Duncan Martin
@duncanm23.bsky.social
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Was it about 6 or so years ago that Newport County felt like the coolest club in Wales. It just felt special. Today, I'd put us somewhere behind Merthyr. We were number 1 for a while. Now we are 5th maybe. It's a shocking time to be a county fan and I think it will get worse.
December 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Was it about 6 or so years ago that Newport County felt like the coolest club in Wales. It just felt special. Today, I'd put us somewhere behind Merthyr. We were number 1 for a while. Now we are 5th maybe. It's a shocking time to be a county fan and I think it will get worse.
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That’s still well below Twitter’s revenue pre-Musk
*MUSK’S X SEES REVENUE TOP $2 BILLION IN FIRST 9 MONTHS OF 2025 *X’S REVENUE INCREASED ABOUT 18% YTD FROM YEAR PRIOR *MUSK'S X POSTED $577 MILLION NET LOSS IN THIRD QUARTER *X'S EBITDA UP 16% YEAR OVER YEAR, 9% FROM LAST QUARTER
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
That’s still well below Twitter’s revenue pre-Musk
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What is this 'very real prospect of Christmas being cancelled'?
Is it the same 'very real prospect' that comes around every year?
Is it the same 'very real prospect' that comes around every year?
The UK far right is increasingly infiltrating the Anglican church so this is bang on trend.
December 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
What is this 'very real prospect of Christmas being cancelled'?
Is it the same 'very real prospect' that comes around every year?
Is it the same 'very real prospect' that comes around every year?
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Lovely titbit from @monkemma.bsky.social Here’s Washington Irving complaining about that very thing over 200 hundred years ago. Some things just don’t change.
December 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Lovely titbit from @monkemma.bsky.social Here’s Washington Irving complaining about that very thing over 200 hundred years ago. Some things just don’t change.
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This is bang on. If you are genuinely worried about defence, you don't give in to the Treasury's fun and games of only hitting the defence spend target in the first year of the next Parliament. Instead, you fire all the officials who are prioritising accountancy over the fate of democracy.
Big difficulty of this government is Downing Street identifies a £20bn problem, correctly, then puts £2bn behind it. The only place where its policy matches its rhetoric is child poverty, where it had to be dragged into it, protesting that adequate policy was 'un-Labour' all the way.
December 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This is bang on. If you are genuinely worried about defence, you don't give in to the Treasury's fun and games of only hitting the defence spend target in the first year of the next Parliament. Instead, you fire all the officials who are prioritising accountancy over the fate of democracy.
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If you read one thread this Christmas, make it this one. Especially if you are an angry Daily Mail reader
OK, strap in….
Here is part 2 of the “Tesco/(insert other brand) are cancelling Christmas” claims!
🎄🎅🤶🎄
TL:DR? Christmas is alive and well everywhere you look.
And so too, sadly, is manufactured Christmas rage baiting.
Here is just 7 day’s worth of Daily Mail Christmas Rage bait
🧵
1/31
Here is part 2 of the “Tesco/(insert other brand) are cancelling Christmas” claims!
🎄🎅🤶🎄
TL:DR? Christmas is alive and well everywhere you look.
And so too, sadly, is manufactured Christmas rage baiting.
Here is just 7 day’s worth of Daily Mail Christmas Rage bait
🧵
1/31
December 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
If you read one thread this Christmas, make it this one. Especially if you are an angry Daily Mail reader
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this is quite good on the parts of making software that aren’t typing out code
What happens when the coding becomes the least interesting part of the work
Something that’s been true for me for a long time, long before coding agents showed up, is that the initial effort involved in any…
obie.medium.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
this is quite good on the parts of making software that aren’t typing out code
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If you're looking for classics-inspired fiction this holiday season, we have a range of titles from an alternate Oxford where people metamorphose to a re-imagining of the Minoans! All proceeds go towards our work in state schools. Find out more here! tinyurl.com/3z7vehwb
Classics-inspired novels and short stories to explore!
If you’re looking for fiction inspired by the ancient world this holiday season, there are a range of Iris titles to explore! All proceeds from purchases of our fiction publications in Decemb…
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December 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
If you're looking for classics-inspired fiction this holiday season, we have a range of titles from an alternate Oxford where people metamorphose to a re-imagining of the Minoans! All proceeds go towards our work in state schools. Find out more here! tinyurl.com/3z7vehwb
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Ah, "middle-class Oxfordshire". An entire county where all the cleaners, security guards, shop staff, porters, bus drivers and binmen are exactly as posh as the Warden of All Souls, like one of those planets in Star Trek where everyone's Irish.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
December 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Ah, "middle-class Oxfordshire". An entire county where all the cleaners, security guards, shop staff, porters, bus drivers and binmen are exactly as posh as the Warden of All Souls, like one of those planets in Star Trek where everyone's Irish.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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One of the bleakest things about living in the UK right now is that the country is full of people who, if their community is given something nice, will just destroy it for no reason. I really don’t know how you fix that.
Christmas tree chopped down hours after lights switch on
Christmas tree chopped down hours after lights switch on
A Christmas tree that has brought festive cheer to a village for more than a decade has been cut down just hours after its lights were switched on.
news.sky.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:38 AM
One of the bleakest things about living in the UK right now is that the country is full of people who, if their community is given something nice, will just destroy it for no reason. I really don’t know how you fix that.
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This is the desert of the real. The Wachowskis called it. But like Bernie says, no one wants this. Folks are organizing in amazing ways.
Mark Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana that will use 3x more electricity than all of New Orleans.
Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills.
Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.
Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills.
Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.
December 12, 2025 at 6:32 AM
This is the desert of the real. The Wachowskis called it. But like Bernie says, no one wants this. Folks are organizing in amazing ways.
