@peteduncanson.bsky.social
Long in the tooth internet developer and life long tinkerer.
Developed trumpactiontracker.info in my spare time amoung other things.
Developed trumpactiontracker.info in my spare time amoung other things.
Not often I’m hit by the dead of someone famous. But sad tonight for the loss of the best bassist of my youth. Name sake of my old pet dog too. Sleep well Mani.
November 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Not often I’m hit by the dead of someone famous. But sad tonight for the loss of the best bassist of my youth. Name sake of my old pet dog too. Sleep well Mani.
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Privileged to share a guest post today by a US veteran and intelligence analyst on the echoes they see between the regimes they used to monitor and today’s US.
They asked to remain anonymous - itself a sign of how worrying things have become in America.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/authoritar...
They asked to remain anonymous - itself a sign of how worrying things have become in America.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/authoritar...
Authoritarian echoes: how America is mirroring Egypt and Russia
**Guest post**: A US veteran’s perspective on the erosion of US democracy and the urgency of the 2026 midterms
christinapagel.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Privileged to share a guest post today by a US veteran and intelligence analyst on the echoes they see between the regimes they used to monitor and today’s US.
They asked to remain anonymous - itself a sign of how worrying things have become in America.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/authoritar...
They asked to remain anonymous - itself a sign of how worrying things have become in America.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/authoritar...
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Both the Budget and the asylum bill are disintegrating before they've even been formally announced.
Absolutely dead government.
Absolutely dead government.
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Both the Budget and the asylum bill are disintegrating before they've even been formally announced.
Absolutely dead government.
Absolutely dead government.
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If I was devising a set of announcements to elevate (but not satisfy) the hard right, alienate the middle ground and completely discourage your base, I couldn’t come up with a much better strategy than McSweeney and Number 10
November 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
If I was devising a set of announcements to elevate (but not satisfy) the hard right, alienate the middle ground and completely discourage your base, I couldn’t come up with a much better strategy than McSweeney and Number 10
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Why seek political office if you have a stonking majority and you use it to…endlessly fret about losing your majority rather than running a country? It’s no good. There is no theory for how to make things better. It’s not even well managed decline.
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Why seek political office if you have a stonking majority and you use it to…endlessly fret about losing your majority rather than running a country? It’s no good. There is no theory for how to make things better. It’s not even well managed decline.
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Battlefield Design colouring books available now! 30 pages of aircraft, vehicles and patterns to colour. £12.95 ea + postage. PLEASE NOTE - UK ORDERS ONLY via the link below! For US / EU orders please contact me via www.battlefield-design.co.uk
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November 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Battlefield Design colouring books available now! 30 pages of aircraft, vehicles and patterns to colour. £12.95 ea + postage. PLEASE NOTE - UK ORDERS ONLY via the link below! For US / EU orders please contact me via www.battlefield-design.co.uk
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Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
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quick rundown of some classic autocratic behaviours over the past few days in America Covering attacking enemies, helping allies, cowing institutions and purging the military
All actions and more on www.trumpactiontracker.info?
youtu.be/Mx4c4JfgLeU
All actions and more on www.trumpactiontracker.info?
youtu.be/Mx4c4JfgLeU
9th November: quick rundown of some classic autocratic behaviours over the past few days in America
YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
quick rundown of some classic autocratic behaviours over the past few days in America Covering attacking enemies, helping allies, cowing institutions and purging the military
All actions and more on www.trumpactiontracker.info?
youtu.be/Mx4c4JfgLeU
All actions and more on www.trumpactiontracker.info?
youtu.be/Mx4c4JfgLeU
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November 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Musk: This Muslim man has a difficult name.
Also Musk: My children are named Seldon Lycurgus and Techno Mechanicus.
Also Musk: My children are named Seldon Lycurgus and Techno Mechanicus.
November 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Musk: This Muslim man has a difficult name.
Also Musk: My children are named Seldon Lycurgus and Techno Mechanicus.
Also Musk: My children are named Seldon Lycurgus and Techno Mechanicus.
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it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
This has always been been my worry with AI. Not that they would generate a video that’s shows something false but presented as real but that it gives people the chance to claim what’s real is false.
I’ll never understand why those working on GenAI do so. What good comes of it? What is truth now?
I’ll never understand why those working on GenAI do so. What good comes of it? What is truth now?
Trump: "They cheated on a commercial. Ronald Reagan loved tariffs and they said he didn't. And I guess it was AI or something. They cheated badly. Canada got caught cheating on a commercial. Can you believe it?"
October 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This has always been been my worry with AI. Not that they would generate a video that’s shows something false but presented as real but that it gives people the chance to claim what’s real is false.
