HumansOvershot
@overshoot.bsky.social
There is “a conviction, shared by some powerful people, that the ecological threat is real and that the only way for them to survive is to abandon any pretense at sharing a common future with the rest of the world”
Prof S. Elden on Lateur’s Down to Earth
Prof S. Elden on Lateur’s Down to Earth
Pinned
“the BBC needs a governance structure that can defend the autonomy of a vital pillar of UK democracy — just when those pillars in the UK, as elsewhere, are coming under strain”
(Financial Times)
(Financial Times)
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
“the BBC needs a governance structure that can defend the autonomy of a vital pillar of UK democracy — just when those pillars in the UK, as elsewhere, are coming under strain”
(Financial Times)
(Financial Times)
the biosphere is being destroyed by the noosphere
the noosphere is increasingly full of shit (X, ChatGPT)
#HomoInsapiens
the noosphere is increasingly full of shit (X, ChatGPT)
#HomoInsapiens
Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
the biosphere is being destroyed by the noosphere
the noosphere is increasingly full of shit (X, ChatGPT)
#HomoInsapiens
the noosphere is increasingly full of shit (X, ChatGPT)
#HomoInsapiens
Dear US citizens,
The new GB’News’ show we have gifted you is a pile of shit (apologies).
If you want to know what is going on here & how we feel about it, follow the @s below.
Yours,
the UK public 🇬🇧
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
@adambienkov.bsky.social
@josiah.writes.news
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
The new GB’News’ show we have gifted you is a pile of shit (apologies).
If you want to know what is going on here & how we feel about it, follow the @s below.
Yours,
the UK public 🇬🇧
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
@adambienkov.bsky.social
@josiah.writes.news
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
My story on GB News in this month's print edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social is now online:
GB News’ new show broadcast live from the US features non-stop praise for Donald Trump – with the channel’s co-owner begging ‘MAGA’ politicians to save the UK
GB News’ new show broadcast live from the US features non-stop praise for Donald Trump – with the channel’s co-owner begging ‘MAGA’ politicians to save the UK
GB News Calls For Trump's America to 'Save Britain’
GB News’ new show broadcast live from the US features non-stop praise for Donald Trump – with the channel’s co-owner begging ‘MAGA’ politicians to save the UK, reports Josiah Mortimer
substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Dear US citizens,
The new GB’News’ show we have gifted you is a pile of shit (apologies).
If you want to know what is going on here & how we feel about it, follow the @s below.
Yours,
the UK public 🇬🇧
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
@adambienkov.bsky.social
@josiah.writes.news
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
The new GB’News’ show we have gifted you is a pile of shit (apologies).
If you want to know what is going on here & how we feel about it, follow the @s below.
Yours,
the UK public 🇬🇧
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
@adambienkov.bsky.social
@josiah.writes.news
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
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"To ensure the BBC’s independence, impartiality and trust, Robbie Gibb should have no role in appointing the new director general"
Good call by @eddavey.libdems.org.uk:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Good call by @eddavey.libdems.org.uk:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey
The BBC belongs to all of us, and it is under attack as never before. The government must defend it from its enemies, within and without, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"To ensure the BBC’s independence, impartiality and trust, Robbie Gibb should have no role in appointing the new director general"
Good call by @eddavey.libdems.org.uk:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Good call by @eddavey.libdems.org.uk:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I've always felt that Johnson and Farage put self-interest over the national interest - hence their dallying with Putin and his oligarchs. But directly colluding with a foreign government to take down the BBC feels like an act of supreme treachery
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I've always felt that Johnson and Farage put self-interest over the national interest - hence their dallying with Putin and his oligarchs. But directly colluding with a foreign government to take down the BBC feels like an act of supreme treachery
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Yep. Keep capitulating to this monster. Don't worry, he'll change for you. You can change him. He's only 80, a convicted felon, and an adjudicated rapist with 67 sex-crime allegations on him. Just keep rolling over. If you roll over enough maybe we can have the whole fucking world in flames by 2028.
Trump threatens legal action against BBC as chairman apologises for 'error of judgement' on speech edit
The BBC says it will respond
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Yep. Keep capitulating to this monster. Don't worry, he'll change for you. You can change him. He's only 80, a convicted felon, and an adjudicated rapist with 67 sex-crime allegations on him. Just keep rolling over. If you roll over enough maybe we can have the whole fucking world in flames by 2028.
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The rebellion was led by the politically-appointed members of the board. observer.co.uk/opinion-and-...
The Observer view: political interference at the BBC | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The rebellion was led by the politically-appointed members of the board. observer.co.uk/opinion-and-...
