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Nick Harkaway

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Author. Husband, dad. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Drawn to radical kindness, bad at it. www.linktr.ee/harkaway He/him

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · Jul 13

I’m just going to say “MURDER…”

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 2h

Good for him

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 2h

Really tried to like it. Couldn’t find a home.

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 2h

a) shredding public services isn’t progressive. I’m not saying this party could blat out any old economic policy, I’m saying they wouldn’t start from an economic posture. And b) I think if you assume this party would be “bought off” then yeah, that implies their governing principle is for sale :)

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 2h

Not if they were serious about being socially progressive. If you assume bad faith, nothing works.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 2h

I’ve always wondered what would happen if they started fielding candidates in England and Wales

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 3h

I’ve been wondering whether we’re moving into a space where the divisions are no longer primarily viewed along economic lines. What would happen if someone started a party which was primarily socially progressive and had no fixed economic position?

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 10h

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 4h

I thought he was. The KCs I know are formidable, and a couple of them liked him and were very hopeful about him. A competent, pro-EU Labour leader offering a strong green agenda? Sounds great. Obviously didn’t work out that way.

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 4h

Tarzan strikes

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 18h

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 5h

Or should I say Blueksy?

A chocolate bar custom-printed for the Conservative Party conference. Text reads “When Labour negotiates, Britian loses”. That’s B R I T I A N. Wrapper is purple, text is white with the last two words in pale blue. Bar is held from leftbif frame by a hand with red nails, in front of a cream table top.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 5h

I honestly don’t know if you’re talking about Britain or Bluesky

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 5h

Hah :)

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17h

Unfortunately I feel that way about a few thousand people on Bluesky :)

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19h

So many things could restore trust in the state. Some of them could do it if they were done half-arsed. Some of them you just have to stop doing things that are obnoxious. Why would you start here?

LabourList @labourlist.bsky.social · 1d

'Done right, digital ID could restore trust in the state' argues Dan Howl

‘Done right, digital ID could restore trust in the state’ – LabourList

Trust is the lifeblood of any modern democracy, and the foundation of every successful digital system. And so, in the case of Digital ID, Government…

labourlist.org

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19h

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 1d

“Of course, writing novels about the future doesn’t give me any special ability to foretell the future. But it does encourage me to use our past and present behaviors as guides to the kind of world we seem to be creating” — Octavia Butler

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19h

I really rather like www.qwant.com - though it’s not yet fully disconnected from the US firms, I think

Qwant

Fast, reliable answers and still in trust: Qwant does not store your search data, does not sell your personal data and is hosted in Europe.

www.qwant.com

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19h

disconnect.blog/getting-off-...

Getting off US tech: a guide

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

disconnect.blog

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19h

It’s probably also not ideal that a lot of Brits, seeing this post, are saying “whhhoooa, I had no idea Bluesky was that messed up.”

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19h

There are, um, points of similarity.

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 20h

It troubles me that I’m starting to feel the same way about Bluesky that I do about the UK. Like: it sounds great, and some of the people I know are great, but the leadership is making some weird choices and I’m a bit worried it may all be over in a couple of years.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 21h

Yep. Love reading him.

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 21h

They’re right to be worried. I’m worried too. I have absolutely no idea where this country is headed right now.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 21h

*some not done

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 21h

Yeah. It’s not good.

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