Ambrose Pym
@ambrosepym.bsky.social
Digital/data investigations for NGO. Also maintaining the Derelict Listed Building Fires database. Byline in Bellingcat
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Another victory for the revolving door
Boeing has appointed former UK Minister of State for Defence Procurement Sir Jeremy Quin as president of Boeing UK & Ireland.
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Former defence procurement minister to head up Boeing UK
Boeing has appointed former UK Minister of State for Defence Procurement Sir Jeremy Quin as president of Boeing UK & Ireland.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Another victory for the revolving door
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Much like with their US counterparts, Glasman and fellow British culture warriors/reactionaries are so WEIRD. This is not how median Brits think nor what they care about
Obsessing about lanyards and transhumanism is pure X brain rot
Obsessing about lanyards and transhumanism is pure X brain rot
November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Much like with their US counterparts, Glasman and fellow British culture warriors/reactionaries are so WEIRD. This is not how median Brits think nor what they care about
Obsessing about lanyards and transhumanism is pure X brain rot
Obsessing about lanyards and transhumanism is pure X brain rot
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Sorry to keep banging on about it but it's literally *they are on Twitter and think it's the majority view*
This is pretty striking and makes me wonder exactly what Labour have been up to in making policy seemingly in response to / fear of the former rather than the middle group.
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Sorry to keep banging on about it but it's literally *they are on Twitter and think it's the majority view*
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"A senior Reform UK figure in Lancashire has been suspended by the party after posting in a far-right Whatsapp group calling for expelled hardline anti-immigrant MP Rupert Lowe to lead the party and saying Reform is deliberately downplaying its immigration policy to be palatable to the public."
Exclusive: Calls for anti-extremism investigation of suspended Reform councillor after "hardline" posts in far-right WhatsApp group revealed
Lancashire councillor Tom Pickup claims the party is showing a different face to the public
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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I hate the "huh, not surprised" and "huh, were you surprised" responses to investigative journalism. Such a thoughtless way to trash months of work. Because you ARE surprised, because you are reading something that no one else has revealed before. It doesn't make you superior to not be surprised.
November 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I hate the "huh, not surprised" and "huh, were you surprised" responses to investigative journalism. Such a thoughtless way to trash months of work. Because you ARE surprised, because you are reading something that no one else has revealed before. It doesn't make you superior to not be surprised.
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The Yookay meme is something British Journalists keep using as if it doesn’t obviously mark them out as overly online freaks.
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The Yookay meme is something British Journalists keep using as if it doesn’t obviously mark them out as overly online freaks.
Google pushing anti-trans stuff to me through sponsored products, because I searched “online book store” (couldn’t remember the name of the Amazon alternative). What a horrible mess
November 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Google pushing anti-trans stuff to me through sponsored products, because I searched “online book store” (couldn’t remember the name of the Amazon alternative). What a horrible mess
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Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped
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It's genuinely crackers that in the UK, a social media company can *take advertising money from a fraudster*, the bank has to repay the victim out of its pocket, and the social media company doesn't even have to give the advertising cash to the bank! They make money on the transaction!
EXCLUSIVE: The British government is preparing to roll back on its pledge to make Big Tech companies pay for scams in its upcoming fraud strategy.
Banks furious as UK shies away from making Big Tech pay for fraud
Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged before the election to put tech giants on the hook for fraud.
www.politico.eu
October 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
It's genuinely crackers that in the UK, a social media company can *take advertising money from a fraudster*, the bank has to repay the victim out of its pocket, and the social media company doesn't even have to give the advertising cash to the bank! They make money on the transaction!
Trying to work out which article sharing option to go for
October 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Trying to work out which article sharing option to go for
Pure ‘X Brain’ in action. Posting this nonsense to get engagement from anonymous racists who you’ve convinced yourself are median British voters. Meanwhile what percentage of British people align with her viewpoint? Sub 5%? Sub 1%?
The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point
October 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Pure ‘X Brain’ in action. Posting this nonsense to get engagement from anonymous racists who you’ve convinced yourself are median British voters. Meanwhile what percentage of British people align with her viewpoint? Sub 5%? Sub 1%?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... Senior member of libertarian think tank left “scratching her head” at Republicans’ attacks on free speech!
