Brett Callacher
@bcbluesy.bsky.social
Bluesman, gourmand, cook, sausage obsessive, problem solver, IT developer. English/European
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Elon Musk is making up claims about Tesla on X and won’t allow community notes to be attached.
December 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Elon Musk is making up claims about Tesla on X and won’t allow community notes to be attached.
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Churchill would have recognised such views - as the policy of the regime he was fighting
Paragraphs like these reflect a frankly evil political outlook on Britishness, citizenship, and national identity, and I find it chilling that they now just casually appear in supposedly mainstream conservative publications
December 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Churchill would have recognised such views - as the policy of the regime he was fighting
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my theory: social media has whipped up impatience, scorn, hatred, anger, polarisation and frustration with anything other than immediate results
Glad the FT is asking the question. Even if I’m not convinced they found a compelling answer.
I get that Starmer & Reeves are unpopular, I really don’t understand the extent of the dislike.
www.ft.com/content/1995... ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
I get that Starmer & Reeves are unpopular, I really don’t understand the extent of the dislike.
www.ft.com/content/1995... ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
Allies concede the prime minister and chancellor have made mistakes yet the level of disdain towards them is still striking
www.ft.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:32 PM
my theory: social media has whipped up impatience, scorn, hatred, anger, polarisation and frustration with anything other than immediate results
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So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British?
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows
Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British?
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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It’s worth mentioning, though it’s been said repeatedly: the Lizzie Line carries 1/6th of UK daily rail passengers (not including the Tube) and has already paid off its entire costs.
And if HS2 had been committed to, without plans being tweaked every 5 minutes, Phase 1 would be opening next year.
And if HS2 had been committed to, without plans being tweaked every 5 minutes, Phase 1 would be opening next year.
Worked example of the crippling effects or Treasury brain here
Elizabeth Line would ‘never’ be built, Michael Portillo wrote when urging cancellation
Former Treasury minister warned that Crossrail London link was too costly and unnecessary, newly released papers show
www.ft.com
December 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It’s worth mentioning, though it’s been said repeatedly: the Lizzie Line carries 1/6th of UK daily rail passengers (not including the Tube) and has already paid off its entire costs.
And if HS2 had been committed to, without plans being tweaked every 5 minutes, Phase 1 would be opening next year.
And if HS2 had been committed to, without plans being tweaked every 5 minutes, Phase 1 would be opening next year.
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There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship
Hell, I'm not convinced we should revoke citizenship at all.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
But certainly not for being a twat online.
December 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship
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Ahead of the departure of the last hereditary peers I spoke to Lord Trefgarne, once a minister in Thatcher’s government, who is preparing to leave the Lords after nearly *64 years* there.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘We have to go’: longest-serving lord reflects on looming Labour eviction
Hereditary peer David Trefgarne will be forced to end 64 years in House of Lords when reform bill is approved
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Ahead of the departure of the last hereditary peers I spoke to Lord Trefgarne, once a minister in Thatcher’s government, who is preparing to leave the Lords after nearly *64 years* there.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Paragraphs like these reflect a frankly evil political outlook on Britishness, citizenship, and national identity, and I find it chilling that they now just casually appear in supposedly mainstream conservative publications
December 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Paragraphs like these reflect a frankly evil political outlook on Britishness, citizenship, and national identity, and I find it chilling that they now just casually appear in supposedly mainstream conservative publications
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Reminder that Henry Hoovers are made in Britain by a unionised workforce
December 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Reminder that Henry Hoovers are made in Britain by a unionised workforce
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Thanks to both @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social and @lewisgoodall.com for having this conversation and not limiting it to solely male influence.
There are plenty of toxic people both male and female (& AI) skewing young minds.
There are plenty of toxic people both male and female (& AI) skewing young minds.
"Boys aren't getting advice on sex from Andrew Tate, they're getting it from a thing that doesn't exist."
Jess Phillips on the influence of the likes of Tate and Bonnie Blue – and why there may be an even bigger threat to young men online...
Jess Phillips on the influence of the likes of Tate and Bonnie Blue – and why there may be an even bigger threat to young men online...
December 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Thanks to both @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social and @lewisgoodall.com for having this conversation and not limiting it to solely male influence.
There are plenty of toxic people both male and female (& AI) skewing young minds.
There are plenty of toxic people both male and female (& AI) skewing young minds.
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this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member
December 20, 2025 at 6:35 AM
this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member
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The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
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Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use
December 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use
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Suspect some female Tory MPs are quietly dying inside at this. When you’re so desperate to get in a bit of gratuitous foreigner-bashing that you find yourself arguing *against* preventative strategies that try to prevent sexual violence, ffs, what have you become?
Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
December 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Suspect some female Tory MPs are quietly dying inside at this. When you’re so desperate to get in a bit of gratuitous foreigner-bashing that you find yourself arguing *against* preventative strategies that try to prevent sexual violence, ffs, what have you become?
