Rippers
@ripley123.bsky.social
Lead software engineer, veteran game developer, boulderer, music maker, to the left of politics, remoaner.
In the UK.
In the UK.
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“Two-thirds of 2024 Labour voters would rather Sir Keir Starmer abandon his Brexit red lines and join a customs union with the European Union than raise taxes on working people, new polling has revealed.”
#Brexit disaster.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
#Brexit disaster.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Labour voters want Starmer to rejoin EU customs union instead of raising taxes
Exclusive: Some 67 per cent of 2024 Labour voters back rejoining the customs union instead of raising taxes, a new poll shows
www.independent.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“Two-thirds of 2024 Labour voters would rather Sir Keir Starmer abandon his Brexit red lines and join a customs union with the European Union than raise taxes on working people, new polling has revealed.”
#Brexit disaster.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
#Brexit disaster.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Meiselas: The official Trump U.S. National Security Strategy document has been released. The document says a top priority of the U.S. is "cultivating resistance to Europe's current trajectory." In other words, to destroy the European Union.
December 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Meiselas: The official Trump U.S. National Security Strategy document has been released. The document says a top priority of the U.S. is "cultivating resistance to Europe's current trajectory." In other words, to destroy the European Union.
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The tech oligarchs are the most organised, determined anti democratic force we’ve seen this side of World War II
For way too long this has been ignored, elided and under estimated
What someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time
For way too long this has been ignored, elided and under estimated
What someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The tech oligarchs are the most organised, determined anti democratic force we’ve seen this side of World War II
For way too long this has been ignored, elided and under estimated
What someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time
For way too long this has been ignored, elided and under estimated
What someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time
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Felt #earthquake: 3.4 #quake Lancashire, 43 km northeast of Blackpool, Blackpool, England, United Kingdom, 33 minutes ago - 728 reports so far.
Did you feel it? Send a report!
Did you feel it? Send a report!
Felt earthquake: 3.4 quake Lancashire, 43 km northeast of Blackpool, Blackpool, England, United Kingdom, 33 minutes ago
Detail infos, updates and user reports for this event
www.volcanodiscovery.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Felt #earthquake: 3.4 #quake Lancashire, 43 km northeast of Blackpool, Blackpool, England, United Kingdom, 33 minutes ago - 728 reports so far.
Did you feel it? Send a report!
Did you feel it? Send a report!
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‘GDP reduced by 8%’ – Nine-year study reveals how Brexit decimated UK economy
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...
'GDP reduced by 8%' - Nine-year study reveals how Brexit decimated UK economy
Can't help but feel those responsible for Brexit should not, for example, be riding high in the polls with a new party...
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
‘GDP reduced by 8%’ – Nine-year study reveals how Brexit decimated UK economy
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...
Went out to play on a school night - going to regret that in the morning 😀
The Levellers were as great as always though.
The Levellers were as great as always though.
November 17, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Went out to play on a school night - going to regret that in the morning 😀
The Levellers were as great as always though.
The Levellers were as great as always though.
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This perfectly encapsulates why we need the BBC
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This perfectly encapsulates why we need the BBC
I guess Trump will be taking his own AI to court soon!
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I guess Trump will be taking his own AI to court soon!
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It would be funny, if it wasn't tragic, reading this from four years ago about the 'independent' expert who wrote the report into purported leftwing bias at the BBC. It's just embarrassingly amateur - but it works because the Government is awol. www.theguardian.com/media/2021/n...
Lobbyist at firm with close ties to Tories will help select Ofcom chair
Appointment of Michael Prescott as interviewer follows move to give Paul Dacre chance to reapply
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It would be funny, if it wasn't tragic, reading this from four years ago about the 'independent' expert who wrote the report into purported leftwing bias at the BBC. It's just embarrassingly amateur - but it works because the Government is awol. www.theguardian.com/media/2021/n...
