Gledster
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England. He/Him.
Just trying to make it through this life in a country that's descended into madness.
Food bank volunteer. Computer game player.
Just trying to make it through this life in a country that's descended into madness.
Food bank volunteer. Computer game player.
Of course we have. See, there's a financial black hole in Britain's finances so the only thing we can do is save pennies and ensure more people around the world die in agony.
Got to keep the bond markets happy by saving piddling amounts of money.
Got to keep the bond markets happy by saving piddling amounts of money.
UK cuts funding to AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria project by £150m
UK cuts funding to AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria project by £150m
The UK has cut £150m from its contribution to a global project which combats AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
news.sky.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Of course we have. See, there's a financial black hole in Britain's finances so the only thing we can do is save pennies and ensure more people around the world die in agony.
Got to keep the bond markets happy by saving piddling amounts of money.
Got to keep the bond markets happy by saving piddling amounts of money.
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For the latest @prospectmagazine.co.uk I wrote about the extensive destruction of buildings in Gaza >>>
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
November 12, 2025 at 10:58 AM
For the latest @prospectmagazine.co.uk I wrote about the extensive destruction of buildings in Gaza >>>
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
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"This entire saga has a smell hanging over it. The people of Teesside, Hartlepool and Darlington are no fools. That smell will not go away until there is a full, transparent and independent inquiry."
Teesworks scandal: a dark tale of public wealth lost and private gain
Teesworks - a story that reads like a screenplay for a dark political drama
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
"This entire saga has a smell hanging over it. The people of Teesside, Hartlepool and Darlington are no fools. That smell will not go away until there is a full, transparent and independent inquiry."
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Capitalism brain is when doing the work you're paid to do is "entitled" but expecting your young employees to do unpaid work and be enthusiastic about socialising with you in their free time is not "entitled", somehow
November 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Capitalism brain is when doing the work you're paid to do is "entitled" but expecting your young employees to do unpaid work and be enthusiastic about socialising with you in their free time is not "entitled", somehow
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It's very strange to me that they think we need an explanation of why Bond is alive now. Do they think we need an explanation of Bond keeps changing his age and appearance in discontinuous ways?
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
It's very strange to me that they think we need an explanation of why Bond is alive now. Do they think we need an explanation of Bond keeps changing his age and appearance in discontinuous ways?
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Nobody could have predicted this. Of course the Thieves’ Guild wasn’t happy with laws requiring them not to steal stuff.
apparently the unprecedented wealth and inflcuence big tech is amassing at the cost of the most marginalised is not enough. big tech ceos are not that different from drug cartels
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
EU set to water down landmark AI Act after pressure from big tech
European Commission proposes pauses to provisions in digital rule book amid concerns over implications for EU competitiveness
www.irishtimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Nobody could have predicted this. Of course the Thieves’ Guild wasn’t happy with laws requiring them not to steal stuff.
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It might be true that the world needs to remove ten billion tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere every year but it’s never going to happen for many different reasons: technical, financial, social, environmental, governance, etc. If we don’t reduce CO₂ emissions, we’re screwed. That’s it.
Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says
10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
It might be true that the world needs to remove ten billion tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere every year but it’s never going to happen for many different reasons: technical, financial, social, environmental, governance, etc. If we don’t reduce CO₂ emissions, we’re screwed. That’s it.
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ofcom is absolutely useless at doing any regulating, but firing up some AI garbage to make your life worse? aye, it can do that
The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how
Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy
www.techradar.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 AM
ofcom is absolutely useless at doing any regulating, but firing up some AI garbage to make your life worse? aye, it can do that
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first it's pensions, then it's healthcare, then vacation, finally it's the wages, pretty soon you're just going to one box to work all day for no money and going to another to get the rest of snap to eat, which sounds a lot like how they described the soviet union to me in the 80s but what do i know
Is this good? It doesn't seem good.
"Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners."
"Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners."
Walgreens Cuts Pay for Hourly Store Workers After $10 Billion Buyout
Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners.
www.bloomberg.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
first it's pensions, then it's healthcare, then vacation, finally it's the wages, pretty soon you're just going to one box to work all day for no money and going to another to get the rest of snap to eat, which sounds a lot like how they described the soviet union to me in the 80s but what do i know
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All you need to know.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
How many trans people have the BBC had on this week discussing the BBC's pro-trans bias?
Zero.
Zero.
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
All you need to know.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
Sonia Sodha, Emily Maitlis, Helen Joyce and Hannah Barnes have all had their say in the media in the last 24 hours.
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Remember, when journalists just let trans people live their lives in peace, it’s “ideological capture”, but when they use their own personal anti-trans beliefs to lead a campaign to close down the only place in the country trans youth received healthcare, it’s absolutely fine, nothing to see here.
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Remember, when journalists just let trans people live their lives in peace, it’s “ideological capture”, but when they use their own personal anti-trans beliefs to lead a campaign to close down the only place in the country trans youth received healthcare, it’s absolutely fine, nothing to see here.
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1Password is owned by who?
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
1Password is owned by who?
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So the months of grinding expenditure of political capital, threatening, ridiculing, cajoling, suspending your own MPs - was not only morally gutless, but also wildly self-sabotaging?
