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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trump is a goddamned coward and a traitor to his country

Obi Wan Baloney @shepharo.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Short-termism means you never have to say you're sorry. It also means you keep making the same mistakes over and over again.

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Obi Wan Baloney @shepharo.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

All forms of publishing risk the possibility of spreading intolerance. Physical and broadcast publishing has an inherent cost, with gatekeeping and a regulatory legal framework. Social media, however, removes the barrier of cost and regulation to publishing, and the gatekeepers are […]

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Obi Wan Baloney @shepharo.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch still campaigning to ‘Stop the Votes’. #KemiBadenoch

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Obi Wan Baloney @shepharo.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I’m going to say it: I like Burnham. That speech is the best I can remember since Geoffrey Howe’s resignation (which took down Thatcher). If he carries on in the way he has indicated, he will have earned my vote. #burnham #labour

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Actually pretty funny when you consider that they could benefit significantly from this.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Who knows, maybe it'll work. But if he continues to perform at this level, they're more likely to look like belligerent bores.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am so happy about what I am hearing that I have lost the ability to speak

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Wizards of the Coast has really been dropping the ball on a whole new segment of D&D players: Retirement Communities. You got millions of people all hanging out in the same place all the time with nothing to do. Get them into TTRPGs. Make large print versions of key books, oversized high […]

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can we just take a moment to appreciate that this (very good) podcast by two trans women talking about superhero comics is called eX-Men.

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

These guys are protesting about 'groups of fighting age men threatening local areas'. You've got to admire the irony.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This week on Origin Story: The life & ideas of John Rawls, the most celebrated liberal philosopher of the post-war period. These are some of the most beautiful arguments in progressive thought. We do it as a one hour crash course. Everything you need to know. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...

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Obi Wan Baloney @shepharo.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Noel Fielding has gone from looking like a svelte young Adam Ant to a podgy middle-aged Robert Smith. Maybe it’s all the cake. #bakeoff

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.

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Obi Wan Baloney @shepharo.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Windows again running updates when I didn’t actually ask it to. I have an interview shortly, so this really doesn’t help. Why? #windows

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Bruno Nicoletti @bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Don’t make the mistake of being brown and staying in a UK hotel, as the mindless racist thugs may have a go at you. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/sep/…

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Obi Wan Baloney @shepharo.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/robertsaunders.bsk… An illuminating thread on past history that seems highly applicable to the current political situation around protests against immigrants. #ReformUK #portsmouth

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Obi Wan Baloney @shepharo.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Idea for new Mastodon feature: ability for a post to be excluded from your feed if it contains a particular hashtag or word. Any takers? #mastodon #tapbots #IvoryApp

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

You have to choose. You can't be nice to everyone. Appeasing corporations and billionaires means abandoning everyone else. When it comes to policy, it's us or them. And for far too long political leaders in this country have sided with them. If Burnham is to survive, this is what he needs to change.

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Iris Volk @funkvolk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2025

Tag war gut 😌

Meme, father asks: "Are ya winning, son?"
Son, sitting at the computer, answers: "I'm making 11 people laugh on mastodon"

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If you worry alot about AI, China's Robot Olympics is here to reassure you that things are going to be OK.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Non-lunatic media coverage of Reform policy announcements has become routine by this point: one par explaining policy, then a par explaining why it is ineffective/counter-productive/unrelated to the problem it is intended to solve, then a quote from a Reform spokesman about a conspiracy of lizards.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New Origin Story on Section 28: the law which halted progress on gay rights and drove it into reverse. Nearly every moment in this story - the moral panic, the press hysteria, the bad actors, the political cowardice - resembles what is happening now to trans people.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This would be a very good move. Crucial to think deeply about what model we should use but also to allow a big open process for how we arrive at it. Otherwise we make it easier for critics to brand it a stitch-up. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Labour MPs will push Burnham to back voting reform in first 100 days

Exclusive: Nearly 100 Labour MPs support commission on changing the system used for Westminster election

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Obi Wan Baloney @shepharo.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

RE: mastodon.ie/@NothingIsReal/11716124… Curious to hear it before the riff. Almost sounds like some of their later songs that came out of the trip to India.

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Obi Wan Baloney @shepharo.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Just got voicemail from 2 weeks ago. Not much use getting messages two weeks late when you’re trying to get a job. Apple vibe coding on iOS fails me again. #voicemail #iPhone #apple #vibecoding

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The depressing thing about the US isn't Trump really. He's just a grotesque. It's the complete failure of all the things liberals believe in: Congress, the judiciary, the press, voters themselves, all persistently unwilling or unable to stop him. It's the failure of an entire society.

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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

I didn't have any followers when I started @pixelfed. I didn't even use Instagram that much. What inspired me was the chance to build a better home for photographers, hobbyists and professionals alike, because IG kept getting worse. Never expected my first real open source project to go viral […]

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Obi Wan Baloney @shepharo.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

To me, it seems like Labour has done a reverse New Labour in terms of leadership changeover: they had the Gordon Brown-esque ill-communicator Starmer first, and have swapped over to the more charismatic Blairish Burnham for their second phase. Seems more successful this way round (so far) […]

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Kristian Kiehling @kristian-kiehling.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

"How Russian propaganda works abroad, in one sentence per layer: For the right: "Russia defends tradition." For the left: "NATO caused this." For the pacifist: "Weapons prolong war." For the cynic: "Everyone lies equally." For the tired: "It's complicated." […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Obi Wan Baloney @shepharo.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Surprising that nobody is drawing the dots between what has happened to Professor Jason Arday and what happened to DrDavid Kelly in 2003. Both were hounded to the point of suicide by the British media. Maybe because one of them is white and the other black, it’s not seen as a similar case […]

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Obi Wan Baloney @shepharo.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

If the green parties of the world can’t win an election this year, when the whole world is literally on fire from man-made climate change, then I doubt they ever will. #manmadeclimatechange #GreenParty

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/08/2026

First I was banned from X/Twitter. Then Facebook banned my newsletter. Then X/Twitter banned me permanently. Now YouTube disables my channel the week of my book launch. Was it something I said? 👉 www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Stack of books. The nerd Reich, Gil Duran.

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Obi Wan Baloney @shepharo.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Reform have attacked immigrants that travel via illegal routes, then immigrants waiting to have their applications processed, before moving onto settled immigrants, and finally seem to have run out of road there. Now moving onto attacking disabled people and the poor. What’s up next on the […]

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Obi Wan Baloney @shepharo.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Somebody needs to join the “World is on fire because of climate change” story to the “We need to build AI data centres that cause climate change”story. Just one media organisation doing that would be nice. #ai #llms #manmadeclimatechange #FossilFuels

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