pmh
@clearlight.bsky.social
Unemployable philosopher gone technical
Interested in threat models for: energy, food and society
Resources:
https://github.com/jivoi/awesome-osint
https://www.transparency.org/en/library/
https://www.eff.org/wp/surveillance-self-defense-international
Interested in threat models for: energy, food and society
Resources:
https://github.com/jivoi/awesome-osint
https://www.transparency.org/en/library/
https://www.eff.org/wp/surveillance-self-defense-international
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Starmer doesn't care about homelessness; he's not homeless.
Starmer doesn't care about food banks; he doesn't use them.
Starmer doesn't care about the NHS; he'll go private.
Starmer doesn't care about you; you're not his bank balance.
Starmer doesn't care about food banks; he doesn't use them.
Starmer doesn't care about the NHS; he'll go private.
Starmer doesn't care about you; you're not his bank balance.
November 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Starmer doesn't care about homelessness; he's not homeless.
Starmer doesn't care about food banks; he doesn't use them.
Starmer doesn't care about the NHS; he'll go private.
Starmer doesn't care about you; you're not his bank balance.
Starmer doesn't care about food banks; he doesn't use them.
Starmer doesn't care about the NHS; he'll go private.
Starmer doesn't care about you; you're not his bank balance.
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A man of principles?
Just heard Starmer talk about how he finds child poverty abhorrent. Shame he didn’t say much about it last year…
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A man of principles?
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Sir Keir Starmer doesn't understand why dangerous jam-maker Jeremy Corbyn volunteers every Christmas Eve at a food bank without taking the cameras. "This kind of missed opportunity is exactly why Labour needed me," he almost certainly said... 😉
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Sir Keir Starmer doesn't understand why dangerous jam-maker Jeremy Corbyn volunteers every Christmas Eve at a food bank without taking the cameras. "This kind of missed opportunity is exactly why Labour needed me," he almost certainly said... 😉
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So let’s take a look at the leaders who’ve removed trial by jury
Do we really want to be in this club:
1️⃣ Keir Starmer
2️⃣ Saddam Hussein
3️⃣ Muammar Gaddafi
4️⃣ Adolf Hitler
5️⃣ Benito Mussolini
6️⃣ Joseph Stalin
7️⃣ Mao Zedong
8️⃣ Vladimir Lenin
9️⃣ Francisco Franco
🔟 Augusto Pinochet
Do we really want to be in this club:
1️⃣ Keir Starmer
2️⃣ Saddam Hussein
3️⃣ Muammar Gaddafi
4️⃣ Adolf Hitler
5️⃣ Benito Mussolini
6️⃣ Joseph Stalin
7️⃣ Mao Zedong
8️⃣ Vladimir Lenin
9️⃣ Francisco Franco
🔟 Augusto Pinochet
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
So let’s take a look at the leaders who’ve removed trial by jury
Do we really want to be in this club:
1️⃣ Keir Starmer
2️⃣ Saddam Hussein
3️⃣ Muammar Gaddafi
4️⃣ Adolf Hitler
5️⃣ Benito Mussolini
6️⃣ Joseph Stalin
7️⃣ Mao Zedong
8️⃣ Vladimir Lenin
9️⃣ Francisco Franco
🔟 Augusto Pinochet
Do we really want to be in this club:
1️⃣ Keir Starmer
2️⃣ Saddam Hussein
3️⃣ Muammar Gaddafi
4️⃣ Adolf Hitler
5️⃣ Benito Mussolini
6️⃣ Joseph Stalin
7️⃣ Mao Zedong
8️⃣ Vladimir Lenin
9️⃣ Francisco Franco
🔟 Augusto Pinochet
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The fun part is that if you listen to the papers’ politics podcasts, they all understand we’re fucked because we’re paying a gajillion pounds a year to compensate for decades of lunatic refusal to invest in improvements. But then you turn on your radio and it is mostly this shit, wall to wall.
November 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The fun part is that if you listen to the papers’ politics podcasts, they all understand we’re fucked because we’re paying a gajillion pounds a year to compensate for decades of lunatic refusal to invest in improvements. But then you turn on your radio and it is mostly this shit, wall to wall.
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I mean, *very obviously* it was catastrophic to spend a decade all-channels blasting the public with ideas like “funding the NHS is self-indulgent nonsense for effete pricks having a circle-jerk of moral purity”. Wildly reckless idiocy, a bit of an abomination really. But that’s what happened.
November 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I mean, *very obviously* it was catastrophic to spend a decade all-channels blasting the public with ideas like “funding the NHS is self-indulgent nonsense for effete pricks having a circle-jerk of moral purity”. Wildly reckless idiocy, a bit of an abomination really. But that’s what happened.
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Nope, we can’t now go back to “just reporting news”, because of the huge number of MP and journalists who spent the last decade angrily explaining that the Labour Party is rammed with self-indulgent wankers who disastrously want to ensure children are fed, to show off how pure and virtuous they are.
