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Michael Topic
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Where did all the warmth go? 😳
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Proper cold, this morning.
November 19, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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If BBC News was a hotbed of left-wing wokery producing *systemically* biased coverage Jeremy Corbyn may well have been elected Prime Minister in 2019.

It’s not. He wasn’t.

And we got Boris Johnson instead.
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Perhaps Starmer could offer Trump the opportunity of an unedited interview with Emily Maitless, as right of reply 🤔
November 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
They suspended Sarah Kendzior.

That’s sinister.
November 13, 2025 at 6:23 AM
It was a simpler, more innocent time.
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Just as with pretty much everything else, we should expect the Labour government to learn exactly the wrong lesson from the BBC fiasco.
November 10, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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When the history of this time is written, this will probably be the moment there was no return.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#musk
Elon Musk's $1tn pay deal approved by Tesla shareholders
The richest man in the world will get hundreds of millions of new shares if he hits his targets.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Something I learned, through direct observation, while working in heavy industry, is that capitalists are perfectly willing to exploit you to death, then pay corrupt professionals to cover it up.
October 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Not a lot to say.
October 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Republicans want to go back to a time in America when black people were slaves, Indians were openly slaughtered, and children of poor worked long hours in factories
October 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Good morning ☀️
Another day to say that the anti-migrant hate agenda is just dust in the wind because history is clear that immigration is a major pillar of advancing civilisations.
October 24, 2025 at 7:01 AM
The wellness industry is suspiciously like white supremacy in yoga pants.
October 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Listen, don’t watch. Appearances can deceive.
October 19, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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No Kings was great.

Now actually get rid of your king.
October 19, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Now that Blair has admitted meeting Epstein in 10 Downing St, when he was PM, there must be: 1) correspondence on the arrangements for the meeting; 2) minutes of the meeting and 3) presumably some sort of security/background check. We should ask that this be placed in the public domain immediately.
October 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I stopped sounding the alarm and issuing dire warnings when I realised we’d arrived at precisely where I feared we were heading.

And here we are.
October 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
One of the first things I can remember learning, as a very small child, is how utterly interesting some things are.

Lately, mostly what I’ve learned is how utterly evil a lot of people are, yet they still expect to be respected.

Being very small was better.
October 15, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Goodnight
October 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Summary of this morning’s BlueSky timeline: the evil dudes are still doing their random evil.
October 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
I feel like I used to be clever, 20 something years ago.
October 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I also found a free workaround for the paid-for Riverside software bug that interrupted my work, this afternoon.
October 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Amusing half hour, this evening, with the chaps from Amazon’s Kiro AI team in the US, via Zoom.

I feel I was able to demonstrate the egregious flaws in their software.

Let’s see what they come up with.
October 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Dug out my old preliminary patent application documents from 2003-2004. So much stuff I had forgotten. It feels like I’m reading with fresh eyes.
October 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM