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Cyclist 🚴🏼♂️ Dog daddy 🐶 Lib Dems Abroad 🔶🧡 Software engineer 👨🏼💻 He/him 🏳️🌈
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Bremain in Spain
3 days ago
Plus, since 2016: About 3.2 million people who voted Leave have died compared to about 1.8 million who voted Remain voters
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I thought removing Meta from my life would be too hard, especially WhatsApp. After they decided to make their policies homophobic and transphobic back in January I decided I had to try. Current score: 2-1 to me - I'm stuck with Facebook for some groups.
tomm.org/2025/breakin...
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Breaking Up (With Meta) is Hard to Do: A story of two successes and a failure
My journey in De-Metafying my life
https://tomm.org/2025/breaking-up-with-meta-is-hard-to-do
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LibDems: in my continued attempts to get off Meta, I’d like to do a survey. If you’re interested in a
@signal.org
group for
@markpackuk.bsky.social
‘s excellent Newswire please like this message (and reshare so we can get some eyes on this!) I hope there’s enough of you that make it worthwhile!
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LibDems: in my continued attempts to get off Meta, I’d like to do a survey. If you’re interested in a
@signal.org
group for
@markpackuk.bsky.social
‘s excellent Newswire please like this message (and reshare so we can get some eyes on this!) I hope there’s enough of you that make it worthwhile!
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Forbes
21 days ago
Phonemakers have been ordered to pre-install the Indian government’s “Sanchar Saathi” cyber safety app on all new devices and ensure it cannot be “disabled or restricted.”
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Apple Rejects India’s Order Forcing Smartphone Makers To Install State-Run App, Report Says
Phonemakers have been ordered to pre-install the Indian government’s “Sanchar Saathi” cyber safety app on all new devices and ensure it cannot be “disabled or restricted.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/12/02/apple-rejects-indias-order-forcing-smartphone-makers-to-install-state-run-app-report-says/?utm_campaign=forbes&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Ed Davey
22 days ago
What’s the point of Keir Starmer employing an economics advisor if he ignores her on the biggest economic issue of the day?
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Liberal Democrats
21 days ago
If Nigel Farage wanted to investigate Russian infiltration into Reform, he’d have done it already. It’s time the Prime Minister launched a national investigation.
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LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
21 days ago
Today is World AIDS Day. We have come a long way since the horrors of the 1980s, which triggered a wave of homophobia which has its echoes today. HIV is now routinely treatable and for the first time there is the prospect of a world without AIDS too. (1/2)
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Jolyon Maugham KC
22 days ago
You're not cross enough! First and second headlines from The Times. (Telling how consistently male gaze is the 'feminism' of The Times.)
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Jolyon Maugham KC
22 days ago
We've created a simple tool so you can find out whether your local NHS trust is using Palantir's software and asking them to resist Wes Streeting's push to sign up for it.
goodlaw.social/zr8w
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Stop Palantir in the NHS | Good Law Project
NHS trusts are rolling out Palantir software, but we’re fighting back
https://goodlaw.social/zr8w
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Jonn Elledge
22 days ago
this, but for Jonathan Gullis defecting to Reform
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Adam Bienkov
22 days ago
For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
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The Guardian
23 days ago
ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn
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ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn
Research finds OpenAI’s free chatbot fails to identify risky behaviour or challenge delusional beliefs ChatGPT-5 is offering dangerous and unhelpful advice to people experiencing mental health crises, some of the UK’s leading psychologists have warned. Research conducted by King’s College London (KCL) and the Association of Clinical Psychologists UK (ACP) in partnership with the Guardian suggested that the AI chatbotfailed to identify risky behaviour when communicating with mentally ill people. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/30/chatgpt-dangerous-advice-mentally-ill-psychologists-openai?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Wohoo! Now @signal.org has released its new backup feature, I'm moving our family group chats to it from WhatsApp! My de-Metafication is continuing. Realistically, I'll not get rid of WhatsApp for a while, but I will continue to encourage people I talk to a lot to move.
#FuckHomophobicMeta
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Ulrike Franke
23 days ago
Can’t decide who this is worse for, the EU or the UK. But the real looser, of course, is European defence. So all of us.
