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A refugee from Twitter, now stupidly known as X. If you ban my right to reply to your posts then there is zero point me viewing your posts (block). I support Palestine action. #BollocksToBrexit #NoToAgeVerificationAndMassSurveillance #USEAVPN

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · Jul 2

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Gary Stevenson on taxing the rich and why you're getting poorer | WTCTW podcast

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 17h

Paedophiles will love this - a great way to identify and target their victims.

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cordeliaappleby.bsky.social @cordeliaappleby.bsky.social · 17h

The Palestine Action ban is now being challenged through the High Court AND the Scottish courts.

This could lead to a constitutional crisis.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 17h

This is the man who didnt know how to pay for petrol with a contactless card right?

Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 18h

Well yes, so dont claim a simple fix for a complex problem as the Right are doing by blaming immigrants

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Wayne 🇬🇧🤝🇪🇺 @waynereynolds.bsky.social · 1d

Talk like that puts the Labour party in a very difficult position: try and appeal to Reform UK Ltd followers, or appeal to the people who agree with what Zack and the Greens have to say. It can't do both. They're incompatible. I hope they get the same exposure now, but I suspect they won't.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 20h

Labour have a problem. Zack is very eloquent and without the baggage of Corbyn.

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Lets make different political choices says Zack Polanski.

Like taxing billionaires instead of blaming poor people.

#bbcqt

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Deafening applause as Zack Polanski tells Zia Yusuf that people's concern over immigration is because he spends all his time spreading misinformation and fear.

#bbcqt

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 20h

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos

Names, email addresses and other contact details of users from around the world could also have been taken

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 20h

'Starmer framed it wrong by mentioning immigration. He never should have played that line.' He played that line because that is the only context in which he wants to deploy it, its all about being beastly to migrants and trying to pacify Reform.

Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 20h

And? That is totally different to 1 all encompassing ID that stores all your data in one place. Thank god neither M&S nor JLR have our ID www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

M&S hackers claim to be behind Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack

The hack has caused severe disruption at manufacturing plants globally, with some staff told not to come into work.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 21h

Its less about Lab vs Con, and more about the fact that in their heads they can only deal with 2 opponents. Their ability to factor in multi party politics is quite limited.

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elrondcupboard.bsky.social @elrondcupboard.bsky.social · 22h

A reminder this man cannot physically pay for petrol with a contactless card

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 22h

Rishi Sunak’s twin appointments mean he will be advising rivals in the push for AI breakthroughs. on.ft.com/3KNw22e

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 22h

If its pennies then the water barons can pay for it out of their profits.

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 1d

If they go into boring jobs like finance and law then why not just study finance or law?

Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 1d

An IT engineering degree clearly has some application outside of political bullshittery, PPE doesnt as its a mickey mouse degree.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 2d

If the government really wants to scrap degrees which deliver no value to the UK and indeed have led to £ billions in damage to the economy and culture of the UK then it just needs to scrap the Oxford PPE degree and arrest everyone who has taken it.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Zelenskyy playing Trump like a fiddle. (Politico)

NEWS > POLITICS
Zelenskyy: If Trump gives us Tomahawks, we'll lobby for Nobel Peace Prize
Long-range missiles and a ceasefire with Russia is all it would take for a nomination from Kyiv, Ukrainian leader says.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 1d

Ha ha, he is totally deluded because the only benefits are to the govt and to hackers.

Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 1d

A loyalty card is not a digital ID nor is a bank card. Someone can steal both of those and the retailer at the other end has no idea who is using the card

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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 1d

It wont so its a pointless question. In an ideal world I would love to have a system with no downsides and a govt that never ever screws things up but its a fantasy.

Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 1d

For 2024, predicting the annihilation of the Tory Party was just flat out wrong.

Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 1d

Polls are useful for one thing.....setting a narrative in the media and manipulating public opinion.

Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 1d

And thats the problem with them they dont do a good job of projecting on to FPTP.

Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 1d

I dont think they are at all accurate. Its the age old problem of doing proportional polls and extrapolating them onto a voting system that isnt proportional.