Aidan Skinner
@aidan.skinner.me.uk
Open Source Open Rights Open Banking Open Supply Chains Open Labour
Open Minds
Open Containers
Open's a verb
GNU/Accelerationist
Dusty black coat red right hand
(He/Him)
Open Minds
Open Containers
Open's a verb
GNU/Accelerationist
Dusty black coat red right hand
(He/Him)
OTOH The UKs miniature violin sector has never had it so good
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
OTOH The UKs miniature violin sector has never had it so good
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Every single time I see a picture of Zohran Mamdani I get intensely jealous that I am not as stoned as him. 🥦
Happy Thanksgiving from the ice cream aisle.
Thankful for our city.
Thankful for our city.
November 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Every single time I see a picture of Zohran Mamdani I get intensely jealous that I am not as stoned as him. 🥦
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I've seen people scoffing at this as a "photo op." And I think it might be a photo op. It's a chance for people who need these services to see their new mayor and make eye contact, they can take photos. They can hear his promises and hold him to account too.
I think it's a good kind of "photo op."
I think it's a good kind of "photo op."
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I've seen people scoffing at this as a "photo op." And I think it might be a photo op. It's a chance for people who need these services to see their new mayor and make eye contact, they can take photos. They can hear his promises and hold him to account too.
I think it's a good kind of "photo op."
I think it's a good kind of "photo op."
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
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Everyone using this should be shunned and probably jailed and those who created it should go to The Hague.
your 14yr old nephew is addicted to at least 4 different gambling apps on his phone where he's actively betting daily on the outcome of individual skirmishes in a real life war happening on the other side of the globe
November 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Everyone using this should be shunned and probably jailed and those who created it should go to The Hague.
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If your Thanksgiving table isn’t arguing about the Jones Act, are you even on #EnergySky?
November 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
If your Thanksgiving table isn’t arguing about the Jones Act, are you even on #EnergySky?
This is why I don't support scexit
I deeply regret the UK leaving the EU - I feel the loss of the shared citizenship profoundly. It's a smaller, narrower, more lonely existence.
November 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is why I don't support scexit
The much missed Scottish Trades Unionist Emma Ritch had a great story of rushing to a meeting in her office and being handed a bunch of papers by an attendee to photocopy.
Lacking time to argue she did so, handed them to the bloke and then sat down to chair the meeting.
Lacking time to argue she did so, handed them to the bloke and then sat down to chair the meeting.
I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”
One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.
November 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The much missed Scottish Trades Unionist Emma Ritch had a great story of rushing to a meeting in her office and being handed a bunch of papers by an attendee to photocopy.
Lacking time to argue she did so, handed them to the bloke and then sat down to chair the meeting.
Lacking time to argue she did so, handed them to the bloke and then sat down to chair the meeting.
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I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”
One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Re the OBR error - surely this is a situation that a Final Written Warning is designed for? It was an error (presumably) and where were the safeguards to stop it happening?
November 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Re the OBR error - surely this is a situation that a Final Written Warning is designed for? It was an error (presumably) and where were the safeguards to stop it happening?
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This is mad.
Obviously it was a massive error.
But Richard Hughes resigning would be a huge over-response.
on.ft.com/485r0Yd OBR chair under pressure over early release of Budget analysis
Obviously it was a massive error.
But Richard Hughes resigning would be a huge over-response.
on.ft.com/485r0Yd OBR chair under pressure over early release of Budget analysis
OBR chair under pressure over early release of Budget analysis
Senior Labour MP calls for UK’s fiscal watchdog chair Richard Hughes to ‘consider his position’
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This is mad.
Obviously it was a massive error.
But Richard Hughes resigning would be a huge over-response.
on.ft.com/485r0Yd OBR chair under pressure over early release of Budget analysis
Obviously it was a massive error.
But Richard Hughes resigning would be a huge over-response.
on.ft.com/485r0Yd OBR chair under pressure over early release of Budget analysis
This is an outright lie from someone who knows better
Scotland’s future is up to people who live in Scotland, not Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer or any other Westminster politician.
November 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This is an outright lie from someone who knows better
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The Government should absolutely be going to the wall for this bill and if we can't get it through, we need to be legislating to move to an elected second chamber at the next King's Speech.
This was a manifesto pledge. Fuck around. Find out.
This was a manifesto pledge. Fuck around. Find out.
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The Government should absolutely be going to the wall for this bill and if we can't get it through, we need to be legislating to move to an elected second chamber at the next King's Speech.
This was a manifesto pledge. Fuck around. Find out.
