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BREAKING Irish Govt to move Grok to another parish.
January 7, 2026 at 11:05 AM
BREAKING Irish Govt to move Grok to another parish.
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I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom.
This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.
This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.
January 7, 2026 at 7:37 AM
I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom.
This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.
This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.
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It’s like if they’d unveiled Ceefax and it did pure evil, and the government said, “Well, what can we do? It’s all in coloured blocks. Laws don’t apply.”
January 7, 2026 at 10:20 AM
It’s like if they’d unveiled Ceefax and it did pure evil, and the government said, “Well, what can we do? It’s all in coloured blocks. Laws don’t apply.”
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One the one hand, you have a large and successful creative sector worth billions. On the other, the vague promise of growth offered by pod people intent on cooking the planet so you can make porn with Bagpuss and Zippy from Rainbow. It's a tough choice, I get it.
December 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
One the one hand, you have a large and successful creative sector worth billions. On the other, the vague promise of growth offered by pod people intent on cooking the planet so you can make porn with Bagpuss and Zippy from Rainbow. It's a tough choice, I get it.
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The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
The US has declared rhetorical war on the EU
The calls from America this weekend to destroy the EU are revealing. They hate the union because it's the only thing that can keep European countries from being Russian or American vassals.
davekeating.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
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Really quite sobering to think that Europe is going to have to go into conflict (eventual war) vs America & Russia we have no real idea which side the UK will pick
Trump says he's "disappointed Zelenskyy hasn't yet read the proposal" but "Russia is fine with it"
December 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Really quite sobering to think that Europe is going to have to go into conflict (eventual war) vs America & Russia we have no real idea which side the UK will pick
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Donald Trump is a Kremlin stooge who wants to sell out Ukraine and the rest of Europe to Putin. We can't let that happen.
Starmer should seize frozen Russian assets in this country - today - and convince Merz and Macron to do the same.
Starmer should seize frozen Russian assets in this country - today - and convince Merz and Macron to do the same.
December 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Donald Trump is a Kremlin stooge who wants to sell out Ukraine and the rest of Europe to Putin. We can't let that happen.
Starmer should seize frozen Russian assets in this country - today - and convince Merz and Macron to do the same.
Starmer should seize frozen Russian assets in this country - today - and convince Merz and Macron to do the same.
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This story is all Nigel Farage should be asked about by journalists for months
Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes
The judge tells Nathan Gill his actions were a
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This story is all Nigel Farage should be asked about by journalists for months
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A great way to fight back against AI taking away work from creatives is to buy art by actual humans.
(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).
www.worldofmoose.com
(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).
www.worldofmoose.com
Website of artist, cartoonist & tweeter Moose Allain
Welcome to the website of artist, cartoonist and prolific tweeter Moose Allain. Please fell free to have a poke about.
www.worldofmoose.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
A great way to fight back against AI taking away work from creatives is to buy art by actual humans.
(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).
www.worldofmoose.com
(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).
www.worldofmoose.com
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Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
October 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.
What, Michelle? 🧵
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This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
September 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
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September 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
September 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
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I don’t want to be too shrill about this but I think the BBC, ITV and Sky have disgraced themselves in their coverage of the anti-refugee protests. A massive failure of judgement. But now we know the next time a progressive protest “isn’t news” that it’s nothing to do with numbers
August 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I don’t want to be too shrill about this but I think the BBC, ITV and Sky have disgraced themselves in their coverage of the anti-refugee protests. A massive failure of judgement. But now we know the next time a progressive protest “isn’t news” that it’s nothing to do with numbers
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The people assuring us that the government can deploy AI to transform government are the same people regularly caught using Excel for jobs for which it is manifestly not intended
Who built a system where someone can export a list of Taliban murder targets into excel on a computer with internet access.
Maybe I've missed this. But "a soldier sent an email" is not going to cut it as an explanation of how this happened. I'm not saying name-and-shame. But the public are owed a proper explanation. Continuing obfuscation just compounds this.
July 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The people assuring us that the government can deploy AI to transform government are the same people regularly caught using Excel for jobs for which it is manifestly not intended
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An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below).
