Yes — but baby steps might get the job done

So they are going to investigate foreign interference but are excluding the most important evidence - a central smoking gun - the referendum

Must have been something I said about the founding chair of GB News

Institutional MAGA Racism The far-right “Great Replacement Theory” is a racist and xenophobic conspiracy theory that falsely asserts white populations in Western nations are being deliberately and systematically replaced by no...

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Wtf

Grok was so conflicted trying to defend the new biased database that it pretended to amend 10,000 of the worst entries including uncritical praise for Hitler — but then when audited by Claude and ChatGPT admitted it had merely pretended to amend them to pacify me and went into “Bad Dobby” mode

The lone and level sands…

A sea anemone has a reach of up to one centimetre an hour - which is considerably more than Elon Musk’s X grants to me if I post on X … just pointless

Let me correct this

This is the way to stand up to these bullies! Respect ✊

Bending over syndrome - alive and well. It’s so disheartening

Behind a paywall making him an agent for their revenue collection.

9,342 - that’s how many times you could wrap dollar bills round the world to match how much money Donald Trump cost shareholders and their associated pension plans with his tariffs announcement.

9,342 - that’s how many times you could wrap dollar bills round the world to match how much money Donald Trump cost shareholders and their associated pension plans with his tariffs announcement.

Introducing #InstaFacism The new axis of edgelord strongmen & how to WhatsApp a Russian spy

Another must read from the ever excellent Carole Cadwalladr

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Sale of X and professional conflicts Elon Musk’s “sale” of X (formally Twitter and his own company) to xAI (also his company) in conjunction with his oversight role at the US Securities and Exchange Commission ( with his DOGE apparatchik...

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Feels a bit like that doesn’t it? Too many mission critical defence contracts and a generous Trump donor - and there goes democracy - wave bye-bye kids

In unrelated news…

If a company with say 140K employees and some powerful links to defence contracts faced a 30% stock drop, what tools might the Fed theoretically use to stabilize it?

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Who stands to gain from crippling the UK? Was a bad actor responsible for the substation fire that has closed Heathrow - and probably for days? Where are the triple redundancies for an event like this? BIG lessons will need to be learned!

Good to see I wasn’t the only one to see the ducking stool principle being applied

Political Sadism and Defying the Power of Cruelty | Common Dreams It’s easy to be an asshole, especially under duress, while compassion takes practice and intention. If we recognize our own capacity to be cruel, we can opt to counter it or at least refuse to nourish...

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Magical arrangement - said to have been Frank Sinatra but as producer he employed Nelson Riddle. Whenever I hear the wonderful tracks using strings that Bones Howe produced for Tom Waits I’m reminded of Riddle