Chris
@sullyc.bsky.social
Cymro, dad, utility cyclist and bike bus marshal, semi-retired programmer (FIRE), Dr (Computer Science)
Endlessly failing to declutter.
Believes in experts and following the evidence.
All for a meritocratic world.
Endlessly failing to declutter.
Believes in experts and following the evidence.
All for a meritocratic world.
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Is this the same Rupert Lowe who has made £44,996.77 from X since he became an MP?
It's so weird that he'd be so upset at the thought of the platform closing down. Almost like it's a pretty decent revenue stream, right?
It's so weird that he'd be so upset at the thought of the platform closing down. Almost like it's a pretty decent revenue stream, right?
January 10, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Is this the same Rupert Lowe who has made £44,996.77 from X since he became an MP?
It's so weird that he'd be so upset at the thought of the platform closing down. Almost like it's a pretty decent revenue stream, right?
It's so weird that he'd be so upset at the thought of the platform closing down. Almost like it's a pretty decent revenue stream, right?
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Still want a Tesla?
Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.
January 8, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Still want a Tesla?
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I just saw someone use the term "slopulism" and it's a very good word.
My proposed definition: "Junk policy aimed at populism-inclined voters which will go nowhere and achieve nothing but which strategists believe will win support."
My proposed definition: "Junk policy aimed at populism-inclined voters which will go nowhere and achieve nothing but which strategists believe will win support."
January 10, 2026 at 2:37 PM
I just saw someone use the term "slopulism" and it's a very good word.
My proposed definition: "Junk policy aimed at populism-inclined voters which will go nowhere and achieve nothing but which strategists believe will win support."
My proposed definition: "Junk policy aimed at populism-inclined voters which will go nowhere and achieve nothing but which strategists believe will win support."
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Just ban it. Stop this being socially acceptable FFS 🤬
January 10, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Just ban it. Stop this being socially acceptable FFS 🤬
LOL ...
This is an absolute banger of a story from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social about former UK PM Tony Blair’s think tank trying to become an AI infrastructure company - Palantblair anyone? Reminder too of Larry Ellison’s role in this effort
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/blair-bids...
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/blair-bids...
Blair bids to build own AI tools to rival Palantir
TBI insiders warn of “'insane” plan to transform think tank into a tech company
democracyforsale.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:29 AM
LOL ...
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Wessex Water bosses handed £50,000 in extra pay despite Labour government’s bonus ban
Wessex Water bosses handed £50,000 in extra pay despite Labour government’s bonus ban
Utility admits parent company paid CEO Ruth Jefferson and CFO Andy Pymer but denies bonus payments
The bosses of Wessex Water received £50,000 in previously undisclosed extra pay from a parent company, in the same year that the utility was banned from paying bonuses, the Guardian can reveal.
Chief executive Ruth Jefferson and chief financial officer Andy Pymer were paid £24,000 and £27,000 respectively in the year to June 2025, according to a spokesperson for Wessex Water’s owner, the Malaysian YTL group. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Wessex Water bosses handed £50,000 in extra pay despite Labour government’s bonus ban
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Monthly users on X
May 2023: 24.3m
May 2024: 22.1m (-2.1m)
May 2025: 18.9m (-1.8m)
On this trajectory, the monthly X users in the UK could easily dip below 18m now & so may fall behind surprisingly high monthly users of LinkedIn (18.4m in 2025) by May 2026!
May 2023: 24.3m
May 2024: 22.1m (-2.1m)
May 2025: 18.9m (-1.8m)
On this trajectory, the monthly X users in the UK could easily dip below 18m now & so may fall behind surprisingly high monthly users of LinkedIn (18.4m in 2025) by May 2026!
January 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Monthly users on X
May 2023: 24.3m
May 2024: 22.1m (-2.1m)
May 2025: 18.9m (-1.8m)
On this trajectory, the monthly X users in the UK could easily dip below 18m now & so may fall behind surprisingly high monthly users of LinkedIn (18.4m in 2025) by May 2026!
