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· Nov 16
Servers are making a weird sound hang with us
Servers amplyfy their sounds by vibrating their siliicon during great migrations, to ensure the weaker members of the herd can continue to follow.
@katebevan.com Currently having a a 4+ hour delay from Goa airport, GOI to BOM. It's only an hour flight. They say all flights into Mumbai are held because of 'weather or conditions' You are the Queen of flight nerds.. What can you discover? Thank you xx
December 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
@katebevan.com Currently having a a 4+ hour delay from Goa airport, GOI to BOM. It's only an hour flight. They say all flights into Mumbai are held because of 'weather or conditions' You are the Queen of flight nerds.. What can you discover? Thank you xx
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What we're seeing is exactly what we saw in the late 1940s, the late 1960s and the mid- to late 1970s: a concerted and hysterical campaign to delegitimise a Labour government, and indeed the very idea of Labour governments at all.
December 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
What we're seeing is exactly what we saw in the late 1940s, the late 1960s and the mid- to late 1970s: a concerted and hysterical campaign to delegitimise a Labour government, and indeed the very idea of Labour governments at all.
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I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
November 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
Do catch up with this. We have a long way to go.
Brexit reminders. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Brexit may not be in the headlines, but many current news stories carry reminders of it, including the Hallett Inquiry report, the Gill scandal, the Budget & the latest net migration figures: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/brex...
December 1, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Do catch up with this. We have a long way to go.
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Trump could invade Venezuela and the crack #r4today editorial team would be seeing how it could belittle Rachel Reeves. Tired, boring, misogynistic clickbait masquerading as journalism.
December 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Trump could invade Venezuela and the crack #r4today editorial team would be seeing how it could belittle Rachel Reeves. Tired, boring, misogynistic clickbait masquerading as journalism.
Just this line alone shows how low the US has been sunk..
“This is not just about peace deals,” he added as the teams sat down at the Shell Bay Club, a golf and racket club developed by Witkoff in Hallandale Beach."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
“This is not just about peace deals,” he added as the teams sat down at the Shell Bay Club, a golf and racket club developed by Witkoff in Hallandale Beach."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Ukrainian and US officials meet in Florida to discuss proposals to end Russia’s war
Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner meet Kyiv delegation, after another weekend of deadly Russian attacks in Ukraine
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Just this line alone shows how low the US has been sunk..
“This is not just about peace deals,” he added as the teams sat down at the Shell Bay Club, a golf and racket club developed by Witkoff in Hallandale Beach."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
“This is not just about peace deals,” he added as the teams sat down at the Shell Bay Club, a golf and racket club developed by Witkoff in Hallandale Beach."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Hi there! We’re not ‘device hoarding,’ we’re paying for groceries and healthcare instead of buying new phones every year, hope this helps your cold dead heart
November 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Hi there! We’re not ‘device hoarding,’ we’re paying for groceries and healthcare instead of buying new phones every year, hope this helps your cold dead heart
Thread. True.
I think about this as being part of tech’s midlife crisis, and to differentiate tech from technology. Tech was a class of software that came up between 2000-2012ish that was genuinely disruptive and innovative, but now, over a decade later, is an established and mature business.
i think it's useful to look at areas where the *tech* has gotten much better while tech *interactions* have gotten way worse. streaming has gotten worse, google search has gotten worse, digital cameras are leaps better. apple's silicone is so good it's threatening their user upgrade cycle
November 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Thread. True.
I'm sorry it's cold in the UK. If it's any consolation, it's 33 here, and I've spent the last 7 days swimming, and drinking cold beer while the beach shack people feed us lovely food. Goa is nice at this time of year. And you will be pleased when we arrive home on Thursday, to probably minus 1.
November 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I'm sorry it's cold in the UK. If it's any consolation, it's 33 here, and I've spent the last 7 days swimming, and drinking cold beer while the beach shack people feed us lovely food. Goa is nice at this time of year. And you will be pleased when we arrive home on Thursday, to probably minus 1.
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Europe needs a plan for decoupling from America on.ft.com/4pD4ewL | opinion
Europe needs a plan for decoupling from America
The EU must make itself minimally vulnerable to inevitable US pressure
on.ft.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Europe needs a plan for decoupling from America on.ft.com/4pD4ewL | opinion
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The Nazis used the term "Lying Press" (Lügenpresse) to discredit and censor all dissenting media, simultaneously targeting journalists, and seizing, and giving their political allies control of news outlets to crush any opposition.
