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Andy Gait

@andygait.bsky.social

Bread. Coffee. Linux. Bristol, UK

created December 1, 2023

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Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

I think we've found our new BBC Question Time presenter.

3/9/2025, 4:47:26 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

A question that is asked often, but for some reason never done.

3/9/2025, 4:46:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

I understand what you're saying, but we're never going to agree on this, Justin.

3/9/2025, 4:07:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

While I think that Netanyahu is a madman who should be in the Hague facing his crimes, I don't condone taking the law into your own hands.

3/9/2025, 3:46:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

I think is what's known as getting both barrels.

3/9/2025, 3:42:51 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Whatever the rights and wrongs of selling arms (and no, I don't agree with selling to Israel), It doesn't alter the fact that criminal damage costing millions was done.

3/9/2025, 3:37:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

I like what I've seen of Zack so far, but this wasn't just "throwing paint". Two engines needed to be replaced at the cost of millions of pounds.

3/9/2025, 1:26:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

"Free speech is being impinged upon..." Yeah, that will be why we never from him and Reform. πŸ™„

3/9/2025, 12:58:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't confuse the issue with actual numbers, Adam.

3/9/2025, 11:22:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow, she had all the best people backing her, didn't she. Pearson, Wooton, little Yaxly-Lemon... Who could ask for more?

3/9/2025, 11:18:47 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

How the article would look if this actually was N Korea:

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3/9/2025, 10:36:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

??? It's bread.

3/9/2025, 10:19:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

What's to understand? You either like it, or you don't.

3/9/2025, 9:09:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Of course his mother's there. He can't be trusted to cross the road on his own.

3/9/2025, 9:08:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

An hour ago they were all going away for 14 years.

2/9/2025, 4:20:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

This needs to be done again and again. Facts must win. Even if we don't like what the facts tell us, everything must be based on facts.

2/9/2025, 4:10:23 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

That correct, but as I said, the vast majority were arrested for the lesser charge under section 13.

2/9/2025, 4:04:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

The vast majority of those arrested are for lesser levels of terrorism charges. If found guilty they'll get max 6 months or a Β£5k fine. Given that most of them are 60+ and the current state of prison overcrowding, I'm guessing a fine or conditional discharge will be given, IF they're found guilty.

2/9/2025, 3:54:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Not one of those is going to jail for 14 years.

2/9/2025, 3:38:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

"you smug police state supporting cunt"

2/9/2025, 3:37:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe he can ask Lucy Connolly how the law works.

2/9/2025, 3:03:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Who is "your" and "our"? And you can throw insults around all day along, it doesn't alter the fact that he broke the law.

2/9/2025, 2:47:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

"This is Liberal Fascism" No. It's called breaking the law. Free speech isn't dead. Freedom for consequences is.

2/9/2025, 2:15:17 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

"Those calls will get louder and louder..." Of course they will, because the bloody media is pushing the narrative that Farage is right. Sky and others are doing Reform's PR for them. 🀬

2/9/2025, 10:38:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Well done @zackpolanski.bsky.social

2/9/2025, 10:19:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

He could wear a Klan hood and put a burning cross at the entrance to Downing Street and it wouldn't change a thing. The racists are never going to vote for him.

2/9/2025, 8:07:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

I didn't sleep until 4am... πŸ˜‚

1/9/2025, 8:55:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

The point being, when the family got together, it was just that, family. Life's too short for hate. Just all get along FFS! We're all just people trying to get through life the best we can. Colour, religion, where you were born... who the fuck cares. FFS! Grow up & just do it.

1/9/2025, 7:52:45 PM | 12 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

I am constantly baffled by it. I had an uncle who was in the political wing of the National Front. Even as a kid I knew he was in the wrong. It also amused me greatly the one of his brothers married a Chinese woman. His sister married an Indian and his daughter had two mixed race (black) kids.

1/9/2025, 7:52:45 PM | 12 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Please, please pass on the message that Labour must stop pandering to the right. Reform voters are NEVER going to vote Labour. Fight them, stop appeasing them. Show them for the racist, hate filled morons that they are. You're Labour. Be Labour.

