Dan Matthews
Dan Matthews
@danmatthews.me
Laravel developer. Building charity software over at @socialsync.io.
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Farage looks awful. Hate ages you, but so does running from scandal to scandal without having the sense to quit.
Nigel Farage does not think his long-term associate Raheem Kassam made racist comments calling Kemi Badenoch a "Nigerian scammer." Yet again Farage gets irritable and bad-tempered under questioning.
The only way out of this is being data-driven. - What was the size of the majority in 2016. - What did that demographic look like, and are they still actually with us. - Was a referendum the right idea, given the misinformation faced. www.politics.co.uk/2026/10/mela...
"Developer Edition" and it's just the most ugly branding you've ever seen in your life. www.logitech.com/en-gb/shop/p...
Shit in our rivers is legal for a price. Perfect metaphor for how neoliberalism is fucking us over IMO.
Anglian Water fined puny £1.6M for polluting 14km of River Brain. Ignored alarms telling them that sewage was being dumped. Highest levels of toxic ammonia. AW has numerous criminal convictions. No exec prosecuted, licence to operate not cancelled. Fleecing normalized.
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A Critical PHP Security Release is coming in 13 hours - you need to be ready to patch your servers. securinglaravel.com/laravel-secu... #Laravel
It does sound silly small-potatoes stuff, but this kind of guardrail regulation on private companies after they're being trusted with so much infrastructure level stuff is a great precedent to prevent runaway predatory capitalist practices.
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has announced changes to car parking fines - Drivers will have a 5-minute grace period to decide whether to park and 10 minutes to leave after a parking session ends - A £20 maximum charge on appeal for minor mistakes, such as entering the wrong number plate
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The rivers are full of shit, there's black-clad gangs of nazis smashing up HMOs, and you need to take out a mortgage to buy a Tescos meal, but sure, ASBOs for TikTok teens or whatever.
Oh man, if this takes down that c**t Samuel Leeds and his ilk, i'll cry with happiness. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The problem with stats like this, is that it makes it sound like they pay for the full price of the car. Friend of mine's dad had a motability car, still paid £190 a month for it, without it would have been £310/month - it's not the whole cost. And as with every far-right "fact", it hides nuance.
Yep. I honestly have considered getting back on X a few times because I feel like i'm missing out on tech conversation, but ... most of that tech conversation is just wanking each other off about AI at the moment. I just can't support Elon in any way. Dude is demonstrably dangerous.
I (probably obviously) disagree with John's POV here, but let's grant that all of what he says is true, and that X is good in all the ways listed in the post; let's even grant that's true for all demographics (it's not). It'd *still* be a site that pays known CSAM distributors at its owner's behest.
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We really need to hold the media accountable before we try to re-enter the EU. It would change many things.
Oh fuck off. The EU won't plunder Britain. What's left to plunder ? !!. The country is in the shit after Brexit and 14 years of the Tories. Everything's been sold off and there's nothing left to plunder !!. The UK right-wing media is a disgrace.
Tom Watson is, case in point, a 'traitor' in much more of a regard than anyone that the right-wing thugs call traitors for opposing their racism. Words used to mean the things they actually mean.
US spy-tech company Palantir hired former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson to defend its £330m NHS contract. Last week, as patients and health workers protested in 40+ places across England, he went on X to attack them. 🧵... www.bmj.com/content/395/...
Why not expand the UK GOV Digital team to run it in-house? Why an outside contractor?
🚨The government is looking for UK alternatives to Palantir to run the NHS data platform, the FT reports. This follows a week of protests in 40+ places across England and a rally of hundreds at Palantir's London HQ. Help keep the pressue up: nopalantirinthenhs.com
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