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Tony Kennick

@thegreatgonzo.uk
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Expat Bournemouthian in Sheffield Digital Swiss Army Knife. Please donate to my Movember campaign movember.com/m/14624506?mc=78

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Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social · 6h
; ...𝘸𝘩𝘺 does it rain cats and dogs? why not squirrels? foxes? frogs? never drizzles snails and wasps; no downpours of polliwogs or floods of rhinoceros; why no deluge of hedgehogs? #7syllablesquad #7syllablesentence #rain
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 6h
Had a whole bunch of adverts for AI D&D (boy are they targeting that wrong). Initially I was puzzled, really can't see any of my roleplaying friends going for a robot DM.
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 06/10/2026
I am not an expert, but my gut feeling is that the fact that bombers went home to America doesn't make us less safe. 1) Bombers are not defensive aircraft
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 05/10/2026
No matter how much you separate criticism of Isreal from Anti-Semitism there will always be the issue that somewhere in the middle of the Venn Diagram is “Zionism”
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 04/10/2026
Trying to get my head around this
The POPINJAY CAVALIER A SWASHBUCKLING COMEDY WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY

QUENTIN TARANTINO LONDON'S WEST END 2027
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In my quest for minimalism, I have made a relaxing game of balance 🧘 Please try it and let me know what you think? It’s real quick, and I’m proud of this one.
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A quiet black-and-white nonogram that starts at two by two and eases up to fifteen.
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 04/10/2026
Whoever the Fairford Five turn out to be, on top of whatever sentences they get, they should also be thanked for showing how hollow Hegseth's bravado is.
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 04/10/2026
Posts I am struggling to put into words: Celebrity canvassing in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. Seeing women look out for each other from the other side. Plague isn't the problem, but I do still worry about if bird flu is going to be a problem.
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 04/10/2026
90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street. Definitely feel we need more of that energy again these days
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 04/10/2026
In a bit of a funk at the moment. Trying to work my way out. Feeling like all my attempts to be a better person are failing.
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 02/10/2026
Today's amusement is that Grand Central have proposed a Newcastle to Brighton service that would go via Sheffield. If this came of it would allow me significantly more opportunities to say "The Brighton Line" in everyday life.
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 02/10/2026
Down to my last 100g of holiday cheese. *sadface*
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 01/10/2026
Flu jab quite spiky this year. For once I wish I had ordered the less spicy version.
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 01/10/2026
Been given a potential opportunity to make the best out of job hunting today by an advert. If I take it, by ringing up a friend who reads audiobooks and quoting the income the ad suggests I could make I would expect be rewarded by a generous portion of his most beautiful laughter.
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 30/09/2026
In the early 20th century the “Moffat Tunnel” was created as Denver's railway breakthrough the Continental Divide. Whereas is the early 21st century the same name was given to a very entertaining way to drive the story through particularly wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey plots in episodes of Doctor Who.
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 30/09/2026
I was watching the Jack Smith hearing and wondering why the nameplates said Mr this or Mrs that, but then I realised that they can't possibly use a non-gendered title like Senator.
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 30/09/2026
The movement of water is so complex that the mix of lasting and ephemeral patterns make really convincing rain one of the hardest things to find in film and television. That and really well written parts for older women.
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 30/09/2026
Rumours are circulating that the reason Donald Trump has been complaining about the Fairford suspects being bailed is he is considering having them extradited.
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 29/09/2026
Gp Capt Dr James Stagg, Shawn the Sheep, and Elinor Dashwood will return in Avengers: Doomsday. Although I might have got a few things conflated, it has been a long day.
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 29/09/2026
I both stand by this position and also find it hilarious that if you try and correlate the various public statements (especially by the US Executive Branch) and that the perpetrators are out on bail you get to the idea…
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 28/09/2026
Apple TV should get Gary Oldman in for some very much past the last minute ADR on this season of Slow Horses of Lamb telling his troops that the Gloucestershire branch of the NFU is better at their job than them…
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 27/09/2026
Hey look, while the "Open a window" school of journalistic ethics is important, I feel that today's RAF Fairford incident should have reminded people that occasionally all that reporters can do is count them out and count them all back again.
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 27/09/2026
Black dog was already staking, now post show blues (and like days until the next one kicks off) Send memes!
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 27/09/2026
The Far Right are against Speed limits Food safety regulations Clean air laws Gun control Lifesaving at sea I think we need to say louder and more often. The Far Right want to kill kids.
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 24/09/2026
Put some extra stir fried vegetables into my charred corn chowder to up its 5aday quotient. Not the worst choice I have ever made cooking.
A white bowl filled with a creamy brown liquid. Floating in this is much corn, some carrot, pak choi, and a spoon.
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 23/09/2026
