🇺🇦 Tim Steele
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🇺🇦 Tim Steele
@tjfs
Dread the day when dreaming ends
Cambridge, England Katılım Aralık 2006
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@SCP_Hughes Yes - Tessa Hunkin is so brilliant at designing these!
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🇬🇧 GB News vox pop in Gosport:
“Has Brexit been a success?”
“It’s gone really bad. Cost of everything’s gone up. People’s lives are miserable.”
Blame Brexit?
“Oh yes. 100%.”
Even on GBeebies, reality slips through every now and then.
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@mehdirhasan I think the answer, sadly, is that the years of chaos have progressively reduced the expectations of the electorate to the point where they just assume the next leader will be incompetent and gratefully accept any media output that agrees with their prejudice.
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I am no Starmer fan but I feel the same way.
Dr Iain Overton@iainoverton
I can't help but feel - given how Starmer hasn't broken the law like Johnson or tanked the economy like Truss - how much this reflects, in part, the extent the UK right-wing media still holds sway over British opinion. Sure, he's an unremarkable PM, but the worst? Really?
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@DanNeidle @alexmassie Not helped by an absence of politicians we can trust who can explain in a grown up way what needs to happen. Lies are easier and get more votes.
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@alexmassie Sadly I agree. Anyone doubting it should read the thread.
I've lost track of who's winning - the "we can just stop paying for asylum" people or the "we can just print money" people.
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This is why politicians lie to voters. It’s because voters can’t handle the truth and prefer being lied to.
Dan Neidle@DanNeidle
The fundamental problem: 58% of voters want public spending maintained or increased. 67% want taxes to stay at their current level or be cut. In reality, it’s a binary choice. Taxes go up, or spending is cut. That’s it.
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West Ealing 22/10/2025
Can anyone guess, what just last week, I successfully reported this same driver for?
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@ThatTimWalker @ZackPolanski Labour are now where the Tories were, the Tories are now where UKIP were, and Reform.. well. There's plenty of room in the centre, never mind the left.
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Two ways of looking at @ZackPolanski.
1. He offers hope and only way out of our corrupt politics of vested interests.
2. He’ll divide the progressive vote at the next election and Labour will lose.
*Problem with 2: Labour isn’t remotely progressive and it’s going to lose anyway.
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@cursedconnector Similar issue with the trs80 model 1, three 5 pin din sockets for video, cassette and power
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Wow - how on earth did this get to production without *someone* saying "hang on a second..."?
kurkosdr@kurkosdr
@cursedconnector @vorganicpotato2 There are worse, the ZX80 and ZX81 used a 3.5mm jack for the 9V DC input, which was the exact same 3.5mm jack used for the cassette line-in located millimetres away. One wrong move, and your line-in is toast. So, I hereby request that this becomes the new "chaotic evil".
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@MothinAli Very sadly in Cambs we stopped sending our blue (recyclables) bin contents to a processing centre and started sending it instead to NI where it's piling up. cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-new…
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I visited the waste recycling centre in Leeds a few months ago. What i saw was waste that could be exported or buried, being sorted, sifted, processed, and ready to be transformed into something useful again. Even the material that couldn't be recycled was being turned into high-end aggregate.
Waste reused, jobs created, cost of exporting saved. This is a fine example of system design.
This loophole needs to be closed, and domestic solutions found so we can bolster green industry domestically
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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@TobyHadoke Very glad you got it back.. and please back up your data!
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Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions and sympathy regarding my lost property on the train yesterday. Many were strangers offering genuine good advice, or just offering a kind word because, well, kindness needed sometimes innit?
Well…
It has been handed in. Happy ending.
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@drseanmullen I'll take 19/20 as a complete amateur. Thanks for making this.
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USE. A. PASSWORD. MANAGER.
Make sure it's a reputable one like @1Password. It's almost essential to have a different password for every login/account you have, and enable 2FA everywhere you can.
TalkThirtyToMe™@TalkThirty
I can't remember 9 letters, 1 uppercase letter, 1 number and 1 special character when I need to log in to my email, my bank, Facebook, Twitter, venmo, PayPal, iCloud or any other account etc but I can recite an entire 30 second phone call from a YouTube video I saw 5 years ago.
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@barry_halverson @RussInCheshire That's not his point, I think. People aren't feeling these changes as much as they are swayed emotionally by right wing propaganda.
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@RussInCheshire I guess you’re not on minimum wage, or starting a new job, or a renter with more rights, or at risk of fire & rehire, or on a shrinking waiting list, or have children attending a free breakfast club, or a parent getting free child care, or have kids getting free school meals
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The queen two days before she died // Trump today
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@renewablesmiffy @reformparty_uk Much right wing thinking seems to be about returning to the past, which was somehow better. Life was seen as simpler: everyone was the same, electricity came from coal, countries were self sufficient. To believe this requires a limited knowledge of history.
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So today, not for the first time, @reformparty_uk have been moaning about our electricity imports from Europe suggesting that it risks our energy security and is the fault of Renewables
So let’s add some facts and a huge dose of reality to this populist nonsense 🧵
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@MrTibblesNewEra @based_becks So was Winston Churchill English, as his mother was American. Is Prince Charles English, his father was Greek.
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What a load of bollocks.
If you think about it no one is English according to you.
At some stage in your ancestry you will have a relative not born in England.
That stops every future generation being English.
@based_becks
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@shitbarrister I try and think of results as a matchmaking exercise. The universities are looking for students who would be a good fit on the courses they want to do, and students are showing which subjects they are good at. Nobody wins if a student starts a course they are not going to enjoy.
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Happy needlessly stressful Clarkson day everyone. Listen only to the following people:
1. Yourself
2. People who know and care about you
3. Informed and rational strangers who have no skin in your game
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