Ian Goldring
@goldring.bsky.social
I share and comment on things that interest and/or amuse me. Somewhat eclectic, Brussels bubble escapee, happy to live in Valencia - reasonable positivity please.
Canadian/Irish, pro love is love, human rights and so forth
Canadian/Irish, pro love is love, human rights and so forth
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Grok users prompted the AI chatbot to identify victims from redacted Epstein Files images. Of 31 requests reviewed, Grok generated images for 27, spanning 18 images and one video. X did not respond to requests for comment on Grok's behaviour by time of publication. www.youtube.com/shorts/dhD8O...
Grok Users Are Attempting To Identify Epstein Victims
YouTube video by Bellingcat
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Grok users prompted the AI chatbot to identify victims from redacted Epstein Files images. Of 31 requests reviewed, Grok generated images for 27, spanning 18 images and one video. X did not respond to requests for comment on Grok's behaviour by time of publication. www.youtube.com/shorts/dhD8O...
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The Canadian government toned down the law-enforcement portion of its putative border bill - but left in place measures restricting access to Canada's asylum system and giving the minister power to "cancel, suspend or vary" immigration dox. Read it: www.parl.ca/DocumentView...
Government Bill (House of Commons) C-12 (45-1) - First Reading - Strengthening Canada's Immigration System and Borders Act - Parliament of Canada
Government Bill (House of Commons) C-12 (45-1) - First Reading - Strengthening Canada's Immigration System and Borders Act - Parliament of Canada
www.parl.ca
February 7, 2026 at 11:12 PM
The Canadian government toned down the law-enforcement portion of its putative border bill - but left in place measures restricting access to Canada's asylum system and giving the minister power to "cancel, suspend or vary" immigration dox. Read it: www.parl.ca/DocumentView...
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“This morning, I spoke to a really senior adviser to Pierre Poilievre, and he said that it took him all hell’s work to convince Pierre to finally take up anti-immigration status. And that’s happening”
A former OneBC staffer previously participated in a Spaces call with the leaders of white nationalist/"Canadian nationalist" organizations.
They talked about deporting 10 million people and joked about throwing "millions of Punjabis" into the sea. 1/3 thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...
They talked about deporting 10 million people and joked about throwing "millions of Punjabis" into the sea. 1/3 thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...
Inside the Far-Right Push to Influence Canadian Political Parties | The Tyee
A conference call shows a political operative with past Conservative connections advising several white nationalist groups.
thetyee.ca
February 7, 2026 at 3:56 PM
“This morning, I spoke to a really senior adviser to Pierre Poilievre, and he said that it took him all hell’s work to convince Pierre to finally take up anti-immigration status. And that’s happening”
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Qué asco de gente 🤮🤮🥵🥵🥶🥶💩💩💩💩🤢🤢😡😡🤬🤬👇👇🙀🙀😶😶👽👽🎃👺👺😱😱🫣🫣🙆🙆🤦🤦👹👹😤😤😥😥😨😨🤯🤯
February 7, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Qué asco de gente 🤮🤮🥵🥵🥶🥶💩💩💩💩🤢🤢😡😡🤬🤬👇👇🙀🙀😶😶👽👽🎃👺👺😱😱🫣🫣🙆🙆🤦🤦👹👹😤😤😥😥😨😨🤯🤯
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Alicante otra vez ...🤯🤯😨😨😥😥😤😤👽👽🎃🎃👺👺😱😱🫣🫣🙆🙆🤦🤦👹👹🫠🫠🥴🥴😢😢😷😷🤑🤑🤓🤓🤧🤧😪😪
February 7, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Alicante otra vez ...🤯🤯😨😨😥😥😤😤👽👽🎃🎃👺👺😱😱🫣🫣🙆🙆🤦🤦👹👹🫠🫠🥴🥴😢😢😷😷🤑🤑🤓🤓🤧🤧😪😪
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I've written a blog aimed at cis ppl, on the recent revelations of rising trans suicide rates since NHS England removed gender affirming care for u18s, in particular about my involvement with trying to seek the truth and the trauma the gaslighting by Appleby, Streeting, Cass and the media causes.
Trans youth suicide - the truth we've always known. What it means to me and what I've been doing about it.
Last week Queer AF broke a story that revealed the suicide rate in trans under eighteens is around fourteen times higher than you might expect from census data.As the parent of Alice a trans woman who...
www.carolinelitman.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:38 PM
I've written a blog aimed at cis ppl, on the recent revelations of rising trans suicide rates since NHS England removed gender affirming care for u18s, in particular about my involvement with trying to seek the truth and the trauma the gaslighting by Appleby, Streeting, Cass and the media causes.
