Matt "Winter is here"
@mattrobb.bsky.social
Politics, Education, Strategy, LFC and FF
No conspiracists, anti-vax, QAnon etc please.
No conspiracists, anti-vax, QAnon etc please.
Being worried about this is 'pearl-clutching', apparently
The US has become a cess-pit run by hormonal teenage dickheads & rapists with a white nationalist and racist worldview
It's pretty hard to imagine a worse fate.
The US has become a cess-pit run by hormonal teenage dickheads & rapists with a white nationalist and racist worldview
It's pretty hard to imagine a worse fate.
One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.
January 6, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Being worried about this is 'pearl-clutching', apparently
The US has become a cess-pit run by hormonal teenage dickheads & rapists with a white nationalist and racist worldview
It's pretty hard to imagine a worse fate.
The US has become a cess-pit run by hormonal teenage dickheads & rapists with a white nationalist and racist worldview
It's pretty hard to imagine a worse fate.
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Here's another flaw in X's system. If you report an account like I did last night for generating nude or sexualised images of children, it will remove the account. It won't remove all of Grok's replies to that person, so some of the images generated remain online.
Writing this I had to look through Grok's mentions. Earlier I counted around 8 requests PER MINUTE featuring "bikini" and "her". Thousands of women and girls stripped each day. I found users stripping dozens of women per hour, from female celebrities to gym selfies.
www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
MPs urge boycott of Elon Musk’s X over Grok AI’s undressing
The call to end use of X for official government communication follows posts of digitally undressed women and children that may have broken UK law
www.thetimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Here's another flaw in X's system. If you report an account like I did last night for generating nude or sexualised images of children, it will remove the account. It won't remove all of Grok's replies to that person, so some of the images generated remain online.
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Occasionally they spell it out.
Here's the US at the UN security council this afternoon
Here's the US at the UN security council this afternoon
January 5, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Occasionally they spell it out.
Here's the US at the UN security council this afternoon
Here's the US at the UN security council this afternoon
This is fascinating history...
Perhaps the more unnerving question: what is the equivalent newsletter today?
Perhaps the more unnerving question: what is the equivalent newsletter today?
Here's all 8 pages of CO2 Newsletter Vol 1 no 1 (Oct 1979)
Geologist William N. Barbat published the Newsletter for 3 years (18 issues). They are incredible - detailed, precise and, ultimately, heart-breaking because they reveal how much was known, how many warnings were ignored.
1/8
Geologist William N. Barbat published the Newsletter for 3 years (18 issues). They are incredible - detailed, precise and, ultimately, heart-breaking because they reveal how much was known, how many warnings were ignored.
1/8
January 6, 2026 at 10:22 AM
This is fascinating history...
Perhaps the more unnerving question: what is the equivalent newsletter today?
Perhaps the more unnerving question: what is the equivalent newsletter today?
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“Property guru” Samuel Leeds sells expensive courses using viral videos promoting tax “loopholes”.
He claims to have used one himself. Our analysis shows it doesn’t work. And if he really used it, he owes HMRC a substantial amount of tax.
Thread 🧵
He claims to have used one himself. Our analysis shows it doesn’t work. And if he really used it, he owes HMRC a substantial amount of tax.
Thread 🧵
January 6, 2026 at 9:47 AM
“Property guru” Samuel Leeds sells expensive courses using viral videos promoting tax “loopholes”.
He claims to have used one himself. Our analysis shows it doesn’t work. And if he really used it, he owes HMRC a substantial amount of tax.
Thread 🧵
He claims to have used one himself. Our analysis shows it doesn’t work. And if he really used it, he owes HMRC a substantial amount of tax.
Thread 🧵
This is really, really good. And - to me - pretty reassuring.
If only the govt would act rationally on this data...
If only the govt would act rationally on this data...
Further evidence that Reform voters are the most distinct political group in the country
benansell.substack.com/p/odd-ones-out
benansell.substack.com/p/odd-ones-out
January 6, 2026 at 9:24 AM
This is really, really good. And - to me - pretty reassuring.
If only the govt would act rationally on this data...
If only the govt would act rationally on this data...
Gast well and truly flabbered by this extraordinary image.
Happy new year! My all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds and this picture shows what happened in the sky in 2025. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.
January 6, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Gast well and truly flabbered by this extraordinary image.
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I know it’s and overused expression, but this is beyond satire
Insanity: Sources close to the White House told the Washington Post Trump lost interest in backing Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado to lead the country because she accepted her Nobel Peace Prize rather than demanding it be given to Trump, which was viewed as an “ultimate sin.”
January 5, 2026 at 7:56 AM
I know it’s and overused expression, but this is beyond satire
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WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 3:02 AM
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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The cynics think today's attack on Venezuela is staged and transactional. Maduro is allied with Putin, but in 2019 Putin offered Trump a swap: Russia cedes Venezuela and gets Ukraine. (See Fiona Hill's testimony in Trump's first impeachment trial, h/t @davetroy.com). Even Maduro may be in on it. 2/
January 3, 2026 at 4:22 PM
The cynics think today's attack on Venezuela is staged and transactional. Maduro is allied with Putin, but in 2019 Putin offered Trump a swap: Russia cedes Venezuela and gets Ukraine. (See Fiona Hill's testimony in Trump's first impeachment trial, h/t @davetroy.com). Even Maduro may be in on it. 2/
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babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes
“What appears to be a newly created account appeared to invest $30,000 Friday in Maduro's exit. After Maduro went into custody Saturday morning, that same investor netted $436,759.61.”
