Overprotective father, lucky husband, R3 Corda developer, @theNodeLab blockchain infrastructure CTO & quaffer of single malt.
Old Blighty
Joined February 2018
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Abso-f*****g-lutely
RULES TO TEACH YOUR SON
1. Never shake a man’s hand sitting down.
2. Don’t enter a pool by the stairs.
3. The man at the BBQ grill is the closest thing to a king.
4. In a negotiation, never make the first offer.
5. Request the late check-out.
6. When entrusted with a secret, keep it.
7. Hold your heroes to a higher standard.
8. Return a borrowed car with a full tank of gas.
9. Play with passion — or don’t play at all.
10. When shaking hands, grip firmly and look them in the eye.
11. Don’t let a wishbone grow where a backbone should be.
12. If you need music on the beach, you’re missing the point.
13. Carry two handkerchiefs.
One in your back pocket is for you.
One in your breast pocket is for her.
14. You marry the girl, you marry her family.
15. Be like a duck.
Remain calm on the surface and paddle like crazy underneath.
16. Experience the serenity of traveling alone.
17. Never be afraid to ask out the best-looking girl in the room.
18. Never turn down a breath mint.
19. A sport coat is worth a thousand words.
20. Try writing your own eulogy.
Never stop revising.
21. Thank a veteran.
Then make it up to him.
22. Eat lunch with the new kid.
23. After writing an angry email, read it carefully.
Then delete it.
24. Ask your mom to play.
She won’t let you win.
25. Manners maketh the man.
26. Give credit.
Take the blame.
27. Stand up to bullies.
Protect those being bullied.
28. Write down your dreams.
29. Take time to snuggle your pets.
They love you and are always happy to see you.
30. Be confident and humble at the same time.
31. If ever in doubt, remember whose son you are —
and REFUSE to be ordinary.
32. In all things, lead by example — not explanation.
33. Dress how you want to be addressed.
34. Be blessed by being a blessing.
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RULES ARE RULES 🫵⚠️
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We don’t want this awful extremist in our country.
Shame on the Prime Minister and his Cabinet for messaging in unison to personally welcome him - just days after the Bondi attack against Jews.
It says all you need to know about this Labour government.
I’m delighted that Alaa Abd El-Fattah is back in the UK and has been reunited with his loved ones, who must be feeling profound relief.
I want to pay tribute to Alaa’s family, and to all those that have worked and campaigned for this moment.
Alaa's case has been a top priority for my government since we came to office. I’m grateful to President Sisi for his decision to grant the pardon.
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Actually, I would quite like @JeremyClarkson to stand against Miliband, take his seat, then do a Netflix series exposing the corruption, mediocrity and incompetence of Westminster.
Clarkson's Parliament would be a winner.
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Labour's @Keir_Starmer is on fire in this Kuenssberg interview - her negative interview style is easy to counter if you actually have a record of delivery and a clear moral compass 💥🚩✊
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They never hide anything do they. It's always available if you go looking
Please read what it suggests you will need a digital ID for!
This is on the gov website. Link below
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We already have digital IDs to ensure migrants have the right to work here.
Any foreign employee needs to get a share code on their E-Visa account and give it to the employer to check on a system.
If an employer doesn’t get a share code, they’re breaking the law.
We don’t need digital ID. What’s the real reason behind Starmer’s push for digital ID?
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Keir Davros Starmer's Britcard, everyone. 👇👇
Credit to The Crewkerne Gazette on Tik Tok for this. It's awesome.
Watch and share. 💥💥
So you'd repeal any digital ID legislation if/when you got into number 10?
I am firmly opposed to @Keir_Starmer’s digital ID cards.
It will make no difference to illegal immigration, but it will be used to control and penalise the rest of us.
The state should never have this much power.
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I am firmly opposed to @Keir_Starmer’s digital ID cards.
It will make no difference to illegal immigration, but it will be used to control and penalise the rest of us.
The state should never have this much power.
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She’s fucked. Now by her own lawyers.
🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Angela Rayner’s lawyers claim they have been made “scapegoats” and did not give her tax advice, the Telegraph can disclose
Read more ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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If the UK state can secretly relocate thousands of Afghans into our country while gagging media, with no democratic accountability, no vote, no scrutiny, no transparency, while committing billions that are not shown in the budget then it makes you wonder
What else is it doing?
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Why does privacy matter? What are the best principled arguments for it? Where to set the boundary [i.e., when is it best to require that certain actions be more broadly known]?
My own answer to this bundle of questions isn't very good. I've read a few classic books, papers, and essays, but overall I'm not especially well read in the history of privacy. Some incomplete and poorly-digested thoughts:
+ Surveillance creates a flow of power from the one surveilled to the surveiller. Most crudely with threats ("we saw you do such-and-such an activity, now you must do as we say or we will disclose"), but perhaps moreso with predictive models (if you know how someone acts you can build a model that helps you manipulate them - this is the basic premise of surveillance capitalism, which now dominates advertising, and which you and I are currently co-participating in, as I write & you read)
+ In general, "the right to do things, provided they don't hurt others" [i.e., freedom] is one of the most important inventions in human history. And surveillance is often justified on the basis of preventing "hurt others" (good), but in practice used to prevent action against incumbent powers (bad), or simply things which busy-bodies don't like (also bad).
+ It's interesting how difficult I find that "right to do things, provided they don't hurt others". Instinctively, I feel it enormously strongly. But when I try to write out justifications they're insipid. It's like the principle is so vast I can only see tiny bits of it.
Anyway, curious if others have unusually powerful answers to these questions
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Glastonbury 2025.
A festival so "free-spirited" it’s surrounded by a 13ft fence, armed security, ID checks, and its own holding pen for border breaches. All run by the very people who tell the rest of us "borders are racist."
Pay £380-a-head tickets for the privileged few to play revolution, sipping oat lattes in £1,000 bell tents while chanting "From the river to the sea"—a call for Jewish genocide—and calling anyone who questions them a Nazi.
The same crowd cheering Hamas, who invaded Israel on 7/10, murdering over a thousand civilians—many of them peace-loving communists in kibbutzim, and young people at a music festival, just like this one.
These self-proclaimed pacifists cheer for religious fascists who literally dragged women through the streets and beheaded civilians. But sure, let’s hold hands and blame “colonialism.”
They claim to be anti-capitalist, while spending £millions to throw a week-long rave on farmland.
They produce over 2,000 tonnes of waste—the equivalent of 250 double-decker buses of garbage—then wave Extinction Rebellion flags and tell working-class Brits to give up meat and heating.
They scream “Down with the patriarchy!” while defending the most misogynistic religion on Earth, where women can’t vote, drive, or leave the house without permission—and that's before we get to the stoning and FGM.
They demand veganism, while celebrating halal slaughter.
They wave Pride flags, then shout “Inshallah”, defending regimes where gay men are hanged, lesbians are raped, and trans people disappear.
They’re the first to cry “Nazi” at anyone with a different opinion, but not one of them has marched for the slaughtered Christians of Nigeria, the persecuted women of Iran, the oppressed minorities of Syria, or the ethnic cleansing in Armenia.
Their “tolerance” only extends to those who agree with them. Their “compassion” ends where their values begin.
It’s a delusional playground for champagne socialists, fuelled by ignorance, narcissism, and biodegradable glitter.
Just sing your silly little songs, zip up your designer tents, and fuck off home. You’re not warriors. You’re tourists.
