James Donnelly
@donnelly.bsky.social
Software Engineer and general tech Enthusiast. Twitter refugee. Social media observer. All views are my own.
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Call from a producer this morning:
Zoe please help - we thought the panel on our show was balanced, but it turns out they’re both pro-mass detention camps for asylum seekers. Would you come on to be the anti-detention camp voice?
We are in a really bad place, friends, I am telling you.
Zoe please help - we thought the panel on our show was balanced, but it turns out they’re both pro-mass detention camps for asylum seekers. Would you come on to be the anti-detention camp voice?
We are in a really bad place, friends, I am telling you.
August 20, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Call from a producer this morning:
Zoe please help - we thought the panel on our show was balanced, but it turns out they’re both pro-mass detention camps for asylum seekers. Would you come on to be the anti-detention camp voice?
We are in a really bad place, friends, I am telling you.
Zoe please help - we thought the panel on our show was balanced, but it turns out they’re both pro-mass detention camps for asylum seekers. Would you come on to be the anti-detention camp voice?
We are in a really bad place, friends, I am telling you.
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June 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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We couldn't keep it a secret.
The Sixteenth Doctor arrives July 4th!
The Sixteenth Doctor arrives July 4th!
June 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
We couldn't keep it a secret.
The Sixteenth Doctor arrives July 4th!
The Sixteenth Doctor arrives July 4th!
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Shroedinger's immigration:
Where it's all Young Men Of Fighting Age but who also clog up the NHS with their myriad health problems.
Where it's all Young Men Of Fighting Age but who also clog up the NHS with their myriad health problems.
May 14, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Shroedinger's immigration:
Where it's all Young Men Of Fighting Age but who also clog up the NHS with their myriad health problems.
Where it's all Young Men Of Fighting Age but who also clog up the NHS with their myriad health problems.
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It was bad having Tories, but you expect Tories to be bad. It would be terrible having Reform, but then you expect Reform to be terrible. But I'm not sure there's anything so disappointing and upsetting as having voted in hope for a Labour govt and finding you might as well have voted for the others
May 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
It was bad having Tories, but you expect Tories to be bad. It would be terrible having Reform, but then you expect Reform to be terrible. But I'm not sure there's anything so disappointing and upsetting as having voted in hope for a Labour govt and finding you might as well have voted for the others
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The Labour leadership, man. The frogs who boiled themselves.
May 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The Labour leadership, man. The frogs who boiled themselves.
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Don’t forget that blue smoke means that the Pope has worn piston rings.
May 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Don’t forget that blue smoke means that the Pope has worn piston rings.
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TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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For those of you enjoying the Red Arrow flypast:
Blue smoke = mind control
White smoke = mandatory vaccines, including one for diseases they haven’t invented yet
Red smoke = strawberry flavour
You’re welcome.
#chemtrails
Blue smoke = mind control
White smoke = mandatory vaccines, including one for diseases they haven’t invented yet
Red smoke = strawberry flavour
You’re welcome.
#chemtrails
May 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
For those of you enjoying the Red Arrow flypast:
Blue smoke = mind control
White smoke = mandatory vaccines, including one for diseases they haven’t invented yet
Red smoke = strawberry flavour
You’re welcome.
#chemtrails
Blue smoke = mind control
White smoke = mandatory vaccines, including one for diseases they haven’t invented yet
Red smoke = strawberry flavour
You’re welcome.
#chemtrails
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Since the election win Labour have
1. Appeased the far right
2. Delivered otherwise good policy ideas in a bad way e.g. WFA
3. Targeted the disabled with cuts instead of the richest with a wealth tax
The result? 808 Reform councillors
Labour need to change direction and be less cruel, fast
1. Appeased the far right
2. Delivered otherwise good policy ideas in a bad way e.g. WFA
3. Targeted the disabled with cuts instead of the richest with a wealth tax
The result? 808 Reform councillors
Labour need to change direction and be less cruel, fast
May 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Since the election win Labour have
1. Appeased the far right
2. Delivered otherwise good policy ideas in a bad way e.g. WFA
3. Targeted the disabled with cuts instead of the richest with a wealth tax
The result? 808 Reform councillors
Labour need to change direction and be less cruel, fast
1. Appeased the far right
2. Delivered otherwise good policy ideas in a bad way e.g. WFA
3. Targeted the disabled with cuts instead of the richest with a wealth tax
The result? 808 Reform councillors
Labour need to change direction and be less cruel, fast
Labour need to resign themselves to losing the next election. They need to focus on doing some great stuff now while they have the power to do it rather than bad stuff or watered down good stuff in the hopes they might cling on.
May 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Labour need to resign themselves to losing the next election. They need to focus on doing some great stuff now while they have the power to do it rather than bad stuff or watered down good stuff in the hopes they might cling on.
