M.B. Drapier
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A jumped-up egg. I can neither confirm nor deny that I am the Queen of the May.
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Owen is right to highlight this. As taxpayers, we already paid. All this will do is introduce higher prices to all consumers and businesses.
This GOTT guidance is Treasury-brained and low-key hostile to #opendata – it starts from the premise that organisations in the UK public sector should look to commercially exploit "their" knowledge assets, with no real expectation that they should prioritise the wider public interest.
October 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Owen is right to highlight this. As taxpayers, we already paid. All this will do is introduce higher prices to all consumers and businesses.
(RTing because I can’t reply.) bsky.app/profile/mbdr...
If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?
October 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Just because I’m a dumbass doesn’t mean you’re right
October 18, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Just because I’m a dumbass doesn’t mean you’re right
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well you see in the 15th century new york was under egyptian imperial rule. that’s why we have the temple of dendur. they left it behind when the french impressionists took over.
October 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
well you see in the 15th century new york was under egyptian imperial rule. that’s why we have the temple of dendur. they left it behind when the french impressionists took over.
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/All That Jazz/ just happens to be a film about a seamy, larger-than-life 1970s New York bigshot being confronted with his own imminent death. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_aI...
All That Jazz | #TBT Trailer | 20th Century FOX
YouTube video by 20th Century Studios
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October 13, 2025 at 3:02 AM
/All That Jazz/ just happens to be a film about a seamy, larger-than-life 1970s New York bigshot being confronted with his own imminent death. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_aI...
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Urgh, right. As a New York-based musicals lover and high-society orgiast/sex offender of a certain age, *of course* he'd be a big fan of /All That Jazz/: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UrX...
"Up there where the clouds are pillowy,
You're as close to heaven as you'll ever be."
Urgh, right. As a New York-based musicals lover and high-society orgiast/sex offender of a certain age, *of course* he'd be a big fan of /All That Jazz/: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UrX...
"Up there where the clouds are pillowy,
You're as close to heaven as you'll ever be."
October 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Urgh, right. As a New York-based musicals lover and high-society orgiast/sex offender of a certain age, *of course* he'd be a big fan of /All That Jazz/: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UrX...
"Up there where the clouds are pillowy,
You're as close to heaven as you'll ever be."
Urgh, right. As a New York-based musicals lover and high-society orgiast/sex offender of a certain age, *of course* he'd be a big fan of /All That Jazz/: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UrX...
"Up there where the clouds are pillowy,
You're as close to heaven as you'll ever be."
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Big piece in POLITICO asking about the independence of Ireland's process of appointing people to its Data Protection Commission. There is deep unease in Brussels about Ireland appointing a former Meta lobbyist as Meta's watchdog. Now questions about who was involved.
www.politico.eu/article/big-...
www.politico.eu/article/big-...
Big Tech lawyer played key role in picking Ireland’s new privacy regulator
Former Meta lobbyist Niamh Sweeney will co-lead the Irish Data Protection Commission from mid-October.
www.politico.eu
October 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Big piece in POLITICO asking about the independence of Ireland's process of appointing people to its Data Protection Commission. There is deep unease in Brussels about Ireland appointing a former Meta lobbyist as Meta's watchdog. Now questions about who was involved.
www.politico.eu/article/big-...
www.politico.eu/article/big-...
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Ok I found the exact AI video Trump posted from a random TruthSocial account that posted it-- it's good old Chrissy Allen/TinaWade219, who posted it on Thursday. /
archive.ph/lpiZ4
archive.ph/lpiZ4
September 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Ok I found the exact AI video Trump posted from a random TruthSocial account that posted it-- it's good old Chrissy Allen/TinaWade219, who posted it on Thursday. /
archive.ph/lpiZ4
archive.ph/lpiZ4
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The Telegraph: China is secretly supplying Russia with drone parts worth at least £47 million, including engines, microchips, and carbon fiber, despite its claims of neutrality.
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
September 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The Telegraph: China is secretly supplying Russia with drone parts worth at least £47 million, including engines, microchips, and carbon fiber, despite its claims of neutrality.
