Chris Clark
@chrisleeclark.bsky.social
Musically inquisitive, sings & plays tenor: Portsmouth Baroque Choir chair, NLCC veteran; retired British Library AV & digital curator. Volunteer Farlington Marshes.
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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🔴The UK Must Urgently Distance Itself From Elon Musk and Space X, Warns Parliamentary Report
The UK’s infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could ‘politicise’ our reliance upon his companies, the report warns
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/t...
The UK’s infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could ‘politicise’ our reliance upon his companies, the report warns
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/t...
The UK Must Urgently Distance Itself From Elon Musk and Space X, Warns Parliamentary Report
The UK's infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could 'politicise' our reliance upon his companies, the report warns
bylinetimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
🔴The UK Must Urgently Distance Itself From Elon Musk and Space X, Warns Parliamentary Report
The UK’s infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could ‘politicise’ our reliance upon his companies, the report warns
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/t...
The UK’s infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could ‘politicise’ our reliance upon his companies, the report warns
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/t...
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I knew Gill and Farage and the rest of the UKIP crew in the European Parliament
They were crooks and shysters to a man
They repeated Putin talking points and appeared on Russia Today
UKIP then and Reform now are both a threat to our democracy
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
They were crooks and shysters to a man
They repeated Putin talking points and appeared on Russia Today
UKIP then and Reform now are both a threat to our democracy
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill
How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I knew Gill and Farage and the rest of the UKIP crew in the European Parliament
They were crooks and shysters to a man
They repeated Putin talking points and appeared on Russia Today
UKIP then and Reform now are both a threat to our democracy
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
They were crooks and shysters to a man
They repeated Putin talking points and appeared on Russia Today
UKIP then and Reform now are both a threat to our democracy
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."
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The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
manchestermill.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
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The Caerphilly result is what we need to see everywhere at the next election: people coordinating to vote tactically for parties which seek a fairer, kinder, greener country.
Pushing out both those who have betrayed our trust AND those who seek to exploit that betrayal.
Pushing out both those who have betrayed our trust AND those who seek to exploit that betrayal.
October 24, 2025 at 7:12 AM
The Caerphilly result is what we need to see everywhere at the next election: people coordinating to vote tactically for parties which seek a fairer, kinder, greener country.
Pushing out both those who have betrayed our trust AND those who seek to exploit that betrayal.
Pushing out both those who have betrayed our trust AND those who seek to exploit that betrayal.
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Enshittification! Not just for tech corporations anymore. My roundup of the shitbomb video, wrecking of the White House, Trump's deterioration, and broader destruction at:
This Wreckage Courtesy of the Enshittification Administration: Notes On Late-State Trumpism
In 2022, the tech critic and privacy advocate Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification to describe what's happened on the Internet to a lot of the most widely used platforms: Google, Amazon, Fac...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Enshittification! Not just for tech corporations anymore. My roundup of the shitbomb video, wrecking of the White House, Trump's deterioration, and broader destruction at:
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They arrested a giraffe.
PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵
October 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
They arrested a giraffe.
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My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
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?
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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 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
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Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....
October 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....
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The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks
At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.
www.nbcnews.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Thankyou Music in Portsmouth!🤓
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Preview (part 1): Portsmouth Baroque Choir with the Consort of Twelve - Handel and Scarlatti - Music in Portsmouth
Portsmouth Baroque Choir’s Autumn 2025 concert with the Consort of Twelve at St Paul’s Chichester on 18 October presents two exemplary and uplifting works written in Rome during the first quarter of 1...
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October 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Thankyou Music in Portsmouth!🤓
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Indeed.
LLMs are LLMs.
Machine learning is machine learning.
AIs are Astro Boy, Robby the Robot, Cmdr Data, the Ghost in the Shell Puppet Master, etc. I will not use the term for anything less.
Don’t feed the hype machine. Don’t call it AI.
LLMs are LLMs.
Machine learning is machine learning.
AIs are Astro Boy, Robby the Robot, Cmdr Data, the Ghost in the Shell Puppet Master, etc. I will not use the term for anything less.
Don’t feed the hype machine. Don’t call it AI.
There is absolutely no good faith reason to use the term “AI” for any technology one is selling.
It serves only for dazzling people into thinking the technology has capabilities that it doesn’t.
If one wants a technology to be trustworthy, just use a transparent, informative term without hype.
It serves only for dazzling people into thinking the technology has capabilities that it doesn’t.
If one wants a technology to be trustworthy, just use a transparent, informative term without hype.
September 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Indeed.
LLMs are LLMs.
Machine learning is machine learning.
AIs are Astro Boy, Robby the Robot, Cmdr Data, the Ghost in the Shell Puppet Master, etc. I will not use the term for anything less.
Don’t feed the hype machine. Don’t call it AI.
LLMs are LLMs.
