@ndy-ie.bsky.social
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“Can you imagine being that rich and that miserable?”
I’m personally in favour of dreadful people all living in one place, far away from me, ideally somewhere with limited natural resources and no military protection
I’m personally in favour of dreadful people all living in one place, far away from me, ideally somewhere with limited natural resources and no military protection
I would say this because I edited it but @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social's piece on tech bros founding their own for-profit cities really is unmissable reading www.ft.com/content/b127...
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
“Can you imagine being that rich and that miserable?”
I’m personally in favour of dreadful people all living in one place, far away from me, ideally somewhere with limited natural resources and no military protection
I’m personally in favour of dreadful people all living in one place, far away from me, ideally somewhere with limited natural resources and no military protection
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🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 55,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 55,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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We urgently need to know how many of these accounts have been spreading/amplifying hate, division and instability in Britain. We already know that a foreign actor - Elon Musk - promoted violent overthrow of the government. Has his platform been enabling foreign adversaries to do the same?
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
We urgently need to know how many of these accounts have been spreading/amplifying hate, division and instability in Britain. We already know that a foreign actor - Elon Musk - promoted violent overthrow of the government. Has his platform been enabling foreign adversaries to do the same?
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Well, this is pretty terrifying. The Daily Mail is buying the Telegraph.
One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.
What could go wrong?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.
What could go wrong?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles
Acquisition likely to trigger in-depth investigation by regulator after agreement between DMGT and Redbird IMI
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Well, this is pretty terrifying. The Daily Mail is buying the Telegraph.
One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.
What could go wrong?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.
What could go wrong?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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Big yikes when you see where Ireland sits on this list.
Growth forecast for 2026 (%):
🇲🇹3.8
🇵🇱3.5
🇱🇹3.0
🇭🇷2.9
🇧🇬2.7
🇨🇾2.6
🇸🇪2.6
🇸🇮2.4
🇭🇺2.3
🇪🇸2.3
🇬🇷2.2
🇵🇹2.2
🇩🇰2.1
🇪🇪2.1
🇨🇿1.9
🇱🇺1.9
🇱🇻1.7
🇪🇺1.4
🇳🇱1.3
🇩🇪1.2
🇧🇪1.1
🇷🇴1.1
🇸🇰1.0
🇦🇹0.9
🇫🇮0.9
🇫🇷0.9
🇮🇹0.8
🇮🇪0.2
Autumn #ECForecast → link.europa.eu/chqHjN
🇲🇹3.8
🇵🇱3.5
🇱🇹3.0
🇭🇷2.9
🇧🇬2.7
🇨🇾2.6
🇸🇪2.6
🇸🇮2.4
🇭🇺2.3
🇪🇸2.3
🇬🇷2.2
🇵🇹2.2
🇩🇰2.1
🇪🇪2.1
🇨🇿1.9
🇱🇺1.9
🇱🇻1.7
🇪🇺1.4
🇳🇱1.3
🇩🇪1.2
🇧🇪1.1
🇷🇴1.1
🇸🇰1.0
🇦🇹0.9
🇫🇮0.9
🇫🇷0.9
🇮🇹0.8
🇮🇪0.2
Autumn #ECForecast → link.europa.eu/chqHjN
November 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Big yikes when you see where Ireland sits on this list.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Subscribe to Ciara's newsletter (it's brilliant), buy her artwork /merch (also brilliant), and bring her an array of wealthy landowners that you'd like her to potentially marry, or at the very least sacrifice (brilliant for them if they get to marry her, a little less so if she sacrifices them).
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It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part
October 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part
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Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.
Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.
Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.
Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
October 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.
Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.
Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.
Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.
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Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
September 23, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
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Please read this piece by the irreplaceable Olga Cronin explaining why the Government’s plans to legislate to break encryption are a Bad Idea, and then explain it by email (good), phone call (better) or personal visit (amazing) to your local TDs.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: Letting gardaí access our WhatsApps and chats to investigate crime could backfire
Forcing companies to create access pathways would insert vulnerabilities that could be exploited
www.irishtimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Please read this piece by the irreplaceable Olga Cronin explaining why the Government’s plans to legislate to break encryption are a Bad Idea, and then explain it by email (good), phone call (better) or personal visit (amazing) to your local TDs.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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I am quoted in this opinion piece
This latest madcap Internet plan from the Irish Govt will have EU-wide consequences as many of the most critical encrypted messaging systems companies are based here.
Use Apple’s iMessage or Meta’s WhatsApp in the EU?
You should be contacting your Govt and getting them to object to Ireland’s plan.
Use Apple’s iMessage or Meta’s WhatsApp in the EU?
You should be contacting your Govt and getting them to object to Ireland’s plan.