If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
July 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below).
If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
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Parasite becomes aggressive.
Sure all the musicians looking at our £0.0003 Spotify payouts for our work are delighted this is what our fans’ money went towards instead, and the fans equally pleased.
Artists are always very in favour of war, traditionally.
Sure all the musicians looking at our £0.0003 Spotify payouts for our work are delighted this is what our fans’ money went towards instead, and the fans equally pleased.
Artists are always very in favour of war, traditionally.
June 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Parasite becomes aggressive.
Sure all the musicians looking at our £0.0003 Spotify payouts for our work are delighted this is what our fans’ money went towards instead, and the fans equally pleased.
Artists are always very in favour of war, traditionally.
Sure all the musicians looking at our £0.0003 Spotify payouts for our work are delighted this is what our fans’ money went towards instead, and the fans equally pleased.
Artists are always very in favour of war, traditionally.
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Morning
A Muppet Wicker Man Comic Trailer
YouTube video by soundofdrowning
youtu.be
June 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Morning
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And that’s a gift for the hype merchants. Selling it as the one size fits all solution for tasks you don’t understand when they’re not done properly.
That’s like hiring a cow to wire your house and thinking “this saved me a fortune!”
That’s like hiring a cow to wire your house and thinking “this saved me a fortune!”
June 10, 2025 at 6:53 AM
And that’s a gift for the hype merchants. Selling it as the one size fits all solution for tasks you don’t understand when they’re not done properly.
That’s like hiring a cow to wire your house and thinking “this saved me a fortune!”
That’s like hiring a cow to wire your house and thinking “this saved me a fortune!”
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🔴Palantir is not just selling software—it’s selling a model of governance where corporate power replaces public control
Must read from Foxglove's Rosa
Curling on why Starmer's faith in Big Tech is dangerously misguided
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-b...
Must read from Foxglove's Rosa
Curling on why Starmer's faith in Big Tech is dangerously misguided
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-b...
Starmer’s Big Tech lobbying problem
Palantir is not just selling software—it’s selling a model of governance where corporate power replaces public control, writes Foxglove's Rosa Curling.
democracyforsale.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
🔴Palantir is not just selling software—it’s selling a model of governance where corporate power replaces public control
Must read from Foxglove's Rosa
Curling on why Starmer's faith in Big Tech is dangerously misguided
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-b...
Must read from Foxglove's Rosa
Curling on why Starmer's faith in Big Tech is dangerously misguided
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-b...
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This graphic gives helpful perspective I think.
May 3, 2025 at 7:40 AM
This graphic gives helpful perspective I think.
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Political hacks can pat themselves on the back. They have some success at last. Reform, the party they all but invented, on whose behalf they have openly canvassed public approval, has won some seats.
@pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social
eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...
@pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social
eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...
Pecksniff: And the winners of the week’s elections are…the media
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
eastangliabylines.co.uk
May 3, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Political hacks can pat themselves on the back. They have some success at last. Reform, the party they all but invented, on whose behalf they have openly canvassed public approval, has won some seats.
@pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social
eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...
@pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social
eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...
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This is what AI bloat is right now. Some interfering bastard thing jumping into your document to offer help you don't need towards a purpose it'll never understand. Jumped up paperclip cunt.
April 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
This is what AI bloat is right now. Some interfering bastard thing jumping into your document to offer help you don't need towards a purpose it'll never understand. Jumped up paperclip cunt.
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The world is on fire so let's make rebellious sounds using science!
This week's @scifri.bsky.social get's into how singers make Death Metal noises.
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/dea...
This week's @scifri.bsky.social get's into how singers make Death Metal noises.
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/dea...
How Death Metal Singers Make Their Extreme Vocalizations
Vocal researchers are learning how death metal singers safely produce extreme vocal distortions, in hopes of improving vocal health care.
www.sciencefriday.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The world is on fire so let's make rebellious sounds using science!
This week's @scifri.bsky.social get's into how singers make Death Metal noises.
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/dea...
This week's @scifri.bsky.social get's into how singers make Death Metal noises.
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/dea...