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EU officials are ready to sacrifice some of their most prized privacy rules for the sake of AI, as they seek to turbocharge business in Europe by slashing red tape.
Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom
Draft proposals obtained by POLITICO show EU is breaking sacred privacy regime to placate industry.
www.politico.eu
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
EU officials are ready to sacrifice some of their most prized privacy rules for the sake of AI, as they seek to turbocharge business in Europe by slashing red tape.
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The Heritage Foundation, the intellectual engine behind the 922-page blueprint that has become the key policy manual for Donald Trump’s second term, is partnering with a constellation of European nationalist far-right movements to export its playbook.
The Heritage Foundation goes from MAGA to MEGA — Make Europe Great Again
On the agenda: pro-natalism, freedom of expression, opposing trans rights and fighting Chinese influence.
www.politico.eu
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The Heritage Foundation, the intellectual engine behind the 922-page blueprint that has become the key policy manual for Donald Trump’s second term, is partnering with a constellation of European nationalist far-right movements to export its playbook.
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Jonathan Marcus ex BBC defence+diplomatic corr: “The answer does not lie in equalising bias ie appointing people with overt right-wing sympathies. The answer is to establish proper editorial standards that are enforced so that irrespective of personal views journalists cover the news properly.”
November 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Jonathan Marcus ex BBC defence+diplomatic corr: “The answer does not lie in equalising bias ie appointing people with overt right-wing sympathies. The answer is to establish proper editorial standards that are enforced so that irrespective of personal views journalists cover the news properly.”
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Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill
November 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill
It must be very confusing for Elon Musk, being worth $1 trillion yet still being an utterly worthless human being.
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
It must be very confusing for Elon Musk, being worth $1 trillion yet still being an utterly worthless human being.
That’s a very illuminating article.
We all felt that Twitter had gained a right wing bias under Musk, but it’s visualised very well here and backed by solid research.
We all felt that Twitter had gained a right wing bias under Musk, but it’s visualised very well here and backed by solid research.
This is a genuinely fascinating piece of research done by Sky on the sewer previously known as Twitter.
Having been largely off it for a bit over a month, and having jumped on yesterday for a half an hour to search for insane right wing responses to Mamdani’s win, I can’t tell you just how 1/
Having been largely off it for a bit over a month, and having jumped on yesterday for a half an hour to search for insane right wing responses to Mamdani’s win, I can’t tell you just how 1/
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:17 AM
That’s a very illuminating article.
We all felt that Twitter had gained a right wing bias under Musk, but it’s visualised very well here and backed by solid research.
We all felt that Twitter had gained a right wing bias under Musk, but it’s visualised very well here and backed by solid research.
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Politico: "Reform's Richard Tice insisted on Times Radio that the upstart movement never promised to cut council taxes — despite presenter Stig Abell reading out Reform election leaflets pledging just that."
These people are very happy to lie. It is the Trump playbook: sowing confusion at any cost.
These people are very happy to lie. It is the Trump playbook: sowing confusion at any cost.
November 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Politico: "Reform's Richard Tice insisted on Times Radio that the upstart movement never promised to cut council taxes — despite presenter Stig Abell reading out Reform election leaflets pledging just that."
These people are very happy to lie. It is the Trump playbook: sowing confusion at any cost.
These people are very happy to lie. It is the Trump playbook: sowing confusion at any cost.
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I am vaguely curious about how Labour have got themselves into a position where one of their landmark pieces of legislation, the Renter's Rights Bill, is finally law, and they have very little interest in promoting it to the point everyone's still talking about Reform!
October 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I am vaguely curious about how Labour have got themselves into a position where one of their landmark pieces of legislation, the Renter's Rights Bill, is finally law, and they have very little interest in promoting it to the point everyone's still talking about Reform!
