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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Haven't they been fighting that fight for 20 years or more?

Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

97% survival rate. So 3% fatality rate even with treatment, assuming for today we don't run short of antibiotics. So that'd be, what, 200 million deaths? More than Covid, Spanish Flu and the First World War put together. That sounds kind of bad?

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Who says a drone attack couldn't happen in the continental United States?

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Could you actually turn someone's directed energy weapon back onto them?

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I note the Senator is also prefacing the name of the country with the definite article - a well documented tell for querying its sovereignty. I do not believe he is a stupid man, so, is he parroting Kremlin talking points because he really believes them, or for some other motivation?

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One of many reasons the Vic/Oz greens lost me some years ago.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And yet he did practically nothing to rein this administration in.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mine is paid for three hours. As far as I'm aware she doesn't shower while here, but she does short change me on the hours when we're not in. She thinks I don't know. I do know; the Arlo doorbell timestamps her arrival and departure. But as long as she does the job, I don't mind (much).

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Were the Goods unmarried and merely cohabiting? Seems unlikely given they'd assumed a common surname. I see Becca Good is referred to as Renee Good's partner rather than her wife. Does Minnesota not recognise same sex marriage in this context?

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Curious that the brother of the late Mrs Good is appointed trustee for her next of kin / estate, rather than the surviving spouse. The document also mentions her children, parents and siblings as next of kin, not her widow.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

(Ie 'we will follow where they go, we will learn their little secrets and will know the things they know...')

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean, its not impossible the decision to release on bail was made by Inspector Javert...

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A surety or deposit is still available to the bench, though its pretty rare. I think I've only done it once.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There could be lots of reasons. I won't specify them here, but, use your imagination, Mr Angry.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Consider a Canadian or Irish whisky instead.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I probably shouldn't comment publicly, so, reposted without comment.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Does this go nuclear? And do we escalate or do they? We'll have to wait for the next episode to find out. (Our conventional weakness may mean we have few options if allies fail to support us...)

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's similar but not precisely the same scenario. Sharp intake of breath at the end of Ep1.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Still think Florida won't be close? There's a poll today from a reputable outfit showing it as a dead heat, 45-all. Only one poll but... #bluewave

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I thought it might grow on me - it wouldn't be the first time I've instinctively disliked a change simply because of the cognitive bias in favour of what I know. But their treatment of respected community leaders is shocking.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

... for now anyway. Are people moving their tents to another village? I saw something about Hank Social?

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don't have the time or inclination to do a deep dive i to the data governance issue, but what I do know is (1) the new interface is awful, (2) respected community leaders whose views I trust are up in arms and (3) Recon is responding to (2) by banning them. I've deactivated rather than deleted.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is actually quite an interesting point. So is it Recon's position that by putting pics in your gallery you've chosen to make them public? Let us know where you get to with the ICO.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Pains me to say it because I've had a lot of fun on and through Recon and its themed predecessors over the past 25 odd years, but think I'm done. I can forgive the new interface being awful. I can't forgive this.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

'Illegal' is generally considered to mean a violation of the law, not a breach of a websites terms and conditions. Are you trying to alienate the communities you claim to serve?

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Banning diesel exports will not help. It would lower the price somewhat in Texas and the Midwest, but drastically push it up everywhere else, including the Northeast and US West Coast.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You'll get used to it. We pay twice that here.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Of course, Bush and Ashcroft (and Comey) started this, with this whole detention without trial in a jurisdictional grey zone caper.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Secretary of Defence. There is no such post as Secretary of War.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Courts are incredibly slow to do that, at least here. They generally take the view that a public judgment that records the fact of the contempt is enough. In fact, you might enjoy this one - the fury of the judge leaps off the page! tinyurl.com/3xc8t425

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

(2/2) ... without putting global oil prices through the roof. It had the side effect of enriching India at the expense of Russia while still keeping diesel made from Russian crude by Indian refineries available to Europe and elsewhere. Which we could live with.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Of course, Russian refineries having these unfortunate accidents does mean Russia has more crude available to export - since it isn't in a position to refine its own crude. One of the reason to target sanctions on product rather than crude was to squeeze Russia... (1/2)

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's a bit more nuanced than that because Russia could sell its diesel to China, India, et al - if it had any to sell. It's a comparatively minor factor in what we're seeing, but there's a kernel of validity in it.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Thomas, Alito and Roberts are all on the wrong side of seventy. There has to be a decent chance the next Dem President replaces at least one of them (and Sotomayor). Unless of course the red team keeps the Senate in November and Trumpty Dumpty gets to replace them.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

NB - this might be a good time to recall that Trump purported to retrospectively un-pardon some people on the basis Biden had signed the pardons with an autopen and/or had not known or approved of the documents purportedly signed in his name.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

At some point SCOTUS is going to have to explore the limits of the pardon power. Can a President pardon himself on the way out the door? Can he pardon a co-conspirator? Can a pardon be voided for bad faith / improper purpose / bribery type reasons? All this and more from January 2029.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Everybody talk about... pop muzik!

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ohio has gone pretty red of late too, but does seem to be in play this time (maybe down to candidate quality). I'm old enough to remember when Obama won both Florida and Ohio, twice.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yeah. NH hasn't been polled that much and Sununu is popular. Collins also has a history of coming from behind in Maine. But Ohio and Texas looking good. No chance Florida is in play?

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Is that assuming Dems keep NH, GA and MI and that NC is in the bag?

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Merely saying 'if elected, I will pursue Policy X, which will result in every household benefiting to the tune of £Y', isn't bribery, is it?

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yeah I mean leaving to one side that the Treasury hasn't got a trillion dollars, I cant see this is all that different to 'no tax on tips' or 'if elected I'll build this road'. As opposed to paying inducements to individual voters.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I was just thinking that. Wasn't going to type it out loud, but...

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A trillion here, a trillion there...

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Does this count, though? Isn't there a difference between offering something to a particular voter (to vote, or to vote in a particular way) and saying 'if I win, I will do X?'. I'm not an American lawyer, but I suspect this is on the right side of the fuzzy line.

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Vaughan B-W @vaughanbw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Is it actually blatantly illegal? How is it different from any other election commitment, like a tax cut or saying he'll build a wall on the Mexican border? Isn't the bigger problem that it would cost a trillion dollars?

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