David Pearce
@medavep.bsky.social
Fundraising & Marketing for Dignity in Dying & sister charity Compassion in Dying | 'Slick and well-funded' | Dog lover
Bill Clinton is "hot" 🤨
November 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Bill Clinton is "hot" 🤨
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Going to share a semi-regular gripe over euphemisms, this time “passed”. Saw a post talking about someone’s friend who passed, spent too long trying to work out what exactly they had passed until it clicked that they had died. Please, when I die, just say I died ok?
November 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Going to share a semi-regular gripe over euphemisms, this time “passed”. Saw a post talking about someone’s friend who passed, spent too long trying to work out what exactly they had passed until it clicked that they had died. Please, when I die, just say I died ok?
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📢Green gain from the Lib Dems in Canterbury CC by-election.
Reform third ahead of Labour and Tories facing wipeout.
#Canterbury #ByElection
Reform third ahead of Labour and Tories facing wipeout.
#Canterbury #ByElection
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
📢Green gain from the Lib Dems in Canterbury CC by-election.
Reform third ahead of Labour and Tories facing wipeout.
#Canterbury #ByElection
Reform third ahead of Labour and Tories facing wipeout.
#Canterbury #ByElection
Today the Lords start the process of debating over 900 amendments (579 of which laid by just 7 peers) to the assisted dying Bill. As they do, lets hope they have people like Ed front of mind.
#YesToDignity
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#YesToDignity
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Ed's life changed in the blink of an eye. She's using her final weeks to make her voice heard
Diagnosed with an inoperable and aggressive brain tumour, Ed is facing up to the end of her life, but says she wants to die with "self-respect and dignity", so she is backing the assisted dying bill g...
news.sky.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Today the Lords start the process of debating over 900 amendments (579 of which laid by just 7 peers) to the assisted dying Bill. As they do, lets hope they have people like Ed front of mind.
#YesToDignity
news.sky.com/story/eds-li...
#YesToDignity
news.sky.com/story/eds-li...
This just in: The most predictable thing that could have possibly happened today, has happened.
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Prince George joins Kate, King and Queen at Festival of Remembrance - BBC News
The royals attended the annual event at the Royal Albert Hall on the eve of Remembrance Sunday.
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November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This just in: The most predictable thing that could have possibly happened today, has happened.
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc....
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‘Al could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2
percentage points’
Well that’s the best chart of the year in this @johnthornhill.bsky.social column and basically sums up where we are
on.ft.com/4qMMkJd
percentage points’
Well that’s the best chart of the year in this @johnthornhill.bsky.social column and basically sums up where we are
on.ft.com/4qMMkJd
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
‘Al could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2
percentage points’
Well that’s the best chart of the year in this @johnthornhill.bsky.social column and basically sums up where we are
on.ft.com/4qMMkJd
percentage points’
Well that’s the best chart of the year in this @johnthornhill.bsky.social column and basically sums up where we are
on.ft.com/4qMMkJd
Got a new phone, all the apps verify my new device no problem. Except one. Linked In.
Their paid ads platform and support are also third rate at best. Way worse than Meta.
Their paid ads platform and support are also third rate at best. Way worse than Meta.
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Got a new phone, all the apps verify my new device no problem. Except one. Linked In.
Their paid ads platform and support are also third rate at best. Way worse than Meta.
Their paid ads platform and support are also third rate at best. Way worse than Meta.
November 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
In a worrying turn of events, an Android update removed the comma key in favour of just the emoji key.
You can turn it back on though
You can turn it back on though
November 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
In a worrying turn of events, an Android update removed the comma key in favour of just the emoji key.
You can turn it back on though
You can turn it back on though
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I am not impressed by the polling some people keep sending me on assisted dying: buff.ly/wErlwoC
November 4, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I am not impressed by the polling some people keep sending me on assisted dying: buff.ly/wErlwoC
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Reform has lost 1 in 20 (5%) of the 677 councillors it gained in May elections
In Kent alone, it has lost 14% of its councillors...
-11 have been expelled
-6 suspended
-9 have left the party
-1 has defected to UKIP
-9 have resigned from the council altogether
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
In Kent alone, it has lost 14% of its councillors...
-11 have been expelled
-6 suspended
-9 have left the party
-1 has defected to UKIP
-9 have resigned from the council altogether
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Reform Is Losing Councillors Elected In May At An 'Unusual' Rate
Reform UK has lost more than 5 per cent of the councillors it had elected six months ago, an analysis by PoliticsHome has found.
www.politicshome.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Reform has lost 1 in 20 (5%) of the 677 councillors it gained in May elections
In Kent alone, it has lost 14% of its councillors...
-11 have been expelled
-6 suspended
-9 have left the party
-1 has defected to UKIP
-9 have resigned from the council altogether
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
In Kent alone, it has lost 14% of its councillors...
-11 have been expelled
-6 suspended
-9 have left the party
-1 has defected to UKIP
-9 have resigned from the council altogether
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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Short but to the point from @stevedarlingmp.bsky.social in Parliament this week.
November 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Short but to the point from @stevedarlingmp.bsky.social in Parliament this week.
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
Saw the Bad Seeds do this live at Brixton when Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus came out.
It was excellent.
It was excellent.
Nick Cave’s ‘Red Right Hand’ just came on a playlist. Shivers all through it. What an exquisitely-written song, so meticulously done. ‘Border fires’/‘humming wires’… the pairing of ‘barrio’ and ‘bowery’… ‘one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan’… A literary masterpiece.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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November 2, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Saw the Bad Seeds do this live at Brixton when Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus came out.
It was excellent.
It was excellent.
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I'm beginning to think you can't trust random videos on the internet
November 2, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I'm beginning to think you can't trust random videos on the internet
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Post is by James Buchan who defected from Reform to the Tories in Dartford Council. Pretty damning stuff...
October 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Post is by James Buchan who defected from Reform to the Tories in Dartford Council. Pretty damning stuff...
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"...it seems unsustainable for those who care about British democracy to remain on a platform whose owner is fixated on its very destruction."
I've written a couple of things over the last days about how the government and much of Westminster remaining on X as the platform becomes increasingly toxic is having consequences for our politics...
Our politics is increasingly normalised to racism – because politicians are addicted to X
The platform has quietly dragged British politics into a dark place
inews.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"...it seems unsustainable for those who care about British democracy to remain on a platform whose owner is fixated on its very destruction."
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The fun thing about having a small team working with you is you can say "hey you're spending this week digging for stolen mobile phones in London flowerbeds, I promise you it's a thing". www.londoncentric.media/p/london-pho...
London's thieves are burying phones in flowerbeds
The police don't take much interest in returning the stolen devices when they're dug up — so London Centric decided to do it.
www.londoncentric.media
October 30, 2025 at 6:41 AM
The fun thing about having a small team working with you is you can say "hey you're spending this week digging for stolen mobile phones in London flowerbeds, I promise you it's a thing". www.londoncentric.media/p/london-pho...
Nice of my home insurer to drop this on me ready for the so called storm.
October 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Nice of my home insurer to drop this on me ready for the so called storm.
Who doesn't want a strong influence over their robot army?
October 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Who doesn't want a strong influence over their robot army?
