Arch Duke
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Arch Duke
@archdukeofgloom.bsky.social
Grumpy old git. Fond of cats, physics, history, theory, paradox, and contradiction.
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12 Hour A&E waits aren't normal. A culture of corridor care isn't normal.

Our A&E crisis is a scandal and we have a plan to fix it. 👇
January 13, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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This can’t go on. UK news shows have got to start calling Nigel Farage out on this ridiculous bull****. Please start doing your job - for all our sakes
If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it.

We cannot allow him & others to rewrite history.

youtu.be/vL7_mwSNMvc?...
When are UK News Shows going to start calling out Nigel Farage and his completely rubbished claims?
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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January 13, 2026 at 7:19 AM
To those interested in #Metallurgy QQ. As steel cools, would introducing high frequency vibration change the structure in any way ?
Would you end up with fewer flaws, different properties, quicker cooling times etc.
January 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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January 12, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Switch codes. Follow a recently released book with an old classic. Then switch to something quick, followed by a tome. Don't lock yourself into one area. Personally Gerald Seymore writes a good thriller, Ian M Banks for SF, biographies of people you never heard of, history books of events etc.
January 12, 2026 at 6:15 PM
The British Medical Council recommend no more than 10 units of alcohol a week, for a man of my age. I've just done an audit of my relaxation cabinet. Wine, beer, bubbly, spirits, and liqueurs. After a quick spreadsheet was created it seems I'm good for just over a year, 57 weeks to be accurate.
January 12, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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That awkward moment when your past foreign policy faceplants in real time.
January 11, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Just reorganised my house alcohol supply into a new shelving unit. It appears I don't need to buy any for the next decade or so.

7 bottles of half drunk gin, 8 cans of high strength stout, 9 bottles of bubbly, a mixed case of wine. All mixed into about 3 score general bottles. New liver on order
January 11, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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Elections haven't always been fair in America.

We've suffered Poll taxes, writing tests, intimidation, misinformation and straight up cheating in multiple elections over the life of our country.

And progress still came.

Don't let them con you into thinking they're inevitable.

They aren't.
January 11, 2026 at 8:24 AM
It's always worth remembering, that when you are curled up on the sofa watching shit in TV, you are doing so while moving at several hundred miles per second through space.
January 11, 2026 at 11:29 AM
The world needs more of this type of thinking.
January 11, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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January 10, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Is the purpose of the US government to look after US corporations, or the US population?
January 11, 2026 at 10:44 AM
The United Colonies became the United States under reign of King George III. He was widely thought to suffer from a serious mental illness. Fitting that the next monarch in charge of the US continues this tradition.
January 11, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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January 11, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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January 10, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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The Epstein Files are probably the best thing to ever happen to the Trump regime. They give liberals something to attach their hope to that somehow if they can just get the files released - and then all of the files released, and then all of the unreadacted files... - then Trump will crumble.
January 10, 2026 at 4:45 AM
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The North Atlantic Right whale has testicles that each weigh 500 Kg. That might got a ways to explaining the salinity of sea water.
January 10, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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It's almost as if years of relentless media saturation bombing of flat-out lies, demonisation and blaming don't help the public to understand what is actually happening.
January 10, 2026 at 4:40 PM
When is the American Nuremberg likely to be, and where will it be held ?
January 10, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Has any film company ever thought about an adaptation of Strontium Dog ? Johnny Alpha would strike a chord with many in these modern times.
January 10, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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January 10, 2026 at 11:06 AM
My good lady wife has 'crossed the streams', so I'm looking out for any unexpected behaviour.

Crossing the streams in this instance refers to mixing Diet Coke and Pepsi Max in the same glass. What's the worst that could happen ...
January 10, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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January 9, 2026 at 10:21 PM