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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 2h

Does an industry that burns cash to boil lakes to erroneously rephrase the Internet deserve a market valuation higher than the GDP of 97% of countries on Earth?

What do we think? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Do OpenAI’s multibillion-dollar deals mean exuberance has got out of hand?

Some market watchers are concerned by the circular nature of deals with chip makers Nvidia and AMD

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 2h

What the fuck are we doing? www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 4h

Asking again why so many of Big Tech’s algorithms are rapey and why these companies aren’t being sued into oblivion globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 1d

An #Ideology that at its core sees one group as inherently inferior to another cannot exist in a diverse society. #Fascism wants some of us dead or gone. They are terrorists. It is that simple.

Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

Cannot stress this enough: Racism is not a political view, neither is fascism

They are not valid contributions to public discourse, they do not deserve to be probed and debated in good faith. They are hate speech and should be called out as such and deplatformed www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

Cannot stress this enough: Racism is not a political view, neither is fascism

They are not valid contributions to public discourse, they do not deserve to be probed and debated in good faith. They are hate speech and should be called out as such and deplatformed www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick could have visited Handsworth to listen to residents – he chose to pass through and make a judgement based on the colour of their skin. Instead of getting to know our nation of neighbours, he chose racism.

The Tories, Reform and Labour want to divide us.

The Greens say enough is enough.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in. After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

"I think housing is overpriced" is a political view, a legitimate contribution to discourse. See also: "I think we need to lower NHS waiting lists"

What is NOT a legitimate political opinion to insert in public discourse: "Seeing people of colour makes me feel threatened"

Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

Can we stop this pet rock discourse which insists on inserting flat out racism and Fascism as valid contributions to political discourse?

These racist bums arent politicians; they are rabble rousers
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

Can we stop this pet rock discourse which insists on inserting flat out racism and Fascism as valid contributions to political discourse?

These racist bums arent politicians; they are rabble rousers
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

You know Bassem Youssef? You know, the liberal Egyptian comedian who advocates for Palestinian freedom?

Turns out he only supports Palestinians when they are poor and disinfranchised, not organised political powerholders www.writeinstone.com/blog/post/mo...

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

How the US-backed coup axing Egypt's 1st freely elected president - who proved he could deal with Hamas and stand up to Israel - led us to Oct 7 and the genocide

In which @austingmackell.bsky.social takes names on the Western imperial capture of Arab democracy www.writeinstone.com/blog/post/mo...

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

🔎For everyone who noticed Palestine post Oct. 7, a valuable history lesson from @austingmackell.bsky.social - but not the one you might expect

It's a story of Western imperialist capture of Arab democratic processes, and how that got us where we are today
www.writeinstone.com/blog/post/mo...

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

This is a scandal from our national broadcaster. De platforming a party surging in membership and council seats while uncritically staging long interviews with a absentee fascist bum

Complain about this outrageous editorialising here: www.ofcom.org.uk/make-a-compl...

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

So you get: prime real estate denying dozens of families homes

We get: The Internet unthinkingly rephrased

Harrow Online @harrowonline.org · 1d

Hayes retail park to be demolished and replaced by three new data centres - Harrow Online

A West London retail park is set to be transformed into a large data centre campus with three new data centres. Hillingdon Council approved the plans for

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

We get it. Your pain is inviolable and must be constantly acknowledged and deferred to, while the pain of the Palestinian people and their allies can be shut down any time you need to score political points.

We see you. And we’re done with you.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Keir Starmer calls student protests on 7 October anniversary ‘un-British’

Prime minister urges students not to protest on the second anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 1d

I still dont think generative AI has any positive, meaningful use case whatever, but I can CERTAINLY see growth areas for its misuse

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to “Generative Suspicion and the Risks of AI-Assisted Police Reports” in print. This is the first deep dive law review article into this novel AI use case for policing. #law #policing

scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/nulr/vol120/...

Generative Suspicion and the Risks of AI-Assisted Police Reports

Police reports play a central role in the criminal justice system. Many times, police reports exist as the only official memorialization of what happened during an incident, shaping probable cause det...

scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 2d

A hill I will die on was that ADNOC implanted industry language verbatim in the negotiated COP28 outcome, painting gas as a "transition fuel"

This is, as I warned, now being envoked by petrostates as diplomatic cover for doing what they planned all along www.climatechangenews.com/2025/10/01/r...

Russia justifies fossil gas use by citing contentious COP28 loophole

In Dubai two years ago, Russia pushed for a clause on "transitional fuels" which its new UN climate plan uses to justify gas consumption

www.climatechangenews.com

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 2d

Heavy agree, with a caveat - Global North climate people. There is enough of us at COPs etc. Global South climate people are very much encouraged to turn up more and be louder, all the time

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 3d

Until people in the climate movement very publicly stop eating meat and flying, we're not going to seem trustworthy.

I will die on this hill.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d

Meat is a blind spot for people who care about climate. When I used to have dinner with my colleague Wally Broecker, the climate scientist who coined the term “global warming”, he would always order a steak.

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 2d

This is true, and seismic, so why is it relegated to the minor sections. If Farage had said this it would be A1.

Why are we deplatforming the anti-Fascists? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Greens ‘on track’ to supplant Labour as favourite party in London, says Zack Polanski

Exclusive: poll asked voters to rank parties on how favourably they felt about them, with strong support in capital and among younger voters

www.theguardian.com

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 3d

Not so much sleepwalking into fascism as being pushed kicking and screaming by our media.

Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 3d

Hi @theguardian.com @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

Reform’s party conference was front page news for you both. The Green Party (holders of 800 council seats) is going on right now and there is nothing

Why are you doing this? Who is telling you to platform the Fascists?

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 3d

Hi @theguardian.com @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

Reform’s party conference was front page news for you both. The Green Party (holders of 800 council seats) is going on right now and there is nothing

Why are you doing this? Who is telling you to platform the Fascists?

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 3d

I wholeheartedly agree.

Hope you find this interesting: medium.com/@patchgaley/...

Say The Thing.

Not for the first time, what broke me was a cycling race.

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Dr Eric Farmer @himself132.bsky.social · 3d

It should be incumbent on the state broadcaster to treat political parties equally. If Reform gets more coverage because it's somehow 'hotter' than the Greens, that's because the media made it so. The BBC is as guilty as GB News.

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 3d

Reader:

Not one of the UK political correspondents who live blogged the Reform conference and to whom I asked if they would cover the Green Party conference to the same extent (no one responded and some blocked me)…

Not one is covering the Green Party conference

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 3d

This is fascism to appease Zionist lobbyists. Imagine if Reform inherits this power

The only response is mass peaceful protest and general strike www.bbc.com/news/article...

Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests

The move is not a ban on protests but "about restrictions and conditions", Shabana Mahmood tells the BBC.

www.bbc.com

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