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Old Welshman without a country. Welsh. British. European. Gen X. Migrant. Putting the "grey" into "emigré". Dum vivimus, vivamus. (If we're doing flags, here's a few from me: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇨🇭🇨🇦🇺🇦)
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Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

This gets my vote for tweet/post of the year. This is a RED ALERT post. This is exactly why he’s doing it.

My cartoon for today’s @guardian books.

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

This is an excellent and timely factsheet on Ukraine, U.S. v. European security assistance, and other misunderstood or lied about aspects of the war, by our friends at @thestudyofwar.bsky.social. I'll summarize a few main points below, with additional sources of my own:

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."

It’s called Gleichschaltung. And German history shows us where it can end. Again: we have the knowledge; we have the right words. That the US could still get to this point is such a terrible failure.

🚨BREAKING CROSSPOST AFTER DDOS ATTACK Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename ‘Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief A former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman www.bylinesupplement.com/p/breaking-c...

“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.

'Ukraine is fighting for its survival. Putin is fighting for his place in history. The West, however, still seems not to know what it is fighting for' - former Ukraine's foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba at the Royal Society of Arts, London

"Betrayed. First Zelensky, and soon us? The radical rejection of the US by its allies" – today's cover of the German Der Spiegel

Plans to boost capacity at St Pancras are welcome. But the hurdles to run trains from London to 🇩🇪, 🇨🇭 and 🇫🇷 beyond Paris are elsewhere, as I explain in this piece for the iPaper inews.co.uk/inews-lifest... #CrossChannelRail

European leaders better decide what they will do about Musk or he will pick them off, one by one.

2 fucking headlines right next to each other

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.

NEW: A regional FEMA chief of staff took Elon Musk's Fork in the Road offer. He has proof of receipt. But they didn't honor it. Instead, they fired him 13 days later. Now, this retired Navy captain is speaking out. www.thebulwark.com/p/musk-doge-...

The lies are the point: Ukraine is a battle for objective reality iandunt.substack.com/p/the-lies-a...

“Now is the moment to recognize the scale of the seismic change unfolding, and to find new ways to live in the world that a very different kind of America is beginning to create” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

How can Brexit Britain navigate Trump's World? New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. With the rapid deepening of a dangerous global divide, the UK faces hard choices. Could the latest proposals for UK-EU 'mutual recognition' be part of the answer? chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-...

There won’t be another election in the US. Who didn’t believe that a week ago, should do it now.

I don’t often feel rage. That said, I’ve been getting pretty damn close, watching one of the few truly warrior like heroes in the world of leadership…Zelensky…being rat fucked by two of the biggest pieces of shit on the planet.

"I, a professional political commentator, was so excited about Trump persecuting minorities and trashing the climate that I was completely oblivious to his obvious sympathy with Putin. Please pay me for my political analysis." I mean, rejoice over every sinner who repents and all that, but come on

Trump is on Putin's side. That's it. That's the story and if you are on Trump and Putin's side then you're on the side of murder, fear, war and autocracy. Find it absolutely staggering that some people who you'd expect so much more of are cheering this nightmare on

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WTF are private school fees doing in the CPI "basket" of consumer goods and services used to calculate inflation?

Brexit was the petri dish for all of this. Stamer should publish the Russia report that Johnson sat on.

Rewilding in action 🌿

One of the most powerful and effective weapons being deployed against Europe including Ukraine right now is social media. Europe can and must invest in its physical defence capabilities, but it will be costly. Banning X and other apps that seek to subvert our democracy is free. It can be done now.

A dictatorship hosting another dictatorship to negotiate with an aspiring dictatorship about the future of a democracy that’s not represented.

This by Michael Rosen is terrifying and apt for the times we live in now.

Here’s the peace deal🧵

Don't post AI slop. And if you repost by mistake, as I've done, delete it. When you have something to say and attach AI art, you're undercutting your message and hurting artists. Pay or barter for art. There's a reason good things cost money and take time. AI art is harmful and it looks like ass.

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

Okay I am sorry can we not just print Elon Musk marketing copy that says "smartest AI on earth" when it really should say "large language model that is better at the benchmarks tests they made up specifically for LLMs where they can literally train on both the questions and their answers

Ask your MP to sign Plaid Cymru’s amendment and support our efforts on Monday 24 February to give Wales power over its natural resources. Let’s ensure that the people of Wales benefit from the wealth created in our communities, not the UK Treasury. 👇👇👇

🇺🇦 Almost present but not involved: Zelensky is in the UAE on a long-planned visit but insists he won’t engage in the talks. “Ukraine will not take part in the negotiations between the US and Russia. Ukraine did not know they were planned.” www.politico.eu/article/volo...