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Duncan Jones

@the-dunc.bsky.social
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Analyst with Measurelab. Cricket, cycling, and cooking enthusiast. Some other things in there as well.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
NEW The FAFO of Harold Godwinson: how the Bayeux Tapestry tells a moral tale and a constitutional story Looking at a great work of medieval sequential art By me at the Empty City emptycity.substack.com/p/the-fafo-o...
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The FAFO of Harold Godwinson: how the Bayeux Tapestry tells a moral tale and a constitutional story
Looking at a great work of medieval sequential art
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.
Map of tanker’s route
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These anonymous MPs saying it's 'electoral suicide' to tinker with the triple lock. Exactly the type who got us into this mess: unwilling to lead, unwilling to recognise reality for fear of offending voters, unwilling to solve long-term problems if it presents the slightest short-term risk.
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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
First the real extremists are the actual Nazis you fucking idiot. Secondly how is "radical right" more "Orwellian" than "far right"? That doesn't even make sense.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 16/09/2026
"Guys, before we put this live, should we check if there's any symbolism to the closing date?" "Nah, should be fine."
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nick Robinson on Today is literally talking about ‘legitimate concerns’ after second night of organised men dressed in black - sorry ‘protesters’ - mobilising en masse in another littoral town. This is how street fascism is normalised
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Will the AfD winning in Saxony-Anhalt I've taken the paywall off the post I wrote last year about how memories of WW2 are being distorted by them and other radical right parties. "Never again?" samf.substack.com/p/never-agai...
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Never again?
Memory entrepreneurship and the radical right’s assault on the postwar order
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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is what happens when centrist parties run with the far-right talking points until they’re entirely normalised — the only people who win in that scenario are far right extremists and everyone else gets hurt (yes, every time, trust me, i’ve witnessed many austrian elections)
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 05/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Patriot Platform, a new far right group launched by Tommy Robinson’s right hand man Daniel Thomas (AKA Danny Tommo) has blockaded the port and several roads in Dover. The masked men are from subgroups of PP, including Sussex, Essex, and South East Patriots Here’s all you need to know.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Reform UK, which promises to "defend free speech" at all costs, has again banned Byline Times from its conference
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
And finally
Why do you keep banging on about
Monkey Cage?
My anger is not about what I have lost - it is that we are watching a regressive, aggressive media & political class destroy so many possibilities and I have been surprised at seeing close up those who will happily appease them and go beyond that if necessary. It is an anger I find far more in neurodivergent people - I just don't understand the typicals
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
HG Wells is alleged to have remarked "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race”. You could see this shocking chart as an index of civilisation. A country which gets this issue so badly wrong is likely to fail in many other ways.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Here‘s the real story from @nafeez.bsky.social The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The 15 things on list before seeing Avengers: Domesday Bede Gildas Life of Alfred Morte d‘Arthur Anglo-Saxon Chronicle History of the Franks Two Lives of Charlemagne Bayeaux Tapestry Geoffrey of Monmouth Henry of Huntingdon Julian of Norwich Magna Carta Maitland Stubbs’ Charters 1066 and All That
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Here is Gaslighting PART TWO - about how the anti trans gaslighting gave them victory (though that didn’t mean the end) #gaslighting #translivesmatter #lgbtq #bbcradio4 #psychology www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po...
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To the End - Gaslighting Part Two | Robin Ince
Where were we? Are yes, we’d just got to here. This was when I would start having people come up to me after gigs and say, who is that perso
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This Reform press release is currently the lead story on the BBC News website
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!
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Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
New Scandinavian wings at Wandsworth and Pentonville jails have seen a 45% fall in assaults, 57% drop in self harm and halving of staff absence rates - fascinating results from trial into a more rehabilitative approach to prisons observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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‘Scandi wings’ offering pianos, pool and tea parties coul...
A unit in London’s Wandsworth prison has been transformed using methods from Sweden and Norway that prioritise rehabilitation over retribution
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Good to see this argument being made more now after two decades of me repeating "but it's a labour market problem" while feeling like I'm banging my head against a wall.
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Duncan Jones @the-dunc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Ozymandias the origin
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This moment asked so little from them. All they had to do was pay their respects, express their sadness and join the chorus of horror about the manner of Widdecombe’s death. But even that was evidently beyond their moral capacity inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...
