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You know when we said it was a bad idea to put these people in charge of all our NHS data?
Palantir co-founder says it exists to kill communists.
January 6, 2026 at 10:12 PM
You know when we said it was a bad idea to put these people in charge of all our NHS data?
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Absolutely not.
Every time someone tries this, I point out how it biases against Black speech. Every. Time. 🤷🏿♂️
Also from the launch of the Perspective API and its "toxicity" score.
Police don't kill too many Black kids."
Score: Not toxic.🤦🏿♂️
"Police kill too many Black kids.
Score: 80.28% toxic.😮
Every time someone tries this, I point out how it biases against Black speech. Every. Time. 🤷🏿♂️
Also from the launch of the Perspective API and its "toxicity" score.
Police don't kill too many Black kids."
Score: Not toxic.🤦🏿♂️
"Police kill too many Black kids.
Score: 80.28% toxic.😮
May 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Absolutely not.
Every time someone tries this, I point out how it biases against Black speech. Every. Time. 🤷🏿♂️
Also from the launch of the Perspective API and its "toxicity" score.
Police don't kill too many Black kids."
Score: Not toxic.🤦🏿♂️
"Police kill too many Black kids.
Score: 80.28% toxic.😮
Every time someone tries this, I point out how it biases against Black speech. Every. Time. 🤷🏿♂️
Also from the launch of the Perspective API and its "toxicity" score.
Police don't kill too many Black kids."
Score: Not toxic.🤦🏿♂️
"Police kill too many Black kids.
Score: 80.28% toxic.😮
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Isn’t it time geometric string art made a comeback? This stuff is the absolute suds. The fact that it had a limited fashionability is surely outrun by its COMPLETE AWESOMENESS. I mean, look at this. It fucking SLAPS.
Artist: SMW (1975)
📸 Decorative Modern
Artist: SMW (1975)
📸 Decorative Modern
January 4, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Isn’t it time geometric string art made a comeback? This stuff is the absolute suds. The fact that it had a limited fashionability is surely outrun by its COMPLETE AWESOMENESS. I mean, look at this. It fucking SLAPS.
Artist: SMW (1975)
📸 Decorative Modern
Artist: SMW (1975)
📸 Decorative Modern
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amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
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In fact I’ll go as far as to say that the direction of travel has been apparent for half a century in terms of attitudes of lawlessness and exceptionalism. No Trump without Bush (stolen election, Iraq), no Bush without Reagan (Iran Contra, Grenada etc), no Reagan without Nixon
January 4, 2026 at 2:55 PM
In fact I’ll go as far as to say that the direction of travel has been apparent for half a century in terms of attitudes of lawlessness and exceptionalism. No Trump without Bush (stolen election, Iraq), no Bush without Reagan (Iran Contra, Grenada etc), no Reagan without Nixon
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If you are younger than 83, you have never seen the US drop a single bomb as a formally declared act of war according to its constitution.
June 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
If you are younger than 83, you have never seen the US drop a single bomb as a formally declared act of war according to its constitution.
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thinking a lot about this piece i wrote almost two years ago and how much worse things have gotten just in that period of time.
i feel like the constituency is growing for a counterrevolution given how shit the tech companies and their effort to force full digitization on us are making everything.
i feel like the constituency is growing for a counterrevolution given how shit the tech companies and their effort to force full digitization on us are making everything.
The digital revolution has failed
The benefits of the internet are eroding. The AI boom is only accelerating their demise.
disconnect.blog
December 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
thinking a lot about this piece i wrote almost two years ago and how much worse things have gotten just in that period of time.
i feel like the constituency is growing for a counterrevolution given how shit the tech companies and their effort to force full digitization on us are making everything.
i feel like the constituency is growing for a counterrevolution given how shit the tech companies and their effort to force full digitization on us are making everything.
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so...i use a wheelchair. I'm fucked if i encounter this scenario because there's literally no way for me and my chair to get around "Ruth".
...how much do they weigh and could i kick it down the side of the incline would be considerations though
...how much do they weigh and could i kick it down the side of the incline would be considerations though
December 29, 2025 at 1:34 AM
so...i use a wheelchair. I'm fucked if i encounter this scenario because there's literally no way for me and my chair to get around "Ruth".
...how much do they weigh and could i kick it down the side of the incline would be considerations though
...how much do they weigh and could i kick it down the side of the incline would be considerations though
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I think it’s extraordinary that generals were threatening coups and Royal Marines were shooting effigies of a prospective UK Lab PM, and yet there were absolutely no consequences for anyone
December 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I think it’s extraordinary that generals were threatening coups and Royal Marines were shooting effigies of a prospective UK Lab PM, and yet there were absolutely no consequences for anyone
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He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.
December 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.
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It’s a sad indictment of Britain’s ignorance of nature that Sycamore Gap petitions - for a tree that mattered to humans but not nature - received tens of thousands of signatures but a petition to protect entire peatland habitats is stuck at 1,500 actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...
Sign the petition to end peat sales!