I’ll never understand why those working on GenAI do so. What good comes of it? What is truth now?
I’ll never understand why those working on GenAI do so. What good comes of it? What is truth now?
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The hypocrisy of Reform going on TV to allege that certain groups are constantly over represented on TV is truly epic.
October 27, 2025 at 8:10 AM
The hypocrisy of Reform going on TV to allege that certain groups are constantly over represented on TV is truly epic.
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The Trump Action Tracker has an update!
Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
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Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
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October 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The Trump Action Tracker has an update!
Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
1/2
Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
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Sadly, there's a lot to be said for Marina Hyde's analysis here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
October 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Sadly, there's a lot to be said for Marina Hyde's analysis here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck and looks like a duck…
October 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
If it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck and looks like a duck…
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Vance’s Double Standard: Nazi Jokes Are “Kids Being Kids,” But Mocking Charlie Kirk Gets Your Visa Revoked
JD Vance thinks praising Hitler and talking about putting political enemies into death chambers is harmless “kids being kids,” but criticizing Charlie Kirk is somehow deserving of…
JD Vance thinks praising Hitler and talking about putting political enemies into death chambers is harmless “kids being kids,” but criticizing Charlie Kirk is somehow deserving of…
Vance’s Double Standard: Nazi Jokes Are “Kids Being Kids,” But Mocking Charlie Kirk Gets Your Visa Revoked
JD Vance thinks praising Hitler and talking about putting political enemies into death chambers is harmless “kids being kids,” but criticizing Charlie Kirk is somehow deserving of state-supported punishment. It sure looks like he’s got quite the double standard. Yesterday, Vance defended Young Republican leaders who were caught in leaked chat logs making racist, antisemitic, and pro-Nazi comments, dismissing their behavior as harmless kids being edgy.
www.techdirt.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Vance’s Double Standard: Nazi Jokes Are “Kids Being Kids,” But Mocking Charlie Kirk Gets Your Visa Revoked
JD Vance thinks praising Hitler and talking about putting political enemies into death chambers is harmless “kids being kids,” but criticizing Charlie Kirk is somehow deserving of…
JD Vance thinks praising Hitler and talking about putting political enemies into death chambers is harmless “kids being kids,” but criticizing Charlie Kirk is somehow deserving of…
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"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org
October 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org
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This deserves more attention than it has received.
Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".
Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".
Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers
Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This deserves more attention than it has received.
Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".
Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".
Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
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Ada Lovelace Day has begun! As midnight arrives on Kiritimati Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, our global celebration of women in science, technology, engineering and maths begins! Join us in celebrating by posting about your fave women in STEM #ALD25!
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Ada Lovelace Day has begun! As midnight arrives on Kiritimati Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, our global celebration of women in science, technology, engineering and maths begins! Join us in celebrating by posting about your fave women in STEM #ALD25!
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every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
October 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Claude Code tip: prompt "use sub-agents" and it will do exactly that, firing up multiple parallel sub-agents to achieve a task, each with a fresh context
"Write markdown documentation for the context passed to each of the templates in this project. Use sub-agents." simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/11/...
"Write markdown documentation for the context passed to each of the templates in this project. Use sub-agents." simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/11/...
![⏺ I'll help you write markdown documentation for the context passed to each template in this project. Let me start by exploring the codebase to understand the template structure and then use sub-agents to document them comprehensively.
⏺ Search(pattern: "**/*.html")
⎿ Found 47 files (ctrl+o to expand)
⏺ Search(pattern: "render.*template|render_template")
⎿ Found 16 files (ctrl+o to expand)
[...]
⏺ Now let me launch sub-agents to analyze different template contexts in parallel:
⏺ Task(Document index template context)
⎿ Done (12 tool uses · 86.4k tokens · 1m 13s)
⏺ Task(Document database template context)
⎿ Done (15 tool uses · 55.4k tokens · 1m 41s)
⏺ Task(Document table template context)
⎿ Done (14 tool uses · 85.2k tokens · 1m 44s)
⏺ Task(Document query/row template contexts)
⎿ Done (17 tool uses · 78.7k tokens · 1m 55s)
⏺ Task(Document special template contexts)
⎿ Done (26 tool uses · 116.1k tokens · 1m 50s)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/bafkreianp4higlralnjzd7gxvp7kgqksdqaaxq6okkbccqzkumipngyv6y@jpeg)
October 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Claude Code tip: prompt "use sub-agents" and it will do exactly that, firing up multiple parallel sub-agents to achieve a task, each with a fresh context
"Write markdown documentation for the context passed to each of the templates in this project. Use sub-agents." simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/11/...
"Write markdown documentation for the context passed to each of the templates in this project. Use sub-agents." simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/11/...
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Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
October 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧
October 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