Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ
@baoigheallain.bsky.social
Not a cyclist, but gets around on a bike.
Now reluctantly involved in the Building Safety Crisis
Now reluctantly involved in the Building Safety Crisis
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Third time lucky.
Trump: "You gotta win the midterms. Because if we don't win the midterms, they'll find a reason to impeach me. I'll get impeached."
January 6, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Third time lucky.
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The data says it all: congestion pricing is a boon to New York City.
After just one year...
- New York's economy and public transportation are benefiting
- Traffic, congestion, and pollution are declining
After just one year...
- New York's economy and public transportation are benefiting
- Traffic, congestion, and pollution are declining
January 6, 2026 at 4:30 PM
The data says it all: congestion pricing is a boon to New York City.
After just one year...
- New York's economy and public transportation are benefiting
- Traffic, congestion, and pollution are declining
After just one year...
- New York's economy and public transportation are benefiting
- Traffic, congestion, and pollution are declining
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Absolutely fucking tremendous from the FT.
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Absolutely fucking tremendous from the FT.
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From the CWS ARCHIVE. 6th January 2021.
January 6, 2026 at 5:15 PM
From the CWS ARCHIVE. 6th January 2021.
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Why the fucking actual fucking fuck are the stupid fuckers still fucking posting on the fucking thing
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government demands Musk's X deals with 'appalling' Grok AI
Grok is being used to digitally remove women's clothing - something victims describe as
www.bbc.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Why the fucking actual fucking fuck are the stupid fuckers still fucking posting on the fucking thing
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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It would also mean that my sister wouldn't have had to have her leg amputated last year due to some elderly driver driving into her as she was standing by her car.
The shortage of test appointments shouldn't impact on other peoples welfare.
The shortage of test appointments shouldn't impact on other peoples welfare.
January 6, 2026 at 8:06 AM
It would also mean that my sister wouldn't have had to have her leg amputated last year due to some elderly driver driving into her as she was standing by her car.
The shortage of test appointments shouldn't impact on other peoples welfare.
The shortage of test appointments shouldn't impact on other peoples welfare.
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Platforms/social media communities that distribute Child Sexual Abuse Material usually make the news when story breaks about how the owners have been arrested as part a pan national police operation involving multiple agencies from different countries. Yet, now, CSAM is now openly available on X.
it is just so 🥴🥴🥴 to me that governments and law enforcement bodies across the world have to be begged and pleaded with to even consider investigating what is quite literally sexual crime on an unbelievable scale, taking place openly on one of the most popular digital platforms in the world.
January 6, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Platforms/social media communities that distribute Child Sexual Abuse Material usually make the news when story breaks about how the owners have been arrested as part a pan national police operation involving multiple agencies from different countries. Yet, now, CSAM is now openly available on X.
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Pretty sure Denmark has universal healthcare because they voted for it and pay higher taxes and accept other trade-offs for it, not because they‘re hoarding a magic healthcare tree, but that’s too complicated for the ballcap-selfie-in-car crowd.
January 6, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Pretty sure Denmark has universal healthcare because they voted for it and pay higher taxes and accept other trade-offs for it, not because they‘re hoarding a magic healthcare tree, but that’s too complicated for the ballcap-selfie-in-car crowd.
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I have a revolutionary idea:
Work out how many doctors and nurses we need to look after everyone properly.
Train that many.
Pay them well.
Let them get on with their jobs.
Work out how many doctors and nurses we need to look after everyone properly.
Train that many.
Pay them well.
Let them get on with their jobs.
January 6, 2026 at 9:41 AM
I have a revolutionary idea:
Work out how many doctors and nurses we need to look after everyone properly.
Train that many.
Pay them well.
Let them get on with their jobs.
Work out how many doctors and nurses we need to look after everyone properly.
Train that many.
Pay them well.
Let them get on with their jobs.
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Considering I was hit twice last year and on both occasions despite it being on camera and jumping through the convoluted reporting process, nothing more than advice was given to the drivers.
Everyone is being failed by a distinct lack of road policing in Scotland.
Everyone is being failed by a distinct lack of road policing in Scotland.
A dangerous close pass ended with police offering “words of advice”, as the cyclist said the reporting process in Scotland has barely improved.
Near Miss of the Day 943: Police reaction to dangerous close pass shows “nothing much has changed” in reporting drivers in Scotland, says cyclist
After a close pass on a busy Scottish road, Police Scotland said they would give the driver “words of advice” but won’t take any formal action
road.cc
January 6, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Considering I was hit twice last year and on both occasions despite it being on camera and jumping through the convoluted reporting process, nothing more than advice was given to the drivers.
Everyone is being failed by a distinct lack of road policing in Scotland.
Everyone is being failed by a distinct lack of road policing in Scotland.
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I will never understand how this was not the end of him.
January 6, 2026 at 1:43 PM
I will never understand how this was not the end of him.
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Five years ago today.
January 6, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Five years ago today.
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I for one am absolutely ASTONISHED that privatising our public services in order to make shareholders rich didn't result in better, cheaper, more efficient public services.
January 6, 2026 at 11:55 AM
I for one am absolutely ASTONISHED that privatising our public services in order to make shareholders rich didn't result in better, cheaper, more efficient public services.
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As Elon Musk's X continues to sink to new depths, there are serious questions to be asked as to why legitimate media outlets, government departments, state agencies, etc. etc. remain on the platform.
I wrote this last November.
I wrote this last November.
