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Remember: Meta *wants* you to be angry and misinformed. It wants you ignorant and obedient.

It also has no power without an audience.
January 15, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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“A high-powered lawyer representing Meta in a copyright case said he was dropping the company as a client due to CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “descent into toxic masculinity…”
Big-Shot Lawyer: I Won’t Represent Meta Any More Thanks to Zuckerberg
A lawyer representing the social media giant in a copyright dispute with famous writers said he could no longer “in good conscience” keep working with the company.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 15, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Man, bosses are so funny. Meta pissed away $46 billion on Zuck’s brilliant metaverse plan (8,000 daily users as of 2023) but he still gets to tut tut “low performers”. I could accidentally nuke Luxembourg and not waste this much money
Meta plans to lay off up to 5% of its employees based on performance ratings. “I’ve decided to raise the bar on performance management and move out low-performers faster,” Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Meta, said in an internal memo to workers.
Meta to Cut 5% of Its Workers in New Round of Layoffs
The layoffs come as Mark Zuckerberg pushes to remake his company for the Trump era and prepares to co-host a gala for the president-elect’s inauguration.
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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A high-powered lawyer representing Meta in a copyright case said he was dropping the company as a client due to CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “descent into toxic masculinity.”
Big-Shot Lawyer: I Won’t Represent Meta Any More Thanks to Zuckerberg
A lawyer representing the social media giant in a copyright dispute with famous writers said he could no longer “in good conscience” keep working with the company.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Elon hates the SEC. Because they have forensic accountants and analysts who busted him for violating regs to get a lower price for Twitter.
Once a crook, always a crook.
Gift article.
wapo.st/40f5g7e
SEC sues Elon Musk over late disclosure of Twitter share purchases
The financial regulator ordered Musk to pay a civil penalty and remedies over alleged “unjust enrichment” ahead of his 2022 purchase of the social network.
wapo.st
January 15, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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“South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has been arrested and is to undergo questioning over his ill-fated declaration of martial law last month”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol arrested, investigators say, after hours-long standoff at residence
Impeached president detained over failed December martial law bid a month after a first attempt ended in stalemate
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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January 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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The only good billionaire, is a former billionaire.

Lets make them all into good billionaires.
January 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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There's no better reason to keep Tommy Robinson in jail.

I'm sure you agree.
January 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Second-home council tax rises to fund police patrols in Devon and Cornwall
Second-home council tax rises to fund police patrols in Devon and Cornwall
Force could receive extra sum of up to £6m when local authorities double rates for holiday homes from April Funds raised by increasing council tax bills for second-home owners in Cornwall and Devon are to be used to boost police patrols across the two…
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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How devastating was the dissolution of the monasteries? How did the closure of 850 religious houses in four years affect ordinary people? The first part of our new series A World Torn Apart: The Dissolution of the Monasteries can now be streamed on History Hit. access.historyhit.com/a-world-torn...
A World Torn Apart: The Dissolution of the Monasteries - 1 - Season 1 - History Hit
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb unravels one of the most profound transformations in Tudor society, when faith and politics collided: the dissolution of the monasteries. Over just four years in the 1530s,...
access.historyhit.com
January 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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The thing you have to remember about fascists is that they don't just go away.

You have to get rid of them.

Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, Pinochet, Pol Pot...

None of them stood down.
January 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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January 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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December 26, 2024 at 4:56 AM
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🚨 ONLY 364 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS 🚨
December 26, 2024 at 9:05 AM
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"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil" warns against blind acceptance. True tolerance demands justice, accountability, and action | Patrick McGough
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil”
"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil" warns against blind acceptance. True tolerance demands justice, accountability, and action.
northeastbylines.co.uk
December 26, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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Brilliant summary from Paul Lewis 👇

Mark this day for it is the day you became angry.
Water bills to rise 20% (£86) plus inflation in April and then above inflation for the next four years. @Ofwat gives private water companies in England the go-ahead to make customers pay for the investment they have failed to do for 30 years while enriching shareholders and bosses
December 19, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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An MP has called for a freeze on water bills as sewage overflows continue to threaten water-based recreational activities.

Govt can do that; end privatisation; instead of dividends money will go into infrastructure.

But it refuses. Ideology triumphs.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/busines...
Water bills should freeze while sewage threatens Santa swims and surfing - MP
Ben Maguire called for new limits in the Commons on Thursday, after the watchdog Ofwat said it will allow firms to raise average bills by £31 a year over the next five years
www.mirror.co.uk
December 21, 2024 at 7:07 AM
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"We're unable to renationalize the water-companies as it would have an adverse effect on rich people's yacht money" (I mean we did tell you in advance that Starmer and co were Tories, so don't act surprised when they do things like this. This is what Tories do)
Average water bill in England and Wales to rise by 36% over five years
Firms accused of forcing households to pay for years of underinvestment after Ofwat agrees to increases to help fix sector
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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Majestic and free—this is how foxes should be, not hunted for sport. 🦊✨
December 19, 2024 at 12:26 PM
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BREAKING: Water companies are hiking your water bills by 36% so you have the privilege of paying their fines for providing you with a substandard service. Isn't privatisation brilliant? x
December 19, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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A mob threw tea into Boston Harbour today in 1773 protesting a corrupt executive determined to impose tarrifs on trade to suit the needs of a powerful corporation.
December 16, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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Sometimes I’ll go get coffee and tell them my name is Frodo, that way when it’s ready they go “large Americano…for Frodo” and then I answer “For Frodo!” and nobody laughs and then I take my coffee and go drink it alone in my car
December 16, 2024 at 3:34 PM