The temptation to get a screwdriver out and fix the issue with the retractable belt barriers that means they have to be twisted when deployed. It is irking me.
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 22/09/2026
Usually I say that one of the only things I don't like about living in Sheffield is the distance from the sea. But I realise a lack of beautiful little old arcades of shops is a small negative mark.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Absolutely incredible work here
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Because Trump is mad at our closest ally, Canada, he decided to buy potash (a key fertilizer ingredient) from one of the world's most notorious cruel dictators, Belarus' Lukashenko. Typical for Trump, he didn't bother to check before announcing his big deal. Belarus doesn't have any potash to sell.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 18/09/2026
I see Tom Watson has done the Full Nick Clegg an joined Palantir.
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 18/09/2026
Ewww
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 16/09/2026
Been a needlessly stressful 24 hours. Had some glorious cheese, so feeling much better about stuff and things.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I find the most interesting thing here is that at no point does this post ask for advice, and yet the replies are full of it!
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 15/09/2026
Rail wonks, I assume the EMR exclusion is inbound only? I know there is LNER acceptance in place for "scheduled cancellations" but one would hope it could be automatic for unscheduled ones as well until they are unkerfuffled www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Your cancellation’s covered: new scheme to help stranded rail passengers arrives this weekend
From 20 September 2026, if a train is cancelled, passengers can get on another operator’s service and carry on their journey without paying again.
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 15/09/2026
Can any of you get a message to the relevant people at Civica ? Translate into whatever level of politeness† appropriate to your relationship, so long as it communicates "come along now old bean [ungendered] Android 16 has been out for over year." Much appreciated.
"This app isn't available for your device because it was made for an older version of Android."
From the Google Play page for the "Modern.Gov" app by Civica UK Ltd
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 15/09/2026
youtu.be/R0DGY3iH9ao?...
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"Stormtroops & Freikorps Again" - Marsh Family parody of "Time Warp" from Rocky Horror Picture Show
YouTube video by Marsh Family
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I just noticed I'm on the @Guardian front page again, after almost a decade. PROS: That's nice CONS: My article is not 'more opinion' so much as it's 'my summary of multiple studies and a dense evidence base, synthesised into 800 words'. I feel that's an important distinction
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 14/09/2026
So, low stakes question of the day. While I know it isn't technically correct I have always called cooking eggs in the pan with #whateverelse by making one or more depressions, cracking the egg(s) in, and putting a lid on or over to keep the steam† in "coddling" What is the right term?
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 14/09/2026
I (containing multitudes natch) can think all of these things: Cracking eggs on a flat surface is better. All of the performances are great. If Tobias had considered adoption Almut could well still be alive at the end.
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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 13/09/2026
“You can’t call us transphobic! That’s the other guys!” they shout as they insist on deeply transphobic rhetoric and policies. “Vote blue no matter who because we’re the good guys!” they insist, even as those “good” guys argue to deny trans healthcare and invalidate trans existence.
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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
other thing about all this shit is if shitting on trans people to prove your bonafides to conservatives the winning play, isn't trans people being mad at you a good thing, making you look more authentic to the voters you're courting. why you looking for "shit on trans people but they smile for it"
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CharliCenter-CX @cambrianera.radical.town · 12/09/2026
The trans rights position is very straightforward: Simply being trans should not exclude you from any part of society. If you can't get behind that, then maybe you really ARE a bigot.
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Now at over £17, 000 which combined with gift aid makes it over £20,000 for an outstandingly good cause. It's been such a lovely thing watching the total climb. Good luck James!
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 13/09/2026
I have been writing this post about the economics of open source, on and off, for 13 years. I wasn't expecting to end up at "Microsoft should send corporations a huge bill" but nothing else we've tried has worked. seldo.com/posts/nobody-pays-for-ope…
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Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.com
Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make that supply worth having.
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 13/09/2026
“OpenAI IPO will not happen in 2026 amid AI safety fears, Sam Altman says.” A cynical person might suggest that cause and effect are muddier here than that.
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 13/09/2026
What I actually did today was discover my phone camera app had a burst mode, write some perl to refile the pictures it takes alongside single stills and videos, and then used the photos it had taken to make silly videos and gifs of a cat. Because caturday.
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 13/09/2026
For a moment today I considered starting a podcast. Not for the usual reason, that as a man in tech it is the rough equivalent of getting a sports car when middle aged. But because having them on as guests is probably the only way I can actually arrange to see some of my ridiculously busy friends.
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Tony Kennick @thegreatgonzo.uk · 13/09/2026
I got half-way through trying to put together a question about why the government doesn't seem to be planning to nationalise the rolling stock leasing companies. But I got stuck halfway though a ROSCO P. Col trains pun but as you can see I couldn't crack the middle bit.
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