Machine learning is machine learning.
AIs are Astro Boy, Robby the Robot, Cmdr Data, the Ghost in the Shell Puppet Master, etc. I will not use the term for anything less.
Don’t feed the hype machine. Don’t call it AI.
A survivor from Grandpa’s library, Book of Kells by Edward Sullivan, 1914. A preview shorturl.at/xgDqE of Victoria Whitworth’s book about its origins (Pictish Portmahomack) led to opening at “plant forms of decoration”, “unknown in Celtic illuminated mss of the earlier period”. Now maybe, we know.
September 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM
A survivor from Grandpa’s library, Book of Kells by Edward Sullivan, 1914. A preview shorturl.at/xgDqE of Victoria Whitworth’s book about its origins (Pictish Portmahomack) led to opening at “plant forms of decoration”, “unknown in Celtic illuminated mss of the earlier period”. Now maybe, we know.
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Kat is still out there fighting four hours after this. I'm just fucking livid.
ILLINOIS — Trump’s Gestapo violently throws female congressional candidate @KatAbughazaleh to the ground to the ground
September 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Kat is still out there fighting four hours after this. I'm just fucking livid.
If decent political being & doing relates to relating & adapting, then please relate & adapt swiftly to this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Robinson and Farage’s ‘civil war’ narrative is warping voters’ minds. How is any government supposed to counter it? | John Harris
Whatever the reality of Britain today, our social media feeds are full of anger, violence and disorder – and that’s the reality politicians must confront, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
If decent political being & doing relates to relating & adapting, then please relate & adapt swiftly to this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons.
Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.
Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.
September 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons.
Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.
Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.
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When the National Front and BNP used to march they were rightly presented as racist pariahs by nearly all media organisations. Now the far right are treated as if overt racism and calling for mass deportations, including of British citizens, is a legitimate argument. Sadly this includes the BBC.
Police estimate 110,000 taking part. This makes it one of the biggest marches of the last couple of years, though some of the pro-Palestine marches (300k in Nov 2023) were significantly larger. The anti-Brexit people's vote marches peaked at 700k in March 2019, but did not succeed politically
September 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
When the National Front and BNP used to march they were rightly presented as racist pariahs by nearly all media organisations. Now the far right are treated as if overt racism and calling for mass deportations, including of British citizens, is a legitimate argument. Sadly this includes the BBC.
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British right-wing politicians and their press allies are going to lionise someone most have never heard of & they won’t repeat what he actually said
September 11, 2025 at 6:08 AM
British right-wing politicians and their press allies are going to lionise someone most have never heard of & they won’t repeat what he actually said
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Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3
September 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3
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The grift goes on.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals
Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The grift goes on.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Our new piece w/ @evidentmedia.org came out right after the Supreme Court lifted restrictions in LA to allow ICE to stop anyone they suspect is an immigrant.
Being brown and speaking Spanish is enough to get stopped in LA. Legally. Traffic stops in DC can mean you get detained.
This is today.
Being brown and speaking Spanish is enough to get stopped in LA. Legally. Traffic stops in DC can mean you get detained.
This is today.
In less than a month of federal control of DC, we, with @evidentmedia.org, have verified 42 federal agent encounters, half of which involve DC police; with traffic stops that quickly turn into detentions, and workers pulled off mopeds mid-shift. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...
In DC, Traffic Stops Turn Into Immigration Arrests for Delivery Riders and Workers
Bellingcat and our partner Evident Media geolocated and verified 42 federal agent encounters in the US capital from Aug. 11 to Sept. 2.
www.bellingcat.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Our new piece w/ @evidentmedia.org came out right after the Supreme Court lifted restrictions in LA to allow ICE to stop anyone they suspect is an immigrant.
Being brown and speaking Spanish is enough to get stopped in LA. Legally. Traffic stops in DC can mean you get detained.
This is today.
Being brown and speaking Spanish is enough to get stopped in LA. Legally. Traffic stops in DC can mean you get detained.
This is today.
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Build council homes.
Treat people with dignity.
The threat isn't the migrants - it's the wealth of the super rich.
And the media outlets and the politicians who protect their power.
Treat people with dignity.
The threat isn't the migrants - it's the wealth of the super rich.
And the media outlets and the politicians who protect their power.
September 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Build council homes.
Treat people with dignity.
The threat isn't the migrants - it's the wealth of the super rich.
And the media outlets and the politicians who protect their power.
Treat people with dignity.
The threat isn't the migrants - it's the wealth of the super rich.
And the media outlets and the politicians who protect their power.
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Lucy Connolly, jailed for urging people to set fire to hotels housing refugees, is speaking at the Reform party conference today.
All the worst people.
All the worst people.
September 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Lucy Connolly, jailed for urging people to set fire to hotels housing refugees, is speaking at the Reform party conference today.
All the worst people.
All the worst people.