Gentle Blinks
@gentleblinks.bsky.social
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"Looks like I picked the wrong week to start reading Hannah Arendt's book, 'The Origins of Totalitarianism'," in the UK.
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I will never stop until the Labour Govt’s toolkit for authoritarians has been dismantled piece by piece.
Today mandatory Digital ID, and next we stop police facial rec and preserve protest rights and trial by jury. Human rights matter more than ever right now.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Today mandatory Digital ID, and next we stop police facial rec and preserve protest rights and trial by jury. Human rights matter more than ever right now.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID
Scheme intended to verify someone’s right to work in the UK will be optional, government admitted in 13th U-turn since taking power
www.thetimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:21 PM
I will never stop until the Labour Govt’s toolkit for authoritarians has been dismantled piece by piece.
Today mandatory Digital ID, and next we stop police facial rec and preserve protest rights and trial by jury. Human rights matter more than ever right now.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Today mandatory Digital ID, and next we stop police facial rec and preserve protest rights and trial by jury. Human rights matter more than ever right now.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Related to this I lost a lot of work in December because I was ill, and my diary is currently very empty.
If you need some writing, research or a voice or anything else similar doing, please let me know!
I'm very flexible (despite hurtling towards middle age at an alarming speed).
If you need some writing, research or a voice or anything else similar doing, please let me know!
I'm very flexible (despite hurtling towards middle age at an alarming speed).
I'm immunosuppressed.
I got my flu jab this year and STILL got flu before Christmas and was really, really ill.
This sort of bullshit needs to be nipped in the bud because it's terrifying.
It's not a matter of opinion. There's no "two sides".
I got my flu jab this year and STILL got flu before Christmas and was really, really ill.
This sort of bullshit needs to be nipped in the bud because it's terrifying.
It's not a matter of opinion. There's no "two sides".
Farage: "I believe in vaccinations when they're vaccinations. I don't think what happened with Covid were vaccinations. You have to keep having them every 6 months."
Conspiratorial nonsense.
Some vaccinations like Covid shots require multiple/seasonal doses because immunity fades & viruses change.
Conspiratorial nonsense.
Some vaccinations like Covid shots require multiple/seasonal doses because immunity fades & viruses change.
January 8, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Related to this I lost a lot of work in December because I was ill, and my diary is currently very empty.
If you need some writing, research or a voice or anything else similar doing, please let me know!
I'm very flexible (despite hurtling towards middle age at an alarming speed).
If you need some writing, research or a voice or anything else similar doing, please let me know!
I'm very flexible (despite hurtling towards middle age at an alarming speed).
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Seems the world is on edge…
January 4, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Seems the world is on edge…
To be fair(ly sarcastic) about Starmer's non-response to the unsanctioned invasion: perhaps he's bearing in mind that the UK is absolutely a piss-pot, isolated island off the coast of France. If that's the case, then Starmer may be smarter than no one is giving him credit for.
January 4, 2026 at 8:17 AM
To be fair(ly sarcastic) about Starmer's non-response to the unsanctioned invasion: perhaps he's bearing in mind that the UK is absolutely a piss-pot, isolated island off the coast of France. If that's the case, then Starmer may be smarter than no one is giving him credit for.
Whose beer do you think Trump is holding?
January 4, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Whose beer do you think Trump is holding?
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Fuck it I don’t care anymore
January 1, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Fuck it I don’t care anymore
Gamers Nexus's fascinating video. Data centres are proposed in the poorest parts the UK. I can imagine the mechanised industrial revolution was exciting for most, but we know the lessons of what follows. The best can't be that it all collapses asap, surely? Surely... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lYs...
We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI
YouTube video by GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Gamers Nexus's fascinating video. Data centres are proposed in the poorest parts the UK. I can imagine the mechanised industrial revolution was exciting for most, but we know the lessons of what follows. The best can't be that it all collapses asap, surely? Surely... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lYs...
