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Anything posted here are my personal views. Anonymised UK policy generalist with far too much experience, especially economic, tax, and international. Preferred pronouns: They/Them/Their. @souptomatosoup on twitter Banner credit @pickardje.bsky.social
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Today, the Government launches plans to fast-track driverless vehicle trials in the UK. One of the companies involved says London presents a big challenge: “It has seven times more jaywalkers than San Francisco.” Except… it doesn't. 🧵

submitted 18 hours ago • 29 comments

At no point in this entire article of 16 paragraphs does ABC mention that another cop killed this cop by shooting her in the back. Nor does it mention the name of the cop who killed this cop. Nor does it mention that the civilians involved never fired at them. ABC might as well be state media.

submitted 1 day ago • 243 comments

This sounds like aggressive “re-programming”… …and surely breaks international law as to what captors are allowed to do with their hostages.

submitted 1 day ago • 323 comments

In a civilised society, there are activities that are illegal, like murder, because its for the good of society. There is no reason the same outlawing of harm shouldn't apply to hate, bigotry, fascism.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

BBC has been continuing a decade and a half of desperately trying to appease those who hate it, and in doing so, failing to fulfill its primary purpose, and alienating its audience.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

🧵✡️ Thread of Holocaust Survivours Against Gaza Genocide 1) Marione Ingram, 89 German-born civil rights activist, Holocaust survivor, author and artist. "I have also been barred from speaking to some Jewish groups, because I talk about the condition of Palestinians."

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

We have an official ruling

submitted 4 days ago • 469 comments

Breaking from @science.org: The Trump administration wants to kill off a host of active and healthy NASA climate and planetary spacecraft. It would be a "leaner, more focused" agency, they say -- and one far less capable of studying the Earth and exploring space.

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

If asking permission kills your business model, your business model is unethical at a minimum.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

The co-opting of some feminists into supporting transphobia and misogyny is one of the greatest tricks the patriarchy has ever pulled

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Lavrov ups Russia's demands on Ukraine to include a ban on democratic elections. Do we get it yet?

submitted 17 days ago • 14 comments

I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it

submitted 18 days ago • 268 comments