Daniel Barratt
@danielbarratt.bsky.social
Everyone watching The Traitors comparing handwriting like they're trying to capture the Zodiac Killer
January 3, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Everyone watching The Traitors comparing handwriting like they're trying to capture the Zodiac Killer
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"
December 23, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"
There really is no better time for every British politician, political party, government official or really anyone still on X to leave and tell Elon to shove it
twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.
I'm guessing the BBC 'scandal' has been big on X this week as this was the first I had heard of it...
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
There really is no better time for every British politician, political party, government official or really anyone still on X to leave and tell Elon to shove it
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Fwiw, the trend towards disclosing the ethnicity/nationality of suspects in high-profile cases has not solved any problem (disinformation is still thriving) and only fuels polarisation and creates opportunities for grifters.
November 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Fwiw, the trend towards disclosing the ethnicity/nationality of suspects in high-profile cases has not solved any problem (disinformation is still thriving) and only fuels polarisation and creates opportunities for grifters.
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The Online Safety legislation targeted completely the wrong generation.
October 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The Online Safety legislation targeted completely the wrong generation.
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In the UK, we have a government who will complain about peaceful protests taking up valuable police resources while simultaneously complaining that the police shouldn't ban far right football hooligans with a history of violence and disruption from attending a match.
October 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In the UK, we have a government who will complain about peaceful protests taking up valuable police resources while simultaneously complaining that the police shouldn't ban far right football hooligans with a history of violence and disruption from attending a match.
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A much needed corrective by @chrisgiles.ft.com to the "welfare is out of control" narrative, drawing on research by my colleague @benbgeiger.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/ee67...
www.ft.com/content/ee67...
No need for a moral panic about the welfare system
It’s far from perfect, but the UK’s spending is broadly controlled and employment is high
www.ft.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A much needed corrective by @chrisgiles.ft.com to the "welfare is out of control" narrative, drawing on research by my colleague @benbgeiger.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/ee67...
www.ft.com/content/ee67...
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Printing presses kept their letters in cases.
Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.
This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’
Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?
MAJUSCULE and minuscule.
Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.
This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’
Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?
MAJUSCULE and minuscule.
October 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Printing presses kept their letters in cases.
Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.
This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’
Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?
MAJUSCULE and minuscule.
Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.
This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’
Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?
MAJUSCULE and minuscule.
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I can't disagree with Dan here...
September 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I can't disagree with Dan here...
Keir Starmer has no issue demonising desperate people risking their lives to cross the channel but remains silent on the racist thuggery displayed today and the incitement for violence by the richest man on the planet...
Cowards, utter cowards.
Cowards, utter cowards.
September 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Keir Starmer has no issue demonising desperate people risking their lives to cross the channel but remains silent on the racist thuggery displayed today and the incitement for violence by the richest man on the planet...
Cowards, utter cowards.
Cowards, utter cowards.
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Keep thinking of arguments for why it would be completely insane to dump a prime minister with a huge majority just 14 months in, and also about how if he's not going to say a single word in opposition to the kind of shit we saw today then I no longer feel convinced by any of those arguments.
September 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Keep thinking of arguments for why it would be completely insane to dump a prime minister with a huge majority just 14 months in, and also about how if he's not going to say a single word in opposition to the kind of shit we saw today then I no longer feel convinced by any of those arguments.
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It’s a real test of Ofcom. Is the Online Safety Act worth anything, other than handing huge amounts of our data to American porn companies and banning kids from Wikipedia?
Here’s some actual online harm.
Here’s some actual online harm.
Elon Musk has *personally*posted in favour of the racist remigration agenda of the maximalist racist abusing the Home Secretary with this on X & endlessly posting racist harassment on X
This should be a story.
It should be a scandal.
Musk should have to account for this, in person, in parliament
This should be a story.
It should be a scandal.
Musk should have to account for this, in person, in parliament
September 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
It’s a real test of Ofcom. Is the Online Safety Act worth anything, other than handing huge amounts of our data to American porn companies and banning kids from Wikipedia?
Here’s some actual online harm.
Here’s some actual online harm.
Putting aside the deeply personal circumstances regarding Angela Rayner, it amazes me that no one within government, who must have been aware of these circumstances, suggested that a second opinion might be a good idea.
September 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Putting aside the deeply personal circumstances regarding Angela Rayner, it amazes me that no one within government, who must have been aware of these circumstances, suggested that a second opinion might be a good idea.
