Hughster
@hughster.bsky.social
Keyboard warrior with an opinion on everything (and a presence on far too many social media platforms). 🇬🇧
*Comedically sarcastic voice* If only someone had suggested this to them at the time
Europe’s cookie nightmare is finally crumbling 🍪 The European Commission wants browsers to manage cookie preferences instead of pop-ups on every website. Finally! Details here 👇 www.theverge.com/news/823788/...
Europe’s cookie nightmare is crumbling
The seven-year nightmare is nearly over
www.theverge.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
*Comedically sarcastic voice* If only someone had suggested this to them at the time
This makes me angrier with him TBH. He's obviously a good man, but for reasons known only to him he's chosen not to act on it and instead outsource his entire leadership to those who are not good people at all
November 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM
This makes me angrier with him TBH. He's obviously a good man, but for reasons known only to him he's chosen not to act on it and instead outsource his entire leadership to those who are not good people at all
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This is absolutely going to result in misogynistic male staff blocking whichever women they feel like from using the toilet because they find it funny, just hope everyone realises that.
November 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This is absolutely going to result in misogynistic male staff blocking whichever women they feel like from using the toilet because they find it funny, just hope everyone realises that.
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and we all have to pretend that this is what Gordon Brown's government had intended the law to be for the last 15 years
November 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
and we all have to pretend that this is what Gordon Brown's government had intended the law to be for the last 15 years
The EHRC wants bathrooms policed based on how "manly" or "womanly" staff perceive people to be. A harasser's charter, begging for ECtHR test cases
November 19, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The EHRC wants bathrooms policed based on how "manly" or "womanly" staff perceive people to be. A harasser's charter, begging for ECtHR test cases
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EHRC guidance leaked and it's so bad even The Times can't put a positive spin on it
www.thetimes.com/article/82ee...
www.thetimes.com/article/82ee...
Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look
The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash
www.thetimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
EHRC guidance leaked and it's so bad even The Times can't put a positive spin on it
www.thetimes.com/article/82ee...
www.thetimes.com/article/82ee...
Once again: fuck Keir Starmer
November 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Once again: fuck Keir Starmer
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‘He used to say things like “Hitler was right”’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at school
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘He used to say things like “Hitler was right”’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at school
A former friend and others who were at Dulwich college with the now Reform UK leader speak of his behaviour
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
‘He used to say things like “Hitler was right”’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at school
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Question: when's the last time a sitting PM had a net satisfaction of -66?
Some grim polling here for Labour from Ipsos beyond the headline figures
-69% think Britain is heading in the wrong direction
-Starmer's satisfaction rating at -66
-50% of the public want "radical change" yet only 4% believe Labour will deliver it.
-69% think Britain is heading in the wrong direction
-Starmer's satisfaction rating at -66
-50% of the public want "radical change" yet only 4% believe Labour will deliver it.
November 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Question: when's the last time a sitting PM had a net satisfaction of -66?
Don't know how common it is but I'd view it as a fundamental failure to educate. Everyone should know instinctively how to use pen and paper, *especially* in a world where everything is digital because cyberincidents/outages and resulting pen+paper fallback systems will only become more routine
Call me Luddite but it's mental that some American school districts have moved absolutely everything onto screens??
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Don't know how common it is but I'd view it as a fundamental failure to educate. Everyone should know instinctively how to use pen and paper, *especially* in a world where everything is digital because cyberincidents/outages and resulting pen+paper fallback systems will only become more routine
I would seriously pay money for an email provider featuring integrated AI detection on incoming emails so I can judge those using it accordingly
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I would seriously pay money for an email provider featuring integrated AI detection on incoming emails so I can judge those using it accordingly
Old enough to remember when there was a large, well-organised, well-publicised boycott of Twitter—involving plenty on the Right & politicians up to & including the PM—because Twitter didn't ban Wiley quickly enough for posting antisemitism
5 years later the frog has been well & truly boiled to pulp
5 years later the frog has been well & truly boiled to pulp
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Old enough to remember when there was a large, well-organised, well-publicised boycott of Twitter—involving plenty on the Right & politicians up to & including the PM—because Twitter didn't ban Wiley quickly enough for posting antisemitism
5 years later the frog has been well & truly boiled to pulp
5 years later the frog has been well & truly boiled to pulp
I honestly think the needle is nudging over from "McSweeney doesn't like Reform but wants to win back Reform voters" to "McSweeney actually likes Reform"
Fresh from advising Morgan McSweeney last week, Labour peer Maurice Glasman addressed the annual conference of a pro-Reform group that has spread myths about the Covid vaccine and has claimed Starmer is "destroying Britain".
