James
@mcjamesz.bsky.social
I got lost somewhere along the way.
🏳️🌈 I-ADHD, Depression, Anxiety. Nerdy.
🇬🇧🏴 Manchester.
Interested in data analysis, politics, maps, dogs, strategic games, history.
🏳️🌈 I-ADHD, Depression, Anxiety. Nerdy.
🇬🇧🏴 Manchester.
Interested in data analysis, politics, maps, dogs, strategic games, history.
Royal correspondents are so bloody useless.
"There's the Queen [no it's not] walking with her eyes straight ahead. Let me just repeat the vt commentary."
The story's a confirmed again, even bigger paedophile finally getting his grace home removed, it's not Ascot or the lovely ladies competition.
"There's the Queen [no it's not] walking with her eyes straight ahead. Let me just repeat the vt commentary."
The story's a confirmed again, even bigger paedophile finally getting his grace home removed, it's not Ascot or the lovely ladies competition.
February 5, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Royal correspondents are so bloody useless.
"There's the Queen [no it's not] walking with her eyes straight ahead. Let me just repeat the vt commentary."
The story's a confirmed again, even bigger paedophile finally getting his grace home removed, it's not Ascot or the lovely ladies competition.
"There's the Queen [no it's not] walking with her eyes straight ahead. Let me just repeat the vt commentary."
The story's a confirmed again, even bigger paedophile finally getting his grace home removed, it's not Ascot or the lovely ladies competition.
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Just 32% of 2024 Scottish Labour voters intend to give their constituency vote to the party in this May's Holyrood election, with 14% switching to Reform UK and 13% to the SNP, while 21% are unsure who they would back
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
January 29, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Just 32% of 2024 Scottish Labour voters intend to give their constituency vote to the party in this May's Holyrood election, with 14% switching to Reform UK and 13% to the SNP, while 21% are unsure who they would back
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
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Tables are up now. The number of respondents for the headline voting intention, once don't knows and won't votes are removed, is 51.
<Meaningful stare>
<Meaningful stare>
January 29, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Tables are up now. The number of respondents for the headline voting intention, once don't knows and won't votes are removed, is 51.
<Meaningful stare>
<Meaningful stare>
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New Swingometer! The Gorton and Denton By-election: A tale of Two Manchesters
open.substack.com/pub/swingome...
open.substack.com/pub/swingome...
The Gorton and Denton by-election: a tale of two Manchesters?
Unpopular incumbent + fragmented opposition + unusual seat = unpredictable contest
open.substack.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:21 PM
New Swingometer! The Gorton and Denton By-election: A tale of Two Manchesters
open.substack.com/pub/swingome...
open.substack.com/pub/swingome...
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One more thing. The main drive to ban social media for under-16s comes from a fear of regulating it properly *for adults*. That's a fear of the tech-bros and their power. Governments are more willing to regulate kids than techbros.
January 28, 2026 at 4:28 PM
One more thing. The main drive to ban social media for under-16s comes from a fear of regulating it properly *for adults*. That's a fear of the tech-bros and their power. Governments are more willing to regulate kids than techbros.
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The Telegraph’s political editor is saying, more subtly, what others are saying brutally.
January 27, 2026 at 12:55 PM
The Telegraph’s political editor is saying, more subtly, what others are saying brutally.
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
Yesterday I managed to venture as far as the Asda a mile away, after at least a month of trying. I am now enjoying the luxury of lactose free cheese on crackers at 3am.
January 16, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Yesterday I managed to venture as far as the Asda a mile away, after at least a month of trying. I am now enjoying the luxury of lactose free cheese on crackers at 3am.
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And apart from anything, is there not a huge duty of care issue here for the govt re Grok. If you’re telling the public they can get their comms on X, you’re essentially sending them there? And that puts them at risk of unwillingly viewing SAM and, for female users, being the subject of it?
I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom.
This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.
This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.
January 7, 2026 at 12:00 PM
And apart from anything, is there not a huge duty of care issue here for the govt re Grok. If you’re telling the public they can get their comms on X, you’re essentially sending them there? And that puts them at risk of unwillingly viewing SAM and, for female users, being the subject of it?
More thoughts on Stranger Things 5:
I'm really unsatisfied with Will's coming out scenes: We don't see Vecna preying on his fears of homophobia & judgement, either before the coming out or in the final tussle. It was set up to be a thing, but in the end it was a schmaltzy sideshow.
I'm really unsatisfied with Will's coming out scenes: We don't see Vecna preying on his fears of homophobia & judgement, either before the coming out or in the final tussle. It was set up to be a thing, but in the end it was a schmaltzy sideshow.
January 2, 2026 at 7:04 PM
More thoughts on Stranger Things 5:
I'm really unsatisfied with Will's coming out scenes: We don't see Vecna preying on his fears of homophobia & judgement, either before the coming out or in the final tussle. It was set up to be a thing, but in the end it was a schmaltzy sideshow.
I'm really unsatisfied with Will's coming out scenes: We don't see Vecna preying on his fears of homophobia & judgement, either before the coming out or in the final tussle. It was set up to be a thing, but in the end it was a schmaltzy sideshow.
I want to talk about a series that probably has cult-fans who treat different views like a satanic aberration.
I'm capable of liking something & also being critical & joking about it. If you're that fan, don't quote-tweet me, I want nothing to do with your weird cult to vaguely popular tv program.
I'm capable of liking something & also being critical & joking about it. If you're that fan, don't quote-tweet me, I want nothing to do with your weird cult to vaguely popular tv program.
December 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I want to talk about a series that probably has cult-fans who treat different views like a satanic aberration.
I'm capable of liking something & also being critical & joking about it. If you're that fan, don't quote-tweet me, I want nothing to do with your weird cult to vaguely popular tv program.
