Michael Williamson
@zwobble.bsky.social
For all of my complaints about some of the bosses I've had, at least they weren't trying to strip me and my friends of their rights.
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Far-right Restore Britain receives £500,000 from tech entrepreneur
Nativist upstart shows growing potential to peel voters off from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
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September 1, 2026 at 5:46 PM
For all of my complaints about some of the bosses I've had, at least they weren't trying to strip me and my friends of their rights.
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imagine your whole thing, aside from the day job, being "reading and tits", imagine being this much of a legend
August 25, 2026 at 6:20 PM
imagine your whole thing, aside from the day job, being "reading and tits", imagine being this much of a legend
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Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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August 25, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
I'm running a heist from issue 2, and having a wonderful time as my players' plan comes together. Mostly. So far.
It's my favourite spell system in that it requires you to be inventive, and you can unleash powerful magic even at level 1, if you're willing to pay the price.
10/10 would huff again.
It's my favourite spell system in that it requires you to be inventive, and you can unleash powerful magic even at level 1, if you're willing to pay the price.
10/10 would huff again.
My weird science-fantasy RPG zines The Electrum Archive are now 40% off on itch!
It has warlocks huffing magical ink to commune with the spirit realm, ancient crashed space ships, scheming merchant houses, and the apocalyptic threat of a fungal hivemind/plague.
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It has warlocks huffing magical ink to commune with the spirit realm, ancient crashed space ships, scheming merchant houses, and the apocalyptic threat of a fungal hivemind/plague.
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July 6, 2026 at 4:21 PM
I'm running a heist from issue 2, and having a wonderful time as my players' plan comes together. Mostly. So far.
It's my favourite spell system in that it requires you to be inventive, and you can unleash powerful magic even at level 1, if you're willing to pay the price.
10/10 would huff again.
It's my favourite spell system in that it requires you to be inventive, and you can unleash powerful magic even at level 1, if you're willing to pay the price.
10/10 would huff again.
So that I have something to refer to in the future when I'm delighted/disappointment in Burnham, a list of plausible (but perhaps unlikely) things I'd like a Burnham government to do, in no particular order.
June 26, 2026 at 9:26 AM
So that I have something to refer to in the future when I'm delighted/disappointment in Burnham, a list of plausible (but perhaps unlikely) things I'd like a Burnham government to do, in no particular order.
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Only 90s British kids will get this
May 23, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Only 90s British kids will get this
Incredible levels of fence sitting from me on the Economic dimension.
May 18, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Incredible levels of fence sitting from me on the Economic dimension.
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Starmer's reaction to various failures of government is often to act like he's the injured party. But it's a failure of *his* government! Even if the failure was impossible to predict or prevent, you're still culpable if you're the boss. It sucks, but that's the job.
April 17, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Starmer's reaction to various failures of government is often to act like he's the injured party. But it's a failure of *his* government! Even if the failure was impossible to predict or prevent, you're still culpable if you're the boss. It sucks, but that's the job.
"average New Labour minister causes 3 scandals" factoid actualy just statistical error. average minister causes 0 scandals. Scandals Peter, who lives in cave & causes over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
April 16, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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"average New Labour minister causes 3 scandals" factoid actualy just statistical error. average minister causes 0 scandals. Scandals Peter, who lives in cave & causes over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
January 31, 2026 at 7:29 PM
"average New Labour minister causes 3 scandals" factoid actualy just statistical error. average minister causes 0 scandals. Scandals Peter, who lives in cave & causes over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.
January 20, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.
If it were to happen, one bonus of Starmer leaving Downing Street before the next election is that it preserves an excellent pub quiz question: who was the last prime minister to both become and stop being prime minister as a consequence of a general election?
November 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
If it were to happen, one bonus of Starmer leaving Downing Street before the next election is that it preserves an excellent pub quiz question: who was the last prime minister to both become and stop being prime minister as a consequence of a general election?
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it feels almost indecent to say this since the primary reason for removing children from poverty is simply removing children from poverty. but it is really well established fact that child poverty is extremely expensive in the long term and this policy costs money.
Ministers privately ruling out scrapping two-child benefits cap.
Sources says government is ‘not going to find a way’ to ditch cap despite predictions that child poverty levels will soar.
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Sources says government is ‘not going to find a way’ to ditch cap despite predictions that child poverty levels will soar.
