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Dave H
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Software Developer: TDD, CD etc
Political: liberal, pro EU, centrist non Dad

If you get blocked it's because I found you boring

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Simpsons meme. Top frame Bart Simpson looks downbeat Caption " the Tories are responsible for every bad thing that's happened in the UK" Bottom frame Homer Simpson is correcting Bart Caption "every bad thing that's happened so far"
October 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Boyfriend meme A guy, the boyfriend, is eyeing up a girl in a red top as she passes, the girlfriend looks at him angrily. Boyfriend labelled "Labour" Girlfriend "Labour voters" Girl walking by reform voters"
September 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Distracted boyfriend meme Boyfriend labelled Labour, it's looking at the girl labelled reform voters whilst the angry girlfriend labeled Labour voters looks on.
September 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Love Chatgpt on this
Sure! Let’s go letter by letter in Saskatchewan: 1. S → first letter, counts as "s" 2. a → not "s" 3. s → third letter, counts as "s" 4. k → not "s" 5. a → not "s" 6. t → not "s" 7. c → not "s" 8. h → not "s" 9. e → not "s" 10. w → not "s" 11. a → not "s" 12. n → not "s" So the letters "s" appear twice, not three times. ✅ Correct count: 2 "s" letters. It’s an easy one to miscount because of the capital “S” at the start. Sure! Let’s go letter by letter in Saskatchewan: 1. S → first letter, counts as "s" 2. a → not "s" 3. s → third letter, counts as "s" 4. k → not "s" 5. a → not "s" 6. t → not "s" 7. c → not "s" 8. h → not "s" 9. e → not "s" 10. w → not "s" 11. a → not "s" 12. n → not "s" So the letters "s" appear twice, not three times. ✅ Correct count: 2 "s" letters. It’s an easy one to miscount because of the capital “S” at the start. You're right, let's go carefully: The word Saskatchewan is spelled: S a s k a t c h e w a n Counting the letter "s" (case-insensitive): 1. S 2. s 3. s That’s 3 occurrences. Would you like me to also mark exactly where they appear?
August 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Or indeed
imgs.xkcd.com/comics/unquo...
Xkcd cartoon Two figures one standing, one in a hover car A: bye B: may the force be with you A: huh? B: just something my grandmother used to say, no idea what it means Caption: I wonder when Star wars will be quoted for the last time .
August 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Isn't recycling woke?
Headline from telegraph Sherrelle Jacobs Brush has become a lawless country where good people live in fear 22 January 2024
July 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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It's ok I think it's passing already.
Glass of white wine
July 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Not mild he says, hot, darned hot.
Dog crashed out on a car seat
June 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Fascinating how much this has changed in even a few weeks though. I mean still a bit outraged but definitely useful.
Google AI overview For he query "diabetes invented trapezium rule" No, Mary M. Tai did not invent the trapezium rule, also known as the trapezoidal rule. She published a paper in Diabetes Care in 1994 that described a method for calculating the area under a curve using the trapezoidal rule, which is a well-established numerical integration technique. This method was presented as a new model (labeled as "Tai's model") for determining the total area under metabolic curves, like glucose tolerance curves, but it was
June 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Writing a clock program in BASIC on a RadioShack TRS-80 pocket computer in a school science class open evening.

oldcomputers.net/trs80pc1.html
Picture of a 1980s handheld computer.
June 11, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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A wall with graffiti on it and a window https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-wall-with-graffiti-on-it-and-a-window-19046588/
June 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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This Hot chocolate www.hotelfiames.com was the best ever, agreed by all present, homemade no mix.

Went back a couple of years later friends from the USA specifically wanted to return while they were in Europe just for the hot chocolate.

But it was gone, just a machine made powder mix.
A partially drunk hot chocolate
April 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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The case reminded of this because ultimately this is a political problem not a legal one. That the politicians have refused to genuinely engage is a disgrace on all sides.
From https://www.crosschannellawyers.co.uk/best-lawyer-client-joke-ever/ Here’s my favourite lawyer joke of all times A man is flying in a hot air balloon when he realizes he is lost. He spots a man below, lowers the balloon and shouts to him, “Excuse me, I am late to meet a friend, but I don’t know where I am. Can you help me, please?” The man below says, “Sure, I’m happy to help. You are in a hot air balloon approximately 30 feet above ground. You are between 40 and 42 degrees N. latitude, and between 58 and 60 degrees W. longitude.” The balloonist shouts: “You must be a lawyer.” “That’s right, I am” replies the man. “How did you know?” “Well,” says the balloonist, “everything you have told me is technically correct, but entirely useless to me. I am still lost.” The man below responds, “Well, and you must be a client.” “Why, yes, I am,” replies the balloonist, “how in the world did you know?” “Well,” says the man, “you don’t know where you are, or where you need to go. You made a promise you can’t keep and you expect me to solve your problem. The fact is you are in the exact same position you were in before we spoke, BUT NOW EVERYTHING IS SOMEHOW MY FAULT.”
April 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Sovereignty
Von der Leyen warns X, Meta, TikTok to play by the rules in Europe — no matter who’s CEO Starmer told UK must repeal hate speech laws to protect LGBT+ people or lose Trump trade deal
April 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Well, quite, if I'm selling a fund that there's no way to put a limit price on then it's basically roulette in a market this volatile.

I'm at the sit it out stage now for anything I've not already liquidated.

(not financial advice etc)
Scene from Sean of the dead. Sean is holding up a pint of beer. The caption reads "goto the Winchester, have a pint and wait for the this whole thing to blow over"
April 10, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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"We'll take nothing off the table"
Looks at table
A small empty table.
April 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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My bookshelf is mostly adventures either had or yet to have.
A bookshelf, with maps, walking, caving and diving guides. Plus one about gardening.
March 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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"We are currently clean on opsec"
Screen from withnail and I Two drenched men standing in the rain
March 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Post a pic of you from 10 years ago
Me, smiling in a very very wet cave in a wetsuit.
March 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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No idea but pizza should always be made to The Smiths Strangeways here we come
The sleeve for Strangeways, Here We Come, which was designed by Morrissey, features a murky shot of actor Richard Davalos, best known for appearing in the 1955 film East of Eden. In the photo, Davalos is looking at his costar in that film, James Dean, who is cropped from the image.
March 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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I know it's over referenced but still

An excerpt from
They Thought They Were Free
The Germans, 1933-45
Milton Mayer
"You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn't see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone; you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' Why not?— Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.
March 4, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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"have you said 'thankyou' even once?"
Scene from Star wars. The emperor palpatine is electrocuting Luke Skywalker
March 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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If you run it through chatGpt asking it to turn it into a coherent speech with a common thread it's actually a lot lot better. (Still factually incorrect of course)
Speech: A Britain That Stands Strong Twenty years ago, Irving Kristol famously said that a conservative is a liberal mugged by reality. When it comes to foreign policy, that is exactly what I am: a conservative. Not a cosmopolitan internationalist. Not a supra-nationalist. Not a neo-conservative. But a conservative realist. And at the heart of conservative realism is one simple truth: strength is the foundation of security. A strong Britain is a safe Britain. A strong Britain is a prosperous Britain. A strong Britain is a nation that can stand on its own two feet, protect its people, and lead in the world—not from a position of wishful thinking, but from a position of power. That strength must start with sovereignty. Our foreign policy must serve our national interest, and we should work as closely as possible with those who share our values. But we cannot allow ourselves to become dependent on institutions or alliances that do not work for us. Sovereignty must be the core principle that guides every decision we make. And we must face reality. No one owes Britain a living. No process or institution is an end in itself. The world has changed. And right now, we are not ready. So, we must change too. To stand strong, we must first define our priorities. The primary duty of any nation-state is to defend its borders, its values, and its people. Our first responsibility is to protect and strengthen our country. That is not selfishness—it is the foundation of everything else. Because no nation can help others if it cannot help itself. This means a strong military, a strong economy, and an unshakable commitment to national security. Second, we must stop being naïve. For too long, we have believed that international law alone can keep the peace. But when we are faced with regimes that have no respect for the law, we need to be realistic. Partnerships and institutions are only valuable if they work. NATO remains vital for European security. We must deepen trade with open econ…
February 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Repost with the first album you bought with your own money
Cover from genesis trespass The cover shows two people looking out of a window at mountains, which represented the pastoral themes of some of the songs.[50] Whitehead had finished the cover and then the band added "The Knife" to the running order. Feeling that the cover no longer fitted the mood of the album, they asked Whitehead to re-design it; when he was reluctant to do so, the band members inspired him to slash the canvas with an actual knife
February 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Unfortunately there's no transcript or audio so difficult to say.

There are newspaper articles from you around the same time still online.

I think we are in a very different place to Bush today but there are echoes.

Plus ça change?

www.independent.co.uk/voices/comme...
But Sir Christopher suggests otherwise. There are, he says, "seriously big differences, including cultural differences" between Britain and the United States, particularly when there is a conservative Republican president in the White House.
February 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM