another win for foreign influence campaigns is that, over time, the countries they target have not only had a dose of brainwashing, but have also lost the ability to have a civil debate. Moscow/Beijing/Tehran/Washington/whoever have done a number on social cohesion. thanks guys 🙄 /s

A weak and wobbly jet stream bringing wild swings in temperatures Expect much more of this as global heating continues to ramp-up and the temperatures gradient from equator to pole evens out www.theguardian.com/environment/...

God it’s endless. and these two, no doubt Reform supporters (where was the outrage from Yakkksly btw?) 👇

Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase. www.ft.com/content/88ce...

Watch @timothysnyder.bsky.social You'll be glad you did: youtube.com/shorts/6RHPb...

@pickardje.bsky.social please see BylineTimes article below “Thiel [and in my view Bannon et al] believed that many truths about power in modern society would sound like conspiracy theories to most people, and therefore would be dismissed rather than engaged with.” (Max Chafkin’s Thiel biography)

Was Bannon/US keen on a Johnson PM because May’s Chequers Plan would have allowed negotiation on a replacement returns agreement equivalent to Dublin, thereby avoiding the ‘Boris wave’/ small boats issue? Was the migrant crisis engineered to give Farage something to mobilise the far-right with?

Well, I’ve just been beaten up, and now I know: 1. a segment of society have gone a bit insane 2. getting beaten up doesn’t really bother me - felt quite calm during and after, so I’ll be fine in the camps. hooray?

War Brexit a mistake?

oh this is good. Burnham: deindustrialisation, deregulation and privatisation starting in the 1980s led us to where we are now Halle-fucking-lujah (link in Alt text)

To everyone who was on the pathetic fascist march today when you realise the “First They Came” poem is short, and you are in it: #FuckFascists 🖕

@mayorofgm.bsky.social Andy, Social media and the press are your no.1 priority- otherwise it’s all for nothing and Farage undoes all your good work.

FAO Streeting, Burnham, Rayner, We ALL lose in 2029 unless you OVERHAUL SOCIAL MEDIA. A 10-point plan: 👉 Mandatory independent algorithmic auditing of major platforms used for news distribution 👉 Fully public real-time political ad libraries (all major digital platforms)

watch the ppl in the march today - where’s all that hate going to go? it didn’t come out of nowhere - it’s grown like a cancer, and the mechanism spreading it is social fucking media.

oh god. our fascist future is going to be worse than Hitler isn’t it? the baseline level of hate is waaaaay higher this time round. paid for agitator (with made up name Tommy Robinson) & his pal Elon (with his algorithms) has made sure of that. i need one of those fake tooth cyanide pill things.

I know there’s a lot going on with the Labour Party, but it is all in the bounds of democratic politics. This however, paid collusion between the leaders of two political parties in the run up to election, if true, is a scandal of staggering propositions

the BIG grift

nope. Jim? 👀 @pickardje.bsky.social

@mayorofgm.bsky.social 1. Big Tech regulation 2. PR or two-round system 3. Ban MP 2nd jobs tada! 🎉 you saved the UK 👏

More great policies from the Labour government won’t make any difference - “they” have been brainwashed we need comprehensive Big Tech platform regulation NOW!!

Interesting intervention from the Green Party's former leader

50 billion tonnes of sand are used every year, making it the world’s 2nd most used resource after water. But we are extracting it faster than nature can replenish it. A new UNEP report warns unsustainable sand extraction is threatening ecosystems and livelihoods: https://ow.ly/KqHN50Z03aV

just bumped into a Deform voter. visitor to the area, so I advised them to check their dog for ticks (I’ve brushed 5 off my dogs in the last 30 minutes). started talking conspiracy theories #WTAF 😅

Today in "which lying liar is lying to me?"

Robert Jenrick is facing renewed scrutiny over whether he knew about illicit US donations to his Tory leadership campaign, after revelations that his wife worked as a lawyer for the British donor who allegedly arranged the money. www.ft.com/content/53e6...

