Tim Barrett
@comcortim.bsky.social
Born in Lancashire, grew up in Yorkshire, live in The Netherlands. Speak English and Dutch. CTO of the still programming variety, co-founder of Nalanda, angler, boater. Views are solely mine and not those of current or past employers; then again …
Ik heb een hekel aan schijnheilige boeren die beweren dat ze voor ons zorgen door voedsel te produceren, terwijl ze ons water en lucht ernstig vervuilen. Slechts 20 - 30% van landbouwgrond is gericht op humane consumptie. @roosvonk.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Ik heb een hekel aan schijnheilige boeren die beweren dat ze voor ons zorgen door voedsel te produceren, terwijl ze ons water en lucht ernstig vervuilen. Slechts 20 - 30% van landbouwgrond is gericht op humane consumptie. @roosvonk.bsky.social
Ironisch! Amerikaanse immigranten. Zullen onze racistische populisten en racistische boeren hier ook moeite mee hebben?
nos.nl/artikel/2594...
nos.nl/artikel/2594...
Nederland populaire bestemming onder Amerikanen die de VS willen verlaten
Een groeiende groep Amerikanen vertrekt naar Nederland. Ons land is een populaire bestemming, mede dankzij een verdrag tussen de twee landen uit 1956. Daarnaast proberen ook meer Amerikanen hier asiel...
nos.nl
December 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Ironisch! Amerikaanse immigranten. Zullen onze racistische populisten en racistische boeren hier ook moeite mee hebben?
nos.nl/artikel/2594...
nos.nl/artikel/2594...
The problem with AI is screamingly obvious to me. It’s essentially in the hands of 2 evil regimes: The US and China who will ‘train’ the models to reflect their inherently evil world views. We already see this with #grok, and though #twitter is not an AI, the same principle applies there too.
December 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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I hope this will spread widely:
Liam Neeson chose to narrate an antivax documentary which backed RFK, said vaccines cause autism and called lifesaving Covid vaccines “dangerous experiments”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
Shame on him. His career won’t end over this but it should.
Liam Neeson chose to narrate an antivax documentary which backed RFK, said vaccines cause autism and called lifesaving Covid vaccines “dangerous experiments”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
Shame on him. His career won’t end over this but it should.
Liam Neeson Narrates Anti-Vax, Pro-RFK Documentary
The Taken actor can be heard calling COVID vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news
December 12, 2025 at 7:03 AM
I hope this will spread widely:
Liam Neeson chose to narrate an antivax documentary which backed RFK, said vaccines cause autism and called lifesaving Covid vaccines “dangerous experiments”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
Shame on him. His career won’t end over this but it should.
Liam Neeson chose to narrate an antivax documentary which backed RFK, said vaccines cause autism and called lifesaving Covid vaccines “dangerous experiments”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
Shame on him. His career won’t end over this but it should.
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Fabulous stuff - how every decent politician should be countering these Reform scumbags!!
December 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Fabulous stuff - how every decent politician should be countering these Reform scumbags!!
@bencoates1.bsky.social visited my daughter in Amsterdam today and the only parking place I could find was on the side of a canal without any form of railing or pillars between my car and the water. Bloody frightening!
December 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
@bencoates1.bsky.social visited my daughter in Amsterdam today and the only parking place I could find was on the side of a canal without any form of railing or pillars between my car and the water. Bloody frightening!
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Rewatched some Star Trek tonight.
Still wild how a show about warp drives and weird nebulae ends up teaching the cleanest lessons about being human.
Every episode says the same thing in its own way:
‘Be curious. Be brave.
…Try not to fire phasers unless you really have to.”
Still wild how a show about warp drives and weird nebulae ends up teaching the cleanest lessons about being human.
Every episode says the same thing in its own way:
‘Be curious. Be brave.
…Try not to fire phasers unless you really have to.”
December 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Rewatched some Star Trek tonight.
Still wild how a show about warp drives and weird nebulae ends up teaching the cleanest lessons about being human.
Every episode says the same thing in its own way:
‘Be curious. Be brave.
…Try not to fire phasers unless you really have to.”
Still wild how a show about warp drives and weird nebulae ends up teaching the cleanest lessons about being human.
Every episode says the same thing in its own way:
‘Be curious. Be brave.
…Try not to fire phasers unless you really have to.”
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Spot on, Mr. Rather. 🎯 💯
December 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Spot on, Mr. Rather. 🎯 💯
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Still growing, but much more slowly than before. Note the massive impact of Trump's re-election.
Do keep dragging your friends out of the seventh circle of X and onto this platform.
Do keep dragging your friends out of the seventh circle of X and onto this platform.
December 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Still growing, but much more slowly than before. Note the massive impact of Trump's re-election.
Do keep dragging your friends out of the seventh circle of X and onto this platform.
Do keep dragging your friends out of the seventh circle of X and onto this platform.
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Alongside declining polls for Reform, the good news about the Telegraph’s volte face on Brexit is that it gives Labour political cover from the far right to reapply to rejoin the EU. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/the...
Told you so! The Telegraph denounces Brexit as 'unmitigated economic disaster'
We've now got The Telegraph joining the Brexit resistance, after the formerly pro-leave paper ripped into its 'near-disastrous' consequences.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Alongside declining polls for Reform, the good news about the Telegraph’s volte face on Brexit is that it gives Labour political cover from the far right to reapply to rejoin the EU. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/the...