Please read this piece by the irreplaceable Olga Cronin explaining why the Government’s plans to legislate to break encryption are a Bad Idea, and then explain it by email (good), phone call (better) or personal visit (amazing) to your local TDs.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
August 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I am quoted in this opinion piece
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This latest madcap Internet plan from the Irish Govt will have EU-wide consequences as many of the most critical encrypted messaging systems companies are based here.
Use Apple’s iMessage or Meta’s WhatsApp in the EU?
You should be contacting your Govt and getting them to object to Ireland’s plan.
Use Apple’s iMessage or Meta’s WhatsApp in the EU?
You should be contacting your Govt and getting them to object to Ireland’s plan.
Please read this piece by the irreplaceable Olga Cronin explaining why the Government’s plans to legislate to break encryption are a Bad Idea, and then explain it by email (good), phone call (better) or personal visit (amazing) to your local TDs.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: Letting gardaí access our WhatsApps and chats to investigate crime could backfire
Forcing companies to create access pathways would insert vulnerabilities that could be exploited
www.irishtimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This latest madcap Internet plan from the Irish Govt will have EU-wide consequences as many of the most critical encrypted messaging systems companies are based here.
Use Apple’s iMessage or Meta’s WhatsApp in the EU?
You should be contacting your Govt and getting them to object to Ireland’s plan.
Use Apple’s iMessage or Meta’s WhatsApp in the EU?
You should be contacting your Govt and getting them to object to Ireland’s plan.
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Well done to An Garda Síochána @europol.europa.eu and all else involved
“GARDAÍ HAVE HELPED take down a major part of the online network used by a criminal gang behind a series of international #ransomware attacks.”
#CyberCrime
www.thejournal.ie/garda-fbi-cy...
“GARDAÍ HAVE HELPED take down a major part of the online network used by a criminal gang behind a series of international #ransomware attacks.”
#CyberCrime
www.thejournal.ie/garda-fbi-cy...
Gardaí join FBI in global takedown of websites used by notorious cyber crime gang
Key websites used by the Blacksuit gang were seized in a major international operation involving Irish and US authorities.
www.thejournal.ie
August 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Well done to An Garda Síochána @europol.europa.eu and all else involved
“GARDAÍ HAVE HELPED take down a major part of the online network used by a criminal gang behind a series of international #ransomware attacks.”
#CyberCrime
www.thejournal.ie/garda-fbi-cy...
“GARDAÍ HAVE HELPED take down a major part of the online network used by a criminal gang behind a series of international #ransomware attacks.”
#CyberCrime
www.thejournal.ie/garda-fbi-cy...
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Shooting starving, desperate and weak people is ‘a crude form of crowd control.’
It’s shit like this that allowed thousands of innocent people be violently and brutally tortured under the term “enhanced interrogation.”
It’s shit like this that allowed thousands of innocent people be violently and brutally tortured under the term “enhanced interrogation.”
July 26, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Shooting starving, desperate and weak people is ‘a crude form of crowd control.’
It’s shit like this that allowed thousands of innocent people be violently and brutally tortured under the term “enhanced interrogation.”
It’s shit like this that allowed thousands of innocent people be violently and brutally tortured under the term “enhanced interrogation.”
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If they can do it to a United States senator, what do you think they’ll do to you?
June 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
If they can do it to a United States senator, what do you think they’ll do to you?
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Full text of today's Advocate General's opinion on LGBT rights/rule of law now online:
curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
June 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Full text of today's Advocate General's opinion on LGBT rights/rule of law now online:
curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
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Big fan of Jack's line here that "What masquerades as 'pragmatism' in fact represents a profound lack of confidence in engaging with the moral passions that animate democratic life"
Jack Jeffrey: Social democracy has failed to distinguish itself from centrism
May 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Big fan of Jack's line here that "What masquerades as 'pragmatism' in fact represents a profound lack of confidence in engaging with the moral passions that animate democratic life"
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🧵1/ Farage: The Russia Links.
With a pint in one hand and Putin’s dick in the other, Farage has built a legacy on Russian propaganda and a trail of bullshit faker than his tan.
He might be popular, but Ted Bundy was a hit with the ladies and look at how that ended.
Strap in 👇🏼
With a pint in one hand and Putin’s dick in the other, Farage has built a legacy on Russian propaganda and a trail of bullshit faker than his tan.
He might be popular, but Ted Bundy was a hit with the ladies and look at how that ended.
Strap in 👇🏼
May 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
🧵1/ Farage: The Russia Links.
With a pint in one hand and Putin’s dick in the other, Farage has built a legacy on Russian propaganda and a trail of bullshit faker than his tan.
He might be popular, but Ted Bundy was a hit with the ladies and look at how that ended.
Strap in 👇🏼
With a pint in one hand and Putin’s dick in the other, Farage has built a legacy on Russian propaganda and a trail of bullshit faker than his tan.
He might be popular, but Ted Bundy was a hit with the ladies and look at how that ended.
Strap in 👇🏼
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