Gnomon: MAGA: Make America Go Away
@tronc.bsky.social
I support resistance to 'Cognitive Technology' (CT) especially in education but more widely wherever relationships drive social health. In its current form CT, by design, severely limits public participation in shaping futures.
Who is this? Just one guess is all you need:
He suffers from excessive and often incoherent talkativeness.
He suffers from excessive and often incoherent talkativeness.
January 24, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Who is this? Just one guess is all you need:
He suffers from excessive and often incoherent talkativeness.
He suffers from excessive and often incoherent talkativeness.
"The violence of ICE is the future of "AI" and education."
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-ruffled-...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-ruffled-...
The Ruffled Mind
There's a scene in the 1927 film Metropolis in which Freder, the son of the city's mayor, is playing in the "pleasure garden" when a young woman named Maria brings the children of the working class up...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:03 PM
"The violence of ICE is the future of "AI" and education."
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-ruffled-...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-ruffled-...
"You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through [economic] integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination."
Mark Carney, Jan 21/1/26. Davos.
Mark Carney, Jan 21/1/26. Davos.
January 21, 2026 at 12:31 PM
"You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through [economic] integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination."
Mark Carney, Jan 21/1/26. Davos.
Mark Carney, Jan 21/1/26. Davos.
Speech by Mark Carney at Davos (English at 11min on ..)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=miM4...
I wouldn't normally do this but here's a link to the text as posted on X (may the cosmos destroy it):
x.com/OccupyDemocr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=miM4...
I wouldn't normally do this but here's a link to the text as posted on X (may the cosmos destroy it):
x.com/OccupyDemocr...
x.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Speech by Mark Carney at Davos (English at 11min on ..)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=miM4...
I wouldn't normally do this but here's a link to the text as posted on X (may the cosmos destroy it):
x.com/OccupyDemocr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=miM4...
I wouldn't normally do this but here's a link to the text as posted on X (may the cosmos destroy it):
x.com/OccupyDemocr...
Reading Sinclair Lewis's 'It Can't Happen Here'. Excellent and timely satirical rendering of Nazism/Fascism. Way too familiar (writing as a UK observer). Prescient? Yes, a lot. Best joke? The president's surname is 'Windrip' and, like 'Trump', a euphemism for a noisy, obnoxious fart.
January 21, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Reading Sinclair Lewis's 'It Can't Happen Here'. Excellent and timely satirical rendering of Nazism/Fascism. Way too familiar (writing as a UK observer). Prescient? Yes, a lot. Best joke? The president's surname is 'Windrip' and, like 'Trump', a euphemism for a noisy, obnoxious fart.
Thanks to Greenland for this:
MAGA - Make America Go Away
MAGA - Make America Go Away
January 20, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Thanks to Greenland for this:
MAGA - Make America Go Away
MAGA - Make America Go Away
Trump's Quisling politics:
"... much of the world believes his nation-first, “Make America Great Again” approach is instead helping to make China great again."
"...under Trump, the US is less feared by its traditional adversaries, while its allies ... feel ever more distant."
bit.ly/4sNvafK
"... much of the world believes his nation-first, “Make America Great Again” approach is instead helping to make China great again."
"...under Trump, the US is less feared by its traditional adversaries, while its allies ... feel ever more distant."
bit.ly/4sNvafK
Trump is making China – not America – great again, global survey suggests
Exclusive: US is less feared by its traditional adversaries, while its allies feel ever more distant, results show
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Trump's Quisling politics:
"... much of the world believes his nation-first, “Make America Great Again” approach is instead helping to make China great again."
"...under Trump, the US is less feared by its traditional adversaries, while its allies ... feel ever more distant."
bit.ly/4sNvafK
"... much of the world believes his nation-first, “Make America Great Again” approach is instead helping to make China great again."
"...under Trump, the US is less feared by its traditional adversaries, while its allies ... feel ever more distant."
bit.ly/4sNvafK
Cant: hypocritical and sanctimonious talk, typically of a moral, religious, or political nature. (Oxford dictionary).
The Royal Society is oozing it from every orifice.
PS: Musk is NOT a scientist ... merely what we Londomers call a wide boy ...
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
The Royal Society is oozing it from every orifice.
PS: Musk is NOT a scientist ... merely what we Londomers call a wide boy ...
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Royal Society president reignites Elon Musk row by defending lack of action
Society should only eject fellows for fraud or other defects in their research, says Paul Nurse
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Cant: hypocritical and sanctimonious talk, typically of a moral, religious, or political nature. (Oxford dictionary).
The Royal Society is oozing it from every orifice.
PS: Musk is NOT a scientist ... merely what we Londomers call a wide boy ...
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
The Royal Society is oozing it from every orifice.
PS: Musk is NOT a scientist ... merely what we Londomers call a wide boy ...
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Keir Starmer is not an idiot, although he is very, very boring. This situation is an outrageous, flagrant breach of the law, and specifically of human rights law, a specialism on which he built his reputation. Now he lives in moral squalor ...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Rights group disputes claim ministers cannot act over Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers
Human Rights Watch says attorney general has power to facilitate immediate bail, one of activists’ key demands
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Keir Starmer is not an idiot, although he is very, very boring. This situation is an outrageous, flagrant breach of the law, and specifically of human rights law, a specialism on which he built his reputation. Now he lives in moral squalor ...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Musk is sooooo stupid!
"Real fascism is arresting thousands of people for social media posts."
BBC News - X could 'lose right to self regulate', says Starmer
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"Real fascism is arresting thousands of people for social media posts."
BBC News - X could 'lose right to self regulate', says Starmer
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
X could 'lose right to self regulate', says Starmer
It is currently illegal to share deepfakes, but the law against creating them has not yet come into force.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 13, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Musk is sooooo stupid!
"Real fascism is arresting thousands of people for social media posts."
BBC News - X could 'lose right to self regulate', says Starmer
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"Real fascism is arresting thousands of people for social media posts."
BBC News - X could 'lose right to self regulate', says Starmer
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"A world in which a US president casts aside legal restraints may seem shocking to many. But living by your own rules carries its own risks, and by unit[ing] opponents at home and abroad may simpl[y] accelerate the decline of American power."
markurban.substack.com/p/trump-make...
markurban.substack.com/p/trump-make...
Trump Makes His Own Rules
But relying on old school power politics creates plenty of jeopardy for him
markurban.substack.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:39 AM
"A world in which a US president casts aside legal restraints may seem shocking to many. But living by your own rules carries its own risks, and by unit[ing] opponents at home and abroad may simpl[y] accelerate the decline of American power."
markurban.substack.com/p/trump-make...
markurban.substack.com/p/trump-make...
"[Trump] is only comfortable if he controls everything and everyone in his domain. Equal co-existence without subordination is simply beyond his understanding — hence his sincere bafflement at the Constitution."
Great piece from Andrew Sullivan:
andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/a-viking-f...
Great piece from Andrew Sullivan:
andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/a-viking-f...
A Viking Foreign Policy
The logic of Trump's entire approach: deploy superior force to plunder the weak. Repeat.
andrewsullivan.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:50 PM
"[Trump] is only comfortable if he controls everything and everyone in his domain. Equal co-existence without subordination is simply beyond his understanding — hence his sincere bafflement at the Constitution."
Great piece from Andrew Sullivan:
andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/a-viking-f...
Great piece from Andrew Sullivan:
andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/a-viking-f...
Starmer coninues his drift towards the bullshit and is dooming the UK Labour Party to a future in the wasteland. It cannot now be rescued. He has squandered our faith in the possibility of revival after the years of Tory misrule ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Chris Mason: Starmer sticks to strategy of avoiding criticism of Trump over Maduro
The government's cautious response has been pounced on by its critics, writes the BBC's political editor.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Starmer coninues his drift towards the bullshit and is dooming the UK Labour Party to a future in the wasteland. It cannot now be rescued. He has squandered our faith in the possibility of revival after the years of Tory misrule ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Insanity:
Lindsey Graham: “...we’re killing all the right people and lowering your taxes...”
Lindsey Graham: “...we’re killing all the right people and lowering your taxes...”
January 6, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Insanity:
Lindsey Graham: “...we’re killing all the right people and lowering your taxes...”
Lindsey Graham: “...we’re killing all the right people and lowering your taxes...”
Trump's threats are such lousy hypocrisy ...
January 2, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Trump's threats are such lousy hypocrisy ...
Philip Roth's comments about Trump's America:
"Does Donald Trump outstrip the novelist’s imagination?"
“It isn’t Trump as a character ... the real-estate type, the callow and callous killer capitalist that outstrips the imagination. It is Trump as President of the United States."
bit.ly/3YlDlll
"Does Donald Trump outstrip the novelist’s imagination?"
“It isn’t Trump as a character ... the real-estate type, the callow and callous killer capitalist that outstrips the imagination. It is Trump as President of the United States."
bit.ly/3YlDlll
Philip Roth E-Mails on Trump
In 2004, the writer published “The Plot Against America,” about an election that upends the country. Has it happened here?
www.newyorker.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Philip Roth's comments about Trump's America:
"Does Donald Trump outstrip the novelist’s imagination?"
“It isn’t Trump as a character ... the real-estate type, the callow and callous killer capitalist that outstrips the imagination. It is Trump as President of the United States."
bit.ly/3YlDlll
"Does Donald Trump outstrip the novelist’s imagination?"
“It isn’t Trump as a character ... the real-estate type, the callow and callous killer capitalist that outstrips the imagination. It is Trump as President of the United States."
bit.ly/3YlDlll
@gmb.org.uk
Writing as a user, it's sad that something as elementary as a courier company, in this case Evri, should be so incompetent.
The poor working conditions are a significant issue.
Adding insult to injury, why is the GMB so ineffective in helping to sort out the issues?
Writing as a user, it's sad that something as elementary as a courier company, in this case Evri, should be so incompetent.
The poor working conditions are a significant issue.
