Dr David Weston🏴🇺🇦
@drdave89.bsky.social
Tyke, Cymro. Archaeologist, Envi. Sci. Teacher and now runs design and manufacture company.
And in too many choirs. Quaker.
Also on Mastodon @[email protected]
And in too many choirs. Quaker.
Also on Mastodon @[email protected]
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and you won't be able to see that that's what's happening.
the park should not be full of broken glass.
you can't just ban children from the play area and call the problem solved.
1) they now have no play area
2) everyone else is still getting cut to ribbons
the park should not be full of broken glass.
you can't just ban children from the play area and call the problem solved.
1) they now have no play area
2) everyone else is still getting cut to ribbons
February 16, 2026 at 3:25 PM
and you won't be able to see that that's what's happening.
the park should not be full of broken glass.
you can't just ban children from the play area and call the problem solved.
1) they now have no play area
2) everyone else is still getting cut to ribbons
the park should not be full of broken glass.
you can't just ban children from the play area and call the problem solved.
1) they now have no play area
2) everyone else is still getting cut to ribbons
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yes. the things that would make social media safer for children are almost all just the things that would make social media non-harmful/much less harmful for *all of us*.
if you do it by age verification then nothing will stop a child in a difficult home accessing stuff via parents' accounts
if you do it by age verification then nothing will stop a child in a difficult home accessing stuff via parents' accounts
The under-16 social media (and VPN, and chatbot) ban is part of a broader policy problem IMV, which is that it is politically easier to talk about e.g. 'child poverty', and you can do a lot of good with that approach, but it has hard limits because ultimately you are also just talking about poverty.
February 16, 2026 at 3:23 PM
yes. the things that would make social media safer for children are almost all just the things that would make social media non-harmful/much less harmful for *all of us*.
if you do it by age verification then nothing will stop a child in a difficult home accessing stuff via parents' accounts
if you do it by age verification then nothing will stop a child in a difficult home accessing stuff via parents' accounts
February 16, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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Wild to see wealthy Reform politician "explaining" to poor people they don't understand their own experience.
Let's make sure every single person in Gorton & Denton (and the country!) knows exactly that Reform is bankrolled by dodgy donors. Mask is off.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
Let's make sure every single person in Gorton & Denton (and the country!) knows exactly that Reform is bankrolled by dodgy donors. Mask is off.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
Exclusive: Greens Hit Out At Reform 'Frauds' After Zia Yusuf Suggests Poverty Rates Are Exaggerated
"Reform have totally let the cat out of the bag this morning about what they really stand for."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Wild to see wealthy Reform politician "explaining" to poor people they don't understand their own experience.
Let's make sure every single person in Gorton & Denton (and the country!) knows exactly that Reform is bankrolled by dodgy donors. Mask is off.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
Let's make sure every single person in Gorton & Denton (and the country!) knows exactly that Reform is bankrolled by dodgy donors. Mask is off.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/exclus...
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How does this work exactly?
February 15, 2026 at 2:32 PM
How does this work exactly?
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This is now literally the lead story on BBC News Scotland. The employment situation of a private individual harassed via lawfare is deemed the main headline for national news. This is genuinely sickening. The media is a cancer upon this country.
February 15, 2026 at 1:05 PM
This is now literally the lead story on BBC News Scotland. The employment situation of a private individual harassed via lawfare is deemed the main headline for national news. This is genuinely sickening. The media is a cancer upon this country.
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Wow!
Okay.
This is a shot across the Labour leadership's bow, no mistake.
Are back benchers starting to wake up?
Okay.
This is a shot across the Labour leadership's bow, no mistake.
Are back benchers starting to wake up?
It’s the 120th anniversary of the adoption of the name the Labour Party. Today, there’s a growing call across the Labour & trade union movement about the need to restore democracy & members’ rights in the Party. If you agree, sign up to the statement in this video.
February 15, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Wow!
Okay.
This is a shot across the Labour leadership's bow, no mistake.
Are back benchers starting to wake up?
Okay.
This is a shot across the Labour leadership's bow, no mistake.
Are back benchers starting to wake up?
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Multi-millionaire Zia Yusuf claims there are only very, very small pockets of poverty in this country.
That'll be news to the huge numbers of people who can't pay their bills and are struggling to feed their kids.
Reform are out of touch.
Let's keep them out of power.
That'll be news to the huge numbers of people who can't pay their bills and are struggling to feed their kids.
Reform are out of touch.
Let's keep them out of power.
February 15, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Multi-millionaire Zia Yusuf claims there are only very, very small pockets of poverty in this country.
That'll be news to the huge numbers of people who can't pay their bills and are struggling to feed their kids.
Reform are out of touch.
Let's keep them out of power.
That'll be news to the huge numbers of people who can't pay their bills and are struggling to feed their kids.
Reform are out of touch.
Let's keep them out of power.
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The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, American Academy of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society, Canadian Pediatric Society, American Psychological Association, Japan’s Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, and 27 German medical assocs have all rejected the Cass Review's findings
Says the woman who disregarded evidence and medical professionals to "weaponise" children to such an extent she got necessary medical support stripped from trans young people, in a manner shown to have contributed to an increase in deaths.
