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Nick Jackson
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While everyone deserves a voice, not everyone has earned a microphone.
US news junkie from SA🇿🇦. I also (re)skeet about advertising, film & TV, HIV, WWW, comedy & Lady Gaga. Agency guy in Digital\Strat\Prod\etc
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This is also how every call to "slash red tape" or "deregulate" should be handled.

Regulations can always work better or be streamlined, but 98% of the time their purpose is still valid and the right wing clowns bloviating about it are the last people on earth you'd trust to iterate implementation.
implausibleblog.bsky.social Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d
"So will it be the same act but with a different label?"

Victoria Derbyshire humiliates Zia Yusuf on Reform UK's plan to scrap the Equalities Act, because, as she reads each of the things from the Equalities act he confirms they'll still be protected 🤷‍♂️
February 18, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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Pro wrestling has a new kind of supervillain. Even fans can't believe who it is. slate.trib.al/JdXIxxt
Pro Wrestling Has a New Kind of Supervillain. Even Fans Can’t Believe Who It Is.
Under new leadership after Vince McMahon, WWE itself is playing the heel.
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February 18, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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Hi! We're a band whose first album you loved. Though we have 6 different social media channels and websites, and the record company made us 2 more, on none of them will we provide any useful information about a forthcoming second album, or a tour, or, indeed, if we're even still a going concern.
February 16, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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Ukrainians warned for years that Europe’s human rights chief was a Kremlin conduit. The Epstein files just proved them right. euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/04/u...
Ukrainians warned for years that Europe's human rights chief was a Kremlin conduit. The Epstein files just proved them right. - Euromaidan Press
Epstein files reveal how Council of Europe chief Jagland offered to connect the convicted sex offender to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov.
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February 5, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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LISTEN. The Boss has a song for us.
brucespringsteen.net Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 21d
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be… The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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bovino's access to the DHS social branded he was using has been suspended, which is like the death penalty in the Posting Administration
January 27, 2026 at 8:39 AM
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I bought a pack of Wine Gums for the first time in ages the other day, and we used to be a society.
A strip of wine gums without the flavours in sets of 3s but instead in a random order.
January 27, 2026 at 8:51 AM
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I think we need a corollary to Betteridge’s Law where any headline beginning ‘Meet’ features someone you would rather not exist
Guardian article pic and headline. Pic is of some smarmy little cunt, the headline reads Meet the young Tories fighting to change their old party: 'Where do we go now?'
January 25, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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Everyone who is like "You gotta watch Interstellar!" can you please chill, it came out less than 2 hours ago.
January 16, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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“I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.”
berniemichalik.ca Bernie Michalik @berniemichalik.ca · Jan 15
Lots of people are talking about this obit, and for very good reason! What a life! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w... (gift link)
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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This is the song Christie recounts Death Row prisoners singing in Pretoria Maximum Security Prison before each execution, to ease the terror of the condemned: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJP7...
January 15, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Proud to contribute!
josephcox.bsky.social Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · Jan 14
When self-employed software engineer Nick Benson put out the call for dashcams online, he thought he’d get maybe 10 people to donate. More than 500 have shown up on his front porch. Here's how one guy crowdsourced 500+ dashcams for Minneapolis to film ICE www.404media.co/how-one-guy-...
How One Guy Crowdsourced More Than 500 Dashcams for Minneapolis to Film ICE
‘We have to make sure people are watching. We have to make sure we’re keeping track of our community members.’
www.404media.co
January 14, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you."

That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.
January 9, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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January 9, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
January 9, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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1. Hundreds of corps that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 5 years

But we've identified 10 promise keepers:

Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
Eversource Energy
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
Five years later, these 10 corporations still aren’t funding election deniers
Five years ago today, on January 6, 2021, a violent mob stormed the Capitol building.
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January 6, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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every seat in a movie theater should have an "I have to pee" button and if enough people press it they should be able to pause the movie
January 7, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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What do these companies have in common?

-Cigna
-Comcast
-General Mills
-Allstate
-Marriott
-Hilton
-Walmart
-Amazon
-Microsoft
-Meta

All promised after January 6, 2021 to stop funding lawmakers who tried to overturn the 2020 election.

And all have broken that promise.
January 6, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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Had a good time last night largely due to someone thinking I was in my 20s.
January 1, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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Tumblr user nocryptographer: I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation. A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written. AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence. Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same. There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that. I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it. If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... then it's real.
December 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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The chance of me accepting cookies from your website is proportional to the size of your cookie pop-up.
December 18, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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PSA: Do not leave your Christmas biscuits out if you have a bad cat. Our cat sliced the plastic and licked out the whole centre of a Jolly Jammer, the best biscuits in the whole box.
Jolly Jammer biscuit with centre licked out by a bad cat.
December 16, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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@bsky.app is asking for my birth date and then telling me that I don't have permission to add my birthdate.
December 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM