Amos
@amosduveen.bsky.social
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Amos
@amosduveen.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Just so you so know, I plan to use this space much as I did the other one i.e. when I post, I'm often just trying to put my own thoughts in order. If you find that interesting or useful, that's great; if not, that's also great. I'm not here to chase engagement.
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Sound on!
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Sound on!
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"They've made the school nativity play WOKE 😡😡"
Colin from Portsmouth.
Colin from Portsmouth.
December 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"They've made the school nativity play WOKE 😡😡"
Colin from Portsmouth.
Colin from Portsmouth.
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Sounds about right.
December 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Sounds about right.
Excellent summary.
However, the bit about Noah Smith only applies up until we get to the relevant verse of the Niemöller poem.
However, the bit about Noah Smith only applies up until we get to the relevant verse of the Niemöller poem.
I think the best way to explain the X vs Bluesky preference is whether a person thinks the left is more annoying than the right is dangerous.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
December 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Excellent summary.
However, the bit about Noah Smith only applies up until we get to the relevant verse of the Niemöller poem.
However, the bit about Noah Smith only applies up until we get to the relevant verse of the Niemöller poem.
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Self-declared Free Speech Capital of the World Deeply Concerned about European Censorship proposes pre-screening tweets for wrongthink as part of the ESTA application process.
Cool. Cool cool cool.
Cool. Cool cool cool.
December 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Self-declared Free Speech Capital of the World Deeply Concerned about European Censorship proposes pre-screening tweets for wrongthink as part of the ESTA application process.
Cool. Cool cool cool.
Cool. Cool cool cool.
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Yet more “give them what they want so they don’t get what they want!”
How in the world are people not seeing what’s happening here?
Jenrick, Farage, Lowe and every other right winger is absolutely going to be celebrating this.
How in the world are people not seeing what’s happening here?
Jenrick, Farage, Lowe and every other right winger is absolutely going to be celebrating this.
December 10, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Yet more “give them what they want so they don’t get what they want!”
How in the world are people not seeing what’s happening here?
Jenrick, Farage, Lowe and every other right winger is absolutely going to be celebrating this.
How in the world are people not seeing what’s happening here?
Jenrick, Farage, Lowe and every other right winger is absolutely going to be celebrating this.
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Australian Values #auspol #Australia
December 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Australian Values #auspol #Australia
Can't remember who said it, but the way to understand this is to realise that he thinks his orders are legal, regardless what any jurists have to say on the matter. The Trump view is that he was elected President and therefore it follows that anything he does is legal.
Here is Pete Hegseth, on several occasions in 2016, lauding the military "ethos" that means they will refuse to follow unlawful orders - which he reckons is treason, now that they are his orders - because "there have to be consequences for abject war crimes".
Deserves to go viral.
Deserves to go viral.
December 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Can't remember who said it, but the way to understand this is to realise that he thinks his orders are legal, regardless what any jurists have to say on the matter. The Trump view is that he was elected President and therefore it follows that anything he does is legal.
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Hello, friends!
I'm preparing a warning document about gen AI for my students next semester.
If you have any SPECIFIC examples here of AI lying, making up sources, etc, drop them so I can include them as evidence of why students shouldn't use AI.
Bonus if they come from Claude.
I'm preparing a warning document about gen AI for my students next semester.
If you have any SPECIFIC examples here of AI lying, making up sources, etc, drop them so I can include them as evidence of why students shouldn't use AI.
Bonus if they come from Claude.
December 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Hello, friends!
I'm preparing a warning document about gen AI for my students next semester.
If you have any SPECIFIC examples here of AI lying, making up sources, etc, drop them so I can include them as evidence of why students shouldn't use AI.
Bonus if they come from Claude.
I'm preparing a warning document about gen AI for my students next semester.
If you have any SPECIFIC examples here of AI lying, making up sources, etc, drop them so I can include them as evidence of why students shouldn't use AI.
Bonus if they come from Claude.
Reminds me of a teacher colleague who absolutely hated the font. One day, While searching for something on the school network, I find a copy of the behaviour policy that was pinned up next to his head in the break room. I converted the whole A3 document into Comic Sans and replaced his original...
If you Google "why is comic sans hated" all the results appear in comic sans.
December 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Reminds me of a teacher colleague who absolutely hated the font. One day, While searching for something on the school network, I find a copy of the behaviour policy that was pinned up next to his head in the break room. I converted the whole A3 document into Comic Sans and replaced his original...
