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X is paying Reform UK MPs while its AI produces sexually explicit images of children and women, the public deserves answers.
Will they return the money they’ve earned from the platform? 1/6
Will they return the money they’ve earned from the platform? 1/6
January 9, 2026 at 1:22 PM
X is paying Reform UK MPs while its AI produces sexually explicit images of children and women, the public deserves answers.
Will they return the money they’ve earned from the platform? 1/6
Will they return the money they’ve earned from the platform? 1/6
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This is interesting because when I went for my first Covid vaccination, Farage arrived and pushed straight to the front of the queue.
Farage: "I believe in vaccinations when they're vaccinations. I don't think what happened with Covid were vaccinations. You have to keep having them every 6 months."
Conspiratorial nonsense.
Some vaccinations like Covid shots require multiple/seasonal doses because immunity fades & viruses change.
Conspiratorial nonsense.
Some vaccinations like Covid shots require multiple/seasonal doses because immunity fades & viruses change.
January 7, 2026 at 8:52 PM
This is interesting because when I went for my first Covid vaccination, Farage arrived and pushed straight to the front of the queue.
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Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire...
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire...
August 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire...
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire, mind and senses purified
Freed from desire...
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December 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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"having changed my mind about the OBR, my internship there has begun smoothly"
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"having changed my mind about the OBR, my internship there has begun smoothly"
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
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Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament.
But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.
Good night.
But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.
Good night.
October 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament.
But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.
Good night.
But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.
Good night.
Here @stephenkb.bsky.social forgets Reform's 4th path: increase spending, decrease taxes and fund it all by cutting mysterious waste and also foreigners somehow. Honestly, it's all common sense stuff.
The good news is that there are three fairly clear paths out, depending on whether you are on the left, right or centre.
October 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Here @stephenkb.bsky.social forgets Reform's 4th path: increase spending, decrease taxes and fund it all by cutting mysterious waste and also foreigners somehow. Honestly, it's all common sense stuff.
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Canada's NICE agent greeting Americans disembarking cruise ships is how we mock Trump's dystopianism while making you all feel welcome.
October 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Canada's NICE agent greeting Americans disembarking cruise ships is how we mock Trump's dystopianism while making you all feel welcome.
Nonsense. Denethor was *totes* sane.
I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Nonsense. Denethor was *totes* sane.
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A dream trip on any UK waterway you say? Well... 50 years ago almost to the day, I was with my parents on an autumn half term holiday trip along the Grand Union towards Leicester when I came across a bridge that someone had painted BALLS TO ENOCH POWELL on. I still dream about this moment. -
If you could go for a dream trip on any UK waterway, where would you go?
#ukcanals #ukrivers #boattrip #iwa #wedigcanals #inlandwaterways
#ukcanals #ukrivers #boattrip #iwa #wedigcanals #inlandwaterways
October 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
A dream trip on any UK waterway you say? Well... 50 years ago almost to the day, I was with my parents on an autumn half term holiday trip along the Grand Union towards Leicester when I came across a bridge that someone had painted BALLS TO ENOCH POWELL on. I still dream about this moment. -
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
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Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.
Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...
Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...
October 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.
Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...
Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...
Anyone choosing not to watch The Gold is making a mistake.
Hot in a car and hot on the trail of #TheGold...
Available now on BBC iPlayer and starting tonight on Masterpiece PBS in North America.
Available now on BBC iPlayer and starting tonight on Masterpiece PBS in North America.
October 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Anyone choosing not to watch The Gold is making a mistake.
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Not every government announcement receives attention in the news. Here’s my roundup of some of the economic and social decisions relating to businesses and communities which have been revealed in the past seven days rachelextance.com/wedding-refo...
Wedding reforms, investment in creative sectors, and tackling climate change in Minecraft: this week's news in brief - Rachel Extance | Website copywriter | Content Coach
Not every government announcement receives attention in the news. Here's this week's roundup of some of the economic and social decisions which relate to businesses, and communities, which have been r...
rachelextance.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Not every government announcement receives attention in the news. Here’s my roundup of some of the economic and social decisions relating to businesses and communities which have been revealed in the past seven days rachelextance.com/wedding-refo...
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![[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking]
1
SOCRATES:
Plato..
PLATO:
Yes Socrates?
2
SOCRATES:
Can you tell me, are you human?
PLATO:
Why… yes, Socrates
3
SOCRATES:
And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is?
PLATO:
Um, yep
4
SOCRATES:
So you can tell me, then
5
[Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel]
SOCRATES:
*Is that a chariot*?
6
PLATO:
Well
that’s more just a bit of wheel
7
SOCRATES:
So not a *chariot*.
PLATO:
No.
8
SOCRATES:
[Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes]
So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*?
9
PLATO:
Well you can’t tap any of them really
10
SOCRATES:
So are we not human?
PLATO:
‘Spose not.
11
[Bleak pause]
12
PLATO:
I’ll get the hemlock
SOCRATES:
Yeah
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiazbuxbxnuyt5etli2cjseaychvbuym6n6z33nwx2mutlvoqjdhge@jpeg)
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Next time Farage or one of his mates is on Question Time getting applause for stopping/reversing immigration, may I suggest the following riposte:
'Everyone who just applauded needs to think hard what they were applauding. Without significant immigration, this country will become a catastrophe.' /1
'Everyone who just applauded needs to think hard what they were applauding. Without significant immigration, this country will become a catastrophe.' /1
September 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Next time Farage or one of his mates is on Question Time getting applause for stopping/reversing immigration, may I suggest the following riposte:
'Everyone who just applauded needs to think hard what they were applauding. Without significant immigration, this country will become a catastrophe.' /1
'Everyone who just applauded needs to think hard what they were applauding. Without significant immigration, this country will become a catastrophe.' /1
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There is huge market share for the Lib Dem’s to run with the motto of “enough of this American nonsense let’s be sensible British people
Again” and not sure anyone’s weird arguments that specific voters should be chased is needed at all.
Again” and not sure anyone’s weird arguments that specific voters should be chased is needed at all.
September 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
There is huge market share for the Lib Dem’s to run with the motto of “enough of this American nonsense let’s be sensible British people
Again” and not sure anyone’s weird arguments that specific voters should be chased is needed at all.
Again” and not sure anyone’s weird arguments that specific voters should be chased is needed at all.
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It would just wrong, indecent + unBritish to break promises made to people about their permanent right to feel at home.
Govts could change future rules for the newest arrivals. Its just not fair to threaten families that they could now be deported just because a new govt has no sense of what's fair
Govts could change future rules for the newest arrivals. Its just not fair to threaten families that they could now be deported just because a new govt has no sense of what's fair
September 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
It would just wrong, indecent + unBritish to break promises made to people about their permanent right to feel at home.
Govts could change future rules for the newest arrivals. Its just not fair to threaten families that they could now be deported just because a new govt has no sense of what's fair
Govts could change future rules for the newest arrivals. Its just not fair to threaten families that they could now be deported just because a new govt has no sense of what's fair
This is absolutely right - the arguments about costs and benefits are interesting and important (because Reform is wrong about them too. But this is ultimately a moral issue.
Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain.
They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.
Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.
They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.
Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.
Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation
Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This is absolutely right - the arguments about costs and benefits are interesting and important (because Reform is wrong about them too. But this is ultimately a moral issue.
The world would be better if we were all like these two!
Dining across the divide: ‘We disagreed on almost everything – it was great’
Dining across the divide: ‘We disagreed on almost everything – it was great’
A shift manager and an NGO worker clashed on everything from taxation to climate emissions. Would they part on bad terms?
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The world would be better if we were all like these two!