Alex
@ducklofty.bsky.social
Tall, Liberal left, IT guy. Recovering from an unhealthy obsession with politics after the shock of Nov 5th.
Just catching up with @mrjamesob.bsky.social and this answers half his phone in this morning very simply.
Why is every scandal existential for Starmer? Because he has actively worked to eradicate his own support base. And that, along with the Mandelson decision, can be laid at McSweeney's door iandunt.substack.com/p/starmers-m...
February 6, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Just catching up with @mrjamesob.bsky.social and this answers half his phone in this morning very simply.
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SHOCK: UK Studio Goes SILENT After USA🇺🇸 Rant 😳 -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWPO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWPO...
SHOCKING: UK News Host Has USA Meltdown - #BrokenNews
YouTube video by Larry & Paul
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January 29, 2026 at 5:28 PM
SHOCK: UK Studio Goes SILENT After USA🇺🇸 Rant 😳 -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWPO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWPO...
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AI tools are immensely powerful. The use of AI as a general purpose chat bot that is used like an encyclopaedia is the worst possible use of AI. AI is now, given good instructions from a knowledgeable user, capable of doing absolutely vast amounts of work extremely fast.
lots of people, especially on here, are fastened onto the idea that it's just AI bro marketing or whatever to consider it a fixture of the information landscape. it's easy to think that when everyone in your circles is an ethical AI refuser. but I'm afraid it really has been mass adopted.
January 29, 2026 at 9:09 AM
AI tools are immensely powerful. The use of AI as a general purpose chat bot that is used like an encyclopaedia is the worst possible use of AI. AI is now, given good instructions from a knowledgeable user, capable of doing absolutely vast amounts of work extremely fast.
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This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.
January 28, 2026 at 3:12 AM
This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.
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Also, my father’s final words to me were to continue to fight the good fight. He would be honored in Alex’s sacrifice, and ashamed of this current administration.
In my dad’s words, I encourage you all to continue to “fight the good fight.”
In my dad’s words, I encourage you all to continue to “fight the good fight.”
January 25, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Also, my father’s final words to me were to continue to fight the good fight. He would be honored in Alex’s sacrifice, and ashamed of this current administration.
In my dad’s words, I encourage you all to continue to “fight the good fight.”
In my dad’s words, I encourage you all to continue to “fight the good fight.”
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
There's now a series of these...
substack.com/@meaghanwils...
substack.com/@meaghanwils...
Meaghan Wilson Anastasios (@meaghanwilsonanastasios)
Sir Turdnugget O’Spunkrag: “Greenland has, like, two dogsleds…”
Greenland:“Hold my beer 🍺”
This is genius. 🔊on. This is also why tinpot dictators hate artists like @demonflyingfox
substack.com
January 22, 2026 at 8:36 PM
There's now a series of these...
substack.com/@meaghanwils...
substack.com/@meaghanwils...
Love this and so catchy.
substack.com/@meaghanwils...
substack.com/@meaghanwils...
Meaghan Wilson Anastasios (@meaghanwilsonanastasios)
Designs on Greenland?
Greenland: “hold my beer.”
This is great. 🔊on.
substack.com
January 18, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Love this and so catchy.
substack.com/@meaghanwils...
substack.com/@meaghanwils...
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Last night I had a dream where my teeth were falling out and also I was naked in school and also I couldn’t find my classroom and that meant I wasn’t gonna be able to graduate and also the police were after me and man that was a nice break from everything
January 17, 2026 at 6:22 AM
Last night I had a dream where my teeth were falling out and also I was naked in school and also I couldn’t find my classroom and that meant I wasn’t gonna be able to graduate and also the police were after me and man that was a nice break from everything
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well that FIFA Peace Prize is starting to look a bit silly
January 3, 2026 at 8:33 AM
well that FIFA Peace Prize is starting to look a bit silly
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Property porn with a difference: two children’s homes for sale, boasting an underlying profit margin of 48% (!!) despite being judged to require improvement to be good’
December 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Property porn with a difference: two children’s homes for sale, boasting an underlying profit margin of 48% (!!) despite being judged to require improvement to be good’
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Breaking. Liz Truss wins this year's FIFA Prize for Economics.
December 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Breaking. Liz Truss wins this year's FIFA Prize for Economics.
There's a good chance Marjorie Taylor-Greene has been visited by three ghosts and/or grown a soul.
November 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
There's a good chance Marjorie Taylor-Greene has been visited by three ghosts and/or grown a soul.
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And this is why we don't trust press coverage of research that hasn't been reviewed...
This should get WIDE circulation:
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI
The retracted paper had impressed a Nobel Prize winner in economics.
gizmodo.com
August 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
And this is why we don't trust press coverage of research that hasn't been reviewed...
Enjoying the proof in the old adage: Pop(ulism) Will Eat Itself
July 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Enjoying the proof in the old adage: Pop(ulism) Will Eat Itself
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A lot of chin-stroking speculation and head-scratching about where Reform's Scottish vote is coming from. Can't help thinking that the question "Do you support Rangers?" would clarify a lot.
June 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
A lot of chin-stroking speculation and head-scratching about where Reform's Scottish vote is coming from. Can't help thinking that the question "Do you support Rangers?" would clarify a lot.
True dat
how bleak that following most elections now is going WOOOOOOO fascists only on 47%!!!!!!!
May 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
True dat
Fabulous counter to the squalid language on display this week from the alway readable @iandunt.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Thank God for immigrants
This week, of all weeks: Thank God they came here and chose to make it their home.
open.substack.com
May 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Fabulous counter to the squalid language on display this week from the alway readable @iandunt.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Being John Voight
You guys are implementing a 100% tariff on movies wrong. Double the cost means you get Three and a Half Samurai for the price of your ticket, not Fourteen Samurai.
May 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Being John Voight
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I would have argued with the cheese’s suggestions, but who am I to diss a Brie?
April 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I would have argued with the cheese’s suggestions, but who am I to diss a Brie?
What a missed opportunity America had. The contrast with JD Vance is incredible.
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 5:43 AM
What a missed opportunity America had. The contrast with JD Vance is incredible.
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SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
April 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
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It's time to repost this Easter masterpiece
April 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
It's time to repost this Easter masterpiece
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Last night at trivia night they announced the next category was current events and everyone booed
April 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Last night at trivia night they announced the next category was current events and everyone booed