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I've signed. I sincerely hope that the propaganda / blackmail / Elon Musk ego-boosting / Nazi platforming site formerly known as Twitter gets banned.
February 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I've signed. I sincerely hope that the propaganda / blackmail / Elon Musk ego-boosting / Nazi platforming site formerly known as Twitter gets banned.
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Delighted to say that, after a period away, I am writing again for @financialtimes.com.
In tomorrow’s print edition is a long piece on Elon Musk’s and Mark Zuckerberg’s regulatory strategies.
And why recent events show that X and Meta are weak, not strong, when faced with determined state action.
In tomorrow’s print edition is a long piece on Elon Musk’s and Mark Zuckerberg’s regulatory strategies.
And why recent events show that X and Meta are weak, not strong, when faced with determined state action.
January 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Delighted to say that, after a period away, I am writing again for @financialtimes.com.
In tomorrow’s print edition is a long piece on Elon Musk’s and Mark Zuckerberg’s regulatory strategies.
And why recent events show that X and Meta are weak, not strong, when faced with determined state action.
In tomorrow’s print edition is a long piece on Elon Musk’s and Mark Zuckerberg’s regulatory strategies.
And why recent events show that X and Meta are weak, not strong, when faced with determined state action.
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It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
A little bit of hope after a terrible week
A survival guide to the next four years.
iandunt.substack.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
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Here is an online event on 21st January in the evening discussing the threats and action.
www.tickettailor.com/events/westc...
www.tickettailor.com/events/westc...
Select tickets – Importing disinformation: how the UK can defend trust, truth and democracy. FREE EVENT – Zoom
With Trump re-entering The White House, what can the UK learn about the role disinformation played in his campaign and how it w...
www.tickettailor.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Here is an online event on 21st January in the evening discussing the threats and action.
www.tickettailor.com/events/westc...
www.tickettailor.com/events/westc...
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Human Rights are universal & non- negotiable
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says
“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”
Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”
Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says public want to leave the ECHR - let’s put the record straight
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
December 11, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Human Rights are universal & non- negotiable
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#ThisWeekendsCocktail In honour of Ireland's 🏉 victory over Australia, it had to be green, so it's a Baileys Mint Martini
You'll need equal parts:
Baileys
Crème de menthe
Vodka
Shake all with lots of ice and strain into a martini glass.
You'll need equal parts:
Baileys
Crème de menthe
Vodka
Shake all with lots of ice and strain into a martini glass.
November 30, 2024 at 9:02 PM
#ThisWeekendsCocktail In honour of Ireland's 🏉 victory over Australia, it had to be green, so it's a Baileys Mint Martini
You'll need equal parts:
Baileys
Crème de menthe
Vodka
Shake all with lots of ice and strain into a martini glass.
You'll need equal parts:
Baileys
Crème de menthe
Vodka
Shake all with lots of ice and strain into a martini glass.
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All 7 trillion $tech companies are 🇺🇸, but not all started that way.
“The global race to build artificial general intelligence was initiated by a London-based start-up, DeepMind, founded in 2010 — well before Anthropic or OpenAI existed.
How did Europe lose its lead?
www.ft.com/content/e3e2...
“The global race to build artificial general intelligence was initiated by a London-based start-up, DeepMind, founded in 2010 — well before Anthropic or OpenAI existed.
How did Europe lose its lead?
www.ft.com/content/e3e2...
Can Europe build its first trillion-dollar start-up?
The continent has yet to create a tech company to rival Alphabet, Amazon or Apple. Ian Hogarth explains why this matters — and how to set it right
www.ft.com
November 30, 2024 at 10:29 AM
All 7 trillion $tech companies are 🇺🇸, but not all started that way.
“The global race to build artificial general intelligence was initiated by a London-based start-up, DeepMind, founded in 2010 — well before Anthropic or OpenAI existed.
How did Europe lose its lead?
www.ft.com/content/e3e2...
“The global race to build artificial general intelligence was initiated by a London-based start-up, DeepMind, founded in 2010 — well before Anthropic or OpenAI existed.
How did Europe lose its lead?
www.ft.com/content/e3e2...
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No, Nigel Farage.
We emphatically do not talk about this at home.
You will not import your authoritarian christofascist Trump-style threats into our political debate.
Can’t tell you quite how far you’ll be told to fuck off if you try.
We emphatically do not talk about this at home.
You will not import your authoritarian christofascist Trump-style threats into our political debate.
Can’t tell you quite how far you’ll be told to fuck off if you try.
November 30, 2024 at 9:26 AM
No, Nigel Farage.
We emphatically do not talk about this at home.
You will not import your authoritarian christofascist Trump-style threats into our political debate.
Can’t tell you quite how far you’ll be told to fuck off if you try.
We emphatically do not talk about this at home.
You will not import your authoritarian christofascist Trump-style threats into our political debate.