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Ministers privately ruling out scrapping two-child benefits cap
Sources says government is ‘not going to find a way’ to ditch cap despite predictions that child poverty levels will soar
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
it feels almost indecent to say this since the primary reason for removing children from poverty is simply removing children from poverty. but it is really well established fact that child poverty is extremely expensive in the long term and this policy costs money.
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Hands down my fabourite thing I’ve read this week. I laughed, I cried a bit (I lost my own dad recently), I will be quoting this next time someone says something pompous about what it means to be British. Enjoy your eccentric parents while you still have them substack.com/@tomcox/note...
Tom Cox on Substack
Some Notes About My Dad That I Have Made In My Notebooks:
My dad has come to an arrangement with the public pool in Nottinghamshire where he swims: after everyone else has got out of the pool, he is ...
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April 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Hands down my fabourite thing I’ve read this week. I laughed, I cried a bit (I lost my own dad recently), I will be quoting this next time someone says something pompous about what it means to be British. Enjoy your eccentric parents while you still have them substack.com/@tomcox/note...
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Really important and moving account of state failure in this weekend's @financialtimes.com that is free to read for all here:
My brother, the NHS and the inquest into a needless death
My brother spent the last hours of his life trying in vain to get basic help from the NHS. Why?
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February 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Really important and moving account of state failure in this weekend's @financialtimes.com that is free to read for all here:
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Just incredible things from the VLC folks
January 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Just incredible things from the VLC folks
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This is the important part.
January 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This is the important part.
It's possible that I may have played too much Sekiro.
A truly impressive feat of beating Genichiro on the first battle by @zwobble.bsky.social 😎
#sekiro #gaming #respect #shinobi
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#sekiro #gaming #respect #shinobi
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Sekiro: Genichiro Dies Once
YouTube video by Michael Williamson
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January 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
It's possible that I may have played too much Sekiro.
One of my open source projects converts Word documents into HTML, since Microsoft's own conversion tends to be unusable for many use cases.
Today, I discovered one of the users of the project is: Microsoft! github.com/microsoft/ma...
Today, I discovered one of the users of the project is: Microsoft! github.com/microsoft/ma...
markitdown/src/markitdown/_markitdown.py at main · microsoft/markitdown
Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. - microsoft/markitdown
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January 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
One of my open source projects converts Word documents into HTML, since Microsoft's own conversion tends to be unusable for many use cases.
Today, I discovered one of the users of the project is: Microsoft! github.com/microsoft/ma...
Today, I discovered one of the users of the project is: Microsoft! github.com/microsoft/ma...
I have spent 5 days implementing a TOML parser, and I think my conclusion might be that I don't actually want to use TOML as a configuration file format after all.
There's more complexity around when different constructs can define tables than I realised, and structure is hard to see at a glance.
There's more complexity around when different constructs can define tables than I realised, and structure is hard to see at a glance.
December 28, 2024 at 9:18 PM
I have spent 5 days implementing a TOML parser, and I think my conclusion might be that I don't actually want to use TOML as a configuration file format after all.
There's more complexity around when different constructs can define tables than I realised, and structure is hard to see at a glance.
There's more complexity around when different constructs can define tables than I realised, and structure is hard to see at a glance.
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This is a powerful and affecting thread, and I advise caution on reading it given it talks about very sensitive subjects.
I find it upsetting both because of the subject matter, and because in a way it allows a glimpse of what our parliament might be if it wasn't a fucking circus instead.
I find it upsetting both because of the subject matter, and because in a way it allows a glimpse of what our parliament might be if it wasn't a fucking circus instead.
I'm going to do some coverage on here of the assisted dying debate. If you're not interested please mute this thread now. It'll probably go on a while.
November 29, 2024 at 3:20 PM
This is a powerful and affecting thread, and I advise caution on reading it given it talks about very sensitive subjects.
I find it upsetting both because of the subject matter, and because in a way it allows a glimpse of what our parliament might be if it wasn't a fucking circus instead.
I find it upsetting both because of the subject matter, and because in a way it allows a glimpse of what our parliament might be if it wasn't a fucking circus instead.
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The irony of removing the hereditary peers from the House of Lords is that they're the only ones put there by a vote, it's just that the electorate is rather small i.e. the hereditary peers.
July 14, 2024 at 9:52 AM
The irony of removing the hereditary peers from the House of Lords is that they're the only ones put there by a vote, it's just that the electorate is rather small i.e. the hereditary peers.
Celebrating the manifestation of democracy the only way I know how.
July 6, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Celebrating the manifestation of democracy the only way I know how.