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I think it’s easy to underestimate just how impressive this new map is. We can now see Europe at night in colour! This is mega!
Europe's nighttime glow from space 🌍
This first colour mosaic of the continent at night was created from 7000+ pictures taken by astronauts on the International Space Station.
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
This first colour mosaic of the continent at night was created from 7000+ pictures taken by astronauts on the International Space Station.
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
December 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I think it’s easy to underestimate just how impressive this new map is. We can now see Europe at night in colour! This is mega!
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The choice EU leaders face today is not the reparations loan vs. "Eurobonds". The choice is agreeing on a workable solution that rapidly gives a lot of money to Ukraine vs. going back to the drawing board with no clear idea where to go next while Ukraine's money is running out.
Should be obvious.
Should be obvious.
Is Germany again dragging its feet and undermining a "simple" solution to the Ukraine financing problem, instead pushing the ubercomplex reparations loan?
It's a tempting eurocrisis reflex that if only there were a will in Berlin, there would be a better way.
But there isn't. Here is why:
It's a tempting eurocrisis reflex that if only there were a will in Berlin, there would be a better way.
But there isn't. Here is why:
December 18, 2025 at 6:35 AM
The choice EU leaders face today is not the reparations loan vs. "Eurobonds". The choice is agreeing on a workable solution that rapidly gives a lot of money to Ukraine vs. going back to the drawing board with no clear idea where to go next while Ukraine's money is running out.
Should be obvious.
Should be obvious.
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This is a travesty. My research would literally not be possible without data from NCAR. It's the same for any ecologist who wants to understand the effect of any weather variable on systems they study, which is to say basically all ecologists 🧪
Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center in Colorado
Governor Jared Polis warned that breaking up Boulder’s NCAR would put ‘public safety at risk’
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This is a travesty. My research would literally not be possible without data from NCAR. It's the same for any ecologist who wants to understand the effect of any weather variable on systems they study, which is to say basically all ecologists 🧪
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Why can't immigrants who come to the UK integrate as well as this?
December 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Why can't immigrants who come to the UK integrate as well as this?
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If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
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Again and again, the optimal position when legally threatened by Trump is to be resolute in defence and prepare for court.
You will likely not then have to go to court, as he will fold or settle.
But if you seek to settle from the off, he has got you and he will crush you.
You will likely not then have to go to court, as he will fold or settle.
But if you seek to settle from the off, he has got you and he will crush you.
Everyone should stand up to this bully.
December 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Again and again, the optimal position when legally threatened by Trump is to be resolute in defence and prepare for court.
You will likely not then have to go to court, as he will fold or settle.
But if you seek to settle from the off, he has got you and he will crush you.
You will likely not then have to go to court, as he will fold or settle.
But if you seek to settle from the off, he has got you and he will crush you.
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The Pulitzer Board is actually fighting back against one of Trump’s vexatious lawsuits, saying, ‘If you were harmed, prove it — with medical and financial records.’
Not rolling over like some of the capitulating companies we’ve seen.
newrepublic.com/post/204475/...
Not rolling over like some of the capitulating companies we’ve seen.
newrepublic.com/post/204475/...
Pulitzer Board Demands Trump’s Tax and Psych Records in Lawsuit Twist
Donald Trump isn’t going to be happy about this one.
newrepublic.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The Pulitzer Board is actually fighting back against one of Trump’s vexatious lawsuits, saying, ‘If you were harmed, prove it — with medical and financial records.’
Not rolling over like some of the capitulating companies we’ve seen.
newrepublic.com/post/204475/...
Not rolling over like some of the capitulating companies we’ve seen.
newrepublic.com/post/204475/...
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If Hungary doesn't invade Ukraine, its assets should be fine
😱 Viktor Orbán is concerned about Hungarian foreign exchange reserves held in Brussels:
“What will happen if Brussels decides to take away Hungary’s foreign exchange reserves?”, he told his propagandists on the airplane to Brussels 1/2
“What will happen if Brussels decides to take away Hungary’s foreign exchange reserves?”, he told his propagandists on the airplane to Brussels 1/2
December 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
If Hungary doesn't invade Ukraine, its assets should be fine
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Good news!🎉
The government is set to announce tomorrow that the UK will rejoin the Erasmus+ scheme from January 2027 according to reports.
Read more: https://www.bestforbritain.org/uk_to_rejoin_erasmus
The government is set to announce tomorrow that the UK will rejoin the Erasmus+ scheme from January 2027 according to reports.
Read more: https://www.bestforbritain.org/uk_to_rejoin_erasmus
December 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Good news!🎉
The government is set to announce tomorrow that the UK will rejoin the Erasmus+ scheme from January 2027 according to reports.
Read more: https://www.bestforbritain.org/uk_to_rejoin_erasmus
The government is set to announce tomorrow that the UK will rejoin the Erasmus+ scheme from January 2027 according to reports.
Read more: https://www.bestforbritain.org/uk_to_rejoin_erasmus
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What European culture is being erased?
December 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
What European culture is being erased?