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Year by year, Act by Act, the UK has long been slowly, steadily creating an evermore Illiberal security state.
And politicians and the media have just nodded it through.
Party politics and the press have made little if no difference.
And politicians and the media have just nodded it through.
Party politics and the press have made little if no difference.
And the entire UK political establishment is complicit. The Lib Dems who endorsed the Immigration Act 2014 whilst in coalition. Corbyn’s Labour, who waved through the Investigatory Powers Act when in opposition. *Everyone* who passed the Online Safety Act.
August 30, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Year by year, Act by Act, the UK has long been slowly, steadily creating an evermore Illiberal security state.
And politicians and the media have just nodded it through.
Party politics and the press have made little if no difference.
And politicians and the media have just nodded it through.
Party politics and the press have made little if no difference.
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Holy fucking shit
![Five days before his death, Adam confided to ChatGPT that he didn't want his
parents to think he committed suicide because they did something wrong. ChatGPT told him
"[t]hat doesn't mean you owe them survival. You don't owe anyone that." It then offered to write the first draft of Adam's suicide note.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jkj7qm4o4kwjbk6geoatopu3/bafkreicpqmrgkbhd2a3lqfyvutjutevlborsiodcomvcachphtv25f3fbe@jpeg)
August 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Holy fucking shit
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Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.
August 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.
Just thinking about the view where if you frame Trump's meeting with Putin in Alaska as purely a business deal and not diplomacy, everything makes a bit more sense.... This just continues to validate this view; everything with Trump always comes back to money. Always.
‼️ "Ukraine will promise to buy $100bn of American weapons financed by Europe as part of a deal to obtain US guarantees for its security after a peace settlement with Russia, according to a document seen by the Financial Times."
August 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Just thinking about the view where if you frame Trump's meeting with Putin in Alaska as purely a business deal and not diplomacy, everything makes a bit more sense.... This just continues to validate this view; everything with Trump always comes back to money. Always.
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that summit could've been an email
August 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
that summit could've been an email
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Ofcom says that if you refuse to censor yourself under the Online Safety Act, it will force payment processors and ISPs to stop doing business with you.
When the government can't shut you up, the banks and credit cards will.
Absolutely terrifying.
www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...
When the government can't shut you up, the banks and credit cards will.
Absolutely terrifying.
www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...
August 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Ofcom says that if you refuse to censor yourself under the Online Safety Act, it will force payment processors and ISPs to stop doing business with you.
When the government can't shut you up, the banks and credit cards will.
Absolutely terrifying.
www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...
When the government can't shut you up, the banks and credit cards will.
Absolutely terrifying.
www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...
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Let’s be clear. The problem is the Online Safety Act. It’s not Labour, it’s not the Tories, it’s both of them. The act had cross party support.
The act is the biggest piece of censorship in the U.K. since the Second World War.
The act is the biggest piece of censorship in the U.K. since the Second World War.
August 1, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Let’s be clear. The problem is the Online Safety Act. It’s not Labour, it’s not the Tories, it’s both of them. The act had cross party support.
The act is the biggest piece of censorship in the U.K. since the Second World War.
The act is the biggest piece of censorship in the U.K. since the Second World War.
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#UK: As they enter into force, the Online Safety Act’s child protection provisions have, once again, raised serious concerns about the future of free expression online.
Read @jamesrball.com as he explains why age verification is "not a good thing".
www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/07/free...
Read @jamesrball.com as he explains why age verification is "not a good thing".
www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/07/free...
Free expression concerns over Online Safety Act's age verification requirements - Index on Censorship
There are many questions around how age verification works in practise and what its consequences could be for our online speech
www.indexoncensorship.org
July 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
#UK: As they enter into force, the Online Safety Act’s child protection provisions have, once again, raised serious concerns about the future of free expression online.
Read @jamesrball.com as he explains why age verification is "not a good thing".
www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/07/free...
Read @jamesrball.com as he explains why age verification is "not a good thing".
www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/07/free...
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I'm sorry, but this may be the funniest Facebook AI slop I have ever seen. Bury me sideways in my coffin, brother. Let my dog see
July 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I'm sorry, but this may be the funniest Facebook AI slop I have ever seen. Bury me sideways in my coffin, brother. Let my dog see