Steve Kilbane
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""A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons." — Hillary Clinton, 28 July 20freakin'16
December 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
""A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons." — Hillary Clinton, 28 July 20freakin'16
Your occasional reminder that titanium is a bad choice for jewellery that has no clasp.
You do not want to be in the ER with a swollen finger wearing a ring that is harder than any cutting tool the medics have.
You do not want to be in the ER with a swollen finger wearing a ring that is harder than any cutting tool the medics have.
December 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Your occasional reminder that titanium is a bad choice for jewellery that has no clasp.
You do not want to be in the ER with a swollen finger wearing a ring that is harder than any cutting tool the medics have.
You do not want to be in the ER with a swollen finger wearing a ring that is harder than any cutting tool the medics have.
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
Conservativism: “I got mine, fuck you.”
I really do not understand at what point we forgot that this is how it works.
People are championing and enforcing these immigration policies now who are *products of this immigration ladder of excellence themselves*.
Did they never eg speak to their parents/grandparents?
People are championing and enforcing these immigration policies now who are *products of this immigration ladder of excellence themselves*.
Did they never eg speak to their parents/grandparents?
December 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Conservativism: “I got mine, fuck you.”
December 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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I find it weird that the focus is always on reducing “illegal work” by stopping people from working, rather than finding ways to make their work legal and therefore allow the workers to be taxed and contribute to the economy.
Also, digital ID can reduce illegal work no better than paper ID can.
Also, digital ID can reduce illegal work no better than paper ID can.
However, I reiterate the original and main point I made which is if Digital ID can help reduce illegal work then that is a good thing.
And it is not progressive to lose control of who is entitled to be and work here.
And it is not progressive to lose control of who is entitled to be and work here.
December 5, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I find it weird that the focus is always on reducing “illegal work” by stopping people from working, rather than finding ways to make their work legal and therefore allow the workers to be taxed and contribute to the economy.
Also, digital ID can reduce illegal work no better than paper ID can.
Also, digital ID can reduce illegal work no better than paper ID can.
December 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Today it’s transwomen, but tomorrow, it’s butch women. Androgynous gender presentation. And women who remain friends with transwomen. This doesn’t stop.
This is about policing who is performing femininity to an ever shifting standard.
If your org does this? Quit the org and say why.
This is about policing who is performing femininity to an ever shifting standard.
If your org does this? Quit the org and say why.
December 4, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Today it’s transwomen, but tomorrow, it’s butch women. Androgynous gender presentation. And women who remain friends with transwomen. This doesn’t stop.
This is about policing who is performing femininity to an ever shifting standard.
If your org does this? Quit the org and say why.
This is about policing who is performing femininity to an ever shifting standard.
If your org does this? Quit the org and say why.
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Not gonna lie lads, it’s fucking bleak over here.
Trans people can’t fight this on their own, cis women need to start leaving and boycotting these organisations that exclude trans women.
I go where my trans partner goes, if she can’t go I don’t go. We all have to do this.
Trans people can’t fight this on their own, cis women need to start leaving and boycotting these organisations that exclude trans women.
I go where my trans partner goes, if she can’t go I don’t go. We all have to do this.
December 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Not gonna lie lads, it’s fucking bleak over here.
Trans people can’t fight this on their own, cis women need to start leaving and boycotting these organisations that exclude trans women.
I go where my trans partner goes, if she can’t go I don’t go. We all have to do this.
Trans people can’t fight this on their own, cis women need to start leaving and boycotting these organisations that exclude trans women.
I go where my trans partner goes, if she can’t go I don’t go. We all have to do this.
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2026 is going to be a *great* year to run for office. @runforsomething.net will help you. Filing deadlines are coming up fast - it's just barely not too late to get started. runforwhat.net
Where Can I Run by Run for Something
Take the next step: Look up offices you can run for
runforwhat.net
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
2026 is going to be a *great* year to run for office. @runforsomething.net will help you. Filing deadlines are coming up fast - it's just barely not too late to get started. runforwhat.net
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There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.
