The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

@philmoorhouse.bsky.social This might sneak into one of your videos: youtu.be/6yFokOlX1B0?...

Violent thugs not patriots

@philmoorhouse.bsky.social Phil, why isn't Trump saying the guy they have caught for the Kirk assassination deserves the death penalty not an instant mistrial?

@philmoorhouse.bsky.social Doesn't Farge have a bit of a problem? If he sticks with the raw right wing reform clowns then they will struggle, but if they get a reputation of being a party of Tory rejects... well, they are hardly 'reforming' much with that crew, its diluting the brand. #Berry #Gullis

Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."

Nigel Farage has told ITV News the first thing he would do as prime minister if he won a general election would be to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights That alone is good reason never to vote for Reform UK. THIS IS WHY youtu.be/MdiDDJrQUJA?...

The comb over president 🤣

The case against Marine Le Pen getting prosecuted can be succinctly summed up as: "If they hold one lot of populist, law breaking grifters to account - then what's to stop them going after the rest of us?"

"dei medal" you might as well just put "n*gger medal" because that's what they mean to say

This is utterly repellent language from Starmer’s government.

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

You know your social media behaviour really changed when you find out about a twitter outage only on bluesky, shrug for one second and move on.

@bengoldacre.bsky.social Just doing a mini-case study on the failure of Peer Review using MMR/Wakefield. I used Bad S as a reference. I decided to look at what Wakefield has been up to since, and almost wish I hadn't. He really is a wrong'un, a disgrace to the profession. :(

Trump and Vance would NEVER, EVER, talk to Putin like that. And everyone knows it.

Fun fact: Miloš Zelníček was an active and reliable agent of the secret police of Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia. This feared institution was a highly organized extension of the Soviet secret police, the KGB. Miloš Zelníček was the father of Ivana Zelníčková, as in Ivana Trump.

If the last week has taught me anything it's that Vladimir Putin's millions spent on Russia Today and Sputnik was certainly well invested. An awful lot of awfully gullible people have bought his disinformation crook, lies and stinker.

That's a risk we'll just have to take

Bunker boy is Putin's bitch.

I'm told the noise at the end was three people clapping. They were all in Vance's entourage. The US is now both pariah and pitiful on the international stage.

It's not just that doing this would be stupid, it's that it would be stupid not to do the opposite, namely to explicitly spell out that the UK needs, and is going to increasingly need, more immigration not less.

GB News, "Surely Brexit is a good thing?" Andy Dixon, Fisherman, "It's been bad. It hasn't worked out as the government promised.. Locally, in North Shields, it's been a bit of a disaster" GB News, "In what way?" Andy Dixon, "Red tape, documentation, it's 100x what it used to be"

Brexit was a con. Sold on a pack of lies by fantasists, ladybird libertarians, chancers, xenophobes and spivs. On this day of all days we should take a moment to remind everyone of that.

And there it is. Scam and grift revealed. Watch who gets rich off this. Interested also to see how legacy media covers this, which has been putrid so far.

The real lesson from the history of authoritarian regimes is that if you just roll over several times at the start, it *totally* makes it easier to resist down the line.

If you were asked to create a scene for a 'Climate Change Disaster Movie' in the 1990s - it would look EXACLY like what is happening in LA.

Finally - a reason to have a Royal Family. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Ominous Russell Brand vibes here: wellness grifting and bothsidesism as the gateway to conspiracy theories www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sad thing is, I don’t think it’s bias, but relentless dumbing-down out of contempt for the audience. “These folk don’t want actual insight or discussion. Just pellets of angry shouting at each other.” Those of you who listen to @quietriotpod.bsky.social know how strongly I feel this is NOT TRUE.

🔥25 MILLION BLUESKY USERS🔥 Morning all. And there it is... it crossed over the 25M mark in the wee hours this morning.

The best thing about BlueSky is not financing a sociopath.

Says a lot that about 90% of the traffic I’m seeing on X right now is absolutely convinced the British govt is about to embark on a mass programme of state murder of the elderly and vulnerable. What was until recently the town square of politics has become the preserve of the bad, mad and deranged.

Just think, 2 million people want the government that allowed this to happen back: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I got a bit suspicious when I saw that Keir Starmer had signed 584 times. They just made on- line petitions worthless, that is all they have achieved. Musk has his grubby fingers all over this too.

Fourteen years of austerity, incompetence, indifference and corruption

The fucker is back... Do your duty folks...

Why 2.5 Million Users Are Leaving 'X' for Bluesky – Shocking Social Media Shift “Bluesky has exploded with 2.5 million new users in just one week, as many are leaving Twitter for a more open, decentralized platform”👏 www.bizzbuzz.news/internationa...

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social Any idea why there are 'Farmers are being abused by Labour'/'Save the Farmers' groups all over my FB page? Who is paying for them? I've never seen so much propaganda appearing on my feed.

Musk is morphing into a Bond villian more and more every day.... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I wrote about the weaponisation of Captain Tom - with uncharacteristic caution - at the time for @bylinetimes.bsky.social - it wasn't just his family that was using his legacy. It was the government too - who were desperate to associate the pandemic with the war. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@emmavigeland.bsky.social @samseder.bsky.social How predictable - don't they just look like a pair of fools, without a shred of dignity. I'd rather die than have Trump put this out if I were them. Exactly how Trump loves to treat his enemies.

@philmoorhouse.bsky.social One thing about the Farmers protesting now is that they know the Tory press will be right behind them, they are not 'enemies of the people'.

#Xodus: Bluesky Hits 20M Users as People Continue to Flee X - The Hollywood Reporter

Shad DEFRA Sec Victoria Atkins, rocks up in a fetching little jingoistic union jack-et to say Labour are city socialists who don't understand farmers. Farmers say this is "the last straw" after lost #Brexit subsidies, bad trade deals, and poor climate mitigation - all of it under Atkins' gov't.🧐~AA

“Just Stop Oil should hire some tractors and pretend to be protesting against inheritance tax. They'd never get five-year prison sentences then.” - David Osland

If you feel the same, spread the word.

@philmoorhouse.bsky.social I did manage to find Graham without the 'progressive pack'. He seems to be enjoying himself!