Peter Howitt
@peterhowitt.bsky.social
AI optimist (Iain M Banks / James Lovelock variety). Full time lawyer, part-time poet and fumbling philosopher - "That is not what I meant, at all.”
https://compossible.blog/
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Peter Howitt
@peterhowitt.bsky.social
· Nov 2
Elon Musk – Part 1: The Crusader Behind The Mask?
Elon Musk is a deeply conflicted character. Intelligent, troubled and dark…
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Elon Musk – Part 1: The Crusader Behind The Mask?
Elon Musk is a deeply conflicted character. Intelligent, troubled and dark...
Elon Musk is a deeply conflicted character. Intelligent, troubled and dark...
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The Flame is not the Fire - a poem:
Today I see the god
In everything
And everything to me
Proclaims and sings
And dances
Like the dragonflies
In spring
Gentle reminder
That the flame
Is not the fire
Love every host
And every ghost
That lives within
#Poetry
Today I see the god
In everything
And everything to me
Proclaims and sings
And dances
Like the dragonflies
In spring
Gentle reminder
That the flame
Is not the fire
Love every host
And every ghost
That lives within
#Poetry
January 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The Flame is not the Fire - a poem:
Today I see the god
In everything
And everything to me
Proclaims and sings
And dances
Like the dragonflies
In spring
Gentle reminder
That the flame
Is not the fire
Love every host
And every ghost
That lives within
#Poetry
Today I see the god
In everything
And everything to me
Proclaims and sings
And dances
Like the dragonflies
In spring
Gentle reminder
That the flame
Is not the fire
Love every host
And every ghost
That lives within
#Poetry
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I wish you a Happy Christmas and a coming year of solidarity and resistance. Love and courage to you all.
December 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I wish you a Happy Christmas and a coming year of solidarity and resistance. Love and courage to you all.
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“We need to believe in decency, truth, and honesty so that they can prevail,” said Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk [@donald-tusk.bsky.social] in his Christmas message.
December 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
“We need to believe in decency, truth, and honesty so that they can prevail,” said Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk [@donald-tusk.bsky.social] in his Christmas message.
Merry Christmas Europe - from your fascist erstwhile ally America
US sanctions former EU commissioner and four Europeans over efforts to curb online hate speech
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio named British, French and German citizens involved in efforts to curb the spread of disinformation are targeted by the visa ban.
www.politico.eu
December 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Merry Christmas Europe - from your fascist erstwhile ally America
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Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'
December 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
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“There is a song, bird song or wind song,
or the song old rooms sing when no one
is awake to hear.”
Philip Levine.
or the song old rooms sing when no one
is awake to hear.”
Philip Levine.
December 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
“There is a song, bird song or wind song,
or the song old rooms sing when no one
is awake to hear.”
Philip Levine.
or the song old rooms sing when no one
is awake to hear.”
Philip Levine.
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He is covering up extrajudicial killings.
He is covering up kidnapping, trafficking & horrific detention.
He is covering up child rapes.
He is covering up stealing classified documents & selling them.
He is covering up details of his coup attempt.
He is covering up who he’s really working for.
He is covering up kidnapping, trafficking & horrific detention.
He is covering up child rapes.
He is covering up stealing classified documents & selling them.
He is covering up details of his coup attempt.
He is covering up who he’s really working for.
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
He is covering up extrajudicial killings.
He is covering up kidnapping, trafficking & horrific detention.
He is covering up child rapes.
He is covering up stealing classified documents & selling them.
He is covering up details of his coup attempt.
He is covering up who he’s really working for.
He is covering up kidnapping, trafficking & horrific detention.
He is covering up child rapes.
He is covering up stealing classified documents & selling them.
He is covering up details of his coup attempt.
He is covering up who he’s really working for.
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Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
December 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
Netanyahu also wants the inquiry to find the Ark of the Covenant and Miriam's Well before they will be allowed to conclude on the failures around October 7th...
