James Bottomley
@jamesbottomley.bsky.social
UK-based older project consultant guy with history in both public and private sectors. Enjoys chatting about politics, society, culture, etc. Spent time in many countries, including working in the US, so moderately familiar with other lands.
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The government’s suggestion that rolling out 20 minute courses on writing “AI“ prompts, sponsored by Google, Microsoft and Amazon, is somehow comparable to the founding of the Open University (the Wilson government‘s, & Jennie Lee’s, proudest achievement), is an insult to our human intelligence.
January 28, 2026 at 8:37 AM
The government’s suggestion that rolling out 20 minute courses on writing “AI“ prompts, sponsored by Google, Microsoft and Amazon, is somehow comparable to the founding of the Open University (the Wilson government‘s, & Jennie Lee’s, proudest achievement), is an insult to our human intelligence.
What a disgrace of a Labour MP. Straight out of the Tory backbenches. Opportunist is too nice a word.
Chris Ward, Brighton Kemptown. 🥀
Former lobbyist for the firm that represents one of the UK's largest private health insurers.
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Former lobbyist for the firm that represents one of the UK's largest private health insurers.
labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/t...
January 27, 2026 at 1:05 PM
What a disgrace of a Labour MP. Straight out of the Tory backbenches. Opportunist is too nice a word.
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If the Greens defeat Farage in Gorton and Denton, it'll change politics forever. I think that's worth donating a few quid to, don't you?
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January 27, 2026 at 12:41 PM
If the Greens defeat Farage in Gorton and Denton, it'll change politics forever. I think that's worth donating a few quid to, don't you?
donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/parliamentar...
donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/parliamentar...
The Mail's resident doctor has never heard of Long Covid.
January 26, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The Mail's resident doctor has never heard of Long Covid.
Over at billionaire land, it's party-on dudes with Trump for the digital oligarch sleazebags. Let's call this group 'the we support murder party'.
"Attendees include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Mike Tyson..." and more.
Trump treated them to a special screening of MELANIA. 🤮
They do not care about human life.
The appearance of care is always for the stock price.
They will always celebrate our losses as their wins.
#Pinks
Trump treated them to a special screening of MELANIA. 🤮
They do not care about human life.
The appearance of care is always for the stock price.
They will always celebrate our losses as their wins.
#Pinks
Billionaire CEOs Party With Trump and Melania After His Goons Kill Nurse
Apple CEO Tim Cook traveled to the White House on the same day a Border Patrol agent shot a Veterans Affairs nurse dead in Minneapolis.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Over at billionaire land, it's party-on dudes with Trump for the digital oligarch sleazebags. Let's call this group 'the we support murder party'.
This pile of mindless slop is being recommended by Oxford and several other key British universities as the way forward for their students and staff!
'Researchers at SE Ranking, a search engine optimisation platform, found YouTube made up 4.43% of all AI Overview citations. No hospital network, government health portal, medical association or academic institution came close to that number, they said.' 1/2
Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries, study suggests
Exclusive: German research into responses to health queries raises fresh questions about summaries seen by 2bn people a month
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 9:29 AM
This pile of mindless slop is being recommended by Oxford and several other key British universities as the way forward for their students and staff!
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Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
January 24, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
Non US folks - don't post on here saying words along the lines of "Americans aren't doing anything" - plenty are, they need our support and solidarity.
Thousands outside Terminal 1 at the Minneapolis airport now.
January 23, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Non US folks - don't post on here saying words along the lines of "Americans aren't doing anything" - plenty are, they need our support and solidarity.
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Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today
January 23, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today
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Putin has declined saying it would be too damaging to his reputation to be associated with Tony Blair.
Trump has invited Putin to join Gaza’s ‘Board of Peace’, says Kremlin – Europe live
Trump has invited Putin to join Gaza’s ‘Board of Peace’, says Kremlin – Europe live
Russia seeking to ‘clarify all the nuances’ of offer to join board meant to oversee governance and reconstruction of territory
In a nod to Trump’s efforts on Ukraine, Starmer says he recognises the US president’s role in pushing for ceasefire there – as he says “we will work closely with the United States, Ukraine and our other allies to apply pressure where it belongs: on Putin.”
In his strongest criticism of Trump yet, Starmer goes on to say:
A trade war is in no one’s interest, and my job is always to act in the UK’s national interest. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Putin has declined saying it would be too damaging to his reputation to be associated with Tony Blair.
Farage "doesn't do computers". Yet he knows all about crypto and is eager to sell it and he also was an insider on the Facebook ad blitz during the referendum campaign, when the Leave campaigns broke multiple data protection regs.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage apologises for 17 breaches of MPs’ code of conduct
Reform UK leader, who failed to declare £380,000 on time, says he is computer-illiterate ‘oddball’
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Farage "doesn't do computers". Yet he knows all about crypto and is eager to sell it and he also was an insider on the Facebook ad blitz during the referendum campaign, when the Leave campaigns broke multiple data protection regs.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Imagine how much coverage this story would have received in normal times…
Inviting Vladimir Putin to join a “peace board” is the diplomatic equivalent of hiring an arsonist to run the fire department. You don’t build peace by empowering the very people who torch it.
