Mike Chamberlain
@mikechamberlain.bsky.social
Gen-X remainer. I post a lot about politics. I’d like a world where I could post more about Perl and programming, but it’s been a while since my anger at Brexit and this UK government has left space for that. #remain #european #fbpe
Just found a sql query so big when viewed on screen it worked as a magic eye image.
November 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Just found a sql query so big when viewed on screen it worked as a magic eye image.
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Dear Britain:
Your polls look very "European" and NOW would be a really really really really really really really good time to switch to PR.
➡️ RFM: 26% | 170 (+74)
🟥 LAB: 19% | 124 (-110)
🟦 CON: 18% | 118 (-38)
🟩 GRN: 15% | 98 (+55)
🟧 LDM: 14% | 91 (+10)
🟨 SNP: 3% | 19 (+2)
🔲 PLC: 2% | 12 (+7)
Your polls look very "European" and NOW would be a really really really really really really really good time to switch to PR.
➡️ RFM: 26% | 170 (+74)
🟥 LAB: 19% | 124 (-110)
🟦 CON: 18% | 118 (-38)
🟩 GRN: 15% | 98 (+55)
🟧 LDM: 14% | 91 (+10)
🟨 SNP: 3% | 19 (+2)
🔲 PLC: 2% | 12 (+7)
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Dear Britain:
Your polls look very "European" and NOW would be a really really really really really really really good time to switch to PR.
➡️ RFM: 26% | 170 (+74)
🟥 LAB: 19% | 124 (-110)
🟦 CON: 18% | 118 (-38)
🟩 GRN: 15% | 98 (+55)
🟧 LDM: 14% | 91 (+10)
🟨 SNP: 3% | 19 (+2)
🔲 PLC: 2% | 12 (+7)
Your polls look very "European" and NOW would be a really really really really really really really good time to switch to PR.
➡️ RFM: 26% | 170 (+74)
🟥 LAB: 19% | 124 (-110)
🟦 CON: 18% | 118 (-38)
🟩 GRN: 15% | 98 (+55)
🟧 LDM: 14% | 91 (+10)
🟨 SNP: 3% | 19 (+2)
🔲 PLC: 2% | 12 (+7)
Just stop over thinking it, make a movie, blow some baddies up, have bond get the girl, she dies and he makes the world right again with some pithy one liners.
The audience doesn’t give a shit, we just want Bond vs some twat that looks like Elon Musk
The audience doesn’t give a shit, we just want Bond vs some twat that looks like Elon Musk
"They are now stuck trying to find a believable way to resurrect him, and it is proving almost impossible."
Easy. Make the next James Bond movie as normal, but there are zeppelins to signal that this is an Alternate Universe.
Easy. Make the next James Bond movie as normal, but there are zeppelins to signal that this is an Alternate Universe.
EXCLUSIVE: James Bond Writers Reveal Twist That Has Left New Creators With 'Huge Headache' When It Comes to Resurrecting the Super-Spy for Amazon
Bond writers are now racking their brain, trying to move forward with the franchise after the last film's wild twist.
radaronline.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Just stop over thinking it, make a movie, blow some baddies up, have bond get the girl, she dies and he makes the world right again with some pithy one liners.
The audience doesn’t give a shit, we just want Bond vs some twat that looks like Elon Musk
The audience doesn’t give a shit, we just want Bond vs some twat that looks like Elon Musk
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Brexit reduced the UK’s GDP by between 6% and 8%. That is MASSIVE. #ProjectFear #wetoldyouso
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Brexit reduced the UK’s GDP by between 6% and 8%. That is MASSIVE. #ProjectFear #wetoldyouso
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
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If I started a petition to Parliament requesting them to debate telling Donald Trump to go and do one, do you think I’d get 100k signatures? It’s tempting.
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
If I started a petition to Parliament requesting them to debate telling Donald Trump to go and do one, do you think I’d get 100k signatures? It’s tempting.
I’m really impressed to see the left just knuckle down in a time of crisis and concentrating on the real issues and not letting any of the old internal politics get in the way. The way they’ve sorted everything out so quickly… oh wait. W.T.F am I saying.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Your Party row erupts over hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations
Corbyn and Sultana clash comes after months of fighting between the pair both jostling to be leader of populist left
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I’m really impressed to see the left just knuckle down in a time of crisis and concentrating on the real issues and not letting any of the old internal politics get in the way. The way they’ve sorted everything out so quickly… oh wait. W.T.F am I saying.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
My wife arranges the best weekend aways. Just been to bellota ( seriously up and coming Spanish restaurant in Bury st Edmond’s with awesome food and now a multi month waiting list) followed by a two hour afternoon sleep in the hotel.
That’s how we roll. #GenX
That’s how we roll. #GenX
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
My wife arranges the best weekend aways. Just been to bellota ( seriously up and coming Spanish restaurant in Bury st Edmond’s with awesome food and now a multi month waiting list) followed by a two hour afternoon sleep in the hotel.
That’s how we roll. #GenX
That’s how we roll. #GenX
Man camera sick person
This is officially one of the strangest pictures in American history, and I do not doubt that it will be considered iconic a hundred years from now.
100% serious here.
100% serious here.
November 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Man camera sick person
They should edit a version of the traitors on Iplayer where they don’t tell you who the traitors are.
