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RE: https://sfba.social/@historyofpunkrock/115885738678832180 Damn I forgot how awesome Fugazi was. #music

I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇

Written to my MP #Venezuela "I call on you, the Labour Party and the government to condemn in the strongest terms the unprovoked bombing of Caracas and other locations in Venezuela. This follows a campaign of lies against Venezuela and its president: US security experts make it clear there is no […]

Carl Sagan called it over 30 years ago. And the saddest thing is that too many under 30 don’t even know what the fuck he was talking about. For the very reasons he was talking about. #WASF https://stzl.ink/9wjruk

I brought a 3.5” floppy disk into my lab. One of my interns said “oh cool, you 3D printed the save icon!” I spontaneously broke my hip.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bitboxer/113488282272850633 Important Christmas reminder: download all the manuals from all the devices your family got this year and store them in a folder. Thank me in half a year if you need them 😉

Techbros love fantasy and science fiction... but seem to only understand it at the most surface level. They learned zero of the lessons that any of the books were trying to teach them about the hubris of humankind or the roots of evil.

So this puts my university's claim that MS Office365 is our only GDPR-compliant cloud platform in an interesting light. No US-owned holder of data can be GDPR compliant thanks to the US CLOUD Act 🫠 https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/22/europe_gets_serious_about_cutting/

When an entire class of technology states on the packaging that it was made in China but intended "for overseas use only," this should really give you pause before plugging it into your network. You will find this verbiage on a lot of Android TV streaming […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

This! Plus Chazza & Dave, Frank Sidebottom, Deano, Sérgio Mendes & a whole lot more. @simongmusic.bsky.social @fentonsteve.bsky.social & @gerryhectic.bsky.social drop by to share some festive tat and there is also the Greatest Christmas Song Of All Time - only on @allfm.bsky.social from 11am 😍✌️😍

RE: https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/115749141707385603 From the razor-thing margin, we can conclude (correctly) that they are both awful.

Why is Keir Starmer so hellbent on digital ID? Two words: Tony Blair. At @thenerve_news we’ve tracked Blair’s influence - & his billionaire backer Larry Ellison - behind a policy that nobody asked for & almost nobody wants. 1/

How many times do we need to point this out? By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it. While weakening your own position. There's a vast amount of academic research showing this. But Labour will not listen. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

1. I hate to see good people wasting their time and energy. And there’s perhaps no greater waste of time and energy than seeking to change the trajectory of the human population. It’s not just futile, but also a massive distraction from things we CAN change. This thread seeks to explain why. 🧵1/12

taps sign: Reform UK is a Long Con, owned & run by a bunch of treasonous, fascist, racist grifters, supported by Russia. Don't fall for it.

"Spending as a share of GDP is pretty well where it was at the end of the last government. This government had reversed the additional austerity the last government had pencilled in, but once you allow for trends in health spending and debt interest the substantial reduction in the level of […]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Wishing Scots all around the world a happy St Andrew's Day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Note, you don't need to be Scottish to celebrate! How about a nice bowl of porridge for breakfast or a wee dram of whiskey at the end of your day? 🥃 📷: @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social "Saltire on the Moon"

So back in 1944, a German U-Boat Commander named Heinz-Wilhelm Eck did exactly what US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered US military forces to do - kill the survivors of a destroyed boat at sea. Now, as then, this is considered a War Crime. In 1945, Commander Eck was tried, found guilty […]

Hey look, we made a flawed recording format smaller and shitter! Please buy stuff! #smh 🤦 https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115627229208885477

I greatly enjoy the local reporting of The Mill. I highly recommend taking out a subscription. Offer for first two months pay-what-can here: https://manchestermill.co.uk/r/1b84e74b?m=36260e33-a456-4fe5-a559-74e6433f2e12 #manchester

This is an important and heartfelt letter. Unfortunately there has been a real blindspot among some people on the British and European left. We should oppose imperialism and fascism, wherever they occur. heckle.scot/2025/11/an-o...

PSA to anyone who uses Gmail! "Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or […]

Google stopped letting owners of early Nest themostats remotely control their devices last month. But it's still remotely collecting extensive surveillance data from them: https://www.theverge.com/news/820600/google-nest-learning-thermostat-downgraded-data-collection #privacy

Morning! Just about to kick off another show, live from the studio.😎🫡@allfm.org

Lördag!

Let's stop pretending that the billionaire media, endlessly attacking the BBC, has the slightest interest in balance, impartiality and accuracy. They won't be happy until the BBC is more rightwing than Vlad the Impaler. And then it still won't be enough.

"I have little to no sympathy for Tim Davie. He has helped create the problem by constantly opining on the BBC being too liberal. He has legitimised the critique which has toppled him. He appeased the same forces who have brought him down" The truth about impartiality at the BBC - by Lewis […]

AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is https://archive.is/9sdT5 Big spending on artificial intelligence puts pressure on jobs, as gloomy narratives about the future of work are ironically making new graduates less employable.

The Irony of the right complaining about the left wing bias of the BBC and getting the senior management fired. Who were put in by the right and were directly responsible for the right wing bias of the BBC. With an unhealthy dose of Zionism in the mix. Complaining about the Antisemitic […]

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

RE: https://exquisite.social/@thomholwerda/115513975995095541 as i said elsewhere, i'm frankly not convinced that the small conveniences that plagiarism machines bring to the programmers should justify the gross and disastrous consequences that plagiarism machines bring to everyone else. burn […]

It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose. Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

75 years ago today, European nations signed this Convention, so the Holocaust could not be repeated. Beware those who want this to end.

Many people fundamentally do not understand how progressive taxation works. Rich fuckers, the kind of people who own newspapers, do not want you to understand how progressive taxation works, so they can frighten you about tax increases I'm sure this is a coincidence

Listening in to a meeting of radio astronomers: direct-to-cell satellites are SO BRIGHT that even though they're following the rules and broadcasting in their allocated bands, they destroy astronomical observations across a huge swath of frequencies. Radio telescopes were designed to operate in […]

"Wherever we looked for the prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler. Farage told us the flag-raisers were just ordinary folk sticking it to the […]

Learn to play guitar. It takes, like, two weeks. And, once you kinda know what you're doing, you can play songs you like or just keep your hands occupied while you're thinking.

Many of us here have issues with Apple right now. I have assembled my thoughts and, as I see it, there are two main problems. https://troz.net/post/2025/apple-has-two-problems/ #apple

Hydrogen is mostly bullshit - It's a terrible battery - It's a terrible vehicle fuel - It's a terrible heating fuel - It's hard to store & transport - It's low energy density The one thing Green Hydrogen is good for is replacing Grey Hydrogen as feedstock in industrial processes. Even there […]

This is your 45 minute klaxon for today's #CSC

It's normal to be against genocide.

[UKpol, Unite racist march] If anyone knows who wrote this, please let me know. [Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.] ‘I was the anaesthetic consultant on call at St Thomas’ Hospital yesterday. It is on the south side of the bridge that […]

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

Are we all seeing how we are being manipulated? #ukpol #ukpolitics #fasicsm #fascists #tommyrobinson #StephenYaxleyLennon #whitehall #transpride #lgbtqia #london