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UK talks to join EU defence fund break down
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UK talks to join EU defence fund break down
Discussions fail after Britain refuses to pay billions of euros in fees
https://on.ft.com/4pb0xP6
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“Another taxi driver…claimed firms would purposely increase the mileage on trips by dispatching drivers to another distant town to carry out short journeys.” Unsurprisingly the title of this article is about asylum seekers and not taxi firms ripping off the taxpayer.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgjn2y4eed5o
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Marie Goldman MP
25 days ago
Imagine being turned away from a bathroom, hospital, or cinema for “not looking female enough”. The leaked EHRC guidance could do just that. Along with my Lib Dem colleagues, I’ve written to the Minister calling for new, inclusive, practical guidance that protects everyone’s rights.
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Philip Baldwin
25 days ago
“Japan is the only G7 country that does not recognise equal marriage or offer legal protection to queer couples, whilst in wider Asia only Taiwan, Thailand and Nepal offer same-sex marriages.” Sad news on equal marriage from Japan!
#LoveIsLove
www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/28/j...
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Activists slam court ruling that Japan's same-sex marriage ban is constitutional
In a blow to the Japanese LGBTQ+ community, a court has ruled the country's ban on same-sex marriage is constitutional, angering activists.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/28/japan-same-sex-marriage-ban-constitutional/
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Adam Bienkov
25 days ago
Shabana Mahmood said this month that her migration policies are a "moral mission". Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa
Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/28/uk-home-office-rejects-visa-young-girl-destitute-jamaica-hurricane-melissa
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I’m all for meaningful URLs but in this case maybe it was a bad idea.
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And this is why the government should have removed the two-child benefit cap the moment they entered office. Behind every percentage point increase from last July to now are thousands of struggling families. That's on Labour.
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Luke Piper
26 days ago
I'm not sure how much it is appreciated that there will be significant emigration coming. Those here on graduate visas coming to an end, the toughening up of skilled worker rules re. salaries/sponsorable roles and the 'earned settlement' changes to come. Lots of people are going to leave.
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Global Abortion Rights News
25 days ago
An MP in Zimbabwe has called for the repeal of the country's "backwards" 1977 abortion law. He argued that safe abortion should be available to a wider range of Zimbabwean women, as it is currently restricted to a privileged few. Each year, 60,000 women die due to unsafe abortion.
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It’s Time To Scrap Zimbabwe’s Outdated Abortion Law - Molokele ⋆ Pindula News
Hwange Central MP Daniel Molokele (CCC) has called for the repeal of the 1977 Termination of Pregnancy Act, describing it as one of the most backward laws in Zimbabwe. Molokele made the comments at a ...
https://news.pindula.co.zw/2025/11/26/its-time-to-scrap-zimbabwes-outdated-abortion-law-molokele/
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Zoe Gardner
26 days ago
Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting. Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth? For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit.
#r4today
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Andrew West
about 1 month ago
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet. I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
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Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
https://www.theverge.com/news/826902/gmail-ai-training-data-opt-out
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htfcuddles
27 days ago
Ubuntu extended their LTS (paid) support to 15 years, meaning that you could support a Ubuntu version from 2014. Ubuntu 24.04 would have support til 2039. Meanwhile Microsoft is obsessed to phase away computers from 2017.
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Áine ☽𖤐☾
27 days ago
"A YouTuber dropped his camera to the bottom of the ocean and recorded a deep-sea animal that no one has been able to identify."
petapixel.com/2025/11/25/y...
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YouTuber Drops Camera in Ocean and Films an Unknown Deep-Sea Species
'So what species is this one? The answer is we have no idea.'
https://petapixel.com/2025/11/25/youtuber-drops-camera-in-ocean-and-films-an-unknown-deep-sea-species/#:~:text=A%20YouTuber%20dropped%20his%20camera%20to%20the%20bottom%20of%20the%20ocean%20and%20recorded%20a%20deep%2Dsea%20animal%20that%20no%20one%20has%20been%20able%20to%20identify
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Christine Jardine
27 days ago
Sometimes all it takes is someone asking. Encouraging women to stand isn’t just symbolic - it changes Parliament for the better. If we want a stronger, more representative democracy, we need more women in politics. Proud to back
#AskHerToStand
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Catherine
27 days ago
Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid
#spacecraft
will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles.
