Badenoch spends too much online: she's coming across as a tin-foil-hat wearing conspiracy nutjob.
There are definitely questions to be asked about the Mandelson affair, but there is definitely no need to be making up your own story about what happened.
You can't simultaneously lament the fall of the USSR and be a minimally credible anti-imperialist. You just can't. The USSR was an empire and it was brought down by anti-imperialist, local liberation movements and mobilization. In addition,...
Is bsky being particularly flaky or is it my network?
Putin is a child murderer.
I'd ban everything and be done with it as something bad is bound to happen.
Should I buy another spring reverb?
www.gear4music.com/Recording-an...
at that price it would be almost rude not to.
NUMBER CRUNCHING **£7.4m** Fine Ben Delo agreed to pay in 2022 after pleading guilty in the US to anti-money-laundering failures at BitMEX, the crypto exchange he founded **£4m** Donation Delo, since pardoned by Donald Trump, has made to Reform UK
I hear neither Reform nor donor Delo want this news getting round. Via Private Eye
Quite a nice touch that the Tories went to the trouble of giving Kemi Badenoch a jacket with her name on.
🇬🇧🇺🇦 Today, at UDCG, Defence Secretary John Healey announced the UK will deliver over 120,000 new drones to Ukraine.
We’re backing Ukraine with the capabilities it needs – not just to fight, but to win.
❗️❗️Russia-linked hackers broke into more than 170 email accounts belonging to prosecutors and investigators across Ukraine during the last several months, - Reuters
The data was inadvertently exposed to the internet by the hackers and discovered by Ctrl-Alt-Intel.
The problem with using the "Gang of Four" is:
* www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRjs...
* martinfowler.com/bliki/GangOf...
* www.britannica.com/topic/Gang-o...
James Bembridge on X: Hate is too weak a word for what I feel towards the NHS. I'd tear it down and salt the earth upon which it stood.
Lovely people, these Reform UK candidates for the upcoming election, and great to know they're on our side.
NEW: Ukraine’s Fortress Belt is the cornerstone of a militarily defensible frontline in eastern Ukraine. The Fortress Belt is optimized for defense across nearly every possible topographical and geographical characteristic relevant for military terrain analysis. 🧵(1/7) isw.pub/FortressBelt...
Someone in Shetland got it right when Farage slid into town.
www.thenational.scot/news/2602049...
Not sure who needs to see this but...
BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists
In today’s Vatnik Soup, we introduce Yanis Varoufakis, a Greek economist and politician. He’s best known for rising to power at the height of the Greek debt crisis, not solving anything but endearing himself to the left — and then using his fame to promote Russian imperialism.
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NIGEL FARAGE ELON MUSK JD VANCE PETER THIEL MARINE LE PEN MATTHEW GOODWIN CAN YOU HEAR ME? YOUR BOYS TOOK A HELL OF A BEATING, A HELL OF A BEATING
Latest details on the largest wind farm in the world – to power 3.3 million homes – as it prepares to connect to the grid.
As renewables saved the UK £1bn in gas imports in March, Reform UK is still saying it wants to scrap Net Zero.
It's Yaks all the way down.
Reform UK donor linked to sanctioned Iranian conglomerate
A churchwarden behind a £200,000 gift to Nigel Farage’s party is the director of a company cited in French intelligence memos
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Well now they're awash with cash from convicted money-laundering crypto fraudsters ....
TJ Hooker/The 6 Million Dollar Man/Columbo then ....
I thought I'd better go for completeness, so a #RakuLang thingy to put the stats from the Bluesky firehose feed on the web:
gist.github.com/jonathanstow...
If I get bored tomorrow I'll stick it somewhere it can be used.
I was waiting for the washing machine so I made a thing in #RakuLang to see what was going on the Bluesky firehose feed:
gist.github.com/jonathanstow...
Among Reform UK’s biggest donors is the Crypto billionaire Ben Delo, who was handed a fawning spread in the Telegraph this week to explain why he is giving £4m to the party.
What is buried in the piece that Delo is a convicted criminal who pled guilty to violating money laundering law in the US
Ben Delo is a Reform donor, they are awash with dirty far right money.