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a big part of the issue surrounding the use of chatgpt/LLMs in academic research comes down to process vs. product. a lot of us know that the process of doing research matters because that's where intellectual work is done; but some "academics" and lots of techies only care about a fast product
December 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
a big part of the issue surrounding the use of chatgpt/LLMs in academic research comes down to process vs. product. a lot of us know that the process of doing research matters because that's where intellectual work is done; but some "academics" and lots of techies only care about a fast product
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“How can continuing on a pathway to ecosystem collapse be deemed “affordable,” while measures to avert climate breakdown are framed as frivolous luxuries?”
Zack Polanski’s Bold Politics Requires an Even Bolder Economic Vision: The Case for Democratic Public Finance
by Rob Hawkes The Green Party of England and Wales is attracting new members in unprecedented numbers and achieving polling percentages that would have seemed impossible a year ago. However, tensio…
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December 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
“How can continuing on a pathway to ecosystem collapse be deemed “affordable,” while measures to avert climate breakdown are framed as frivolous luxuries?”
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“Hold on there, Dale. It says we should sand
between coats.”
between coats.”
December 19, 2025 at 11:05 PM
“Hold on there, Dale. It says we should sand
between coats.”
between coats.”
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We noticed a rising interest regarding the use of AI in browsers. To be clear about our position on this: Zen currently is disabling all AI features included in Firefox and will continue to do so.
Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox
Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox
Anthony Enzor-DeMeo is taking charge of one of the internet’s most important — and most complicated — companies.
buff.ly
December 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
We noticed a rising interest regarding the use of AI in browsers. To be clear about our position on this: Zen currently is disabling all AI features included in Firefox and will continue to do so.
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/jonathan-g... The whole piece is superbly written! It perfectly encapsulates the aimless, yet determined, rabidity of minor politicians who achieved something, but nothing really appropriate to that position, through their efforts to misunderstand what or who they are
Jonathan Gullis, The Seagull's Lament
A New Yorker Profile
mrhenrymorris.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/jonathan-g... The whole piece is superbly written! It perfectly encapsulates the aimless, yet determined, rabidity of minor politicians who achieved something, but nothing really appropriate to that position, through their efforts to misunderstand what or who they are
What superb prose! — "Gullis, who thinks leaning is woke, grudgingly obliges by staring at a discarded Greggs wrapper as though it is the last letter from a dying empire."
Impossible to exaggerate what a brilliant writer Henry is. Pisses me right off tbh.
🚨Some personal news.
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.
A profile of Jonathan Gullis.
"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."
open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
December 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
What superb prose! — "Gullis, who thinks leaning is woke, grudgingly obliges by staring at a discarded Greggs wrapper as though it is the last letter from a dying empire."
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I contributed the entry on Japan for this BFI intro to melodrama from around the world to coincide with their ongoing season, Too Much: Melodrama on Film
Around the world in melodrama: 9 countries, 45 essential films
From Hollywood tearjerkers to Chinese tales of passion and loss, melodrama has shaped cinema across cultures. Our trip around the globe explores how filmmakers worldwide have embraced heightened emoti...
www.bfi.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I contributed the entry on Japan for this BFI intro to melodrama from around the world to coincide with their ongoing season, Too Much: Melodrama on Film
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Hello. I will be recommending a Christmas movie every day on my YouTube channel this year. Please subscribe, watch the new, essential, life-changing video every day, and share it with everyone you know. Thank you.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Hello. I will be recommending a Christmas movie every day on my YouTube channel this year. Please subscribe, watch the new, essential, life-changing video every day, and share it with everyone you know. Thank you.
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What is this, the "Nationalize Human Trafficking" movement? We tried that in the 17th Century
Watching the Mahmood announcement and debate. Tory backbencher (Karen Bradley) suggests putting refugees into debt and making them repay during the rest of their lives. Mahmood says she’ll think about it.