January 20, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Imagine how much coverage this story would have received in normal times…
Basically a load of complete drivel and hypocrisy from Trump. Suspect it's designed by Miller and Vance to give Farage an opportunity to spread his lies about it.
The UK did this deal, btw, at significant political and financial cost, so that the US could keep operating a crucial regional military base at Diego Garcia.
Donald Trump and Marco Rubio both welcomed the deal. There is nothing in it for the UK other than helping the US relationship. So: hmmmm.
Donald Trump and Marco Rubio both welcomed the deal. There is nothing in it for the UK other than helping the US relationship. So: hmmmm.
Trump on his website laying in to the UK over Diego Garcia as an act of “GREAT STUPIDITY”, cites it as a reason the US should “acquire” Greenland
January 20, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Basically a load of complete drivel and hypocrisy from Trump. Suspect it's designed by Miller and Vance to give Farage an opportunity to spread his lies about it.
Gradually, bit by bit, slowly but inevitably, civil society is getting out of the fascist game that is Musk's X.
We have made the decision to formally close our X social media account. Once a vibrant platform to promote the interests of authors, we feel X is no longer a trusted place for balance, community support, and reliable information.
January 20, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Gradually, bit by bit, slowly but inevitably, civil society is getting out of the fascist game that is Musk's X.
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Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.
January 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.
Future generations will boggle that in the middle of the dreadful climate change crisis, the US's response in the mid-20s was to threaten to invade Greenland and to fairly pointlessly rerun the Apollo missions because China wanted to land on the Moon.
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Nasa readies its most powerful rocket for round-the-moon flight
Artemis II mission could launch on 6 February, sending astronauts on a 685,000-mile journey
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Future generations will boggle that in the middle of the dreadful climate change crisis, the US's response in the mid-20s was to threaten to invade Greenland and to fairly pointlessly rerun the Apollo missions because China wanted to land on the Moon.
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Have written numerous times to my constituency MP, Labour's Jonathan Davies about Gaza, the government's love affair with Palantir, etc. Very little reaction but now I get a long letter in which he claims he's fixed local potholes. (Oh and they are reappearing already.) All the important stuff!
January 17, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Have written numerous times to my constituency MP, Labour's Jonathan Davies about Gaza, the government's love affair with Palantir, etc. Very little reaction but now I get a long letter in which he claims he's fixed local potholes. (Oh and they are reappearing already.) All the important stuff!
London, which according to the Mail is a warzone of burning rubble.
January 17, 2026 at 8:51 AM
London, which according to the Mail is a warzone of burning rubble.
"In the two years since October 2023, Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed over 1,000 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank, one in five of them children. No one has been tried or convicted for any of these deaths."
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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‘The settlers brought the violence’: the ethnic cleansing of a West Bank village
Ras ‘Ein al ‘Auja is a small community of about 135 families – and the only one remaining in this part of the Jordan valley
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:00 AM
"In the two years since October 2023, Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed over 1,000 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank, one in five of them children. No one has been tried or convicted for any of these deaths."
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Covid is airborne!
Wear a respirator ffp2/3
Open windows
Clean the Air- build a Corsi-Rosenthal Box or use a Hepa Air Purifier.
It’s easy, it will help prevent infections.
Covid is airborne!
Wear a respirator ffp2/3
Open windows
Clean the Air- build a Corsi-Rosenthal Box or use a Hepa Air Purifier.
It’s easy, it will help prevent infections.
Don't breathe it in
YouTube video by The John Snow Project
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January 13, 2026 at 11:06 AM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX9t...
Covid is airborne!
Wear a respirator ffp2/3
Open windows
Clean the Air- build a Corsi-Rosenthal Box or use a Hepa Air Purifier.
It’s easy, it will help prevent infections.
Covid is airborne!
Wear a respirator ffp2/3
Open windows
Clean the Air- build a Corsi-Rosenthal Box or use a Hepa Air Purifier.
It’s easy, it will help prevent infections.
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AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
Amazon at it again, placing every obstacle they can in the way of customers seeking perfectly legitimate refunds for non-supplied purchases when the amount is more than a few quid. Untrustworthy is the word for this.
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
Amazon insists I return a phone it says ‘may be lost’
I have paid two monthly £108 instalments but am now phone-less and out of pocket
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Amazon at it again, placing every obstacle they can in the way of customers seeking perfectly legitimate refunds for non-supplied purchases when the amount is more than a few quid. Untrustworthy is the word for this.
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
Folkestone, Kent. "My elderly neighbour got knocked over by a heavy timber board swept along by the flood waters. He thought he was going to drown in sewage."
Must be time for another round of fat bonus payments to water executives and divvies to shareholders.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Must be time for another round of fat bonus payments to water executives and divvies to shareholders.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Fear of the next deluge’: flood-scarred Britons join forces to demand help
As climate breakdown puts millions more people at flood risk, traumatised homeowners are finding common voice
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Folkestone, Kent. "My elderly neighbour got knocked over by a heavy timber board swept along by the flood waters. He thought he was going to drown in sewage."
Must be time for another round of fat bonus payments to water executives and divvies to shareholders.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Must be time for another round of fat bonus payments to water executives and divvies to shareholders.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...