November 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Nope, we can’t now go back to “just reporting news”, because of the huge number of MP and journalists who spent the last decade angrily explaining that the Labour Party is rammed with self-indulgent wankers who disastrously want to ensure children are fed, to show off how pure and virtuous they are.
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We’re *still* doing “Hey, what if we just help the postwar settlement to just collapse and die Oh shit oh shit it’s dying, here’s a wildly expensive and inefficient patch job to stop it exploding, now, what if we just let it die”. Now, in 2025.
November 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
We’re *still* doing “Hey, what if we just help the postwar settlement to just collapse and die Oh shit oh shit it’s dying, here’s a wildly expensive and inefficient patch job to stop it exploding, now, what if we just let it die”. Now, in 2025.
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It’s amazing. Even *the Soviet Union* managed to get Kruschev up to say Okay lads, so, maybe this ideological cult of personality shit was a bit of a disaster with a colossal bodycount. We have to admit that we somewhat fucked it there. Time to change things. But here we still are, decades on.
Nope, we can’t now go back to “just reporting news”, because of the huge number of MP and journalists who spent the last decade angrily explaining that the Labour Party is rammed with self-indulgent wankers who disastrously want to ensure children are fed, to show off how pure and virtuous they are.
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It’s amazing. Even *the Soviet Union* managed to get Kruschev up to say Okay lads, so, maybe this ideological cult of personality shit was a bit of a disaster with a colossal bodycount. We have to admit that we somewhat fucked it there. Time to change things. But here we still are, decades on.
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Removal of judge in Palestine Action ban legal challenge ‘deeply concerning’
Removal of judge in Palestine Action ban legal challenge ‘deeply concerning’
Unusual last-minute change means panel of three will now hear case rather than Mr Justice Chamberlain
Concerns have been raised after the judge who was expected to hear a legal challenge to the ban on Palestine Action was removed from the case at the last minute without explanation.
Mr Justice Chamberlain had granted permission for the judicial review and said that he would preside over the trial but it has emerged that a panel of three different judges will instead hear the case, which is due to start on Wednesday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Removal of judge in Palestine Action ban legal challenge ‘deeply concerning’
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And Re:State's core team features:
- an ex Tony Blair Institute analyst who still loves Blair
- a former Expert Adviser to Iain Duncan Smith who was also a managing editor at UnHerd and a management consultant at Accenture.
- an ex Tony Blair Institute analyst who still loves Blair
- a former Expert Adviser to Iain Duncan Smith who was also a managing editor at UnHerd and a management consultant at Accenture.
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
And Re:State's core team features:
- an ex Tony Blair Institute analyst who still loves Blair
- a former Expert Adviser to Iain Duncan Smith who was also a managing editor at UnHerd and a management consultant at Accenture.
- an ex Tony Blair Institute analyst who still loves Blair
- a former Expert Adviser to Iain Duncan Smith who was also a managing editor at UnHerd and a management consultant at Accenture.
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Israel cuts water lines, bulldozes roads and seizes homes as West Bank operation escalates - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-cut-water-lines-bulldoze-roads-and-seize-homes-west-bank
Israel cuts water lines, bulldozes roads and seizes homes as West Bank operation escalates
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<p>The municipality of Tammoun also reported that large forces of the occupation army stormed the town as aircraft fired on the residents and neighbourhoods.</p>
<p>As part of the large-scale operation, the Israeli army bulldozed roads, cut water lines, closed the town's entrances, and turned at least 10 houses into military barracks. </p>
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www.middleeasteye.net
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Israel cuts water lines, bulldozes roads and seizes homes as West Bank operation escalates - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-cut-water-lines-bulldoze-roads-and-seize-homes-west-bank
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The way our public services are run amounts to a huge privatisation tax on every household... 👇
Rachel Reeves can't "tackle the cost of living crisis" in her budget today without tackling PRIVATISATION
It means YOU pay an extra tax on
- your bills 💧💡
- your council tax 🧓🚸
- investment in your public services 🏥🏫
Time to end the 40 year rip off
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEoz...
It means YOU pay an extra tax on
- your bills 💧💡
- your council tax 🧓🚸
- investment in your public services 🏥🏫
Time to end the 40 year rip off
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEoz...
The hidden tax you shouldn't have to pay 💰
YouTube video by We Own It
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The way our public services are run amounts to a huge privatisation tax on every household... 👇
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Of course another consequence of removing juries from all but the most serious crimes is that those pesky juries won’t be able to find annoying protestors not guilty.
November 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Of course another consequence of removing juries from all but the most serious crimes is that those pesky juries won’t be able to find annoying protestors not guilty.
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I think one thing that needs to be said in the argument over judges v juries is that juries are far, far more diversely drawn than the judiciary. Juries will usually include, for example, at least one person under 30. The judiciary won't.
I don't know what effect that has, but it's a difference.
I don't know what effect that has, but it's a difference.
November 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I think one thing that needs to be said in the argument over judges v juries is that juries are far, far more diversely drawn than the judiciary. Juries will usually include, for example, at least one person under 30. The judiciary won't.
I don't know what effect that has, but it's a difference.
I don't know what effect that has, but it's a difference.
