David Lonsdale
@davidlonsdale.bsky.social
Full-Stack Software Engineer working in Fintech
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Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
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BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
October 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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A reminder that NHS England was created in 2012 by David Cameron as a tool to help get Private Healthcare control over the NHS.
It was never necessary in any way.
It was never necessary in any way.
March 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
A reminder that NHS England was created in 2012 by David Cameron as a tool to help get Private Healthcare control over the NHS.
It was never necessary in any way.
It was never necessary in any way.
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This is shocking. Even by the standards of 2025.
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
March 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
This is shocking. Even by the standards of 2025.
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January 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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🚨Let’s protect democracy by tightening the rules on political donations. Please sign this petition
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Tighten the rules on political donations
We want the government to:
Remove loopholes that allow wealthy foreign individuals to make donations into UK political parties (e.g. by funnelling through UK registered companies).
Cap all donations ...
petition.parliament.uk
January 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
🚨Let’s protect democracy by tightening the rules on political donations. Please sign this petition
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Prince Harry has exposed Murdoch’s news empire—it’s time the police investigated
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The lies and smears from Murdoch’s news empire cannot be ignored
Rupert Murdoch has now spent around £2bn in keeping the truth about the way his news organisations operate out of the courts in the UK and US. Please ...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
January 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Prince Harry has exposed Murdoch’s news empire—it’s time the police investigated
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
iLok has got to be one of the worst license managers to have ever existed. Making it so you’re unable to remove licenses and reassign them to your other machines and opting for a process that lets the publisher decide if I can move the licenses is extremely anti-consumer!
January 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
iLok has got to be one of the worst license managers to have ever existed. Making it so you’re unable to remove licenses and reassign them to your other machines and opting for a process that lets the publisher decide if I can move the licenses is extremely anti-consumer!
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‘Revolving door’ between #water companies and #Westminster.
Here’s an idea - if politicians are so keen on working at water companies, why don’t they bring them back into public ownership!
Starting with Thames Water.
Sign our petition if you agree 👇🏽
tinyurl.com/yxht3p94
Here’s an idea - if politicians are so keen on working at water companies, why don’t they bring them back into public ownership!
Starting with Thames Water.
Sign our petition if you agree 👇🏽
tinyurl.com/yxht3p94
January 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
‘Revolving door’ between #water companies and #Westminster.
Here’s an idea - if politicians are so keen on working at water companies, why don’t they bring them back into public ownership!
Starting with Thames Water.
Sign our petition if you agree 👇🏽
tinyurl.com/yxht3p94
Here’s an idea - if politicians are so keen on working at water companies, why don’t they bring them back into public ownership!
Starting with Thames Water.
Sign our petition if you agree 👇🏽
tinyurl.com/yxht3p94
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🚨 Thames Water's bailout plan could require £250 from each bill paying household to pay back a £3 BILLION emergency loan.
As we told BBC London on Monday, there is an alternative.
Sign our petition to take Thames Water into PUBLIC hands: weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...
As we told BBC London on Monday, there is an alternative.
Sign our petition to take Thames Water into PUBLIC hands: weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...
December 11, 2024 at 3:17 PM
🚨 Thames Water's bailout plan could require £250 from each bill paying household to pay back a £3 BILLION emergency loan.
As we told BBC London on Monday, there is an alternative.
Sign our petition to take Thames Water into PUBLIC hands: weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...
As we told BBC London on Monday, there is an alternative.
Sign our petition to take Thames Water into PUBLIC hands: weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...
See it. Say it. Sorted.
when you report them, make sure to put the word 'bot' in the reply comment, it will help us respond to them faster.
December 11, 2024 at 12:08 PM
See it. Say it. Sorted.
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My deep learning course at the University of Geneva is available on-line. 1000+ slides, ~20h of screen-casts. Full of examples in PyTorch.
fleuret.org/dlc/
And my "Little Book of Deep Learning" is available as a phone-formatted pdf (nearing 700k downloads!)
fleuret.org/lbdl/
fleuret.org/dlc/
And my "Little Book of Deep Learning" is available as a phone-formatted pdf (nearing 700k downloads!)
fleuret.org/lbdl/
November 26, 2024 at 6:15 AM
My deep learning course at the University of Geneva is available on-line. 1000+ slides, ~20h of screen-casts. Full of examples in PyTorch.
fleuret.org/dlc/
And my "Little Book of Deep Learning" is available as a phone-formatted pdf (nearing 700k downloads!)
fleuret.org/lbdl/
fleuret.org/dlc/
And my "Little Book of Deep Learning" is available as a phone-formatted pdf (nearing 700k downloads!)
fleuret.org/lbdl/