Dear Victoria,
Newsnight guest list?:
“Why the BBC actually had it right”
👉Seth Abramson (Harvard, law)
BBC approached him before, may be up for it now
👉Peter Jukes (Cambridge, journalist) - understands wtf is going on
Yours,
UK 🇬🇧
@sethabramson.bsky.social
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social
Newsnight guest list?:
“Why the BBC actually had it right”
👉Seth Abramson (Harvard, law)
BBC approached him before, may be up for it now
👉Peter Jukes (Cambridge, journalist) - understands wtf is going on
Yours,
UK 🇬🇧
@sethabramson.bsky.social
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social
(1 of 3) Good thing the BBC didn't talk to any January 6 experts before going in this direction.
The United States Capitol grounds were closed on January 6.
It was a federal crime to trespass on them.
Trump told leaders of an illegal march intended to terminate illegally on federal grounds...
The United States Capitol grounds were closed on January 6.
It was a federal crime to trespass on them.
Trump told leaders of an illegal march intended to terminate illegally on federal grounds...
BBC leaders resign amid scandal over misleading edit of Trump speech | CNN
The BBC’s Director General Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness resigned on Sunday, following criticism over impartiality and bias at the news corporation.
www.cnn.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Dear Victoria,
Newsnight guest list?:
“Why the BBC actually had it right”
👉Seth Abramson (Harvard, law)
BBC approached him before, may be up for it now
👉Peter Jukes (Cambridge, journalist) - understands wtf is going on
Yours,
UK 🇬🇧
@sethabramson.bsky.social
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social
Newsnight guest list?:
“Why the BBC actually had it right”
👉Seth Abramson (Harvard, law)
BBC approached him before, may be up for it now
👉Peter Jukes (Cambridge, journalist) - understands wtf is going on
Yours,
UK 🇬🇧
@sethabramson.bsky.social
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social
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Notable that the supposedly “patriotic” wing of British politics wants to destroy / defund almost all of our national institutions
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Notable that the supposedly “patriotic” wing of British politics wants to destroy / defund almost all of our national institutions
Reposted by HumansOvershot
(PS3) So these BBC leaders resigned for nothing. They had their story correct—their only mistake was having the story *more* correct than they knew.
Had they been working with January 6 historians they would have understood that the actual situation was worse, not better, than the BBC portrayed it.
Had they been working with January 6 historians they would have understood that the actual situation was worse, not better, than the BBC portrayed it.
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
(PS3) So these BBC leaders resigned for nothing. They had their story correct—their only mistake was having the story *more* correct than they knew.
Had they been working with January 6 historians they would have understood that the actual situation was worse, not better, than the BBC portrayed it.
Had they been working with January 6 historians they would have understood that the actual situation was worse, not better, than the BBC portrayed it.
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🚨 The BBC’s Road to Appeasement
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...
The BBC’s Road to Appeasement
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish Adam Bienkov and Patrick Howse's 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
🚨 The BBC’s Road to Appeasement
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...
A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social
Until about 2 minutes ago I didn’t realise that Robbie Gibb was a cofounder of GBNews🤯
Then I read Wiki - why do all right wing ppl have links to Russia? Is Putin our boss now?
Also, could you get together with the other good eggs at the BBC and do a coup or something?
Until about 2 minutes ago I didn’t realise that Robbie Gibb was a cofounder of GBNews🤯
Then I read Wiki - why do all right wing ppl have links to Russia? Is Putin our boss now?
Also, could you get together with the other good eggs at the BBC and do a coup or something?
November 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social
Until about 2 minutes ago I didn’t realise that Robbie Gibb was a cofounder of GBNews🤯
Then I read Wiki - why do all right wing ppl have links to Russia? Is Putin our boss now?
Also, could you get together with the other good eggs at the BBC and do a coup or something?
Until about 2 minutes ago I didn’t realise that Robbie Gibb was a cofounder of GBNews🤯
Then I read Wiki - why do all right wing ppl have links to Russia? Is Putin our boss now?
Also, could you get together with the other good eggs at the BBC and do a coup or something?
when you know the Universe glitched at some unknown point in your past, and you ended up in the comedy-horror one …
#Help
#Help
Apropos of nothing, I’ve just realised that Matthew Elliott, of Young Britons Foundation, Tufton Street, and Vote Leave fame has been ennobled as the Baron of Mickle Fell. Not sure he thought that one through
November 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
when you know the Universe glitched at some unknown point in your past, and you ended up in the comedy-horror one …
#Help
#Help
Jesus
From the archives 🔎
GB News ‘Founder’ in Business with Two Top Priti Patel Appointees
Sir Robbie Gibb, who helped found the new ‘anti-woke’ media channel, is tied to the Government’s bid to attack Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion
bylinetimes.com/2021/02/10/g...
