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Nick Holmes

@nickholmes53.bsky.social
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Interested in law, legal tech, economics, politics. Posting here in a personal capacity. See also @infolaw.co.uk for infolaw and other law resource update feeds

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Scott Wortley @scottwortley.bsky.social · 11h
10/10. No notes.
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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fact Check: this is not true, he is banned from our Island
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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 29/08/2026
what a time to be alive (derogatory)
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
What do these corporations all have in common? -SpaceX -Palantir -RTX -Northrop Grumman -Microsoft -Nvidia They are all corporations whose stock Trump just purchased — and who do business with the Trump administration. We must not become numb to this blatant corruption.
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Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.
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bobbytoo @bobbytoo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Simple, to the point, no wasted words.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 03/08/2026
Not just another AI movie. An autonomous delivery robot drove off the end of a pier in San Diego and quickly sank. The company called it an isolated navigation error. Was this the first example of AI committing suicide due to workplace stress? No, it was pier pressure.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 30/07/2026
the four stages: 1. Allister Heath's columns are not real 2. Allister Heath's columns are not serious 3. OK, they are real and serious but it's too late to do anything about them 4. Our only hope is to find a way of adapting to Allister Heath's columns
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Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I don't know what you guys are doing wrong but Gmail search works fine for me. Anyone else?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
One unleashes the *hounds* of Hell, not the gates of Hell, you illiterate moron.
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I’d forgotten how much obsessive parsing there was of this. Almost as much as the Last Supper tableau.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
It's driving me insane. The govt spends £1.4 trillion a year. Borrowing estimates are often by tens of billions over a year. But we're supposed to imagine money is budgeted to the last penny.
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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Boris sharing articles referring to Ed Miliband as the worst possible choice for Foreign Secretary. A reminder that when Johnson was foreign sec he was busted getting a blow-job under his desk, had Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe jailed in Iran & got drunk & "accidentally" attended a KGB house party
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Irony dies
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Finland President Alexander Stubb: "Trump, don't ask us anymore — you go into Venezuela & Iran, you don't ask. You make claims on Greenland, you don't ask. You think you can run the show in the Middle East, like Iran? Not without us You will lose. Every time."
Finland President Alexander Stubb makes a statement to the press at the NATO meeting. (Photo by Dogukan Keskinkilic/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Brian Larkin @derrymanc.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Colombia v Switzerland being referred to as Charlie v The Chocolate Factory.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/07/2026
Trump’s World Cup intervention has ruined the game | Robert Reich
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Trump’s World Cup intervention has ruined the game | Robert Reich
We try to teach our children to follow the rules. Now an American president has chosen the opposite tack
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Is the triple lock unaffordable? No And the group who it's most in the interest of to maintain it is young people Speaking to BBC #PoliticsLive earlier this week
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/07/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “I’m not listening to the dark predictions of an imminent A.I. jobspocalypse,” writes Zeynep Tufekci. “LLMs can do many things with astounding proficiency, but they can’t do the vast majority of human jobs without skidding into disaster here and there.”
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Opinion | Why A.I. Won’t Steal All Our Jobs
Congratulations. You’re irreplaceable.
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Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
How many brazillions is that?
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
It's not the biggest issue right now but just think what the 250th could have been under a normal president who didn't destroy it by making it all about him/herself. Could have been really cool!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/06/2026
Peter Doocy claims "people are still coming out" to Trump's 250th fair -- even as the camera shot shows clearly behind him that almost nobody is there 😆
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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Babe wake up, new industrial band five-album discography just dropped
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Dr Michele V @micheleveldsman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...
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Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination
By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The government needs to leave X. EVERYONE needs to leave X.
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Nigel Farage is a demagogue who has little regard for facts or the truth. Journalists covering him have no such excuse app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73749/...
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Nigel Farage is a dangerous demagogue—here’s how to stop him
The Reform leader and his media cheerleaders have cynically exploited the murder of Henry Nowak.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Say what you will (you already have...) about Blair's intervention but if did at least force me to finish my long promised piece on Pardogatto Progressivism, and the risks for progressives of becoming the parties of stasis not change. benansell.substack.com/p/pardogatto...
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Pardogatto Progressivism
The switch in radicalism from left to right is the key challenge of our age
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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 30/05/2026
Laundered cash - the gargantuan dark matter of our global financial system. The unknowns that the authorities seem content to remain so. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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John Lanchester · Squillions: Where’s all the cash?