Netanyahu reportedly says Oct. 7 inquiry must probe Oslo Accords, Gaza Disengagement, judicial overhaul opponents
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www.timesofisrael.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Netanyahu also wants the inquiry to find the Ark of the Covenant and Miriam's Well before they will be allowed to conclude on the failures around October 7th...
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Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord with Uncle Sam's big tech - www.theregister.com/2025/12/22/e... "Public bodies migrate in the bloc as hyperscalers claim sovereignty" long overdue #sovereignty
Europe gets serious about cutting US digital umbilical cord
Feature: Public bodies migrate in the bloc as hyperscalers claim sovereignty
www.theregister.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord with Uncle Sam's big tech - www.theregister.com/2025/12/22/e... "Public bodies migrate in the bloc as hyperscalers claim sovereignty" long overdue #sovereignty
"Bondi filled me with fear and darkness. I felt it as a Jew.. But Ahmed’s act illuminated something else. Resistance to hate isn’t always slogans..Sometimes it’s running forward when everything says run away..Hanukkah doesn’t promise darkness will vanish. It promises light can be carried."
A reflection on what happened in Bondi Beach a week ago, and an appeal - from this Jew - for humanity over hate and persecution of all kinds.
With memories of holocaust survivors, and Muslims who crossed boundaries of division as the brave Ahmed al-Ahmed did.
open.substack.com/pub/bendicke...
With memories of holocaust survivors, and Muslims who crossed boundaries of division as the brave Ahmed al-Ahmed did.
open.substack.com/pub/bendicke...
50 by 60 #6: Light, After Bondi – fear, humanity, and the bravery to connect
From Bondi Beach to East London, a meditation on murder, memory, Hanukkah, and the bravery to resist hate – not with slogans or purity tests, but humanity, connection, and the light we carry together.
open.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:50 AM
"Bondi filled me with fear and darkness. I felt it as a Jew.. But Ahmed’s act illuminated something else. Resistance to hate isn’t always slogans..Sometimes it’s running forward when everything says run away..Hanukkah doesn’t promise darkness will vanish. It promises light can be carried."
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Their demands are reasonable, their treatment is disgraceful. The government's intransigence is killing the #PalestineAction hunger strikers. Just as its complicity has assisted the genocide in Gaza. It needs to wake up right now to the moral consequences.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Two Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers taken to hospital
MPs and next of kin of prisoners Amu Gib, 30, and Kamran Ahmed, 28, call for immediate government intervention
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Their demands are reasonable, their treatment is disgraceful. The government's intransigence is killing the #PalestineAction hunger strikers. Just as its complicity has assisted the genocide in Gaza. It needs to wake up right now to the moral consequences.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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“We have sacrificed our national success because of our fear of immigration. And now, if Farage has his way, we'll do it all over again”
Superb, important analysis of the profound harm Farage does to our country in his rabidly racist and egotistical bid for power
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/407...
Superb, important analysis of the profound harm Farage does to our country in his rabidly racist and egotistical bid for power
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/407...
December 22, 2025 at 7:18 AM
“We have sacrificed our national success because of our fear of immigration. And now, if Farage has his way, we'll do it all over again”
Superb, important analysis of the profound harm Farage does to our country in his rabidly racist and egotistical bid for power
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/407...
Superb, important analysis of the profound harm Farage does to our country in his rabidly racist and egotistical bid for power
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/407...
'Dolphin at Dawn' - woodcut
AI generated
AI generated
December 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
'Dolphin at Dawn' - woodcut
AI generated
AI generated
How the world woke up to Google's AI dominance
How Google leapfrogged ChatGPT – and why the AI race may already be over
For more than 20 years Google has been the gateway to the internet – now it wants to use its dominance to win the AI race. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince tells Anthony Cuthbertson why new rules are nee...
www.independent.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
How the world woke up to Google's AI dominance
Love the graphic story approach - life in 2035
What will your life look like in 2035?
