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chriswalker.scot
Software developer (mostly Java). I blether about: - dev and tech - politics, from a Scottish perspective - cycling as transport - learning Hungarian - slice of life stuff I’ll probably mention Star Trek and Sonic the Hedgehog more than I really should.
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It's absolutely peak Britain that the crown jewel of a new EU agreement is us getting access to better queues.

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Glad to see that pet passports are coming back. Not sure why the UK didn’t negotiate access to this scheme earlier.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

i dont want to be a killjoy but we desperately need to make it socially unacceptable to talk about asking chatgpt things in regular conversation

submitted 1 day ago • 141 comments

I’m old enough to remember a time when the government asserted that copyright holders would have no incentive to create unless they could hold their copyright for 70 years after their death.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Quote post this with a picture of the aeroplane you'll accept as a bribe.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I was wondering why Keir Starmer's "island of strangers" figure of speech made my blood run cold. Then I saw this video clip made by @zarahsultana.bsky.social. The rhetoric is the same and @teamlabouruk.bsky.social need to ask themselves if they think echoing Enoch Powell is sensible.

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

who called it woke pope and not Opus DEI

submitted 12 days ago • 52 comments

Did we just do a deal with a fascist on VE day?

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

my personal takeaway from the night's results is that the English can't be trusted

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

I genuinely can’t decide which one is Labour and which one is the Tories and I think that says something.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve just binged the 20 episodes of this podcast, and while I do think the BBC’s decision is ludicrous, I swear I could hear the panic in Evan’s voice in episode 15 as Bean started to voice some uncomfortable truths about the UK’s North Sea oil and gas legacy…

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Fuckjng hell 🤣

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

submitted 29 days ago • 813 comments

I'll tell you this for nothing, this is one *spectacular* way to mark the 30th anniversary of Father Ted's first broadcast.

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

New episode!🚨Side Road Zebras 🦓 This time we're about the simple road stripes that could transform walking and wheeling in the UK, if they're approved. So far it's been six transport ministers, and counting. With @chrisboardman.bsky.social and @maxsullivan.bsky.social shows.acast.com/streets-ahea...

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

The tariffs have just led an innovative U.S. company to scale back sales of its own goods in its home market. Who does this help? What sort of “medicine” is this?

submitted 43 days ago • 9 comments

Laughing at “Marie (@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com), you’re an expert on people going mad online”, because @skeetsapp.com has a bug where replies to deleted posts show up as regular posts and it makes the reply authors appear utterly deranged, and this is the screenshot I took to illustrate this.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

I’m not sure the author intended this to be a defence of return-to-office mandates but that’s absolutely what this is

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

I can't think of another video I've made aging better than this?

submitted 73 days ago • 47 comments

Who looks more stunned? The WWE crowd or the media after Trump met with Zelenskyy

submitted 76 days ago • 17 comments