#Voyager1
#lightday
Link for more information:
www.popsci.com/science/voya...
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The [digital ID system] will be the “safest most secure system we can possibly design“. Well
@ianmurraymp.bsky.social
has convinced me now. If only all of those systems that have been hacked by nation state actors, including the UK’s own elector database, had thought to design secure systems. 🤦♂️
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Dear BBC, the word you’re looking for to describe the complainant is “woman”. And if it’s relevant to the story you could add the adjective “trans”.
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Financial Times
28 days ago
The UK must remove the pension triple lock
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The UK must remove the pension triple lock
With each economic shock, it ratchets up the value of state retirement payments relative to average earnings
https://on.ft.com/49AbdBV
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🏳️🌈 amazing news! love is love ❤️
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Josiah Mortimer
29 days ago
On reports that Russia could be readmitted to the G7 under peace plans, Lib Dem Calum Miller MP says: "Russia must not be readmitted...Putin is a war criminal who is also hell-bent on destabilising Europe and the rest of the international order. A ceasefire in Ukraine would not change those facts."
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Adam Bienkov
28 days ago
All the supposedly progressive people saying 'Nigel Farage's racism doesn't matter. His fans love it'. It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
28 days ago
Farage's racist remaks as an 18 year old were only "banter" if he rejected racism later. But he never has. In fact, without racism, Farage wouldn't have a career!
#RacistFarage
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Parody Nigel Farage
28 days ago
My attendance record in the European Parliament was the 4th worst out of 751 MEPs, yet I managed to turn up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian misinformation. Thankfully this is of no interest to the media.
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Josiah Mortimer
29 days ago
New analysis by non-profit climate group Possible today: Private jet passengers typically pay less than 1% of the cost of their flights in taxes, compared to 26%-54% paid by economy passengers on standard flights Loopholes mean private jetters often pay little or no APD, nor fuel duty on kerosene.
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Mike Wasson
30 days ago
do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
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ProPublica
about 1 month ago
UPDATE: We've added 5 more staffers to our DOGE tracker, taking the total to 114. This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️
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Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=11-22
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David Wessel
about 1 month ago
Iowa City made its buses free in Aug 2023 as a 2-year experiment. Worked so well, city council extended for another year. Paid for with a 1% increase in utility taxes and by doubling most public parking rates to $2 from $1.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
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Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/climate/iowa-city-free-buses.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2U8.JHRD._K-Y_Weoyuuc&smid=bs-share
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Christine Jardine
about 1 month ago
After several difficult years for the trans community, we must continue to stand up for the rights of trans people across the UK and the world and fight discrimination wherever we find it
#TransAwarenessWeek
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Spineless. Not content with using one minority as a wedge issue - the trans community - they're on to refugees. Vote Labour, get Reform (policies).
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Gaby Hinsliff
about 1 month ago
Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division
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Adam Bienkov
about 1 month ago
Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people. How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
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Tony Vaughan KC MP
about 1 month ago
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning. The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/refugees-established-in-uk-may-have-to-return-if-home-countries-become-safe
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Jolyon Maugham KC
about 1 month ago
For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable. A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
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Angus Johnston
about 1 month ago
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the
#MeToo
movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.
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Bremain in Spain
about 1 month ago
Thx to Julie Ivory on Facebook for a great meme
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Bremain in Spain
about 1 month ago
Next year, from Sat 23 May to Friday 5 June, the
@marchforrejoin.co.uk
team are planning the Rejoin Ramble They will walk 255 miles from London to Brussels & deliver a booklet full of your comments on why we want to rejoin the EU. Get involved All info below or see
@marchforrejoin.co.uk
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Rejoin Ramble - Bremain in Spain
Bremain in Spain is campaigning for a strong & close relationship with the EU and to protect the rights of British migrants living in Spain.
https://www.bremaininspain.com/news/rejoin-ramble/?fbclid=IwdGRleAOBPaVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEey9FfUk8jI_9ohl8TC734CVec9cqcLxg42F1J2oS69YTDyVniqvzqzfe3g9g_aem_LSc2gSQIkwp6t5Le4IwXmQ
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