Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It took until the 2020s for governments to start legislating to tackle issues such as online safety, social media addiction and political disinformation. But are the regulatory measures solving the problems, or is a new approach required? Alex Heshmaty enquires www.infolaw.co.uk/newsletter/2...infolaw.co.ukInternet regulation: an insoluble problem? - Internet for Lawyers NewsletterThe idealism of the early days of the internet in the mid 90s, perfectly captured in John Perry Barlow’s Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, 010
Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 01/10/20262016: your life will be better with a blue passport 140
Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Where he will be lauded as a political prisoner and feted by Farage 251
Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Per HoC Library, the current average is just over one per day: 28,000 ÷ 68 per boat ÷ 365, but that doesn't make a compelling headline 010
Reposted by Nick HolmesHeard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Fact Check: this is not true, he is banned from our Island 832540
Reposted by Nick HolmesTyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 29/08/2026what a time to be alive (derogatory) 501573404
Reposted by Nick HolmesJoel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry. 7243894011284
Reposted by Nick HolmesRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026What 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. 13237771605
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Reposted by Nick HolmesSaganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/202641 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming. 392142915760
Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 12/08/20264static.klipy.comHamtaro Hamster CryingALT: Hamtaro Hamster Crying 010
Reposted by Nick Holmesbobbytoo @bobbytoo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Simple, to the point, no wasted words. 343116752433
Reposted by Nick HolmesMax B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 03/08/2026Not 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. 93934205
Reposted by Nick HolmesHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 30/07/2026the 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 35651116
Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 29/07/2026How do they spawn so many deranged idiots? I can't even watch an American movie any more without thinking half the cast are morons. 000
Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I think it's that you're using the AI shit. Just say no! 000
Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I don't know what you guys are doing wrong but Gmail search works fine for me. Anyone else? 100
Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Also cool that Musk would have only 5 votes rather than the 100 million or so he has now! 000
Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Basically all Americans apart from indigenous American indians can fuck right off back to Europe or wherever. 120
Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Yeah, and worse, the bald malignant one wants to buy 30% of Liverpool FC. 010
Reposted by Nick HolmesMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/07/2026One unleashes the *hounds* of Hell, not the gates of Hell, you illiterate moron. 1981207974089
Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Reminds me of my favourite lines from Steely Dan (in Pretzel Logic) 000
Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 24/07/2026It's true that Americans commonly call a lectern a podium (and M-W says this is hunky dory) but that hasn't changed the English language meanings of the words. Shall we just call what you speak American and be done with it? 210
Reposted by Nick HolmesJo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I’d forgotten how much obsessive parsing there was of this. Almost as much as the Last Supper tableau. 3256
Reposted by Nick HolmesSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026It'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. 601445307
Reposted by Nick HolmesaidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Boris 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 1572321890
Nick Holmes @nickholmes53.bsky.social · 17/07/2026It's not left vs right, it's that foreign money should get the fuck out of our politics 110
Reposted by Nick Holmesmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday. 115111492404