📝 New @desmog.com story 👇
📝 New @desmog.com story 👇
Influential Labour Peer Maurice Glasman Addressed Pro-Reform Conspiracy Group’s Conference
High-profile Labour peer Lord Maurice Glasman was one of the keynote speakers at the annual conference of the Together Declaration, a conspiracy theory group with ties to Reform UK. Together held its ...
www.desmog.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I honestly think the needle is nudging over from "McSweeney doesn't like Reform but wants to win back Reform voters" to "McSweeney actually likes Reform"
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We must copy Denmark Social Democrats' hardline anti-asylum measures in order to win back voters' trust, says Shabana Mahmood.
Meanwhile in Denmark:
Meanwhile in Denmark:
November 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
We must copy Denmark Social Democrats' hardline anti-asylum measures in order to win back voters' trust, says Shabana Mahmood.
Meanwhile in Denmark:
Meanwhile in Denmark:
More of this please
The UK isn’t a “soft touch” on asylum.
UK asylum seeker benefits are similar to European neighbours
No right to work before 12 months (it’s 6 months in France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands)
UK settlement after 5 years (it’s 3 or 4 in Germany)
Let’s cut out the alarmist rhetoric.
UK asylum seeker benefits are similar to European neighbours
No right to work before 12 months (it’s 6 months in France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands)
UK settlement after 5 years (it’s 3 or 4 in Germany)
Let’s cut out the alarmist rhetoric.
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
More of this please
It still sounds like a conspiracy theory to say that the far right are only dominating the UK national conversation because the establishment is all still spending all its time on Elon Musk's radicalisation website but it's nonetheless absolutely true
I swear a lot of the Government's problems would be solved by just taking themselves off of Twitter
November 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
It still sounds like a conspiracy theory to say that the far right are only dominating the UK national conversation because the establishment is all still spending all its time on Elon Musk's radicalisation website but it's nonetheless absolutely true
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Whoever replaces Starmer will want some easy wins and one of them would be to ensure that Glasman is no longer a Labour peer
Fresh from advising Morgan McSweeney last week, Labour peer Maurice Glasman addressed the annual conference of a pro-Reform group that has spread myths about the Covid vaccine and has claimed Starmer is "destroying Britain".
📝 New @desmog.com story 👇
📝 New @desmog.com story 👇
Influential Labour Peer Maurice Glasman Addressed Pro-Reform Conspiracy Group’s Conference
High-profile Labour peer Lord Maurice Glasman was one of the keynote speakers at the annual conference of the Together Declaration, a conspiracy theory group with ties to Reform UK. Together held its ...
www.desmog.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Whoever replaces Starmer will want some easy wins and one of them would be to ensure that Glasman is no longer a Labour peer
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when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
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*Laughs at Cloudflare stopping him doing any work*
*Tries to listen to a podcast instead but they're all broken*
*Tries to listen to a podcast instead but they're all broken*
November 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
*Laughs at Cloudflare stopping him doing any work*
*Tries to listen to a podcast instead but they're all broken*
*Tries to listen to a podcast instead but they're all broken*
Just gone for lunch after pushing a minor update to Cloudflare DNS config, got a few missed calls tho, sure it's nothing
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Just gone for lunch after pushing a minor update to Cloudflare DNS config, got a few missed calls tho, sure it's nothing
We've all been talking about Labour losing in 2029 but perhaps underpriced is them having ceased to exist
I've been out canvassing quite a lot in London lately. Labour's vote has absolutely evaporated.... it is quite extraordinary to go to places where Labour were on 50-60% of the vote at the last locals and find nobody, or virtually nobody, supporting them.
The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
November 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
We've all been talking about Labour losing in 2029 but perhaps underpriced is them having ceased to exist
"This was a cynical strategic manoeuvre to avoid losing voters to the far right, but it seems, based on polling, that all they have done is prime their own voters to join the far right rather than stay with the Social Democrats"
Well indeed
Well indeed
November 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"This was a cynical strategic manoeuvre to avoid losing voters to the far right, but it seems, based on polling, that all they have done is prime their own voters to join the far right rather than stay with the Social Democrats"
Well indeed
Well indeed
Once again they've learnt nothing from Cameron's "renegotiation". Putting
As good as putting rocket boosters on the "leave" campaign
As good as putting rocket boosters on the "leave" campaign
Shabana Mahmood says she will pursue "reform" of the ECHR and the prohibition against torture and degrading, inhuman treatment, saying the way it is being interpreted in regards to asylum seekers is "ridiculous"
November 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Once again they've learnt nothing from Cameron's "renegotiation". Putting
As good as putting rocket boosters on the "leave" campaign
As good as putting rocket boosters on the "leave" campaign
Over and over again, all this Reform-pandering achieves is that Reform are pushed to go even more extreme, and so are you
Farage and Zia Yusuf are going to announce tomorrow that a Reform government will strip millions of EU nationals of benefits, more than double the cost of the NHS surcharge and cut foreign aid spending by more than 70%, The Times reports.
More Trumpian blood and soil nonsense.
More Trumpian blood and soil nonsense.
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Over and over again, all this Reform-pandering achieves is that Reform are pushed to go even more extreme, and so are you