VinylTiger
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One of the most astounding things about this government is their failure to grasp the primary lesson from the last one was so obviously "Don't mess about with Comms all the time, just do stuff that will probably work".
This is why there's a whole chapter in my book about the damage the grid has done to policy making.
January 17, 2026 at 8:16 AM
One of the most astounding things about this government is their failure to grasp the primary lesson from the last one was so obviously "Don't mess about with Comms all the time, just do stuff that will probably work".
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Who did this> 🤣
January 16, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Who did this> 🤣
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I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.
A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.
January 4, 2026 at 11:25 PM
I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.
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"The event in St Petersburg was addressed by Mark Collett, a longstanding far-right activist and founder of Patriotic Alternative, which attempted to exploit the summer of unrest outside asylum hotels in Britain." Just in case anyone wonders about the 'patriotism' and what 'alternative' it favours.
UK far-right activist Mark Collett, leader of Patriotic Alternative, spoke at Russian extreme nationalist event
Leading UK far-right activist spoke at Russian extreme nationalist event
Exclusive: Patriotic Alternative’s Mark Collett addressed forum along with ideologue described as ‘Putin’s brain’
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:34 PM
"The event in St Petersburg was addressed by Mark Collett, a longstanding far-right activist and founder of Patriotic Alternative, which attempted to exploit the summer of unrest outside asylum hotels in Britain." Just in case anyone wonders about the 'patriotism' and what 'alternative' it favours.
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There is a strong argument that X and its officers are committing offences by providing Grok's nudifying function in Ireland.
January 2, 2026 at 1:55 PM
There is a strong argument that X and its officers are committing offences by providing Grok's nudifying function in Ireland.
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Israel becomes the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.
Let that sink in.
File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...
Let that sink in.
File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...
December 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Israel becomes the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.
Let that sink in.
File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...
Let that sink in.
File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...
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Attempting to strip someone of citizenship is always a transparent and hopeless effort to avoid responsibility for the underlying problem you claim to object to. Their citizenship is *why* they can be held accountable for the actions you object to.
December 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Attempting to strip someone of citizenship is always a transparent and hopeless effort to avoid responsibility for the underlying problem you claim to object to. Their citizenship is *why* they can be held accountable for the actions you object to.
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Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
December 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
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This is called ‘Twenty Modern-Day Proverbs’.
December 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
This is called ‘Twenty Modern-Day Proverbs’.
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On both right and left, there's anger about the recent assessments of Russia's threat to the UK and the rest of Europe, and about the need for us to prepare to meet it. There's a lot I could say here (as my students know), but most of it boils down to two things. 🧵
December 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
On both right and left, there's anger about the recent assessments of Russia's threat to the UK and the rest of Europe, and about the need for us to prepare to meet it. There's a lot I could say here (as my students know), but most of it boils down to two things. 🧵
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Air-Borne by @carlzimmer.com was entertaining, deeply researched, but also eye-opening in revealing how dogmas can become entrenched in science without anyone going back to check how they started.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The troubled birth of aerobiology
“FACT: #COVID19 is NOT airborne”, declared a tweet from WHO in March, 2020. WHO did
not officially accept until almost 2 years later that infection by SARS-CoV-2 could
after all be caused by long-rang...
www.thelancet.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Air-Borne by @carlzimmer.com was entertaining, deeply researched, but also eye-opening in revealing how dogmas can become entrenched in science without anyone going back to check how they started.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Their inaction would be understandable if they were free speech absolutists. But given that they support the arrest of 00s of pro-Palestine protesters they are not. That leaves the explanation that they're simply scared of the right-wing media. They're cowards.
Honestly impressed at Starmer and Nandy's commitment to not doing their job. This guy is literally talking about his wife, his children, her, and her children, and they do nothing!
CT explains why he thinks Shabana Mahmood is neither English, nor British, to which Cole does not respond to at all.
Cole: asks how many generations? Is it a race thing?
CT: Not race as Albanians don't count either. It is ancestry.
It is infinite generations, if you don't have the ancestry.
Cole: asks how many generations? Is it a race thing?
CT: Not race as Albanians don't count either. It is ancestry.
It is infinite generations, if you don't have the ancestry.
December 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Their inaction would be understandable if they were free speech absolutists. But given that they support the arrest of 00s of pro-Palestine protesters they are not. That leaves the explanation that they're simply scared of the right-wing media. They're cowards.
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Two villains, one goal - the cover of the latest issue of German magazine Der Spiegel.
December 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Two villains, one goal - the cover of the latest issue of German magazine Der Spiegel.
"Calling Kremlin demands for Ukrainian surrender ‘peace talks’ is just another way of spreading their propaganda"
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Putin: ‘Russia is ready to keep fighting until the last Ukrainian dies.’
Western politicians & press: ‘Peace talks have stalled…’
Russia has zero interest in peace. Calling Kremlin demands for Ukrainian surrender ‘peace talks’ is just another way of spreading their propaganda.
Western politicians & press: ‘Peace talks have stalled…’
Russia has zero interest in peace. Calling Kremlin demands for Ukrainian surrender ‘peace talks’ is just another way of spreading their propaganda.
December 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"Calling Kremlin demands for Ukrainian surrender ‘peace talks’ is just another way of spreading their propaganda"
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Putin: ‘Russia is ready to keep fighting until the last Ukrainian dies.’
Western politicians & press: ‘Peace talks have stalled…’
Russia has zero interest in peace. Calling Kremlin demands for Ukrainian surrender ‘peace talks’ is just another way of spreading their propaganda.
Western politicians & press: ‘Peace talks have stalled…’
Russia has zero interest in peace. Calling Kremlin demands for Ukrainian surrender ‘peace talks’ is just another way of spreading their propaganda.
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Putin: ‘Russia is ready to keep fighting until the last Ukrainian dies.’
Western politicians & press: ‘Peace talks have stalled…’
Russia has zero interest in peace. Calling Kremlin demands for Ukrainian surrender ‘peace talks’ is just another way of spreading their propaganda.
Western politicians & press: ‘Peace talks have stalled…’
Russia has zero interest in peace. Calling Kremlin demands for Ukrainian surrender ‘peace talks’ is just another way of spreading their propaganda.
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Cartoon by Michael de Adder
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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Meanwhile in Russia: state media hosts and experts praised Trump's 28-point "peace plan," noting that it's in perfect alignment with Russia's goals and does not take Ukraine's interests into account.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyqh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyqh...
Russian state TV praises Trump's 28-point peace plan
YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Meanwhile in Russia: state media hosts and experts praised Trump's 28-point "peace plan," noting that it's in perfect alignment with Russia's goals and does not take Ukraine's interests into account.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyqh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyqh...
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A Trump White House would have pressured Britain to surrender to the Nazis. Europe needs to stand strong and shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine.
November 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
A Trump White House would have pressured Britain to surrender to the Nazis. Europe needs to stand strong and shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine.
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So let me get this right. We had to leave the EU to control immigration, and we are going to control immigration by emulating the stringent immigration system of Denmark, which is a proud and happy member of the EU.
UK to announce plans to emulate stringent Danish immigration system
Shabana Mahmood’s proposals draw scorn from some Labour MPs, while others want government to go further
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
So let me get this right. We had to leave the EU to control immigration, and we are going to control immigration by emulating the stringent immigration system of Denmark, which is a proud and happy member of the EU.
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🇺🇦 General Zaluzhny is spot on. Russian casualty numbers cited by Trump and Rutte are irrelevant. Moscow would gain millions of conscripts and vast resources if Kyiv falls. Either integrate Ukraine's army into the European Army, or they will be integrated into the Russian Army
November 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
🇺🇦 General Zaluzhny is spot on. Russian casualty numbers cited by Trump and Rutte are irrelevant. Moscow would gain millions of conscripts and vast resources if Kyiv falls. Either integrate Ukraine's army into the European Army, or they will be integrated into the Russian Army
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Oxford people - you're needed again.
Peaceful counter-protest against the far right 'Oxford patriots' (nothing of the sort) on Sat 1st November 1:30pm Holiday Inn Express OX4 7FG.
This group harass refugees and are behind the intimidating flag-flying.
Peaceful counter-protest against the far right 'Oxford patriots' (nothing of the sort) on Sat 1st November 1:30pm Holiday Inn Express OX4 7FG.
This group harass refugees and are behind the intimidating flag-flying.
October 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Couldn’t agree more with this para from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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October 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Couldn’t agree more with this para from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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