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Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 39m

Now more than ever, we need a new Brass Eye episode called "Politics", someone please PLEASE get Chris Morris on the phone.

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk and talking

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk and talking

media.tenor.com

Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 19h

Honestly I love the "Space King" series, it's silly and satirical of the lore in all the right places while being just a bit cringe (I hope, on purpose).

But crikey, seeing folk take it seriously, as confirmation that it's okay to be the type of misogynistic hateful people it satirises is painful.

Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 1d

"now please wait 8 months."

Okay but i'm likely to forget something if I wait 8 minutes, nevermind 8 months....

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Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 1d

Just copying more shite from the christofascist US right.

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 2d

Nigel Farage Teams Up With Extreme Anti-Abortion Group and Calls for Debate on Restricting Abortion Rights in UK – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...

Nigel Farage Teams Up With Extreme Anti-Abortion Group and Calls for Debate on Restricting Abortion Rights in UK

The Reform Leader is joining forces with a US-based Christian legal group, which campaigns for abortion to be outlawed around the world

bylinetimes.com

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Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 1d

The worst person you know just made a great point.

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Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 2d

You secure that shit, Toboggan!

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 3d

1 - 1st guy says - "tell me more about these "inflatable frog people""

2 - completely bald guy in black robe says 'they're violent terrorists. extremists. one twerked at me and I got horny so I pepper sprayed it"

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Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 2d

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Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 4d

Yeah you probably shouldn’t encourage my cheese.

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Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 4d

Well that's my weekend sorted...

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Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 4d

I didn't know about this, and now i've got about 100 uses for it.

denodell.com/blog/html-be...

HTML’s Best Kept Secret: The output Tag

Make your dynamic content accessible by default with the HTML tag that time forgot.

denodell.com

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Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 4d

Is this a bunch of more recent interviews or is it the same stuff that was on the blu-ray?

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Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 4d

The Inertia Boyz!

How did you "::defer" meeting him for this long?!

Make sure to give him a bunch of "props" for all the work he's been doing lately.

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Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 4d

So his plan is, what? Put the national guard into cities in states that won't bend the knee, and pretend that come election times, that they won't be used to intimidate + prevent actual democracy?

The shit part is I can see Nigel Farage foaming at the mouth at this plan.

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 5d

Every word he says here is a lie. Every. Single. Word. He’s living in an alternate reality. #25thAmendment.

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Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 5d

Not sure I can take this.

Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 5d

🤦‍♂️

Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 5d

The Trump presidency will end in an unforgettable tragedy, and we will forever point to it as the point in history where maybe giving every single person the ability to espouse their dumbest thoughts to a word-wide audience might have been a gigantic mistake.

Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 6d

Laravel devs: Are you putting your enums in:

- App\Enums
OR
- App\Types

I was doing the former, i like the latter, but now we have classes that are being compiled to typescript to pass to Inertia, so I kinda want Enums being separate from Types.

"Naming things is hard..." etc.

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Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 7d

Lionel hutz posits: "Can you imagine a world without billionaires"

Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 7d

This is... I have no words.

Andy Bell @bell.bz · 7d

absolute monsters

Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 7d

This is what 13 Hiroshima bombs looks like

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Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 7d

So they're just gonna go with the "Antifa" thing as the big bad huh?

Thereby admitting, essentially, that they're the "fa", part?

Everything is so dumb.

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Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 7d

They put a trademark on "Warboot", which is used by a lot of companies in the UK for car-boot style sales for wargaming gear.

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Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 8d

Without sounding too tinfoil-hatted, is that not likely what vested interests in the act wanted?

There was no plan for implementing this beyond using third-party verification companies, many of whom aren't UK-based.

Seems like it was done to put more data in the hands of these companies.

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Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 8d

The new Laravel Forge is great, super clean, i've had a few issues trying to get a domain set-up, but it resolved itself by removing and adding it again.

Laravel VPS is great as well - unified billing, and being able to spin up a VPS _FAST_ to test an idea is so good.

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Dan Matthews @danmatthews.me · 8d

Are there any official ones left?

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