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Just published The Foundations Of The Digital State - a report for the Scottish Government http://foundationsofthedigitalstate.com/ and blogs at digitalpolicy.substack.com Politician manqué, girl group fan, code monkey
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Me I luv Naver Whale the Korean privacy focussed fork of Chrome its so cool and handy and good for development Also me, whelp!

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Got my own page on IMDB now m.imdb.com/name/nm17202...

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The renaming of <social security> to <welfare> was deliberate, to change it from a <collective> to an <individual> But social security was designed to make society more secure and trashing will raise political tensions ans lead to violence

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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

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Anyone up for going to the Free Speech Union event in Edinburgh and asking if they have a comment on what's happening in the US? Their twitter feed is strangely quiet on it... freespeechunion.org/event/polici...

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SI-FAN is coming for all your sci-fi, fantasy, horror, action, thriller and magical realism fillum needs open.substack.com/pub/edinburg...

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The one positive side of Katy Perry going up in a space dildo and kissin God is that her ex-husband Russell Brand will be fuckin ragin

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Just bought all the domains for PenalLabour, ForcedLabour, ConvictLabour, PenalLabour, ManualLabour and LabourOfLove 'ti's the season of new left wing thinktanks and I'mma gonna clean up when the well funded Blue Labour types come à knockin

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I mostly agree with this, but I think the idea that Ed Milliband should have blinded or strangled David is taking it a <bit> too far 😜

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they would take the rings off your fingers that family

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Good paper, especially if you are wondering C/Unix hater like be But I think this mischaracterises Erlang programmers, we choose Erland because parallel programming is easy in it

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In the UK you can buy a PM like Johnson for a few hundred grand and MPs will chuck it all away for a £100 bet In the US, Trump takes in £1m for a single dinner with him & Whitehouse insiders put down $2.5m for a profit of $100m on tarrif timings The UK is sooooo unambitious even in its corruption

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The IMF going big in lending to Argentina on the basis of apparent early success by a charismatic reforming president has fortunately never gone wrong in the past.

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For any tourists visiting these shores this summer, I recommend this detailed map of Britain, Ireland and the Orkneys, from “Topography Of Ireland” by Gerald Of Wales (1187)

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New blog post: I need a new challenge heatherburns.tech/2025/04/11/i...

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Heather's on fire...

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Not good news for Greenland I fear

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😬 www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202...

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Status loss of men is a real thing. Quotas on women going to Yooni until I was 12, women get the right to buy drinks in pubs til I'm 23, women get piss equality when I'm 29, marital rape criminalised when im 40, women get the right not to wear heels, skirts & makeup at work when I'm 41, more DEI plz

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Every thing you do, no matter how small, to remind people that the wannabe dictators are actually sad, scared, fallible little boys is helpful. The more we laugh at them, the less fearsome they are and the easier it is to wrest power back from them. Also? These messages are effing hilarious.

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Brexit & Trump ro-ro Shaggy

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Scotland had a reputation for engineering excellence that is squandered so badly that in the 1980s all microwaves in Scotland were Japanese brands, I mean they were made in Fife but had to have Japanese names so Scottish people would buy them...

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"Hundreds of military children who are students at Defense Department schools across the globe walked out of class to protest book bans, curriculum changes and restrictions on extracurricular activities that have resulted from Trump's crackdown on diversity." www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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Chris Mullin in the Weekend FT

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Tremendous article, clear and concise...

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Be at the corn market on Monday alexparsons.co.uk/four-short-s...

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Had occassion to read A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace again, by god is it cringeworthy shite

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