Matt 💙💛
@matt-on-a-hill.bsky.social
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Mostly Mountains. Anti Tankie.
Highlands/UK
Mostly Mountains. Anti Tankie.
Highlands/UK
Doc about the great hunger in Kazakhstan, contemporaneous with the holodomor
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Documentary - The great hunger: Stalin's famine in Kazakhstan - BBC Sounds
The Kazakhs who came through one of the worst man-made famines the world has seen
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Doc about the great hunger in Kazakhstan, contemporaneous with the holodomor
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
TIL that the Office for Budget Responsibility forecasting team consists of a Magic 8 Ball and a haunted Etch-A-Sketch
November 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
TIL that the Office for Budget Responsibility forecasting team consists of a Magic 8 Ball and a haunted Etch-A-Sketch
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My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is.
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is.
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
Unless it plays out like this, it seems to me that talk of a coup against Starmer is a bit of an exaggeration
youtu.be/EDOIzK8NuoU
youtu.be/EDOIzK8NuoU
November 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Unless it plays out like this, it seems to me that talk of a coup against Starmer is a bit of an exaggeration
youtu.be/EDOIzK8NuoU
youtu.be/EDOIzK8NuoU
Female Sparrowhawk just got a pigeon on the lawn, towards the end of the video it fly drags it to the hedge. A few minutes later 3 red kites rocked up and were circling overhead.
November 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Female Sparrowhawk just got a pigeon on the lawn, towards the end of the video it fly drags it to the hedge. A few minutes later 3 red kites rocked up and were circling overhead.
Crazy recent clip of ISIS and Boko Haram shooting each from boats on lake Chad.
Keep it up lads
(h/t to notwoofers in the other place)
Keep it up lads
(h/t to notwoofers in the other place)
November 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Crazy recent clip of ISIS and Boko Haram shooting each from boats on lake Chad.
Keep it up lads
(h/t to notwoofers in the other place)
Keep it up lads
(h/t to notwoofers in the other place)
OMFG the UK Green Party showing they can't do maths and should stick to tofu weaving & hypno-boobing.
1,000,000,000,000 /20,000,000,000=50
Oh and that's Elon's package for a decade. So err that'd be $5 a year for a UK nurse. I suppose it's one way to boost staff to patient ratios in the NHS...
1,000,000,000,000 /20,000,000,000=50
Oh and that's Elon's package for a decade. So err that'd be $5 a year for a UK nurse. I suppose it's one way to boost staff to patient ratios in the NHS...
November 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
OMFG the UK Green Party showing they can't do maths and should stick to tofu weaving & hypno-boobing.
1,000,000,000,000 /20,000,000,000=50
Oh and that's Elon's package for a decade. So err that'd be $5 a year for a UK nurse. I suppose it's one way to boost staff to patient ratios in the NHS...
1,000,000,000,000 /20,000,000,000=50
Oh and that's Elon's package for a decade. So err that'd be $5 a year for a UK nurse. I suppose it's one way to boost staff to patient ratios in the NHS...
More reproducibility crisis Lolz in Social Psychology. "When Prophecy Fails" which coined the term Cognitive Dissonance turns out to be woo.
"scholars in psychology, sociology, and religious studies have been building theories atop a collapsed foundation"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
"scholars in psychology, sociology, and religious studies have been building theories atop a collapsed foundation"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM
More reproducibility crisis Lolz in Social Psychology. "When Prophecy Fails" which coined the term Cognitive Dissonance turns out to be woo.
"scholars in psychology, sociology, and religious studies have been building theories atop a collapsed foundation"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
"scholars in psychology, sociology, and religious studies have been building theories atop a collapsed foundation"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Full article:
British energy policy – not cheap, not home-grown and not secure - Dieter Helm
Some people – and some politicians – seem to believe that if you keep repeating claims eventually they will be believed, even as the evidence unfolds that they are obviously just not true. Any counter...
dieterhelm.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Full article:
Quick, fetch them to the farrier!
October 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Quick, fetch them to the farrier!
The imagery coming out of Darfur of the RSF is so grim the BBC/Sky won't show it.
Thomas van Linge has been covering it on X
WARNING this is on par with 7/10
xcancel.com/ThomasVLinge...
xcancel.com/ThomasVLinge...
www.facebook.com/liganalfashe...
Thomas van Linge has been covering it on X
WARNING this is on par with 7/10
xcancel.com/ThomasVLinge...
xcancel.com/ThomasVLinge...
www.facebook.com/liganalfashe...
