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@davidotley.bsky.social

Hike, bike, bothy, belay, veg, politics, Can, quirky, community, film, gigs. “I have moments”.

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Hadaway and shite.

15.10.2025 11:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's been like pulling teeth.

Now - what do people usually do if they decide that they made a bad decision?

15.10.2025 11:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

‪Mekons "Long Cool Woman"
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What is this song of which you speak?

15.10.2025 11:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Leeds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

15.10.2025 11:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The "AI Minister" ??

15.10.2025 11:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Brexit has had ‘severe and long lasting’ impact on economy, says Reeves, as she confirms budget tax rises – UK politics live Chancellor cites the UK’s exit from EU alongside austerity and Truss’s mini-budget as issues affecting economy

So ..............................?
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

15.10.2025 10:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well written!!

14.10.2025 13:35 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Which two amused-by-Covid-deaths Telegraph minions are they?

14.10.2025 13:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Has anyone asked AI what AI thinks about the AI bubble.

I haven’t because it’s all horseshit.

14.10.2025 13:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Crumbs from the table.

14.10.2025 13:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I wonder what it does to a person to know that there are shedloads of videoclips freely circulating on t’internet showing said person to be a chronic liar.

Of course I realise that if the person is Pfeffel, it will have no effect whatsoever.

14.10.2025 13:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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14.10.2025 09:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It would be blinkered not to point out that Labour is likely suffering a similar hollowing out. Any party that frames its actions largely by reference to political expediency, rather than by doing, and saying, what’s right in the world will lose the support of key allies.

14.10.2025 06:39 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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14.10.2025 06:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Don’t know what was stopping him - apart from his own political manoeuvring.

14.10.2025 06:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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14.10.2025 06:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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14.10.2025 06:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before deadline for signing The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new media policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

Good news - but in the case of Wa Po and a few of the other signees this is just a hiccup in their usual kow-towing.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

14.10.2025 06:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 3

Open the pod bay doors Hal.

13.10.2025 12:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You mean - he didn’t see any NAKED white people??

13.10.2025 12:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“ laws which the UK helped to frame “.
I’d settle for those extra 3 seconds and lose some of the victim stuff.

12.10.2025 15:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

But not the fuller picture - the UK helped to frame these laws - the biter bit.

12.10.2025 15:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Israel expects hostages to be released Monday morning, as Trump prepares for Middle East visit - live Elsewhere, dozens of aid trucks have been seen crossing into Gaza, but UN agencies say this falls short of what is needed in the territory.

Deeper in the article is this:
‘In exchange, Israel will free 250 Palestinian prisoners and 1,700 detainees from Gaza, which includes nearly two dozen children’

so why the one-sided headline?

www.bbc.com/news/live/cd...

12.10.2025 15:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They’ll be doing this in The Alps in 20 years from now.

12.10.2025 15:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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William Hill owner could shut up to 200 shops if Reeves raises gambling taxes Evoke considering the plans before expected tax increases in budget, with up to 1,500 jobs potentially affected

Leading cause of poor mental health threatens to reduce its influence!

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

12.10.2025 15:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They do keep forgetting those Brexit connections don’t they.
It’s like the BBC would only be any good at ‘One Degree Of Separation’.

12.10.2025 15:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Twitter doesn’t shape policy.
Twitter magnifies the policy that has already been shaped.

12.10.2025 14:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Interesting that there are no real outliers. Americans just have a smaller range of expressiveness.

12.10.2025 09:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

bsky.app/profile/char...

11.10.2025 18:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
NYT stupid headline:
‘Calm or Hellscape? In Portland, depends on the narrator.

NYT stupid headline: ‘Calm or Hellscape? In Portland, depends on the narrator.

Hey! New York Times!!
The truth does not depend on the narrator. Which idiot wrote this??
The truth is … the truth.

11.10.2025 18:13 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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