SNAP is a lifeline for workers in low-wage jobs. Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker. Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps. Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

Maguire reminding viewers that the number of asylum seekers & refugees coming into the UK are relatively few (most refugees stay in countries near to where they're from) One might wonder then, why has this story been so prominent in our politics & media over the last 25 years?

Remember: The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

➡️ Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8% ➡️ Investment reduced by between 12-18% ➡️ Employment reduced by 3-4% ➡️ Productivity reduced by 3-4% "Combination of elevated uncertainty, reduced demand, diverted management time, and increased misallocation of resources from a protracted Brexit process"

Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.

Just to be clear, politicians have engineered a situation whereby the NHS is in crisis and people are so scared and angry that many no longer feel empathy for the doctors tasked with holding the service together. Doctors are not the problem. Politicians are the problem. 💙🚨

One more thing I'd like to say about this: it may not do anything, but ppl should also try to contact their MPs and tell them why both schemes are horrible ideas - and keep it factual (ie, the 35K data leak retweeted), that the OSA's scope is too wide, etc.

The same Switzerland that just agreed to "voluntary" digital ID. Probably just a coincidence... *smh* if you give a centimetre toward giving up privacy and letting them bring in surveillance, they'll take a kilometre.

35,000 PEOPLE DATA BREACH After decades of warnings NOT to splash data over the web unless absolutely necessary, Labour has turned that on it's head with the chaotic Online Safety Act. Barbarically stupid. Yet another data breach. The OSA might be next. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why did the nation that used Christianity to justify slavery, ethnic cleansing of indigenous populations, racial segregation, homophobia and preemptive war elect a dumb racist crook who's the opposite of everything Jesus taught? Is that the question?

🇪🇺✅ SUCCESS: We've prevented mandatory #chatcontrol through the back door!🎉 A big win & THANKS to everyone! 🙏 But ⚠️: Anonymity-breaking age checks & "voluntary" mass scanning are still planned. The fight continues next year! https://chatcontrol.eu

If the Government give away/sell *our* patient data it will signal the end of the #NHS

Thread. This is something I can also see happening. Two bad ideas does not make a good idea. It just increase how bad things will be.

NEW: U.K. Parliament is set to debate the "Repeal the Online Safety Act" petition on Dec. 15th, 2025 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act. The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.

Never forget the same people defending pedophilia have spent years trying to convince the public that drag queens and trans people are a threat to children. It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.

If you allow media narratives crafted by wealthy elites to dictate your hatred for strangers, your claim to being a "free thinker" is questionable.

According to the 2025 Freedom on the Net report, global internet freedom declined for the 15th consecutive year. Of 72 countries assessed, conditions deteriorated in 28, while 17 registered overall gains. The US was among the countries that experienced the most significant declines.

...welcome to China Union, where the government control your every moment. Honestly, for doing this, Denmark should be ejected from the EU. (Apologies to all sane-thinking Danes, but your EU government are utterly vile ppl)

*sip* ☕️

I hope Starmer will pay attention to what happened in the USA. Turns out that stealing from everyone to give to billionaires, destroying healthcare (such as it is), removing privacy and human rights, etc... somehow... isn't the way to go. Who'd've thought that'd happen?? */s*

We can only hope so... it would be good if we could move away from the right, though.

MasterCard is marketing its new MasterCard Threat Intelligence platform to issuers & acquirers. A source familiar w/ MasterCard’s internal operations told me MTI is flagging anime, VTubing, adult content, tabletop, video games as potentially “high fraud risk” fintechmagazine.com/news/how-is-...

FINALLY. The fact that he was able to hide behind his "prince" for so long was disgusting. But this should not be the end, merely the start for seeking justice against all of Epstein's victims

Musk: X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. ...the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts.

The 37 ballroom donors won’t be remembered for generosity, but for funding a monument to authoritarian vanity during a shutdown, at a venue nicknamed after a sex trafficker, while Americans wonder how they’ll eat. History keeps receipts & their names aren’t coming off those walls

We need to stop giving obviously racist people the benefit of the doubt, allowing them to give non-apologies and carry on without consequences Being racist should mean you lose your job Being racist should mean you are shunned That’s how we defeated it before, and that’s how we defeat it again

I very rarely watches ITV - there's hardly anything I wanna watch, but one trailer is puzzling. Are ITV really advertising Wrexham v Cardiff with clips from Tottenham's matches?

This weekend, the UN Cybercrime Treaty opens for signatures, and the stakes for global digital freedom have never been higher. States must refuse to sign the Convention.

Wow, I last looked on TV Tropes like... a few months ago? It's definitely not worth the subscription fees or allowing them to track you... I kind of have a like/meh relationship with the site. It can be good, but sometimes... mm

when all this is over we need to have a pretty serious conversation about the utter moral failure of the elite of this country

Imagine that the UK Gov’t has the power to limit corporate due diligence checks to “do [you] have a Digital ID card?” ; DOING SO WILL VASTLY ENCOURAGE MOBILE PHONE THEFT https://alecmuffett.com/article/118470 #DigitalId #IdCards #KierStarmer

It’s so funny that the generation of people who told me CONSTANTLY in school that Wikipedia isn’t a reliable source are now among many of the same people who believe anything they read online and share AI generated slop. I’d trust Wikipedia more than anything to come from AI any day, it has SOURCES!

If it's mandatory for work, it's de-facto mandatory share.google/ulfGaMN5b9Jt...

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

To people who don’t like black & brown faces in high places, who don’t like interracial families, who think Britain should be for white people: We are not going anywhere. We are British. We are human. Our lives are as valuable as white lives. And the multiracial Britain I love agrees. Get over it.

The climate of fear this man created for my family, and those like my family, sickens me to my core Enoch Powell was a racist demagogue, and remains a racist demagogue - no amount of whitewashing or rehabilitation of this odious man will change that

Powell haunts my family When my grandparents arrived in the Windrush, and when my dad and his siblings grew up in Brum, he was one of the political faces of racism Even now I see the impact the mere mention of Powell has on them Sickens & enrages me to see British media try to rehabilitate him

I see Keir Starmer, the destroyer of human rights, is going ahead with his desire to remove privacy and introduce mass surveillance... It's like we didn't have a general election and Tories are still in charge...

I wish people would stop asking themselves why Keir Starmer is supporting this policy or that, as if there’s a knowledge gap, and that if he was properly informed then he’d do the right thing. He & his ministers have all of the facts you value at their fingertips. His decisions are not an accident.

My arm's sore after having my flu jab... but it's done for another year. Fortunately (so far) no other side effects

Blustery day, isn't it? Here's the National Grid: Live generation data. Wind and solar are generating 74.2% of our electricity. Gas is generating 13.1%. And yet our household electricity prices are pegged to... the volatile price of gas. Which is the basis on which the right attacks... renewables.

Turns out, 6 months was optimistic

The UK government gives no shits when this kind of thing is regularly in our news cycle. Our government knows full well, they seriously just do not care when there's AIs to train on and money to be made from selling our data. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

I'm serious email your representatives and link this article RIGHT NOW tell them this shit sucks and is going to put everyone's ID/data at risk to hackers online. the proof is right here US- www.congress.gov/members/find... EU- www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home CA- www.ourcommons.ca/members/en

This is happening in so many countries around the world and we seeing the effects of it. For example, look at the UK and its focus on immigration which leads to digital IDs, leaving ECHR, etc, etc

So, youtube paid off Trumepstein and gave another idiotic rich ego licence to try and burn ppl to death for money. Yeah... I doubt I'll bother with it anymore.

To those unaware, Imgur just geoblocked the entire UK thanks to the Online Safety Act. They didn't want to comply with the age restriction mechanic, so now any public URL for an image results in this. Which leads to a potentially interesting legal conundrum: why are they non compliant? 🧵

I dun remember the last EA game I bought, but I'm certainly not gonna buy any game made by them again.