Bruno Nicoletti
@bjn.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Unabashedly “woke” professional software guy, a Sydneysider exiled to London who used to write special effects software for a living. I teach and study historical martial […]
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New phishing scam pretending to be from an official Mastodon account.
Mastodon does not send out verification requests like this. So don't click the link if you receive a message like this, just report it as spam.
Mastodon does not send out verification requests like this. So don't click the link if you receive a message like this, just report it as spam.
January 21, 2026 at 2:35 AM
New phishing scam pretending to be from an official Mastodon account.
Mastodon does not send out verification requests like this. So don't click the link if you receive a message like this, just report it as spam.
Mastodon does not send out verification requests like this. So don't click the link if you receive a message like this, just report it as spam.
A petition for the UK government to show a spine when it comes to Trump punishing the UK with tariffs for daring to stand up for an ally. https://38d.gs/trump_gl_df
January 19, 2026 at 7:13 PM
A petition for the UK government to show a spine when it comes to Trump punishing the UK with tariffs for daring to stand up for an ally. https://38d.gs/trump_gl_df
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Your reminder that the Tories want a £1.6bn ICE-style force on British streets.
"The US I grew up in was built on the rule of law. Now my Indian-born dad is scared ICE will take him from his American care home."
https://bit.ly/4k0OXV7
"The US I grew up in was built on the rule of law. Now my Indian-born dad is scared ICE will take him from his American care home."
https://bit.ly/4k0OXV7
My Danish-Indian family has experienced empire first-hand. For all of us, Trump’s imperialism is terrifying | Mira Kamdar
The US I grew up in was built on the rule of law. Now my Indian-born dad is scared ICE will take him from his American care home, says Mira Kamdar, a Paris-based writer
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Your reminder that the Tories want a £1.6bn ICE-style force on British streets.
"The US I grew up in was built on the rule of law. Now my Indian-born dad is scared ICE will take him from his American care home."
https://bit.ly/4k0OXV7
"The US I grew up in was built on the rule of law. Now my Indian-born dad is scared ICE will take him from his American care home."
https://bit.ly/4k0OXV7
Another day another translation from medieval Italian to work on. Reviewing my work in progress of Fiore’s MS.383 manuscript. AKA “The Morgan”. #hema
January 15, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Another day another translation from medieval Italian to work on. Reviewing my work in progress of Fiore’s MS.383 manuscript. AKA “The Morgan”. #hema
This is a thing I’ve been banging on about for a while. The UK and many other countries are vulnerable because most of our essential software and digital, services are supplied by a small number of companies. Those companies can be forced by their government to shut those off on a whim. This […]
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mstdn.social
January 15, 2026 at 10:31 AM
This is a thing I’ve been banging on about for a while. The UK and many other countries are vulnerable because most of our essential software and digital, services are supplied by a small number of companies. Those companies can be forced by their government to shut those off on a whim. This […]
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Popehat Signal: looking for NY attorney familiar with revenge porn laws to give some pro bono advice to a victim menaced by someone in NY.
January 13, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Popehat Signal: looking for NY attorney familiar with revenge porn laws to give some pro bono advice to a victim menaced by someone in NY.
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🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero
1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system
2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free
3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us"
4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous
5) That's it!
1/10
1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system
2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free
3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us"
4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous
5) That's it!
1/10
January 12, 2026 at 4:18 PM
🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero
1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system
2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free
3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us"
4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous
5) That's it!
1/10
1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system
2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free
3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us"
4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous
5) That's it!
1/10
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/2 This will be grotesque. Edward R. Murrow didn’t have a radio show in 1946 where Eisenhower debated Göring about whether the Nazis had some good points. Today’s media would absolutely do that. Today’s media will platform people defending and rewriting Good’s murder for years.
January 12, 2026 at 3:50 PM
/2 This will be grotesque. Edward R. Murrow didn’t have a radio show in 1946 where Eisenhower debated Göring about whether the Nazis had some good points. Today’s media would absolutely do that. Today’s media will platform people defending and rewriting Good’s murder for years.
The gall of Zahawi saying the UK is in a “black place” which is why he’s defecting to the Tories. He was chancellor for party that held part for the vast majority of the last two decades that got us into this place. Have some bloody shame […]
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mstdn.social
January 12, 2026 at 1:11 PM
The gall of Zahawi saying the UK is in a “black place” which is why he’s defecting to the Tories. He was chancellor for party that held part for the vast majority of the last two decades that got us into this place. Have some bloody shame […]
Achievement of the year so far. I took our dog for her first non trivial walk since I ruptured my achilles tendon last April. Just two miles by the side of the wintry Thames. Somewhat painful and I was limping for half of it, but she was a happy hound.
January 11, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Achievement of the year so far. I took our dog for her first non trivial walk since I ruptured my achilles tendon last April. Just two miles by the side of the wintry Thames. Somewhat painful and I was limping for half of it, but she was a happy hound.
So X is generating kiddie porn for creeps and in doing so is clearly violating all sorts of UK laws. Why does our government have to go cap in hand JD Vance to before it takes action? Grow a spine.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/10/ai-generated-sexualised-images-x-jd-vance-grok
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/10/ai-generated-sexualised-images-x-jd-vance-grok
David Lammy: JD Vance agrees that sexualised AI images on X are ‘unacceptable’
Exclusive: US vice-president ‘sympathetic’ to concerns over Grok-generated pornography, says deputy PM
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:35 PM
So X is generating kiddie porn for creeps and in doing so is clearly violating all sorts of UK laws. Why does our government have to go cap in hand JD Vance to before it takes action? Grow a spine.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/10/ai-generated-sexualised-images-x-jd-vance-grok
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/10/ai-generated-sexualised-images-x-jd-vance-grok
For UK types, a petition by the Open Rights folks on securing the country’s digital sovereignty. https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/115864588780019519
Open Rights Group (@[email protected])
Our systems aren't secure if foreign powers can pull the plug. The UK is dangerously reliant on a few foreign tech companies for critical digital infrastructure. We need open-source systems that we can control. Sign the petition for #DigitalSovereignty ⬇️ https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-trump-s-kill-switch-secure-our-digital-sovereignty #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol #trump #cybersecurity #cybersecuritybill
social.openrightsgroup.org
January 9, 2026 at 10:20 AM
For UK types, a petition by the Open Rights folks on securing the country’s digital sovereignty. https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/115864588780019519
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Texas A&M has decided that Plato is woke & thus has forbidden a philosophy professor from teaching Plato's works.
Not a joke. Not satire. This is the world the anti-woke "free speech warriors" have bequeathed us.
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Not a joke. Not satire. This is the world the anti-woke "free speech warriors" have bequeathed us.
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, was told by university officials today about his upcoming "Contemporary Moral Problems" course, due to start next
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Texas A&M has decided that Plato is woke & thus has forbidden a philosophy professor from teaching Plato's works.
Not a joke. Not satire. This is the world the anti-woke "free speech warriors" have bequeathed us.
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Not a joke. Not satire. This is the world the anti-woke "free speech warriors" have bequeathed us.
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
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This is the ICE-masked thug that shot and murdered the woman in Minnesota.
Make his face known, and let's get some facial recognition users to make his name known.
Trump and DHS are going to try to cover it up.
Make his face known, and let's get some facial recognition users to make his name known.
Trump and DHS are going to try to cover it up.
January 7, 2026 at 7:27 PM
This is the ICE-masked thug that shot and murdered the woman in Minnesota.
Make his face known, and let's get some facial recognition users to make his name known.
Trump and DHS are going to try to cover it up.
Make his face known, and let's get some facial recognition users to make his name known.
Trump and DHS are going to try to cover it up.
This, 100 times over. Weening ourselves of foreign oil and gas will also insulate us from volatile fissile fuel prices fluctuations and keep the money in the UK. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/post/3mbrgp74htk2f
George Monbiot (@georgemonbiot.bsky.social)
Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
bsky.app
January 6, 2026 at 5:23 PM
This, 100 times over. Weening ourselves of foreign oil and gas will also insulate us from volatile fissile fuel prices fluctuations and keep the money in the UK. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/post/3mbrgp74htk2f
And people were upset at the punks in the 1970s…
https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/115842459403786797
https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/115842459403786797
Natasha 🇪🇺 (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image #OTD in 1797, the Top Hat 🎩 was invented by John Hetherington. It took him over a week to pluck up the courage to wear it and when he did he was arrested 👇
tech.lgbt
January 6, 2026 at 8:07 AM
And people were upset at the punks in the 1970s…
https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/115842459403786797
https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/115842459403786797
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ICYMI: I sat down with political scientist @samuel-bagg.bsky.social to discuss the crisis in our information environment and its roots in social identity.
The cure for misinformation is not more information or smarter news consumers
Political scientist Samuel Bagg explains why social identity is at the root of the misinformation crisis -- which calls for something deeper than factchecking.
www.volts.wtf
January 5, 2026 at 7:23 PM
ICYMI: I sat down with political scientist @samuel-bagg.bsky.social to discuss the crisis in our information environment and its roots in social identity.
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It is equally obvious why the UK government does not what this discussion. The UK is economically betting on US tech investment, especially from #ai. We are dependent on US tech for defence, nuclear deterrents. A large chunk of our economy is US owned.
January 5, 2026 at 1:23 PM
It is equally obvious why the UK government does not what this discussion. The UK is economically betting on US tech investment, especially from #ai. We are dependent on US tech for defence, nuclear deterrents. A large chunk of our economy is US owned.
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The thing nearly all media commentators have missed (because nobody knows nothin’ about energy in media) is that Venezuela has a lot of oil alright, but it’s heavy sour, hard to produce, hard to refine, and hard to transport, requiring:
• Conventional drilling + artificial lift
• Diluent […]
• Conventional drilling + artificial lift
• Diluent […]
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mastodon.energy
January 4, 2026 at 3:51 AM
The thing nearly all media commentators have missed (because nobody knows nothin’ about energy in media) is that Venezuela has a lot of oil alright, but it’s heavy sour, hard to produce, hard to refine, and hard to transport, requiring:
• Conventional drilling + artificial lift
• Diluent […]
• Conventional drilling + artificial lift
• Diluent […]
100% of the recipients of the FIFA Peace Prize have invaded another nation and removed their leader.
January 3, 2026 at 10:34 PM
100% of the recipients of the FIFA Peace Prize have invaded another nation and removed their leader.
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He was absolutely fucking terrible and two of the first things the US will do is crush the people and organizations who were resisting him and put in someone worse.
January 3, 2026 at 5:46 PM
He was absolutely fucking terrible and two of the first things the US will do is crush the people and organizations who were resisting him and put in someone worse.
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Vance’s use of quotes is deliberate, not illiterate like Trump’s. Here, it signifies that legality itself is a dubious or frivolous concept as applied to the actions of the regime. It conveys not just that it’s wrong to say the acts were illegal, but ridiculous to use law as a metric at all.
Vance pushes back and says this was not illegal, arguing "Maduro has multiple indictments in the United States for narcoterrorism. You don't get to avoid justice for drug trafficking in the United States because you live in a palace in Caracas."
January 3, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Vance’s use of quotes is deliberate, not illiterate like Trump’s. Here, it signifies that legality itself is a dubious or frivolous concept as applied to the actions of the regime. It conveys not just that it’s wrong to say the acts were illegal, but ridiculous to use law as a metric at all.
And this is why…..
https://mastodon.energy/@chrisnelder/115832265131586002
https://mastodon.energy/@chrisnelder/115832265131586002
Chris Nelder 🤘 (@[email protected])
Back in November, the Venezuelan opposition leader explained the size of the prize to enthusiastic applause at the America Business Forum in Miami: $1.7 trillion in foreign investment opportunity for oil & minerals. https://youtu.be/l2J2JtO8R9Q?si=eQIMqyeNJ2xmj322&t;=1024
mastodon.energy
January 3, 2026 at 5:46 PM
And this is why…..
https://mastodon.energy/@chrisnelder/115832265131586002
https://mastodon.energy/@chrisnelder/115832265131586002
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Back in November, the Venezuelan opposition leader explained the size of the prize to enthusiastic applause at the America Business Forum in Miami: $1.7 trillion in foreign investment opportunity for oil & minerals. https://youtu.be/l2J2JtO8R9Q?si=eQIMqyeNJ2xmj322&t=1024
January 3, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Back in November, the Venezuelan opposition leader explained the size of the prize to enthusiastic applause at the America Business Forum in Miami: $1.7 trillion in foreign investment opportunity for oil & minerals. https://youtu.be/l2J2JtO8R9Q?si=eQIMqyeNJ2xmj322&t=1024