Can’t tell you quite how far you’ll be told to fuck off if you try.
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Am horrified by events in Georgia. Govt has abandoned all pretense of democracy. Many of my friends and former associates fighting for their freedom and futures, on the line, right now. 🇬🇪 🇪🇺✊👊https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/11/29/europe/georgia-protests-eu-membership-talks-suspended-intl
Georgia rocked by fierce protests after government puts EU hopes on ice | CNN
Georgia has been rocked by protests after its increasingly autocratic government said it would halt the former Soviet country’s bid to join the European Union.
amp.cnn.com
November 29, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Am horrified by events in Georgia. Govt has abandoned all pretense of democracy. Many of my friends and former associates fighting for their freedom and futures, on the line, right now. 🇬🇪 🇪🇺✊👊https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/11/29/europe/georgia-protests-eu-membership-talks-suspended-intl
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“Whatever case you could make for Britain being out of the EU in the Obama era of 2016 makes no sense now”
To be fair, it made very little sense then too.
But, because of the menace of Trump 2 and a more dangerous world 8yrs later, this is painfully and acutely true now.
bsky.app/profile/jona...
To be fair, it made very little sense then too.
But, because of the menace of Trump 2 and a more dangerous world 8yrs later, this is painfully and acutely true now.
bsky.app/profile/jona...
In the age of Trump, Brexit makes less sense than ever. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Brexit makes no sense in a world dominated by Trump. Britain’s place is back in the EU | Jonathan Freedland
From defence to trade, the incoming US president is upending the old order – and standing apart from our neighbours leaves us dangerously exposed, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2024 at 7:31 PM
“Whatever case you could make for Britain being out of the EU in the Obama era of 2016 makes no sense now”
To be fair, it made very little sense then too.
But, because of the menace of Trump 2 and a more dangerous world 8yrs later, this is painfully and acutely true now.
bsky.app/profile/jona...
To be fair, it made very little sense then too.
But, because of the menace of Trump 2 and a more dangerous world 8yrs later, this is painfully and acutely true now.
bsky.app/profile/jona...
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Someone needs to tell these billionaires vying for power…
They can turn their billions into trillions
But they’ll never fix that gaping hole in their pre-formed little brains
Or plug that gap left by whatever childhood trauma that turned them into the soulless f*ckwits that they are.
They can turn their billions into trillions
But they’ll never fix that gaping hole in their pre-formed little brains
Or plug that gap left by whatever childhood trauma that turned them into the soulless f*ckwits that they are.
November 29, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Someone needs to tell these billionaires vying for power…
They can turn their billions into trillions
But they’ll never fix that gaping hole in their pre-formed little brains
Or plug that gap left by whatever childhood trauma that turned them into the soulless f*ckwits that they are.
They can turn their billions into trillions
But they’ll never fix that gaping hole in their pre-formed little brains
Or plug that gap left by whatever childhood trauma that turned them into the soulless f*ckwits that they are.
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BREAKING: Assisted dying bill passes its second reading by 330 votes to 275, after emotional four-and-a-half hour debate, meaning it now proceeds to its next Commons stage.
Keir Starmer spotted by MPs going through the ‘aye’ lobby.
Keir Starmer spotted by MPs going through the ‘aye’ lobby.
November 29, 2024 at 2:24 PM
BREAKING: Assisted dying bill passes its second reading by 330 votes to 275, after emotional four-and-a-half hour debate, meaning it now proceeds to its next Commons stage.
Keir Starmer spotted by MPs going through the ‘aye’ lobby.
Keir Starmer spotted by MPs going through the ‘aye’ lobby.
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234 Labour MPs voted FOR incl Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper, Ed Miliband, Lisa Nandy, Pat McFadden, Heidi Alexander, Hilary Benn, Alan Campbell, John Healey, Liz Kendall, Peter Kyle, Lucy Powell, Steve Reed, Jo Stevens
November 29, 2024 at 2:49 PM
234 Labour MPs voted FOR incl Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper, Ed Miliband, Lisa Nandy, Pat McFadden, Heidi Alexander, Hilary Benn, Alan Campbell, John Healey, Liz Kendall, Peter Kyle, Lucy Powell, Steve Reed, Jo Stevens
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147 Labour MPs voted AGAINST including Angela Rayner, Wes Streeting, Shabana Mahmood, Bridget Phillipson, Jonathan Reynolds
November 29, 2024 at 2:49 PM
147 Labour MPs voted AGAINST including Angela Rayner, Wes Streeting, Shabana Mahmood, Bridget Phillipson, Jonathan Reynolds
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I dislike Reform intensely but I wouldn’t snigger too much at them - I find it entirely plausible that they will end up in government, either by merging with the Bad Enoch project or swallowing the Tory vote whole. We need to offer the disillusioned something more appealing. It isn’t electric cars.
