Jorge
@antartica81.bsky.social
Turnip shepherd (job share) and volunteer soothsayer. Post alot on social justice issues. May contain traces of fruit. #HumanityUK
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‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
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Wednesday 5th Aug, 8:35pm AN ENGLISHMAN ABROAD (1983) written by #AlanBennett and starring #AlanBates #CoralBrowne #CharlesGray drama #TPTVsubtitles
Every time I've had a rubbish day and see more gloom on the social, I'm remind of the people I encounter daily who are doing wonderful things, often against the odds.
Tried watching the Lestat thing on iPlayer last night. The ultimate volume challenge between very ugly music and mumbled lines. Did nobody do a sound mix on this?
I'm sure that when Channel 4 commissioned their new documentary 'The Great ADHD Myth?' they found someone with a lack of bias and a background in showing both sides of the... oh.
An overdue show of EU solidarity with Spain ft.trib.al/ESt0s4Y | opinion
An overdue show of EU solidarity with Spain
Instinct to punish Madrid’s liberal approach to migration is self-defeating
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Palantir rides high on greed and fear — but mostly fear ft.trib.al/utspa8i | opinion
Palantir rides high on greed and fear — but mostly fear
Given its prodigious growth and the belief that this will continue, the anxiety many feel is the fear of missing out
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33 properties that show London is still a haven for Putin's dirty money worth £700m still hiding in plain sight. Including one in Belgravia's centrepiece, Belgrave Square inews.co.uk/news/33-prop... #property #Putin #DirtyMoney #London
The 33 properties that show London is still a haven for Putin's dirty money
Sanctions have frozen the mansions of Russia's most notorious oligarchs - but Transparency International has identified 33 more London properties, worth £700m, still hiding in plain sight
inews.co.uk
Trump is rolling out yet another key plank of Project 2025: privatizing airport security. History has shown us time and again this makes both workers and passengers less safe. Everything is for sale under Trump.
TSA Privatization Returns Airport Security to a Dangerous Past - The American Prospect
The Trump administration wants airport screening to revert to the way it was before 9/11, when private security companie
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Artificial intelligence sparked boos at the 150th anniversary performance of Wagner's Ring Cycle.
AI-driven Ring Cycle sparks boos at 150th anniversary Wagner Festival
Artificial intelligence sparked boos at the 150th anniversary performance of Wagner’s Ring Cycle. The audience was frustrated that the software could integrate images but not drama.
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if any of you know anyone who still thinks that the flagshaggers are 'just proud of their country', i want you to sit down with them and read these court documents together
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterdayLeaders 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.
No I do not want to fill in a fucking Teams survey about the quality of the call I've just come off after 20 similar calls today. Half the people on it froze, of those who were there the rest kept on sounding like Twiki in Battlestar Galactica.
Oh wow! Rain over London. Just heading out to have a dance in it beside the plants.
This thread from the Spanish Foreign Office is really useful for anyone faced with mis/disinformation about the situation in Ceuta. There is one hell of a lot of that about at the moment!! Please use it to counteract ignorant claims, wherever they're from. It's available in French and Spanish too.
Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, UE y Cooperación de España@exterioresgob.bsky.social · 2d ago1/5 🧵 Entering Spain irregularly through Ceuta or Melilla does not grant any right to remain in the country, travel to mainland Spain, or move freely within Europe. It also poses a grave risk to life. No court ruling has changed this. 🔗 www.exteriores.gob.es/en/Comunicac...
Electronic tagging system unprepared to monitor thousands of early-release prisoners, watchdog warns
Electronic tagging system unprepared to monitor thousands of early-release prisoners, watchdog warns
Probation inspector says ‘clunky’ system needs upgrade and huge increase in staff to monitor offenders effectively The electronic tagging system that will be relied upon to monitor thousands of offenders released early from prison is failing to alert the authorities of potential breaches of conditions, a watchdog has warned. Martin Jones, HM inspector of probation in England and Wales, said the current system relied upon hard-pressed police and probation officers looking up individual cases and then deciding whether potential breaches need to be investigated further. Continue reading...
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Report on Andy Burnham going on holiday in guess which paper and making a point of Louise Haigh being a 'convicted fraudster' and an excerpt from the Internet explains why she isn't. I'm sick of this paper demonising Labour, Northern women.
One would think that President Shitshow's cabinet would get embarrassed by constantly being community-corrected on social media but... Of course they don't. Lying is part of the job description.
Every time a bird poops on my car, I eat a plate of wings on my front porch to show them what I'm capable of.
After the husband's dawn raid on cured meats in the fridge I have discovered a secret compartment containing many charcuterie delights.
A Reform UK council candidate's account has posted that 'a vote for Labour is a vote for Muslim rule' as well as bizarre conspiracy theories about Bill Gates and the World Economic Forum She is hoping to win a by-election later this month
Merseyside Reform candidate said 'Bill Gates wants to make us all vegan'
Karen Hatch is aiming to be the latest Reform councillor in St Helens, but concerns have been raised about comments linked to her social media account
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New post out: There's going to be a lot of talk about wealth taxes in the run up to the budget. So we asked one of the country's leading experts to give us a ten year plan for doing it right. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
The right way to tax wealth
A 10 year programme for an incoming government
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