Oliver Bullough
@oliverbullough.bsky.social
Journalist; author of Butler to the World and Moneyland
British "patriots" assaulting the BBC to gain approval from American fascists is just fucking weird on a deep level.
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
British "patriots" assaulting the BBC to gain approval from American fascists is just fucking weird on a deep level.
Roll up! Excited to be hosting a new kleptoscope at London's Frontline Club, with Sue Hawley, of @spotlightcorruption.org, Jess Garland of @electoralreform.bsky.social and @liambyrnemp.bsky.social. We'll be talking about how to save democracy from big money.
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Kleptoscope: Big Money in Little Britain
How to protect our democracy?
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November 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Roll up! Excited to be hosting a new kleptoscope at London's Frontline Club, with Sue Hawley, of @spotlightcorruption.org, Jess Garland of @electoralreform.bsky.social and @liambyrnemp.bsky.social. We'll be talking about how to save democracy from big money.
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People who believe in democracy really need to relearn how to tell people that don't to fuck off.
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
People who believe in democracy really need to relearn how to tell people that don't to fuck off.
If social media companies are actively making choices about what kind of political content to highlight, then how are they different from traditional media companies? And so why aren't they liable to being sued for libel, etc, in the same way?
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
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November 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
If social media companies are actively making choices about what kind of political content to highlight, then how are they different from traditional media companies? And so why aren't they liable to being sued for libel, etc, in the same way?
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Not really the main issue from Caerphilly, but I'm fascinated by the continued existence of zombie parties. What motivates someone to stand for UKIP in 2025, presumably in the full knowledge you're going to come last?
October 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Not really the main issue from Caerphilly, but I'm fascinated by the continued existence of zombie parties. What motivates someone to stand for UKIP in 2025, presumably in the full knowledge you're going to come last?
It's the final battle between good and legitimate concerns.
October 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
It's the final battle between good and legitimate concerns.
Yes, he's a vile person objectively stoking the flames that are burning the world, but he also makes us money, so let's split the difference and go with "neutrality".
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October 22, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Yes, he's a vile person objectively stoking the flames that are burning the world, but he also makes us money, so let's split the difference and go with "neutrality".
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So refreshing to see the previously unexplored subversive potential of a very rich person owning a media outlet, and content producers giving him what he wants.
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October 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
So refreshing to see the previously unexplored subversive potential of a very rich person owning a media outlet, and content producers giving him what he wants.
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Reposted by Oliver Bullough
How has the government got itself into the position of standing up for Israeli football hooligans, while criminalising peaceful supporters of Palestine Action?
October 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
How has the government got itself into the position of standing up for Israeli football hooligans, while criminalising peaceful supporters of Palestine Action?
Not many things make me feel sympathetic to Trump but I wouldn't wish one of Putin's crazy-Facebook-uncle rants about Yaroslav the Wise on anyone.
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October 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Not many things make me feel sympathetic to Trump but I wouldn't wish one of Putin's crazy-Facebook-uncle rants about Yaroslav the Wise on anyone.
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I'm a huge fan of this headline.
October 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I'm a huge fan of this headline.
Has anyone read anything comprehensive/interesting about the circular investment thing going on with AI? i.e. "Nscale buys Nvidia to build data centre for Microsoft, which invests in OpenAI, which invests in Nvida, which invests in Nscale" as in this article.
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UK data centre start-up Nscale strikes $14bn Microsoft deal in push for IPO
Nvidia-backed AI cloud group secures huge new contract as chief executive eyes public listing in ‘back end of next year’
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October 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Has anyone read anything comprehensive/interesting about the circular investment thing going on with AI? i.e. "Nscale buys Nvidia to build data centre for Microsoft, which invests in OpenAI, which invests in Nvida, which invests in Nscale" as in this article.
www.ft.com/content/7fa4...
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Looking like Chelsea FC? So, previously owned by a Russian oligarch, but now in hock to American hedge funds?
October 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Looking like Chelsea FC? So, previously owned by a Russian oligarch, but now in hock to American hedge funds?
