Russell Garner
@rgarner.bsky.social
Likes cats, Ruby, bicycles, drums, synths, flippancy, unions.
Audi alteram partem.
Leeds, UK
Founder at @jointogether.online
Audi alteram partem.
Leeds, UK
Founder at @jointogether.online
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Russell Garner
@rgarner.bsky.social
· Apr 8
Have you noticed that these days when time travellers grab you by the shoulders and ask what year it is, when you reply "2024" they no longer say "Thank God. I'm not too late"?
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🚨 Tickets ARE LIVE for After Section 28: LGBTQIA+ Rights in an Age of Censorship and Backlash (link in comments) 🚨
Please share, feel like this is vital now to understand the rise of anti-rights movement against LGBTQIA+ community and wider human rights
www.tickettailor.com/events/after...
Please share, feel like this is vital now to understand the rise of anti-rights movement against LGBTQIA+ community and wider human rights
www.tickettailor.com/events/after...
November 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
🚨 Tickets ARE LIVE for After Section 28: LGBTQIA+ Rights in an Age of Censorship and Backlash (link in comments) 🚨
Please share, feel like this is vital now to understand the rise of anti-rights movement against LGBTQIA+ community and wider human rights
www.tickettailor.com/events/after...
Please share, feel like this is vital now to understand the rise of anti-rights movement against LGBTQIA+ community and wider human rights
www.tickettailor.com/events/after...
Taken to calling Woody and Bam Bam...
...Woodward and Bamstein
no you shut up
...Woodward and Bamstein
no you shut up
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Taken to calling Woody and Bam Bam...
...Woodward and Bamstein
no you shut up
...Woodward and Bamstein
no you shut up
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Police say he then turned the epic vulgar roast on himself
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Police say he then turned the epic vulgar roast on himself
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A reminder
"Taking luxury cars out of disability" saves the taxpayer ZERO. Disabled people pay the cost difference themselves.
It also means they can't get a replacement car guarantee. So if you're disabled, you won't be able to get to work if your car breaks down.
#reeves #budget #disability
"Taking luxury cars out of disability" saves the taxpayer ZERO. Disabled people pay the cost difference themselves.
It also means they can't get a replacement car guarantee. So if you're disabled, you won't be able to get to work if your car breaks down.
#reeves #budget #disability
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A reminder
"Taking luxury cars out of disability" saves the taxpayer ZERO. Disabled people pay the cost difference themselves.
It also means they can't get a replacement car guarantee. So if you're disabled, you won't be able to get to work if your car breaks down.
#reeves #budget #disability
"Taking luxury cars out of disability" saves the taxpayer ZERO. Disabled people pay the cost difference themselves.
It also means they can't get a replacement car guarantee. So if you're disabled, you won't be able to get to work if your car breaks down.
#reeves #budget #disability
You know how when you pair with people and you're a bit tired and they're doing all the work and you've kind of zoned out, and when you come to try to understand the code a few days later you're kind of coming to it cold?
Delegate everything to AI if you want that feeling to be permanent.
Delegate everything to AI if you want that feeling to be permanent.
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
You know how when you pair with people and you're a bit tired and they're doing all the work and you've kind of zoned out, and when you come to try to understand the code a few days later you're kind of coming to it cold?
Delegate everything to AI if you want that feeling to be permanent.
Delegate everything to AI if you want that feeling to be permanent.
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When you hear what Rachel Reeves has in store in the Budget, remember that there were ALWAYS other choices.
Labour have deliberately and consciously chosen to ignore the fact that Brexit is draining up to £90 billion a year from the UK economy.
That's a gap no amount of taxation can fill.
Labour have deliberately and consciously chosen to ignore the fact that Brexit is draining up to £90 billion a year from the UK economy.
That's a gap no amount of taxation can fill.
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
When you hear what Rachel Reeves has in store in the Budget, remember that there were ALWAYS other choices.
Labour have deliberately and consciously chosen to ignore the fact that Brexit is draining up to £90 billion a year from the UK economy.
That's a gap no amount of taxation can fill.
Labour have deliberately and consciously chosen to ignore the fact that Brexit is draining up to £90 billion a year from the UK economy.
That's a gap no amount of taxation can fill.
To the people putting up Union Jacks on trees in the field: you don't live here, we know what message you're trying to send and to whom, and you're not sending it to my neighbours on my patch. If you want to waste your money putting them up I'll keep cutting them down.
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
To the people putting up Union Jacks on trees in the field: you don't live here, we know what message you're trying to send and to whom, and you're not sending it to my neighbours on my patch. If you want to waste your money putting them up I'll keep cutting them down.
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Juries are not perfect.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Juries are not perfect.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
I keep wanting to, in fact I'm *determined* to do so in my lifetime.
Dead set.
Dead set.
I’ve never seen a live badger.
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I keep wanting to, in fact I'm *determined* to do so in my lifetime.
Dead set.
Dead set.
Lordy they really are the "better things aren't possible and don't you go getting yourself little treats to cope" party
"Budget 2025 latest: Sugar levy on milkshakes and lattes confirmed as first tax hike in Rachel Reeves’s Budget"
"Budget 2025 latest: Sugar levy on milkshakes and lattes confirmed as first tax hike in Rachel Reeves’s Budget"
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Lordy they really are the "better things aren't possible and don't you go getting yourself little treats to cope" party
"Budget 2025 latest: Sugar levy on milkshakes and lattes confirmed as first tax hike in Rachel Reeves’s Budget"
"Budget 2025 latest: Sugar levy on milkshakes and lattes confirmed as first tax hike in Rachel Reeves’s Budget"
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People don't really like political ads, but banning them is worse.
Dutch Nazis are advertising on Instagram, despite Meta's "ban" on political ads in the EU. Meta and Google's decision to stop political ads in Europe was (as predicted) a bad one, that favours the extremists and foreign influence campaigns who don't care about the "rules".
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
People don't really like political ads, but banning them is worse.
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I kind of feel like this should be written on a bus.
The UK is losing up to £250m a day in lost tax revenue due to the economic impact of Brexit, House of Commons Library analysis for the Lib Dems suggests.
Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn
Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I kind of feel like this should be written on a bus.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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I'll also note that this is being framed as "supply chain security" when the actual problem is the combined set of capabilities of npm and github, both of which are the property of microsoft. this is a microsoft problem
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I'll also note that this is being framed as "supply chain security" when the actual problem is the combined set of capabilities of npm and github, both of which are the property of microsoft. this is a microsoft problem
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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.
“The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.”
– Epicurus
– Epicurus
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
“The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.”
– Epicurus
– Epicurus
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In a previous iteration of my career, I sometimes worked with kids who had been lured by adults on the internet. Without fail, it started on a Meta product. Reading these allegations makes me want to spit fire, because I’ve seen the end result and it can take a lifetime to heal from.
November 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
In a previous iteration of my career, I sometimes worked with kids who had been lured by adults on the internet. Without fail, it started on a Meta product. Reading these allegations makes me want to spit fire, because I’ve seen the end result and it can take a lifetime to heal from.
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Buckle up friend it’s time for bread made out of crisps 🍞 🥔
Full disclosure it was not a flawless first attempt.
The aim was to make a loaf of bread where the majority ingredient is crisps.
1. Buy 450g of crisps, without shame
Full disclosure it was not a flawless first attempt.
The aim was to make a loaf of bread where the majority ingredient is crisps.
1. Buy 450g of crisps, without shame
November 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Buckle up friend it’s time for bread made out of crisps 🍞 🥔
Full disclosure it was not a flawless first attempt.
The aim was to make a loaf of bread where the majority ingredient is crisps.
1. Buy 450g of crisps, without shame
Full disclosure it was not a flawless first attempt.
The aim was to make a loaf of bread where the majority ingredient is crisps.
1. Buy 450g of crisps, without shame
Increasingly I'm coming to think of creative productions intended for other humans as acts of love, whereas I'm regarding ersatz "creative" productions via your Sunos and other AI platforms as acts of at best indifference and at worst ignorant or wilful vandalism
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Increasingly I'm coming to think of creative productions intended for other humans as acts of love, whereas I'm regarding ersatz "creative" productions via your Sunos and other AI platforms as acts of at best indifference and at worst ignorant or wilful vandalism
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Sorry to keep banging on about it but it's literally *they are on Twitter and think it's the majority view*
This is pretty striking and makes me wonder exactly what Labour have been up to in making policy seemingly in response to / fear of the former rather than the middle group.
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Sorry to keep banging on about it but it's literally *they are on Twitter and think it's the majority view*
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While I'm not quite at the point of losing my house, the harm ai has done to my animation work income is huge, like 80% gone and it makes me wonder how many freelance artists and animators ARE losing everything while billionaire con men continue to rake it in.
November 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
While I'm not quite at the point of losing my house, the harm ai has done to my animation work income is huge, like 80% gone and it makes me wonder how many freelance artists and animators ARE losing everything while billionaire con men continue to rake it in.
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if you’re a clinician and you involve yourself in this pantomime, safe to say that in a few years when the current transphobic hysteria has relented you’ll be regarded in terms comparable to mengele
Every single member of the panel is connected to SEGM. Then there is the Co Lead, Dr Michael Absoud. Who spoke at the 2024 Segm conference /2
www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/...
www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/...
NHS Trans Care Officials Speak At Anti-Trans Hate Group SEGM's Conference
The speakers are poised to determine the future of transgender care in the United Kingdom, which has increasingly come under attack.On Wednesday, the full agenda for a conference in Athens, organized ...
www.lemkininstitute.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
if you’re a clinician and you involve yourself in this pantomime, safe to say that in a few years when the current transphobic hysteria has relented you’ll be regarded in terms comparable to mengele
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Elon Musk spending billions of dollars to buy a social network to replicate what it's like to have friends who like you, and an AI to replicate what it's like to have a supportive father who praises you, only to have both consistently turn on him is Promethean torture if Prometheus had deserved it.
November 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Elon Musk spending billions of dollars to buy a social network to replicate what it's like to have friends who like you, and an AI to replicate what it's like to have a supportive father who praises you, only to have both consistently turn on him is Promethean torture if Prometheus had deserved it.