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Paul Barnfather @clanger9.bsky.social · 3h

Ooh, good spot! Done 👍

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 1d

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.

I disagree.

RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

#BBCQT

Always bring the receipts.

Happy birthday to my friend and colleague Nigel Farage aka Mr Brexit.

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Paul Barnfather @clanger9.bsky.social · 2d

This is great - more of this please. 20 MPH is plenty outside schools 👍www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester...

Cheshire West to cut speed limit outside 18 schools and colleges - full list - Cheshire Live

Most will be reduced to 20mph

www.cheshire-live.co.uk

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Skipai Otter @skipai.bsky.social · 5d

Everyone in the UK that has had to use this service should be phoning up their MP office to demand an explanation why a law set out (OSA) did not have adequate protections of said data.

Phone calls
Emails
Actual visits to their office.

John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

Including some users passports & DLs

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.

Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

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Paul Barnfather @clanger9.bsky.social · 2d

I have mixed feelings about London, but oh boy railway arch cafes 😍

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LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 2d

Charles Amos is the legalise incest guy. Insane they didn't do due diligence. www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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Paul Barnfather @clanger9.bsky.social · 2d

Unreal! My Avant West Coast train to Euston actually arrived on time this morning. Not vaguely on time, but *exactly*! I feel like I woke up in Switzerland or something...

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meri sand @merisand.bsky.social · 3d

I know people are quoting his tweets & people remember Pizza Gate, but I feel like the fact that he authored *this* absolute nightmare went under the radar. It praises Pinochet & Franco, declares a lot of America unhuman...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-hor...

The Horrifying Fascist Manifesto Endorsed By J.D. Vance

A disturbing book plans a ruthless total war against the “unhuman” left.

www.currentaffairs.org

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Paul Barnfather @clanger9.bsky.social · 3d

What's Welsh for "boondoggle"? 🙄

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 4d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Paul Barnfather @clanger9.bsky.social · 4d

One of them was a nun! This story really does have everything.
Here's a Wayback link for the subscriptionally-challenged: web.archive.org/web/20251007...

Peruvian bishop accused of having 17 lovers exposed by cleaning lady

Ciro Quispe López has handed in his notice to Pope Leo after an investigation by the Vatican over claims he had a string of lovers including a nun

web.archive.org

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silentbazz @silentbazz.bsky.social · 5d

Well, well, well..
We're back in the city of Chester this Friday for some more live music and good times!
Sounds good?
Then pop along to City Tavern, 32 Frodsham Street, Chester.
Music starts at 8pm, so get there early to get yourself a pint and access to the dance floor!!
#Chester #gig #rock

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Dan Howdle @danhowdle.bsky.social · 4d

'rescuers found jenrick clutching his mywaitrose card, sobbing into an ordnance survey map of the cotswolds, and rocking gently inside a makeshift shelter constructed from yesterday’s telegraph'

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Paul Barnfather @clanger9.bsky.social · 6d

#funghiSunday

Some lovely bracket funghi in Luxembourg

Paul Barnfather @clanger9.bsky.social · 9d

Love this! Superb writing - and it struck me how much the aspirational emptiness of the series (which struck me as "a bit pessimistic" at the time) has turned out to be presciently on the money... 🎯

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Paul Barnfather @clanger9.bsky.social · 10d

Does it say anything about A&E?

Paul Barnfather @clanger9.bsky.social · 10d

That's interesting! There were certainly rumours that all was not well. I did not know that the CQC had rated it as "good". That is a very different picture to the one portrayed in the Letby trial... 🤔

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 10d

In 1945, the Allies faced a tricky question: where to hold Nazi war criminals until the trials.

A run-down hotel in Luxembourg was quickly converted to a prison ("Camp Ashcan"). The hope was to keep the nature of the prisoners secret.

In May 1945, this failed, and almost turned into a disaster. /1

James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 10d

Judgement at Nuremberg - David Low's cartoon in the Evening Standard #OnThisDay 1946

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Paul Barnfather @clanger9.bsky.social · 10d

That's probably a more accurate interpretation

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Paul Barnfather @clanger9.bsky.social · 10d

Was she inadvertently trying to say that previously the (minority) right used to rule over the (majority) left, whereas now it's more of a level playing field and it's Just Not Fair any more! 🤪

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Paul Barnfather @clanger9.bsky.social · 10d

Source (subscription required) gb.readly.com/magazines/au...

Charging network hit by ‘loss-making’ costs - 1 Oct 2025 - Autocar Magazine - Readly

The growth of the uk’s ev charging network could be stunted by significant and unexpected cost hikes that mean many charging hubs aren’t currently turni...

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Paul Barnfather @clanger9.bsky.social · 10d

Utility charges at UK rapid charging sites make it uneconomic to expand them - meaning that the only way to make them pay is if the chargers are fully utilised (i.e. queues). Cause is Ofgem's new pricing regime, which charges for capacity (rather than usage). Seems like a policy disconnect here #ev

Ian Johnston, CEO of charger operator Osprey, told Autocar that “we are nowhere near profitability” because of skyrocketing electric grid costs.
Dora Clarke, Osprey’s head of external affairs, said the standing charge paid by the company for a “typical” hub in the Midlands with eight chargers has increased over the past three years from £99 per year to more than £8600. Osprey operates 56 such hubs nationally.

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Paul Barnfather @clanger9.bsky.social · 10d

...and the Countess maternity unit was already known to be in poor shape

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