Joe Lynch
@joeykins82.bsky.social
The guy in the IT team who gets called in when it’s really broken. AuDHD (pending formal diagnosis). Lib Dem. Gay AF, standing with the T. Board games. Travel. A surprising number of very inconvenient allergies.
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For people who live in Manchester...
No trains from the south and east of the city into Manchester Piccadilly station for nine days over the February half term 2026 (Saturday 14 – Sunday 22).
www.networkrail.co.uk/our-work/our...
No trains from the south and east of the city into Manchester Piccadilly station for nine days over the February half term 2026 (Saturday 14 – Sunday 22).
www.networkrail.co.uk/our-work/our...
Piccadilly corridor renewal - Network Rail
We’re investing £7.9m to improve tracks, points and signalling systems on the southern approach to Manchester Piccadilly station
www.networkrail.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
For people who live in Manchester...
No trains from the south and east of the city into Manchester Piccadilly station for nine days over the February half term 2026 (Saturday 14 – Sunday 22).
www.networkrail.co.uk/our-work/our...
No trains from the south and east of the city into Manchester Piccadilly station for nine days over the February half term 2026 (Saturday 14 – Sunday 22).
www.networkrail.co.uk/our-work/our...
Finally caught up with The Celebrity Traitors and I am now convinced that Kate Garraway is the inspiration for Moira Rose
November 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Finally caught up with The Celebrity Traitors and I am now convinced that Kate Garraway is the inspiration for Moira Rose
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I have eaten more Jaffa cakes than you will ever know xox
February 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I have eaten more Jaffa cakes than you will ever know xox
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Exorcist: I'm here to remove the demon that has possessed you
Me: I didn't call you
Demon: I did
Me: I didn't call you
Demon: I did
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Exorcist: I'm here to remove the demon that has possessed you
Me: I didn't call you
Demon: I did
Me: I didn't call you
Demon: I did
The take away for me from the Rachel Reeves "story" is that letting agencies need to be licensed with a binding code of conduct. Everyone working there should be DBS checked and should be a member of a professional standards body.
October 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The take away for me from the Rachel Reeves "story" is that letting agencies need to be licensed with a binding code of conduct. Everyone working there should be DBS checked and should be a member of a professional standards body.
Hot take of the day: passkey based auth is a brilliant concept, but every single implementation out there right now is absolute dogshit, and the technology is fundamentally not ready for widespread adoption.
October 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Hot take of the day: passkey based auth is a brilliant concept, but every single implementation out there right now is absolute dogshit, and the technology is fundamentally not ready for widespread adoption.
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Taurus: Things aren’t as bad as they seem, they’re worse.
October 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Taurus: Things aren’t as bad as they seem, they’re worse.
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Hear me out Slow Horses but Muppets, Jackson Lamb the only human
October 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Hear me out Slow Horses but Muppets, Jackson Lamb the only human
One thing my career has taught me is that the SECOND senior management start micromanaging things which should be below their pay grade: run. It's the archetypal "I'm hopelessy out of my depth so I'm latching on to something I can control" move.
The Fred Trump treatment. Give him a fake job while Miller draws up missile strike plans on fishermen.
October 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
One thing my career has taught me is that the SECOND senior management start micromanaging things which should be below their pay grade: run. It's the archetypal "I'm hopelessy out of my depth so I'm latching on to something I can control" move.
I held off upgrading to iOS 26 for a while, but I capitulated and this is driving me round the bend. I'm glad it's not just me though!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksV...
It's Not Just You - The iOS Keyboard is Broken
YouTube video by Michi NekoMichi
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I held off upgrading to iOS 26 for a while, but I capitulated and this is driving me round the bend. I'm glad it's not just me though!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksV...
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
6
Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
7
Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
8
Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Decided to entertain myself on the final flight home by making chaos scones.
If you’re going to upset someone, you might as well really upset absolutely everyone…
If you’re going to upset someone, you might as well really upset absolutely everyone…
October 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Decided to entertain myself on the final flight home by making chaos scones.
If you’re going to upset someone, you might as well really upset absolutely everyone…
If you’re going to upset someone, you might as well really upset absolutely everyone…
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Taurus: Give yourself a little credit. Not everyone could screw up so badly in such a variety of ways.
October 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Taurus: Give yourself a little credit. Not everyone could screw up so badly in such a variety of ways.
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Interesting: Leaving the #ECHR would be a grave mistake, writes former UK Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland KC👇
🔗 conservativehome.com/2025/10/05/r... via @conservativehome.bsky.social
🔗 conservativehome.com/2025/10/05/r... via @conservativehome.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Interesting: Leaving the #ECHR would be a grave mistake, writes former UK Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland KC👇
🔗 conservativehome.com/2025/10/05/r... via @conservativehome.bsky.social
🔗 conservativehome.com/2025/10/05/r... via @conservativehome.bsky.social
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This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
October 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
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Taurus: It’s great that you have a 5 year plan, but maybe 4 of the 5 years shouldn’t be, ‘Scream repeatedly into the void.’
September 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Taurus: It’s great that you have a 5 year plan, but maybe 4 of the 5 years shouldn’t be, ‘Scream repeatedly into the void.’
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This is my new favourite analogy for mainstream parties' problem with the radical right! If you're a mainstream party, you can talk about other things! If you're the government, you can talk about *and do* other things *and* you get to set the agenda, at least to some extent, much of the time!
Imagine you're in a weird romcom where Paul Hollywood is your rival. Do you go "let's have a bread baking competition" or do you emphasise your own relative strengths?
Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.
Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.
September 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This is my new favourite analogy for mainstream parties' problem with the radical right! If you're a mainstream party, you can talk about other things! If you're the government, you can talk about *and do* other things *and* you get to set the agenda, at least to some extent, much of the time!
An insight in to the stuff going on in my brain pretty much all the time: the BF just sent me shopping for stuff to make a salsa for chicken tacos; having decided that all but one of them were under-ripe I am now singing "I don't think you should go for this mango" to the tune of Bootylicious.
September 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
An insight in to the stuff going on in my brain pretty much all the time: the BF just sent me shopping for stuff to make a salsa for chicken tacos; having decided that all but one of them were under-ripe I am now singing "I don't think you should go for this mango" to the tune of Bootylicious.
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For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
September 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
I give it 6 weeks before Nigel throws a tantrum over the amount of media appearances Kruger is getting and starts briefing against him.
September 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I give it 6 weeks before Nigel throws a tantrum over the amount of media appearances Kruger is getting and starts briefing against him.
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Things are incredibly grim, but there are small, tentative signs of improvement. Maybe. iandunt.substack.com/p/three-reas...
Three reasons to feel hope
Things are incredibly grim, but there are small, tentative signs of improvement. Maybe.
iandunt.substack.com
September 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Things are incredibly grim, but there are small, tentative signs of improvement. Maybe. iandunt.substack.com/p/three-reas...
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Last week, Policy Exchange released yet another report opposing high speed rail projects authored by Andrew Gilligan and - tellingly - foreworded by Reform's Richard Tice.
Without context or permission, they quote me in it. So I've a few things to add.
Without context or permission, they quote me in it. So I've a few things to add.
September 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Last week, Policy Exchange released yet another report opposing high speed rail projects authored by Andrew Gilligan and - tellingly - foreworded by Reform's Richard Tice.
Without context or permission, they quote me in it. So I've a few things to add.
Without context or permission, they quote me in it. So I've a few things to add.