Kevin Dowling
@kraffty.bsky.social
Formerly @craftykdd on Twitter. Freelance writer, content strategies, curmudgeon. I use words to solve problems and occasionally get on my high horse.
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We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
@samfr.bsky.social I’m a copywriter and proofreader. My website is kevindowling.work
Kevin Dowling
Kevin Dowling is an experienced freelancer offering copywriting, content marketing, report and blog writing services to small and medium-sized businesses.
kevindowling.work
November 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
@samfr.bsky.social I’m a copywriter and proofreader. My website is kevindowling.work
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This policy is the ultimate expression of what is wrong with the last three decades of technocratic liberalism. It hands public money to bad private sector actors. It will win over zero of the reactionary voters it is supposed to mollify. It will massively annoy every other voter in the process.
BREAKING: All UK adults to require digital ID under Keir Starmer plan
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
All UK adults to require digital ID under Keir Starmer plan
The ‘Brit card’ would be part of efforts to tackle illegal migration by verifying right to live and work in Britain
www.thetimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This policy is the ultimate expression of what is wrong with the last three decades of technocratic liberalism. It hands public money to bad private sector actors. It will win over zero of the reactionary voters it is supposed to mollify. It will massively annoy every other voter in the process.
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I don't like doing this. It feels fucked up to constantly point out the negative dimensions of someone who just died in a horrific, worrying way. But I would like the media to tell basic truths about this person and his impact on public life rather than resorting to euphemism and outright lies!
September 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I don't like doing this. It feels fucked up to constantly point out the negative dimensions of someone who just died in a horrific, worrying way. But I would like the media to tell basic truths about this person and his impact on public life rather than resorting to euphemism and outright lies!
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It's remarkable how ~2017-2019 was an all-hands existential struggle to eradicate the unacceptable scourge of bigotry and racism from British politics forever, and now it's this, all day, every day, and not a single one of our commentariat has noticed nor has anything to say about it.
September 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It's remarkable how ~2017-2019 was an all-hands existential struggle to eradicate the unacceptable scourge of bigotry and racism from British politics forever, and now it's this, all day, every day, and not a single one of our commentariat has noticed nor has anything to say about it.
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Who else on God's green earth could make a room of people chant "WE HATE LAMINATES! I SAID WE HATE LAMINATES!" at the top of their lungs and mean it with every fibre of their being?
August 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Who else on God's green earth could make a room of people chant "WE HATE LAMINATES! I SAID WE HATE LAMINATES!" at the top of their lungs and mean it with every fibre of their being?
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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.
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Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)
August 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)
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Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.
July 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.
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These tools were sold under the pretence of making work faster, easier, and producing better products.
Yet more often than not, we find they make the world duller, work less meaningful, and the products worse, while enriching the few.
And people are catching on.
Yet more often than not, we find they make the world duller, work less meaningful, and the products worse, while enriching the few.
And people are catching on.
As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger. www.wired.com/story/genera...
The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger.
www.wired.com
June 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
These tools were sold under the pretence of making work faster, easier, and producing better products.
Yet more often than not, we find they make the world duller, work less meaningful, and the products worse, while enriching the few.
And people are catching on.
Yet more often than not, we find they make the world duller, work less meaningful, and the products worse, while enriching the few.
And people are catching on.
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Franz Ferdinand feat. Peter Capaldi - Take Me Out
June 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Franz Ferdinand feat. Peter Capaldi - Take Me Out
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this is just like the parable of the scorpion and the scorpion
June 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
this is just like the parable of the scorpion and the scorpion
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This is a hell of a thing to read.
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
open.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This is a hell of a thing to read.
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I didn't want to talk about Kneecap this week, but here we are. On what we choose to be horrified by, and what those choices say about us.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: We are talking about Kneecap while more than 50,000 Palestinians have died
Punk and hip-hop bands have been singing about killing queens and presidents for decades
www.irishexaminer.com
May 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I didn't want to talk about Kneecap this week, but here we are. On what we choose to be horrified by, and what those choices say about us.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: Trans people have spent a decade being attacked in a moral panic
The poor provision of unisex children’s facilities— which reinforces gender stereotypes and inconveniences women and men both — was, incidentally, an issue I remember being quite talked-about a decade...
www.irishexaminer.com
April 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The UK's political and media class has spent years heaping sadism on trans people, and they want to do the same in Ireland next. Calls for civility and calm won't cut it. We need to fight them tooth and nail.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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So, for what it's worth: I don't think AI is taking over jobs because it's better than people or even good at its job. I think it's taking over jobs because it's cheaper than people and bosses like cheap and aren't necessarily aware of the (very high) risk of bad, dangerous quality output (7/7)
March 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
So, for what it's worth: I don't think AI is taking over jobs because it's better than people or even good at its job. I think it's taking over jobs because it's cheaper than people and bosses like cheap and aren't necessarily aware of the (very high) risk of bad, dangerous quality output (7/7)
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Every job you get AI to do is cash taken from working people, usually low earning freelancers. That money is now not in the system. You are not only making the world poorer culturally, you are making the economy poorer. And since there is no workable financial model for AI, not even moving money up.
March 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Every job you get AI to do is cash taken from working people, usually low earning freelancers. That money is now not in the system. You are not only making the world poorer culturally, you are making the economy poorer. And since there is no workable financial model for AI, not even moving money up.
Post-op Winnie entering her Victorian era. Not thrilled with it. Planning how to escape the sunflower neck brace.
March 26, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Post-op Winnie entering her Victorian era. Not thrilled with it. Planning how to escape the sunflower neck brace.
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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All I can really say at this point is if everyone isn't watching how trans people have lost basic rights and protections on a scale that hasn't been seen in decades in the span of 72 hours and realizing that even if you aren't trans there's nothing stopping it from happening to you, you're a fool
January 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
All I can really say at this point is if everyone isn't watching how trans people have lost basic rights and protections on a scale that hasn't been seen in decades in the span of 72 hours and realizing that even if you aren't trans there's nothing stopping it from happening to you, you're a fool
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Saturday is treat day
January 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Saturday is treat day