Someone made $400K by predicting Maduro's capture. Here's what happened
The winnings come as the rules governing prediction markets are still evolving.
www.axios.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:38 PM
babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes
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Stephen Miller’s wife 👇
January 3, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Stephen Miller’s wife 👇
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European weakness on full display by these horribly contorted responses from Merz, Macron and Starmer - neither condoning nor condemning US actions in Venezuela
Such weakness only risks making the Europeans more vulnerable (ie Greenland)
Such weakness only risks making the Europeans more vulnerable (ie Greenland)
January 3, 2026 at 7:43 PM
European weakness on full display by these horribly contorted responses from Merz, Macron and Starmer - neither condoning nor condemning US actions in Venezuela
Such weakness only risks making the Europeans more vulnerable (ie Greenland)
Such weakness only risks making the Europeans more vulnerable (ie Greenland)
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🚨🚨 Re #leavingx topic: #French prosecutors to investigate #deepfakes of women stripped naked by #grok.
Utterly reprehensible and disgusting. 👇
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
Utterly reprehensible and disgusting. 👇
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
France to investigate deepfakes of women stripped naked by Grok
Hundreds of women and teenagers have reported their photos published on social media have been “undressed” by Grok.
www.politico.eu
January 2, 2026 at 6:52 PM
🚨🚨 Re #leavingx topic: #French prosecutors to investigate #deepfakes of women stripped naked by #grok.
Utterly reprehensible and disgusting. 👇
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
Utterly reprehensible and disgusting. 👇
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
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Trump told you to elect him so he can release the Epstein files. Since his election, he has spent a full year covering them up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oibZ76Td6pg&list=PLmHDGpDOjacoTxbrY068uPDU6lYhubjg4&index=17
The Cover-up
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
www.youtube.com
January 2, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Trump told you to elect him so he can release the Epstein files. Since his election, he has spent a full year covering them up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oibZ76Td6pg&list=PLmHDGpDOjacoTxbrY068uPDU6lYhubjg4&index=17
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1. Why does Russian regime change against Ukraine fail?
Ukraine's leadership was democratically elected and seen as legitimate by most Ukrainians.
2. Why could the US to seize Maduro in Venezuela?
Maduro falsified elections and was seen as illegitimate by much of Venezuela.
Ukraine's leadership was democratically elected and seen as legitimate by most Ukrainians.
2. Why could the US to seize Maduro in Venezuela?
Maduro falsified elections and was seen as illegitimate by much of Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
1. Why does Russian regime change against Ukraine fail?
Ukraine's leadership was democratically elected and seen as legitimate by most Ukrainians.
2. Why could the US to seize Maduro in Venezuela?
Maduro falsified elections and was seen as illegitimate by much of Venezuela.
Ukraine's leadership was democratically elected and seen as legitimate by most Ukrainians.
2. Why could the US to seize Maduro in Venezuela?
Maduro falsified elections and was seen as illegitimate by much of Venezuela.
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Maduro’s capture was a “negotiated exit”, sources in the Venezuelan opposition tell Sky News.
So, as is typical with Trump, a different picture already begins to emerge.
So, as is typical with Trump, a different picture already begins to emerge.
January 3, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Maduro’s capture was a “negotiated exit”, sources in the Venezuelan opposition tell Sky News.
So, as is typical with Trump, a different picture already begins to emerge.
So, as is typical with Trump, a different picture already begins to emerge.
Not often I agree with Corbyn, but this is spot on
The US has launched an unprovoked and illegal attack on Venezuela.
This is a brazen attempt to secure control over Venezuelan natural resources.
It is an act of war that puts the lives of millions of people at risk, and should be condemned by anyone who believes in sovereignty & international law.
This is a brazen attempt to secure control over Venezuelan natural resources.
It is an act of war that puts the lives of millions of people at risk, and should be condemned by anyone who believes in sovereignty & international law.
January 3, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Not often I agree with Corbyn, but this is spot on
Killing Venezuelans because he wants their oil.
Literally everything is wrong with that statement.
Literally everything is wrong with that statement.
NEW: Trump administration launches direct military strikes on Venezuela. Explosions reported in Caracas. Aircraft reported flying over the city.
January 3, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Killing Venezuelans because he wants their oil.
Literally everything is wrong with that statement.
Literally everything is wrong with that statement.
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This does seem just a little bit bad! Idk the sort of thing you’d think politicians might distance themselves from or something!
January 2, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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If the British government, and indeed other governments, can’t muster a fast and strong response to Twitter adding a facility enabling users to create and share AI child sexual abuse material then not sure what Musk could ever do that would actually provoke a response.
January 2, 2026 at 1:27 PM
If the British government, and indeed other governments, can’t muster a fast and strong response to Twitter adding a facility enabling users to create and share AI child sexual abuse material then not sure what Musk could ever do that would actually provoke a response.
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Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.”
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
January 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.”
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.