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Photographer and stuff.
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December 31, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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“Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even though he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.” — @parismarx.com in @gizmodo.com

He’s always been this way.
Silicon Valley's Push Into Transportation Has Been a Miserable Failure
The titans of tech brought plenty of disruption to our broken transportation system but delivered little in the way of innovation.
gizmodo.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…”

Read that again.
December 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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After cycle infrastructure improvements were introduced, cycle counters were installed on Oxford Road, Manchester that went up to 500,000 trips a year. That was fine for a few years, but then they had to recalibrate it to 750,000. Now cycling figures have blown past that, and they need 1,000,000.
On Monday 22nd December 2025 there were 999 cyclists northbound and 829 cyclists southbound.
December 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Gold trading company Direct Bullion, which has paid Nigel Farage £415,000 faces winding up order from HMRC over non-payment of tax.

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/6822673...
Gold bar seller promoted by Nigel Farage chased by HMRC
Direct Bullion, which has paid Reform’s leader over £400k, says winding-up petition will be withdrawn
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.

Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Strange, hates EU but decided against building his factory in Britain because they left the EU

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Elon Musk says Brexit made him decide against Tesla electric car Gigafactory in UK
‘Brexit made it too risky to put a Gigafactory in the UK’
www.independent.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
On train to London. 15mins delay leaving meant we were then stuck behind a slow all stops train as far as Macclesfield. This is just one of the many reasons we needed HS2.
December 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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This is Jon Lonsdale, cofounder of Palantir.👇

That’s the Palantir whose software Wes and NHS England are wanting to roll out to manage our health records.
We’re putting our health records in the hands of a man who would bring back public hangings.
December 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Farage the politician *is* Farage the schoolboy losing his shit over seeing the name ‘Patel’ on the school roll and telling black pupils to go back to Africa. There’s really no difference. Except now he wants (and may be bought) the power to deport those people.
It’s not the past. It’s now.
#NeverPM
December 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors.

At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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In case it wasn't already obvious why Farage and his party are spreading misinformation about the climate crisis and trying to blame the most vulnerable for the problems caused by inequality - they've just received a record donation from a jet fuel multimillionaire!
December 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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'British-born Christopher Harbone previously funded Farage’s attendance at Donald Trump’s second inauguration, donated more than £13 million to the Brexit Party and was a key backer of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

He is also a key investor in the crypto firm Tether, dealing in Stablecoins.'
Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for putting restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether.

He did not declare that Reform had just received £9 million from one of its biggest investors
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK as Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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I just dont understand why this isn't the lead story on BBC news.
If this was any other political party it would be.
It's complete in your face corruption.
🔴Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry ‘I Am Your Champion’

The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne’s company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Nigel Farage says that Christopher Harborne, whose crypto firm the Reform leader plugged on air, while promising to hand massive tax cuts to, wants "absolutely nothing in return" for the £9 million he gave his party bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK as Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance in September to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for seeking to place restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether.

He did not declare that Reform had just received a £9 million donation from one of its biggest investors
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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If it were steel works we would have a government bailout plan, yet losing thousands of jobs at unis is met with a shrug. & unlike steelworks universities were profitable when they had foreign students.
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…

HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
Every sympathy for University of Essex (and pressures facing them) but this is very bad news for Southend.

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
Roles to be lost are part of wave of redundancy programmes across UK’s higher education sector
giftarticle.ft.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Reform UK’s Cllr Ian Cooper has posted dozens of racist and bigoted posts to YouTube and X/Twitter under his personal accounts.

@hopenothate.org.uk

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/03/r...
Revealed: The Online Activity of Staffordshire Council Leader Ian Cooper – HOPE not hate
Reform UK’s Cllr Ian Cooper has posted dozens of racist and bigoted posts to YouTube and X/Twitter under his personal accounts. When it comes to...
hopenothate.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Farage.
Grifter-in-chief. Racist. Russian asset. Trump groupie.
He gets an MP’s salary and spends his time doing anything but.
A professional piss-taker and national security (and sanity) threat, leading the polls to be the next PM.
Come on UK.
Get some sodding self-respect.
December 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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This should be the main story on all TV news programmes. The University of Essex is closing its Southend campus because of the fall in the number of foreign students and the loss of income they provided for the University. www.echo-news.co.uk/news/2566689...
December 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Compare the YouTube thumbnail with the actual scene in the video.
December 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Two final points.

In 2019 Boris Johnson celebrated his General Election Victory with Alexander Lebedev

In 2022, Canada sanctioned Alexander Lebedev for being on of Putin’s inner circle

Just ponder that.
Since we released this @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social documentary two years ago, more information has come to light that Boris Johnson went to this meeting to discuss a 'backchannel' to Putin with Alexander Lebedev, who was working for the Kremlin in Crimea at the time

youtu.be/QkZzN3XHEPY?...
Boris Johnson's KGB Links EXPOSED - John Sweeney FULL Documentary
YouTube video by Byline TV
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Invest in this shit version of a train. Another tech bro Ponzi scheme.
By investing in Monocab Owl, the EU is revolutionising sustainable commuting.

A gyro-stabilised monorail offers autonomous, on-demand transport, boosting rural connectivity. 🚆

Do you know any other innovative transport solutions?

📸© Monocab Owl

#WorldSustainableTransportDay
November 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM