Andrew Cherry
@kolektiv.xyncro.com
Tech-person, primarily software, occasionally hardware. Somewhat of the left. Dog-dad (also actual child-dad). He/Him. European.
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This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 6:43 AM
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What does AI even mean in this context?! www.theguardian.com/education/20...
It's never clearly explained, it sounds like there's some kind of formula - why would AI even be theoretically helpful here? Uncritical slop reporting of uncritical slop usage - complete absence of journalism. Come on!
It's never clearly explained, it sounds like there's some kind of formula - why would AI even be theoretically helpful here? Uncritical slop reporting of uncritical slop usage - complete absence of journalism. Come on!
All schools in England to be given AI-generated pupil attendance targets
Unions decry move, saying it will put more pressure on headteachers without tackling absence from classrooms
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
What does AI even mean in this context?! www.theguardian.com/education/20...
It's never clearly explained, it sounds like there's some kind of formula - why would AI even be theoretically helpful here? Uncritical slop reporting of uncritical slop usage - complete absence of journalism. Come on!
It's never clearly explained, it sounds like there's some kind of formula - why would AI even be theoretically helpful here? Uncritical slop reporting of uncritical slop usage - complete absence of journalism. Come on!
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10/10 take. No notes.
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
10/10 take. No notes.
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Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we?
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
🧵
1/22
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
🧵
1/22
November 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we?
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
🧵
1/22
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
🧵
1/22
Bizarrely, I've never really touched Python, and have no meaningful connection to it, but nevertheless - hats off to them for showing how to stand up and put principles first. Always good (if all too rare) to see a tech community with a decent moral core.
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Bizarrely, I've never really touched Python, and have no meaningful connection to it, but nevertheless - hats off to them for showing how to stand up and put principles first. Always good (if all too rare) to see a tech community with a decent moral core.
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like whatever your position is on AI, you would be disingenuous to deny that it was almost completely supply-driven
October 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
like whatever your position is on AI, you would be disingenuous to deny that it was almost completely supply-driven
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The thing to understand about fascism is that most people you know will be bought off. Bought with promises of peace and stability, bought with business opportunities or paid with actual cash. Most people aren't going to resist. Get used to it and get used to operating in that environment.
October 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The thing to understand about fascism is that most people you know will be bought off. Bought with promises of peace and stability, bought with business opportunities or paid with actual cash. Most people aren't going to resist. Get used to it and get used to operating in that environment.
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreicahofq6s4xow7vowj7dx6odw6ejdwr4kwcmzta7qwi4hg2nvywji@jpeg)
Define your musical taste in eight artists
Moderat
Radiohead
Jon Hopkins
Massive Attack
Bicep
David Devant and His Spirit Wife
Orbital
The Prodigy
Moderat
Radiohead
Jon Hopkins
Massive Attack
Bicep
David Devant and His Spirit Wife
Orbital
The Prodigy
Define your musical taste in eight artists
Yes
Pink Floyd
The Beatles
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard
Sly And The Family Stone
Cardiacs
The Zombies
Geese
Yes
Pink Floyd
The Beatles
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard
Sly And The Family Stone
Cardiacs
The Zombies
Geese
Define your musical taste in eight artists
Beck
Sonic Youth
Elliott Smith
The Beatles
Bob hund
P.J Harvey
Ed Harcourt
Damien Jurado
Beck
Sonic Youth
Elliott Smith
The Beatles
Bob hund
P.J Harvey
Ed Harcourt
Damien Jurado
October 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Define your musical taste in eight artists
Moderat
Radiohead
Jon Hopkins
Massive Attack
Bicep
David Devant and His Spirit Wife
Orbital
The Prodigy
Moderat
Radiohead
Jon Hopkins
Massive Attack
Bicep
David Devant and His Spirit Wife
Orbital
The Prodigy
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Treating the far right moment in the UK as a manifestation of displaced economic concerns or social media radicalisation - these are signs of a country that still refuses to fully come to terms with the history, depth and breadth of its ongoing racism problem.
October 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Treating the far right moment in the UK as a manifestation of displaced economic concerns or social media radicalisation - these are signs of a country that still refuses to fully come to terms with the history, depth and breadth of its ongoing racism problem.
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Do not interact. Do not contribute. This is not Twitter. We do not get baited here, we block here. You hated Twitter, so stop trying to recreate it.
Block here are nuclear. Take advantage and subscribe to this list blocking all government accounts in one go.
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Block here are nuclear. Take advantage and subscribe to this list blocking all government accounts in one go.
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white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
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click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
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October 18, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Do not interact. Do not contribute. This is not Twitter. We do not get baited here, we block here. You hated Twitter, so stop trying to recreate it.
Block here are nuclear. Take advantage and subscribe to this list blocking all government accounts in one go.
bsky.app/profile/eva....
Block here are nuclear. Take advantage and subscribe to this list blocking all government accounts in one go.
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I'm excited to share what I've been working on with @erikjee.bsky.social: RustNL's #rustlang Maintainers Fund!
Many people and companies contributing to Rust, but there are fewer and fewer paid positions for general maintenance (reviews,cleanups,etc). We need to fix that.
bsky.app/profile/rust...
Many people and companies contributing to Rust, but there are fewer and fewer paid positions for general maintenance (reviews,cleanups,etc). We need to fix that.
bsky.app/profile/rust...
We're excited to announce a new initiative to support the Rust Project, our Rust Maintainers Fund!
We are setting out to employ 6 full-time maintainers and 6 interns in 2026 to make sure #rustlang is well maintained and bugs and contributions get the attention they need.
Read more: rustnl.org/fund
We are setting out to employ 6 full-time maintainers and 6 interns in 2026 to make sure #rustlang is well maintained and bugs and contributions get the attention they need.
Read more: rustnl.org/fund
October 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I'm excited to share what I've been working on with @erikjee.bsky.social: RustNL's #rustlang Maintainers Fund!
Many people and companies contributing to Rust, but there are fewer and fewer paid positions for general maintenance (reviews,cleanups,etc). We need to fix that.
bsky.app/profile/rust...
Many people and companies contributing to Rust, but there are fewer and fewer paid positions for general maintenance (reviews,cleanups,etc). We need to fix that.
bsky.app/profile/rust...
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That this is being done by in effect saying, no, no, all these years the Equality Act 2010 was actually a trans bathroom ban is such a fucking farce. If ghouls in the Labour party want to do this, they should have the courage to bring it to parliament rather hiding behind the SC and a bs quango.
Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says
Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says
European Council commissioner voices concerns following April’s supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman
Transgender people risk being excluded from many public spaces as a result of the recent UK supreme court judgment and must be protected from discrimination, a human rights expert has said.
Michael O’Flaherty, the European Council commissioner for human rights, said he had concerns about the climate for transgender people in the UK following April’s supreme court ruling that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
That this is being done by in effect saying, no, no, all these years the Equality Act 2010 was actually a trans bathroom ban is such a fucking farce. If ghouls in the Labour party want to do this, they should have the courage to bring it to parliament rather hiding behind the SC and a bs quango.
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Today has been quite productive on eventric-core, one of the fundamental parts of Eventrica. Really must do an in-depth thread about the ideas behind it...
October 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Today has been quite productive on eventric-core, one of the fundamental parts of Eventrica. Really must do an in-depth thread about the ideas behind it...
🧵 So, Discord breach... The most surprising thing here is that anyone is surprised anymore.
October 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🧵 So, Discord breach... The most surprising thing here is that anyone is surprised anymore.
This does sound like a cracking read, if (as seems likely, given the balance of probability) a free copy doesn't migrate to my doorstep, it'll have to go on the increasingly bankruptcy-inducing books-to-be-bought list.
I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this.
You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time
All shares much-appreciated.
You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time
All shares much-appreciated.
October 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This does sound like a cracking read, if (as seems likely, given the balance of probability) a free copy doesn't migrate to my doorstep, it'll have to go on the increasingly bankruptcy-inducing books-to-be-bought list.
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I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this.
You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time
All shares much-appreciated.
You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time
All shares much-appreciated.
October 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this.
You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time
All shares much-appreciated.
You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time
All shares much-appreciated.
What would a social network look like in an ideal world? I'm not entirely sure it's this... I dashed off some quick thoughts while they were still in my mind, I'll come back and refine further later, perhaps...
blog.xyncro.com/bluesky-thin...
blog.xyncro.com/bluesky-thin...
October 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
What would a social network look like in an ideal world? I'm not entirely sure it's this... I dashed off some quick thoughts while they were still in my mind, I'll come back and refine further later, perhaps...
blog.xyncro.com/bluesky-thin...
blog.xyncro.com/bluesky-thin...
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Half-baked tales of rulings turning on chicken nuggets are no basis for cutting Britain adrift. My Times piece on the Tories’ policy of leaving the ECHR based on spurious claims. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Leaving the ECHR won’t fix illegal migration
Half-baked tales of rulings turning on chicken nuggets are no basis for cutting Britain adrift
www.thetimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Half-baked tales of rulings turning on chicken nuggets are no basis for cutting Britain adrift. My Times piece on the Tories’ policy of leaving the ECHR based on spurious claims. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally in 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay.
The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism
archive.ph/TFZY9
The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism
archive.ph/TFZY9
October 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally in 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay.
The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism
archive.ph/TFZY9
The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism
archive.ph/TFZY9
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Stress-Free Eric Adams Spends Day Bribing Pigeons In Central Park
September 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Stress-Free Eric Adams Spends Day Bribing Pigeons In Central Park
So Keir Starmer is going to say that Growth is the answer eh? Well, I'm glad they've learned the lesson about promises they can't keep and targets they don't know how to influence.
If only somebody had thought of growth before! Bet all those politicians aiming for stagnation feel pretty silly now.
If only somebody had thought of growth before! Bet all those politicians aiming for stagnation feel pretty silly now.
September 30, 2025 at 7:46 AM
So Keir Starmer is going to say that Growth is the answer eh? Well, I'm glad they've learned the lesson about promises they can't keep and targets they don't know how to influence.
If only somebody had thought of growth before! Bet all those politicians aiming for stagnation feel pretty silly now.
If only somebody had thought of growth before! Bet all those politicians aiming for stagnation feel pretty silly now.
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Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?
Tough new conditions to be imposed on migrants who want to settle in the UK will not apply to more than a million people who arrived in the UK under the post-Brexit immigration surge
Labour’s tough new rules will not apply to migrants already in UK
www.thetimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?
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Fascinating take from Rachel Reeves that you can support racist policies without being racist. With all due respect, no, you can't. As Tutu said about oppression, choosing neutrality puts you on the side of the oppressor. That was neutrality; you shouldn't need to question actual support.
September 29, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Fascinating take from Rachel Reeves that you can support racist policies without being racist. With all due respect, no, you can't. As Tutu said about oppression, choosing neutrality puts you on the side of the oppressor. That was neutrality; you shouldn't need to question actual support.