Gav "Gav Massingham" Massingham
@gavmassingham.bsky.social
Half a decade of #ADHD #Autistic fuelled nonsense, laughter and regret.
Perhaps
---------
Perhaps
In the end
There is nothing
Or not any more
Your boat's
Run aground
You're stuck on
The farthest shore
Stay there
Gather wood
Find shelter
And build a fire
Or go
Somewhere else
And do what
Ever you desire
---------
Perhaps
In the end
There is nothing
Or not any more
Your boat's
Run aground
You're stuck on
The farthest shore
Stay there
Gather wood
Find shelter
And build a fire
Or go
Somewhere else
And do what
Ever you desire
November 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Perhaps
---------
Perhaps
In the end
There is nothing
Or not any more
Your boat's
Run aground
You're stuck on
The farthest shore
Stay there
Gather wood
Find shelter
And build a fire
Or go
Somewhere else
And do what
Ever you desire
---------
Perhaps
In the end
There is nothing
Or not any more
Your boat's
Run aground
You're stuck on
The farthest shore
Stay there
Gather wood
Find shelter
And build a fire
Or go
Somewhere else
And do what
Ever you desire
Further proof, if proof be need be, that Musk either doesn't read the books he claims to have read, or doesn't understand them.
(See also Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
(See also Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
The "hard-men" of Gondor were getting their shit kicked in until they were rescued by foreigners and a girl.
The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.
The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Further proof, if proof be need be, that Musk either doesn't read the books he claims to have read, or doesn't understand them.
(See also Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
(See also Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
==Final Round==
Knocked down by life
Counted out on the canvas
Watching the lights up above
I'm seeing the stars
That the heavens encompass
A voice says the boy's had enough
Yet somehow it felt just like love
Delivered to my famous glass jaw
With a glove
Knocked down by life
Counted out on the canvas
Watching the lights up above
I'm seeing the stars
That the heavens encompass
A voice says the boy's had enough
Yet somehow it felt just like love
Delivered to my famous glass jaw
With a glove
October 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
==Final Round==
Knocked down by life
Counted out on the canvas
Watching the lights up above
I'm seeing the stars
That the heavens encompass
A voice says the boy's had enough
Yet somehow it felt just like love
Delivered to my famous glass jaw
With a glove
Knocked down by life
Counted out on the canvas
Watching the lights up above
I'm seeing the stars
That the heavens encompass
A voice says the boy's had enough
Yet somehow it felt just like love
Delivered to my famous glass jaw
With a glove
Insomnia again, so did some drawing on my phone:
October 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Insomnia again, so did some drawing on my phone:
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Freedom is just another name for “a gap in the law”.
Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.
October 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Freedom is just another name for “a gap in the law”.
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Important point - announcements about "crackdowns" and "bans" are a way to try and convince people the state has power when it increasingly fails at basic tasks.
And the state is growing less and less effective at the same time. One relatively trivial example is fly-tipping. There are steep fines for it and rewards for those who turn in offenders. But the problem grows worse and worse in many places.
October 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Important point - announcements about "crackdowns" and "bans" are a way to try and convince people the state has power when it increasingly fails at basic tasks.
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Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations.
Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens
Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens
October 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations.
Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens
Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens
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Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
A bunch of fascists. And that's just the police.
Flags went up in Stirchley a few days ago & were taken down by local residents the same evening.
The men returned with a cherry picker and coned off parts of the road with police accompanying them as they put up new flags along the High Street.
Residents who object have been met with verbal abuse.
The men returned with a cherry picker and coned off parts of the road with police accompanying them as they put up new flags along the High Street.
Residents who object have been met with verbal abuse.
October 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A bunch of fascists. And that's just the police.
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“With police accompanying them”
Yep.
Yep.
Flags went up in Stirchley a few days ago & were taken down by local residents the same evening.
The men returned with a cherry picker and coned off parts of the road with police accompanying them as they put up new flags along the High Street.
Residents who object have been met with verbal abuse.
The men returned with a cherry picker and coned off parts of the road with police accompanying them as they put up new flags along the High Street.
Residents who object have been met with verbal abuse.
October 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“With police accompanying them”
Yep.
Yep.
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The Online Safety Act sure has made being online more dangerous.
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.
buff.ly
October 4, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The Online Safety Act sure has made being online more dangerous.
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The government want more coercive powers for the state against protests, and the main opposition party wants more coercive powers for the state against migrants.
Our political-media culture continues in a loop where the response to every perceived problem is yet more coercive powers for the state.
Our political-media culture continues in a loop where the response to every perceived problem is yet more coercive powers for the state.
October 5, 2025 at 7:31 AM
The government want more coercive powers for the state against protests, and the main opposition party wants more coercive powers for the state against migrants.
Our political-media culture continues in a loop where the response to every perceived problem is yet more coercive powers for the state.
Our political-media culture continues in a loop where the response to every perceived problem is yet more coercive powers for the state.
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It’s easy to say that this is the last desperate hurrah of a dying party, but can we be clear: Trump’s ICE agents are literally kidnapping people, detaining them without due process in concentration camps (yes, this is the right term) and 1000s have disappeared. These are fascist practices.
October 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It’s easy to say that this is the last desperate hurrah of a dying party, but can we be clear: Trump’s ICE agents are literally kidnapping people, detaining them without due process in concentration camps (yes, this is the right term) and 1000s have disappeared. These are fascist practices.
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Until someone, and Greens are probably doing the best at attempting this right now, breaks the cycle and says "hang on, maybe we could implement something positive and make the case for it instead" we are going to end up with policies based purely on what "flagpatriot1234" likes on social media.
October 5, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Until someone, and Greens are probably doing the best at attempting this right now, breaks the cycle and says "hang on, maybe we could implement something positive and make the case for it instead" we are going to end up with policies based purely on what "flagpatriot1234" likes on social media.
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This is grim & dangerous over reach.
This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.
Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.
This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.
Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.
NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.
October 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
This is grim & dangerous over reach.
This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.
Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.
This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.
Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.
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I assume if implemented these new powers to further restrict protests in the UK will also be used against those outside hotels...right? Right?
It's just another erosion of the right to protest, and we keep seeing that right chipped away.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
It's just another erosion of the right to protest, and we keep seeing that right chipped away.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office
Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I assume if implemented these new powers to further restrict protests in the UK will also be used against those outside hotels...right? Right?
It's just another erosion of the right to protest, and we keep seeing that right chipped away.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
It's just another erosion of the right to protest, and we keep seeing that right chipped away.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.
Reform says something unhinged
⬇️
Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
⬇️
Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
⬇️
Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
⬇️
And repeat...🔁
Reform says something unhinged
⬇️
Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
⬇️
Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
⬇️
Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
⬇️
And repeat...🔁
October 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.
Reform says something unhinged
⬇️
Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
⬇️
Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
⬇️
Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
⬇️
And repeat...🔁
Reform says something unhinged
⬇️
Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
⬇️
Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
⬇️
Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
⬇️
And repeat...🔁
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Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.
October 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.
More sub-Trumpian bullshit from the Labour party, as they go after another group of vulnerable people:
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...
Not that I would expect anything better of Steeting, but I hope my local MP doesn't subscribe to this nonsense.
@annadixonmp.bsky.social
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...
Not that I would expect anything better of Steeting, but I hope my local MP doesn't subscribe to this nonsense.
@annadixonmp.bsky.social
Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour
Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
More sub-Trumpian bullshit from the Labour party, as they go after another group of vulnerable people:
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...
Not that I would expect anything better of Steeting, but I hope my local MP doesn't subscribe to this nonsense.
@annadixonmp.bsky.social
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...
Not that I would expect anything better of Steeting, but I hope my local MP doesn't subscribe to this nonsense.
@annadixonmp.bsky.social
Song with improvised lyrics (4th attempt, keeping the best of the previous 3)
youtu.be/-Z1gwjIl-Ug?...
youtu.be/-Z1gwjIl-Ug?...
Sweet Disintegration (improvised)
YouTube video by Gavilogue
youtu.be
August 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Song with improvised lyrics (4th attempt, keeping the best of the previous 3)
youtu.be/-Z1gwjIl-Ug?...
youtu.be/-Z1gwjIl-Ug?...
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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
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Our analysis @trusselluk.bsky.social with WPI Economics finds that the costs of lifting it is largely offset by gains from lower public service costs, higher parental employment and earnings & higher tax take. Because severe hardship does so much damage to families & the economy.
June 2, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Our analysis @trusselluk.bsky.social with WPI Economics finds that the costs of lifting it is largely offset by gains from lower public service costs, higher parental employment and earnings & higher tax take. Because severe hardship does so much damage to families & the economy.
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i'm not being funny but do you utter fucking freaks know which party introduced the Equality Act
June 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
i'm not being funny but do you utter fucking freaks know which party introduced the Equality Act
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Not sure why you need to chase Reform voters when there are millions of disaffected voters who would quite honestly make do with a Labour party that showed a bit of compassion and vision.
June 2, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Not sure why you need to chase Reform voters when there are millions of disaffected voters who would quite honestly make do with a Labour party that showed a bit of compassion and vision.