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk wtf is going on here?

This government seem to be lining up a lot of great legislation. Pity MSM aren’t reporting any of it! (Guardian, FT, BylineTimes excepted of course)

😬 oh god. please don’t give us Wes. Ed maybe?

👀 I like!

This leadership shit, even now, is still not as important as the fact that FIVE MILLION QUID HAS BEEN PAID TO THE LEADER OF ONE OF OUR BIGGEST POLITICAL PARTIES

Congrats to Wes for burying the lead today

The outcome of almost every UK media org, including the BBC, adopting the 100% fictional narrative that migration is the cause of all the country's ills (it is the cause of none of them) and that fewer migrants will fix the economy (fewer migrants will destroy it).

After the Coutts affair, Farage nearly doubled his shareholdings in GB News parent company 1. No other presenter has such a stake 2. No political leader in the UK (I know of) owns so many shares in a media company 3. No Ofcom regulated media company supports just one political party

feeling dejected about the state of the world decided to watch this about the Earth’s 4.5 billion year history, because *that’s* how much perspective I need to shake it off 😄

😲😲😲 we have Trump-media #fuckSkyNews

🧵 A postcard from the country that already crashed the car, sent with love and a small amount of nausea, to the cousins who are about to crash a bigger one. — @therickwilson.bsky.social's warning from America 🇺🇸➡️🇬🇧 bylinetimes.com/2026/05/08/r... 1/12

You've watched us do this. You have a free preview of the grim and terrible ending. Knowing didn't save us. It might save you. Get organised. You're further along the curve than we were in 2014. Good luck. You're going to need it. — @therickwilson.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/05/08/r... 12/12

Brexit was a policy. What's coming next is a regime change. Reform is running on mass deportations. Gutting the BBC. War with the judiciary. A foreign policy authored in Mar-a-Lago and proofread in the Kremlin. 8/12

its over. chaos ensues. the rw press wins. Farage & the far-right win. we might not have until 2029 before we get our very own Project 2025 and the dismantling of democracy. shit. did *anyone* read the most trusted economic journalist’s piece in the FT yesterday warning us about what’s coming?

“Human beings have overrun the world” David Attenborough

“… the survival of US democracy is in question. The UK’s could easily prove even more fragile.” (Martin Wolf, FT) and finally!!! an establishment figure warning that Farage will give us our very own version of Project 2025 👇 @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @vicderbyshire.bsky.social

We were told our data would stay under NHS control. But an internal document just revealed the truth: Palantir staff are being granted “unlimited access”. Join us demanding this spy-tech firm gets out of our NHS 👇 goodlaw.social/658abc

Extreme heat is pushing agrifood systems to the brink. A new @fao.org - WMO report finds that rising temperatures are putting crops, livestock, fisheries, forests, farmers, and workers at growing risk, as well as identifies adaptation options. Read ➡️ http://bit.ly/4cqCSGw

On the Update to Limits to Growth (by KPMG, 2020) there are 4 scenarios: 1. BAU the original business-as-usual 1972 model then from the 2020 update 2. BAU2 business-as-usual 3. CT technology-driven scenario 4. SW stabilised world scenario mahb.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...

"There is little to no statistical relationship between Reform performance and Labour performance, but a very strong (negative) relationship between Labour and Green performance." @patrick-pme.bsky.social

this is not a joke, but the timeline we’re in is.

This story needs way more attention. Farage and his acolytes have repeatedly claimed his home was "firebombed", to justify the £5m secret donation given to the Reform leader by crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne But the police report of the incident is a burglary. There's no record of arson

Vote Farage, Get Trump Russian influence whistleblower Sergei Cristo open.substack.com/pub/sergeicr...

Warmest 3 months of April on record, globally: 1. April 2024 2. April 2025 3. April 2026, 1.43°C above the estimated pre-industrial level (together with 2016 and 2020) climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-...

dear labour, be more this guy 😄 celebrate that frogface isn’t our dictator yet.