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David Wilding
@drwilding.bsky.social
Not a real doctor, just initials.
Sorry to disappoint.
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Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage
October 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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In 1988, whilst carrying his baby daughter Lauren, Kenny Dalglish interrupted a post-match interview Alex Ferguson was having with "You'll get more sense out of her". Proper animosity, proper beef.

Now they're sharing Dairy Milk Buttons like two kids at nursery. Game's gone.
October 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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I remember, many years ago now (with ny transport strategist hat on) being asked in a BBC interview if Crossrail would be Khan's biggest legacy. The thing that had the biggest impact on London.

I said:

"No. It'll be ULEZ."

(The low emissions zone)
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 AM
All sorts of Chimney Sweep drama playing out in my emails.

Another reason why I exclusively use Dick Van Dyke.
October 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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All my comics have happy endings!
October 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Nick Faldo?! Hahahaha, fabulous.
September 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos
September 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Wow. Has nobody got any backbone anymore?
Kemi Badenoch refusing to acknowledge that Tommy Robinson is "far-right", now on LBC, and refusing to condemn Elon Musk's words. In fact she says what Musk said *isn't* incitement. So what would be incitement then? How violent would his words have to be before he was deemed a threat to this country?
September 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Fouls and handballs in the box should result in an indirect free kick from where the incident happened - not a penalty. Penalties are too big a punishment for a lot of minor offences especially given how specialist a lot of takers are these days.

Also Brighton are just really annoying, sorry.
Everybody should absolutely view this as an invitation to drop your spiciest soccer takes.
lol I’m gonna need bluesky’s biggest soccer post ever to balance out all the politics engagement im burying myself under.
September 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Gary Lineker on winning the National TV Award,

"It's not lost on me why I might have won this award"

"Aside from presenting Match of the Day.."

"Also, I think it demonstrates that perhaps it's ok sometimes to use our platform to speak up on behalf of those who have no voice"
September 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture
September 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The problem for Meta is that when you read stuff like this very few people’s reaction is “well that doesn’t sound like the sort of thing they’d do”
A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform.

Meta deleted the evidence.

New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say
The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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My mum keeps this in the kitchen, but I decided to move it. So far, she hasn’t noticed.
September 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Let's be clear: The flood of hatred sloshing across Britain right now is 100% a product of the political and media elite scapegoating minorities for the harms that those elites have visited upon the country.
Tonight, my 77-year-old mother ripped this flag off a dual carriageway bridge near Birmingham. Note the swastika. My dad's dad died fighting the Nazis.
September 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Some of the worst public figures we have are cock a hoop that Rayner’s resigned and that makes me sad.
September 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Just for a second, take a step back, and remember that these are the actions of a 56 year old man towards a 17 year old girl.
September 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire...
August 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Remarkable range of wardrobe on display this morning. I’ve seen someone in short shorts and a T shirt all the way through to a full on winter puffer jacket and heavy jeans.

Choose well and good luck.
August 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
THREE “Happy birthday to yous” within earshot with the last hour in this open plan office.

Unprecedented scenes.
August 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Starting to have my doubts about this Musk guy
August 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM