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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 11 May 2015

    Team @indie, planning our move out of the UK (thank you, if you voted Tory, for making it impossible for us to stay).pic.twitter.com/TXkIuXDBul

    3:35 AM - 11 May 2015
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      2. marquess of meetings‏ @adamamyl 11 May 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @indie To Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, or elsewhere? (if CH, are you old enough yet to not do service?)

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 11 May 2015
        Replying to @adamamyl

        .@adamamyl Germany & Sweden are top of our list. Switzerland there too & Iceland also.

        17 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
      4. marquess of meetings‏ @adamamyl 11 May 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral I hear good things about Iceland.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 11 May 2015
        Replying to @adamamyl

        @adamamyl Yep. Sounds great on paper. Not sure how we’d manage with the weather and the size (it’s rather tiny) :) Want to go & see.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. marquess of meetings‏ @adamamyl 11 May 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral maybe have a chat with the awesome @trickvi ?

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      7. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 11 May 2015
        Replying to @adamamyl

        @adamamyl Would love to :) +@trickvi (re: possibly moving @indie to Iceland.)

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. Tryggvi Björgvinsson‏ @trickvi 11 May 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @adamamyl @indie Size is beneficial. Weather is actually often better than people think. Foreign exchange controls is the big problem

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      9. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 11 May 2015
        Replying to @trickvi

        @trickvi Thanks; want to pop over and see it for myself soon. Would be lovely to meet you & @birgittaj while there if poss +@adamamyl @indie

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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      2. Mike Ellis‏ @m1ke_ellis 11 May 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @indie some may call it "running away..."

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 11 May 2015
        Replying to @m1ke_ellis

        @m1ke_ellis Others might call it “leaving before you’re forced to backdoor your product” +@indie

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Mike Ellis‏ @m1ke_ellis 11 May 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @indie if I knew what "backdoor" meant I might be able to reply :-)

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 11 May 2015
        Replying to @m1ke_ellis

        @m1ke_ellis http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2015/01/david-cameron-wants-to-ban-messaging-apps-unless-they-have-back-door-access/ … :) +@indie

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Mike Ellis‏ @m1ke_ellis 11 May 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @indie aha. Clearly the man is a twat, which may be enough of a reason to go. But sad not to stay and fight the good fight ;-)

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 11 May 2015
        Replying to @m1ke_ellis

        @m1ke_ellis If I believed we could fight it here, I would. No plans to make us martyrs; would rather go where we can be more effective :)

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      8. End of conversation
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      2. Joe Bond‏ @thisisjoebond 11 May 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @indie Stay and fight...! C'mon.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 11 May 2015
        Replying to @thisisjoebond

        @thisisjoebond Joe, would love to but it’s too risky w snooper’s charter & repeal of human rights act: won’t backdoor our tech.

        2 replies 2 retweets 2 likes
      4. Dan Masters‏ @OhMDee 11 May 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral @thisisjoebond Was Labour going to repeal them?

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      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 11 May 2015
        Replying to @OhMDee

        @OhMDee I don’t believe Labour (or even Con/Dem coalition) would have brought back snooper’s charter or repeals HRA w/out a fight at least.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      6. End of conversation
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      2. Sheila Bounford‏ @SheilaB01 11 May 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Understand. But just for the record 36.9% of the electorate voted Tory. Well under half of us. @indie @nebogeo

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 11 May 2015
        Replying to @SheilaB01

        @SheilaB01 Even worse that that: 24.4% of the electorate (36.9% of voters) +@indie @nebogeo

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Sheila Bounford‏ @SheilaB01 11 May 2015
        Replying to @aral

        @aral My point was that far fewer than 50% of us got the government we'd like to have. #smarting @indie @nebogeo

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 11 May 2015
        Replying to @SheilaB01

        @SheilaB01 Indeed — fewer than 25% :) +@indie @nebogeo

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. End of conversation

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