I'm capable of liking something & also being critical & joking about it. If you're that fan, don't quote-tweet me, I want nothing to do with your weird cult to vaguely popular tv program.
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He doesn't, but because he doesn't lead and in many ways seems to actively resent being asked to, the tone is set by others around him who he has outsourced to.
December 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
He doesn't, but because he doesn't lead and in many ways seems to actively resent being asked to, the tone is set by others around him who he has outsourced to.
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If a drug was having this societal effect it would be banned within a week. Across the world, politicians are - through their inaction - completely abdicating their responsibilities to civil democratic discourse.
November 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If a drug was having this societal effect it would be banned within a week. Across the world, politicians are - through their inaction - completely abdicating their responsibilities to civil democratic discourse.
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Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
September 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
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No, you did not give those of us who happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor any due process. And that was profoundly wrong. It destroyed our lives.
August 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
No, you did not give those of us who happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor any due process. And that was profoundly wrong. It destroyed our lives.
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It's worse than that: because populism can't deliver its promises, it has to keep finding new traitors & enemies to blame. It has to keep tearing at the walls of its imagined prison.
The more it fails, the more it turns people against each other. And the more it seeks to destroy anything in its way
The more it fails, the more it turns people against each other. And the more it seeks to destroy anything in its way
I really don't want to go through the whole rigmarole of seeing Farage win power and then fuck everything up and have loads of sympathetic voxpops with dismayed Reform voters expressing their regrets when it was extremely fucking obvious what would happen because his platform is incoherent garbage
July 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
It's worse than that: because populism can't deliver its promises, it has to keep finding new traitors & enemies to blame. It has to keep tearing at the walls of its imagined prison.
The more it fails, the more it turns people against each other. And the more it seeks to destroy anything in its way
The more it fails, the more it turns people against each other. And the more it seeks to destroy anything in its way
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Obviously Abbott’s comments that mass immigration was a “squalid experiment” doing untold damage to the UK while implying that Britons of Irish and Bengali origin were not “decent Brits” were completely unacceptable
Hang on, I’m just being told that that was Starmer
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hang on, I’m just being told that that was Starmer
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Abbott suspended by Labour Party after racism comments
MP Diane Abbott is suspended by the Labour Party pending an investigation, the BBC understands.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Obviously Abbott’s comments that mass immigration was a “squalid experiment” doing untold damage to the UK while implying that Britons of Irish and Bengali origin were not “decent Brits” were completely unacceptable
Hang on, I’m just being told that that was Starmer
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hang on, I’m just being told that that was Starmer
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Struggling to resist the urge to respond to clearly antagonistic arseholes spouting ignorant bollocks.
July 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Struggling to resist the urge to respond to clearly antagonistic arseholes spouting ignorant bollocks.
So in my current CK3 campaign, the game gave me the Conqueror trait on my second lifetime, & everytime I die, pass on the Empire to a grandchild & they get Conqueror as soon as they inherit too. I'm a bit frustrated with how blobby it makes the experience - is this working as intended?
June 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
So in my current CK3 campaign, the game gave me the Conqueror trait on my second lifetime, & everytime I die, pass on the Empire to a grandchild & they get Conqueror as soon as they inherit too. I'm a bit frustrated with how blobby it makes the experience - is this working as intended?
When designing your mass transit system, connect points lots of people want to get to sometimes, that aren't conveniently within 10 mins of city centre.
You're designing a web, not a tree.
Connect your hospitals & universities into it, don't route all lines through the same 3 traffic corridors.
You're designing a web, not a tree.
Connect your hospitals & universities into it, don't route all lines through the same 3 traffic corridors.
May 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
When designing your mass transit system, connect points lots of people want to get to sometimes, that aren't conveniently within 10 mins of city centre.
You're designing a web, not a tree.
Connect your hospitals & universities into it, don't route all lines through the same 3 traffic corridors.
You're designing a web, not a tree.
Connect your hospitals & universities into it, don't route all lines through the same 3 traffic corridors.
Watching a TOTP2 Eurovision special to warm up for tomorrow night. BBC has put forward some rubbish in the past. It's pot luck between classic & forgettable song of the year.
It's really weird the focus was so much on British acts. Abba & Johnny Logan the only non-British acts so far in 2007.
It's really weird the focus was so much on British acts. Abba & Johnny Logan the only non-British acts so far in 2007.
May 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Watching a TOTP2 Eurovision special to warm up for tomorrow night. BBC has put forward some rubbish in the past. It's pot luck between classic & forgettable song of the year.
It's really weird the focus was so much on British acts. Abba & Johnny Logan the only non-British acts so far in 2007.
It's really weird the focus was so much on British acts. Abba & Johnny Logan the only non-British acts so far in 2007.
Labour are destroying their coalition. Every party needs a coalition of supporters of different beliefs; Labour is focussed on meeting the aims of Reform's coalition.
It's making itself a pariah for people who believe in human rights & equity - socialists, social democrats & liberals - its core.
It's making itself a pariah for people who believe in human rights & equity - socialists, social democrats & liberals - its core.
May 16, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Labour are destroying their coalition. Every party needs a coalition of supporters of different beliefs; Labour is focussed on meeting the aims of Reform's coalition.
It's making itself a pariah for people who believe in human rights & equity - socialists, social democrats & liberals - its core.
It's making itself a pariah for people who believe in human rights & equity - socialists, social democrats & liberals - its core.
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You’re all such Bluesky dweebs reading the MSM… the thing which, as an aside, that keeps popping up unprompted in entirely unrelated conversations is…. Keir Starmer’s plan to dim the sun.
May 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
You’re all such Bluesky dweebs reading the MSM… the thing which, as an aside, that keeps popping up unprompted in entirely unrelated conversations is…. Keir Starmer’s plan to dim the sun.
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