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@mckjerral.bsky.social

Coder, dog wrangler and mildly incompetent autist

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I've never watched figure skating before, do they normally fall over this much?

13.02.2026 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Return of Benin Bronze Cockerel by Cambridge College overtakes progress by the Benin Dialogue Group Jesus College, Cambridge's return of a Benin Bronze statue of a cockerel to the Court of Benin is a prompt and effective response by a British institution, committed to engage in a rigorous investigat...

he went to the same Cambridge college as me (long afterward) and was one of the chief campaigners that got it to return a stolen Benin bronze, the first case in the UK.

www.returningheritage.com/return-of-be...

11.02.2026 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 217    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3

"Sorry you were offended" is not "Sorry for what I said"
Why can't the media call out this difference, even Starmer has said "he was right to apologise" What apology dipshit??

12.02.2026 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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OggCamp 2026 | OggCamp 2026 OggCamp is a free software & free culture unconference.

Hey! We're doing an open source and free culture unconference in Manchester on April 25-26.

Affordable, family-friendly, lots of fun maker and podcast-y and coder-ish stuff to discuss. Have you got your ticket yet? There's still time to submit a talk for the main track, too.

www.oggcamp.org

12.02.2026 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

jim ratcliffe: [seeing man utd experiencing hope and optimism for the first time in 13 years] well.. better tell everyone i'm racist

12.02.2026 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 598    πŸ” 111    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 3

While consistently remaining the biggest source of actual antisemitism

12.02.2026 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Actual high school, none I'm aware of, there were a couple of Olympic wind surfers a few years above me.
6th Form, in its current form, probably Tim Key.
In its past life, Syd Barrett and Roger Waters.

12.02.2026 10:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

11.02.2026 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 11449    πŸ” 3939    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 174

If I'm in the dark/dark enough then a bit like TV static, but with fluorescence rather than just white.

11.02.2026 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

People who mime all of their live shows and are happy to franchise their music and image shouldn't be in the hall of fame.

11.02.2026 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jim Ratcliffe is another nasty, poisonous, lying billionaire whose only redeeming features are that he is old and doesn’t look well.

11.02.2026 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Says the gazillionaire who loves Britain so much he became tax resident in Monaco so he didn't have to contribute to Britain's resources. Physician, heal thyself.

11.02.2026 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1381    πŸ” 325    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 11

Literally this week there was a Reddit post about someone being found living in an attic because they were hiding from ICE.
Depressing that 200 years on there's still such a low value on humanity.

11.02.2026 08:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If Starmer is serious about a "reset" for Labour then one of the first things which needs to happen is that he boots Mahmood, and others, out of the cabinet and scraps his government's cruel and inhumane policies and rhetoric against migrants, and other marginalised groups. #r4today

11.02.2026 07:33 β€” πŸ‘ 216    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3

I'd only had odd videos come into my feed, then a year or so ago, whenever he was briefly "disgraced", I got whiplash from how obviously racist it was. Blocked since then.

11.02.2026 08:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s bonkers, yes, but you can’t say β€œWUTHERING HEIGHTS” isn’t sexy af. I mean the scene where Jacob Elordi swallows that fish whole then pulls it back out of his throat and it’s just the skeleton? Woof.

10.02.2026 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1
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"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

10.02.2026 10:09 β€” πŸ‘ 7785    πŸ” 4126    πŸ’¬ 156    πŸ“Œ 469

I only saw this Beano picture from the other day and it should be Keir Starmer's legacy.

10.02.2026 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 92    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Starmer most unpopular PM ever

Starmer most unpopular PM ever

For those telling me I'm wrong about Starmer being one of the UK's worst PMs, & that Johnson, Sunak, Truss etc were worseβ€”essentially, none of those people were elected with a 174-seat landslide for change, & immediately opted for continuity, authoritarianism & wooing actual fascists.

That's why.

10.02.2026 12:06 β€” πŸ‘ 182    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 7

This is incredibly funny to try because even if it *was* true, then it would mean Streeting was defending Mandleson in September for the love of the game.

09.02.2026 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 756    πŸ” 222    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 5

I think he *could* be better without McSweeney, but if he is, that could be even more damaging, because it shows he was at the behest of his CoS

09.02.2026 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reform UK’s β€˜Dear Neighbour’ Trick… MKII…

Goodwin just got BUSTED!!!!!!!!!!

08.02.2026 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 410    πŸ” 164    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 14

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

08.02.2026 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 17647    πŸ” 5358    πŸ’¬ 241    πŸ“Œ 247

Comics: get your spot at THE best comedy club in the world!

08.02.2026 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hope she's doing ok now

08.02.2026 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Because as I and lots of other brown + black faces keep telling you, this isn't about immigration at all, it is just camouflaged racism, you could stop immigration to 0 and these people will still be unhappy because they go out and see a non-white person on the street who is a British citizen.

08.02.2026 11:45 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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labour gov brags about deportation numbers, nativists complain they see non-white faces

perfect encapsulation of why this doesn't work

08.02.2026 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 95    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 4

Agreed - if the so-called Online Safety Act was enforced as it should have been X would have been either given the biggest fine in history or shut down in the UK over the Grok deal.

08.02.2026 10:21 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I thought this was about trading gorillas

06.02.2026 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think, probably, I understand less about skiing than I thought.

05.02.2026 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

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