Richard P
@addledone.bsky.social
Live in West Dorset, UK. Green/Left/Woke and proud! My views are my own, not representing any particular group.
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You lot need Dick Van Dyke singing Let's Go Fly a Kite on his 100th birthday more than you know.
December 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
You lot need Dick Van Dyke singing Let's Go Fly a Kite on his 100th birthday more than you know.
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“People have every right to own property, but we must balance that with the demands of burglars to steal that property and sell it.”
Fuck off. And tell your loser tech mates to fuck off while you’re at it. Cheers. Ta.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Fuck off. And tell your loser tech mates to fuck off while you’re at it. Cheers. Ta.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
December 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
“People have every right to own property, but we must balance that with the demands of burglars to steal that property and sell it.”
Fuck off. And tell your loser tech mates to fuck off while you’re at it. Cheers. Ta.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Fuck off. And tell your loser tech mates to fuck off while you’re at it. Cheers. Ta.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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This is what a statesman and President writes
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This is what a statesman and President writes
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Sounds about right.
December 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Sounds about right.
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People have had enough of Labour.
They can change leader but the problem is the hundreds of corporate lobbyists who are Labour MPs.
More and more people joining the Green Party every day!
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
They can change leader but the problem is the hundreds of corporate lobbyists who are Labour MPs.
More and more people joining the Green Party every day!
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
UK politics: Polanski claims Green support surging in London as five Labour councillors defect in Brent – as it happened
Party leader says Labour ‘has abandoned any sense of progressive politics’
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM
People have had enough of Labour.
They can change leader but the problem is the hundreds of corporate lobbyists who are Labour MPs.
More and more people joining the Green Party every day!
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
They can change leader but the problem is the hundreds of corporate lobbyists who are Labour MPs.
More and more people joining the Green Party every day!
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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NEW: The Israeli military’s repeated attacks on reconstruction-related equipment and other civilian facilities in southern Lebanon throughout 2025 violate the laws of war and are apparent war crimes.
Read more from HRW:
Read more from HRW:
Lebanon: Israel Unlawfully Destroying Reconstruction Equipment
The Israeli military’s repeated attacks on reconstruction-related equipment and other civilian facilities in southern Lebanon throughout 2025 violate the laws of war and are apparent war crimes.
www.hrw.org
December 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
NEW: The Israeli military’s repeated attacks on reconstruction-related equipment and other civilian facilities in southern Lebanon throughout 2025 violate the laws of war and are apparent war crimes.
Read more from HRW:
Read more from HRW:
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Most Brits want climate action but think their neighbours don't. Most Brits support renewable energy but think their neighbours don't.
This is the work of relentless misinformation by our right-wing press and the oiligarchy.
This is the work of relentless misinformation by our right-wing press and the oiligarchy.
Poll: Majority of Brits support renewables, but think their neighbours disagree with them
Major poll reveals 70 per cent of Brits would back a new solar farm in their local area, but only 27 per cent think that other people would support such a development
www.businessgreen.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Most Brits want climate action but think their neighbours don't. Most Brits support renewable energy but think their neighbours don't.
This is the work of relentless misinformation by our right-wing press and the oiligarchy.
This is the work of relentless misinformation by our right-wing press and the oiligarchy.
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I subscribe to the school of thought that says platforms which get overrun by the far right should be left to collapse. You don't see people making the argument that liberals should join Truth Social. X is no different.
December 15, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I subscribe to the school of thought that says platforms which get overrun by the far right should be left to collapse. You don't see people making the argument that liberals should join Truth Social. X is no different.
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And finally, the assault on Section 230. This is the endgame for independent speech.
If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.
If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.
How Democrats’ Attack On Section 230 Plays Right Into Trump’s Censorial Plans
Like clockwork, lawmakers are once again rallying around the idea of eliminating Section 230. That Republicans are leading this charge is hardly surprising—repealing Section 230 is explicitly laid …
www.techdirt.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
And finally, the assault on Section 230. This is the endgame for independent speech.
If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.
If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.
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“A universal system of human rights was built to make sure that we could never end up in that nightmare scenario [of hierarchisation of rights in the Nazi era] again. We have to be very cautious and careful about the ultimate consequences of the paths we might embark on.”
‘Who’s it going to be next time?’: ECHR rethink is ‘moral retreat’, say rights experts
As 27 European countries urge changes to laws forged after second world war, human rights chief says politicians are playing into hands of populists
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:17 AM
“A universal system of human rights was built to make sure that we could never end up in that nightmare scenario [of hierarchisation of rights in the Nazi era] again. We have to be very cautious and careful about the ultimate consequences of the paths we might embark on.”
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Keeping a society safe and free is gardening, not nature watching.
December 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Keeping a society safe and free is gardening, not nature watching.
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Because the issue of population change is so widely misunderstood, here's a short thread which seeks to lay it out simply.
It explains why there is almost nothing anyone can do to change the global population trajectory, both as numbers rise, then as they fall.
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It explains why there is almost nothing anyone can do to change the global population trajectory, both as numbers rise, then as they fall.
