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13.08.2025 08:33 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@thetechlobbyist.bsky.social
Public Policy @Vodafone covering all things Data, Big Tech and AI. Posts on tech policy and public affairs. UCL/UEA alumn
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13.08.2025 08:33 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0They should make a movie about this!
10.08.2025 07:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Texas Democrat speaking on the World Service was on fire. Just calling out this racist gerrymandering for what it is and taking action. The Dem leadership could learn a lot...
05.08.2025 08:17 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Potential realisation moment that party conferences are both boring AND unimportant
23.07.2025 19:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Mark Corrigan bringing down the male average on the powerful healing properties of crystal skulls
23.07.2025 09:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.
21.07.2025 01:37 β π 41102 π 7197 π¬ 815 π 331Trying to work out from this map if my house is in East Anglia, the South East or, the Midlands and *the HUMBER* ?!?
18.07.2025 13:42 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Reminds me of the brilliant Scroobius Pip line: "you see a mousetrap, I see free cheese and a fucking challenge"
16.07.2025 10:45 β π 79 π 1 π¬ 3 π 0This is brilliant. Is Macron ever going home?! Hopefully not. He can just stay here and lecture the British people for their poor decisions
11.07.2025 09:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs Glasto 2026, a court order has ruled that the festival organisers will be arrested unless Ken Starmer has a say in the lineup:
Oasis
U2
Thom Yorke
Radiohead
Stormzy
David Baddiel singing 3 Lions
this is actually the remarkable thing. Very hard to point to any aspect of life that feels appriciably, never mind radically different. A perpetuation of the Tory's strategy of managed decline
08.07.2025 09:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0the president just opened a concentration camp
02.07.2025 13:14 β π 8004 π 2370 π¬ 111 π 23In his defence, he might have actually been playing boulevard of broken dreams. There would be now way of knowing!
02.07.2025 14:22 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is what being in opposition is all about!
01.07.2025 17:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We are SO fucking back
01.07.2025 14:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We are so fucking back
30.06.2025 12:07 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Have been saying this ad nausium since the GE. Labour had a window to be clear about the need for broad based tax rises in the early days after their landslide. Chickedned out of it and opted for death by a thousand cuts instead
30.06.2025 10:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0everyone who denigrated the Great British Summer will in ten years long for the Great British Summer
29.06.2025 17:42 β π 100 π 5 π¬ 4 π 0Love is love βοΈ
28.06.2025 21:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousandsβ major embarrassment to Orban
28.06.2025 17:23 β π 39070 π 8180 π¬ 518 π 816Labour have a Democrat/Biden esque problem here for the next election, namely the absolute dearth of tallent at the upper eschelons of the PLP. Starmer of bust at this rate...
27.06.2025 12:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if youβre going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.
27.06.2025 02:13 β π 26178 π 6121 π¬ 346 π 229Whenever I complain about how hot it is people always say βjust remember how you felt when it was freezing coldβ
Well guess what? I do remember and I really enjoyed it.
Looking forward to all of these features being fully open and interoperable to third parties in the EU under the #DMA!
17.06.2025 14:03 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1Headline: "A Sneak Peek at Apple's New iOS Features." Below it, a bulleted list details eight upcoming iOS features, including a transparent iPhone redesign, real-time call and text translation, and the ability to use the iPhone for at-home karaoke.
For the first time in over a decade, Apple is redesigning iOS, the software that powers your iPhone. Here are the biggest changes you can expect. nyti.ms/4kNCG5V
17.06.2025 14:02 β π 88 π 19 π¬ 27 π 34plug sockets
park run
the National Threatre
cask ale
condiments
Conversley, in London it's rained only twice since April. Something's up
16.06.2025 13:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Why is this Ben Kingsley?
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