734K views · 5.4K reactions | لهم الرحمة و المغفرة | تنسيقية لجان المقاومة _الفاشر
لهم الرحمة و المغفرة
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October 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The imagery coming out of Darfur of the RSF is so grim the BBC/Sky won't show it.
Thomas van Linge has been covering it on X
WARNING this is on par with 7/10
xcancel.com/ThomasVLinge...
xcancel.com/ThomasVLinge...
www.facebook.com/liganalfashe...
Thomas van Linge has been covering it on X
WARNING this is on par with 7/10
xcancel.com/ThomasVLinge...
xcancel.com/ThomasVLinge...
www.facebook.com/liganalfashe...
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Zarah Sultana complaining that Zelensky is “no friend of the working class” is a bit like when the British Communist Party didn’t want us to support “semi-fascist” Poland after it was invaded by Nazi Germany
October 29, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Zarah Sultana complaining that Zelensky is “no friend of the working class” is a bit like when the British Communist Party didn’t want us to support “semi-fascist” Poland after it was invaded by Nazi Germany
First snow on the hill
October 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
First snow on the hill
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😠 Russian occupation authorities have sentenced 21-year-old Yana Suvorova, the administrator of the Telegram channel “Melitopol Is Ukraine,” to 14 years in prison.
She was arrested in August 2023. She was only 19 at the time.
She was arrested in August 2023. She was only 19 at the time.
October 24, 2025 at 6:35 AM
😠 Russian occupation authorities have sentenced 21-year-old Yana Suvorova, the administrator of the Telegram channel “Melitopol Is Ukraine,” to 14 years in prison.
She was arrested in August 2023. She was only 19 at the time.
She was arrested in August 2023. She was only 19 at the time.
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1/ The most telling moment from the recent Energy Security & Net Zero committee. Simone Rossi (CEO at EDF UK) carefully sets out why the price of gas is not the main factor in high electricity bills, only to be interrupted by a pompous MP who is certain that he knows better.
October 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
1/ The most telling moment from the recent Energy Security & Net Zero committee. Simone Rossi (CEO at EDF UK) carefully sets out why the price of gas is not the main factor in high electricity bills, only to be interrupted by a pompous MP who is certain that he knows better.
So we let the Chinese buy a UK datacenter that hosted secret Whitehall data, and UK blue chip company data.
The Chinese spent a decade hacking it, when it was discovered it was buried by the last gov.
We are ruled by spackers:
www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/chin...
The Chinese spent a decade hacking it, when it was discovered it was buried by the last gov.
We are ruled by spackers:
www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/chin...
Chinese spies, Vance’s rise & is French parenting supreme?
Chinese spies, Vance’s rise & is French parenting supreme? ‘Here be dragons’ declares the Spectator’s cover story this week, as it looks at the continuing fallout over the collapse of the trial of two...
www.spectator.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
So we let the Chinese buy a UK datacenter that hosted secret Whitehall data, and UK blue chip company data.
The Chinese spent a decade hacking it, when it was discovered it was buried by the last gov.
We are ruled by spackers:
www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/chin...
The Chinese spent a decade hacking it, when it was discovered it was buried by the last gov.
We are ruled by spackers:
www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/chin...
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According to some unconfirmed sources, Mr. FAFO has experienced FAFO during ongoing infighting in Gaza. Below are examples of propaganda roles he was running for Hamas terrorists ..
October 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
According to some unconfirmed sources, Mr. FAFO has experienced FAFO during ongoing infighting in Gaza. Below are examples of propaganda roles he was running for Hamas terrorists ..
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FT: Under the new rules, foreign companies will need Chinese government approval to export products that contain even trace amounts of Chinese-sourced rare-earth minerals, or that were manufactured using the country’s rare-earth extraction, refining or magnet-making technology
on.ft.com/4714pdE
on.ft.com/4714pdE
China unveils sweeping rare earth export controls to protect ‘national security’
Beijing is leveraging its dominant position in the critical minerals supply chain
on.ft.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:18 AM
FT: Under the new rules, foreign companies will need Chinese government approval to export products that contain even trace amounts of Chinese-sourced rare-earth minerals, or that were manufactured using the country’s rare-earth extraction, refining or magnet-making technology
on.ft.com/4714pdE
on.ft.com/4714pdE
Interesting Times article by Matthew Syed. Free link from Glyko here
October 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Interesting Times article by Matthew Syed. Free link from Glyko here