St Paul's Letter to the Californians, ch.8 v.2: "yay, verily, is it not written that efforts to impose democratic oversight o'er tech megascalers shall be a sign of the impending rise of Satan, whose minions shall wear pigtails and miss school?"
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Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.
Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
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October 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
St Paul's Letter to the Californians, ch.8 v.2: "yay, verily, is it not written that efforts to impose democratic oversight o'er tech megascalers shall be a sign of the impending rise of Satan, whose minions shall wear pigtails and miss school?"
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Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’
It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”
It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”
It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”
It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”
October 10, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Gold has passed $4,000 a troy ounce, a measurement that was clearly invented for a laugh by bored Middle Ages people
"The troy grain is equal to the grain unit of the avoirdupois, but the troy ounce is heavier than the avoirdupois ounce, and the troy pound is lighter than the avoirdupois pound."
"The troy grain is equal to the grain unit of the avoirdupois, but the troy ounce is heavier than the avoirdupois ounce, and the troy pound is lighter than the avoirdupois pound."
October 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Gold has passed $4,000 a troy ounce, a measurement that was clearly invented for a laugh by bored Middle Ages people
"The troy grain is equal to the grain unit of the avoirdupois, but the troy ounce is heavier than the avoirdupois ounce, and the troy pound is lighter than the avoirdupois pound."
"The troy grain is equal to the grain unit of the avoirdupois, but the troy ounce is heavier than the avoirdupois ounce, and the troy pound is lighter than the avoirdupois pound."
Accept Russian oligarchs' money without question?
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We must emulate the United Arab Emirates, apparently.
Where to even start...?
Where to even start...?
October 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Accept Russian oligarchs' money without question?
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aMeRiCa AnD bRiTaIn ArE dIFfErEnT cOuNtRiEs
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sTaRMeR DId evERYtHiNG tHE cEnTRisTs DEmS wANt aND iT HASn'T woRKed
October 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
aMeRiCa AnD bRiTaIn ArE dIFfErEnT cOuNtRiEs
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There's some imagined slight behind this "kitchen cabinet" thing, but I think I'm too weary of his bullshit to try and find out what it is. Does anyone know?
September 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
There's some imagined slight behind this "kitchen cabinet" thing, but I think I'm too weary of his bullshit to try and find out what it is. Does anyone know?
When I lived in Moscow I was having a drink with a Russian mate who'd studied in London and favourably contrasted the UK (no ID cards/home of FREEDOM!) with Russia (ID cards/basically serfdom), and he said: "are you kidding? You have ID cards, you just call them utility bills".
September 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
When I lived in Moscow I was having a drink with a Russian mate who'd studied in London and favourably contrasted the UK (no ID cards/home of FREEDOM!) with Russia (ID cards/basically serfdom), and he said: "are you kidding? You have ID cards, you just call them utility bills".
In the eternal battle between hope and experience, I just bought my tickets for Wales' home six nations matches.
September 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
In the eternal battle between hope and experience, I just bought my tickets for Wales' home six nations matches.
As Winston Churchill so famously said: the Nazis' not even half-baked plans to invade France and the Low Countries are unfunded, unworkable and falling apart.
September 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
As Winston Churchill so famously said: the Nazis' not even half-baked plans to invade France and the Low Countries are unfunded, unworkable and falling apart.
Pussy Riot and Led By Donkeys on stage together! It's a super-group of direct action,
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THE ART OF DIRECT ACTION
Excited to bring Masha Alyokhina & @olgaborisovauk.bsky.social of @pussyriot.bsky.social & @ledbydonkeys.org together for the first time
W/ @oliverbullough.bsky.social
Dec 1 St Georges Bristol
Tickets www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/whats-on/pus...
#pussyriot #ledbydonkeys
Excited to bring Masha Alyokhina & @olgaborisovauk.bsky.social of @pussyriot.bsky.social & @ledbydonkeys.org together for the first time
W/ @oliverbullough.bsky.social
Dec 1 St Georges Bristol
Tickets www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/whats-on/pus...
#pussyriot #ledbydonkeys
September 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Pussy Riot and Led By Donkeys on stage together! It's a super-group of direct action,
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