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‘The International Energy Agency reckons that if the current global expansion of data centres continues, the CO2 emissions for which they are responsible, currently around 200 million tonnes per year, will be about 60 per cent higher by 2030.’
Donald MacKenzie on AI.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie on AI.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie · AI’s Scale
AI’s scale doesn’t matter just to specialists. The rest of us are being taken on a ride along the logarithmic curve...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 7:25 PM
‘The International Energy Agency reckons that if the current global expansion of data centres continues, the CO2 emissions for which they are responsible, currently around 200 million tonnes per year, will be about 60 per cent higher by 2030.’
Donald MacKenzie on AI.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie on AI.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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The endless column inches, YouTube videos, podcasts and more given over to the largely non-existent rightwards shift of young men is exhausting.
A small fraction are getting radicalised by the online right. But most young men vote left and liberal! Even more so than millennials did at their age!
A small fraction are getting radicalised by the online right. But most young men vote left and liberal! Even more so than millennials did at their age!
The untold story that is told constantly and isn’t really true
February 7, 2026 at 12:37 PM
The endless column inches, YouTube videos, podcasts and more given over to the largely non-existent rightwards shift of young men is exhausting.
A small fraction are getting radicalised by the online right. But most young men vote left and liberal! Even more so than millennials did at their age!
A small fraction are getting radicalised by the online right. But most young men vote left and liberal! Even more so than millennials did at their age!
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Wrong, deadly wrong. The loan is agreed with unanimity of participants. Please keep your anger for Hungary, The Czech Republic and Slovakia who refused to participate. Tired of this lazy and useless French bashing. When you don’t know, don’t spread rumors.
🇪🇺🇺🇦 EU loan for Ukraine for €90 billion still not agreed due to France's intransigence
🇫🇷 Among Ukraine's allies, frustration with France is growing over its blocking of the loan, first agreed at the EU summit in December, writes Politico.
🇫🇷 Among Ukraine's allies, frustration with France is growing over its blocking of the loan, first agreed at the EU summit in December, writes Politico.
February 7, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Wrong, deadly wrong. The loan is agreed with unanimity of participants. Please keep your anger for Hungary, The Czech Republic and Slovakia who refused to participate. Tired of this lazy and useless French bashing. When you don’t know, don’t spread rumors.
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Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
February 2, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
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The German army brigade in Lithuania is not under fire, but it is under hybrid attack. Soldiers report mysterious phone calls, and drones appear to be spying on manoeuvres. How should the Bundeswehr and NATO respond?
No front line: Russia's hybrid pressure on German army in Lithuania
The German army brigade in Lithuania is not under fire, but it is under hybrid attack. Soldiers report mysterious phone calls, and drones appear to be spying on manoeuvres. How should the Bundeswehr and NATO respond?
l.euronews.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:41 AM
The German army brigade in Lithuania is not under fire, but it is under hybrid attack. Soldiers report mysterious phone calls, and drones appear to be spying on manoeuvres. How should the Bundeswehr and NATO respond?
We keep good company
Groenland: les consulats de France et du Canada, qui s'opposent au projet de l'administration Trump de prendre le contrôle du Groenland, ont été inaugurés vendredi dans la capitale de l'immense territoire arctique, ont constaté des journalistes de l'AFP.
February 7, 2026 at 10:59 AM
We keep good company
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SITREP 🇺🇦 DAY 1445
1. Two bad nights countrywide
Friday: 200 Shahed, 22 leakers
0/2 Kinzhal, 0/5 Kh-59/59
Saturday: 250 Shahed, 44 leakers
14/21 Kh-101
10/16 Kalibr
0/2 Zircon
24 missiles down out of 39
2. Redkino chemical processes plant hit & ablaze (Tver oblast)
1. Two bad nights countrywide
Friday: 200 Shahed, 22 leakers
0/2 Kinzhal, 0/5 Kh-59/59
Saturday: 250 Shahed, 44 leakers
14/21 Kh-101
10/16 Kalibr
0/2 Zircon
24 missiles down out of 39
2. Redkino chemical processes plant hit & ablaze (Tver oblast)
February 7, 2026 at 9:17 AM
SITREP 🇺🇦 DAY 1445
1. Two bad nights countrywide
Friday: 200 Shahed, 22 leakers
0/2 Kinzhal, 0/5 Kh-59/59
Saturday: 250 Shahed, 44 leakers
14/21 Kh-101
10/16 Kalibr
0/2 Zircon
24 missiles down out of 39
2. Redkino chemical processes plant hit & ablaze (Tver oblast)
1. Two bad nights countrywide
Friday: 200 Shahed, 22 leakers
0/2 Kinzhal, 0/5 Kh-59/59
Saturday: 250 Shahed, 44 leakers
14/21 Kh-101
10/16 Kalibr
0/2 Zircon
24 missiles down out of 39
2. Redkino chemical processes plant hit & ablaze (Tver oblast)
Florida
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
February 7, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Florida
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Ireland: A stunning 71 per cent of respondents favour putting a guarantee about neutrality in the Constitution.