🧵1/13
December 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Because the issue of population change is so widely misunderstood, here's a short thread which seeks to lay it out simply.
It explains why there is almost nothing anyone can do to change the global population trajectory, both as numbers rise, then as they fall.
🧵1/13
It explains why there is almost nothing anyone can do to change the global population trajectory, both as numbers rise, then as they fall.
🧵1/13
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Whether you think that's good or bad will not affect the outcome. I see demographic change as an underlying factor, like gravity, we simply have to adapt to as well as we can. If you want to pick a fight with a mathematical function, go ahead. But it seems to me as if you’re wasting your time.
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9/13
December 15, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Whether you think that's good or bad will not affect the outcome. I see demographic change as an underlying factor, like gravity, we simply have to adapt to as well as we can. If you want to pick a fight with a mathematical function, go ahead. But it seems to me as if you’re wasting your time.
9/13
9/13
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I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
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Mary-Ann Stephenson assumes - either from ignorance or malice - that trans people have no legal rights as trans. That is deeply troubling from someone holding her role - although hardly surprising given her history.
Awful - and hopelessly out of her depth (just as two Select Committees concluded).
Awful - and hopelessly out of her depth (just as two Select Committees concluded).
December 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Mary-Ann Stephenson assumes - either from ignorance or malice - that trans people have no legal rights as trans. That is deeply troubling from someone holding her role - although hardly surprising given her history.
Awful - and hopelessly out of her depth (just as two Select Committees concluded).
Awful - and hopelessly out of her depth (just as two Select Committees concluded).
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Third, she said the EHRC's draft Guidance "angered trans campaigners" when restating what she falsely claimed the Supreme Court decided. No mention of the fact it was withdrawn, is disavowed as law by Government lawyers, will soon be adjudicated on by the High Court, or angered many cis women too.
December 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Third, she said the EHRC's draft Guidance "angered trans campaigners" when restating what she falsely claimed the Supreme Court decided. No mention of the fact it was withdrawn, is disavowed as law by Government lawyers, will soon be adjudicated on by the High Court, or angered many cis women too.
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First, she frames the issue as a conflict between transgender rights and women's rights. Where is the evidence for that broad framing of conflict? Where is the evidence that women as a group see there as being a clash? None is given and women remain supportive of trans rights.
December 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
First, she frames the issue as a conflict between transgender rights and women's rights. Where is the evidence for that broad framing of conflict? Where is the evidence that women as a group see there as being a clash? None is given and women remain supportive of trans rights.
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Second, she then completely misstates what the Supreme Court decided. She says it decided the question of who should be able to access single sex spaces. That's just flat out mis or disnformation. Here's what Lord Hodge said.
December 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Second, she then completely misstates what the Supreme Court decided. She says it decided the question of who should be able to access single sex spaces. That's just flat out mis or disnformation. Here's what Lord Hodge said.
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Sen. Jack Reed: "I must remind everyone that we follow the law of war, and because of that, we expect other countries. So that when our service members are in distress, they're not shot up in the water or if they're wounded, left to die. If we don't do it, then we can't expect other countries."
December 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Sen. Jack Reed: "I must remind everyone that we follow the law of war, and because of that, we expect other countries. So that when our service members are in distress, they're not shot up in the water or if they're wounded, left to die. If we don't do it, then we can't expect other countries."
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If an English racist trots the "generations" thing out - then ask them who all their 64 great-great-great-great grandparents are.
And where they were born.
And what religion they practised.
And who their parents were.
And where those 128 people all came from
They won't have a clue.
And where they were born.
And what religion they practised.
And who their parents were.
And where those 128 people all came from
They won't have a clue.
CT explains why he thinks Shabana Mahmood is neither English, nor British, to which Cole does not respond to at all.
Cole: asks how many generations? Is it a race thing?
CT: Not race as Albanians don't count either. It is ancestry.
It is infinite generations, if you don't have the ancestry.
Cole: asks how many generations? Is it a race thing?
CT: Not race as Albanians don't count either. It is ancestry.
It is infinite generations, if you don't have the ancestry.
December 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
If an English racist trots the "generations" thing out - then ask them who all their 64 great-great-great-great grandparents are.
And where they were born.
And what religion they practised.
And who their parents were.
And where those 128 people all came from
They won't have a clue.
And where they were born.
And what religion they practised.
And who their parents were.
And where those 128 people all came from
They won't have a clue.
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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Fraser Nelson is the latest Farage apologist to dismiss the racism allegations against him, saying that there's never been any evidence of him ever being racist as an adult.
Just completely untrue. There is extensive undeniable evidence of it www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Just completely untrue. There is extensive undeniable evidence of it www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Nigel Farage Is a Racist
The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda
www.adambienkov.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Fraser Nelson is the latest Farage apologist to dismiss the racism allegations against him, saying that there's never been any evidence of him ever being racist as an adult.
Just completely untrue. There is extensive undeniable evidence of it www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Just completely untrue. There is extensive undeniable evidence of it www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
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If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
December 3, 2024 at 9:02 PM
If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
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