Una Mullally: Media outlets need to break ties with X
The presence of media outlets on X does not have a diluting effect on the concentration of misinformation on the platform. If it did, then we wouldn’t be where we are
www.irishtimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:56 PM
As Elon Musk's X continues to sink to new depths, there are serious questions to be asked as to why legitimate media outlets, government departments, state agencies, etc. etc. remain on the platform.
I wrote this last November.
I wrote this last November.
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A five-year-old boy was killed after being struck by an electric car that allegedly accelerated on its own accord, a court heard. Motorist Ashenafei Demissie claims he was sitting in his parked car when it suddenly sped into Fareed Amir and his own son. www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/b...
Boy, 5, killed by electric car that accelerated ‘on its own accord’, court hears
Driver Ashenafei Demissie, 52, claims the parked Volkswagen ID.4 suddenly sped into Fareed Amir and his own son Raphael
www.standard.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 10:54 AM
A five-year-old boy was killed after being struck by an electric car that allegedly accelerated on its own accord, a court heard. Motorist Ashenafei Demissie claims he was sitting in his parked car when it suddenly sped into Fareed Amir and his own son. www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/b...
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"Women trying to express an opinion online, take part in public debates, or simply do their jobs as reporters are deliberately degraded and turned into sexual objects. Grok will, and does, portray them covered in white fluid – much to the delight of the trolls who occupy and fund Musk’s network."
Shut down Musk’s AI porn
Grok is churning out sexual images on an industrial scale - some of teenage girls - and pleading free speech. If the UK and Europe don’t act now, they never will
www.thenewworld.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 2:51 PM
"Women trying to express an opinion online, take part in public debates, or simply do their jobs as reporters are deliberately degraded and turned into sexual objects. Grok will, and does, portray them covered in white fluid – much to the delight of the trolls who occupy and fund Musk’s network."
I can see it now:-
"We don't like your less than enthusiastic support for our special military operation in Greenland therefore we are switching off your NHS".
"We don't like your less than enthusiastic support for our special military operation in Greenland therefore we are switching off your NHS".
Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.
Palantir lands biggest ever UK defense deal
The £240 million contract with the Ministry of Defence has renewed a debate about Britain’s dependence on American technology.
www.politico.eu
January 6, 2026 at 3:18 PM
I can see it now:-
"We don't like your less than enthusiastic support for our special military operation in Greenland therefore we are switching off your NHS".
"We don't like your less than enthusiastic support for our special military operation in Greenland therefore we are switching off your NHS".
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yeah, just what we need right now: more dependence on US software companies with strong links to #trump and full of right-wing nutters #palantir
Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.
Palantir lands biggest ever UK defense deal
The £240 million contract with the Ministry of Defence has renewed a debate about Britain’s dependence on American technology.
www.politico.eu
January 6, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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Without a hint of irony, Kemi Badenoch - after doing the full ‘Trump was right’ on Venezuela for best part of 10 minutes - when asked about Brexit on Radio 4 Today says ‘sovereignty matters’
Then asked for one big policy, says cutting net zero
Fundamentally unserious
Then asked for one big policy, says cutting net zero
Fundamentally unserious
January 6, 2026 at 8:23 AM
Without a hint of irony, Kemi Badenoch - after doing the full ‘Trump was right’ on Venezuela for best part of 10 minutes - when asked about Brexit on Radio 4 Today says ‘sovereignty matters’
Then asked for one big policy, says cutting net zero
Fundamentally unserious
Then asked for one big policy, says cutting net zero
Fundamentally unserious
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Anyone fancy asking Tommy Robinson how he intends to “protect are kids” when he’s being bankrolled by the owner of the largest CSAM website the world’s ever known?
January 6, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Anyone fancy asking Tommy Robinson how he intends to “protect are kids” when he’s being bankrolled by the owner of the largest CSAM website the world’s ever known?
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I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.
January 5, 2026 at 12:27 PM
I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.
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@apnews.com:
Finnish Children Learn Media Literacy at 3 years old. It’s Protection Against Russian Propaganda
Finnish Children Learn Media Literacy at 3 years old. It’s Protection Against Russian Propaganda
Finnish children learn media literacy at 3 years old. It's protection against Russian propaganda
Finland has been fighting fake news by teaching media literacy to children as young as 3. The Nordic nation includes this in its national curriculum to help citizens recognize disinformation, especial...
apnews.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:48 PM
@apnews.com:
Finnish Children Learn Media Literacy at 3 years old. It’s Protection Against Russian Propaganda
Finnish Children Learn Media Literacy at 3 years old. It’s Protection Against Russian Propaganda
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Me: "Hello police, I know of a guy who is involved in distributing sexual images of minors."
Police: "Wow, that is very serious. Is he distributing them via his phone?"
Me: "No he's making them on X"
Police: "Well there's very little we can do about that for some reason"
Police: "Wow, that is very serious. Is he distributing them via his phone?"
Me: "No he's making them on X"
Police: "Well there's very little we can do about that for some reason"
January 5, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Me: "Hello police, I know of a guy who is involved in distributing sexual images of minors."
Police: "Wow, that is very serious. Is he distributing them via his phone?"
Me: "No he's making them on X"
Police: "Well there's very little we can do about that for some reason"
Police: "Wow, that is very serious. Is he distributing them via his phone?"
Me: "No he's making them on X"
Police: "Well there's very little we can do about that for some reason"
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The US is the power of NATO’
They don’t believe in the Transatlantic Alliance
Putin’s dream come true
They don’t believe in the Transatlantic Alliance
Putin’s dream come true
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
January 6, 2026 at 12:12 AM
The US is the power of NATO’
They don’t believe in the Transatlantic Alliance
Putin’s dream come true
They don’t believe in the Transatlantic Alliance
Putin’s dream come true