Daniel Hardy
@hardy24.bsky.social
Web developer. Liverpool fan. Escapee from the other place
Well done to Royal Mail for informing me via text they were about to deliver a package that actually arrived 3 days ago. The doctor moonlighting again?
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Well done to Royal Mail for informing me via text they were about to deliver a package that actually arrived 3 days ago. The doctor moonlighting again?
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Right, but the other major party is somewhere to right of Idi Amin? This isn't a morally or intellectually serious position!
I'm a Blairite! You fight for the ground between the two main parties rather than trying to appease Zack Polanski
October 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Right, but the other major party is somewhere to right of Idi Amin? This isn't a morally or intellectually serious position!
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The "left", however you define them, are a significant chunk of society. Politicians and journalists, who insist they are particularly qualified to define society, are not.
People will tell you that the left has lost touch with society, but the expected next tory leader is nostalgic for football hooliganism, and the political editor of the Express is calling for MPs to be deported.
October 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The "left", however you define them, are a significant chunk of society. Politicians and journalists, who insist they are particularly qualified to define society, are not.
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Decades after the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters, can politicians please not second-guess expert safety assessments for football stadiums.
Thank you.
An Aston Villa fan.
Thank you.
An Aston Villa fan.
October 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Decades after the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters, can politicians please not second-guess expert safety assessments for football stadiums.
Thank you.
An Aston Villa fan.
Thank you.
An Aston Villa fan.
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var was designed to be a sticking plaster to the problem that people can't grow up and accept sometimes decisions will go against their team. we're never going to fix this as long as that is the real issue.
September 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
var was designed to be a sticking plaster to the problem that people can't grow up and accept sometimes decisions will go against their team. we're never going to fix this as long as that is the real issue.
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Gyokeres scores if he doesn't dive.
Newcastle don't score if Gabriel doesn't dive.
Arsenal their own worst enemy with their shithousery, even when playing really well.
Newcastle don't score if Gabriel doesn't dive.
Arsenal their own worst enemy with their shithousery, even when playing really well.
September 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Gyokeres scores if he doesn't dive.
Newcastle don't score if Gabriel doesn't dive.
Arsenal their own worst enemy with their shithousery, even when playing really well.
Newcastle don't score if Gabriel doesn't dive.
Arsenal their own worst enemy with their shithousery, even when playing really well.
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My childhood was so tough. Born to a mother who was free to take paracetomol and into the sharia-law crime-wasteland of London. But somehow I made it.
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
My childhood was so tough. Born to a mother who was free to take paracetomol and into the sharia-law crime-wasteland of London. But somehow I made it.
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I feel like I post about this every year, but it would be useful if the media explained that it is not, in fact, easy to immigrate to this country, to get a national insurance number, to get indefinite leave to remain, to get citizenship. It is, in fact, already very difficult.
September 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I feel like I post about this every year, but it would be useful if the media explained that it is not, in fact, easy to immigrate to this country, to get a national insurance number, to get indefinite leave to remain, to get citizenship. It is, in fact, already very difficult.
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Arsenal *lucky* to get the equalizer bcos it’s during added time.
i don’t make the rules. They did.
i don’t make the rules. They did.
September 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Arsenal *lucky* to get the equalizer bcos it’s during added time.
i don’t make the rules. They did.
i don’t make the rules. They did.
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Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”
July 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
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September 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The BBC releasing podcasts early within the Sounds app before they add them to the wider feeds is a betrayal of what the BBC should be about.
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
The BBC releasing podcasts early within the Sounds app before they add them to the wider feeds is a betrayal of what the BBC should be about.
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Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) is one of the biggest cons created by Tories, expanded by Labour.
For every £1 of private investment in public assets govt repays £6, resulting in higher debt/taxes.
Cheaper for govt to borrow or it can create money
But govt is reviving PFI. Must change policy.
For every £1 of private investment in public assets govt repays £6, resulting in higher debt/taxes.