No more delays: Let's get peat out of gardens once and for all. The time for uncertainty has ended.
actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk
December 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
It’s a sad indictment of Britain’s ignorance of nature that Sycamore Gap petitions - for a tree that mattered to humans but not nature - received tens of thousands of signatures but a petition to protect entire peatland habitats is stuck at 1,500 actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...
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This happens *all the time*. Cops do what they want and it doesn't even occur to them that they might need a legal basis for their actions until they're actively challenged - and even then they carry on regardless.
December 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
This happens *all the time*. Cops do what they want and it doesn't even occur to them that they might need a legal basis for their actions until they're actively challenged - and even then they carry on regardless.
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It's not a moral retreat, it's donning the uniform of the butler of fascism
“A universal system of human rights was built to make sure that we could never end up in that nightmare scenario [of hierarchisation of rights in the Nazi era] again. We have to be very cautious and careful about the ultimate consequences of the paths we might embark on.”
‘Who’s it going to be next time?’: ECHR rethink is ‘moral retreat’, say rights experts
As 27 European countries urge changes to laws forged after second world war, human rights chief says politicians are playing into hands of populists
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:24 AM
It's not a moral retreat, it's donning the uniform of the butler of fascism
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So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
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One day left to have your donation doubled and say YES to bringing beavers back 🦫
With just 24 hours to go before our match funding ends, the race is on to raise £60,000 to restore beavers and regenerate our landscapes. Will you help us? 👇
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With just 24 hours to go before our match funding ends, the race is on to raise £60,000 to restore beavers and regenerate our landscapes. Will you help us? 👇
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December 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
One day left to have your donation doubled and say YES to bringing beavers back 🦫
With just 24 hours to go before our match funding ends, the race is on to raise £60,000 to restore beavers and regenerate our landscapes. Will you help us? 👇
https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006TKRJYA4
With just 24 hours to go before our match funding ends, the race is on to raise £60,000 to restore beavers and regenerate our landscapes. Will you help us? 👇
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This is super important in general.
People are extremely bad at big numbers and anything country-sized will always have big numbers.
It’s ragebait to report big numbers. It’s good journalism and comms to adjust for population.
Most of the time.
People are extremely bad at big numbers and anything country-sized will always have big numbers.
It’s ragebait to report big numbers. It’s good journalism and comms to adjust for population.
Most of the time.
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is super important in general.
People are extremely bad at big numbers and anything country-sized will always have big numbers.
It’s ragebait to report big numbers. It’s good journalism and comms to adjust for population.
Most of the time.
People are extremely bad at big numbers and anything country-sized will always have big numbers.
It’s ragebait to report big numbers. It’s good journalism and comms to adjust for population.
Most of the time.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Art history A-level is extinct in Scotland and Wales and nearly extinct in England. The UK has the third-biggest art market in the world ($11bn-ish), if you need a business case to prove its value.
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Art history A-level is extinct in Scotland and Wales and nearly extinct in England. The UK has the third-biggest art market in the world ($11bn-ish), if you need a business case to prove its value.
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Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
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Those radicalised to the right take mild criticism with the same affront as a thorough fucking drubbing, so you might as well say what you think. And if ‘mild criticism’ is the best you have of these people, do better.
As with Emma Watson and Rowling, the "smear" Linehan gets here is actually a bunch of compliments with only a *very* mild push back on not agreeing with him. TERFs demand complete acquiescence, anything less is an affront.
Graham Linehan in the papers again crying someone else he used to be friends with hates him [Telegraph]
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Those radicalised to the right take mild criticism with the same affront as a thorough fucking drubbing, so you might as well say what you think. And if ‘mild criticism’ is the best you have of these people, do better.
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What you are witnessing here is an educated professor of political science refusing to countenance the notion that a political party dominated by right-wingers who use right-wing rhetoric and pursue right-wing policies might be doing so because they are right-wing and desire right-wing ends.
November 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
What you are witnessing here is an educated professor of political science refusing to countenance the notion that a political party dominated by right-wingers who use right-wing rhetoric and pursue right-wing policies might be doing so because they are right-wing and desire right-wing ends.
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I love it when people tell us the Greens can’t go from where they are to winning the election while in the same breath telling us it’s a dead cert Reform will from the same starting point.
November 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I love it when people tell us the Greens can’t go from where they are to winning the election while in the same breath telling us it’s a dead cert Reform will from the same starting point.
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It is so notable how the language of asylum has changed in the post-Farage/small boats world. “Illegal migrants” was once reserved for right wing papers, Now government spokespeople call basic sustenance and shelter for refugees banned from working “handouts”.
November 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
It is so notable how the language of asylum has changed in the post-Farage/small boats world. “Illegal migrants” was once reserved for right wing papers, Now government spokespeople call basic sustenance and shelter for refugees banned from working “handouts”.
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Wrote about Epstein, the misogynistic culture that protected him, and the banality of evil when it comes to harming women and children. He was not a unique man.
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
This Is How The World Works
Epstein, and the violence we all live with
open.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Wrote about Epstein, the misogynistic culture that protected him, and the banality of evil when it comes to harming women and children. He was not a unique man.
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...