GB News ‘Founder’ in Business with Two Top Priti Patel Appointees
Sir Robbie Gibb, who helped found the new ‘anti-woke’ media channel, is tied to the Government’s bid to attack Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion
bylinetimes.com/2021/02/10/g...
GB News ‘Founder’ in Business with Two Top Priti Patel Appointees
Nafeez Ahmed reveals how Sir Robbie Gibb, who helped found the new ‘anti-woke’ media channel, is tied to the Government’s bid to attack Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion
bylinetimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Jesus
BREAKING❗️
anyone near a US coastline today - look out to sea and squint really hard!!
if you are REALLY lucky you’ll see something very special bobbing about on the waves
it’s called “regulation”
(if it’s face-down don’t panic, it’s just dead in the water)
#HeritageFoundation
#Project2025
anyone near a US coastline today - look out to sea and squint really hard!!
if you are REALLY lucky you’ll see something very special bobbing about on the waves
it’s called “regulation”
(if it’s face-down don’t panic, it’s just dead in the water)
#HeritageFoundation
#Project2025
Billionaire Marc Andreessen said in 2024 that the CFPB exists to “terrorize finance, terrorize financial institutions, prevent fintech, prevent new competition, new startups."
Now, he and other Silicon Valley firms have benefited from Trump's gutting of the agency.
Now, he and other Silicon Valley firms have benefited from Trump's gutting of the agency.
Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley.
The Trump administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of “terrorizing” fintech startup...
www.propublica.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
BREAKING❗️
anyone near a US coastline today - look out to sea and squint really hard!!
if you are REALLY lucky you’ll see something very special bobbing about on the waves
it’s called “regulation”
(if it’s face-down don’t panic, it’s just dead in the water)
#HeritageFoundation
#Project2025
anyone near a US coastline today - look out to sea and squint really hard!!
if you are REALLY lucky you’ll see something very special bobbing about on the waves
it’s called “regulation”
(if it’s face-down don’t panic, it’s just dead in the water)
#HeritageFoundation
#Project2025
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🔴 NEW - Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, flogged its tech to the oil industry in Brazil on the eve of the COP30 summit
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30
As world leaders prepared to descend on the small city of Belém in the Brazilian Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, artificial intelligence (AI) chip-manufacturer Nvidia was instead peddling its ene...
www.desmog.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🔴 NEW - Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, flogged its tech to the oil industry in Brazil on the eve of the COP30 summit
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
📝 Great scoop by @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com 👇🏻
Lingfield & Crowhurst (Tandridge) Council By-Election Result:
🏘️ LCR: 38.0% (+3.2)
➡️ RFM: 27.3% (New)
🙋 Ind: 13.1% (New)
🌳 CON: 10.6% (-1.3)
🔶 LDM: 7.5% (-1.5)
🌹 LAB: 3.5% (-13.4)
No Ind (-27.5) as previous.
Localist Group HOLD.
Changes w/ 2024.
🏘️ LCR: 38.0% (+3.2)
➡️ RFM: 27.3% (New)
🙋 Ind: 13.1% (New)
🌳 CON: 10.6% (-1.3)
🔶 LDM: 7.5% (-1.5)
🌹 LAB: 3.5% (-13.4)
No Ind (-27.5) as previous.
Localist Group HOLD.
Changes w/ 2024.
November 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The European Commission is getting a crash course into what it means to live in technofeudal times... www.ft.com/content/af6c...
EU weighs pausing parts of landmark AI act in face of US and Big Tech pressure
Brussels is set to water down part of its strict digital rule book as it aims to make bloc more competitive
www.ft.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
November 7, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Well, we’d all better Timothy Snyder our futures 👇
(yes I’ve turned him in to a verb)
Find him here:
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
(yes I’ve turned him in to a verb)
Find him here:
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
🔴Keir Starmer’s Government Says Elon Musk’s X AI Chatbot Endorsing Hitler Is a ‘Matter for the Company’
The Prime Minister’s spokesman dismisses calls to leave X, despite its official ‘Grok’ bot posting a series of antisemitic comments
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/09/k...
The Prime Minister’s spokesman dismisses calls to leave X, despite its official ‘Grok’ bot posting a series of antisemitic comments
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/09/k...
Keir Starmer's Government Says Elon Musk's X AI Chatbot Endorsing Hitler Is a 'Matter for the Company'
The Prime Minister's spokesman dismisses calls to leave the social media platform, despite its official 'Grok' bot posting a series of antisemitic comments
bylinetimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Well, we’d all better Timothy Snyder our futures 👇
(yes I’ve turned him in to a verb)
Find him here:
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
(yes I’ve turned him in to a verb)
Find him here:
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
It’s official. Humanity literally has no clue what it’s doing.
