Joe Lynch
@joeykins82.bsky.social
The guy in the IT team who gets called in when it’s really broken. AuDHD (pending formal diagnosis). Lib Dem. Gay AF, standing with the T. Board games. Travel. A surprising number of very inconvenient allergies.
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Classic XC experience. Build HS2 in full.
December 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Classic XC experience. Build HS2 in full.
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*small domino* my mum tells me not to drink diet coke because she read in the Guardian that it causes dementia
*BIG DOMINO* zoom meeting with the editor-in-chief of Neurology to discuss errors i found in multiple peer-reviewed papers
*BIG DOMINO* zoom meeting with the editor-in-chief of Neurology to discuss errors i found in multiple peer-reviewed papers
"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds"
Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds
Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle age
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
*small domino* my mum tells me not to drink diet coke because she read in the Guardian that it causes dementia
*BIG DOMINO* zoom meeting with the editor-in-chief of Neurology to discuss errors i found in multiple peer-reviewed papers
*BIG DOMINO* zoom meeting with the editor-in-chief of Neurology to discuss errors i found in multiple peer-reviewed papers
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Reform UK went into Durham Council promising to find huge savings. They have managed to GROW the authority's deficit by over £11m *in the last two months*.
Grimes recommends “serious consideration” to increasing council tax “by the maximum 5%.” ~AA
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
Grimes recommends “serious consideration” to increasing council tax “by the maximum 5%.” ~AA
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform cabinet backs £10mn cuts to start filling Durham’s growing black hole
Reform is now learning that running a big council is not as easy as it probably thought
northeastbylines.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Reform UK went into Durham Council promising to find huge savings. They have managed to GROW the authority's deficit by over £11m *in the last two months*.
Grimes recommends “serious consideration” to increasing council tax “by the maximum 5%.” ~AA
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
Grimes recommends “serious consideration” to increasing council tax “by the maximum 5%.” ~AA
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
When I seize power I am going to have everyone responsible for the trend of sending additional “just reminding you that you’ve not looked at something in this app” push notifications publicly executed.
November 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
When I seize power I am going to have everyone responsible for the trend of sending additional “just reminding you that you’ve not looked at something in this app” push notifications publicly executed.
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
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in this week's newsletter! I offer to you the Superhero Movie Theory of why both Labour and the Tories have become unable to govern: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/all-my-hob...
November 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
in this week's newsletter! I offer to you the Superhero Movie Theory of why both Labour and the Tories have become unable to govern: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/all-my-hob...
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"What matters is people’s party identification not the constituency they live in....Blue Labour believe...that Labour voters in the marginal Red Wall district have fundamentally different views on social...issues than Labour voters in safe London seats. They don’t." Fab by @benansell.bsky.social
Labour at the Margin...
...of survival
benansell.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"What matters is people’s party identification not the constituency they live in....Blue Labour believe...that Labour voters in the marginal Red Wall district have fundamentally different views on social...issues than Labour voters in safe London seats. They don’t." Fab by @benansell.bsky.social
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NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
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For people who live in Manchester...
No trains from the south and east of the city into Manchester Piccadilly station for nine days over the February half term 2026 (Saturday 14 – Sunday 22).
www.networkrail.co.uk/our-work/our...
No trains from the south and east of the city into Manchester Piccadilly station for nine days over the February half term 2026 (Saturday 14 – Sunday 22).
www.networkrail.co.uk/our-work/our...
Piccadilly corridor renewal - Network Rail
We’re investing £7.9m to improve tracks, points and signalling systems on the southern approach to Manchester Piccadilly station
www.networkrail.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
For people who live in Manchester...
No trains from the south and east of the city into Manchester Piccadilly station for nine days over the February half term 2026 (Saturday 14 – Sunday 22).
www.networkrail.co.uk/our-work/our...
No trains from the south and east of the city into Manchester Piccadilly station for nine days over the February half term 2026 (Saturday 14 – Sunday 22).
www.networkrail.co.uk/our-work/our...
Finally caught up with The Celebrity Traitors and I am now convinced that Kate Garraway is the inspiration for Moira Rose
November 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Finally caught up with The Celebrity Traitors and I am now convinced that Kate Garraway is the inspiration for Moira Rose
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I have eaten more Jaffa cakes than you will ever know xox
February 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I have eaten more Jaffa cakes than you will ever know xox
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Exorcist: I'm here to remove the demon that has possessed you
Me: I didn't call you
Demon: I did
Me: I didn't call you
Demon: I did
October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Exorcist: I'm here to remove the demon that has possessed you
Me: I didn't call you
Demon: I did
Me: I didn't call you
Demon: I did
The take away for me from the Rachel Reeves "story" is that letting agencies need to be licensed with a binding code of conduct. Everyone working there should be DBS checked and should be a member of a professional standards body.
October 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The take away for me from the Rachel Reeves "story" is that letting agencies need to be licensed with a binding code of conduct. Everyone working there should be DBS checked and should be a member of a professional standards body.
Hot take of the day: passkey based auth is a brilliant concept, but every single implementation out there right now is absolute dogshit, and the technology is fundamentally not ready for widespread adoption.
October 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Hot take of the day: passkey based auth is a brilliant concept, but every single implementation out there right now is absolute dogshit, and the technology is fundamentally not ready for widespread adoption.
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Taurus: Things aren’t as bad as they seem, they’re worse.
October 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Taurus: Things aren’t as bad as they seem, they’re worse.
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Hear me out Slow Horses but Muppets, Jackson Lamb the only human
October 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Hear me out Slow Horses but Muppets, Jackson Lamb the only human
One thing my career has taught me is that the SECOND senior management start micromanaging things which should be below their pay grade: run. It's the archetypal "I'm hopelessy out of my depth so I'm latching on to something I can control" move.
The Fred Trump treatment. Give him a fake job while Miller draws up missile strike plans on fishermen.
October 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
One thing my career has taught me is that the SECOND senior management start micromanaging things which should be below their pay grade: run. It's the archetypal "I'm hopelessy out of my depth so I'm latching on to something I can control" move.
I held off upgrading to iOS 26 for a while, but I capitulated and this is driving me round the bend. I'm glad it's not just me though!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksV...
It's Not Just You - The iOS Keyboard is Broken
YouTube video by Michi NekoMichi
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I held off upgrading to iOS 26 for a while, but I capitulated and this is driving me round the bend. I'm glad it's not just me though!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksV...
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
6
Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
7
Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
8
Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Decided to entertain myself on the final flight home by making chaos scones.
If you’re going to upset someone, you might as well really upset absolutely everyone…
If you’re going to upset someone, you might as well really upset absolutely everyone…
October 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Decided to entertain myself on the final flight home by making chaos scones.
If you’re going to upset someone, you might as well really upset absolutely everyone…
If you’re going to upset someone, you might as well really upset absolutely everyone…
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Taurus: Give yourself a little credit. Not everyone could screw up so badly in such a variety of ways.
October 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Taurus: Give yourself a little credit. Not everyone could screw up so badly in such a variety of ways.
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Interesting: Leaving the #ECHR would be a grave mistake, writes former UK Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland KC👇
🔗 conservativehome.com/2025/10/05/r... via @conservativehome.bsky.social
🔗 conservativehome.com/2025/10/05/r... via @conservativehome.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Interesting: Leaving the #ECHR would be a grave mistake, writes former UK Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland KC👇
🔗 conservativehome.com/2025/10/05/r... via @conservativehome.bsky.social
🔗 conservativehome.com/2025/10/05/r... via @conservativehome.bsky.social
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This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
October 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.