Latest Irish Times poll.
Latest Irish Times poll.
February 7, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Ireland: A stunning 71 per cent of respondents favour putting a guarantee about neutrality in the Constitution.
Latest Irish Times poll.
Latest Irish Times poll.
Maybe he even did
Reporter: There are reports that you told Schumer that in order to restore Gateway funding, you would want Dulles Airport and Penn station named after you?
Trump: Schumer suggested it. #cdnpoli
Trump: Schumer suggested it. #cdnpoli
February 7, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Maybe he even did
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I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
Opinion | I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:30 AM
I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
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Premium Newsletter: The Hater's Guide to Microsoft, a decaying empire experiencing the stagnation of all of its core products that's using OpenAI's billions in inference spend to cover up the collapse of Azure's growth. It makes no more than $15bn a year from AI.
www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...
www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...
Premium: The Hater's Guide To Microsoft
Have you ever looked at something too long and felt like you were sort of seeing through it? Has anybody actually looked at a company this much in a way that wasn’t some sort of obsequious profile of ...
www.wheresyoured.at
February 6, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Premium Newsletter: The Hater's Guide to Microsoft, a decaying empire experiencing the stagnation of all of its core products that's using OpenAI's billions in inference spend to cover up the collapse of Azure's growth. It makes no more than $15bn a year from AI.
www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...
www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...
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American workers just took home their smallest share of the nation's wealth since 1947 — even as corporate profits soar.
Why? This chart has the answer.
Why? This chart has the answer.
February 6, 2026 at 4:08 PM
American workers just took home their smallest share of the nation's wealth since 1947 — even as corporate profits soar.
Why? This chart has the answer.
Why? This chart has the answer.
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Ukraine is turning the tables on Russian drone pilots by using new high-tech detectors to spy on their live video feeds in real time.
With This Ukrainian Tech You Can Spy on Russian Drones
Ukraine is using advanced, low-cost signal detectors like ZORKO and Chuika to intercept live FPV drone feeds, enhancing protection for troops.
united24media.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Ukraine is turning the tables on Russian drone pilots by using new high-tech detectors to spy on their live video feeds in real time.
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A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.
Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says
State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 6:07 PM
A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.
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POLITICO reporting that the White House has now claimed the ape video was an accident and removed it.
February 6, 2026 at 5:05 PM
POLITICO reporting that the White House has now claimed the ape video was an accident and removed it.
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SITREP 🇺🇦 DAY 1444
1. Flamingo rocket hits Kapustin Yar launch facilities
2. Trump supports Orban in 🇭🇺 April elex
3. Trump pushes new nuclear treaty after New START expiry
4. No progress after Abu Dhabi trilateral apart from POW exchange
5. Late morning missile+drone strikes vs🇺🇦. No numbers yet
1. Flamingo rocket hits Kapustin Yar launch facilities
2. Trump supports Orban in 🇭🇺 April elex
3. Trump pushes new nuclear treaty after New START expiry
4. No progress after Abu Dhabi trilateral apart from POW exchange
5. Late morning missile+drone strikes vs🇺🇦. No numbers yet
February 6, 2026 at 8:22 AM
SITREP 🇺🇦 DAY 1444
1. Flamingo rocket hits Kapustin Yar launch facilities
2. Trump supports Orban in 🇭🇺 April elex
3. Trump pushes new nuclear treaty after New START expiry
4. No progress after Abu Dhabi trilateral apart from POW exchange
5. Late morning missile+drone strikes vs🇺🇦. No numbers yet
1. Flamingo rocket hits Kapustin Yar launch facilities
2. Trump supports Orban in 🇭🇺 April elex
3. Trump pushes new nuclear treaty after New START expiry
4. No progress after Abu Dhabi trilateral apart from POW exchange
5. Late morning missile+drone strikes vs🇺🇦. No numbers yet
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1st deputy head of GRU
⚡️ BREAKING: Russian General Vladimir Alekseev shot multiple times in Moscow, Russian media reports.
He has been rushed to hospital and the gunman fled the scene, according to reports.
He has been rushed to hospital and the gunman fled the scene, according to reports.
BREAKING: Russian General Vladimir Alekseev shot multiple times in Moscow, Russian media reports
He has been rushed to hospital and the gunman fled the scene, according to reports.
kyivindependent.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:17 AM
1st deputy head of GRU