An interesting read out of Australia discussing their populism and recent surge in Islamophobia, which is not unlike the Reform/far-right problems here in the UK. At the heart of both is a similar false narrative that non-Christians are recent arrivals. independentaustralia.net/australia/au...

District attorneys across the U.S. announced today that they’ll charge federal agents sent to conduct voter intimidation. bit.ly/4wCPl1R bsky.app/profile/danb...

Reform are very steadily building up a reputation as the party who over and over again, quit most rapidly after getting elected. Populist but poor policies, unreliable candidates, corrupt and dodgy leadership. Reform isn't a party of change, it's a party of Farage's financial self-interest.

If you are one of those seemingly increasingly rare humans who have compassion for the suffering and care of others, please be aware as this crisis emerges, it is a direct result of Donald Trump and Elon Musk's #DOGE savaging of global health monitoring. It will worsen. Because of #Trump & #Musk

By talking about it. Britain belongs at the heart of European decisions, along with France, Germany, Italy, Spain & others, we need to be a beacon for accountable liberal democracy which rejects technocracy/authoritarianism. It's time to start the clock on #RejoiningTheEU 🇪🇺🇬🇧 #RejoinEU #RejoinTheEU

This is possibly one of the most egregious — and blatant — acts of massive scale corruption in the history of Western Civilisation. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

In fact if Burnham is “forced” by the Bond Markets to stick to Reeves’ Fiscal Rules and by the Media to reject the EU … what is the point of Burnham! ? So far under Starmer 👇 #r4today

A very real existential threat is the rise of influential tech bros that governments embrace for their AI tools. Many lack grounding in ethics or philosophy and treat enlightened liberal democracy, human agency, and free will as engineering flaws that AI can “fix.” www.forbes.com/sites/pialau...

Palantir's 22-point manifesto—the "ramblings of a supervillain", includes protecting powerful figures from public scrutiny, promoting AI/robotic weapons & compulsory military service, promoting divisive nationalism, & constant monitoring of digitally ID'ed people. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is a terrible day for British democracy and privacy. Palantir has Orwellian techno-fascist goals, & the British government has agreed to give full access to NHS data—they do not support free healthcare, and they want the data to monitor British society. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Well that's reassuring. thenextweb.com/news/bengio-...

Oh good, China has unleashed Cyberdyne Model 101. No doubt Skynet and a war against humanity in just round the corner. What could go wrong. youtu.be/eQpyvR-B7hc?...

What Burnham doesn't seem to understand or care about is that giving more power to regions like the North lies at the heart of the EU idea. Alongside regional funding, the EU Committee of the Regions facilitates cooperation between towns, cities and regions across the whole continent! #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Absolutely disgusting and disgraceful from Oxford Union. Rich boys happily appeasing and promoting fascists.

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This gave me chills. Watch.

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Look at who owns most of the media. The ultra wealthy. They want faRAGE cause he'll lower worker & environmental protections and strip out most regulations so they can steal and hoard even more wealth...

Look at that—your very own swamp MAGA!

Barely 5-6,000 turned up for Stephen Yaxley-Lennon's hate parade. It was barely worth the helicopter fuel to film them. The main takeaway was his warped "boast" that his political messaging & platforming like yesterday couldn't have happened without American sponsorship. ie, Foreign Interference.

And Windows 10/11 needs to be shutdown and restarted every five days to make sure their bloat/spyware is up to date. Once upon a time Microsoft was a software company that made half-decent user-oriented software, now they're just another advertising company like Google. It's time to join #Linux

So, so very this.

Yet another "happy I ditched windows/one drive" story: itsfoss.com/moving-from-...

The racists (we haven't forgotten your Nazi salute Musk) are upset Christopher Nolan has not portrayed Helen of Troy as white - why would he have? The ancient Greeks were a tanned skin Mediterranean culture—& a diverse one with contact African contact as well. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This is a video everyone should watch. Even with top level privacy, using Google means they are still spying on your behaviour, location etc & ARE sharing it with government, including ICE. Add a Palantir-powered right-wing technocracy to that and you have abusive data use. youtu.be/WJ8clVdaRKA?...

This is the best political speech out of America in a long time. May everything this man evokes come to pass.

The father of capitalism tried to tell us — letting criminals, liars and cheaters get away with their crimes does not occur in a vacuum. “Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” ― Adam Smith www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

There really needs to be daily energy usage caps applied to UK data centres, or the AI companies should be made to contribute an equal usage input of their own power generation back into the grid. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Robert's Right ✅️.......

Wow. Trump doing Putin's work trying to undermine NATO. Tucker Carlson doing Putin's work trying to character smear Zelensky. I'd say it's hard to say whether USA is on the side of Western Democracy or Russian tyranny? But it's not - the US are F***ing traitors to western civilisation.

The £5m grift, I mean "gift" that keeps on giving. Farage insists it had nothing to do with his announcement just a couple of weeks later to run for parliament, and that he has "no obligation to declare it". The "MP for hire" to disrupt UK democracy scourge sticks. observer.co.uk/news/the-100...

Exactly this...

Essentially Iran has humiliated the United States and Trump has done irreparable damage to their international standing with former allies and foes alike. What did the US get out of this? An illegal assassination and higher cost of living. Making America Great... www.ynetnews.com/opinions-ana...

No one, anywhere in the world should have to accept these terms and conditions. Be a part of us seeing equality for all in our lifetimes.

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

I had a great hope for Starmer, especially with his massive majority, for some seismic shifts. Tbf, he has made some excellent advancements on the domestic front, but his foreign policy & endless pandering to Reform voters when he should have been attacking Farage led here: bsky.app/profile/mijr...

Nick Clegg calls for the UK to join the EU with Ukraine "Ukraine and the UK are yolked together in their collective journeys back into the heart of Europe" "Our national mission will be for the UK to join the European Union alongside Ukraine and others by 2036" "20th year anniversary of Brexit"

Friday 8th May 2026: There has been an "exchange of fire" between the warring parties, one accusing The Leader of the Free World of "reckless military adventure". I have seen all this posturing before, it serves no purpose. The price of oil has risen, people are profiting. I am still closed.

"Russia is a third world country with nukes". #UkraineWar www.kyivpost.com/opinion/7576...

Good riddance. It should have happened after they fucked their users over with Cambridge Analytica.

Nigel Farage had one big mission in his political career: to drag the UK out of the EU. 10 years on since the referendum, why doesn't he celebrate all the amazing Brexit achievements and opportunities? Why does nobody ever ask him how exactly Brexit improved the daily life of people across the UK?

So much money she literally cannot give it away. fortune.com/article/mack...

Please add your signature to this petition to block Palantir who wants to bring in a 1984-esque surveillance state. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/trigger-...

When you start using Linux on your home machine but still have to use Windows in the workplace you really start to notice the sluggish bloat, frustrating nags and annoyances and just how B Grade Big Tech is compared to Linux/Foss. Do make the switch and dump US tech, you won't regret it.