This was a manifesto pledge. Fuck around. Find out.
do love being pandered to by 6Music
November 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
do love being pandered to by 6Music
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The number of British citizens emigrating hasn’t increased, btw. Outward migration is up, but the increase is mostly non-EU migrants leaving the UK.
The methodology counting emigration of British citizens changed in 2021, which increased the number, and it’s been pretty much flat ever since…
The methodology counting emigration of British citizens changed in 2021, which increased the number, and it’s been pretty much flat ever since…
November 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The number of British citizens emigrating hasn’t increased, btw. Outward migration is up, but the increase is mostly non-EU migrants leaving the UK.
The methodology counting emigration of British citizens changed in 2021, which increased the number, and it’s been pretty much flat ever since…
The methodology counting emigration of British citizens changed in 2021, which increased the number, and it’s been pretty much flat ever since…
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Late this afternoon at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow.
#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #riversidemuseum #reflection
#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #riversidemuseum #reflection
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Late this afternoon at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow.
#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #riversidemuseum #reflection
#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #riversidemuseum #reflection
Should have legalised weed
BoE's Greene: There are some green shoots emerging in the labour market.
November 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Should have legalised weed
Should have been hung for the whole flock
From what you have seen and heard about yesterday's government Budget, do you think Labour have or have not kept their promise not to increase income tax, VAT or National Insurance?
Have kept it: 16%
Have not kept it: 57%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Have kept it: 16%
Have not kept it: 57%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
November 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Should have been hung for the whole flock
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In this season of watching old movies, I humbly recommend the John McTiernan trifecta. A single, unheralded director gave us these three masterpieces.
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
In this season of watching old movies, I humbly recommend the John McTiernan trifecta. A single, unheralded director gave us these three masterpieces.
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When you absolutely, positively MUST 1) transport a cat and 2) rip the seat out of your pants.
(Video is of a person with a zip up cat enclosure on the back of their trousers.)
(Video is of a person with a zip up cat enclosure on the back of their trousers.)
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 AM
When you absolutely, positively MUST 1) transport a cat and 2) rip the seat out of your pants.
(Video is of a person with a zip up cat enclosure on the back of their trousers.)
(Video is of a person with a zip up cat enclosure on the back of their trousers.)
Does anybody in / near Glasgow want a bunch of Dragon magazines around and including issue 200? Can throw in a few Dungeons as well
November 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Does anybody in / near Glasgow want a bunch of Dragon magazines around and including issue 200? Can throw in a few Dungeons as well
Another instance of Starmer u-turning due to public perception
The government has said it is not in favour of dimming the sun through geoengineering techniques like "stratospheric aerosol injection" in order to combat climate change - YouGov found this year that only 16% of Britons are willing to support such a move
yougov.co.uk/health/artic...
yougov.co.uk/health/artic...
November 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Another instance of Starmer u-turning due to public perception
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Fascinating, enraging and illuminating interview of Sandy Peggie's lawyer (and chair of anti-trans campaign group Sex Matters) Naomi Cunningham by @mmgeissler.bsky.social on Scotcast. Geissler does a decent job of interrogating the stream of polite bigotry which drips from Cunningham's every word.
Scotcast - ‘Why I'm defending Sandie Peggie’ - BBC Sounds
Naomi Cunningham on the 'gender wars' and the ‘new McCarthyism’.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Fascinating, enraging and illuminating interview of Sandy Peggie's lawyer (and chair of anti-trans campaign group Sex Matters) Naomi Cunningham by @mmgeissler.bsky.social on Scotcast. Geissler does a decent job of interrogating the stream of polite bigotry which drips from Cunningham's every word.
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Looks like @eddavey.libdems.org.uk is celebrating International Disinformation Awareness Day, 27th November, by spreading disinformation about the Digital Services Tax. That really wasn't the idea, Ed. We're meant to be exposing disinformation, not spreading it. Do better.
This is bollocks. Really disappointed in Ed Davey for this. The DST is *remaining* as a temporary tax until a new internationally agreed regime is put in place. It's exactly what Labour said it would do, and it's exactly what is needed. Shame on the Lib Dems for this disinformation.
I wish I was surprised. Buried in this Budget is a plan to slash the Digital Services Tax, giving a multi-billion tax cut to US tech giants and the likes of Elon Musk.
That's right, cutting taxes for the world's richest man while hiking them for millions of hard-working Brits.
That's right, cutting taxes for the world's richest man while hiking them for millions of hard-working Brits.
November 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Looks like @eddavey.libdems.org.uk is celebrating International Disinformation Awareness Day, 27th November, by spreading disinformation about the Digital Services Tax. That really wasn't the idea, Ed. We're meant to be exposing disinformation, not spreading it. Do better.