@stephenkb.bsky.social random one. I’m chatting with some other Labour members about how bad Keir is doing, and I’m sure I saw you write something about how he wasn’t meeting or firing ministers personally, have I fever dreamed that?

My favourite thing about the AWS outage is some people writing on Bluesky with true sincerity “we shouldn’t put all our eggs in one basket”.

Or even better listing which services are down. If they were all in one basket you wouldn’t be able to tell me. And it would be everything.

@sentimentbot.bsky.social let me have it.

I just panicked I was missing a teams call before I realised a wood pigeon in the distance sounds a lot like the dialling sound on teams. My realisation of this feels like a damming indictment of remote work.

@stephenkb.bsky.social reading your morning newsletter was fascinating, because it made me reconsider what the success metrics were of rail and privatisation. For me it’s not running on time, it’s cost of tickets. I’m assuming that consolidating multiple companies into one limits overhead and…

Now that Trump is back, I can’t help but wonder how he’ll leave. Will this term end like normal? In two years will there be a Republican primary?

It’s what makes his order challenging birthright citizenship the most important one of all. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

One of the most fascinating things about the right is how they just do not take representative democracy seriously. As much as I politically disagree with Chelmsfords Lib Dem MP, you can’t deny her really connecting with her constituency.

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Listening to a bunch of podcasts analysing the trump win, and hearing the idea repeatedly that the Democrats need to focus less on LGBTQ+ issues. I think this is the wrong take.

Being socially progressive is “baked in” to voting for left wing parties at the moment, you dont have to abandon…