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Sheridan Flynn

@sheridanflynn.com

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Filmmaker. Space traveller. Proud democratic republican. 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🇵🇸

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Sheridan Flynn @sheridanflynn.com · Jul 8

Do we need airbags and crumple zones for online safety?

Me on the violence of the unregulated tech industry.

Sheridan Flynn @sheridanflynn.com · Jul 7

From me: What can the violence of the automotive industry teach us about the harms of unregulated tech?https://sheridanflynn.substack.com/p/what-can-the-violence-of-the-automotive

What can the violence of the automotive industry teach us about the harms of unregulated tech?

From exploding Pintos to lethal algorithms: How Corporate Negligence Repeats Across Industries

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Sheridan Flynn @sheridanflynn.com · 2d

Every accusation is an admission. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 3d

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 4d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

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Sheridan Flynn @sheridanflynn.com · 7d

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 7d

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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Sheridan Flynn @sheridanflynn.com · 7d

Got to see the brilliant and inspirational Power Station film last night in Hackney. A beautiful toolkit for activism and people power ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻 youtu.be/TaoJzRiZ25s?...

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 10d

It’s increasingly clear that convicted Russian influencer Nathan Gill was a senior member of Farage’s entourage. (Banks and Wigmore were also in and out of the Russian embassy sharing FBI files, RT talking points, and discussing gold and diamond privatisation deals)

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 14d

Spot which one ISN’T a Kremlin asset

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 10d

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’…

…but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵
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'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION

As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

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Sheridan Flynn @sheridanflynn.com · 12d

He sounds knackered. All the time.

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Sheridan Flynn @sheridanflynn.com · 12d

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