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"For the government it’s quite mad to keep using X. It’s active participation in its own destruction and against its own interests. I cannot fathom the logic of doing it. It would be like a Reform government communicating entirely through the Guardian comments section." 👏 @samfr.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"For the government it’s quite mad to keep using X. It’s active participation in its own destruction and against its own interests. I cannot fathom the logic of doing it. It would be like a Reform government communicating entirely through the Guardian comments section." 👏 @samfr.bsky.social
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Russia still considers the UK one of its prime enemies.
And what’s the best way to bring ‘Britain to its knees’ again as the former Russian Ambassador to London once boasted?
Repeat the talking points of Farage and Far right activists - key collaborators in Putin’s mission
And what’s the best way to bring ‘Britain to its knees’ again as the former Russian Ambassador to London once boasted?
Repeat the talking points of Farage and Far right activists - key collaborators in Putin’s mission
October 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Russia still considers the UK one of its prime enemies.
And what’s the best way to bring ‘Britain to its knees’ again as the former Russian Ambassador to London once boasted?
Repeat the talking points of Farage and Far right activists - key collaborators in Putin’s mission
And what’s the best way to bring ‘Britain to its knees’ again as the former Russian Ambassador to London once boasted?
Repeat the talking points of Farage and Far right activists - key collaborators in Putin’s mission
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Such a relief that Russia lost in Caerphilly.
October 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Such a relief that Russia lost in Caerphilly.
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Not much better than a lie, this from Starmer. He can't pledge what a Reform Government, following a Trumpist or Russian agenda, will do with digital ID. They certainly won't be bound by his promise!
Please email him to scrap his dangerous scheme. action.goodlawproject.org/tell-keir-st....
Please email him to scrap his dangerous scheme. action.goodlawproject.org/tell-keir-st....
October 24, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Not much better than a lie, this from Starmer. He can't pledge what a Reform Government, following a Trumpist or Russian agenda, will do with digital ID. They certainly won't be bound by his promise!
Please email him to scrap his dangerous scheme. action.goodlawproject.org/tell-keir-st....
Please email him to scrap his dangerous scheme. action.goodlawproject.org/tell-keir-st....
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📍 NEW 📍Did you know that major meat and dairy producers emit more greenhouse gases than the nation of Saudi Arabia? They also rival emissions of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies. Read DeSmog's latest from Joe Fassler. buff.ly/G4ZMlV5
Top Meat and Dairy Companies Have Same Climate Impact as Biggest Oil and Gas Firms
New study shows top producers responsible for more carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions than all of oil giant Saudi Arabia.
www.desmog.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
📍 NEW 📍Did you know that major meat and dairy producers emit more greenhouse gases than the nation of Saudi Arabia? They also rival emissions of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies. Read DeSmog's latest from Joe Fassler. buff.ly/G4ZMlV5
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Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Beef, pork, chicken: the world loves cheap meat. If people knew what really goes in it, that love affair would be over | Devi Sridhar
Antibiotic use in farming is now rampant. How meat is produced in China may mean the drugs you need here won’t work, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburg...
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Conservative Party cannot be considered a responsible party of government again until and unless Ms Lam is forced to drop her Idi Amin migration proposal and apologise to those it threatens, or has the whip removed. It is as simple as that.
Breaking promises made to people the government thinks unpopular, and saying bad luck with health or unemployment is as reprehensible as criminality, is bad not just for those facing deportation but for all of us who care about Britain as a country that believes in fair play, decency and honesty.
Lam says on air the policy is to remove those "because" they broke the rules/conditions under which they came
But her policy is to retrospectively change the rules/conditions under which they came!
Lam knows this will be perceived as unfair: she will feel "great personal sympathy" for deportees
But her policy is to retrospectively change the rules/conditions under which they came!
Lam knows this will be perceived as unfair: she will feel "great personal sympathy" for deportees
October 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The Conservative Party cannot be considered a responsible party of government again until and unless Ms Lam is forced to drop her Idi Amin migration proposal and apologise to those it threatens, or has the whip removed. It is as simple as that.