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Steve Hunt πŸ”ΆπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί
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Lib Dem πŸ”Ά activist and electoral reform campaigner. #RejoinEU πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί #FBPPR πŸ—³οΈ #FBPE. 🐦@stevehunt4hiop 🐘 [email protected]
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Steve Hunt πŸ”ΆπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social Β· Nov 13
#RejoinEU Bluesky be like
a man wearing sunglasses and a hat with the words we 're putting the band back together
Alt: "Joliet" Jake Blues wearing sunglasses and a hat says we're putting the band back together
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Steve Hunt πŸ”ΆπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social Β· 3d
It's The fucking Critic. What did you expect?
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Steve Hunt πŸ”ΆπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social Β· 3d
Brexellends
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Steve Hunt πŸ”ΆπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social Β· 4d
Amazing
khrisnin.bsky.social KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social Β· 4d
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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Steve Hunt πŸ”ΆπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social Β· 4d
All corporate donations ought to be banned outright. And a strict limit placed on personal donations, set at an amount the average person could feasibly afford
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Steve Hunt πŸ”ΆπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social Β· 5d
Not trying to be divisive but if your profile mentions a star sign then I'll not be following you back
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Steve Hunt πŸ”ΆπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social Β· 6d
It's that time of year when National Trust members have the opportunity to stop the reactionary Tufton St mob from gaining influence.
nationaltrust.org.uk National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk Β· 6d
*Calling all members*

Get your votes in for our Annual General Meeting before it’s too late: buff.ly/reNDWPy

Voting closes midnight on 31 Oct.
A photo of two people at sunset, almost in silhouette from the lack of daylight, stood in winter jackets and hats on top of a hill. The searing orange of a sunset can be seen glowing up from behind a hill top in the distance. Text overlay on the image reads: It's your final call! don't miss your opportunity to vote.
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jalumi.bsky.social @jalumi.bsky.social Β· 9d
Exactly what's happening on the BBC. They report on some outrageous news story involving Reform which gives them more publicity, so they rise in the polls, so the BBC justifies amplifying them further.
BBC doesn't seem to realise they're promoting a far-right org that will defund them if voted in.
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Steve Hunt πŸ”ΆπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social Β· 6d
It's true that Reform is polling well. Fortunately the next general election is about four years away. Reform gained control of several local councils in July and are making an embarrassing mess of running them, so hopefully people will see how bad they would be at running the country.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social Β· Jun 4
Every single attempt to optimize away the understanding part of writing code will introduce bugs that end up taking 10 times longer to find and fix.

The finding part requires first understanding what the code is supposed to be doing, and identifying that it is not doing that.
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Steve Hunt πŸ”ΆπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social Β· 8d
Yes, for one thing pages can't get mislaid or put out of order. Although there are tractor feed laser printers.
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Steve Hunt πŸ”ΆπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social Β· 8d
Because of multipart carbon stationary, presumably
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Steve Hunt πŸ”ΆπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social Β· 8d
*Β£200K+, obvs
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Steve Hunt πŸ”ΆπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social Β· 8d
Yes and even worse all costs of MP constituency offices (rent, staff salaries, supplies and all) have to go through the MP's expenses. Leading to people getting upset at headlines of Β£200+ annual expenses as if they spent it all on mars bars. Would be far better to have it administered centrally
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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social Β· 8d
The hypocrisy of Reform going on TV to allege that certain groups are constantly over represented on TV is truly epic.
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Steve Hunt πŸ”ΆπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social Β· 9d
And so many people don't realise that. I had a ridiculous twitter exchange with someone who was convinced the NHS was a money pit because - he thought - his bottom of the range health policy gave him cover for everything that could happen to him. ("Gold Plated" - his words 🀣)
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Steve Hunt πŸ”ΆπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social Β· 9d
That's why UK private health insurance policies cost a few thousand a year, and US policies are a few thousand a month. The UK ones don't cover the cost of putting you back together if you are in a crash, fall off a ladder, etc.

(Well, it's one of the reasons. That and rank profiteering obvs)
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Vikki Slade MP @vikkislademp.bsky.social Β· 10d
How thoroughly unpleasant … how does she think non white British born families felt for decades being invisible on TV.

Our diversity is our strength
grahambs.bsky.social Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social Β· 10d
This is Reform! We have to defeat them, it won’t be done by always dividing the progressive vote!
implausibleblog.bsky.social Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social Β· 10d
Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, β€œIt drives me mad seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of anything other than white"

Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" πŸ‘€
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Steve Hunt πŸ”ΆπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social Β· 9d
Don't overthink it, Guardian. Having been born to believe he was a member of their ridiculous god's chosen family, of course he would take whatever he wanted from wherever he could. Time to abolish the scrounging royalty and put an end to this pox on the nation.

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
How does he pay for it all? The mystery of Prince Andrew’s money
The disgraced royal has lived in luxury for decades despite being an outcast and having no obvious means of financial support
www.theguardian.com
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Steve Hunt πŸ”ΆπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social Β· 9d
Superb piece by @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social in this month's @bylinetimes.bsky.social mag: "Britain's Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism - Why?" This article alone was worth my annual sub to one of the very few news outlets still doing proper journalism
Snippet of Byline Times, November 2025, pointing out how the British mainstream media has created a "perfect circle of self-perpetuating hype" around Nigel Farage, i.e. how his prominence in MSM feeds his popularity which in turn justifies further coverage, and so on. Author proposes that this is a predictable consequence of an industry that has restructured itself around virality.
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Steve Hunt πŸ”ΆπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social Β· 13d
A good example of why the press should be forced to give corrections equal prominence to the original article, not hide them away on a page nobody will see
jdportes.bsky.social Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Β· 13d
Reminder that back in July Katie Lam wrote an article for the Sun on Indefinite Leave to Remain and the Conservatives' proposals.

It contained a number of blatant lies and the Sun published a detailed retraction.
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Steve Hunt πŸ”ΆπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social Β· 13d
I really don't care for any sort of religion. That's what I decided when I was 5, and 55 years later I can't see any reason to revise that view. Why do people believe the peculiar myths - please enlighten me
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Steve Hunt πŸ”ΆπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social Β· 14d
PEP 672 – Unicode-related Security Considerations for Python | peps.python.org share.google/jB4sAlsDo5W4...
PEP 0 – Index of Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) | peps.python.org
This PEP contains the index of all Python Enhancement Proposals, known as PEPs. PEP numbers are assigned by the PEP editors, and once assigned are never changed. The version control history of the P...
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Steve Hunt πŸ”ΆπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social Β· 14d
Risk from Unicode support in source code has been known for some time... It's a shame that editors and code review tools like GitHub etc don't do *something* to alert the viewer

UTS #55: Unicode Source Code Handling share.google/8cUcbimZ40rs...
UTS #55: Unicode Source Code Handling
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Steve Hunt πŸ”ΆπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social Β· 14d
Probably mid 90s. Unfortunately the industry decided that advertising alone would be enough and so it never happened
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Steve Hunt πŸ”ΆπŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί @deepfriedsteve.bsky.social Β· 14d
In the early days of news media getting a web presence, there was talk of microbilling - pay a few pence to read an article, without needing an account with every news outlet. Never happened. I'm sure it would generate more revenue than paywalls because who subscribes to more than a few of those?
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