David Hughes
@daihuws.bsky.social
Dabbler in electronic music. Religious studies student.
Also interested in politics, cats, soup, and computers.
I blog (rather sporadically) at https://tech.davidhughes.wales/ and https://theology.davidhughes.wales/
Also interested in politics, cats, soup, and computers.
I blog (rather sporadically) at https://tech.davidhughes.wales/ and https://theology.davidhughes.wales/
I don't know if this is intentional, but that Bonnie Blue opinion piece ("I Stand with Nigel Farage") in the Spectator is pretty much a collection of disparate random thoughts with little connection between them.
December 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I don't know if this is intentional, but that Bonnie Blue opinion piece ("I Stand with Nigel Farage") in the Spectator is pretty much a collection of disparate random thoughts with little connection between them.
I don't particularly care about the Polanski boob hypnosis 'scandal', but - looking at his website as it was in 2013, via the Wayback Machine, I am somewhat concerned about him having been an NLP practitioner. That's pretty much verified pseudoscience.
December 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I don't particularly care about the Polanski boob hypnosis 'scandal', but - looking at his website as it was in 2013, via the Wayback Machine, I am somewhat concerned about him having been an NLP practitioner. That's pretty much verified pseudoscience.
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How can Starmer be less popular than Boris Johnson or Liz Truss?
I'm not a fan of his, but - this is nuts.
I'm not a fan of his, but - this is nuts.
October 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
How can Starmer be less popular than Boris Johnson or Liz Truss?
I'm not a fan of his, but - this is nuts.
I'm not a fan of his, but - this is nuts.
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Why are the right embracing open racism? Our old friend Antonio Gramsci has a pointer.
Racism and the Right
Racist party in racism shocker. Reform MP Sarah Pochin has been forced to apologise after saying "it drives me mad when I see adverts full ...
averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Why are the right embracing open racism? Our old friend Antonio Gramsci has a pointer.
I hate the word funnel.
(But only when used in a marketing context.)
I'm sure there must be a better word for what it describes.
But I can't think of one. (But surely 'sales leads' would suffice?)
(But only when used in a marketing context.)
I'm sure there must be a better word for what it describes.
But I can't think of one. (But surely 'sales leads' would suffice?)
October 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I hate the word funnel.
(But only when used in a marketing context.)
I'm sure there must be a better word for what it describes.
But I can't think of one. (But surely 'sales leads' would suffice?)
(But only when used in a marketing context.)
I'm sure there must be a better word for what it describes.
But I can't think of one. (But surely 'sales leads' would suffice?)
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Still time to sign up for this, which I am hosting at 7pm tonight. If you have something you just need to get done and could do with an hour of focused work in virtual company, why not sign up.
✨ Happening tonight!
Our next Spark Session, the virtual co-working sessions for (tired) researchers, takes place TONIGHT at 7PM GMT via Zoom. £5 a session or pay what you can.
To learn more and to book, visit funnels.academicaudiotranscription.com/spark-sessio...
Our next Spark Session, the virtual co-working sessions for (tired) researchers, takes place TONIGHT at 7PM GMT via Zoom. £5 a session or pay what you can.
To learn more and to book, visit funnels.academicaudiotranscription.com/spark-sessio...
Spark Sessions: Virtual Co-Working Spaces for Tired Researchers
Unapologetically pro-disability and intersectional virtual co-working sessions designed to give you the time and space you need to get your sh*t done.
funnels.academicaudiotranscription.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Still time to sign up for this, which I am hosting at 7pm tonight. If you have something you just need to get done and could do with an hour of focused work in virtual company, why not sign up.
Wouldn't be seen dead at such a thing even in the very unlikely event that anybody invited me to one.
What Should I Wear to a Halloween Party if I Hate Dressing Up?
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Wouldn't be seen dead at such a thing even in the very unlikely event that anybody invited me to one.
Zia Yusuf is encouraging people to think that the Home Office accidentally on purpose released Hadush Kebatu.
Quite why they should wish to do this I really cannot fathom.
Quite why they should wish to do this I really cannot fathom.
October 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Zia Yusuf is encouraging people to think that the Home Office accidentally on purpose released Hadush Kebatu.
Quite why they should wish to do this I really cannot fathom.
Quite why they should wish to do this I really cannot fathom.
No concession speech from Llŷr Powell? Fuck's sake.
October 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
No concession speech from Llŷr Powell? Fuck's sake.
Plaid Cymru: 15,961
Lib Dem: 497
Gwlad: 117
Green: 516
Tory: 690
Reform: 12,113
UKIP: 79
Labour: 3,713
Wow.
Lib Dem: 497
Gwlad: 117
Green: 516
Tory: 690
Reform: 12,113
UKIP: 79
Labour: 3,713
Wow.
October 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Plaid Cymru: 15,961
Lib Dem: 497
Gwlad: 117
Green: 516
Tory: 690
Reform: 12,113
UKIP: 79
Labour: 3,713
Wow.
Lib Dem: 497
Gwlad: 117
Green: 516
Tory: 690
Reform: 12,113
UKIP: 79
Labour: 3,713
Wow.
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Nigel Farage was everywhere in Caerphilly today.
He now appears to have vanished.
He now appears to have vanished.
October 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Nigel Farage was everywhere in Caerphilly today.
He now appears to have vanished.
He now appears to have vanished.
Reform bloke on Radio Wales going on about the £50m or so that the Nation of Sanctuary scheme costs.
I wish it was more widely understood that (a) that is chickenfeed in terms of government spending and (b) that a scheme that is designed to help people settle and find employment is a good thing.
I wish it was more widely understood that (a) that is chickenfeed in terms of government spending and (b) that a scheme that is designed to help people settle and find employment is a good thing.
October 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Reform bloke on Radio Wales going on about the £50m or so that the Nation of Sanctuary scheme costs.
I wish it was more widely understood that (a) that is chickenfeed in terms of government spending and (b) that a scheme that is designed to help people settle and find employment is a good thing.
I wish it was more widely understood that (a) that is chickenfeed in terms of government spending and (b) that a scheme that is designed to help people settle and find employment is a good thing.
High turnout in Caerffili / Caerphilly by-election: 50.43%. Highest ever turnout in a Senedd by-election, apparently.
October 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM
High turnout in Caerffili / Caerphilly by-election: 50.43%. Highest ever turnout in a Senedd by-election, apparently.
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I sat in the British Library reading League of Empire Loyalists, BNP & National Front literature for my book and even they claimed to promote *voluntary* repatriation. Forcible deportation was always the ghost behind those ideas, but it’s amazing that UK politicians don’t even bother to hide it.
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
October 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I sat in the British Library reading League of Empire Loyalists, BNP & National Front literature for my book and even they claimed to promote *voluntary* repatriation. Forcible deportation was always the ghost behind those ideas, but it’s amazing that UK politicians don’t even bother to hide it.
I do wonder sometimes about those "moment that changed my life" articles in the Guardian. Sometimes doesn't seem that far removed from "I didn't bother shaving for a month. Here's what I learned".
October 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I do wonder sometimes about those "moment that changed my life" articles in the Guardian. Sometimes doesn't seem that far removed from "I didn't bother shaving for a month. Here's what I learned".
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ARPA: By creating a dense network with decentralised nodes, we can make a resilient communications system.
AWS: What if we used that same system to centralise all the nodes?
AWS: What if we used that same system to centralise all the nodes?
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
ARPA: By creating a dense network with decentralised nodes, we can make a resilient communications system.
AWS: What if we used that same system to centralise all the nodes?
AWS: What if we used that same system to centralise all the nodes?
That David Miller chap is a bit much, isn't he? (Just come across a screenshotted post of him claiming that "Polanski is a rabid Zionist who has repeatedly weaponised his Jewish identity to fight the Left".)
October 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
That David Miller chap is a bit much, isn't he? (Just come across a screenshotted post of him claiming that "Polanski is a rabid Zionist who has repeatedly weaponised his Jewish identity to fight the Left".)
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The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
Has Question Time got slower? I'm sure they used to hammer through more questions when I used to watch it regularly. These days it feels like people are allowed to drone on for as long as they want.
October 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Has Question Time got slower? I'm sure they used to hammer through more questions when I used to watch it regularly. These days it feels like people are allowed to drone on for as long as they want.
"94% of accountants have no faith in the economy", according to a member of the audience on QT. I love a good suspicious statistic.
October 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
"94% of accountants have no faith in the economy", according to a member of the audience on QT. I love a good suspicious statistic.
Imagine if, rather than getting an opinionated columnist like Carole Malone onto a show like Jeremy Vine they actually got informed people in to give their opinions.
October 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Imagine if, rather than getting an opinionated columnist like Carole Malone onto a show like Jeremy Vine they actually got informed people in to give their opinions.
Well deserved.
October 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Well deserved.
I just, in all seriousness, described the sound that I'm going for on a backing track that I'm working on as "ambient country shoegaze".
October 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I just, in all seriousness, described the sound that I'm going for on a backing track that I'm working on as "ambient country shoegaze".