Recite after me: we have always been at war with EastAsia. The two-child benefit cap has always been bad.
Recite after me: we have always been at war with EastAsia. The two-child benefit cap has always been bad.
NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
So the months of grinding expenditure of political capital, threatening, ridiculing, cajoling, suspending your own MPs - was not only morally gutless, but also wildly self-sabotaging?
Recite after me: we have always been at war with EastAsia. The two-child benefit cap has always been bad.
Recite after me: we have always been at war with EastAsia. The two-child benefit cap has always been bad.
Mic's writing an analysis is always good, and you should buy his book as a gift for people at Christmas, but I'm docking him points for this graphic :
He just reminded me that Hartley-Brewer exists. I had peacefully forgotten that fact.
He just reminded me that Hartley-Brewer exists. I had peacefully forgotten that fact.
NEW | if the BBC *is* biased, it’s not against the right…
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/arsonists-...
Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
The resignation of Tim Davie as BBC Director-General is the next stage in the corporation's collapse into cowardice.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Mic's writing an analysis is always good, and you should buy his book as a gift for people at Christmas, but I'm docking him points for this graphic :
He just reminded me that Hartley-Brewer exists. I had peacefully forgotten that fact.
He just reminded me that Hartley-Brewer exists. I had peacefully forgotten that fact.
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iirc 1 trans woman has qualified for the Olympics in over 20 years and she came last
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
The International Olympic Committee is moving towards a blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport, Sky News understands.
news.sky.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
iirc 1 trans woman has qualified for the Olympics in over 20 years and she came last
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This is what kills me. If Esther Ghey wants to talk about the dangers of kids being online too much, she can talk about radicalization, about bigotry, about the dehumanizing ideas of trans people Brianna's killers were exposed to.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
putting her phone in a pouch would have made her killers less transphobic and violent?
Phones did not murder Brianna Ghey in cold blood.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This is what kills me. If Esther Ghey wants to talk about the dangers of kids being online too much, she can talk about radicalization, about bigotry, about the dehumanizing ideas of trans people Brianna's killers were exposed to.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
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Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Utterly hilarious.
$billions spent and it can't even beat Wikipedia for accuracy.
$billions spent and it can't even beat Wikipedia for accuracy.
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Utterly hilarious.
$billions spent and it can't even beat Wikipedia for accuracy.
$billions spent and it can't even beat Wikipedia for accuracy.
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This should be a national crisis, this is a choice, it’s always a fucking choice
Homelessness higher than official figures, research shows www.bbc.com/news/article...
Homelessness higher than official figures, research shows www.bbc.com/news/article...
Homelessness figures higher than data suggests, research shows
Official data for England underestimates the scale of the problem, according to research for charity Crisis says.
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
This should be a national crisis, this is a choice, it’s always a fucking choice
Homelessness higher than official figures, research shows www.bbc.com/news/article...
Homelessness higher than official figures, research shows www.bbc.com/news/article...
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It has started.The far right of UK politics is showing its hand.In it is 🍊💩’s roadmap to fascism.As the granddaughter of a Polish asylum seeker &daughter of an Italian economic migrant-this will annihilate my family. @thebulwark.com continues to report where others won’t.There are no moderate Tories
"If you do not feel a wave of nausea when contemplating this policy then you either haven’t understood it, or there is something profoundly wrong with you."
The Tories’ Dangerous Drift
In the U.K., a shocking proposal from a Conservative MP elicited pushback from her party only belatedly. It signals darker things to come.
www.thebulwark.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM
It has started.The far right of UK politics is showing its hand.In it is 🍊💩’s roadmap to fascism.As the granddaughter of a Polish asylum seeker &daughter of an Italian economic migrant-this will annihilate my family. @thebulwark.com continues to report where others won’t.There are no moderate Tories
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i think this weighing of monstrosities thing kind of sucks, but i also think it's depressing as hell how many monstrosities are out there stalking the earth today
“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…”
Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
i think this weighing of monstrosities thing kind of sucks, but i also think it's depressing as hell how many monstrosities are out there stalking the earth today
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The biggest tell that someone is a dullard is having no favorite bands or movies or some form of entertainment. It's how you know those "grindset" types are the dumbest fucks on the planet. They have no interests. They are literally the NPCs they bitch about. You're a cog in the shit machine
The JCO post about Elon not liking anything is something I've said before about a lot of politics poisoned posting addicts. People who never once post about a band they like or anything at all. There are so many like that.
November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The biggest tell that someone is a dullard is having no favorite bands or movies or some form of entertainment. It's how you know those "grindset" types are the dumbest fucks on the planet. They have no interests. They are literally the NPCs they bitch about. You're a cog in the shit machine
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
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theres a whole category of newstertainment thats gotta go. and its "ask a really rich freak who is also evil and directly stealing from you what hes seen on the computer lately that has made him feel bad." the only -- ONLY -- story about this guy worth exploring is: he is getting rich spying on you
November 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
theres a whole category of newstertainment thats gotta go. and its "ask a really rich freak who is also evil and directly stealing from you what hes seen on the computer lately that has made him feel bad." the only -- ONLY -- story about this guy worth exploring is: he is getting rich spying on you