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Farage just can't stop himself behaving abysmally, can he?
Ian Dunt: Reform is turning a tragedy into a circus
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
It is the dawn of a new era. Hear our battle anthem. Welcome to the new InfoWars.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵
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The bonfire of the humanities
150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 16/06/2026
fox buying roku and flooding its locked-in service with right wing garbage is going to do tremendous damage to over-60s and it's not something this government will regulate so i think it's incumbent on people my age to set their parents up with a proper streaming box and lessons on how to use it
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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force.
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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Amazon UK entities' pre-tax profits up from £455m to £555m. It pays corporation tax at an effective rate of 7.1%, headline rate is 25%. Profits shifted through intragroup transactions. UK retailers can't compete with hard-wired systematic tax avoidance.
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Amazon’s main UK arm handed £7.6m tax credit as profits soar to £355m
Tech company received infrastructure relief as its five biggest UK divisions generate £32bn in revenues
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I think this might be favourite comment ever on a post.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Nigel Farage is a threat to national security inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...
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Nigel Farage is a threat to national security
This is what he does. It's who he is
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
By 1936, Nazi Germany had the 3rd largest whaling fleet in the world. Much of it operated by Unilever. The result would be the near-extinction of the Blue Whale, all in the quest for something worth more to the Nazis than gold: Margarine. Find out more on this week's Untitled History podcast!
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Antarctica: The Nazi Whale Oil Mission | Untitled History Podcast Episode: 16
YouTube video by The Untitled History Podcast
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ShellsTheMerryZionist @stayscathed.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Really feeling the centre cannot hold so it’s time again for this gem
The Second Coming
W. B. Yeats 1865 - 1939
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
New post: "Stolen Revolution" Coverage on Iran has focused on Trump, not what's going inside the country. So we talked to the authors of a brilliant new book on Iran's recent history about the war, the regime and the chances for change. (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/s...
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Stolen Revolution
Can Iran escape its history?
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 26/05/2026
Do people understand yet that this was never about reasonable concerns. That no compromise would ever be enough for them. They want to be able to actively discriminate against us. They want us not to exist.
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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...
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Paramount is apparently trying to suppress copies of "Only in Monroe" from appearing on other social platforms by filing frivolous copyright notices, even though the show was produced by a public access TV channel and doesn't use their intellectual property...
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Happened to us at The Mayday Network as well — this is insanity.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Restore is on 7% in that Makerfield constituency poll. I wrote this week why they're a threat that needs to be taken seriously. And why splitting the Reform vote isn't worth the normalisation of what is, in effect, a neo-Nazi party. samf.substack.com/p/is-andy-bu...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 23/05/2026
Palantir claims its software saves medics time they can spend on patient care. But leaked internal NHS documents have revealed that Palantir software is 10 times slower than alternative tool 🐌 goodlaw.social/t009
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BREAKING: Palantir software is 10 times slower than NHS tools | Good Law Project
Palantir claims its software saves medics time they can spend on patient care, but an NHS leak shows the spy-tech firm’s products put doctors and nurses in the slow lane
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
UK Palantir CEO throwing his toys out of the box in a very unbecoming way here. There is no compulsion for any public body to be a Palantir customer, and the fact that he presumes there is seems very telling www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Palantir hits back at Sadiq Khan after £50m contract with Met police blocked
London mayor accused of ‘putting politics above public safety’ for rejecting deal to use AI in intelligence analysis
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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Family reunion visa grants are down 43%. Afghan resettlement arrivals down 77% compared to a year earlier. Both schemes have effectively been shut since last summer/autumn.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
No-one gives a damn, but this is a testament to our complete moral collapse on this issue.
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Duncan Jones @the-dunc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
How long before Agile drops Sprints and adopts Speed runs?
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
American money is behind so much of the UK far right, from little Tommy to anti-abortion activism. It’s not even hidden
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The Labour leadership contest should be a big, meaningful debate about ideas, not a madcap knife fight followed by a coronation inews.co.uk/opinion/wes-...
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Wes Streeting and his soap opera won’t save us
It is a disaster to find ourselves back in the leadership chaos of the Tory era
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