If it were an industry, money laundering would be the third biggest business in the world, behind commercial property...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/05/2026
Swimmers urged to keep out of Hampstead Heath pond to protect nesting swans
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Swimmers urged to keep out of Hampstead Heath pond to protect nesting swans
Nature groups say cygnets and their parents need to be left alone by people trying to stay cool in heatwave Nature groups have pleaded with swimmers to give wildlife a wide berth after dozens of people swam in a nature pond on Hampstead Heath among nests of baby birds. Swans and their 12-day-old cygnets were disturbed by hordes of splashing revellers in the north London park on Monday as London reached record 35C temperatures. In one video, a swan was seen poking an unhatched egg with its beak after it fell into the water during the chaos. Continue reading...
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Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
"Fuck off" is the only appropriate response
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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Zack from December must be annoyed with Zack from now. And vice versa. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Greens’ Polanski prepared to work with Burnham but not Starmer ‘to stop Reform’
Green party leader says he could see potential for political partnership with Labour under Andy Burnham
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 14/05/2026
The rush to silence Black voters ahead of the 2026 election is stone cold racism. It's Jim Crow 2.0.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
This is how it works, Reform voters… They hook you in with the racism and then they screw you over with the corruption. You’re their meal ticket, their useful idiots. You get less than nothing in return.
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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:
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Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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Understanding the main drug groups in family proceedings
A free and practical guide for family law professionals Marie Law, Director of Toxicology at AlphaBiolabs, explores the growing complexity of drug misuse in family proceedings and why a clearer understanding of the main drug groups is essential for legal professionals. Drug misuse remains a recurrent feature in family proceedings, often shaping decisions around safeguarding, […] The post Understanding the main drug groups in family proceedings appeared first on The infolaw Partner Showcase.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
NEW: Lebanon is Gaza 2.0. That’s what Israeli ministers are saying in their own words. Believe them. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/lebanon-wa...
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Israel is waging war on Lebanon. Why is the world calling it a "ground operation"?
I’ve known Lebanon for two decades. What’s happening there now – the killings, the destruction of towns, the mass displacement – is an invasion. Wh
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Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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If digital triage misses substance harm: the legal risk of assessing patients remotely
The rush to embrace telemedicine and other forms of digital healthcare tools occurred as a result of demand and necessity. However, the move away from in-person care to a more remote, automated approach is not without its drawbacks and has implications on health professionals meeting their duty ethically and under law. The implication for patients […] The post If digital triage misses substance harm: the legal risk of assessing patients remotely appeared first on The infolaw Partner Showcase.
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Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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Drug and alcohol testing: a summary of testing options
Marie Law, Director of Toxicology at AlphaBiolabs outlines the drug and alcohol testing options available for family law professionals, and how a new, free guide can help identify the most appropriate testing method for each specific case. Drug and alcohol misuse is a common feature in family court proceedings, with implications for safeguarding, contact, and […] The post Drug and alcohol testing: a summary of testing options appeared first on The infolaw Partner Showcase.
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Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
infolaw Newsletter: What’s New? March 2026 #Artificialintelligence #Onlinesafety
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What’s New? March 2026
Online safety roundup The social media ban for under 16s which came into force in Australia at the tail end of 2025 appears to have opened the floodgates to similar regulations being planned across the world, including in the UK (although the initial Lords proposal has been voted down by MPs). Following are some of […] The post What’s New? March 2026 appeared first on Internet for Lawyers Newsletter.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 06/03/2026
This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this. The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”
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Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
His sentiments have a power that weasly Keir consistently fails to achieve
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Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
infolaw Newsletter: From access to understanding: making legal information usable in the age of AI #Legalinformationinstitutes #Openaccess
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From access to understanding: making legal information usable in the age of AI
For more than two decades, the legal world has celebrated a major achievement: open access to law. Judgments are available online. Legislation is searchable. The idea that primary legal materials should be publicly available on the internet is no longer controversial in most jurisdictions. But availability is not the same as usability. A database full […] The post From access to understanding: making legal information usable in the age of AI appeared first on Internet for Lawyers Newsletter.
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Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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Peter Scott @dwpete.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
From my chemistry degree. Water is universal solvent, wine is the universal solution
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