She needs to sit this out.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
She needs to sit this out.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Children 'weaponised' in toxic trans debate, Cass says
Clinician Dr Hilary Cass says
www.bbc.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 9:22 AM
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, American Academy of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society, Canadian Pediatric Society, American Psychological Association, Japan’s Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, and 27 German medical assocs have all rejected the Cass Review's findings
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When I want advice on dental 🦷 care, I’m not asking a plumber.
Why would I want a millionaire to explain poverty?
Why would I want a millionaire to explain poverty?
Dear Gorton & Denton,
Something you might want to hear...
Something you might want to hear...
February 15, 2026 at 5:00 PM
When I want advice on dental 🦷 care, I’m not asking a plumber.
Why would I want a millionaire to explain poverty?
Why would I want a millionaire to explain poverty?
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Far from the tide having broken through into the pit, the mine had actually broken through into the river. The result was the same, but the cause was not something conveniently inanimate, it was sustained human error ✍️Howell Harris wp.me/p8Mk4U-1f48
February 15, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Far from the tide having broken through into the pit, the mine had actually broken through into the river. The result was the same, but the cause was not something conveniently inanimate, it was sustained human error ✍️Howell Harris wp.me/p8Mk4U-1f48
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A recent statement by Church Patriarchs in Jerusalem rejecting Zionism was historic, and the response it provoked from U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee shows the steps Christian Zionists are taking to silence Palestinian Christians.
mondoweiss.net/2026/01/mike...
mondoweiss.net/2026/01/mike...
Mike Huckabee is interfering with the work and witness of churches in the Holy Land with a goal of silencing Palestinian Christians
A recent statement by Church Patriarchs in Jerusalem rejecting Zionism was historic, and the response it provoked from U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee shows the steps Christian Zionists are taking...
mondoweiss.net
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
A recent statement by Church Patriarchs in Jerusalem rejecting Zionism was historic, and the response it provoked from U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee shows the steps Christian Zionists are taking to silence Palestinian Christians.
mondoweiss.net/2026/01/mike...
mondoweiss.net/2026/01/mike...
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The Dawlish - Teignmouth railway line feels like the absolute front line of climate adaptation in Britain (a test we are not passing so far).
And yet somehow, somehow, this article manages to go in-depth on the problems with the line without mentioning the climate once. The sea is literally higher!
And yet somehow, somehow, this article manages to go in-depth on the problems with the line without mentioning the climate once. The sea is literally higher!
Fresh fears for South West's rail link in Dawlish after storms
Taxpayer money has flowed into fixing the rail line connecting Cornwall with the rest of the UK - but the elements have other ideas.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 8:27 PM
The Dawlish - Teignmouth railway line feels like the absolute front line of climate adaptation in Britain (a test we are not passing so far).
And yet somehow, somehow, this article manages to go in-depth on the problems with the line without mentioning the climate once. The sea is literally higher!
And yet somehow, somehow, this article manages to go in-depth on the problems with the line without mentioning the climate once. The sea is literally higher!
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Oh for absolute sputs sake
BBC's Arabic radio service in Lebanon closed after 85 years as part of a £28.5m savings drive. 'Just months later, in October 2023, the Russian state-owned Sputnik news agency took over the frequency. Its news bulletin opened with “This is Moscow”, replacing the previous “This is London” intro.' 🙄
BBC warns Russia is taking over World Service radio frequencies
Russian propaganda is filling the void where the BBC has closed World Service radio services due to cuts
inews.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Oh for absolute sputs sake
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Seriously, whilst the U.K. government remains on X it’s impossible to take them seriously over online safety.
And it’s great that the government is going to address the ‘addictive’ elements online, as they’re clearly addicted to X.
February 16, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Seriously, whilst the U.K. government remains on X it’s impossible to take them seriously over online safety.
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Fixed that headline for you:
‘One (1) farmer who farms 1,000 acres doesn’t like rewilding, we’ve made that the basis of our headline in a classic example of false balance.
PS everyone else in the story loves the idea of the Wildlife Trusts buying the Rothbury Estate’
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
‘One (1) farmer who farms 1,000 acres doesn’t like rewilding, we’ve made that the basis of our headline in a classic example of false balance.
PS everyone else in the story loves the idea of the Wildlife Trusts buying the Rothbury Estate’
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Bid to buy Rothbury Estate as divisive as Brexit'
Funds are being raised to buy the Northumberland estate - but the plans have split opinion.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Fixed that headline for you:
‘One (1) farmer who farms 1,000 acres doesn’t like rewilding, we’ve made that the basis of our headline in a classic example of false balance.
PS everyone else in the story loves the idea of the Wildlife Trusts buying the Rothbury Estate’
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
‘One (1) farmer who farms 1,000 acres doesn’t like rewilding, we’ve made that the basis of our headline in a classic example of false balance.
