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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 06/09/2026

So sorry. I had hoped that by now this wouldn't be happening anymore, but it feels like we are sliding backwards Stay safe

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 05/09/2026

A new Qatari donated "H/hair force one"?

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 27/08/2026

I often say we are going through the endarkenment, the age of opinion, an age of individual belief overriding established knowledge, facts, science and where a belief overrides the most basic human rights of whole groups of people...

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 27/08/2026

Is she really arguing that any form of bigotry is defensible as long as someone says "it is my belief that people like me are superior to <insert minority group> so this is a philosophical belief and my actions are therefore protected"?

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 26/08/2026

First Dolly, now Tim Curry... This week is taking a heavy toll

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 23/08/2026

They have a power replacement abacus somewhere

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 23/08/2026

Was just saying the same thing. A nice list of people to scrutinize Could some of their students now feel that they won't be given a fair chance, fair grading, because of the colour of their skin? Could they even complain to their universities about that?

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 23/08/2026

I suppose this is highlighting who needs to have their views (and probably hard drives too) seriously scrutinized

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 17/08/2026

Yesterday I made lasagna (freshly made ragu, parmesan bechamel, and some homemade pasta) for a friend. Not my best but it still tasted good

A rectangular glass baking dish with a multi-layered lasagna inside, parmesan grated on the top

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 14/08/2026

He seemingly abhors the idea of spending a second more in Clacton than is absolutely necessary

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 14/08/2026

He really hates spending even 10 mins in Clacton, doesn't he?

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 31/07/2026

Education is at the heart of many of our problems and civic education has been virtually non-existent. I remember in the AV referendum feeling appalled by the level of debate and discourse. The quality of the brexit referendum debate was worse still. I worry it would be even worse now

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 31/07/2026

Even Thatcher managed to champion at least one green cause, the ozone layer, and we stopped using CFCs. The ozone layer is healing, slowly, but it is healing and shows that you cannot just leave things to market forces. The problem was discovered, the cause found, and the world acted, it can be done

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 25/07/2026

Hope he finds something soon, I mostly know of stuff around the C# but maybe folks who follow me know of Java vacancies

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 17/07/2026

Does anyone happen to have any leads on any Java Software Engineering roles? 🙏 My partner lost his job, and has fallen into a very dark mental health spiral. It's a very, very bleak and tough time at home right now. Getting him back to work could literally be a lifesaver.

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 25/07/2026

Even if he had, he has stated his intentions to use that child for organ harvesting... Any sensible state would take that child away for him to protect it from abuse

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 24/07/2026

This worries me, raising children as "outsiders", and this raises the possibility of having to apply for pre-settled status or worse paying costly visa fees for their child... More reasons to drive people away

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 24/07/2026

Has anyone done an impact assessment on the children of migrants? Under the scheme a couple of immigrants could come here, have a child but that child is not a British citizen because neither parent had been here for 15 yrs so hadn't achieved settled status... Is that right?

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 24/07/2026

That's why the symbol is H, not because you named it Hydrogen but the H is for Harkaway

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 24/07/2026

This sounds like a plot from The Thick of It...

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 24/07/2026

Faragians are some of the nicest(*) people (*) Horrific

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 23/07/2026

They're being rebranded to Draft Dodgers?

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 23/07/2026

Please tell me his account has been hacked... It can't be real

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 23/07/2026

I always liked the quote "A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation"

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 22/07/2026

A government department engaging in false economies, looking only at reducing the headline cost of something at the expense of other parts of the economy, wouldn't surprise me.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

it has been an exercise in how a directed propaganda campaign can be highly effective, and seeing otherwise liberal people fall for it has disgusted and outraged me. People who lived through and fought against an extremely similar campaign of homophobia in the early 1980s, even!

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 20/07/2026

Her role as minister could be described as nandyscript so does she really exist?

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 20/07/2026

She stayed as Home Sec? What?! How? What's her secret? Is she holding the party hostage? She must be really determined to punish immigrants

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 20/07/2026

Noooo the rapid change of PMs was keeping the lectern building industry alive

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 20/07/2026

I know Fiona Bruce just said "surrounded by all the gilt" when looking at the pics of Starmer and the King but I immediately parsed it as "surrounded by all the guilt"

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 20/07/2026

If it's with Mahmood they could have tried a version of Common People: "I wanna deport foreign people I wanna do what our "hero voters" would do Wanna pander to their "legitimate concerns" Even if it screws our economy too" "Well, what else could you do?" I said, "we will screw trans people too"

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 20/07/2026

He could have gone scorched Earth with a "Burnham down the house" dis track

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 19/07/2026

Laura, like any good journalist, would have pointed out that hypocrisy? Right? Given him a really hard time?

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 18/07/2026

Ah, I was wondering just yesterday whether he'd continued on the Tech Bro path or changed his stances on anything (not curious enough to go looking). Looks like once you start down the dark path forever will it dominate your destiny

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 18/07/2026

Conversations that could easily go wrong: Minister X: what about fossil fuels? Minister Y: Burn'em? Burnham (distracted, just hears his name): yeah? Minister Y: ok cool

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 17/07/2026

Have we started declining in percentage of owner-occupiers? If so, is that going to affect politics in the near/mid term as people feel priced out of it?

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 16/07/2026

I'll add that to my thought: CaaS - Corruption as a Service or Cronyism as a Service

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 16/07/2026

The history of places, you were a mining town, a steel town, a fishing town, a textile mill town etc. They built themselves into the identity of the town. That identity is being lost and, yes, it was a masculine coded identity. There has always been a town vs gown thing, class playing a part?

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 16/07/2026

I assume she must have some influence/hold over the party to be able to still be in the cabinet or that "we must try to be just racist and xenophobic enough to pander to Reform voters rather than stand up to Reform's heinous views and hope the left/liberal types will vote for hs" still holds sway

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 15/07/2026

We scored too soon... If we'd scored in the very last minute the "defend so deep that we're in the stands" tactic might work

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 15/07/2026

Yeah, if we'd sat back any further we'd have been in the stands

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 15/07/2026

I'm not a pro footballer so don't know how hard it is but sitting that deep and inviting shots doesn't seem like a sound tactic for 25+ mins

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 15/07/2026

We are at the "Please keep shooting at us for the rest of the match" phase, it is our tradition

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 15/07/2026

I've said this for years. It would only take a few matches for behaviour to improve

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 14/07/2026

Somehow I don't think it's that ridiculous to expect he will phone Infantino and demand the USA be declared the winners, or have ICE deport all the foreign teams, or sign an executive order...

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 14/07/2026

The BBC Archers should be on their farm anyway... Some crops probably need harvesting

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 14/07/2026

But, hear me out, instead of a fast penalty to one side at a decent height what about running in, stopping, doing a bit of a shuffle, jogging in a bit more, doing a little dance, stopping dead in front of the ball and then fluffing it straight at the keeper?

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 14/07/2026

It was broth-takingly good

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 14/07/2026

That joke is from a Consommé-te professional

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Ian johnson @simplyian.net · 14/07/2026

I'm sure there are loads of Nandyscript ideas flying around DCMS

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