Clinton Armitage
@clintonarmitage.bsky.social
IT Nerd, Skeptic, Atheist, Secular Humanist, Liberal Democrat.
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🚨CHEAPER! Brexit in the last 4 years:
🔥 Gas ⬆️ 94.1%
⚡️Electric ⬆️ 78%
⛽️ Fuel ⬆️ 49.3%
🏨 Hotels ⬆️ 37.8%
🏠 Rent ⬆️ 25%
🍞 Food ⬆️ 25%
📉 Average earnings DOWN 2.8%⬇️
🤔 Still think Brexit was worth it?
#BrexitReality #CostOfBrexit #RejoinEU
🔥 Gas ⬆️ 94.1%
⚡️Electric ⬆️ 78%
⛽️ Fuel ⬆️ 49.3%
🏨 Hotels ⬆️ 37.8%
🏠 Rent ⬆️ 25%
🍞 Food ⬆️ 25%
📉 Average earnings DOWN 2.8%⬇️
🤔 Still think Brexit was worth it?
#BrexitReality #CostOfBrexit #RejoinEU
October 3, 2025 at 6:31 AM
🚨CHEAPER! Brexit in the last 4 years:
🔥 Gas ⬆️ 94.1%
⚡️Electric ⬆️ 78%
⛽️ Fuel ⬆️ 49.3%
🏨 Hotels ⬆️ 37.8%
🏠 Rent ⬆️ 25%
🍞 Food ⬆️ 25%
📉 Average earnings DOWN 2.8%⬇️
🤔 Still think Brexit was worth it?
#BrexitReality #CostOfBrexit #RejoinEU
🔥 Gas ⬆️ 94.1%
⚡️Electric ⬆️ 78%
⛽️ Fuel ⬆️ 49.3%
🏨 Hotels ⬆️ 37.8%
🏠 Rent ⬆️ 25%
🍞 Food ⬆️ 25%
📉 Average earnings DOWN 2.8%⬇️
🤔 Still think Brexit was worth it?
#BrexitReality #CostOfBrexit #RejoinEU
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This Week's Onion Magazine:
September 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This Week's Onion Magazine:
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"Rating me 6.8 (“above average, solid base with clear room for enhancement”), it warned that I was “slightly soft around the mandible area” and could benefit from “mewing daily to engage your maxilla and strengthen jawline projection.” My time in the manosphere: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Surviving the Manosphere | Hari Kunzru
Adolescence illustrates how, in the hypercapitalist competition of toxic masculinity online, teenagers have the most to lose.
www.nybooks.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
"Rating me 6.8 (“above average, solid base with clear room for enhancement”), it warned that I was “slightly soft around the mandible area” and could benefit from “mewing daily to engage your maxilla and strengthen jawline projection.” My time in the manosphere: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Charlie Kirk’s “Prove Me Wrong” campus debates looked like open dialogue, but they were actually carefully rigged performances.
https://smpl.is/ac79r
https://smpl.is/ac79r
September 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Charlie Kirk’s “Prove Me Wrong” campus debates looked like open dialogue, but they were actually carefully rigged performances.
https://smpl.is/ac79r
https://smpl.is/ac79r
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Nazi Germany wasn’t Nazi Germany until it was. Everything was normal, life went on until it didn’t.
September 9, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Nazi Germany wasn’t Nazi Germany until it was. Everything was normal, life went on until it didn’t.
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This is objectively nuts but impartial ‘news’ currently lacks any metric to express that one ‘wrong’ newsworthy thing is several billion times worse than another.
This is what the BBC News website looks like on my phone
June 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This is objectively nuts but impartial ‘news’ currently lacks any metric to express that one ‘wrong’ newsworthy thing is several billion times worse than another.
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dude, awesome find. I'm putting you in today's substack post
Facebook reminds me that six years ago today, Trump TACOed in a trade tiff with Mexico. @jefftiedrich.bsky.social neatly summarized the negotiations:
June 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
dude, awesome find. I'm putting you in today's substack post
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Now hearing from Nigerian humanist Mubarak Bala who is now safe in Germany but who was persecuted and sentenced to 24 years’ imprisonment in Nigeria for blasphemy. Efforts of UK, US, EU and his great humanist lawyers got him out but he should be safe at home, not exiled.
May 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Now hearing from Nigerian humanist Mubarak Bala who is now safe in Germany but who was persecuted and sentenced to 24 years’ imprisonment in Nigeria for blasphemy. Efforts of UK, US, EU and his great humanist lawyers got him out but he should be safe at home, not exiled.
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A $400 million bribe from a foreign government, right out in the open. It’s good to be the autocrat.
ABC reports Trump to take “flying palace” from Qatar and use it as temporary Air Force 1 before converting it to a personal possession.
Trump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources
President Trump poised to accept "palace in the sky" as a gift from Qatar: Sources
abcnews.go.com
May 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
A $400 million bribe from a foreign government, right out in the open. It’s good to be the autocrat.
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The FBI arrested a sitting Wisconsin judge for obstructing an ICE raid. The confrontation between the executive and the judiciary just reached a new level. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
Wisconsin Judge Arrested, Accused of Shielding Immigrant From Federal Agents
Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested on suspicion that she “intentionally misdirected federal agents away from” an immigrant being pursued by the authorities, the F.B.I. director said in a social media pos...
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The FBI arrested a sitting Wisconsin judge for obstructing an ICE raid. The confrontation between the executive and the judiciary just reached a new level. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
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It's a bit weird that the 'leetspeak' helps. Does this mean that the LLM equivalent of Sesame Street for humans was the sludge scraped off 4chan? (Story tells how prompt injection technique gets past all 'guardrails' on current LLMs.)