The modern right in the US and UK does not actually believe in free speech, and they’ve shown us this time and again
The modern right in the US and UK does not actually believe in free speech, and they’ve shown us this time and again
October 9, 2025 at 7:16 AM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... Senior member of libertarian think tank left “scratching her head” at Republicans’ attacks on free speech!
The modern right in the US and UK does not actually believe in free speech, and they’ve shown us this time and again
The modern right in the US and UK does not actually believe in free speech, and they’ve shown us this time and again
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What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How the simmering UK freedom of speech row reached boiling point
How did we reach a point where the UK is being compared to a 'tin pot Third World dictatorship'?
www.bbc.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Wrenching and enraging. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
September 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Wrenching and enraging. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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"The report is part of a trove of documents from inside Meta that was recently disclosed to Congress by two current and two former employees who allege that Meta suppressed research that might have illuminated potential safety risks to children and teens on the company’s [VR] devices and apps..."
Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say
The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
"The report is part of a trove of documents from inside Meta that was recently disclosed to Congress by two current and two former employees who allege that Meta suppressed research that might have illuminated potential safety risks to children and teens on the company’s [VR] devices and apps..."
Absolutely shameful. Regardless of what you may think about the sentence length, this is so dangerous. She is not a martyr or a hero, she called for the deaths of innocents
The Reform UK conference gives a standing ovation to "special guest" Lucy Connolly, who pled guilty to stirring up racial hatred after she called for asylum hotels to be set on fire with people inside them.
September 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Absolutely shameful. Regardless of what you may think about the sentence length, this is so dangerous. She is not a martyr or a hero, she called for the deaths of innocents
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Extraordinary scenes at Reform UK conference as Greater Lincolnshire Mayor Andrea Jenkyns arrives on stage singing her rock song 'Insomnia'
September 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Extraordinary scenes at Reform UK conference as Greater Lincolnshire Mayor Andrea Jenkyns arrives on stage singing her rock song 'Insomnia'
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Ron Deibert is absolutely the voice that the infosec industry needs to be listening to right now. We are in a moment where fascism is consolidating power and most of the infosec industry is either playing along or is busy bragging about how much AI they've shoved into their products.
August 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Ron Deibert is absolutely the voice that the infosec industry needs to be listening to right now. We are in a moment where fascism is consolidating power and most of the infosec industry is either playing along or is busy bragging about how much AI they've shoved into their products.
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*taps the sign* www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
July 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
*taps the sign* www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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London Tory leader Susan Hall joined the board of Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain, which has policies that would seek the removal of 100,000s of legally resident foreign-born Londoners. Other London Tories are privately despairing.
This is what she told us.
www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tor...
This is what she told us.
www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tor...
July 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
London Tory leader Susan Hall joined the board of Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain, which has policies that would seek the removal of 100,000s of legally resident foreign-born Londoners. Other London Tories are privately despairing.
This is what she told us.
www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tor...
This is what she told us.
www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tor...
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It's hard to make this any more explicit... from a cynical political perspective anyone in government comms should be concerned about the incentive structures that most "local news" sites have, which are increasingly shaped by big tech aggregators that push clicky headlines onto phone screens.
A cheap way to tell lots of people whatever you want, as Reform have twigged with this Press Release.
I wonder who wrote the headline?
I wonder who wrote the headline?
June 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
It's hard to make this any more explicit... from a cynical political perspective anyone in government comms should be concerned about the incentive structures that most "local news" sites have, which are increasingly shaped by big tech aggregators that push clicky headlines onto phone screens.
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Says a lot. A "ranking of every MP’s media visibility across the UK’s leading publications over the last 3 months." (Source: www.mp.govspendbase.uk)
June 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Says a lot. A "ranking of every MP’s media visibility across the UK’s leading publications over the last 3 months." (Source: www.mp.govspendbase.uk)
Database of fires in derelict listed buildings here docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
June 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Database of fires in derelict listed buildings here docs.google.com/spreadsheets...