May 2023: 24.3m
May 2024: 22.1m (-2.1m)
May 2025: 18.9m (-1.8m)
On this trajectory, the monthly X users in the UK could easily dip below 18m now & so may fall behind surprisingly high monthly users of LinkedIn (18.4m in 2025) by May 2026!
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Can't help think about this having just skimmed the government's new road safety strategy
In 2014 I met Australian traffic researcher Ian Johnston at a conference in Edmonton. I think often about something he said, and this week shared his words with a colleague: "If your plan is not for zero deaths, then your plan is for some deaths to happen"
January 7, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Can't help think about this having just skimmed the government's new road safety strategy
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Overcharging by asylum contractor bit.ly/45uCBhK there’s a surprise!
Firm in overcharging scandal won £3.9bn in public sector contracts
Australian travel group that supplied the Bibby Stockholm asylum barge for the Home Office has admitted UK clients overpaid at least £80 million
bit.ly
January 8, 2026 at 7:42 AM
Overcharging by asylum contractor bit.ly/45uCBhK there’s a surprise!
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Renee Good, a citizen & mother was shot 3 times in the head, on camera, by a masked gang. She is smeared by Trump & MAGA lunatics.
May she rest in peace & her family find comfort.
Frankly the only surprise is it took this long.
Farage wants “ICE style raids” in the UK. #r4today
May she rest in peace & her family find comfort.
Frankly the only surprise is it took this long.
Farage wants “ICE style raids” in the UK. #r4today
January 8, 2026 at 7:07 AM
Renee Good, a citizen & mother was shot 3 times in the head, on camera, by a masked gang. She is smeared by Trump & MAGA lunatics.
May she rest in peace & her family find comfort.
Frankly the only surprise is it took this long.
Farage wants “ICE style raids” in the UK. #r4today
May she rest in peace & her family find comfort.
Frankly the only surprise is it took this long.
Farage wants “ICE style raids” in the UK. #r4today
Call for monthly student loan payments 'backed by dozens of Labour MPs' | Politics News | Sky News share.google/vS2lMEk1iIzy...
Tinkering around the edges ... Again. 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Tinkering around the edges ... Again. 🤷♂️🤦♂️
January 8, 2026 at 7:48 AM
Call for monthly student loan payments 'backed by dozens of Labour MPs' | Politics News | Sky News share.google/vS2lMEk1iIzy...
Tinkering around the edges ... Again. 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Tinkering around the edges ... Again. 🤷♂️🤦♂️
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The Road Safety Strategy is an opportunity to address the dangers pedestrians face every day, but the vision should be for zero people to lose their lives. We should not accept that a certain number of people will die on our roads.
livingstreets.org.uk/RSScomment
livingstreets.org.uk/RSScomment
“The vision should be for zero people to lose their lives”
Living Streets comments on the Government's first Road Safety Strategy in over a decade, released today (7 January).
livingstreets.org.uk
January 7, 2026 at 1:14 PM
The Road Safety Strategy is an opportunity to address the dangers pedestrians face every day, but the vision should be for zero people to lose their lives. We should not accept that a certain number of people will die on our roads.
livingstreets.org.uk/RSScomment
livingstreets.org.uk/RSScomment
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The only target for the number of people killed on the road should be zero.
With its Road Safety Strategy, the Government has massively overlooked key actions to cut traffic and achieve safer and slower vehicle speeds, which are truly effective at saving lives and essential to reaching this goal.
With its Road Safety Strategy, the Government has massively overlooked key actions to cut traffic and achieve safer and slower vehicle speeds, which are truly effective at saving lives and essential to reaching this goal.
