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This morning I posted our petition to get Palantir out of our NHS and our public services.
Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you.
Please do keep sharing!
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you.
Please do keep sharing!
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
you.38degrees.org.uk
February 13, 2026 at 8:35 PM
This morning I posted our petition to get Palantir out of our NHS and our public services.
Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you.
Please do keep sharing!
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you.
Please do keep sharing!
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
USAID cuts may cause over 14 million additional deaths by 2030, study says
Deep funding cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development and its potential dismantling could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The ...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:01 PM
I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
A wonderful positive statement about the town I call home x
‘My idea of heaven’: Madonna sings praises of artists’ paradise Margate
‘My idea of heaven’: Madonna sings praises of artists’ paradise Margate
Star says seaside town ‘inhabited by creativity’ and shares love for a local restaurant after dropping in on Tracey Emin
If you were to guess where Madonna goes on holiday, you might think Mustique or the Maldives – Margate probably wouldn’t make the list.
But the pop superstar spent the weekend there and enthused on an Instagram post that “the whole town seems to be inhabited and energised by creativity”, and that “whenever I go there, I feel like I’ve entered a dream”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:32 PM
A wonderful positive statement about the town I call home x
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NEW Nerve investigation reveals extent of Palantir's enmeshment in UK state operations
Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert
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Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert
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January 27, 2026 at 2:57 PM
NEW Nerve investigation reveals extent of Palantir's enmeshment in UK state operations
Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert
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Peter Thiel's surveillance company has deals with government bodies amounting to at least £670m – inc. £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Charlie Young & Max Colbert
🔗⏬
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January 27, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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When people talk about reasons to leave X, the fact that the owner is a mass murderer doesn't get mentioned enough. The Grok porn stuff is foul. The naked white nationalism is foul. This is worse.
Too few people are talking about the blood on Elon Musk's hands.
When DOGE slashed foreign aid, it wasn't just numbers on a screen. It was insulin, food, and antibiotics being ripped away from the world's poorest children.
Musk is responsible for the death of thousands
When DOGE slashed foreign aid, it wasn't just numbers on a screen. It was insulin, food, and antibiotics being ripped away from the world's poorest children.
Musk is responsible for the death of thousands
January 17, 2026 at 4:18 PM
When people talk about reasons to leave X, the fact that the owner is a mass murderer doesn't get mentioned enough. The Grok porn stuff is foul. The naked white nationalism is foul. This is worse.
This at Turner Contemporary is well worth a visit. A pictorial reinforcement of much I have learned from the excellent @originstorypodcast.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This at Turner Contemporary is well worth a visit. A pictorial reinforcement of much I have learned from the excellent @originstorypodcast.bsky.social
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It's Ace new release day folks! The following titles are all out today. 🙏
February 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
It's Ace new release day folks! The following titles are all out today. 🙏
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*Incredibly* positive news for Scotland's northeast, as the energy transition brings *£30 billion* in investments. Remember: as powerful as the far-right looks right now, they have nothing to offer but a retreat into the past borne along on a current of scientific and economic illiteracy.
North-east set for £30billion investment in 'biggest spending spree since oil and gas boom'
New research by Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce forecasts a wave of big spending projects that are set to bring huge benefits to Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.
www.aberdeenlive.news
February 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
*Incredibly* positive news for Scotland's northeast, as the energy transition brings *£30 billion* in investments. Remember: as powerful as the far-right looks right now, they have nothing to offer but a retreat into the past borne along on a current of scientific and economic illiteracy.
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is it too late to enter this at the Oscars for Best Picture
February 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
is it too late to enter this at the Oscars for Best Picture