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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · Feb 4

you're all worried about farage. if wes streeting takes over from keir starmer that's the end game right there.

streeting is a christian evangelical and a heritage foundation goon.

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The Web of Evil @webofevil.bsky.social · 11m

This might help to explain why the evangelical Wes Streeting is such a dedicated fan of Palantir.

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1h

dude seems really preoccupied by the Antichrist emerging from random things he doesn't like, which of course is very normal

Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 1h

Conservative tech lord Thiel said tighter financial regulations “were a sign that a singular world government has begun to emerge that could be taken over by an Antichrist figure who could then use it to exert control over people.” Via WashPost

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2h

To be fair, I was expecting the business suit and briefcase tactical squad to go straight into Number 10 the day after the election, rope-swinging down from Tony Blair Institute For Change helicopters, just to underline yet again that Fuck you, Britain is not a democracy: you get what *we* want.

Starmer accused of pushing out some of last progressive allies in No 10 shake-up

Exclusive: PM reorganising key parts of government to give chief secretary Darren Jones more Whitehall control

www.theguardian.com

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The Web of Evil @webofevil.bsky.social · 14m

Yep, "Digital by default you peasants" runs smack bang into "For the love of God keep children off their phones" because none of these people are trying to enact actual useful "joined-up" policy, they just want to indulge a bunch of conflicting prejudices while gaining profit and power from them.

Jae H @considermycat.bsky.social · 2h

So… smartphones for teenagers are going to be *banned* in schools, but *mandatory* everywhere else. Got it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Government to consult on digital IDs for 13-year-olds

There has been a backlash to the announcement a UK-wide digital ID scheme will be introduced by 2029.

www.bbc.com

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Jae H @considermycat.bsky.social · 2h

So… smartphones for teenagers are going to be *banned* in schools, but *mandatory* everywhere else. Got it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Government to consult on digital IDs for 13-year-olds

There has been a backlash to the announcement a UK-wide digital ID scheme will be introduced by 2029.

www.bbc.com

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 2h

Not sure how Digital ID would help these people when the database containing their rights is controlled by the Home Office - the department responsible for this injustice.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2h

‘Clear parallels’ with Windrush as UK-born toddler denied passport

Campaigners say lessons not being learned as three-year-old’s mother is asked to prove right to free NHS treatment The UK has failed to learn lessons since the Windrush scandal, campaigners say, after a UK-born toddler was denied a British passport and asked to prove she has the right to free NHS treatment. Three-year-old Zharia-Rae’s mother, Tracy Ann Dunkley, has been a British citizen since 2024 and the child’s older brother, born to the same parents in 2020, was given a British passport in 2022. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 13h

Years ago I was teaching my gun history class and at the end of the quarter one of the students said that he was in the campus TPUSA chapter and they put him up to taking the class to spy on me but he felt bad about that because he loved the class and learned a lot and had a great time

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 1h

Conservative tech lord Thiel said tighter financial regulations “were a sign that a singular world government has begun to emerge that could be taken over by an Antichrist figure who could then use it to exert control over people.” Via WashPost

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 1h

In the 1970s, no British actors could do a convincing American accent, and now they all can. It's like how birds learned to drink cream through milk bottle tops.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 1h

All these anxious billionaires....

“It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money,” Thiel said, according to the recordings. “An incredible machinery of tax treaties, financial surveillance, and sanctions architecture has been constructed.” Wealth gives the “illusion of power and autonomy,” Thiel added, according to the recordings, “but you have this sense it could be taken away at any moment.”

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1h

Trump’s plot to turn the “War on Terror” on Chicago was years in the making:

Inside his administration’s plans to terrorize the great American city and metropolitan area, and how we got here:

zeteo.com/p/inside-tru...

New this am from me; subscribe to @zeteo.com plz 🙏

Inside Trump’s Plot To Terrorize Chicago

Sources in the administration tell Zeteo that Trump is also seriously discussing invoking the Insurrection Act with his top advisers.

zeteo.com

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 1h

Nicely done

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h

He wants X thing so he gets X thing is not a given. And to me that's the thing to uproot from people's consciousness. Because we're less than a year in and many people seem already defeated.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 1h

Wife text me a small household request. I replied okie dokey which was auto corrected to ok donkey. Now I'm making my own tea. Fuck you technology.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1h

Cannot tell you how difficult it is to have any sympathy with “progressive allies” here. They have quite willingly fucked everyone, and absolutely clowned themselves.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1h

*guy sticking up a gas station* why have I not been named Employee of the Month

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3h

This is like writing about someone hoping to get a Best Actor Oscar despite not appearing in any films

D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 10h

One of the more bizarre stories I've ever read in the NYT. I don't remotely understand what its thesis is.

And it has a world-historic "to be sure..." graf in the 26th paragraph.

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The Web of Evil @webofevil.bsky.social · 55m

The human rights lawyer thinks Labour is haemorrhaging support because it's been too progressive, and is signalling he intends to go *even more* reactionary. By the election these pricks will have brought in internment camps for the homeless & reintroduced hanging, and will be polling at 2%. #change

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 1h

Finest minds bingo card www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer accused of pushing out some of last progressive allies in No 10 shake-up

Exclusive: PM reorganising key parts of government to give chief secretary Darren Jones more Whitehall control

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 1h

Finest minds bingo card www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer accused of pushing out some of last progressive allies in No 10 shake-up

Exclusive: PM reorganising key parts of government to give chief secretary Darren Jones more Whitehall control

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2h

So tempted just for the crack 😁

Job advert from UK Home Office for a Deputy Director of Migration Communications.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 18h

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1h

they need to be mocked relentlessly for this

oh did your special little guy not get his little prize? did your wittle boy not get his wittle trophy? is pee paw sad he didnt get his trinket? these people are a fucking joke

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1h

On the left is how the White House reacted to the Nobel Peace Prize announcement.

On the right is what President Trump posted about Maria Corina Machado back in January, just two weeks before nominations closed for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.

Steven Cheung * B @StevenCheung47
X.com
President Trump will continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives.
He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will.
The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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Venezuelan democracy activist Maria Corina Machado and President-elect Gonzalez are peacefully expressing the voices and the WILL of the Venezuelan people with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against the regime. The great Venezuelan American community in the United States overwhelmingly support a free Venezuela, and strongly supported me. These freedom fighters should not be harmed, and MUST stay SAFE and ALIVE!
MODA
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1h

LOL

Reuters @reuters.com · 3h

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 3h

I see Robert Jenrick is supporting Hamit Coskun who is appealing his conviction by reference to the ECHR (which Jenrick wants to withdraw from).

Who knew that the ECHR could be useful, even to the anti-ECHR Hard Right?

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 2h

oh boy, i hope ukgov isn't betting the farm on AI

(handed paper from offscreen)

my APES

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 9h

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 3h

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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