Darren
@dirk1978.uk
Loves road and gravel cycling. Runs. Plays bass guitar. Linux/K8S/AWS. Aston Villa. Plant-based. Green Party. Worcestershire, UK.
When Doves Cry by Prince has no bass.
So I added some.
Feedback welcome.
music.youtube.com/watch?v=DP-S...
So I added some.
Feedback welcome.
music.youtube.com/watch?v=DP-S...
When Doves Cry (bass version) - Prince
YouTube video by Darren M
music.youtube.com
January 24, 2026 at 10:18 AM
When Doves Cry by Prince has no bass.
So I added some.
Feedback welcome.
music.youtube.com/watch?v=DP-S...
So I added some.
Feedback welcome.
music.youtube.com/watch?v=DP-S...
Labour voters must vote Green to stop Reform.
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 32% (+4)
CON: 18% (-1)
GRN: 17% (-1)
LAB: 14% (-1)
LDM: 11% (-1)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 21 Jan.
Changes w/ 14 Jan.
RFM: 32% (+4)
CON: 18% (-1)
GRN: 17% (-1)
LAB: 14% (-1)
LDM: 11% (-1)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 21 Jan.
Changes w/ 14 Jan.
January 22, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Labour voters must vote Green to stop Reform.
Probably the only thing that can save the Labour Party but they're too crap to do it.
And unless everyone involved with the genocide was gone, I'd still fight vigorously against them anyway.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And unless everyone involved with the genocide was gone, I'd still fight vigorously against them anyway.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
MP expected to step down in move that could pave way back for Andy Burnham
Exclusive: Andrew Gwynne’s retirement would trigger byelection in which Burnham might seek to stand
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Probably the only thing that can save the Labour Party but they're too crap to do it.
And unless everyone involved with the genocide was gone, I'd still fight vigorously against them anyway.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And unless everyone involved with the genocide was gone, I'd still fight vigorously against them anyway.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Let's fucking goooo
Horsley (Derbyshire) Council By-Election Result:
🌍 GRN: 43.6% (+16.7)
➡️ RFM: 35.5% (+0.6)
🌳 CON: 13.9% (-9.0)
🌹 LAB: 3.8% (-6.5)
☑️ ADV: 1.9% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.4% (-2.0)
No Ind (-1.7) as previous.
Green GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
🌍 GRN: 43.6% (+16.7)
➡️ RFM: 35.5% (+0.6)
🌳 CON: 13.9% (-9.0)
🌹 LAB: 3.8% (-6.5)
☑️ ADV: 1.9% (New)
🔶 LDM: 1.4% (-2.0)
No Ind (-1.7) as previous.
Green GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
January 21, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Let's fucking goooo
This farce has gone on too long. She's clearly innocent and must be released.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Lucy Letby will face no new charges, says Crown Prosecution Service
Ex-nurse, who is serving 15 whole-life prison terms, was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven more
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:37 PM
This farce has gone on too long. She's clearly innocent and must be released.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
At what point do we all drop the pretence that they're working on behalf of Britain and not Israel?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Streeting ‘horrified’ if police chief behind Maccabi Tel Aviv ban not gone by end of day
Minister says he is shocked West Midlands chief who misled MPs and public is still in post
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:04 PM
At what point do we all drop the pretence that they're working on behalf of Britain and not Israel?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Alright, avgeeks. What plane am I in here? (A while back!)
January 12, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Alright, avgeeks. What plane am I in here? (A while back!)
It's unfortunate that in a country with prohibitively expensive healthcare for the poor, a lot more people are now going to die from stroke and heart disease.
New federal dietary guidelines give federal approval to beef tallow, a fat that both cardiologists and the U.S. government told Americans to avoid for nearly half a century.
Beef Tallow Rises to the Top of the U.S. Food Pyramid
The new dietary guidelines give federal approval to a fat that has slowly caught on with consumers, even as doctors have warned against it.
nyti.ms
January 10, 2026 at 3:20 PM
It's unfortunate that in a country with prohibitively expensive healthcare for the poor, a lot more people are now going to die from stroke and heart disease.
I turned vegetarian when at a friend's barbecue and his pet chickens were roaming like cats begging for food and I gave them some of my cow burger.
I realised then it's all kinds of fucked up and haven't eaten anything with a face since.
I realised then it's all kinds of fucked up and haven't eaten anything with a face since.
January 10, 2026 at 11:54 AM
I turned vegetarian when at a friend's barbecue and his pet chickens were roaming like cats begging for food and I gave them some of my cow burger.
I realised then it's all kinds of fucked up and haven't eaten anything with a face since.
I realised then it's all kinds of fucked up and haven't eaten anything with a face since.
Reposted by Darren
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
January 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
Dear Americans,
If you aren't already rounding up ICE scum and stringing them up from lampposts, you've given up.
If you aren't already rounding up ICE scum and stringing them up from lampposts, you've given up.
January 8, 2026 at 7:12 AM
Dear Americans,
If you aren't already rounding up ICE scum and stringing them up from lampposts, you've given up.
If you aren't already rounding up ICE scum and stringing them up from lampposts, you've given up.
The UK bragging about helping to capture a Russian ship in international waters?
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Please can we chase these arseholes out of government?
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Please can we chase these arseholes out of government?
UK supported US seizure of Russian-flagged tanker, says Ministry of Defence – live
Marinera, also known as the Bella 1, has been taken over in North Atlantic with second Venezuela-linked vessel seized in Caribbean
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:45 PM
The UK bragging about helping to capture a Russian ship in international waters?
