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Who is responsible for this? 🤣

submitted 10 hours ago • 204 comments

The replies to this include some that convince me that the real AI singularity we face is impoverishment via huge resource wastage and brainwashing that an AI nirvana is just around the corner.

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submitted 7 hours ago • 8 comments

The latest @chrisgrey.bsky.social piece is about the reaction Trump, in particular the @bestforbritain.bsky.social paper on Europe recognising UK standards as "equivalent". Advise strongly to read it, as it's quite subtle. Quick🧵reaction chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-...

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Exclusive: The Home Office has been accused of collecting data on hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting British citizens while conducting financial checks on migrants A report containing the names of over 260 people was accidentally sent to a charity www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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As with other restrictive visa routes, seasonal worker's visas are well known to lead to exploitation. When you have visa routes which effectively trap people into a sector, or reliant on a specific employer, the outcome is inevitably that people will be exploited www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments

A regular reminder that everyone who admires Donald Trump is a twat. Everyone, no exceptions.

submitted 7 hours ago • 9 comments

So they haven't "banned the word man" at all then. It isn't even like this is new. It's been fairly standard for years to say things like "tradesperson". Gender neutral language isn't just perfectly normal already, it makes more sense for most things. The outrage machine is reaching at this point.

submitted 6 hours ago • 25 comments

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submitted 10 hours ago • 632 comments

“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

submitted 9 hours ago • 488 comments

I'd be tempted to reply saying I'd avoided any paternity suits, not taken any ketamine and not contributed to the collapse of global security.

submitted 6 hours ago • 18 comments

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

submitted 1 day ago • 2044 comments

BBC News, "Trump has carried our a purge of officials at the Pentagon" "Including the highest ranking military officer, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Charles Q. Brown" "Also out is Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to lead the US Navy" A black general and woman admiral

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Le Monde, "French MPs vote through the left's wealth tax on the ultra-rich" Your reminder that a 2% wealth tax on those with £10 million, affecting 0.04% of the UK population, would raise £24 billion a year You have to wonder why Labour chose not to do this..

submitted 23 hours ago • 39 comments

America will have to live with the shame of what's happening here for years. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

submitted 21 hours ago • 63 comments

The nature of a successful bureaucracy is almost the thing that in a populist and poorly informed society leads to people thinking it's not needed. 'What are all these people doing anyway?!'

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Who could possibly have predicted that a chaotic tariff and public spending policy might lead to economic worries? Oh yes, most of us.

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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FOX NEWS: You are against people bringing in eggs that have not been-- I mean, we have the USDA for a reason. These could be contaminated and bring illnesses in. GALLEGO: Absolutely. This is why we shouldn't be firing USDA inspectors that are actually doing oversight over avian flu

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Elon Musk's former partner Grimes pleads with him on Twitter to stop ignoring her about their child’s ‘medical crisis’: “Our child will suffer lifelong impairment if he doesn’t respond ASAP.”

submitted 1 day ago • 95 comments

This is a poor headline from the BBC. The US aren't offering a "deal" - they want the minerals in return for support already given. It's straight up extortion.

submitted 2 days ago • 104 comments

Trump wants to be allied with Putin so there's no bridge that Starmer can make with Europe. #LBC @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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These clips of Farage sucking up to Putin should be all over the media by now. I won't hold my breath. @mrjamesob.bsky.social #LBC

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Journalists who raised the alarm about the Russia/Trump/Brexit links and rising authoritarianism were kept on the periphery. Political debate was mostly people spewing authoritarian lines'will of the people', 'enemies of the people', 'taking back control'. Funny if it wasn't so serious. #LBC

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There's little doubt that numerous Tory and UKIP politicians were corrupted by the Russians. I bet Putin couldn't believe how easy they were. Conservative friends of Russia? #LBC

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

FFS LBC News. Can the media stop playing clips of our enemies lying without making it clear that they are lying. #LBC

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Elon Musk is giving We Wake Up One Day And Find Out That During The Night He Died Of Drugs vibes currently. It's really cool!

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🔥 Finally!! Starmer ready to offer Youth Mobility Scheme. 🙌🙌🙌

submitted 2 days ago • 147 comments

Liz Truss at CPAC. Never has the phrase "tickets still available" been more applicable.

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

Things…aren’t ok

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Unlike most of right wing commentator land I don't think Tim is cynical or a grifter he's just staggeringly naive and always has been.

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

submitted 3 days ago • 513 comments

Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 2 days ago • 168 comments

If only there had been some clue that he was like this.

submitted 33 days ago • 10 comments

Will this politician condemn Trump? The return of the Rt. Hon. Geoffrey Geoff-Geoffrey... youtu.be/Bjn9M1HN_U0

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Lots of self owns on the other place from Putin fans accused of being bots who argue that no they are real people in the UK and they really do support a genocidal maniac.

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Cats who are very wary of men may be onto something. I've never seen a cat in the same room as Trump. #LBC

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The Two Tribes reference... @mrjamesob.bsky.social #LBC

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This from a BBC R4 Today presenter is mad. He's been an enthusiastic Trump fluffer for some time. #LBC

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The BBC Today programme is still only on X.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Four years ago I named GB News "GBeebies" (yes that was me) and right decided they were looking for things to be offended by.

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

I loathe Johnson, from even before he was London mayor, I always thought he was a complete fake and a nasty bit of work under the blustery buffoon persona. He was a lazy awful mayor and a fucking disastrous PM and just when I think I cannot loathe him more, he pops up again.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

In these difficult days thank goodness for the Daily Star. Please share this with Trumpy friends

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

Heard a brilliant podcast last week where the host said takeovers of this nature throughout history FAIL. They don't work out. And they fail far faster these days than in the 1700s. We are healthier and more plentiful than ever before. And the way to stop these cunts is: gum up the works, endlessly.

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Brexit: “that great victory for the sovereign right to cock things up”… give ourselves food poisoning, lose control, swamp ourselves in red tape, pay more for stuff and stubbornly isolate ourselves from our own continent… A relentless, ruinous stupidity. (Private Eye)

submitted 3 days ago • 133 comments

Back from The States working as a consultant to the Trump administration. Apart from Zelensky these are newly recognised dictators: Sir David Attenborough Shabba Ranks Hey Duggee Ronnie Pickering Anita Dobson Fanny Blue The Beatles Dick Van Dick Bradley Walsh Zoe Ball Temu. 🇺🇸

submitted 3 days ago • 50 comments

As Germany goes to polls on Sunday, "there's a danger that its position as a lynchpin of liberal democracy in Europe might suffer lasting, if not irreparable damage. The election will also have an immeasurable impact on how Europe reacts to Donald Trump’s apparent willingness to surrender Ukraine"

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Chris Murphy: "My prediction is that if you vote for Kash Patel, more than any other confirmation vote you make, you will come to regret this one to your grave."

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