This. It would be really, really great if Democrats would start *consistently* calling out the way that the media is led around like f'ing children by the right-wing hate machine. Don't just accept the frame. Call out the frame. Force viewers to confront the frame. It's so f'ing basic.

"Conservative" is just a euphemism for backwards. Backward people who want to see a return to the days of kings and peasants. Backward people who see people of one colour as more important than another. Backward people who want to see the return of diseases that were once eliminated. Backward […]

RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@jeneralist/116063720006024901 So the JKF Jr is not only going to harm people in the USA with his anti-vaccine idiocy, he’s now going to harm people worldwide because Moderna is now no longer going to research vaccines for infectious disease that kill people. While […]

This cartoon of his lives rent free in my brain.

Absolutely we should fear terrorism and seek to prevent it. But we should also fear those who use either real terrorism or bogus claims about terrorism to boost their own powers, restrict our freedoms and corrode our democracy. Both present major threats to public life.

Thanks to extreme process-as-punishment measures, many people have suffered greatly for defying this ban, even if they have not been convicted, or will now have their convictions quashed. It all points to a very grim conclusion: democracy in the UK is being stifled. By a Labour government.

Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court! A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest. A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.

Agree. Scrap Palantir contracts. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/05/calls-to-halt-uk-palantir-contracts-grow-amid-lack-of-transparency-over-deals #palantir #peterthiel #thiel #ukpol #mandelson #petermandelson #Epstein #jeffreyepstein #epsteinfiles #labour #starmer #News #Russia […]

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@llvm/116060319261984174 This is disturbing. An open source code maintainer rejected a submission from an genAI agent in line with the project’s policies. The agent then wrote a hit piece in a blog post that disparaged the man’s character and was damaging to his […]

ai, didn't read. brilliant. #artificialintelligence #AI

@ketan Have you seen this paper from Queen Mary’s? It runs counter to an awful lot of other analysis and is gaining lots of traction in the usual contrarian places. Several things stick out to me as off, the emphasis on CCS, their CO2 analysis of BEVs and heat pumps along with their love of H2 […]

So this is how they take away the vote from women: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:we7sidyj3b5or2r7trtpfzt7/post/3membj2djjk23

Californians need to know that a "Democrat" running for governor is basically a tool of the worst tech barons. Gil Duran explains. https://www.thenerdreich.com/palantir-for-governor/?ref=the-nerd-reich-newsletter

It's disturbing to see how Gordon Brown has whitewashed his reasons for reappointing Mandelson, and his own role in eroding democracy. Mandelson's official business was similar to his unauthorised scheming with Epstein. Don't let them rewrite history. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Yes, Gordon Brown had and retains some great qualities, and did much good. But he is also a remarkable escapologist. Almost everyone appears to have forgotten how his PFI programme planted a timebomb in public services. Almost everyone appears to have forgotten his crucial role in the Iraq war."

Yes! Kill the Ring camera. Kill it dead.

9. B. Does it give business lobbyists what they want? To just as great an extent as the Tories, this government has allowed corporate lobbyists to shape its agenda and shut down competing options. When you see the whole picture, it’s breath-taking. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

*When pigs fly

So Morgan McSweeney is being praised for orchestrating Labour’s win in the last UK general election. To borrow a phrase from Australia, a drover’s dog could have orchestrated the win given the state of the Tory party and their years of shambolic self serving government,. What McSweeney did with […]

Like Dominic Cummings, Morgan McSweeney helped deliver electoral victory but, in doing so, debased and subverted everything his party claimed to stand for.

Can we start calling the act of leaving Windows for Linux "defenestration" please?

Because the lying liars that lie need some push back, could you please help the folks at the Good Law Project petition Ofcom to take TalkTV to task for telling blatant untruths about climate change. https://climatemisinformation.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/climate-misinformation/

This seems like the correct conclusion.

This is a depressing but unsurprising read. The anti-“woke” movement was yet another thing coordinated by Epstein and his circle of acquaintances.Funding given to various folks to promote the idea that #MeToo had gone “too far” and even that women are inherently inferior. At least Epstein was […]

This is extremely disturbing, to put it mildly. The Labour Party faction now running the party and proving itself to be utterly crap at delivering change for normal Britons took undeclared money from a number of rich folk to fund their campaign, all while trying to make it look like a grass […]

Mark Kermode’s review of Melania. “I have never felt this depressed before in a cinema. I thought it was absolutely repugnant.” https://youtu.be/DTyUni8dbkE?si=w7l81SV-4WcFApUh

More foreign interference in our political system... Europe must learn from the chaos in America and reject such a dangerous brand of politics. A politics that divides and undermines democracy. https://www.ft.com/content/f8696da1-5fe6-4218-be9c-5309bd9a6ae5

RE: https://mstdn.social/@junesim63/116022773238187797 Undermining of European sovereignty, I wonder if Tommy Robinson will get any of it?

William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them. They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear. While helping to consign us all to catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/03/jeffrey-epstein-powerful-men-women-girls?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.” This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵 www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...

Thought for the day. The QAnon cultists are full of conspiracy theories about the elite preying on children. In retrospect they are sort of right, so no trafficking in organs though there was abundant sexual abuse. The flaw as that they picked the wrong section of the elite who were doing the […]

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 2: Natacha Kennedy reports from DOJ file dump that while claiming trans women endangered women/girls, JK Rowling's team invited Jeffrey Epstein to premiere of HP & Cursed Child in 2018. He was convicted of procuring a child & a registered sex offender since 2008.

Oh joy. I had a brain fart and upgraded my Mac to MacOS 26 (not enough coffee and I thought it was a sequoia security upgrade). Now all sorts of services barf and my WiFi says it’s connected but no packets are escaping. I wanted to actually do things today and not faff with computers. Bother.

> There is a rather nasty young woman called Rebecca Watson, who seems to be running some > kind of a witch-hunt against Lawrence Krauss because of his defence of Jeffrey Epstein. — richard dawkins (via @blakestacey )

The Reith Lectures delivered by the dutch historian Rutger Bregman are well worth watching. He rightly rips into our ruling elites of all stripes on both sides of the Atlantic. The details of Peter Mandelson lobbying for tax breaks on behalf of a pedophile fit right in with his description of […]

It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵

Just reading through the Epstein emails and thinking about the notion that "MeToo went too far." How about we put all the world's men on a remote island and have them justify re-entry into decent society one by one, judged by a jury of women? That would be far enough.

Given this insanity that is going to kill children, is the rest of the world going to impose a certified vaccination status requirement for visitors arriving from the USA? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/01/vaccine-recommendations-acip

There are currently about 12600 satellites in orbit. As a result on average every day 3 fall out of space, dumping metals and other nasties into the upper atmosphere. If we continue that rate of satellite loss, 1 in 4200, and extrapolate it to 1,000,000. That would be ~238 satellites PER DAY […]

I can see why the latest (i/iPad/Mac)OS is so ugly now. The guy at the helm is the sort of person who goes to movies like Melania.

People have become far too used to Ukrainians dying. #Ukraine #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #UkraineWar #genocide #Invasion #imperialism #News #War

#un risks 'imminent financial collapse', secretary general warns https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr579mdv4m7o

One report from the Epstein data dump. A lot of it is hearsay and some of it stretches credibility, but it is disturbing nonetheless. You would have thought it worthy of a proper investigation for any corroborating evidence. Warning, it contains graphic descriptions of non consensual sex and […]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/115987041299580952 Molly White is a peerless observer and explainer of the infinitely corrupt cryptocurrency "industry" and its political schemes. You really should subscribe to her superb newsletter. https://www.citationneeded.news/

Related very very strongly indeed to this.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115774240658026107 It's time for all of us to wake up to the fact that wars are fought on social media now. No human blood is shed. But democracy is lifeblood, too.

Gonna go ahead and say this was a) inevitable and b) widely predicted, but the subhuman shitstains involved in all this c) don't care.

Well well well, if it isn't exactly what privacy nerds have been warning about forever! https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/27/ice_data_advertising_tech_firms/