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Martin Greenaway

@mgreenaw.bsky.social

1.2K followers 870 following 5.3K posts

Photography 📸, Tottenham Hotspur 🐔, St Kilda 😇, broken Alfas 🚗. I think you should tell readers if your source is a Nazi. Hate genocide. Believe in the long-dead concepts of shame and accountability. Your weirdest aunts/uncles shouldn't run countries.

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 1h

Indeed, the very day before Spurs sacked Mauricio Pochettino.

Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 1h

Freewheeling on foreign policy, of course, is the sole preserve of the President.

*ba-dum-tish*

Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 2h

It does feel like we have a raft of people who have not come out of COVID well, and are in danger of being thrown on the scrapheap instead of helped. I don't think long COVID sufferers, for instance, WANT to be stuck at home isolated from the world. They'd much rather be healthy and working.

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 2h

This manages to both spectacularly misrepresent the nature of the threat in Europe, and also to effectively withdraw the US from NATO.

I'm not entirely sure the US Treasury Secretary, whoever they may be, should be freewheeling on foreign policy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Bessent: "All I hear from the Europeans is that Putin is coming to Warsaw. There are very few things in life I am sure about. I am sure he's not coming to Boston."

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3h

"I have been reliably informed that the Wallet Inspector has almost completed his work and is prepared to announce his findings."

Rep Luna tweet:

My office just received word from the @RusEmbUSA
that the ambassador from Russia to the United States will be hand delivering the @GovernmentRF
’s findings on who assassinated JFK to my office.

This is a 350 page document.

We will be uploading these documents as soon as we receive them working with @jeffersonmorley
to ensure that the American people have direct access to them immediately.

It is important to note that Congress attempted to obtain these files in the 90’s and was denied. We have been given access to them now for the first time in history.

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 3h

No idea.

Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 4h

I wonder what might have happened around, ooh, 2020 when the big hump appeared

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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 4h

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 4h

Will it really, though

a man with a beard is smiling while talking to another man .

Alt: Thor is not convinced

media.tenor.com

Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 6h

To where? He's also suggested shifting the Olympics from LA and I mean ... this is not how anything works

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 14h

President Trump has once again suggested relocating World Cup matches from cities that he deems unsafe.

This time it’s Boston.

President Trump once again suggests relocating World Cup matches

Trump claims he would consider calling FIFA’s president Gianni Infantino to move games from cities that he deems unsafe.

www.nytimes.com

Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 6h

Feels to me more like "shit, we really need to bring in some revenue ASAP and nothing is moving the needle, I guess we try porn then"

Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 6h

This honestly sounds like a financial death rattle from OpenAI.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 9h

FINALLY a path to financial viability for OpenAI.

Hampus 🎃 @hampus.bsky.social · 9h

The real money is in blackmailing all the creeps who provided a photo ID to generate illegal porn

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 8h

With AI we’re putting the most powerful tools in history in the hands of the most irresponsible and untrustworthy people in history.

Shockingly, it’s not going well.

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 7h

I'm not sure the cormorants are the problem

A giant net 30 metres long full of fish is hauled into a factory trawler, and spills out it's catch for processing.

Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 8h

Not now, tropical mosquito-borne virus

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 8h

New York health officials have confirmed the first locally transmitted case of the chikungunya virus which causes high fever, joint pain and fatigue.

It’s usually a tropical virus, but there are now infected mosquitoes spreading in New York. (NYT)

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Alun Lewis @alunlewis.bsky.social · 8h

I never met him though I saw him once in Norwich market during the 1997 election supporting Charles Clarke. He's a heroic figure to my mind a brave, decent man and a staggering orator. Probably the last of the breed.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 8h

I sometimes wonder whether Kinnock would be better suited to politics today than in the 80s. His media advisors tried to squeeze out his warmth, humour, anger & willingness to speak his mind, whereas there's a hunger for those things now. Even the mass rally is back, & he's made for the podcast age.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 8h

I think we have a window of opportunity to stop AI from ruining us that is slowly closing

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Pupils fear AI is eroding their ability to study, research finds

One in four students say AI ‘makes it too easy’ for them to find answers

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 10h

The market cap of Volkswagen Group, a company that makes a lot of cars that don't blow up, and sold about 5x the number of cars Tesla did last year, is £50bn.

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 10h

Can Tesla stay a trillion dollar company on just two models? the always excellent June Yoon here www.ft.com/content/b3d1...

Can Tesla stay a trillion dollar company on just two models?

BYD is competing directly with Elon Musk’s carmaker in the midsize electric SUV market

www.ft.com

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 19h

At what point of the US not having a government do the Belgians start to make fun of them?

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 19h

I'd like to disabuse people of that notion forthwith

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 19h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 19h

I assume all the 'hurty word' free speech warriors that were crying their eyes out over Lucy Connolly will be absolutely furious about the guy who has just been sent to prison for his social media posts about Nigel Farage.

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Martin Greenaway @mgreenaw.bsky.social · 19h

Obviously, other types of embarrassing erotica would be available, but it feels like this would be closest to what keeps him awake at night.