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Gordon Guthrie

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Just published The Foundations Of The Digital State - a report for the Scottish Government http://foundationsofthedigitalstate.com/ and blogs at digitalpolicy.substack.com Politician manqué, girl group fan, code monkey

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · Apr 4

new post on the world after Trump and Musk

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Free Markets Vs America

Move over fakeohs, the Capitalists are coming

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 22m

I'm going! It will be tight as I need to get back to do Film Editing Training in Embra Saturday morning but...

Heledd Quaeck @helivans.bsky.social · 32m

Looks to be the biggest gathering yet!

Also targeted more senior leadership and a wider cross-section of practitioners this year

Very, very limited amount of tickets left - 10am

GovCamp Cymru @govcampcymru.bsky.social · 34m

Last chance tickets for our GovCamp Cymru unconference in Cardiff on 7 November available for free today at 10am

www.govcamp.cymru/tickets

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 26m

So I was talking saunas with a Kiwi and she was saying about wearing a felt sauna hat and I was <never in my born days seen that> and ma Swedish/Finnish pals got in an uproar

Are NZ felt sauna hats a thing in Wales?

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 28m

The mini-sauna craze has hit Scotland - had a lovely time in Diabeg up in the far north this summer in a week of 4 seasons in Auguat

little portable sauna by the sea in Diabeg

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 30m

how I got through the Covid winter - 3 naked people in the tiny homemade shed sauna on Sheila's fluß in Berlin (smashing the ice with a frying pan like a pro)

A shed on the deck of a fluß with a sleeping cabin on the icebound Spree in Berlin

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 36m

the numbers are still out of whack, mass shootings in NI were rare, single assasinations common and the numbers don't crash after the ceasefires - its bollocks

Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 40m

its bollocks total bollocks

Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 41m

just not - the UK figures are clearly bollocks

Shootings are incredibly rare in the UK - Manchester was called Gunchester for a decade after 4 people were shot dead there IN A YEAR

Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 1d

Mass shootings by year and country.

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 10h

BBC & HMG deciding Gaza’s (for how long?) peace is all due to the unique style of Trump

Really?

Any US President could surely have pressed this on a war-weary Israel. Potentially earlier

In 1956 Eisenhower said a firm “stop” & Israel stopped www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/me...

Message to Prime Minister Ben-Gurion Urging Withdrawal of Israeli Forces in Egypt. | The American Presidency Project

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 4h

That was an area where McCain, speaking from unique experience, was unambiguous: waterboarding is torture. The U.S. is in desperate need of this sort of moral clarity.

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John Mccain: Waterboarding is torture! Mccain educates Fox News on torture.

YouTube video by NewsPoliticsChannel

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 1h

You don't choose a colour for your colour revolutuon - the colour chooses you

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 11h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 12h

There is a downside to Trump being willing to strong arm the Israelis and its related to having people like nazi-adjacent Probisiec at his anti-facism roundtable

Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 13h

no Netanyahu has been desperate to avoid this, bombing Qatar 2 weeks ago

Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 14h

The Arab countries have taken the Israeli playbook and just upped the game - "here's a Jumbo Jet for you..."

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 14h

Reagan phoned Begin during the massacres in Lebanon in 1982 and told him to stop.

The Israelis decided that should never happen again and upped their lobbying efforts in the US

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 14h

What Trump has brought to the peace process is the willingness to strong arm the Israelis - and I suspect he is doing it because the Arab States are paying him - which is not an outcome anybody seems to have predicted...

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 18h

was a big all-night superstore guy when sprogo was a bad sleeper, mand and babybwandering the aisles

Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 21h

all your practice carp-ing

Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 23h

yeah the whole <prees> thing, gettin tanned on Tescos before going out

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 1d

last time they didnt

got a tin of fois gras confiscated once and instead of putting it in the dump bin she went backstage with it to the staff area, presumably to put it in her locker

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 1d

Airport confiscated my nduja, I'm spaning their Wifi installing LLMs locally

war in the departure lounge eh?

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 1d

Not perhaps the most important point but that table ain't round

The roundness of the table is because it is to be an exchange of views leading to new thoughts, not a performance of existing ones

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 1d

yes, this, the Gulf States juat bought themselves a Palestine

Bibi's not over though

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote in May that Trump’s priority of making money in the GCC would lead him to lose patience with Bibi. It took a while, and a crazy Israeli airstrike on Qatar, but it’s happened.

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Shifting Sands

The Trump presidency and the remaking of the Middle East

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 1d

Apple can get right tae fuck

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

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.

www.404media.co

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