Anton Piatek
@anton-piatek.bsky.social
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Just got told I'm not allowed to use an e-book in the pool viewing area while my child had a swimming lesson... because it's an electronic device... 🙄
October 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Just got told I'm not allowed to use an e-book in the pool viewing area while my child had a swimming lesson... because it's an electronic device... 🙄
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It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:
— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap
— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap
October 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:
— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap
— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap
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‘Brexit is a tragedy and it will be reversed.’ 💥
#Heseltine is the best political communicator by a long way.
His emphatic call for rejoining the EU cuts through the noise, grounded in truth, while the counterarguments cling to a dwindling minority of Brexit believers.
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#Heseltine is the best political communicator by a long way.
His emphatic call for rejoining the EU cuts through the noise, grounded in truth, while the counterarguments cling to a dwindling minority of Brexit believers.
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October 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
‘Brexit is a tragedy and it will be reversed.’ 💥
#Heseltine is the best political communicator by a long way.
His emphatic call for rejoining the EU cuts through the noise, grounded in truth, while the counterarguments cling to a dwindling minority of Brexit believers.
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#Heseltine is the best political communicator by a long way.
His emphatic call for rejoining the EU cuts through the noise, grounded in truth, while the counterarguments cling to a dwindling minority of Brexit believers.
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I think of the older women in Belfast arrested for Palestine shirts and stickers every time I pass the UVF billboard on the Donegall Road, which is several times a week
Drove past a load of loyalist terrorist organisation flags as I listen to the UK Home Secretary say support for outlawed organisations won't be tolerated 🤡
October 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I think of the older women in Belfast arrested for Palestine shirts and stickers every time I pass the UVF billboard on the Donegall Road, which is several times a week
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What might come as a surprise is that I don't have strong opinions on any of these things. At the end of the day, the government is accountable to the people. And it's up to the people to decide on tradeoffs between safety, security, and freedom. But I do have strong opinions on exceptionalism. 1/?
Someone is currently arguing with me that the UK is a surveillance state because it has lots of security cameras, and the US isn't because it doesn't. So, since I'm going to have to explain constitutional law anyway, I may as well just give a free lecture on how the 4th amendment really works: 🧵 1/?
October 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
What might come as a surprise is that I don't have strong opinions on any of these things. At the end of the day, the government is accountable to the people. And it's up to the people to decide on tradeoffs between safety, security, and freedom. But I do have strong opinions on exceptionalism. 1/?
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You will note how some proscribed groups are violently suppressed by the state with definitions broad enough to encompass pensioners and disabled people holding signs, while other proscribed groups are apparently free to operate in the open and ‘have a word with themselves’ over assaulting women.
UDA bosses are coming under pressure to take action against members who were involved in assaulting a female at an eleventh night bonfire in the Rathcoole estate.
UDA bosses under pressure to take action over assault of woman at Eleventh night bonfire
UDA bosses are coming under pressure to take action against members who were involved in assaulting a female at an eleventh night bonfire in the Rathcoole estate.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
September 28, 2025 at 6:59 AM
You will note how some proscribed groups are violently suppressed by the state with definitions broad enough to encompass pensioners and disabled people holding signs, while other proscribed groups are apparently free to operate in the open and ‘have a word with themselves’ over assaulting women.
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If youre in Northern Ireland and a parent of an LGBTQ+ young person this new group may be of interest / help.
bsky.app/profile/nest...
bsky.app/profile/nest...
bsky.app
September 20, 2025 at 10:19 AM
If youre in Northern Ireland and a parent of an LGBTQ+ young person this new group may be of interest / help.
bsky.app/profile/nest...
bsky.app/profile/nest...
Didn't this happen at every school? I recall friends breaking software, guessing passwords, finding exploits...
Also, if people still have guess able passwords these days...
"almost a third of the breaches... by guessing passwords or stealing details from teachers."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Also, if people still have guess able passwords these days...
"almost a third of the breaches... by guessing passwords or stealing details from teachers."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Children hacking their own schools for 'fun', watchdog warns
The Information Commissioner's Office says schools face an "insider threat" from children as young as seven.
www.bbc.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Didn't this happen at every school? I recall friends breaking software, guessing passwords, finding exploits...
Also, if people still have guess able passwords these days...
"almost a third of the breaches... by guessing passwords or stealing details from teachers."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Also, if people still have guess able passwords these days...
"almost a third of the breaches... by guessing passwords or stealing details from teachers."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes
September 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes
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Had a brilliant time at @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social , and particularly loved the couple of talks about malware delivery through Sims 4 mods, and the history of Video Game Console Hacking.
September 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Had a brilliant time at @bsidesbelfast.bsky.social , and particularly loved the couple of talks about malware delivery through Sims 4 mods, and the history of Video Game Console Hacking.
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I got the most chefs kiss responses to my LinkedIn post about cybersecurity professionals wasting time releasing elaborate warnings about non-existent threats (specifically malicious phone chargers at airports, which is not a thing. Someone made it up one day and everyone just ran with it). 1/?
September 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I got the most chefs kiss responses to my LinkedIn post about cybersecurity professionals wasting time releasing elaborate warnings about non-existent threats (specifically malicious phone chargers at airports, which is not a thing. Someone made it up one day and everyone just ran with it). 1/?
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They marched with the banners of a proscribed organisation and the PSNI, rather than arresting them, closed the roads for them
September 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
They marched with the banners of a proscribed organisation and the PSNI, rather than arresting them, closed the roads for them
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Old Soviet joke for today:
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
August 30, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Old Soviet joke for today:
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
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I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees.
No refugee underfunded a school.
No refugee closed a hospital.
No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled.
We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
No refugee underfunded a school.
No refugee closed a hospital.
No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled.
We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
August 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees.
No refugee underfunded a school.
No refugee closed a hospital.
No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled.
We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
No refugee underfunded a school.
No refugee closed a hospital.
No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled.
We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
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Fucked around, found out. Have at it, every author in the class action.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Fucked around, found out. Have at it, every author in the class action.
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Sam Altman keeps saying the quiet part out loud - valuations are too high, there's no biz model w/copyright, there's not enough electricity, LLMs aren't the path to AGI - yet govts and AI cheerleaders seemingly bend over backwards to ignore that fortune.com/2025/08/20/u...
U.S. tech stocks slide after Altman warns of AI bubble and MIT study casts doubt on the hype
Investors’ long-running enthusiasm for artificial intelligence showed signs of faltering on Tuesday as tech stocks tumbled.
fortune.com
August 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Sam Altman keeps saying the quiet part out loud - valuations are too high, there's no biz model w/copyright, there's not enough electricity, LLMs aren't the path to AGI - yet govts and AI cheerleaders seemingly bend over backwards to ignore that fortune.com/2025/08/20/u...
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Paris has removed the paving from its city hall square and transformed it into an urban forest. Stunning! 🤩
August 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Paris has removed the paving from its city hall square and transformed it into an urban forest. Stunning! 🤩
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Despite being from the north of Ireland, this charge does not relate to any of the openly supported terrorist organisations here because those are actual terrorist organisations you can support and the government will even give you money.
Kneecap star Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh has arrived at Westminster Magistrates Court this morning.
Crowds gathered to support the west Belfast rapper, who is accused of displaying a flag in support of a proscribed organisation.
Follow our live blog for updates tinyurl.com/efnexd4z
Crowds gathered to support the west Belfast rapper, who is accused of displaying a flag in support of a proscribed organisation.
Follow our live blog for updates tinyurl.com/efnexd4z
August 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Despite being from the north of Ireland, this charge does not relate to any of the openly supported terrorist organisations here because those are actual terrorist organisations you can support and the government will even give you money.
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Israel has killed approximately 200 journalists in Gaza in just 22 months, which is more than the combined number of journalists killed during WWII and the entirety of the Vietnam War.
August 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Israel has killed approximately 200 journalists in Gaza in just 22 months, which is more than the combined number of journalists killed during WWII and the entirety of the Vietnam War.
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Some thoughts on the news that 48% of those arrested over Belfast race riots had been reported to police for domestic violence. With McGr*g*r losing his appeal & definitively found to be a rapist in a court of law it is important we call out the hypocrisy at the heart of the far right movement.
August 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Some thoughts on the news that 48% of those arrested over Belfast race riots had been reported to police for domestic violence. With McGr*g*r losing his appeal & definitively found to be a rapist in a court of law it is important we call out the hypocrisy at the heart of the far right movement.
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If we threw the same amount of money at climate catastrophe that this unhinged iteration of Silicon Valley is at “AI” to force us all to use it, we could actually mitigate some of the damage and protect our ecosystems, but then how will 6 guys make all the money.
August 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
If we threw the same amount of money at climate catastrophe that this unhinged iteration of Silicon Valley is at “AI” to force us all to use it, we could actually mitigate some of the damage and protect our ecosystems, but then how will 6 guys make all the money.
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I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
August 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
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labour want to ban vpns but it’s adults installing them.
this isn’t about protecting children. it’s about state surveillance.
this isn’t about protecting children. it’s about state surveillance.
July 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
labour want to ban vpns but it’s adults installing them.
this isn’t about protecting children. it’s about state surveillance.
this isn’t about protecting children. it’s about state surveillance.