Amir Shaikh
amirshaikh.bsky.social
Amir Shaikh
@amirshaikh.bsky.social
SE London; LFC fan
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What just happened ...

Comedy: Jamie Kaler
January 4, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is brilliant!
What would really be the implications of taking Santa Claus seriously?

It's the time of the year to review the current state of the physics of Santa Claus

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December 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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We can't let Thames Water get away with this!

Follow @weownit.org.uk for more on how to get involved
December 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.”

* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
December 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
For more on this bunch of misfits I'd recommend Alex Karp's The Technological Republic

youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?...
The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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December 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 55,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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🔍 Digging into NHS PFI debt wasn’t easy — but we uncovered £21bn still owed. 💸

This debt is a real problem for patients, staff, and the future of the NHS.

Read our blog on the fight to expose the truth ➡️ everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Appeals against deportation on human rights grounds are vanishingly rare - less than one per cent of foreign national offenders remain in the UK on human rights grounds. So changing how the Convention is interpreted won’t make a material difference to migration figures
Labour’s plan risks weakening protections for all of us. Human rights are universal - politicians may not always find them politically convenient but it shouldn’t fall to any government to say who those rights should and should not apply to. It’s a slippery slope to oblivion youtu.be/bl0Lm7v_T18?...
The government won’t achieve ‘decency’ over ‘division’ by trying to be Reform Lite
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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November 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
1776 meets 2025
YouTube video by BATTLE TESTED
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November 18, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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When you go to Auschwitz they have piles of jewellery and watches which were confiscated from those arriving.
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs

This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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The sad thing is, on reading this line, it will be fist bumps all around in Shabana Mahmood's office. Because becoming Reform is their plan to beat it.
I hope every Labour MP considering whether to support Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans remembers Nigel Farage's assessment that the “Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter.”

If they support them they will too.
November 17, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Another chilling aspect... The Tories simply passed a law declaring Rwanda "safe".

Do we really trust that this govt or the next won't resort to similar tactics if this finds them politically convenient?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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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.
November 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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A&E Doc @andrewmeyerson.uk has an important
message to deliver about our Crowdfunding campaign.

If you can support us, please consider doing so. Our funds are very low and every penny goes towards helping our frontline workers.

Thank you 💙

Link: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-suppo...
October 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Shocking article in the Sheffield Tribune. A solicitor, Andrew Milne, buying up freeholds of houses and then making (false) threats to the leaseholders to bully them into buying the freehold at a huge premium.
November 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Questions will likely be raised over whether TfL has the money to take on the tunnels, but Escalate Now has a potential solution. “Group member Karin Tearle said it could raise the funds needed from its new revenue stream from the Silvertown Tunnel tolls”.
October 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.

So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?

Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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October 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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British.
October 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
October 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM