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Lib Dem 🔶 activist and electoral reform campaigner. #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPPR 🗳️ #FBPE. Lifelong hardcore atheist. Religion is evil. I'll respect your right to disagree with that but you'll still be wrong 🐦@stevehunt4hiop 🐘 [email protected]

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · Nov 13

#RejoinEU Bluesky be like

a man wearing sunglasses and a hat with the words we 're putting the band back together

Alt: "Joliet" Jake Blues wearing sunglasses and a hat says we're putting the band back together

media.tenor.com

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 40m

And so many people don't realise that. I had a ridiculous twitter exchange with someone who was convinced the NHS was a money pit because - he thought - his bottom of the range health policy gave him cover for everything that could happen to him. ("Gold Plated" - his words 🤣)

Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 43m

That's why UK private health insurance policies cost a few thousand a year, and US policies are a few thousand a month. The UK ones don't cover the cost of putting you back together if you are in a crash, fall off a ladder, etc.

(Well, it's one of the reasons. That and rank profiteering obvs)

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Vikki Slade MP @vikkislademp.bsky.social · 1d

How thoroughly unpleasant … how does she think non white British born families felt for decades being invisible on TV.

Our diversity is our strength

Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 1d

This is Reform! We have to defeat them, it won’t be done by always dividing the progressive vote!

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, “It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of anything other than white"

Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 22h

Don't overthink it, Guardian. Having been born to believe he was a member of their ridiculous god's chosen family, of course he would take whatever he wanted from wherever he could. Time to abolish the scrounging royalty and put an end to this pox on the nation.

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

How does he pay for it all? The mystery of Prince Andrew’s money

The disgraced royal has lived in luxury for decades despite being an outcast and having no obvious means of financial support

www.theguardian.com

Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 22h

Superb piece by @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social in this month's @bylinetimes.bsky.social mag: "Britain's Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism - Why?" This article alone was worth my annual sub to one of the very few news outlets still doing proper journalism

Snippet of Byline Times, November 2025, pointing out how the British mainstream media has created a "perfect circle of self-perpetuating hype" around Nigel Farage, i.e. how his prominence in MSM feeds his popularity which in turn justifies further coverage, and so on. Author proposes that this is a predictable consequence of an industry that has restructured itself around virality.

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 4d

A good example of why the press should be forced to give corrections equal prominence to the original article, not hide them away on a page nobody will see

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 4d

Reminder that back in July Katie Lam wrote an article for the Sun on Indefinite Leave to Remain and the Conservatives' proposals.

It contained a number of blatant lies and the Sun published a detailed retraction.

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 4d

I really don't care for any sort of religion. That's what I decided when I was 5, and 55 years later I can't see any reason to revise that view. Why do people believe the peculiar myths - please enlighten me

Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 5d

PEP 672 – Unicode-related Security Considerations for Python | peps.python.org share.google/jB4sAlsDo5W4...

PEP 0 – Index of Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) | peps.python.org

This PEP contains the index of all Python Enhancement Proposals, known as PEPs. PEP numbers are assigned by the PEP editors, and once assigned are never changed. The version control history of the P...

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 5d

Risk from Unicode support in source code has been known for some time... It's a shame that editors and code review tools like GitHub etc don't do *something* to alert the viewer

UTS #55: Unicode Source Code Handling share.google/8cUcbimZ40rs...

UTS #55: Unicode Source Code Handling

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 5d

Probably mid 90s. Unfortunately the industry decided that advertising alone would be enough and so it never happened

Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 5d

In the early days of news media getting a web presence, there was talk of microbilling - pay a few pence to read an article, without needing an account with every news outlet. Never happened. I'm sure it would generate more revenue than paywalls because who subscribes to more than a few of those?

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 5d

Suggest you jump in on this poll.

—> xd.wayin.com/display/cont...?

And share…

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 6d

It would be very funny indeed if this happens because for pragmatic reasons it would make perfect sense for the UK to do it too. Imagine the uproar from the sovrinty mob... "Protect are clocks from Brusels interference" ⏰🤣

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 22d

Kemi Badenoch has chosen the side of Vladimir Putin and Nigel Farage with her plan to leave the European Convention on Human Rights.

The ECHR is a proud British creation, championed by Churchill, that protects everyone's rights and freedoms.

"Kemi Badenoch has chosen to back Nigel Farage and join Vladimir Putin by leaving the European Convention on Human Rights – a proud British creation championed by Churchill that protects everyone's rights and freedoms.
"This will do nothing to stop the boats or fix our broken immigration system – problems caused by the last Conservative Government that Badenoch still hasn't apologised for.
"I say to former One Nation Conservatives who have been abandoned by their party’s lurch to the extremes: you have a home with us. The Liberal Democrats will always fight to defend our fundamental British freedoms and the rule of law."
Ed Davey

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 24d

Clearly it's high time that there were stringent limits on political donations. No corporate donations should be allowed at all. Individual donations should be capped annually - at an amount that the everyday citizen could feasibly afford. Jail for anyone caught gaming the system

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 24d

In other news, Kemi Badenoch's party has taken at least £7 million in donations from funders and directors of climate change denial lobby groups bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 24d

Want to know more about the history of the Lib Dems? Here's a short history of the party and its predecessors

A short history of the Liberals, SDP and Liberal Democrats

This short history of the Lib Dems is adapted from Peace, Reform and Liberation: A History of Liberal Politics in Britain 1679-2011.

www.libdemnewswire.com

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 25d

No, I had never heard of him either. It was bizarre the way it dominated the UK headlines for days and days

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 26d

Don't forget why there's a by-election next week in #Corby.

It's due to their Councillor Robert Bloom's resignation following the news that he shouted the ‘n’ word repeatedly at a black family who live close by to him.

www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/people/...

Corby Reform councillor resigns over serious racism allegations

Reform councillor Robert Bloom, who has been in his North Northamptonshire Council post for just 117 days, has resigned after a neighbour alleged he used appalling racial slurs toward her family.

www.northantstelegraph.co.uk

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 26d

"I'm very aesthetic" says the man who wants to cover the white house with tacky gold plating and who paved over the rose garden

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 26d

I'm glad Keir Starmer is finally stepping up the fight against Nigel Farage, and I hope this will mark the end of his government parroting Farage and copying his divisive politics.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 26d

If your party welcomes the woman who tweeted 'set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards' as a star conference speaker, maybe don't accuse other politicians of 'inciting violence'

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 26d

Good gracious me. Donald Trump just told his military leaders that 'no more fat soldiers or fat generals' would be allowed to stay in post.

Does the same rule apply to Presidents?

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 26d

“We aren’t racists”, cry the party who not only invited Lucy Connolly, convicted for inciting racially motivated violence, to its conference, but interviewed her on stage, chat show style, as if she was the most heroic freedom fighter the world has ever seen.

Sod off, racists.

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Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺 @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social · 26d

As an outside observer, the only possible conclusion from seeing decade after decade of gun violence in your country is thag the USA likes and enjoys deadly violence and wants there to be lots of killing. Otherwise the country would surely have done something by now.

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Ian Sollom MP 🔶 @iansollom.bsky.social · 26d

It’s time for the government to see through its ambition for proper community-based care before it’s too late.
Please sign our petition:
www.pippaheylings.org.uk/campaigns/save-arh-beds

Save palliative care beds at Arthur Rank Hospices - Pippa Heylings MP

www.pippaheylings.org.uk

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