Alan D Alien
@alan-d-alien.bsky.social
Geostationary over the UK Forever mystified by the human urge to own far more than one could ever use
Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
📌 ICYMI — Talk TV Presenter Dragged Climate Activist Into Room and Assaulted Him During Pro-Trump Dinner, Court Told — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social André Walker denies assault by beating over incident at Republicans Overseas gala dinner during Trump's state visit to the UK
Talk TV Presenter Dragged Climate Activist Into Room and Assaulted Him During Pro-Trump Dinner…
André Walker denies assault by beating over incident at Republicans Overseas gala dinner during Trump's state visit to the UK
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Convictions Assaulting a police officer Burglary of a police station Malicious communications over an anti-Islam hoax Jailed for more than three years after posting “vile” antisemitic material ahead of a Neo-Nazi rally Racially aggravated harassment But it's ok, he doesn’t support Net Zero #Tories
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP
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Indeed he did - things like "the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids"
A video that left the world in disbelief and horror. Israel prevented the media from broadcasting it. Israel did this.
I saw a podcast video yesterday with Beth Rigby and Harriet Harman discussing Keir Starmers mistakes. The word "Brexit" was only uttered once in passing and there was absolutely no mention of his "Island of Strangers" speech. They just don't get how big an issue these are for millions of us. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
"Borders are irrelevant. All that counts is the destruction of rules that will give them the untrammelled freedom to do exactly what they want." An absolute must-read from @chadbourn.bsky.social
The Third World War Is Here
And it's not what you think
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“New accounts for the business of Farage’s partner, Laure Ferrari - who supposedly paid cash for the £885,000 home - show no signs of money-making” if Farage paid for any of it he would have been liable for extra rate stamp duty ~£44k #FarageBung www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
Mystery deepens over Farage's Clacton house
New accounts for the business of his partner, Laure Ferrari - who supposedly paid cash for the £885,000 home - show no signs of money-making
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"Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. That’s even more than the $1.35 trillion in debt the five companies officially reported" 😱
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
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"A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools. The company did not respond to a request for comment." And that's why you shouldn't use AI for your homework kids!
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
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If he wins, he wins against a bin and faces possible suspension. If he loses, he loses to a bin. If he steps down, he is afraid of a bin. Is there a scenario in which he doesn't come out of this a laughing stock? Personally, I want to see him lose to a bin.
Wes Streeting remains an absolute disgrace
Khashoggi's Ghost@urocklive1.bsky.social · last wk.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is urging the U.K. and France to help lead the naval coalition. But even with the assistance of U.K. Defense Minister Wes Streeting, he’s facing skepticism across Europe, according to four British officials and one U.S. official. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
If you still bother with Buzzfeed, including Huffpost, you might want to reconsider your support for an organisation galloping ever faster toward serving you AI slop at every click.
BuzzFeed Lays Off 33 Percent of Remaining Staff After Bizarre Pivot to AI
BuzzFeed announced it was laying off a third of its entire workforce, in another sign of its decline since pivoting to AI.
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Richard Tice would like us to go back to a time when there were seven times as many deaths on construction sites, so a few people make an even bigger profit.
🤔 Following the Dr. Fauci Senate hearing in the US, hard not to conclude that MAGA Republicans are reinventing the Salem Witch Trials, with scientists as the new Witches. Truly depressing and terrifying. And it could happen here if we get a Reform govt and our own Confederacy of Dunces in power...😢
"A former Reform Senedd election candidate, who was disgraced after a photo of him performing a Nazi salute emerged, has been spotted campaigning with Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election." Leopards/spots and all that 👀
Nigel Farage seen campaigning with disgraced Reform Nazi salute candidate
Corey Edwards was pictured with Farage and other campaigners in a pub beer garden in Clacton
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“NHS patients have no say over who holds their medical records, which makes it the government’s job to guarantee their safety. This deal should ring major alarm bells. Private equity’s penetration of our health service is fast outrunning the regulatory guardrails needed to protect patients...”
Alarm at NHS patient records being put under control of US private equity firm
Doctors and MPs urge more scrutiny of £300m deal for company behind system used by most GPs in England
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Halfway through this thread you'll be snorting with derision and thinking "Why am I reading this? Its nuts" Please read to the end, it really is that important 👇
Dan Neidle@danneidle.bsky.social · last wk.I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:
It is well known and accepted that all our economic problems are caused by a lack of productivity and workers being paid far too much! Oh, hang on, erm... 👇
One of the most fatuous conceits of the economically powerful establishment elite is only they work hard. In my experience, the rich hardly work, while some of the most hard working people you'll ever meet are poor as dirt. I wish people could think a bit more seriously about distributional ethics.
As the number of parties that could conceivably win a seat increases, so does the difficulty of working out the best way to use your vote. We shouldn't have to work around our voting system, it should work around us. buff.ly/BYEPLLW
The problem with tactical voting in Britain’s multi-party politics
At election time, millions of us arrive at the polling station in a conflicted state of mind – do I vote for the party I most believe in, or do I vote tactically to influence the resul
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“OverpAId is an Artificial Intelligence built from the ground up to do your CEO’s entire job — strategy, ‘vision,’ motivational all-hands emails — better, faster, and without ever once asking the board for a bigger jet,”
New Site Threatens to Replace CEOs With AI for Tiny Fraction of Their Bloated Salaries
A new site called OverpAId threatens to unleash AI on the money-hungry CEOs currently trying to automate away the working class.
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NEWS! 'If we let them tax people worth more than £10m, where does it end?' asks Reform voter still two years from paying off his sofa newsthump.com/2026/07/24/i...
‘If we let them tax people worth more than £10m, where does it end?’ asks Reform voter still two years from paying off his sofa
A Reform supporter has warned that Andy Burnham’s refusal to immediately rule out higher taxes on people worth more than £10m could have catastrophic consequences for ordinary Britons who one…
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ICE have detained a Brit for seven weeks. Should be a warning for anyone thinking of heading to the US.
‘I’m being treated like a murderer’: the British father detained by ICE — The Times and The Sunday Times
Connor Read was attending a green card appointment when he was taken to a detention facility. He has been held for more than seven weeks
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UK longevity is forecast to go from nowhere near the top thirty in the world now, to nowhere near the top thirty in the world by 2100. So it seems only right that we should keep increasing the pension age so that working people work until they die, and banks and billionaires can get more tax breaks.