1/9/2025, 5:44:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

I have to believe that too. It has to be correct. It has to be.

1/9/2025, 5:39:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

We have the media doing a merry jig every time Farage opens his mouth. The national news seem obsessed with a handful of fuckwits shouting at a hotel. Red crosses are being painted on roundabouts, lines in the road & on Chinese takeaways... but this is going to normalise bigotry? FFS!

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1/9/2025, 5:29:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh for...

1/9/2025, 5:20:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Just one will be fine. Him.

1/9/2025, 5:18:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

I'd imagine just being Peter Hitchens is a pretty effective contraceptive.

1/9/2025, 3:40:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Make a list of your absolute, must-have software and games. If they run on Linux, great. If they don't stay on Windows. I love Linux, but if you're software needs aren't met by it. Stay where you are.

1/9/2025, 2:20:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Hope not. Feed up of looking at brown grass.

1/9/2025, 2:13:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

TikTok has turned brains to mush.

1/9/2025, 2:12:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Both look a bit needy and high maintenance. That doesn't strike me as a Mint or Ubuntu trait.

1/9/2025, 2:10:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh for...

1/9/2025, 12:49:12 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

If you have to keep repeating it, then maybe...

1/9/2025, 11:09:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/9/2025, 10:15:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Nah. Plenty of YouTubers use nano. Neovim is the uber-nerd editor of choice, but I've never judged anyone on what text editor they use. You'll be fine.

1/9/2025, 10:14:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

www.protondb.com will let you know if your games work and what tweaks might be needed. If they're on the list, fine. If not, stay on Windows.

1/9/2025, 10:11:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Bad actors? It seems that the whole world has turned into The Room.

1/9/2025, 10:02:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Great film. Love it.

1/9/2025, 9:59:21 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe that's what her daydreaming told herself, while she was busy suffering being working class at McDs?

1/9/2025, 9:58:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

First job, attack Farage and Reform. Don't let them get away with any bullshit. If they say something, counter it with the facts and any or all positive spin. Bring the narrative back to s positive one. @sadikal-hassanmp.bsky.social As my MP, I'm putting you in charge of keeping on top of this.

1/9/2025, 9:50:07 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Seems only fair when he's shafting America for every dollar he can make.

1/9/2025, 1:33:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Good grief! I could stand about 30 seconds. To be fair, that 29 seconds longer than I can stand listening to Trump.

1/9/2025, 1:32:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Poor taste has nothing to do with money. Trump thinks money buys class. It doesn't.

1/9/2025, 1:26:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

I bet he didn't wear a mask during COVID.

31/8/2025, 6:30:02 PM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

"we pick up about 60 packets of lube, which we get through in about three days" Amazed they had the energy to write in.

31/8/2025, 12:19:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Created by the ancient Egyptians and passed on the the Greeks and Romans, so you can understand why she doesn't like it. Put a red cross on the top and she'd eat the whole thing in one sitting.

31/8/2025, 11:04:47 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

It's a shame Tim sits on the fence like this πŸ˜‚

31/8/2025, 8:03:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

This had been going on for weeks now.

31/8/2025, 7:49:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

"Today, more than a dozen people gathered outside the hotel" More than a dozen? So that more than 12 people, but clearly not enough to get into the 'tens of people' category. And the media are covering this like it's all of the UK? What the fuck is going on? UK media. What are you doing?

30/8/2025, 10:14:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

I loved Look In. Give me a Beano, Dandy & Look In and I was happy for hours.

30/8/2025, 7:52:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Mrs Peel...

30/8/2025, 7:49:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"I say Trump is using a double now"

30/8/2025, 5:55:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

🎢Say oops upside your head, say oops upside your head Say oops upside your head, say oops upside your head🎢

30/8/2025, 4:13:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 4:10:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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While he ignores the domestic abuse record of his supporters and indeed, one of his own MPs.

30/8/2025, 4:08:12 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Farage and his lackeys, slithering about with all the charm and grace of a decomposing slow worm.