Here’s the central bank of USA (the Fed) forecasting the impact of AI on the economy:
1. Zero (humans go extinct so no economic activity)
2. Utopia (the end of scarcity - neatly ignores the laws of physics)
3. a 2.1% growth rate
🤣
Here’s the central bank of USA (the Fed) forecasting the impact of AI on the economy:
1. Zero (humans go extinct so no economic activity)
2. Utopia (the end of scarcity - neatly ignores the laws of physics)
3. a 2.1% growth rate
🤣
November 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It’s official. Humanity literally has no clue what it’s doing.
Here’s the central bank of USA (the Fed) forecasting the impact of AI on the economy:
1. Zero (humans go extinct so no economic activity)
2. Utopia (the end of scarcity - neatly ignores the laws of physics)
3. a 2.1% growth rate
🤣
Here’s the central bank of USA (the Fed) forecasting the impact of AI on the economy:
1. Zero (humans go extinct so no economic activity)
2. Utopia (the end of scarcity - neatly ignores the laws of physics)
3. a 2.1% growth rate
🤣
On “flushing out the duds”:
👉 X and the like are producing a never ending stream of them
👉 so unless media is suitably regulated it will continue
#WhackAMole
👉 X and the like are producing a never ending stream of them
👉 so unless media is suitably regulated it will continue
#WhackAMole
maybe this is a societal version of vomiting - BylineTimes is single-handedly flushing out the duds
thank you, on behalf of all our future selves
thank you, on behalf of all our future selves
November 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
On “flushing out the duds”:
👉 X and the like are producing a never ending stream of them
👉 so unless media is suitably regulated it will continue
#WhackAMole
👉 X and the like are producing a never ending stream of them
👉 so unless media is suitably regulated it will continue
#WhackAMole
Cllr Robert Ford decides to sue Reform for defamation of character
- and completely misses the irony 😄
after *checks notes* female colleagues complain about his behaviour
- gosh, could there be a pattern here? 🤔
then declares "It's a shame that our great nation has come to this"
- indeed, Robert 😶
- and completely misses the irony 😄
after *checks notes* female colleagues complain about his behaviour
- gosh, could there be a pattern here? 🤔
then declares "It's a shame that our great nation has come to this"
- indeed, Robert 😶
ANOTHER Reform councillor gone in Kent.
I contacted her early this morning to see why she was now described as an "Independent" on the KCC website.
Turns out this is why...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I contacted her early this morning to see why she was now described as an "Independent" on the KCC website.
Turns out this is why...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK suspends another Kent councillor after video leak
Isabella Kemp is the latest Kent member to be suspended after the leak of a heated virtual meeting.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Cllr Robert Ford decides to sue Reform for defamation of character
- and completely misses the irony 😄
after *checks notes* female colleagues complain about his behaviour
- gosh, could there be a pattern here? 🤔
then declares "It's a shame that our great nation has come to this"
- indeed, Robert 😶
- and completely misses the irony 😄
after *checks notes* female colleagues complain about his behaviour
- gosh, could there be a pattern here? 🤔
then declares "It's a shame that our great nation has come to this"
- indeed, Robert 😶
😬
👉water shortages?
reservoir near me already runs low
👉continuous noise/ humming?
no thanks
👉pave over green belt?
worked my whole life to live here
👉increased energy costs?
nope, can’t afford it
👉the value of my house?
fucked
*scuttles off to find out if there’s a SEZ planned near me*
👉water shortages?
reservoir near me already runs low
👉continuous noise/ humming?
no thanks
👉pave over green belt?
worked my whole life to live here
👉increased energy costs?
nope, can’t afford it
👉the value of my house?
fucked
*scuttles off to find out if there’s a SEZ planned near me*
Data is the new oil.
Starmer's January 2025 AI Growth Zones obsession is grounded in two forms of capitalism:
Disaster Capitalism and Surveillance Capitalism
Thread
Starmer's January 2025 AI Growth Zones obsession is grounded in two forms of capitalism:
Disaster Capitalism and Surveillance Capitalism
Thread
November 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
😬
👉water shortages?
reservoir near me already runs low
👉continuous noise/ humming?
no thanks
👉pave over green belt?
worked my whole life to live here
👉increased energy costs?
nope, can’t afford it
👉the value of my house?
fucked
*scuttles off to find out if there’s a SEZ planned near me*
👉water shortages?
reservoir near me already runs low
👉continuous noise/ humming?
no thanks
👉pave over green belt?
worked my whole life to live here
👉increased energy costs?
nope, can’t afford it
👉the value of my house?
fucked
*scuttles off to find out if there’s a SEZ planned near me*