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then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
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🆕 SUNDAY SCHOOL: Algorithm & Blues
🙉 How social media feeds us right-wing propaganda
🪖 National service in France, Germany... and UK?
🧺 Good news on the laundry front
With @pimlicat.bsky.social & @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4knY...
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🙉 How social media feeds us right-wing propaganda
🪖 National service in France, Germany... and UK?
🧺 Good news on the laundry front
With @pimlicat.bsky.social & @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4knY...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
Sunday School: Algorithm & Blues
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 07/12/2025 · 54m
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December 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM
🆕 SUNDAY SCHOOL: Algorithm & Blues
🙉 How social media feeds us right-wing propaganda
🪖 National service in France, Germany... and UK?
🧺 Good news on the laundry front
With @pimlicat.bsky.social & @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4knY...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
🙉 How social media feeds us right-wing propaganda
🪖 National service in France, Germany... and UK?
🧺 Good news on the laundry front
With @pimlicat.bsky.social & @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4knY...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
#Wülferhsmpton seems to have a few techie types (@themeadhallbard.bsky.social, @psychicsquirrel.bsky.social, @theselectfyrd.bsky.social?) ...or at least more techie than I am!
Do any of you lot have a good, reasonably priced, antivirus software recommendation?
Do any of you lot have a good, reasonably priced, antivirus software recommendation?
December 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
#Wülferhsmpton seems to have a few techie types (@themeadhallbard.bsky.social, @psychicsquirrel.bsky.social, @theselectfyrd.bsky.social?) ...or at least more techie than I am!
Do any of you lot have a good, reasonably priced, antivirus software recommendation?
Do any of you lot have a good, reasonably priced, antivirus software recommendation?
I'm not a classicist by any stretch but that was a particularly infelicitous quote to introduce the next section on teachers, @mrjamesob.bsky.social!
December 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I'm not a classicist by any stretch but that was a particularly infelicitous quote to introduce the next section on teachers, @mrjamesob.bsky.social!
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“The claim that this is a recent invention born of political bias is categorically untrue.”
@mrjamesob.bsky.social reveals that Peter Ettedgui made identical accusations against Nigel Farage in private six years ago.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social reveals that Peter Ettedgui made identical accusations against Nigel Farage in private six years ago.
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
“The claim that this is a recent invention born of political bias is categorically untrue.”
@mrjamesob.bsky.social reveals that Peter Ettedgui made identical accusations against Nigel Farage in private six years ago.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social reveals that Peter Ettedgui made identical accusations against Nigel Farage in private six years ago.
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Last year Sky News was rending its garments over Starmer's free eyeglasses: WHAT INFLUENCE DID LORD ALLI BUY?
Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡
Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡
December 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Last year Sky News was rending its garments over Starmer's free eyeglasses: WHAT INFLUENCE DID LORD ALLI BUY?
Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡
Now, RefUK get £9m from a crypto bro, they have not one word about the donor's interests; just BRAVO NIGEL, barely concealed glee, and "what a huge boost... money goes where momentum is". 🤡
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how someone has managed to commit war crimes when there is not a war is not a question I expected to answer about actual topical events
December 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
how someone has managed to commit war crimes when there is not a war is not a question I expected to answer about actual topical events
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Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.
December 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.
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Countless things wrong with Labour's pandering to the right but one, as we can see, is that the right will hate them with a demented fury regardless of what they do so one would be wise not to invite the hatred of the left (very broadly defined) as well. I've never understood that strategy
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Countless things wrong with Labour's pandering to the right but one, as we can see, is that the right will hate them with a demented fury regardless of what they do so one would be wise not to invite the hatred of the left (very broadly defined) as well. I've never understood that strategy
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“Put bluntly, net migration fell because 400,000 fewer foreigners arrived, and 200,000 more foreigners left the UK. This is precisely what Reform, the Mail, and the new, nastier Tory Party have claimed – again and again – they wanted to happen. And now that it has, they have ignored it entirely.”
The crazy right will never be satisfied about migration
Keir Starmer slashed net migration as the Mail and Farage demanded - and still got hammered for it
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
“Put bluntly, net migration fell because 400,000 fewer foreigners arrived, and 200,000 more foreigners left the UK. This is precisely what Reform, the Mail, and the new, nastier Tory Party have claimed – again and again – they wanted to happen. And now that it has, they have ignored it entirely.”