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David Hallett

@hallett.social

Tech Founder CEO at http://sme.software - FRSA MIoD MBCS - Liberté, égalité, fraternité - London Plymouth Geneva https://www.linkedin.com/in/hallettdavid/

created November 8, 2023

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Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Seen "Leave the world behind"?

12/9/2025, 10:42:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Very common in the UK is "You alright?" pronounced "Yawlrite?" which has the same meaning. Short for "Are you alright?", meaning "Are you OK?" or "How are you doing?"

12/9/2025, 10:32:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Not familiar with that, but "How are you keeping", yes. Means, "How are you?" or "How's it going?"

12/9/2025, 5:48:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Speccy Twat (@speccytwat.bsky.social) reposted

Mere details… 😤🤯 @privateeyenews.bsky.social nailing it, as bloody always:

‘Number Crunching’ item in the latest Private Eye, beginning with a quote from Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Phelp in the Daily Express, 20 August: “Yvette Cooper and Labour thought they could dump immigrants into communities and turn a blind eye… empty hotels are being filled overnight with young foreign men.” 56,042: asylum seekers housed in hotels in September 2023, when Phelp was a Home Office Minister. 32,059: asylum seekers housed in hotels in June 2025, the most recent month for which data is available. (Usual no nonsense journalism from Hislop and his peeps.)
6/9/2025, 12:12:19 PM | 20 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Cuffs? Not a great look. Just sayin'.

8/9/2025, 3:41:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

They would cost more than $1,000 each, that's for sure.

8/9/2025, 3:38:49 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 🦋~Bindi~🦋 (@bindiatthebeach.bsky.social) reposted

Bingo 😆🫡

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7/9/2025, 8:20:29 PM | 1046 281 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

youtu.be/-318aDyV8jM?...

7/9/2025, 11:26:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social) reposted

"Reform has touted its plan as a “legal reset”. But it is better understood as a total rejection of the UK’s postwar international commitments to protect the human rights of everyone within its jurisdiction."

6/9/2025, 8:33:46 PM | 1111 395 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr Rachel Clarke (@drrachelclarke.com) reposted reply parent

Please know that there isn’t a shred of scientific evidence suggesting Covid vaccines cause cancer. Please disregard this man’s rubbish - he doesn’t work for the NHS & why the GMC hasn’t struck him off long ago baffles innumerable NHS doctors like me. 2/4

6/9/2025, 8:32:46 PM | 633 138 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social)

When a party attracts whackos, expect chaos. Conspiracists will consume each other. Popcorn, anyone? #reform www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

6/9/2025, 9:00:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Mad, isn't it. Well said.

6/9/2025, 3:23:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Don't mention this subject to my Portuguese wife she'll lose her sh*t for an hour at least.

6/9/2025, 11:40:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Thanks. It's the Dr monopoly. Absolutely no reason why a standing prescription needs monthly approval. Annual check, sure. Monthly approval? No.

6/9/2025, 11:36:03 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Hi, I'm asthmatic. Can I have some meds to help? Same... Have to get doctors approval for the basic puffer, every single month. Sigh.

6/9/2025, 10:00:23 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Reform Party UK Exposed (@reformexposed.bsky.social) reposted

ask Nigel about #FarageTax Farage put his Clacton house in to his girlfriend Laure's name, avoiding tens of thousands of pounds like Rayner. But he won’t tell you that.

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5/9/2025, 7:46:03 PM | 547 278 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Private Eye Magazine (@privateeyenews.bsky.social) reposted

A mob of angry drunken men screaming abuse outside an asylum hotel have defended their actions, saying all they want is for women and girls to feel safe walking the streets. From the new Private Eye, out now.

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5/9/2025, 11:42:30 AM | 1884 611 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Otto English (@ottoenglish.bsky.social) reposted

Jamie Raskin dubs Farage a "Putin loving free speech imposter and Trump sycophant" m.youtube.com/watch?v=mpBA...

3/9/2025, 5:17:17 PM | 685 200 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

RASKIN: The freedom of speech applies 365 days a year here under the 1st Amendment FARAGE: We have allowed massive mass pro-Gaza demonstrations in London weekend after weekend RASKIN: No thanks to you

3/9/2025, 5:06:59 PM | 1307 250 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

That was the speech I want to hear our UK politicians have the guts to give. They should be queuing up to do it. Instead, their spin doctors and pollsters have them engaging. Don't engage, FIGHT BACK!

4/9/2025, 4:53:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Karsh (@jkarsh.bsky.social) reposted

This a really solid pummeling, and Farage has earned every ounce of it.