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Around 26,000 of the neediest people in County Durham will have to start paying council tax next year...
About 2,400 others who already pay some council tax will lose part of their rebate.
Women and the disabled will be disproportionately affected.
Not quite what Reform UK had promised.
About 2,400 others who already pay some council tax will lose part of their rebate.
Women and the disabled will be disproportionately affected.
Not quite what Reform UK had promised.
Council tax shock for thousands of Durham’s poorest – thanks to Reform UK
Durham will scrap full council-tax rebates, forcing 26,000 low-income working-age residents to start paying for the first time
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Around 26,000 of the neediest people in County Durham will have to start paying council tax next year...
About 2,400 others who already pay some council tax will lose part of their rebate.
Women and the disabled will be disproportionately affected.
Not quite what Reform UK had promised.
About 2,400 others who already pay some council tax will lose part of their rebate.
Women and the disabled will be disproportionately affected.
Not quite what Reform UK had promised.
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HEGSETH WAR CRIMINAL?
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Pete Hegseth’s order to ‘kill everybody’ included alleged drug boat survivors: report
More than 80 people killed in campaign that law-of-war experts have labeled extrajudicial murder
www.independent.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
HEGSETH WAR CRIMINAL?
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
@bencoates1.bsky.social I just read this”a modern nation that declares its strong opposition to a totalitarian regime but is also happy to receive its laptops and smart phones”. My first thought was that you meant the U.S.! (The totalitarian regime).
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
@bencoates1.bsky.social I just read this”a modern nation that declares its strong opposition to a totalitarian regime but is also happy to receive its laptops and smart phones”. My first thought was that you meant the U.S.! (The totalitarian regime).
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A real President ……….
Sixty-two years ago today, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot while riding in an open-top car and died later at Parkland Hospital. The event, which occurred at 12:30 p.m. CST, was a moment of national tragedy.
Sixty-two years ago today, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot while riding in an open-top car and died later at Parkland Hospital. The event, which occurred at 12:30 p.m. CST, was a moment of national tragedy.
November 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A real President ……….
Sixty-two years ago today, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot while riding in an open-top car and died later at Parkland Hospital. The event, which occurred at 12:30 p.m. CST, was a moment of national tragedy.
Sixty-two years ago today, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot while riding in an open-top car and died later at Parkland Hospital. The event, which occurred at 12:30 p.m. CST, was a moment of national tragedy.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.’
George Orwell, Animal Farm
George Orwell, Animal Farm
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.’
George Orwell, Animal Farm
George Orwell, Animal Farm
@scaramucci.bsky.social just listened to last week’s TRIPUS. Your radical option was bang on!
November 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
@scaramucci.bsky.social just listened to last week’s TRIPUS. Your radical option was bang on!
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‘Are they going to eat me alive?’: trail runners become prey in newest form of hunting
‘Are they going to eat me alive?’: trail runners become prey in newest form of hunting
Nervous reporter is chased across English countryside by baying bloodhounds, in what could soon be only legal way to hunt with dogs
Would you like to be chased by a pack of hounds? It’s a question often put to highlight the cruelty of hunting, because the answer would seem to be no. Or so you would think.
Yet increasing numbers of people are volunteering to be chased across the countryside by baying bloodhounds in what could soon be the only legal way to hunt with dogs in England and Wales, rather than pursuing animals or their scents. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
‘Are they going to eat me alive?’: trail runners become prey in newest form of hunting
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The iPad Pro went on sale 10 years ago today. At the time, many saw it as just a bigger iPad.
A decade later, though, the iPad Pro has changed. Rather than try to make it into something other than a laptop, Apple made it… a laptop.
Read more from @davidpierce.xyz: www.theverge.com/tech/817939/...
A decade later, though, the iPad Pro has changed. Rather than try to make it into something other than a laptop, Apple made it… a laptop.
Read more from @davidpierce.xyz: www.theverge.com/tech/817939/...
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The iPad Pro went on sale 10 years ago today. At the time, many saw it as just a bigger iPad.
A decade later, though, the iPad Pro has changed. Rather than try to make it into something other than a laptop, Apple made it… a laptop.
Read more from @davidpierce.xyz: www.theverge.com/tech/817939/...
A decade later, though, the iPad Pro has changed. Rather than try to make it into something other than a laptop, Apple made it… a laptop.
Read more from @davidpierce.xyz: www.theverge.com/tech/817939/...
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Will Samir Zitouni the heroic train worker who saved the lives of passengers be recognised by Farage and his far-right propaganda machine GBNews? How about Badenough and Jenrick? Or are they far too disappointed he wasn’t the offender?
Cambridgeshire stabbing attack: ‘heroic’ train worker praised for saving passengers’ lives
LNER employee Samir Zitouni, who was hospitalised after Saturday’s incident, hailed by police for ‘incredibly brave’ actions
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Will Samir Zitouni the heroic train worker who saved the lives of passengers be recognised by Farage and his far-right propaganda machine GBNews? How about Badenough and Jenrick? Or are they far too disappointed he wasn’t the offender?
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‘Did I do everything I could to make the world brighter while I was in it?’ What a poignant thought for a grey autumn day. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/old-...
Old Leaves, New Leaves
The circle of life, the sadness of death. But does it end there? Could there be more to it if we learned to live intentionally?
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
‘Did I do everything I could to make the world brighter while I was in it?’ What a poignant thought for a grey autumn day. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/old-...