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Innocent people end up in our criminal courts.
Completely, terrifyingly innocent.
And all that stands between them and losing everything is a fair trial.
Politicians would do well to remember this when they tell us that justice is all about processing “criminals” swiftly.
Completely, terrifyingly innocent.
And all that stands between them and losing everything is a fair trial.
Politicians would do well to remember this when they tell us that justice is all about processing “criminals” swiftly.
December 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Innocent people end up in our criminal courts.
Completely, terrifyingly innocent.
And all that stands between them and losing everything is a fair trial.
Politicians would do well to remember this when they tell us that justice is all about processing “criminals” swiftly.
Completely, terrifyingly innocent.
And all that stands between them and losing everything is a fair trial.
Politicians would do well to remember this when they tell us that justice is all about processing “criminals” swiftly.
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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I am brimming with holiday spirit
December 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I am brimming with holiday spirit
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A white British father and son BOTH raped the same child and pled guilty to multiple counts of Sexual assault.
This has been in the press for 2 days.
The Mirror is the only National newspaper to report on it…
And THAT’s why people have such a skewed perception of the links between race and SA🤷🏼♀️
This has been in the press for 2 days.
The Mirror is the only National newspaper to report on it…
And THAT’s why people have such a skewed perception of the links between race and SA🤷🏼♀️
December 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A white British father and son BOTH raped the same child and pled guilty to multiple counts of Sexual assault.
This has been in the press for 2 days.
The Mirror is the only National newspaper to report on it…
And THAT’s why people have such a skewed perception of the links between race and SA🤷🏼♀️
This has been in the press for 2 days.
The Mirror is the only National newspaper to report on it…
And THAT’s why people have such a skewed perception of the links between race and SA🤷🏼♀️
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COMING SOON:
New Australian social media law ban for everyone under 33.
New Australian social media law ban for everyone under 33.
A new study reveals four key turning points in human brain development, challenging the notion of linear growth. Researchers identified distinct phases at ages 9, 32, 66 and 83. https://wapo.st/48HPdmr
December 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM
COMING SOON:
New Australian social media law ban for everyone under 33.
New Australian social media law ban for everyone under 33.
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UK Government being crictised again for how it's treated the Chagossians, this time by...the UN. Really does illustrate the absoutle mess successive UK governments have gotten into by continually placing the needs of the US above the indigenous population and Mauritius.
news.sky.com/story/un-com...
news.sky.com/story/un-com...
UN committee 'deeply concerned' by Chagos deal - and calls for ratification to be paused
The UN has called on the UK to suspend ratification of its treaty with Mauritius over the Chagos Islands.
news.sky.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
UK Government being crictised again for how it's treated the Chagossians, this time by...the UN. Really does illustrate the absoutle mess successive UK governments have gotten into by continually placing the needs of the US above the indigenous population and Mauritius.
news.sky.com/story/un-com...
news.sky.com/story/un-com...
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The Spectator is run by fascists. I was obsessed with Kylie Minogue and the fitness machines section of the Argos catalogue.
December 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The Spectator is run by fascists. I was obsessed with Kylie Minogue and the fitness machines section of the Argos catalogue.
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"The Welsh love of consonants"
I knew these people couldnt get through a description of what Britishness is without racisting against their own alleged kind.
I knew these people couldnt get through a description of what Britishness is without racisting against their own alleged kind.
Oh boy let me just go find out what "Britishness" actually is!
Oh. Is that all he's got? Accents.
Oh. Is that all he's got? Accents.
December 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
"The Welsh love of consonants"
I knew these people couldnt get through a description of what Britishness is without racisting against their own alleged kind.
I knew these people couldnt get through a description of what Britishness is without racisting against their own alleged kind.
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I’m still somewhat amazed that the only modern political leader who ever just went “you know what? We have a moral duty to provide asylum to those fleeing war and persecution and I don’t care how many of them there are, or what it costs, we’re gonna damn well meet that duty” was Angela Merkel!
December 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I’m still somewhat amazed that the only modern political leader who ever just went “you know what? We have a moral duty to provide asylum to those fleeing war and persecution and I don’t care how many of them there are, or what it costs, we’re gonna damn well meet that duty” was Angela Merkel!
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I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.
December 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.
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The sick youth of Britain, by @willdunn.bsky.social . Workers cannot fund pensioners forever.
The sick youth of Britain
Workers can no longer fund pensioners
www.newstatesman.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The sick youth of Britain, by @willdunn.bsky.social . Workers cannot fund pensioners forever.
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All that being said the notion of a command economy in Britain as per Sultana is actually really funny to think about. This is an island where even a relatively moderate interruption in free trade with the rest of the world was a catastrophe. How does she expect it to be capable of Stalinist autarky
December 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
All that being said the notion of a command economy in Britain as per Sultana is actually really funny to think about. This is an island where even a relatively moderate interruption in free trade with the rest of the world was a catastrophe. How does she expect it to be capable of Stalinist autarky
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This is a good thread on why political parties matter, but wanted to draw out this point as a reason why 'candidate diversity' matters, in that our life and career experiences will shape what the three or four things MPs know about (and are therefore most likely to rebel or be influential on).
Like imagine you're a normal person, i.e. yourself. (None of you here are normal, but imagine.) You probably have 3-4 political issues you have strong opinions on, 3-4 you have general inclinations on, and a ton you know nothing about. The whip's office /tells/ you what you should think on that ton.
December 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This is a good thread on why political parties matter, but wanted to draw out this point as a reason why 'candidate diversity' matters, in that our life and career experiences will shape what the three or four things MPs know about (and are therefore most likely to rebel or be influential on).