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We decided to watch “School of Rock” last night because it has “Minecraft Steve in it” (I know…It is what it is) and I decided to google a bit and, yall, the little singer girl just got married to the big security guard boy /in real life/. She’s a OBGYN sonographer and he’s a music industry lawyer.
April 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We decided to watch “School of Rock” last night because it has “Minecraft Steve in it” (I know…It is what it is) and I decided to google a bit and, yall, the little singer girl just got married to the big security guard boy /in real life/. She’s a OBGYN sonographer and he’s a music industry lawyer.
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I'd love to get it down to four.
April 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I'd love to get it down to four.
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If you're a trans woman, I will respect you as a woman. No law can stop me doing that.
April 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
If you're a trans woman, I will respect you as a woman. No law can stop me doing that.
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The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
April 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.
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Dump the fiscal rules, nationalise water, energy, rail & steel, tax the wealthiest, and rejoin the EU.
Keir Starmer orders UK economic reset amid Donald Trump’s tariff mayhem
PM ready to ditch ‘old assumptions’ and is debating possible changes to fiscal rules to boost growth
www.theguardian.com
April 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Dump the fiscal rules, nationalise water, energy, rail & steel, tax the wealthiest, and rejoin the EU.
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She died in binary. That’s dedication. RIP.
Bletchley Park code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101
Bletchley Park code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101
Betty Webb MBE worked at Bletchley Park during World War Two intercepting enemy messages.
www.bbc.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
She died in binary. That’s dedication. RIP.
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🔴 For *four years* officials refused to release names of all companies linked to Conservative donors and party figures put in the 'VIP' lane for bumper Covid contracts
Now a judge has ordered them to.
Huge win for @jennacorderoy.bsky.social (and DfS)
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/government...
Now a judge has ordered them to.
Huge win for @jennacorderoy.bsky.social (and DfS)
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/government...
Government loses legal battle over Covid ‘VIP Lane’
Exclusive: Judge slams “most unsatisfactory” Cabinet Office and orders release of names of 'VIP' firms to Democracy for Sale reporter - after *four year* wait.
democracyforsale.substack.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:33 AM
🔴 For *four years* officials refused to release names of all companies linked to Conservative donors and party figures put in the 'VIP' lane for bumper Covid contracts
Now a judge has ordered them to.
Huge win for @jennacorderoy.bsky.social (and DfS)
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/government...
Now a judge has ordered them to.
Huge win for @jennacorderoy.bsky.social (and DfS)
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/government...
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I am seething with anger at Labour’s abuse of people with disabilities, made so abundantly clear yesterday. No doubt they think this performative cruelty will work well for them with Reform voters. I loathe them for it. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
Kendall’s performative callousness
Liz Kendall claimed yesterday that the benefits budget will fall by £5 billion by 2029, which is mysteriously the supposed sum by which it is being suggested that the Office for Budget Responsibility ...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
March 19, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I am seething with anger at Labour’s abuse of people with disabilities, made so abundantly clear yesterday. No doubt they think this performative cruelty will work well for them with Reform voters. I loathe them for it. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
Labour are at risk; not because they actively made things worse but mostly because they just didn’t make anything better. Like the bright kid at parents evening who doesn’t apply themselves
They have a huge majority and could force some real change - why aren’t they?
They have a huge majority and could force some real change - why aren’t they?
March 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Labour are at risk; not because they actively made things worse but mostly because they just didn’t make anything better. Like the bright kid at parents evening who doesn’t apply themselves
They have a huge majority and could force some real change - why aren’t they?
They have a huge majority and could force some real change - why aren’t they?
Labour should actually do something big and helpful instead of things that have good optics through the right-wing papers.
Show that progressive policies work, demonstrate what renewables can do. At least then you can look back at your one term in office and say you tried to make lives better.
Show that progressive policies work, demonstrate what renewables can do. At least then you can look back at your one term in office and say you tried to make lives better.
March 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Labour should actually do something big and helpful instead of things that have good optics through the right-wing papers.
Show that progressive policies work, demonstrate what renewables can do. At least then you can look back at your one term in office and say you tried to make lives better.
Show that progressive policies work, demonstrate what renewables can do. At least then you can look back at your one term in office and say you tried to make lives better.
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It’s not a burning Cybertruck. It’s a Roman candle.
March 17, 2025 at 1:25 AM
It’s not a burning Cybertruck. It’s a Roman candle.
My, incredibly pessimistic, prediction: US-Russia will negotiate a peace deal for Ukraine. US will only continue security assurances if Ukraine hold an election. Zelenskyy will lose and the new leader will be a Russian puppet.
March 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
My, incredibly pessimistic, prediction: US-Russia will negotiate a peace deal for Ukraine. US will only continue security assurances if Ukraine hold an election. Zelenskyy will lose and the new leader will be a Russian puppet.