30/8/2025, 1:02:19 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

UK media right now.

30/8/2025, 12:24:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

If only the media knew that. The way it's being shown at the moment, you'd think we were all rushing around trying to find anything white to stick a red cross on it. FFS! 🀬

30/8/2025, 12:21:32 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Never take social media as reality. Look at the "mass" protests last weekend. 3k people in a nation of how many million? The media is being played by the far right, and for some reason that I don't understand, they're just bending over and letting it happen.

29/8/2025, 9:59:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe if the press and media didn't kiss his arse every time he opens his mouth...

29/8/2025, 9:54:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

When he "joked" with Zelenskyy about not having elections during wartime... that was no joke.

29/8/2025, 9:53:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Unless it's the 2nd amendment, then he's all in.

29/8/2025, 9:50:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Sometimes I hate my players - Amorim" That's not quite he said though is it. Come on BBC, be better.

29/8/2025, 7:45:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

He looks older there than he did in Brookside.

29/8/2025, 6:42:49 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Wallow in your ignorance. It's a lovely place to be.

29/8/2025, 3:32:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"We've got to work with facts..." This. Always this. Even if the facts tell us things we don't like, we must only deal in facts.

29/8/2025, 2:09:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

Done.

29/8/2025, 1:50:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

One of the great joys of Linux, bringing life to older, unloved hardware.

29/8/2025, 1:49:33 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm a Linux user of 15 or so years, but I'm very new to Hyprland and neovim. For me, there's lots of new stuff to learn.

29/8/2025, 1:48:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

If, like me, you don't know neovim or Hyprland workflow, prepare for headaches and bouts of extreme swearing. Other than that, it's great fun.

29/8/2025, 1:45:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

He's a petty, little man with skin like rice paper.

29/8/2025, 1:36:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Does Farage get a mention?

29/8/2025, 12:40:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Currently listeing to The DeepMatter Show on #SohoRadio Damn, it's good. sohoradio.com

29/8/2025, 10:23:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

29/8/2025, 8:43:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

FFS! Religion is the second greatest con ever. Trump is at No.1.

28/8/2025, 9:34:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andy Gait (@andygait.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm sure they'll find a way to crowbar him in somewhere.

28/8/2025, 8:35:54 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Get Zack in and shake things up a bit.

28/8/2025, 8:34:28 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Like God, I like to believe that neither are real.

28/8/2025, 8:29:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My eldest daughter is cabin crew and she's in America pretty much on a weekly basis. At the moment that scares me more than her being in the air.

28/8/2025, 8:21:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Had to follow to see where this goes.

28/8/2025, 8:01:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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28/8/2025, 8:00:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dinner for one. #homealone

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28/8/2025, 7:59:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Watching from the UK, it completely baffles me. I'll never understand the need to cling on to arms, or to an amendment right that doesn't fit the world today.

28/8/2025, 7:44:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My wife and her family lived in NC for a year when she was in her teens. Her dad worked at Duke for a year. She loved it there.

28/8/2025, 7:07:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Living in the UK, I can't even imagine what that's like. We may be arguing about stuff on another thread, but posts like this makes that seem silly and pointless.

28/8/2025, 7:05:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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28/8/2025, 6:59:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Love this. Brilliant, but so on point.

28/8/2025, 5:41:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh I'm sure it is. But the crack-pots of the very loud and vocal minority make talking points for the shows and boost listener ratings, so it's not going away any time soon.

28/8/2025, 4:38:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Anyone having an issue with Blue Sky logging out? I've had to log in at least 3 times today. Only seems to happen on Chrome. Works perfectly well on Firefox. @support.bsky.team @bsky.app

28/8/2025, 2:43:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The very best of luck to her.

28/8/2025, 2:34:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If I was trans in the US right now, I'd be worried and packing my bags. I fear that this shit is about to get real ugly.

28/8/2025, 2:33:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The sandwich I had for lunch had a better understanding of science and biology.

28/8/2025, 2:28:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view