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I highly recommend Gabor Matté: Scattered Minds.

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I would add “Some kind of Fairy Tale” by Graham Joyce. Wonderful book.

When you use a VPN you are tunnelling through your provider’s network, so you can’t use their DNS. You are redirected to the VPN provider’s DNS, which may have removed various types of server to improve privacy.

As to this an attack on a US city, possibly a false flag, possibly from Russia or Iran, and he declares a National Emergency which will last the rest if his pitiful life.

American politics is so wierd.

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He’s talking about a Pearl Harbour moment to rescue his presidency. An attack arranged for his benefit. It’s not hard to understand. It’s all about him.

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Nah, it’s a cardboard box containing blue passports printed in France.

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You forgot that it’s all made and staffed by Palantir.

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That’s the most capitalist thing I’ve seen this year. “How do we monetise bullying?”

Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Liz Truss was the inevitable consequence of the path on which Margaret Thatcher placed us.

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If only there was something like a climate crisis to unite the party….

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The pitch isn’t to the electorate. It’s to the potential donors.

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Is he bleaching his skin to be more white?

Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Take it from me, an audiobook is no guarantee as to how names are pronounced. There is often no communication between reader and author.

Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh no! What about our deal with the Faroe Islands?

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Every party that narrows the band of acceptable orthodoxy eventually ends in schism.

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Yes, we’ll punish the young who are paying the taxes to fund pensions for the old. It didn’t work for the last government, or the one before, or any of them, but it just might work for us!

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Thankfully she has as much chance of implementing any of this as i do.

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Smiling as you announce misery for others.

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There are existing systems already implemented and working successfully in NHS Trusts. We could adopt and build on what’s already working.

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Hang Brexit round his neck like an albatross.

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It's like the Lottery. They don't promise you'll win, but they promise you the chance that you'll win, and they don't tell you how small that chance really is.

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So nothing on Brexit, then?

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The absolute collapse of the Conservatives is the consequence of the changes made by Thatcher in the 1980s and the follow through by Blair. There isn't a moderate sensible voice left in the Tory Party. All that's left are head-bangers and dupes.

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There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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If the BBC becomes yet another streaming service then we have completely missed the point. Yes, the leadership and bias needs to be addressed, and trust restored. That’s prerequisite. But as an instrument of soft power the BBC is an absolute bargain and enables the UK to punch far above its weight.

I’m liking it more and more.

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If Stayin' Alive Had Been Written in 16th Century

Party like it's 1577. It's a mark of a good song that it can be re-arranged for a different era. youtu.be/3zGf7_YL70M?...

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In other news, an lA generated episode of Mrs Brown’s Boys went unnoticed…

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I think that to some extent the example in the White House has set the bar for a certain type of male. I won’t call them men. Men don’t do that. Maybe because of him they thought they could get away with it. We all need to know that they won’t.

Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think it’s fair that if you’re going to go for an agenda this radical then you want the electorate to buy into the programme. Doing it without a vote is nonsensical. He’s set out his stall, though.

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It’s like we’ve flipped from persecuting migrants to persecuting benefit claimants.

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It seems to be run by people who understand what things cost, but fail to understand their value.

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I used to watch it with my niece, and do all the actions together. Wonderful stuff.

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I think he means wealth extractor, not wealth creator. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

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Do you want a flaky friend that hallucinates numbers to help you with that spreadsheet?

The Microsoft Office cash cow is dying. To many good alternatives exist that do not shoe-horn AI into everything.

Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There’s a right wing cabal at the top that needs replacing.

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Mike Shevdon @shevdon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m still waiting for him to be photoshopped into a Russian hat and pasted onto Red Square like the BBC did with Corbyn.

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These are the people who knew that putting lead in petrol was dangerous to children, but it made the car run smoother.

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The purpose of this is to make sure that when the Democrats take control, there’s no money. It’s exactly what the UK Conservatives did to the Labour Party.

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Meanwhile there are great opportunities for enhancing shareholder value.

It’s the answer to the question: How do we pay ourselves more of the money that has been donated to the party?

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