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
... you know who might actually be quite a good new CEO for Intel, assuming he had the time? ;) In a kill-or-cure, 50/50-shot sort of way?
August 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
... you know who might actually be quite a good new CEO for Intel, assuming he had the time? ;) In a kill-or-cure, 50/50-shot sort of way?
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1/ Russian refugees deported by the United States back to Russia have experienced intensive interrogation, threats, violence, and torture, according to Russian sources. Thousands of Russians have fled to the US to escape the war and political persecution by the Putin regime. ⬇️
August 29, 2025 at 8:06 AM
1/ Russian refugees deported by the United States back to Russia have experienced intensive interrogation, threats, violence, and torture, according to Russian sources. Thousands of Russians have fled to the US to escape the war and political persecution by the Putin regime. ⬇️
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If you haven’t seen it yet, our team has released one of our largest investigations to date, revealing the scale of Chinese involvement in Russia’s Shahed drone program - a program that would be impossible without China
frontelligence.substack.com/p/shaheds-do...
frontelligence.substack.com/p/shaheds-do...
Shaheds, Dollars, and Beijing: How China Powers Russia's Drone Production in Alabuga
Exclusive report - export data, open-source investigation, and insider analysis
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August 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM
If you haven’t seen it yet, our team has released one of our largest investigations to date, revealing the scale of Chinese involvement in Russia’s Shahed drone program - a program that would be impossible without China
frontelligence.substack.com/p/shaheds-do...
frontelligence.substack.com/p/shaheds-do...
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“How did i become an EM investor? Well, i invested in US assets and waited.”
August 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
“How did i become an EM investor? Well, i invested in US assets and waited.”
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The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine
How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.
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August 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
$678M raised through those spam tactics
$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.
$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)
The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
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unfortunately the crisis of modernity is finding a way to politically afford what society can borderline trivially industrially afford
August 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
unfortunately the crisis of modernity is finding a way to politically afford what society can borderline trivially industrially afford
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Ukrainian parliament's speaker signs law stripping anti-corruption agencies of independence
Ukrainian parliament’s speaker signs law stripping anti-corruption agencies of independence
Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) Ruslan Stefanchuk has signed the law passed at Tuesday’s session introducing amendments to Ukraine’s Criminal Procedure Code, which include provisi...
www.pravda.com.ua
July 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Ukrainian parliament's speaker signs law stripping anti-corruption agencies of independence
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It’s also a Murdoch paper, though. Now overall you do not particularly have to hand it to Murdoch, but: not although, but in fact *because* he’s been a RW activist media owner since at least the ‘80s, he’s used to bucking and threatening and making demands of governments, not simply complying.
February 14, 2025 at 3:02 AM
It’s also a Murdoch paper, though. Now overall you do not particularly have to hand it to Murdoch, but: not although, but in fact *because* he’s been a RW activist media owner since at least the ‘80s, he’s used to bucking and threatening and making demands of governments, not simply complying.
As I’ve pointed out in the past, this is also how the US finally gets to Universal Basic Income. ;)
Papa, why are we all judges?
Well honey. This all went back to the great packing wars of 2026.
Well honey. This all went back to the great packing wars of 2026.
July 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
As I’ve pointed out in the past, this is also how the US finally gets to Universal Basic Income. ;)
I don’t believe the comparison is accurate because, as far as I know, there is no official story here: the authorities have never even offered an innocuous explanation, or any explanation, for the immunity for unspecified co-conspirators—or for the luxuriously soft prison time which Epstein served.
Epstein is like 9/11 or JFK in that the most lurid theories are certainly untrue but the official story is full of lies by omission.
July 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I don’t believe the comparison is accurate because, as far as I know, there is no official story here: the authorities have never even offered an innocuous explanation, or any explanation, for the immunity for unspecified co-conspirators—or for the luxuriously soft prison time which Epstein served.
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a friend posted this on FB and it’s one of the better applications of the meme format I’ve seen recently
July 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
a friend posted this on FB and it’s one of the better applications of the meme format I’ve seen recently
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And on the pedestal, these words appear: "The singularity is coming! Scale is all you need"
June 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
And on the pedestal, these words appear: "The singularity is coming! Scale is all you need"
July 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...