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Please can we chase these arseholes out of government?
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Please can we chase these arseholes out of government?
Just so I've got this straight:
The USA imposed arbitrary sanctions against Venezuela.
Venezuela worked around those sanctions.
The USA are now using British military bases to attack an oil tanker that bypassed the sanctions.
So the UK is aiding and abetting US extortion?
The USA imposed arbitrary sanctions against Venezuela.
Venezuela worked around those sanctions.
The USA are now using British military bases to attack an oil tanker that bypassed the sanctions.
So the UK is aiding and abetting US extortion?
January 7, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Just so I've got this straight:
The USA imposed arbitrary sanctions against Venezuela.
Venezuela worked around those sanctions.
The USA are now using British military bases to attack an oil tanker that bypassed the sanctions.
So the UK is aiding and abetting US extortion?
The USA imposed arbitrary sanctions against Venezuela.
Venezuela worked around those sanctions.
The USA are now using British military bases to attack an oil tanker that bypassed the sanctions.
So the UK is aiding and abetting US extortion?
The problem with justifying illegal invasions of another country and kidnapping the leaders with moral arguments is that morality is subjective and is Trump any better than Maduro?
BBC News - US action in Venezuela morally right, Badenoch says
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - US action in Venezuela morally right, Badenoch says
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
US action in Venezuela morally right, Kemi Badenoch says
The Conservative leader tells the BBC the military operation raises
www.bbc.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 11:49 AM
The problem with justifying illegal invasions of another country and kidnapping the leaders with moral arguments is that morality is subjective and is Trump any better than Maduro?
BBC News - US action in Venezuela morally right, Badenoch says
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - US action in Venezuela morally right, Badenoch says
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Any South American country surely now has to start proceedings against Trump at the ICC for conspiracy to commit genocide?
January 5, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Any South American country surely now has to start proceedings against Trump at the ICC for conspiracy to commit genocide?
If people are going to start making the moral case for removing Maduro being a good thing, they probably shouldn't do it while supporting a government that locks people up indefinitely for carrying placards
January 5, 2026 at 12:54 PM
If people are going to start making the moral case for removing Maduro being a good thing, they probably shouldn't do it while supporting a government that locks people up indefinitely for carrying placards
Reposted by Darren
Me: The gap in my CV is when I went to Yale.
Interviewer: That’s impressive. You are hired.
Me: Thanks, I really need this Yob.
Interviewer: That’s impressive. You are hired.
Me: Thanks, I really need this Yob.
The GAP in my CV is from when I worked in a now defunct, overpriced, clothing store.
The gap in my resume is because I did it in Microsoft word and moved an indent
January 4, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Me: The gap in my CV is when I went to Yale.
Interviewer: That’s impressive. You are hired.
Me: Thanks, I really need this Yob.
Interviewer: That’s impressive. You are hired.
Me: Thanks, I really need this Yob.
Venezuela is a sovereign state. They're independent and are protected by every civilised nation agreeing not to attack sovereign states without strong international consensus.
What Trump has done is exactly the same as if Putin launched an invasion of London and kidnapped Starmer.
What Trump has done is exactly the same as if Putin launched an invasion of London and kidnapped Starmer.
January 3, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Venezuela is a sovereign state. They're independent and are protected by every civilised nation agreeing not to attack sovereign states without strong international consensus.
What Trump has done is exactly the same as if Putin launched an invasion of London and kidnapped Starmer.
What Trump has done is exactly the same as if Putin launched an invasion of London and kidnapped Starmer.
I ventured back onto X because I'd heard that it was kicking off about AVFC banning Macabi Tel Aviv fans from attending the match in Birmingham.
I wasn't prepared for the Prime Minister of the UK equating banning violent hooligans with antisemitism.
I'm actually reeling here.
I wasn't prepared for the Prime Minister of the UK equating banning violent hooligans with antisemitism.
I'm actually reeling here.
October 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I ventured back onto X because I'd heard that it was kicking off about AVFC banning Macabi Tel Aviv fans from attending the match in Birmingham.
I wasn't prepared for the Prime Minister of the UK equating banning violent hooligans with antisemitism.
I'm actually reeling here.
I wasn't prepared for the Prime Minister of the UK equating banning violent hooligans with antisemitism.
I'm actually reeling here.
It's inescapable that we all need to ditch cars and meat and live in eco houses away from rivers and that crony capitalism is a barrier to that. Otherwise capitalism will implode with much greater ferocity.
Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050
The Climate Change Committee said the UK should make climate change adaptions beyond the Paris Agreement.
www.bbc.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:38 AM
It's inescapable that we all need to ditch cars and meat and live in eco houses away from rivers and that crony capitalism is a barrier to that. Otherwise capitalism will implode with much greater ferocity.
Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Oh great, the Israelis couldn't stop killing people for more than 2 days. They're just absolutely depraved.
October 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Oh great, the Israelis couldn't stop killing people for more than 2 days. They're just absolutely depraved.
I was not prepared for the sudden realisation in Incendies 😱
October 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I was not prepared for the sudden realisation in Incendies 😱
Looking at the joy that Israelis and Palestinians are feeling when their relatives and friends are returned home, you've got to hope that they enjoy this feeling and want more of it.
October 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Looking at the joy that Israelis and Palestinians are feeling when their relatives and friends are returned home, you've got to hope that they enjoy this feeling and want more of it.