November 28, 2024 at 5:41 PM
I dislike Reform intensely but I wouldn’t snigger too much at them - I find it entirely plausible that they will end up in government, either by merging with the Bad Enoch project or swallowing the Tory vote whole. We need to offer the disillusioned something more appealing. It isn’t electric cars.
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OH FUCK
NEW: Former Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns has defected to Reform, saying she has "joined the party of the brave"
November 28, 2024 at 12:20 PM
OH FUCK
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How Europe is coping with a changing world. Badly. www.ft.com/content/49af...
Europe’s fear of the outsider
Surrounded by an unfriendly Russia, China and Trump-led US, how should Europeans respond?
www.ft.com
November 28, 2024 at 12:05 PM
How Europe is coping with a changing world. Badly. www.ft.com/content/49af...
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Nigel Farage loves open borders - for the super rich
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
youtu.be
November 28, 2024 at 12:05 PM
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I officially have more followers on Bluesky than the other site so let me re-introduce myself:
I'm Mike Nellis, I'm a former Senior Advisor to Kamala Harris. I've spent two decades working in Democratic politics, fighting MAGA, and I'm not stopping now.
Can you RT and follow to help reach others?
I'm Mike Nellis, I'm a former Senior Advisor to Kamala Harris. I've spent two decades working in Democratic politics, fighting MAGA, and I'm not stopping now.
Can you RT and follow to help reach others?
November 26, 2024 at 5:22 PM
I officially have more followers on Bluesky than the other site so let me re-introduce myself:
I'm Mike Nellis, I'm a former Senior Advisor to Kamala Harris. I've spent two decades working in Democratic politics, fighting MAGA, and I'm not stopping now.
Can you RT and follow to help reach others?
I'm Mike Nellis, I'm a former Senior Advisor to Kamala Harris. I've spent two decades working in Democratic politics, fighting MAGA, and I'm not stopping now.
Can you RT and follow to help reach others?
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Some more good news today.
NEWS via AP
Brazil’s federal police indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 other people on charges of attempting a coup to keep him in office after his electoral defeat in the 2022 elections.
Brazil’s federal police indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 other people on charges of attempting a coup to keep him in office after his electoral defeat in the 2022 elections.
November 21, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Some more good news today.
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Well, that didn't take long.
Elon Musk Is Pissing Off Everyone on Trump’s Team
"...taking lots of credit for the president’s victory. Bragging about America PAC and X...trying to make President Trump feel indebted to him. And the president is indebted to no one"
newrepublic.com/post/188501/...
Elon Musk Is Pissing Off Everyone on Trump’s Team
"...taking lots of credit for the president’s victory. Bragging about America PAC and X...trying to make President Trump feel indebted to him. And the president is indebted to no one"
newrepublic.com/post/188501/...
Elon Musk Is Pissing Off Everyone on Trump’s Team
“He wants to be seen as having say in everything (even if he doesn’t),” one person in Trump’s orbit said.
newrepublic.com
November 18, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Well, that didn't take long.
Elon Musk Is Pissing Off Everyone on Trump’s Team
"...taking lots of credit for the president’s victory. Bragging about America PAC and X...trying to make President Trump feel indebted to him. And the president is indebted to no one"
newrepublic.com/post/188501/...
Elon Musk Is Pissing Off Everyone on Trump’s Team
"...taking lots of credit for the president’s victory. Bragging about America PAC and X...trying to make President Trump feel indebted to him. And the president is indebted to no one"
newrepublic.com/post/188501/...
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“There is a cost to pretending that not much has really changed. No one buys it. Labour’s foreign policy blew up on 5 November. Plan A was a version of the old mid-Atlantic bridge role that wasn’t wholly convincing to begin with. “
Column: Starmer's Trump conundrum doesn't get easier by doggedly sticking to the pretence that Brexit is fine www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s victory has fractured the western order – leaving Brexit Britain badly exposed | Rafael Behr
To navigate the dangerous new era, Keir Starmer must end the culture of denial around the biggest strategic mistake of modern times, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2024 at 7:51 PM
“There is a cost to pretending that not much has really changed. No one buys it. Labour’s foreign policy blew up on 5 November. Plan A was a version of the old mid-Atlantic bridge role that wasn’t wholly convincing to begin with. “
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This implies a passivity/innocence to Musk and Twitter that is simply not the truth. Twitter helped determine the US election not because it was “so influential” but because Musk abused the platform to misinform, spread conspiracy theories and weaponise hatred… to buy himself power.
Very much not ok
Very much not ok
November 13, 2024 at 7:28 PM
This implies a passivity/innocence to Musk and Twitter that is simply not the truth. Twitter helped determine the US election not because it was “so influential” but because Musk abused the platform to misinform, spread conspiracy theories and weaponise hatred… to buy himself power.
Very much not ok
Very much not ok