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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

'edit with copilot' is more irritating than that paperclip was. The imposition of pointless AI into everything is just wasting time and effort and planetary resources.

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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lots of police hanging around Tottenham Court Road tube. Wonder if they are looking for red diesel thieves?

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Billionaire Brexiteeer and Man United owner says he has "lost confidence in the UK"... A man who is so 'patriotic' to our country that he doesn't even live here! He lives in Monaco to avoid UK taxes, owns several luxury properties." via Jay Church

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Adrian Edmondson @adrianedmondson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A message to the people in #70Up: we have grown up together, and I’ve always watched with fascination, but the current series fills me with such unspeakable joy and grief at the same time. Thank you. A true epic. I salute you x

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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So Ratcliffe's Ineos is stopping production due to gas prices. The BBC mentions that despite being a supporter of brexit he's been Monaco resident since 2020. They don't mention *why* he moved to Monaco... According to reports at the time it was to avoid paying large amounts of tax. Some patriot.

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Lunabelle @lunabelle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

@messmonstergigi.bsky.social You seen this ? Never been, never would (obviously) but I love that they're getting bad publicity.

S/s of post on fb about shittyspoons polluting local river.

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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Reading the news is just depressing. Misanthropes throwing large sums of money at Reform. Britain First having remigration demonstrations. Knuckle draggers having 'stop the boats' rallies. And all this time... silence from our government.

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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11 I'd been at a meeting and was in a taxi to the airport in Germany when my partner called telling me about the first plane. Second was on the airport news screens. Business as usual at security. Hadn't put two and two together until my plane landed late and the pilot explained why...

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Albumism @albumism.com · 11/09/2026

Nirvana released "Smells Like Teen Spirit" as the lead single from 'Nevermind' 35 years ago on September 10, 1991 album.ink/NirvanaNvrmnd

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Dave Mueller @dave-mueller.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Oh I saw this the other day and it cracked me up. Too true!

A screencap of a tweet that says: I'm 50. All celebrity news looks like this: 'CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA? K-SMOG AND BATBOY CAUGHT FLIPPING A GRUNT'.

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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Left the UK on 2nd August on a motorcycle trip to Nordkapp. Went via Harwich, then NL, DE, DK, SE, FIN, N. It took a week of quite hard riding to get there.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

“The Third World War is already underway, has been for a while, but remains unrecognised because it doesn’t follow the patterns we know.”

chadbourn.substack.com

The Third World War Is Here

And it's not what you think

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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A brief view of a rainbow encouraged me outside... And there are small drops of rain for the first time in weeks...

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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Driving in town, slow traffic, car in front food packaging out of the passengers window. Then 2nd time (short horn beep from me). Then 3rd time. Long horn blast. Then driver throws rubbish out his window. Another blast... Driver gets out of car and confronts me complaining about my aggression.

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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This is really bad news. Putting Science/Technology into the same ministry as Culture, Media and Sports... It's large enough and important enough to require its own ministry.

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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

What I hate about the 'culture wars' of the last ten or so years is how it has sapped my generosity of spirit. I find myself reading bad news about someone whose views I despise and find myself lacking the empathy I once had.

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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Every time I use copilot it fails to meet my low expectations of it. Good old Microsoft.

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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Resigning and standing. Waste of money.

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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Farage claiming he's a longstanding advocate for crypto and gifts buy no influence. It doesn't pass the 'sniff' test; -on the one hand he claims 'he doesn't do computers', - on the other hand he claims he has his own views on crypto. It's bullshit. One of those statements is a lie (or both).

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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

End of an era! The BBC is switching off the 198kHz R4 service tomorrow. I've listened to this all over (bits of) Northern Europe in the 90s when I did a lot of driving. Oh well, time moves on.

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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Jake Richards on Radio 4: asylum hotels damage social cohesion. Fuck Off. Fascists rioting damage social cohesion and pandering to them encourages riots.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/06/2026

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

Internal mechanism
The True Source of Value
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What you see are the eggs
What produces them is the factory itself
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Egg
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Shareholder Value = 3 eggs
Goose was not valued
Goose value
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Eggs do not lay eggs
3 → 74
Increase = 71
It was the goose that created value
74 - 3 = 71
Goose value
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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Surely when we have a new government all of our existing problems just disappear. That's how it works isn't it?

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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Well, what a fucking mess. Burnham will undoubtedly do a worse job than Starmer but with more confidence.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The lesson also is that people who hate Reform really hate Reform and that's the majority of people in this country. I've never believed the "Nigel Farage will be our next PM" thing but now I don't believe it even more than ever.

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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

That Reform UK electoral campaign in Makerfield in pictures:

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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Our discourse is now so corrupt the Russian firebombing of the PM’s home, and the Kremlin-backed lies about Starmer using rent boys, are ignored by supposedly patriotic conservatives We have proof that the country is under attack and they are so lost in culture wars they look the other way

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The UK can't cope with the Russian plot against Starmer

Arson, lies and cowardice

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 16/06/2026

It has been ten years since Jo Cox MP was murdered by a far-right extremist while serving her constituents in Batley and Spen. Today, we pause to remember Jo and her belief that “we have more in common than that which divides us”.

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Whirled Bizarre @whirledbizarre.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Support traditional data centers.

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A_Nurse__🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @iamanurseiam.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Who knew that all it took to make Nigel Farage disappear Was to devote a barely half decent amount of time investigating his finances More of that I think

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The Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

📺 CLASSIC CLIP: Akala leaves Tommy Robinson lost for words Rapper and activist Akala absolutely nails the question of race and class in the face of racist Tommy Robinson 👇

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I don't usually much like or post memes like this, but honestly, this image is just priceless...

A dauert Penguin cover with the title "The Count if Dodgy Crypto", showing Farage in period costume.

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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Saw Tricky at Bristol Beacon last night. Good version of Black Steel with Marta singing. Strange decision to light the stage with a murky blue so you could literally not see anyone apart from the keyboards and guitarist. Good gig albeit a little short (maybe an hour?).

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 13/05/2026

To anyone considering a leadership challenge I say - put the country first, not your own interests or those you might claim are the interests of the party. Keir Starmer has a massive democratic mandate from the public, nobody has the right to seek to depose him, nobody. buff.ly/cI7lfBP

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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I had a motorcycle stolen about three years ago (first in over 40 years of riding). It made me a little paranoid about bikes. I use a monimoto tracker which I can thoroughly recommend. For the last couple of weeks it's been warning me about batteries getting exhausted <Cont >

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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

If Brexit was such a good idea why is this the result? Don't vote for the party led by the man who damaged the UK economy so extensively today.

Graph showing how FTSE has lagged other indices.

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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Watching something ridiculous on Netflix... 'The heatwave continues in Oslo, the temperature reached 88 degrees yesterday...' Since when does Norway measure temperature in Fahrenheit?

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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I see projections of vote share in various councils in the local elections and frankly can't believe so many are willing to consider reform. When you read about the mess being made in their existing councils. Maybe it's what we need though, reform voters experiencing reform in (local) government?

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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Beautiful afternoon. Spent a little of it on an (almost 30 year old) motorcycle, briefly feeling like I was in my early 30s again...

Green Kawasaki sports bike in front of a dry stone wall in the Cotswolds.

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StephenPacker @stephenpackeruk.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Don't be like me. Despite visits to battery production facilities in China... The lure of a £50 quid clone battery Vs Bosch original at £200 was too much. Of course it was shit and failed on first use, of course the vendor claims it's my fault. Don't cheapskate on batteries.

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