“Pledged”. Not “given” or “donated”. Don’t give them PR for a thing they haven’t actually done yet.
Or we could tax them more and fund social programs that would allow poor kids to have food and shelter and better schools now.
apnews.com/article/mich...
apnews.com/article/mich...
Michael and Susan Dell donate $6.25 billion to encourage families to claim 'Trump Accounts'
Billionaires Michael and Susan Dell pledged a historic $6.25 billion on Tuesday to provide an incentive to families to adopt new investment accounts for children.
apnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
“Pledged”. Not “given” or “donated”. Don’t give them PR for a thing they haven’t actually done yet.
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Or we could tax them more and fund social programs that would allow poor kids to have food and shelter and better schools now.
apnews.com/article/mich...
apnews.com/article/mich...
Michael and Susan Dell donate $6.25 billion to encourage families to claim 'Trump Accounts'
Billionaires Michael and Susan Dell pledged a historic $6.25 billion on Tuesday to provide an incentive to families to adopt new investment accounts for children.
apnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Or we could tax them more and fund social programs that would allow poor kids to have food and shelter and better schools now.
apnews.com/article/mich...
apnews.com/article/mich...
Wild promises, huh?
“They need us more than we need them.”
“We hold all the cards.”
“Easiest deal in history.”
Not to mention “£350m/week - let’s given that to the NHS.”
Let’s have some bloody accountability.
“They need us more than we need them.”
“We hold all the cards.”
“Easiest deal in history.”
Not to mention “£350m/week - let’s given that to the NHS.”
Let’s have some bloody accountability.
BREAKING: “The idea that leaving the EU was the answer to all our cares and concerns has clearly been proved wrong."
Keir Starmer says that "wild promises were made" about Brexit.
He adds: "The same argument is now being made about the European Convention on Human Rights"
Keir Starmer says that "wild promises were made" about Brexit.
He adds: "The same argument is now being made about the European Convention on Human Rights"
December 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wild promises, huh?
“They need us more than we need them.”
“We hold all the cards.”
“Easiest deal in history.”
Not to mention “£350m/week - let’s given that to the NHS.”
Let’s have some bloody accountability.
“They need us more than we need them.”
“We hold all the cards.”
“Easiest deal in history.”
Not to mention “£350m/week - let’s given that to the NHS.”
Let’s have some bloody accountability.
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Juries are one of our most important safeguards against authoritarianism.
There is an emergency in our courts which needs tackling – but addressing that doesn’t require ripping up rights.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/02/david-lammy-proposals-jury-trials
There is an emergency in our courts which needs tackling – but addressing that doesn’t require ripping up rights.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/02/david-lammy-proposals-jury-trials
David Lammy expected to water down plans to scrap most jury trials
Justice secretary suggests he will stick to Leveson’s recommended three-year sentence threshold, after ‘cabinet feedback’
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Juries are one of our most important safeguards against authoritarianism.
There is an emergency in our courts which needs tackling – but addressing that doesn’t require ripping up rights.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/02/david-lammy-proposals-jury-trials
There is an emergency in our courts which needs tackling – but addressing that doesn’t require ripping up rights.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/02/david-lammy-proposals-jury-trials
I have vague recollections of starting on Slackware and finding it a real pain before shifting to Red Hat. Struggled for some years to keep he working after any update, and finally moved over to MacOS, where things Just Worked.
28 years ago, I learned about this amazing thing called Linux.
I immediately drove down to Best Buy and bought a boxed set of Red Hat 5.0. Probably the best $50 I've ever spent!
What was your first Linux distro?
#Linux #RedHat #Nostalgia
I immediately drove down to Best Buy and bought a boxed set of Red Hat 5.0. Probably the best $50 I've ever spent!
What was your first Linux distro?
#Linux #RedHat #Nostalgia
December 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I have vague recollections of starting on Slackware and finding it a real pain before shifting to Red Hat. Struggled for some years to keep he working after any update, and finally moved over to MacOS, where things Just Worked.
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A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database.
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals
We created the database in order to challenge assumptions about the lack of professionalism of everyday soldiers.
theconversation.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database.
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
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As set out in this thread, the causes of the court backlog are chronic lack of funding and absurd inefficiency.
The government has made no proposals to address either. Their answer is to remove juries.
Rather than fix the leaking roof, their solution is to burn the house down.
The government has made no proposals to address either. Their answer is to remove juries.
Rather than fix the leaking roof, their solution is to burn the house down.
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
December 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
As set out in this thread, the causes of the court backlog are chronic lack of funding and absurd inefficiency.
The government has made no proposals to address either. Their answer is to remove juries.
Rather than fix the leaking roof, their solution is to burn the house down.
The government has made no proposals to address either. Their answer is to remove juries.
Rather than fix the leaking roof, their solution is to burn the house down.
This might be cosplay, but it might also be “I’m brown and don’t want to be shot by my own staff.”
“i won’t go unless i can wear my princess costume!” is something one typically hears from little girls not ruff tuff fbi directors but here we are
This FBI “pulse check” report on the dept under Patel and Bongino is a mixed bag - the fibbies love having no more sensitivity training but many hate going on ICE raids and think leadership is weak - but this anecdote is clearly gold: K$H Patel wearing the traditional FBI Director’s ladies clothes.
December 2, 2025 at 7:42 AM
This might be cosplay, but it might also be “I’m brown and don’t want to be shot by my own staff.”
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Today the news will be about the government's proposals for juries.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
December 2, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Today the news will be about the government's proposals for juries.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
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Why hasn’t Dua Lipa released a custom craft ale called Dual IPA? Leaving money on the table, mate.
December 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Why hasn’t Dua Lipa released a custom craft ale called Dual IPA? Leaving money on the table, mate.
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This time last year, I was on the South Lawn of the White House helping to lay out the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
This year the White House did nothing and the State Department instructed empoyees and grant recipients to “refrain from publicly promoting World Aids Day through any communication channels”
This year the White House did nothing and the State Department instructed empoyees and grant recipients to “refrain from publicly promoting World Aids Day through any communication channels”
This morning I had the honor of helping lay out some panels of the #AIDS Memorial Quilt on the South Lawn of the White House. Seeing all these individual lives that were lost and knowing they are just a miniscule part of that great tapestry of loss is haunting.
December 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This time last year, I was on the South Lawn of the White House helping to lay out the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
This year the White House did nothing and the State Department instructed empoyees and grant recipients to “refrain from publicly promoting World Aids Day through any communication channels”
This year the White House did nothing and the State Department instructed empoyees and grant recipients to “refrain from publicly promoting World Aids Day through any communication channels”
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I saw Arcadia in the 90s in the West End and it utterly took my breath away. Saw it again in the late 2000s and it still did. One of my favourite ever plays.
RIP Tom Stoppard.
#CarnalKnowledge #RefugeesWelcome
RIP Tom Stoppard.
#CarnalKnowledge #RefugeesWelcome
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I saw Arcadia in the 90s in the West End and it utterly took my breath away. Saw it again in the late 2000s and it still did. One of my favourite ever plays.
RIP Tom Stoppard.
#CarnalKnowledge #RefugeesWelcome
RIP Tom Stoppard.
#CarnalKnowledge #RefugeesWelcome
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Just noticed that Channel 4 has Anna and the Apocalypse available for free. It's the Scottish Christmas zombie musical comedy you didn't know you needed. It's seriously fun.
youtu.be/dfWIfwKJ7vA?...
youtu.be/dfWIfwKJ7vA?...
ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE Official Trailer (2018)
YouTube video by Orion Pictures
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Just noticed that Channel 4 has Anna and the Apocalypse available for free. It's the Scottish Christmas zombie musical comedy you didn't know you needed. It's seriously fun.
youtu.be/dfWIfwKJ7vA?...
youtu.be/dfWIfwKJ7vA?...