Adding insult to injury, why is the GMB so ineffective in helping to sort out the issues?
January 2, 2026 at 1:38 PM
@gmb.org.uk
Writing as a user, it's sad that something as elementary as a courier company, in this case Evri, should be so incompetent.
The poor working conditions are a significant issue.
Adding insult to injury, why is the GMB so ineffective in helping to sort out the issues?
Writing as a user, it's sad that something as elementary as a courier company, in this case Evri, should be so incompetent.
The poor working conditions are a significant issue.
Adding insult to injury, why is the GMB so ineffective in helping to sort out the issues?
Perfection! Truth!
"... bosses understand that if they stopped coming to work, the business would run along just fine, but if the workers stopped showing up, the company would grind to a halt."
doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
"... bosses understand that if they stopped coming to work, the business would run along just fine, but if the workers stopped showing up, the company would grind to a halt."
doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
The Post-American Internet
My speech from Hamburg’s Chaos Communications Congress.
doctorow.medium.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Perfection! Truth!
"... bosses understand that if they stopped coming to work, the business would run along just fine, but if the workers stopped showing up, the company would grind to a halt."
doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
"... bosses understand that if they stopped coming to work, the business would run along just fine, but if the workers stopped showing up, the company would grind to a halt."
doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
"Legalizing jailbreaking, raiding the highest margin lines of business of the most profitable companies in America is a much better response to the Trump tariffs than retaliatory tariffs."
doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
The Post-American Internet
My speech from Hamburg’s Chaos Communications Congress.
doctorow.medium.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:34 PM
"Legalizing jailbreaking, raiding the highest margin lines of business of the most profitable companies in America is a much better response to the Trump tariffs than retaliatory tariffs."
doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
Re-reading Postman's Technopoly. A good book tho already, & inevitably, a bit dated. But he was already describing the world of info-slop in which we live.
His name for it on ~p80 is 'the peek-a-boo' world. Content comes and goes, relevant or improbable, without reason or purpose ...
His name for it on ~p80 is 'the peek-a-boo' world. Content comes and goes, relevant or improbable, without reason or purpose ...
December 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Re-reading Postman's Technopoly. A good book tho already, & inevitably, a bit dated. But he was already describing the world of info-slop in which we live.
His name for it on ~p80 is 'the peek-a-boo' world. Content comes and goes, relevant or improbable, without reason or purpose ...
His name for it on ~p80 is 'the peek-a-boo' world. Content comes and goes, relevant or improbable, without reason or purpose ...
@ofcom.bsky.social
I am trying to locate the online complaints form on the OfCom website ... where the heck is it? ... here, Ofcom implies is one but no link is visible! Please advise.
www.ofcom.org.uk/make-a-compl...
I am trying to locate the online complaints form on the OfCom website ... where the heck is it? ... here, Ofcom implies is one but no link is visible! Please advise.
www.ofcom.org.uk/make-a-compl...
Get in touch by phone or post
Complain to Ofcom by phone or post
www.ofcom.org.uk
December 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
@ofcom.bsky.social
I am trying to locate the online complaints form on the OfCom website ... where the heck is it? ... here, Ofcom implies is one but no link is visible! Please advise.
www.ofcom.org.uk/make-a-compl...
I am trying to locate the online complaints form on the OfCom website ... where the heck is it? ... here, Ofcom implies is one but no link is visible! Please advise.
www.ofcom.org.uk/make-a-compl...
26 months:
70,663 killed (~20K children)
171,139 wounded (~42K children)
792 days
~ 90 killed per day (~25 children per day)
~ 0 time to grieve
70,663 killed (~20K children)
171,139 wounded (~42K children)
792 days
~ 90 killed per day (~25 children per day)
~ 0 time to grieve
December 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
26 months:
70,663 killed (~20K children)
171,139 wounded (~42K children)
792 days
~ 90 killed per day (~25 children per day)
~ 0 time to grieve
70,663 killed (~20K children)
171,139 wounded (~42K children)
792 days
~ 90 killed per day (~25 children per day)
~ 0 time to grieve
#books
Reading Klein: Doppelganger. Great book! My Takeway: social media amplifies pre-existing beliefs, situated concerns, experiences etc. It does not enrol you in conspiracy - you were already thinking that way before you signed up! It may offer rewards and confirmation, but does not instil it.
Reading Klein: Doppelganger. Great book! My Takeway: social media amplifies pre-existing beliefs, situated concerns, experiences etc. It does not enrol you in conspiracy - you were already thinking that way before you signed up! It may offer rewards and confirmation, but does not instil it.
December 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
#books
Reading Klein: Doppelganger. Great book! My Takeway: social media amplifies pre-existing beliefs, situated concerns, experiences etc. It does not enrol you in conspiracy - you were already thinking that way before you signed up! It may offer rewards and confirmation, but does not instil it.
Reading Klein: Doppelganger. Great book! My Takeway: social media amplifies pre-existing beliefs, situated concerns, experiences etc. It does not enrol you in conspiracy - you were already thinking that way before you signed up! It may offer rewards and confirmation, but does not instil it.