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Channing Walton

@channingwalton.bsky.social

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Scala dev, unison-lang wannabe dev, amateur pianist, dad, husband, and keeper of six small furry beasts.

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Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · Aug 30

Pedro seems surprised.

#Cat

A very fluffy, black, ragamuffin cat, with very large yellow eyes. He’s sitting between a garden pot and bush, looking very surprised.

Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 1h

two men are standing next to each other with the caption these are people of the land

ALT: two men are standing next to each other with the caption these are people of the land

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Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 1h

How can it be both weak and amplified? Does amplified mean something in the weather world?

Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 4h

Needs to take a look at himself.

Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 4h

Nope. The RFC 5321, section 2.4 states: “The local-part of a mailbox MUST BE treated as case sensitive. […] Mailbox domains follow normal DNS rules and are hence not case sensitive.”

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 11h

Saturday call for my "American Week" for @lbc.co.uk. (No visualised version on YouTube this week, I'm afraid...but we'll be back there in glorious technicolour with next week's episode).

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October 10, 2025 - "American Week": Trump brokers peace in Gaza, but warmongers at home

Simon's weekly chronicle of events in the United States for Tom Swarbrick's Friday drivetime programme on the UK's LBC. Listen live every Friday at 5:50pm or find it here on demand afterwa...

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Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 10h

There is a way to teach it: teach people to write code themselves.

Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 22h

I read that as "Trump-Branded Condoms", and it didn't surprise me.

Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 1d

That's not the only way, the other way people seem to favour is to FAFO and vote for him.

Its not foolproof, reform voters aren't learning from the experience of others suffering with Reform councils, but I suspect the spectacular mess of a reform government might sink in.

Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 1d

I'm afraid the Nobel Prize ship sailed for Trump when he authorised ICE to zip-tie naked children in the middle of the night and disappear their parents.

How is this even being discussed, its laughable.

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 1d

"There’s no one who fits the bill for a Nobel Peace Prize 𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 than Trump, yet he’s still the bookies’ favourite?!"

Trump has secured what no other world leader could: a Gaza ceasefire deal.

Is he angling for the prize he so wants?

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Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 2d

Hang on, one good deed does not erase the terrible things he's doing at home.

Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 2d

#AI token limit anxiety is real.

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Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe we could give him a gold coach and horses so he can be amused in his creche at the WhiteHouse

Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 2d

But, what about the drive through the king's garden in a golden carriage?

It didn't work?

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 3d

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 3d

Igbu proverb via @johnamaechi.apsintel.com: "When axe meets wood, only the axe forgets."

Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 5d

The police are wasting their own resources.

They choose which crimes need their attention because they’re under resourced, and they’re choosing the easiest to get arrests for.

If the protesters were shoplifting the police wouldn’t bother.

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Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 5d

The dreaded #AI, "Session limit reached ∙ resets 1am".

Oh well, there goes my "productivity" boost.

Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 5d

Wait, you mean they didn't know what the fuck they were on about?

Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 5d

Someone please get the men in white coats, for his own good.

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 6d

The silence of European governments about ICE's thuggish activities this weekend in Chicago and Portland is not going to be sustainable for very much longer. If you call it out when you see it in Belarus, you need to call it out when you see it in Illinois.

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Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 6d

We live in the upside down.

Channing Walton @channingwalton.bsky.social · 6d

Can you imagine the chaos if those ousted MPs formed a new centre-right party.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 7d

🔴NEW🔴

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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Auke Hoekstra @aukehoekstra.bsky.social · 7d

20 Lessons on Tyranny
John Lithgow reads Timothy Snyder

10 minutes of pure universal wisdom
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXR5...

20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl

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