Cheaper for govt to borrow or it can create money
But govt is reviving PFI. Must change policy.
Why the reshuffle alone won’t change the government’s fortunes
"For better electoral fortunes, the government needs to junk neoliberal policies, never-ending austerity; directly invest in infrastructure and redistribute income and wealth."
leftfootforward.org
September 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) is one of the biggest cons created by Tories, expanded by Labour.
For every £1 of private investment in public assets govt repays £6, resulting in higher debt/taxes.
Cheaper for govt to borrow or it can create money
But govt is reviving PFI. Must change policy.
For every £1 of private investment in public assets govt repays £6, resulting in higher debt/taxes.
Cheaper for govt to borrow or it can create money
But govt is reviving PFI. Must change policy.
September 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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September 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I’m sure the right free speech drum bangers will be outraged at this right? Right?
The day hasn't started very well in this country where freedom of speech and association are alive and well. Apparently, recording a podcast calling for someone to shoot the PM is Ok, but projecting an image of two fully clothed men is malicious communication www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Four arrested after images of Trump and Epstein projected on to Windsor Castle ahead of president’s visit
Trump arrived in Britain late on Tuesday for an unprecedented second state visit in which he will be hosted by King Charles
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I’m sure the right free speech drum bangers will be outraged at this right? Right?
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The UK Reform party was originally the UK independence party, then the Brexit party. The Brexit party promised Brexit would fix everything. It made things way worse, so they could not survive that and had to rename themselves, to deflect away from 'Europe=Bad' to "immigrants=Bad".
September 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The UK Reform party was originally the UK independence party, then the Brexit party. The Brexit party promised Brexit would fix everything. It made things way worse, so they could not survive that and had to rename themselves, to deflect away from 'Europe=Bad' to "immigrants=Bad".
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Remember BHS.
Paid £1.3bn dividend by borrowing £1bn, £1.2bn went to CEO's wife. Assets sweated.
Company collapsed, £571m hole in pension schemes.
PwC audit partner spent TWO hours on audit.
No reform of corporate governance, audits. Rentier economy has deepened. Looting is a political choice.
Paid £1.3bn dividend by borrowing £1bn, £1.2bn went to CEO's wife. Assets sweated.
Company collapsed, £571m hole in pension schemes.
PwC audit partner spent TWO hours on audit.
No reform of corporate governance, audits. Rentier economy has deepened. Looting is a political choice.
How successive governments have created a new rentier economy
Governments appease corporations and the super-rich by following the old policies which benefit a few.
leftfootforward.org
September 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Remember BHS.
Paid £1.3bn dividend by borrowing £1bn, £1.2bn went to CEO's wife. Assets sweated.
Company collapsed, £571m hole in pension schemes.
PwC audit partner spent TWO hours on audit.
No reform of corporate governance, audits. Rentier economy has deepened. Looting is a political choice.
Paid £1.3bn dividend by borrowing £1bn, £1.2bn went to CEO's wife. Assets sweated.
Company collapsed, £571m hole in pension schemes.
PwC audit partner spent TWO hours on audit.
No reform of corporate governance, audits. Rentier economy has deepened. Looting is a political choice.
Please can online retailers stop using Evri. Or at least tell you do upfront so I can avoid buying from you.
September 12, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Please can online retailers stop using Evri. Or at least tell you do upfront so I can avoid buying from you.
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Unless the foul has rendered them physically incapable of doing so, the player who was fouled to draw the free kick/penalty should be the player to take it. The idea is to continue play as if the foul had not occurred, not to get your dead ball specialist on the ball who was 40yds away at the time.
Everybody should absolutely view this as an invitation to drop your spiciest soccer takes.
lol I’m gonna need bluesky’s biggest soccer post ever to balance out all the politics engagement im burying myself under.
September 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Unless the foul has rendered them physically incapable of doing so, the player who was fouled to draw the free kick/penalty should be the player to take it. The idea is to continue play as if the foul had not occurred, not to get your dead ball specialist on the ball who was 40yds away at the time.