November 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
They should edit a version of the traitors on Iplayer where they don’t tell you who the traitors are.
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INTERVIEWER: Any comment on Zohran Mamdani's victory and what it says about immigrants and trans rights?
LABOUR POLITICIAN: (panicking) I've never heard of New York
LABOUR POLITICIAN: (panicking) I've never heard of New York
November 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
INTERVIEWER: Any comment on Zohran Mamdani's victory and what it says about immigrants and trans rights?
LABOUR POLITICIAN: (panicking) I've never heard of New York
LABOUR POLITICIAN: (panicking) I've never heard of New York
Claude is down.
An entire generation of programmers cry out in pain.
“What do we do now?!?!?!?”
Try. Programming. Motherfucker.
programming-motherfucker.com
An entire generation of programmers cry out in pain.
“What do we do now?!?!?!?”
Try. Programming. Motherfucker.
programming-motherfucker.com
Programming, Motherfucker - Do you speak it?
programming-motherfucker.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Claude is down.
An entire generation of programmers cry out in pain.
“What do we do now?!?!?!?”
Try. Programming. Motherfucker.
programming-motherfucker.com
An entire generation of programmers cry out in pain.
“What do we do now?!?!?!?”
Try. Programming. Motherfucker.
programming-motherfucker.com
For my most recent trick in work I got a 350 second 28 million row sql query down to… 9 seconds.
Practically evented new ways to bend space time in the process.
Feeling a little chuffed now.
Practically evented new ways to bend space time in the process.
Feeling a little chuffed now.
November 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
For my most recent trick in work I got a 350 second 28 million row sql query down to… 9 seconds.
Practically evented new ways to bend space time in the process.
Feeling a little chuffed now.
Practically evented new ways to bend space time in the process.
Feeling a little chuffed now.
I’m sure it’s now been updated to Louvre2025
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I’m sure it’s now been updated to Louvre2025
My google camera AI summary mails always read like “A fox, a badger, and a toad were seen walking across the back garden around 10am, later on one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse was seen in the front garden. A delivery person left your post in the recycling bin. “
November 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
My google camera AI summary mails always read like “A fox, a badger, and a toad were seen walking across the back garden around 10am, later on one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse was seen in the front garden. A delivery person left your post in the recycling bin. “
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Even Elon Musk's biased Grok estimates the cost to UK of Brexit at about £300bn a year (about £60bn in tax).
All the 'black holes' we have are just Brexit.
Stop filling them in with tax rises and Public Service cuts and just get rid of Brexit.
All the 'black holes' we have are just Brexit.
Stop filling them in with tax rises and Public Service cuts and just get rid of Brexit.
November 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Even Elon Musk's biased Grok estimates the cost to UK of Brexit at about £300bn a year (about £60bn in tax).
All the 'black holes' we have are just Brexit.
Stop filling them in with tax rises and Public Service cuts and just get rid of Brexit.
All the 'black holes' we have are just Brexit.
Stop filling them in with tax rises and Public Service cuts and just get rid of Brexit.
My wife won’t allow me to have a dog until I can keep a sourdough starter alive.
Sourdough doesn’t make for much of a pet, and has limited abilities to fetch and play ball.
Sourdough doesn’t make for much of a pet, and has limited abilities to fetch and play ball.
November 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
My wife won’t allow me to have a dog until I can keep a sourdough starter alive.
Sourdough doesn’t make for much of a pet, and has limited abilities to fetch and play ball.
Sourdough doesn’t make for much of a pet, and has limited abilities to fetch and play ball.
I guess Andrew will just have to use the title everyone else uses for him of TwattyMcCuntFace.
October 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I guess Andrew will just have to use the title everyone else uses for him of TwattyMcCuntFace.
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It's just patriots (actual patriots) being patriotic.
October 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
It's just patriots (actual patriots) being patriotic.
Peter Thiel will be pissed.
You probably don’t know this but the US Supreme Court is to decide whether to ban gay marriage across the USA.
Verdict on 7th November.
Shocking implications for not only the US but for the free world.
LGBTQ rights are being eroded.
Become an LGBTQ ally. We need you. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Verdict on 7th November.
Shocking implications for not only the US but for the free world.
LGBTQ rights are being eroded.
Become an LGBTQ ally. We need you. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
October 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Peter Thiel will be pissed.
It’s your party, and frankly, you can keep it.
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October 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It’s your party, and frankly, you can keep it.
So I assume they won’t be putting up council tax one penny and have a budget surplus. I think I can find £75,000 in savings they could be making if not.
75,000 on 150 flags? Some vendor (I am sure, entirely unconnected to the Reform councillors) is making a very patriotic killing.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Criticism as Reform-led council set to spend £75,000 on new flags
The council says union jack flags will be flown in 82 locations in a bid to foster
www.bbc.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
So I assume they won’t be putting up council tax one penny and have a budget surplus. I think I can find £75,000 in savings they could be making if not.
Just think, if we hadn’t brexited, we probably wouldn’t be talking about tax rises and budget holes now.
October 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Just think, if we hadn’t brexited, we probably wouldn’t be talking about tax rises and budget holes now.
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The key take from the election is that ‘anyone but Reform’ is effective. Just not for those parties aping Reform.
October 24, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The key take from the election is that ‘anyone but Reform’ is effective. Just not for those parties aping Reform.