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Bruce D Porter (aka YTC1)
@ytc1.bsky.social
Motorcyclist, cyclist, traveler (using power and pedals). IT type person (Solaris/SPARC).

Also over at Mastodon - @[email protected]
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November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Sell it.
November 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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There was talk of remaking a classic 70's album without John McVie. But it was just bassless Rumours.
November 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Wikipedia - still upholding the promise of what the internet could be, 25 years later

wikimediafoundation.org/wikipedia25/
Wikipedia 25 – Wikimedia Foundation
Celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th birthday and humanity at its best. Your support keeps knowledge reliable, open, and ad free, so it is accessible to everyone.
wikimediafoundation.org
November 22, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Hope HMRC are investigating whether Gill evaded tax on the bribes he received.

(Bribes are absolutely taxable income, but people tend not to declare them to HMRC...)
November 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Good old Woz. Good for him.
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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With his ultimatum that Ukraine surrender to Russia, Trump finally wins a prize:

The Neville Chamberlain award for betraying peace, freedom, and justice.
November 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Narp! Just means those who choose not to have one are being royally ripped off, get real huh?
November 22, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Just going to post this today for no particular reason.
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Trump's plan is so grotesque and makes the US such an enemy of European freedom, that European states should have no other option than to tell Trump to shove it where the sun does not shine.
November 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Boris Johnson promised to govern as an amiable and cynical clown. He positioned himself as a clown, the country elected a clown and then we were governed by a clown, as demanded.

Starmer presented himself as a serious man for serious times. What did we get? More clown.
This is a clown-car government elected on a seriousness ticket iandunt.substack.com/p/a-clown-go...
November 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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"Hands up if you caused 23,000 extra deaths by being a dithering incompetent twat"
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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No Reform MPs attended Parliament today for the urgent question on Russia, because the Kremlin didn't think it was a good use of our time.
November 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Boris Johnson
What he said: 20,000 more police
What he did: 23,000 fewer people
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
inews.co.uk/news/british...
If this is actually happening, it is a better use of their time and money than climbing lampposts. It's one way of stopping the boats and saving lives.
As long as they understand they may ultimately interact with some criminal gangs....
British vigilantes slash small migrant boats on French coastline
Britons have been filming themselves travelling to beaches in France and 'destroying' small boats - gaining thousands of views in the process
inews.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Labour MPs want the government to carry out a more serious, "minister-led" review of its use of X

A Whitehall review of government social media use is currently underway. However, Labour MPs say the process lacks rigour and proper ministerial involvement

@zoecrowther.bsky.social reports
Labour MPs Call For A More Serious Review Of The Government's Use Of X
Labour MPs are calling for ministers to take control of decisions over the government’s continued use of X, as concerns grow about the platform’s s...
www.politicshome.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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It's a good thing President Obama killed Osama Bin Laden because otherwise Trump would be inviting him to the White House for some goddamn hors d'oeuvres
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Another excerpt from Children Of Memory by @aptshadow.bsky.social.

I'm really close to the end now, and I'm going to have a lot to say about this series then, but for now I just want to say that Tchaikovsky is an expert at the raw art of putting words in order to craft a sentence.
November 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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To protect #BBC from #TrumpleThinSkin, let him sue & have to justify in court how the report ACTUALLY lowered his reputation in the eyes of right thinking people. Will we wrongly think he's an election thief? A felon? An insurrectionist? A paedophile? A sociopath? A vindictive cry baby? Well, duh!
November 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
BBC News - Illegal migration tearing UK apart, Mahmood says - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... some one remind our minister that they are asylum seeking refugees, and only become illegal if they remain after asylum not granted and they remain in the country
Illegal migration tearing UK apart, Mahmood says
The home secretary is set to announce major policy reforms, including a 20-year wait before people granted asylum can apply to settle permanently.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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In case you're not familiar with the name, Cellebrite are a notorious provider of tooling to break into people's phones on behalf of law enforcement, with commensurate amounts of concern from civil society.

www.theverge.com/24199357/fbi...
It’s never been easier for the cops to break into your phone
The FBI says it “gained access” to the Trump rally shooter’s phone just two days later.
www.theverge.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM