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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 2h

Zack Polanski

Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 3h

I'm sure it's all downstream of focus groups & polls, but I doubt any politician or strategist from any party has questioned whether making their policies increasingly more radical while quietly understanding that they will actually not achieve their stated aim may in fact be driving public feeling

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 3h

Journalists have sleepwalked into normalising this by covering asylum and illegal immigration as the same issue. Badenoch was calling for concentration camps in August - something that I think would've been a story for more than a day 10 years ago

Kemi Badenoch suggests asylum seekers should be housed in 'Nightingale' camps

The Conservative Party leader said "proper camps" need to be put up where migrants are kept safe, keeping them out of hotels.

news.sky.com

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 3h

Considering there's no (and never has been) pro immigration constituency in the parliamentary Labour Party, and the UK's only actually liberal party are putting out stuff like this, it feels like this was bound to happen

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🎃 Justin BOOber 🎃 @jww.wtf · 4h

Hoshoryu was gifted a giant soy sauce after becoming Grand Champion in London.

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 9h

See this IG post for a more detailed breakdown of what I did during this service

www.instagram.com/p/DP_cdTrDA-...

Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 9h

Finished the service on this Seiko. It features one of my favourite day/date quick change mechanisms, to change the date you press the crown, with a long press the change the day

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 1d

Neville Southall will be very disappointed

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure it will actually be much worse and they'll have him advertising life insurance and a free parker pen like with that uncanny valley Albert Einstein ad

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 1d

I just hope whenever he does die the BBC don't have some sort of horrible deal in place to carry on his narration via AI

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 1d

I can see the headline now "David Attenborough, beloved national treasure, was shot dead today by Nigel Farage"

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 1d

It's so obviously a statement that has been drafted (or at the very least agreed upon) by his employer

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 1d

Also especially stupid because many HR workers are themselves in unions...

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Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social · 1d

My first article for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social is about what Ricky Hatton’s death meant to me personally

www.newstatesman.com/culture/spor...

The ballad of Ricky Hatton

After the champion’s death, we must change how we treat the vulnerable

www.newstatesman.com

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 1d

The regulation was trickier than the NH35 as, the 6119C's regulating pins are fixed meaning the only way to change the hairspring length is by moving the regulator. I was able to achieve a delta of +/-11, which is better than the standard +/-20

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 1d

Today I'm finishing up this Seiko 6119C for a friend of mine. Since the watch is from 1976 parts are scarce, where a NH35 (the modern Seiko workhorse movement) costs £40 today, a replacement 6119C balance alone costs £60 and had to be imported from Palestine

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 2d

*apart from Millwall

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 2d

Above all, the police approach in that decade culminated in the unlawful killing of 96 people and decades of cover-up.

Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 2d

Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 2d

I mean both changed football massively

Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 2d

For one thing fans still aren't allowed to drink alcohol in the stands (banned in 1985)

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 2d

I know it's probably ChatGPT on Jenrick's part but that line in particular reminded me of this

m.youtube.com/watch?v=kA0g...

The Working Class

YouTube video by Sky TV

m.youtube.com

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 2d

This country's politicians are going completely mental. Turn off the phones!

a group of people are standing around a man wearing glasses and a hat that says ' abercrombie ' on it

ALT: a group of people are standing around a man wearing glasses and a hat that says ' abercrombie ' on it

media.tenor.com

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 2d

Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 2d

These are very cheap movements (£40ish) and are therefore much harder to regulate well than Swiss movements. +/-20 seconds per day is within spec, I managed - with much cajoling - to get this one down to an average rate of 10

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