PS everyone else in the story loves the idea of the Wildlife Trusts buying the Rothbury Estate’
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I wrote this in 2012 paulbernal.wordpress.com/2012/12/27/1...
10 reasons to leave Facebook…
If you’re looking for a New Year’s Resolution – have you considered leaving Facebook? There are many reasons to do so, and getting more compelling all the time – all it take…
paulbernal.wordpress.com
February 15, 2026 at 12:29 PM
I wrote this in 2012 paulbernal.wordpress.com/2012/12/27/1...
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Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”.
Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.
Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.
Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.
Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.
February 15, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”.
Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.
Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.
Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.
Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.
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February 15, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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You don't. They'll never be convinced. You try to convince everyone else instead. But that does mean you have to face down the racists and bigots. And I would buy the "give him time" argument if he had even started to try, but he hasn't and shows no inclination to do it.
February 14, 2026 at 3:53 PM
You don't. They'll never be convinced. You try to convince everyone else instead. But that does mean you have to face down the racists and bigots. And I would buy the "give him time" argument if he had even started to try, but he hasn't and shows no inclination to do it.
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Starmer is perhaps unwittingly driving the economy into deeper recession with his anti-business policies and Brexit redlines.
Quite simply growth won't happen without EU SM+CU.
The only winner from this recession is Farage who'll ruthlessly exploit the despair on his march to no. 10.
Quite simply growth won't happen without EU SM+CU.
The only winner from this recession is Farage who'll ruthlessly exploit the despair on his march to no. 10.
February 14, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Starmer is perhaps unwittingly driving the economy into deeper recession with his anti-business policies and Brexit redlines.
Quite simply growth won't happen without EU SM+CU.
The only winner from this recession is Farage who'll ruthlessly exploit the despair on his march to no. 10.
Quite simply growth won't happen without EU SM+CU.
The only winner from this recession is Farage who'll ruthlessly exploit the despair on his march to no. 10.
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"We need to grow our economy!"
"Are you going to do the most obvious thing to do that?"
"I refuse!"
Keir Starmer is not a serious politician.
"Are you going to do the most obvious thing to do that?"
"I refuse!"
Keir Starmer is not a serious politician.
By refusing to even consider a customs union, Keir Starmer himself is the biggest block to closer ties with Europe.
Unless he changes that stance, this is all just meaningless blather
Unless he changes that stance, this is all just meaningless blather
February 14, 2026 at 4:59 PM
"We need to grow our economy!"
"Are you going to do the most obvious thing to do that?"
"I refuse!"
Keir Starmer is not a serious politician.
"Are you going to do the most obvious thing to do that?"
"I refuse!"
Keir Starmer is not a serious politician.
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The BBC isn't reporting the news, it's trying to create it. Farage has been their man for years for some reason.
This is a man whose company/party has 1% of Westminster seats. Whereas Ed Davey, with 72 seats, was met with "Congratulations, I suppose" from Kuenssberg.
This is a man whose company/party has 1% of Westminster seats. Whereas Ed Davey, with 72 seats, was met with "Congratulations, I suppose" from Kuenssberg.
February 14, 2026 at 9:50 PM
The BBC isn't reporting the news, it's trying to create it. Farage has been their man for years for some reason.
This is a man whose company/party has 1% of Westminster seats. Whereas Ed Davey, with 72 seats, was met with "Congratulations, I suppose" from Kuenssberg.
This is a man whose company/party has 1% of Westminster seats. Whereas Ed Davey, with 72 seats, was met with "Congratulations, I suppose" from Kuenssberg.
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Voter ID is always about electoral manipulation. The same in the U.K.
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
February 14, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Voter ID is always about electoral manipulation. The same in the U.K.
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Luke here is getting desperate
Luke knows they’ve lost the upcoming by-election and I don’t think Luke knows what’s coming for his party in the May council elections
This intake of Labour MPs along with the leadership have absolutely destroyed the Labour Party
This is Luke’s legacy
Luke knows they’ve lost the upcoming by-election and I don’t think Luke knows what’s coming for his party in the May council elections
This intake of Labour MPs along with the leadership have absolutely destroyed the Labour Party
This is Luke’s legacy
Both the Greens and Reform are soft on Putin and soft on NATO.
The greens want to pull out of NATO and Reform’s Leader says Putin is the leader he admires the most.
Labour takes a different approach: a NATO-first strategy, increasing defence spending and renewing our forces.
The greens want to pull out of NATO and Reform’s Leader says Putin is the leader he admires the most.
Labour takes a different approach: a NATO-first strategy, increasing defence spending and renewing our forces.
February 14, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Luke here is getting desperate
Luke knows they’ve lost the upcoming by-election and I don’t think Luke knows what’s coming for his party in the May council elections
This intake of Labour MPs along with the leadership have absolutely destroyed the Labour Party
This is Luke’s legacy
Luke knows they’ve lost the upcoming by-election and I don’t think Luke knows what’s coming for his party in the May council elections
This intake of Labour MPs along with the leadership have absolutely destroyed the Labour Party
This is Luke’s legacy