3/9/2025, 5:01:01 PM | 1315 253 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

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1/9/2025, 2:55:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social)

Reclaiming the flag

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29/8/2025, 3:53:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Cool pics. Love the outfits. Goodnight from Portugal.

27/8/2025, 11:46:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

I have none and I don't drink or smoke.

27/8/2025, 11:42:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Yeah, I actually agree. It's the guns. It's all those f*ckin' guns. Sigh.

27/8/2025, 11:36:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

It's the fat guy in the chair, right? He's rockin' that look!

27/8/2025, 11:35:43 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Cowboy Huggs? I hear Huggs are all the rage on the ranch. Sorry, I mean shopping mall. Sorry, I mean Starbucks. Wendy's. Whatever.

27/8/2025, 11:32:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

For sure, they hate their lives so they make it better by slowly killing themselves. Nobody needs to raid their houses and kill them, they're doing a great job themselves. Their horde is completely redundant.

27/8/2025, 11:30:57 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Fair play to her. She's going to look the part down the range, for sure. Shame it has to involve guns too.

27/8/2025, 11:28:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

The guy with the 2 kids looks really angry about something, Probably that disastrous paving job. As for the kids, they look worried what angry Daddy is going to do with all those guns.

27/8/2025, 11:26:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Yeah, but how good would she look desperately running to her kids school carrying her shoes?

27/8/2025, 11:23:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

The woman stood in front of the garage? That's pure cosplay.

27/8/2025, 11:18:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

The family in the first photo... the gun collection is worth considerably more than their house.

27/8/2025, 11:17:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

The guy sat in the chair looks like the only thing he needs protecting from is arterial disease.

27/8/2025, 11:14:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Fionna O’Leary (@fascinatorfun.bsky.social) reposted

10 years old. He lay under the pew. His friend, Victor, lay on top of him, protecting him and saved him They practised for this every month But not in church WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU, 🇺🇸 ?? 10yo kids have to practise for this every month because the adults don’t care enough to stop guns

27/8/2025, 9:24:44 PM | 219 69 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Who owns/runs/influences the media? There's the answer.

27/8/2025, 8:57:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

hello I looked at your drawings of dogs

27/8/2025, 8:55:53 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social)

The put up the flags because they want to provoke you. I say leave the flags up, and remove their "power". Take them down, and you're deemed "unpatriotic" and disrespectful. Call their bluff. Ignore it. #reform

27/8/2025, 5:11:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Indeed, and what about those in apartments? Nip off to the nearest motorway service station when they need to, and queue for however long (as suggested to me)? Not to mention the unnecessary mileage and energy usage that entails. #notasolution

27/8/2025, 3:02:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

No, I don't want to visit the USA, so I can just say it. Everyone in that room is a cockwomble.

26/8/2025, 10:50:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Nigel "I don't know" Fartage thinks something might happen that he wants to happen. I couldn't loathe this man any more if I tried.

26/8/2025, 9:16:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."

26/8/2025, 7:25:32 PM | 5713 2309 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Profit rules. Matters more than everything.

26/8/2025, 11:32:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Adam Bienkov (@adambienkov.bsky.social) reposted

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

26/8/2025, 11:01:46 AM | 8529 3326 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Jack Brown (@drjackbrown.bsky.social) reposted

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.” Hannah Arendt

21/8/2025, 11:51:55 PM | 4210 1232 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

A solution for houses without a driveway. I won't be getting one until I can charge it directly outside my Victorian terraced house, on the street.

26/8/2025, 12:47:16 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Shh... Don't tell your doctor. They want you taking pills.

26/8/2025, 12:42:23 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Clem the angry 🐧 (@5centurydigital.bsky.social) reposted

Reform Voters, the gene pool is shallow

22/8/2025, 6:59:23 AM | 238 81 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Temu

19/8/2025, 11:28:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Made me remember this

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18/8/2025, 10:09:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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18/8/2025, 5:59:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social)

Rewriting Sky News headlines, one at a time...

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18/8/2025, 2:31:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social)

In this whole Russia USA Ukraine thing the question I want to see discussed is: what in it for Trump? Everything he does is about lining his own pockets, so what's the plan here? Magnanimous he is not.

18/8/2025, 9:58:51 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Just your average pedantic Englishman 🙏

17/8/2025, 3:10:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Because tariffs is plural, you need are, not is. Tariffs are a tax. If you wanted the singular, you’d say: A tariff is a tax. 👍🏼

17/8/2025, 10:21:35 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Drawn by an 8 year old, and somone made it. Go figure.

12/8/2025, 11:57:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Stick-on decals from Temu?