Just mentioning that now for no reason at all.
Just mentioning that now for no reason at all.
November 30, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The Nazis used the term "Lying Press" (Lügenpresse) to discredit and censor all dissenting media, simultaneously targeting journalists, and seizing, and giving their political allies control of news outlets to crush any opposition.
Just mentioning that now for no reason at all.
Just mentioning that now for no reason at all.
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Time to ask: In whose interests is American foreign policy being conducted?
"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Time to ask: In whose interests is American foreign policy being conducted?
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Is the United States about to shoot down commercial jets flying over South America?
This, unfortunately, is now a serious question.
This, unfortunately, is now a serious question.
November 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Is the United States about to shoot down commercial jets flying over South America?
This, unfortunately, is now a serious question.
This, unfortunately, is now a serious question.
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“surely the warrior ethos doesn't require killing helpless men clinging to the wreckage of a blown-up boat… the law here is clear: ‘Persons incapacitated by... shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable to make them the object of attack’”
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org
November 29, 2025 at 5:06 AM
“surely the warrior ethos doesn't require killing helpless men clinging to the wreckage of a blown-up boat… the law here is clear: ‘Persons incapacitated by... shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable to make them the object of attack’”
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
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Trump said today he'll be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Hernandez, who was convicted of drug trafficking and weapons charges in 2024 and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
Waging a drug war on Venezuela while pardoning a narco-terrorist takes hypocrisy to a level once thought impossible.
Waging a drug war on Venezuela while pardoning a narco-terrorist takes hypocrisy to a level once thought impossible.
November 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Trump said today he'll be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Hernandez, who was convicted of drug trafficking and weapons charges in 2024 and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
Waging a drug war on Venezuela while pardoning a narco-terrorist takes hypocrisy to a level once thought impossible.
Waging a drug war on Venezuela while pardoning a narco-terrorist takes hypocrisy to a level once thought impossible.
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Sounds a lot like the UK Farage wants for us.
JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.
November 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Sounds a lot like the UK Farage wants for us.
Just catching up. Badenock's "no welfare state back in Roman times / the state could be seen to be anti Christian" is being understandably derided as a gaffe.. But actually I think this is a US Christo right push.. no empathy, no care for others. This is Vance and co thing..It's intentional.
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Just catching up. Badenock's "no welfare state back in Roman times / the state could be seen to be anti Christian" is being understandably derided as a gaffe.. But actually I think this is a US Christo right push.. no empathy, no care for others. This is Vance and co thing..It's intentional.
While we are talking about alleged Russian money, lets not leave our Aaron Banks.. and the Tories who killed the investigations into him..
Here's UKIP's former Scottish leader David Coburn, who has denied taking Russian bribes after being named in Whatsapp messages between Nathan Gill and a pawn of the Putin administration, being applauded by Gill for arguing against Ukraine's entry to the EU
November 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
While we are talking about alleged Russian money, lets not leave our Aaron Banks.. and the Tories who killed the investigations into him..
It's pretty fucking amazing isn't it, that the grifting thieves who broke us out of the EU so we could "make our own rules because sovrenty (sic))" are now screaming that everyone should leave for places like Dubai, because the UK is an awful place to be. The cynical, theiving, gymnastics of that.
November 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
It's pretty fucking amazing isn't it, that the grifting thieves who broke us out of the EU so we could "make our own rules because sovrenty (sic))" are now screaming that everyone should leave for places like Dubai, because the UK is an awful place to be. The cynical, theiving, gymnastics of that.
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A brief reminder that everyone should leave X and let that heil hole rot away as it deserves to
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
A brief reminder that everyone should leave X and let that heil hole rot away as it deserves to
Very fair points.
Felt like this when mortgage payments went up a few years ago - yes, it's horrible to now be paying an extra £200 a month, but that's been happening to renters year on year and there were no sadface articles on that, just "market forces" and "nobody has a right to live in a city"
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Very fair points.
Who are you calling racist?
Nigel Farage to address far-right rally in Germany www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
Nigel Farage to address far-right rally in Germany
Former Ukip leader accepts invitation by the granddaughter of Hitler's finance minister, Beatrix von Storch, to speak at Spandau Citadel in Berlin
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Who are you calling racist?
Eagerly awaiting the budget..
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Eagerly awaiting the budget..
Budget day is it?
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Budget day is it?