Matt_Ison
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X migrant, probably sighing heavily and rolling my eyes.
Interested in the opinions of the better-informed.
Interested in the opinions of the better-informed.
Never set up an inquiry if you don’t already know what you want it to say.
Or maybe diagnosis is at last catching up with the crises so many have been enduring, which have for so long been minimised, dismissed or ignored.
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Wes Streeting orders inquiry into mental health ‘overdiagnosis’
Health secretary wants clinical review of the rise in conditions such as ADHD and autism that cause people to drop out of the workforce
share.google
December 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Never set up an inquiry if you don’t already know what you want it to say.
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Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:
December 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:
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“0% woke shit”
a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“0% woke shit”
a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
Good result for people actually doing the creating, as opposed to shovelling artless slop ‘content’.
Some good news, for anybody that doesn’t want to be strapped to a machine teat and force-fed word gruel for the rest of all time.
Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement
• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright
• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied
• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright
• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied
October 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Good result for people actually doing the creating, as opposed to shovelling artless slop ‘content’.
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When depicting Nazis and the KKK as villains is too controversial, you know things are fucked up. www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...
Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year
Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File
www.gamefile.news
October 24, 2025 at 4:42 AM
When depicting Nazis and the KKK as villains is too controversial, you know things are fucked up. www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...
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On the one hand, Hulk Hogan was a racist, shitty person, who was despised by the vast majority of his colleagues, and spent his life making the world demonstrably worse.
On the other… no, that appears to be empty.
On the other… no, that appears to be empty.
July 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
On the one hand, Hulk Hogan was a racist, shitty person, who was despised by the vast majority of his colleagues, and spent his life making the world demonstrably worse.
On the other… no, that appears to be empty.
On the other… no, that appears to be empty.
Make a joke and I will sigh and you will laugh and I will cry.
July 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Make a joke and I will sigh and you will laugh and I will cry.
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WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
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Tebbit was one of the architects of Section 28 which sought to prohibit ‘the promotion of homosexuality.’ This law emboldened bigots and silenced many librarians and teachers, including some of mine. As a gay kid I was left without official support from my school. It was terrifying and cruel.
July 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Tebbit was one of the architects of Section 28 which sought to prohibit ‘the promotion of homosexuality.’ This law emboldened bigots and silenced many librarians and teachers, including some of mine. As a gay kid I was left without official support from my school. It was terrifying and cruel.
Blue Labour seem to have this notion that decent, hard-working people are soot-encrusted, semi-literate bigots and that the only way to combat Reform is to don its face, while offering essentially a 2010-15 austerity status quo rejected by Brexit. Keep these people away from government.
Anyone sane urges Labour to root out Blue Labour to get back to being decent and intelligent.
Blue Labour group urges ministers to ‘root out DEI’ to win over Reform voters
June 2, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Blue Labour seem to have this notion that decent, hard-working people are soot-encrusted, semi-literate bigots and that the only way to combat Reform is to don its face, while offering essentially a 2010-15 austerity status quo rejected by Brexit. Keep these people away from government.
This fucking guy…Every utterance is a spluttering of bilge.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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May 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
This fucking guy…Every utterance is a spluttering of bilge.
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your constitution isn’t worth shitting on
May 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
your constitution isn’t worth shitting on
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Today let's remember that austerity kills. 🧵
Researchers at the University of Glasgow, found that an additional 335,000 deaths occurred in Scotland, England, and Wales between 2012 and 2019 compared to what was expected based on previous trends.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Researchers at the University of Glasgow, found that an additional 335,000 deaths occurred in Scotland, England, and Wales between 2012 and 2019 compared to what was expected based on previous trends.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Over 330,000 excess deaths in Great Britain linked to austerity, finds study
Research comes as government signals fresh round of public spending cuts
www.theguardian.com
March 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Today let's remember that austerity kills. 🧵
Researchers at the University of Glasgow, found that an additional 335,000 deaths occurred in Scotland, England, and Wales between 2012 and 2019 compared to what was expected based on previous trends.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Researchers at the University of Glasgow, found that an additional 335,000 deaths occurred in Scotland, England, and Wales between 2012 and 2019 compared to what was expected based on previous trends.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The cruelty is a feature, not a bug. Trump made this very clear in term 1 and it was either why people voted for him again, or it wasn't a big enough problem to deter voters. It was inevitable regardless, and so much of this could have been avoided if Biden had known when to walk away.
Individual Border Patrol agents knew they were doing this, and a supervisor signed off on it.
U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
March 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The cruelty is a feature, not a bug. Trump made this very clear in term 1 and it was either why people voted for him again, or it wasn't a big enough problem to deter voters. It was inevitable regardless, and so much of this could have been avoided if Biden had known when to walk away.
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HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT?
Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
March 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT?
Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.
Jesus. It’s not even a nuanced view. Just desperate, pitiful simping. Years to come - and in my deepest fears, after the next world war - there’ll still be no reckoning for pedlars kind of sycophancy and appeasement as they look for the next boot to suck on.
February 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Jesus. It’s not even a nuanced view. Just desperate, pitiful simping. Years to come - and in my deepest fears, after the next world war - there’ll still be no reckoning for pedlars kind of sycophancy and appeasement as they look for the next boot to suck on.
‘Grown up conversation about immigration’
🤝
Performative cruelty
🤝
Performative cruelty
The Labour party has published adverts on social media boasting about deporting “illegal” migrants, alongside a Nigel Farage-style ‘Breaking Point’ picture of a queue of migrants
Another advert includes a picture of a handcuffed ‘illegal migrant’, which promotes and links to an article on GB News
Another advert includes a picture of a handcuffed ‘illegal migrant’, which promotes and links to an article on GB News
Keir Starmer's Reform-Lite Strategy Reaches Breaking Point
The Government's attempt to mimic the anti-migrant, anti-refugee politics of Nigel Farage is a recipe for moral degradation and defeat
www.adambienkov.co.uk
February 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
‘Grown up conversation about immigration’
🤝
Performative cruelty
🤝
Performative cruelty
Why on earth are any left of centre parties labouring under the misapprehension that the rules are still worth a jot in the battle against fascists? If only one side is playing by rules, that makes them chumps. Possibly honourable, but chumps and losers all the same. Musk and Reform aren’t playing.
Ministers resist calls to block Musk donations to Farage’s Reform UK
“We’ll beat Reform by defeating their arguments rather than changing the rules to stop them getting money from Elon Musk”said a source
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“We’ll beat Reform by defeating their arguments rather than changing the rules to stop them getting money from Elon Musk”said a source
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Ministers resist calls to block Musk donations to Farage’s Reform UK
Government fears moves to curb any potential cash from the tech titan could backfire and play into Reform UK’s hands
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Why on earth are any left of centre parties labouring under the misapprehension that the rules are still worth a jot in the battle against fascists? If only one side is playing by rules, that makes them chumps. Possibly honourable, but chumps and losers all the same. Musk and Reform aren’t playing.
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Kemi can eat whatever she wants, but can we please stop lionising working through lunch?
We've all done it on occasion but it doesn't make you some productivity hero, and it's a terrible message to send to staff under you when you make it clear, as she does, that it's an expectation.
We've all done it on occasion but it doesn't make you some productivity hero, and it's a terrible message to send to staff under you when you make it clear, as she does, that it's an expectation.
December 12, 2024 at 9:05 AM
Kemi can eat whatever she wants, but can we please stop lionising working through lunch?
We've all done it on occasion but it doesn't make you some productivity hero, and it's a terrible message to send to staff under you when you make it clear, as she does, that it's an expectation.
We've all done it on occasion but it doesn't make you some productivity hero, and it's a terrible message to send to staff under you when you make it clear, as she does, that it's an expectation.
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Elon Musk has 12 kids and spent Thanksgiving with Donald Trump
November 29, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Elon Musk has 12 kids and spent Thanksgiving with Donald Trump
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I loathe a political culture that removes a passionate and effective minister over a decade-old minor offence that has zero bearing on her ability to do the job. A mixture of cowardice, malice and triviality.
November 29, 2024 at 7:54 AM
I loathe a political culture that removes a passionate and effective minister over a decade-old minor offence that has zero bearing on her ability to do the job. A mixture of cowardice, malice and triviality.
I think this is a damn shame.
in case you’re just waking up, UK transport secretary Louise Haigh has resigned over a phone offence from a decade ago
some will be wondering who would want to take out one of the most left-wing members of the cabinet
www.ft.com/content/1c8b...
some will be wondering who would want to take out one of the most left-wing members of the cabinet
www.ft.com/content/1c8b...
Louise Haigh resigns as UK transport secretary over phone offence
Labour MP admitted pleading guilty a decade ago to a minor offence over a phone she falsely reported as stolen
www.ft.com
November 29, 2024 at 7:54 AM
I think this is a damn shame.