AI boosters: LLMs can now reason, they understands the world, they make rational choices based on logic
AI experts: LLMs will tell you how to make anthrax or give you all their proprietary code if you ask them to incorporate that info into a scene from HOUSE MD
AI experts: LLMs will tell you how to make anthrax or give you all their proprietary code if you ask them to incorporate that info into a scene from HOUSE MD
One Prompt Can Bypass Every Major LLM’s Safeguards
Researchers have discovered a universal prompt injection technique that bypasses safety in all major LLMs, revealing critical flaws in current AI alignment methods.
www.forbes.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
It's a bit weird that the 'leetspeak' helps. Does this mean that the LLM equivalent of Sesame Street for humans was the sludge scraped off 4chan? (Story tells how prompt injection technique gets past all 'guardrails' on current LLMs.)
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“I expect the legal profession to understand that the nation is not here for them but they are here for the nation. from now on, I shall intervene in these cases and remove from office those judges who evidently do not understand the demand of the hour”
Trump? Pam Bondi? nope, Hitler bit.ly/44akopT
Trump? Pam Bondi? nope, Hitler bit.ly/44akopT
April 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
“I expect the legal profession to understand that the nation is not here for them but they are here for the nation. from now on, I shall intervene in these cases and remove from office those judges who evidently do not understand the demand of the hour”
Trump? Pam Bondi? nope, Hitler bit.ly/44akopT
Trump? Pam Bondi? nope, Hitler bit.ly/44akopT
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Calling trans people a "contagion" is hate speech and blood libel. Hellen Zille is a Nazi. This is why I will never vote for the DA. The DA sees the US and the UK and Israel and wants to bring that violence to South Africa #transgender #nonbinary #lgbtqia #queer
April 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Calling trans people a "contagion" is hate speech and blood libel. Hellen Zille is a Nazi. This is why I will never vote for the DA. The DA sees the US and the UK and Israel and wants to bring that violence to South Africa #transgender #nonbinary #lgbtqia #queer
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didn't take much for these guys to go from "big government is bad" to "what's the big deal if you're abducted by the government and trafficked to Mongolia"
April 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
didn't take much for these guys to go from "big government is bad" to "what's the big deal if you're abducted by the government and trafficked to Mongolia"
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In case there’s any confusion: fuck ICE
April 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
In case there’s any confusion: fuck ICE
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Having abortion in the criminal code means vulnerable women are treated as criminals when they ought to be treated with compassion. Help protect abortion rights in the UK. Sign our petition for decriminalisation. humanists.uk/action/prote...
Sign our petition: Take abortion out of the British criminal code
We are calling on the Government to protect legal abortions in the UK for all time by taking abortion out of the Criminal Code
humanists.uk
April 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Having abortion in the criminal code means vulnerable women are treated as criminals when they ought to be treated with compassion. Help protect abortion rights in the UK. Sign our petition for decriminalisation. humanists.uk/action/prote...
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It's true. From 1861-2022 only 3 women had ever been prosecuted for terminating a pregnancy in the UK. In the past 2 years at least 6 women appeared in court. Abortion still sits in the criminal code – and that's where fundamentalists want it to stay. We need compassion, we need decriminalisation.
The US Christian right's agenda is arriving on UK shores with alarming momentum. Over $50m from US Christian right foundations flowed into Europe between 2008-2017. Now, in 2025, these groups – emboldened by evangelism in the White House – are upping their game. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Christian right has set the US on the road to Gilead. Without a fight, other nations may follow | Deborah Frances-White
Women’s rights – especially abortion – are truly at risk, says writer and broadcaster Deborah Frances-White
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
It's true. From 1861-2022 only 3 women had ever been prosecuted for terminating a pregnancy in the UK. In the past 2 years at least 6 women appeared in court. Abortion still sits in the criminal code – and that's where fundamentalists want it to stay. We need compassion, we need decriminalisation.
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Defence Ministry: Shoreline defence force Gentoo’s prepare mortars. Our Navy Seals conduct clandestine training, and teach tactical camouflage and concealment to juveniles. We stand ready. Flippers Up.
April 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Defence Ministry: Shoreline defence force Gentoo’s prepare mortars. Our Navy Seals conduct clandestine training, and teach tactical camouflage and concealment to juveniles. We stand ready. Flippers Up.
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The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a US-based Christian fundamentalist pressure group, funded and supported Livia Tossici-Bolt’s case. It even supplied a picture of her to the Telegraph. The ADF is also extremely well connected with the Republican Party.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
April 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a US-based Christian fundamentalist pressure group, funded and supported Livia Tossici-Bolt’s case. It even supplied a picture of her to the Telegraph. The ADF is also extremely well connected with the Republican Party.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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I’m heartily sick of people claiming that pluralism requires welcoming the far-right into discussions or platforms permitting hate-speech and abuse. If you do that, the hate speech becomes normalised & everyone who isn’t a neo-Nazi is driven away.
March 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I’m heartily sick of people claiming that pluralism requires welcoming the far-right into discussions or platforms permitting hate-speech and abuse. If you do that, the hate speech becomes normalised & everyone who isn’t a neo-Nazi is driven away.
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Children should have the same legal protections from violence that adults do. Yet in England, unlike Scotland and Wales, this is not the case. Children are individuals in their own rights and they deserve dignity and respect.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Doctors back total ban on smacking children in England
Smacking is legal in some cases in England and Northern Ireland, but is banned in Scotland and Wales.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Children should have the same legal protections from violence that adults do. Yet in England, unlike Scotland and Wales, this is not the case. Children are individuals in their own rights and they deserve dignity and respect.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...