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You're complicit in genocide and the attacks on migrants.
A devastating message to Labour MPs from @zackpolanski.bsky.social
A devastating message to Labour MPs from @zackpolanski.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
You're complicit in genocide and the attacks on migrants.
A devastating message to Labour MPs from @zackpolanski.bsky.social
A devastating message to Labour MPs from @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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April 2022 Income Tax Threshold £12,570
April 2031 Income Tax Threshold £12,570
Should be about £16,970.
Meaning every person earning £16,970 or more is paying £1,231.86 more in tax.
Threshold freezes are a tax on the poorest.
April 2031 Income Tax Threshold £12,570
Should be about £16,970.
Meaning every person earning £16,970 or more is paying £1,231.86 more in tax.
Threshold freezes are a tax on the poorest.
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
April 2022 Income Tax Threshold £12,570
April 2031 Income Tax Threshold £12,570
Should be about £16,970.
Meaning every person earning £16,970 or more is paying £1,231.86 more in tax.
Threshold freezes are a tax on the poorest.
April 2031 Income Tax Threshold £12,570
Should be about £16,970.
Meaning every person earning £16,970 or more is paying £1,231.86 more in tax.
Threshold freezes are a tax on the poorest.
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Fun piece, but I think Duncan must mean "of Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, Starmer, the last is the most left wing", which is certainly right but meh. NOT "50 years", or shall we have a quick look at the 1975 Industry Act, or the Cabinet debates around 1976? 1/
Starmer and Reeves run probably the most economically left-wing government of past five decades and yet bleeding support to its left thanks to dumb strategy www.economist.com/britain/2025...
November 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Fun piece, but I think Duncan must mean "of Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, Starmer, the last is the most left wing", which is certainly right but meh. NOT "50 years", or shall we have a quick look at the 1975 Industry Act, or the Cabinet debates around 1976? 1/
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Since we are once again dealing with "the only silent era comedians of note were men" I feel I need to stand up for the ladies.
Marion Davies!
Marion Davies!
November 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Since we are once again dealing with "the only silent era comedians of note were men" I feel I need to stand up for the ladies.
Marion Davies!
Marion Davies!
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Full, deranged story of how anti-military industrial complex protesters in Southern Ontario are being terrorized by police who apparently have no other way to waste public resources:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Police charge four more people linked to downtown anti-war protest | CBC News
London police have laid more charges and continue to ask for help from the public in their investigation into a downtown anti-war protest that happened in late October.
www.cbc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Full, deranged story of how anti-military industrial complex protesters in Southern Ontario are being terrorized by police who apparently have no other way to waste public resources:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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”Notably, three Canadian cities—Montreal, Quebec City, and Vancouver—made the top 30, highlighting how Canada is building world-class cycling infrastructure, while no American cities cracked the list.”
Nice one #Canada it’s like you are a better version of the U.S.
momentummag.com/the-30-most-...
Nice one #Canada it’s like you are a better version of the U.S.
momentummag.com/the-30-most-...
The 30 Most Bike-Friendly Cities in the World, the 2025 Copenhagenize Index Arrives
The Copenhagenize Index, the most comprehensive ranking of urban cycling friendliness, evaluates 100 cities on how far they’ve gone to make cycling safe, convenient, and appealing.
momentummag.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
”Notably, three Canadian cities—Montreal, Quebec City, and Vancouver—made the top 30, highlighting how Canada is building world-class cycling infrastructure, while no American cities cracked the list.”
Nice one #Canada it’s like you are a better version of the U.S.
momentummag.com/the-30-most-...
Nice one #Canada it’s like you are a better version of the U.S.
momentummag.com/the-30-most-...
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Offshore tax avoiding billionaires like to see the great unwashed fighting among themselves. It prevents a concerted challenge on their wealth and grubby influence
Mainstream media rags pit working people against benefit claimants after budget
Reeves' budget might have thrown benefit claimants under the bus, but newspapers are making sure to reverse over them too
www.thecanary.co
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Offshore tax avoiding billionaires like to see the great unwashed fighting among themselves. It prevents a concerted challenge on their wealth and grubby influence
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The palpable dishonesty around a lot of the MSM reporting of the budget suggests they might have an agenda. Who'd have thought it!
Labour have bought themselves a few months. But they're still fecked.
Labour have bought themselves a few months. But they're still fecked.
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The palpable dishonesty around a lot of the MSM reporting of the budget suggests they might have an agenda. Who'd have thought it!
Labour have bought themselves a few months. But they're still fecked.
Labour have bought themselves a few months. But they're still fecked.
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Oh well done. People have finally worked out what fiscal drag is, but let’s applaud lifting the 2-child cap and ignore every thing else that is making people poorer.
Income tax threshold freeze will hit poorer households harder, experts say
Income tax threshold freeze will hit poorer households harder, experts say
Move will have greater impact on living standards of taxpayers in bottom half of income scale, thinktanks say
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Oh well done. People have finally worked out what fiscal drag is, but let’s applaud lifting the 2-child cap and ignore every thing else that is making people poorer.