The Road Safety Strategy is an opportunity to address the dangers pedestrians face every day, but the vision should be for zero people to lose their lives. We should not accept that a certain number of people will die on our roads.
livingstreets.org.uk/RSScomment
livingstreets.org.uk/RSScomment
“The vision should be for zero people to lose their lives”
Living Streets comments on the Government's first Road Safety Strategy in over a decade, released today (7 January).
livingstreets.org.uk
January 7, 2026 at 2:41 PM
The only target for the number of people killed on the road should be zero.
With its Road Safety Strategy, the Government has massively overlooked key actions to cut traffic and achieve safer and slower vehicle speeds, which are truly effective at saving lives and essential to reaching this goal.
With its Road Safety Strategy, the Government has massively overlooked key actions to cut traffic and achieve safer and slower vehicle speeds, which are truly effective at saving lives and essential to reaching this goal.
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This feels like an over-engineered solution to the "problem" of selling train tickets. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ticketless train travel trial: Your questions answered
East Midlands Railway is testing location-based technology until August.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 6:44 AM
This feels like an over-engineered solution to the "problem" of selling train tickets. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Brave woman, brave Russian. Important to acknowledge there are other currents in Russia.
"I did what I considered necessary"
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
"I did what I considered necessary"
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
The weightlifting champion jailed by Russia for ‘plotting sabotage and assassinations’
Yulia Lemeshchenko was defiant and did not deny the accusations, saying she had decided to fight against Russian military aggression
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Brave woman, brave Russian. Important to acknowledge there are other currents in Russia.
"I did what I considered necessary"
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
"I did what I considered necessary"
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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In a remote jungle in the Philippines, one combatant is still doggedly waging a conflict that actually ended years before.
January 2, 2026 at 5:45 PM
In a remote jungle in the Philippines, one combatant is still doggedly waging a conflict that actually ended years before.
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Leave oil in the ground.
January 5, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Leave oil in the ground.
How much evidence do you need not to vote Reform in Cymru. There is an overwhelming amount as it is.
Reform UK can’t stand scrutiny…
Reform declines invitation to first Senedd election broadcast debate
Reform declines invitation to first Senedd election broadcast debate
Reform declines invitation to first Senedd election broadcast debate
Party faces criticism after opting out of BBC Radio Wales discussion ahead of May vote REFORM UK has come under fire after choosing not to take part in the first broadcast debate of the 2026 Senedd…
pembrokeshire-herald.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:24 AM
How much evidence do you need not to vote Reform in Cymru. There is an overwhelming amount as it is.
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When parents are afraid to let their children cycle, that’s not “choice” - it’s policy failure.
Unsafe roads + patchy Bikeability = less independence, worse health, more car dependence.
Children deserve safe streets.
@solveschoolrun.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Unsafe roads + patchy Bikeability = less independence, worse health, more car dependence.
Children deserve safe streets.
@solveschoolrun.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
West Midlands councils struggling to deliver bike safety training
More than half of councils in the West Midlands are seeing a fall in the number of children taking part.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 8:12 AM
When parents are afraid to let their children cycle, that’s not “choice” - it’s policy failure.
Unsafe roads + patchy Bikeability = less independence, worse health, more car dependence.
Children deserve safe streets.
@solveschoolrun.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Unsafe roads + patchy Bikeability = less independence, worse health, more car dependence.
Children deserve safe streets.
@solveschoolrun.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!
January 5, 2026 at 7:26 AM
The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!
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That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
January 3, 2026 at 8:01 PM
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
'Audacious' 🤔🤦♂️
Maduro jailed in New York after audacious raid and capture – live
Maduro jailed in New York after audacious raid and capture – live
Nicolás Maduro is expected to make an initial appearance in Manhattan federal court on Monday, according to officials
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:05 AM
'Audacious' 🤔🤦♂️
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We used to have better priorities with our space in cities. We used to understand the many things that streets in cities are for.
January 3, 2026 at 4:44 AM
We used to have better priorities with our space in cities. We used to understand the many things that streets in cities are for.
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Normalize it.
January 3, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Normalize it.