7/8/2025, 9:30:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Julianna 💎 (@batariangal.bsky.social) reposted

Oh you absolutely useless wankers

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6/8/2025, 6:34:55 PM | 3232 552 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Something, something "Save our kids". Or whatever. FFS.

6/8/2025, 9:31:14 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

I went to Crewe. Once.

6/8/2025, 10:39:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

I'm concerned that we may see Bond in a flat cap with a stupid haircut?

1/8/2025, 10:10:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Otto English (@ottoenglish.bsky.social) reposted

My parents house in Essex was burgled multiple times in the 1970s and 1980s. On one occasion the thieves made off with my father's treasured watch. Some of the property was later recovered and guess what folks... the thieves weren't immigrants.

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27/7/2025, 10:41:42 AM | 1519 317 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Bisset (@davidbisset.com) reposted

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

A group of handdrawn fish.
24/7/2025, 2:33:30 PM | 2333 1218 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social)

What's the collective noun for a bunch of nutters? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

24/7/2025, 6:14:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Classy site

24/7/2025, 6:11:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Seems pretty good to me already!!

24/7/2025, 3:53:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

That's an unfollow from me

15/7/2025, 5:47:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Nosh and plonk 👍😀

13/7/2025, 4:00:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

But in space there's no cantalupe & mint salad 😀

13/7/2025, 12:31:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

In space nobody can hear your scream

13/7/2025, 9:44:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Oh, that's very subjective...!

12/7/2025, 8:46:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social)

@alisonmoyet.bsky.social you're on the telly box! 😍 #liveaid

12/7/2025, 8:15:27 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

100%

12/7/2025, 7:48:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

The most coveted car in the Alps is the old Fiat Panda 4x4

12/7/2025, 3:22:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social)

Remember every time a player makes it into the top 15, another one loses their spot 🙏 #wimbledon #ATP

1/7/2025, 2:54:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Pulp ARE great ;)

29/6/2025, 12:12:08 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social)

Absolutely love Chic but it's like the soul was extracted from them the 1,000th time they played their songs live #glastonbury

29/6/2025, 12:10:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Excel is great 🤷🏻‍♂️

28/6/2025, 8:51:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

You should get credit for not being invited, AND not attending 👍🏼

28/6/2025, 8:50:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

I'd pay $20 and I'm not even from the USA and can't even vote! 🤣

27/6/2025, 4:23:07 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

He's too busy listening to tone deaf Morgan McSweeney. Big mistake. P.S. Who voted for McSweeney? I didn't.

26/6/2025, 6:05:23 PM | 29 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social)

The irony is that a lot of those plastic crocodiles were possibly bought via Amazon? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

26/6/2025, 1:04:16 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social)

Ridiculous. I'm expected to pay to sit inside and watch it in a video feed? No. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...

18/6/2025, 6:22:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Universal law: Gen Now thinks Gen Before is a bore, and Gen Before thinks Gen Now know nothing.

18/6/2025, 12:45:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Adam Sharp (@adamcsharp.bsky.social) reposted

In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...

15/6/2025, 3:47:42 PM | 1626 604 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social)

Why? Who wants them? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

10/6/2025, 3:24:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social)

The big event today? Eventerly just got its own shiny new front door. Eventerly – built for simplicity, speed, and ownership. Using Eventbrite? Why not try something Briter? 👉 WE don't show ads 👉 WE don't promote other people’s events 👉 WE don't treat your audience like ours. 👉 eventerly.com

9/6/2025, 5:27:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social)

The Threat of AI: Eroding Core Skills in the Developer Community hallett.social?pager=71&tab...

6/6/2025, 12:31:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

googles "bandage dress" 🙃

3/6/2025, 1:21:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social)

Let's not talk about other categories, like recipes... SM full of absolute shite content www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social)

Banksy. Vandal? Inspiring vandal? Inspiring? Mediocre? www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

30/5/2025, 9:14:47 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

The thin blue line en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_bl...

28/5/2025, 9:42:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

Are you tuned in to this? lookingforgrowth.uk He's involved. I'm concerned as to what is going on with this org. Some good people being drawn into it, and I don't think they understand the agenda.

28/5/2025, 5:42:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

I lived with a French "Bastard" for many years. Her name was Breton in origin.

22/5/2025, 6:04:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social)

Is that (thin blue line) union flag Reform UK approved? 🤪

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22/5/2025, 5:06:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's always fishing. I'm 60yo and my whole life it's always been the headline www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

18/5/2025, 8:03:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Hallett (@hallett.social) reply parent

I voted for the party, and for my MP, not fecking Morgan McSweeney. I don't want policy designed by pollsters and strategists. I want policy based on doing what is right, and best for the country.

17/5/2025, 2:07:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view