When AIs become consistently more capable than humans, life could change in strange ways. Here we look at how the era of artificial general intelligence might feel
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Love the graphic story approach - life in 2035
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Israeli forces have massacred six Palestinians civilians, including a baby, taking shelter in a school.
The genocide in Gaza continues.
The genocide in Gaza continues.
Israeli troops kill six Palestinians sheltering in Gaza school, say hospital chiefs
Attack brings total number of Palestinians killed by Israel to 401 since October ceasefire took effect
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Israeli forces have massacred six Palestinians civilians, including a baby, taking shelter in a school.
The genocide in Gaza continues.
The genocide in Gaza continues.
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Six political prisoners awaiting trial in the U.K. for supporting the banned protest group Palestine Action have been hospitalized as their health declines while on prolonged hunger strike.
December 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Six political prisoners awaiting trial in the U.K. for supporting the banned protest group Palestine Action have been hospitalized as their health declines while on prolonged hunger strike.
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DOJ broke the law today by refusing to produce all the Epstein files. It also broke the law by redacting information other than to protect victims. Yet, the corporate media is acting that DOJ did us a huge favor.
Now, more than ever, help build independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
Now, more than ever, help build independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
December 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
DOJ broke the law today by refusing to produce all the Epstein files. It also broke the law by redacting information other than to protect victims. Yet, the corporate media is acting that DOJ did us a huge favor.
Now, more than ever, help build independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
Now, more than ever, help build independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
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It's not that Europe doesn't want to defend Ukraine, it's that not ALL of Europe wants to fight Putin, because some Europeans think that their self-interest lies in supporting him.
Poland’s Donald Tusk framed yesterday’s EU leaders’ summit around a stark choice: pay to stop Putin now or fight when his troops arrive.
His equation — cash or casualties — exposes the conflict at the heart of Europe's struggles over supporting Ukraine.
His equation — cash or casualties — exposes the conflict at the heart of Europe's struggles over supporting Ukraine.
Summit shows Europe still doesn’t want to pay to save Ukraine
Some northern countries have been sending cash to Kyiv for years, but many Europeans don’t see why they should.
www.politico.eu
December 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
It's not that Europe doesn't want to defend Ukraine, it's that not ALL of Europe wants to fight Putin, because some Europeans think that their self-interest lies in supporting him.
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The EU doesn't get it. Despite the best efforts of academics, advisors and other experts to inform them.
Maintaining and increasing pressure = Russia has opportunity to adapt, sustaining its war effort.
Apply a massive economic & financial shock = denies Russia opportunity to adapt = war ends.
Maintaining and increasing pressure = Russia has opportunity to adapt, sustaining its war effort.
Apply a massive economic & financial shock = denies Russia opportunity to adapt = war ends.
The EU remains determined to maintain and increase pressure on #Russia to stop its brutal war of aggression and engage in meaningful negotiations towards peace. EUCO calls on the Council to continue working on a new sanctions package, with the aim of adopting it as soon as possible.
December 19, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The EU doesn't get it. Despite the best efforts of academics, advisors and other experts to inform them.
Maintaining and increasing pressure = Russia has opportunity to adapt, sustaining its war effort.
Apply a massive economic & financial shock = denies Russia opportunity to adapt = war ends.
Maintaining and increasing pressure = Russia has opportunity to adapt, sustaining its war effort.
Apply a massive economic & financial shock = denies Russia opportunity to adapt = war ends.
"Twenty years after this story was printed, we are just starting to write the history of the strange death of neoliberal England. Yet Kingdom Come demonstrates that our current mess has a long, long history. The bleakness that surrounds today’s politics stretches back..."
Want to understand the sickness of Britain today? Look no further – a novel explained it all 20 years ago | Aditya Chakrabortty
The racism, the predatory politics, the banality and cruelty: we struggle to make sense of it, but JG Ballard foretold everything we are living through now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
"Twenty years after this story was printed, we are just starting to write the history of the strange death of neoliberal England. Yet Kingdom Come demonstrates that our current mess has a long, long history. The bleakness that surrounds today’s politics stretches back..."