November 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
What is this, the "Nationalize Human Trafficking" movement? We tried that in the 17th Century
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First copies arriving with me tomorrow - I’ll try and post up website shop details by Friday. Its edition limited to 250 signed and numbered copies. Meanwhile tickets are still available for the official launch Portico Library Manchester 18th Dec.
November 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
First copies arriving with me tomorrow - I’ll try and post up website shop details by Friday. Its edition limited to 250 signed and numbered copies. Meanwhile tickets are still available for the official launch Portico Library Manchester 18th Dec.
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Our negotiations with Core Devices have broken down, and we need your help, as the community, to decide what to do next: rebble.io/2025/11/17/c...
(Aside: Ugh. This is probably the least pleasant thing we have ever had to write. We're incredibly sad it went this way, and sorry to have to post it.)
(Aside: Ugh. This is probably the least pleasant thing we have ever had to write. We're incredibly sad it went this way, and sorry to have to post it.)
Rebble · Core Devices Keeps Stealing Our Work
This is a post that we don’t take any joy in writing. When we wrote last month about our agreement with Core Devices, we went into it believing that coopera...
rebble.io
November 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Our negotiations with Core Devices have broken down, and we need your help, as the community, to decide what to do next: rebble.io/2025/11/17/c...
(Aside: Ugh. This is probably the least pleasant thing we have ever had to write. We're incredibly sad it went this way, and sorry to have to post it.)
(Aside: Ugh. This is probably the least pleasant thing we have ever had to write. We're incredibly sad it went this way, and sorry to have to post it.)
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Trying to picture the scene in The White House at the moment.
Trump asleep, his hairpiece enjoying a saucer of milk, his Smartphone quietly charging.
How different it will be later today.
Trump asleep, his hairpiece enjoying a saucer of milk, his Smartphone quietly charging.
How different it will be later today.
November 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Trying to picture the scene in The White House at the moment.
Trump asleep, his hairpiece enjoying a saucer of milk, his Smartphone quietly charging.
How different it will be later today.
Trump asleep, his hairpiece enjoying a saucer of milk, his Smartphone quietly charging.
How different it will be later today.
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Kindle edition is £1.99 today until midnight.
www.amazon.co.uk/Proof-My-Inn...
www.amazon.co.uk/Proof-My-Inn...
November 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Kindle edition is £1.99 today until midnight.
www.amazon.co.uk/Proof-My-Inn...
www.amazon.co.uk/Proof-My-Inn...
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Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Maybe the clocks didn't change. Maybe we did.
March 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Maybe the clocks didn't change. Maybe we did.
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Thank you to the Select Committee in the House of Lords for the opportunity to discuss the comprehensive safeguards in the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill - none of which currently exist. The Bill addresses the failing status quo provides safe & compassionate #ChoiceAtTheEndOfLife
@kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social describes the world-leading safeguards in assisted dying Bill - incl. many eligibility conversations, a multi-disc. panel for extra oversight, and new offences on coercion. None of which exist under the status quo. #YesToDignity
October 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Thank you to the Select Committee in the House of Lords for the opportunity to discuss the comprehensive safeguards in the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill - none of which currently exist. The Bill addresses the failing status quo provides safe & compassionate #ChoiceAtTheEndOfLife
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Today, England's water companies received their worst pollution ratings since records began.
Rising bills. Soaring profits. Sewage in our rivers and seas.
Enough is enough. Bring water back into public ownership, now.
Rising bills. Soaring profits. Sewage in our rivers and seas.
Enough is enough. Bring water back into public ownership, now.
October 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Today, England's water companies received their worst pollution ratings since records began.
Rising bills. Soaring profits. Sewage in our rivers and seas.
Enough is enough. Bring water back into public ownership, now.
Rising bills. Soaring profits. Sewage in our rivers and seas.
Enough is enough. Bring water back into public ownership, now.
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