posting my ID card might indicate who I am, but perhaps not. 🙈
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I figured it was a good idea to actually get some proper training on fibre installation rather than just winging it, especially with my role.
Splice tray with four fibres spliced to four pigtails.
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Go to hell
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
He is massive already, and so handsome.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I deleted my X account for good. I hate what the world has become, but I particularly loathe the ketamine fueled cunt who runs the hollowed out husk that was twitter. No more will you get my ad revenue.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
and ffs, I see someone has found my bmac link this evening (I thought I deactivated that) and paid for one, so I guess I do need to get round to printing some more.😮‍💨
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
It was me. But I have almost no free time at home, spending 70% of my time travelling for work these days and I still have a backlog of cards I was supposed to do last December.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Last time the orange gibbon was elected I worried that it would change what is acceptable for politicians to do without oversight. This time it’s actually happening. Reconciliation not hate but another 4 years of this? I really don’t know how the US will recover from this.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I’ve been on BlueSky for less than a week and at least 55% of the people following me are fake accounts (bots, scammers, etc.,). Literally worse than X.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Why are you using Natalia Poklonskaya’s photos for your profile pics? Are you another (russian?) scammer on Bluesky?
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Another blue sky scammer, this time using an ethot’s profile pic from X.com. GFY.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Scammers are taking up residence on bluesky. Sigh.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I love that Lee Anderson is so ham fisted at social media. He just comes across as a massive arse every time he posts. At some point even Reform supporters will twig this.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Devon is where the original settlers left from, but America’s ills are firmly rooted in the 20th and 21st centuries. God knows we have enough problems of our own in the UK though, and if Reform ever gets into power I’m sure we’ll get similar regrets aired from voters with buyers remorse.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I think it’s reasonably clear from the context it wasn’t a direct quote, but it is an ok summary of the sentiment on his essay on “Why Socialism”.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
A friend of mine from Virginia, sadly now deceased, said back in 1994 that his was the last generation that would be better off than those before us. I’ve seen little in modern America to persuade me that was an incorrect observation.
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Douglas Hall @mrdouglashall.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
He was actually warning that it was happening in 1949. For those with an attention span longer than most seem to have on social media these days: monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/w...
monthlyreview.org
Monthly Review | Why Socialism?
Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.… Clarity about the aims and…
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