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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 6h

My wife, an Intellectual Property lawyer gets these all the time.

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 11h

Freeman on the Land? Or just a conventional nutter?

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 12h

Retired colonel in the snug at the Fox and Hounds surely?

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 13h

Is this where you find the roast dinner that suits you best? If so, sign me up; if not, my wife might have issues with the concept :)

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 13h

What a world we live in that a Government minister has to say this on the record. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

His message to the largest companies behind the world's most powerful AI systems was: "Listen when your scientists warn of serious dangers. Investigate unexpected behaviour. And if you cannot adequately control the risks, do not release the system."

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 22h

I must have missed that serial from the original Dr Who.

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We've spent 4bn on the arms for Ukraine program with US defense firms. One imagines we will be doing that less.

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I'm sure Lockheed Martin and Raytheon will be delighted at losing billions in current and future revenue in order to prop up a presidential mid-term campaign

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Creative shirt on sale outside Anfield today

A T-Shirt spelling out the word Cheats in the Oasis script with the tag line (What's the story) tainted glory?

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Deliberate phrasing? :) I entirely agree with the analysis that Christian Nationalism is adopting the Cross as a symbol of a largely mythical identity, much as they adopt the Flag of St George and the term Anglo-Saxon as symbols of that same imagined past.

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Does that not also depend upon how important those voters think this idea is?

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'm sure that's true, but Reform's high street policy is literally survival of the fittest, they oppose regulating betting and vape shops for exactly that reason. There is zero reason to think Reform would back struggling local shops.

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'm not sure I'd classify No Kings as small local pockets focussed on local issues.

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I mostly agree, the 2024 manifesto Wealth Tax, Hike NI, Nationalise everything etc was definitely a left-wing agenda that could have attracted the same coverage. Since then though, the Greens have risen in the polls and the Corbynistas etc have joined and begun arguing their slate.

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And yet the State is far too big and useless

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm not especially trying to argue with your argument, but doesn't Leviticus predate Roman influence in the area by a few hundred years at least.

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I forgot one will miss you. Serious and thoughtful voices in a time of, well, not many of those.

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Errm. Yes. The *best* possible outcome of not doing so is that you are both uncomfortably reminded of a night a million years ago. Other outcomes are worse.

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Also as someone who is immunocompromised. Go get your flu jab.

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Amazing (and not repeatable here).

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I was astonished at how poorly he didn't answer the questions. He's obviously on a hiding to nothing actually taking a position on the existence of Israel, but he was just unable to reset the discussion onto Labour.

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Exactly this. This quote from Mike Berners-Lee is totally at odds with how people actually treated Covid-19 science at the time.

Prof Mike Berners-Lee, the chair of the National Emergency Briefing, said the threat from Covid-19 was easy for the public to understand when they were trusted with the facts.

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In order of? Lots of possibilities Adherents Conflicts Attributed to Logical Coherence Number of Deities Age of establishment ....

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Because it isn't about money, it's primarily about power and status. Money is just a way of keeping score.

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think it is also relevant that the President has shown that he is prepared to cancel a company's government contracts just because the boss wasn't obsequious enough. Perfectly reasonable thing for Bezos to say on TV

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Young right-wing grifter from Kent.

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They are population pyramids, in this case showing what share of the data viz professional population's earnings falls into each salary band. See www.populationpyramid.net for examples of age distributions

populationpyramid.net

Population Pyramids of the World from 1950 to 2100

A population pyramid shows the age and sex distribution of a population. World in 2026: total population 8,300,678,395. Median age: 32.1 years. Interactive charts from 1950 to 2100.

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It would also seem to make the gift of the family home, well, to the family, a more realistic prospect for many.

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I pretty much only listen to BBC ones on Sounds, the rest are Spotify.

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Interestingly, not what AI thinks (gets kicked from bsky). I got this from the 2 transcripts I could find. To the extent that this is a fair analysis, I wonder if part of the reason Burnham's sounds better to a bsky and/or policy-focused audience is precisely because of the detail.

An AI summary of the two speeches that concludes, "Badenoch's is the clearer argument with little substance behind it. Burnham's has far more substance but is looser and harder to follow."

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How on earth could a Met officer in the 90s have missed organized criminal activity? We will never know.

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That's fair. Not achieved a whole lot.

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Happy tenth anniversary to the time the Reading Chronicle didn’t know what a plant room is.

Crane disruption
AN enormous crane that will lift a room full of plants into a 14 sto-rey building will close town cen-tre roads in October.
Station Road and Garrard Street will be shut and Friar Street and Blagrave Street reversed between 5am October 15 and 5am October 17. The temporary measures will allow contractors working on the Thames Tower to install a 500 tonne crane that will put a prefabricated plant room onto the roof of the building.

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Niall Litchfield @nlitchfield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Costings are (sort of) in that someone else is accountable. "How does this thing work?" rather than "what does it do?"is on the engineers.

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