Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ
@baoigheallain.bsky.social
Not a cyclist, but gets around on a bike. Now reluctantly involved in the Building Safety Crisis
"A water industry source said these plans were not published to avoid alarming the public. The government said the plans were not published for security reasons" Following Starmer's line, Burnham & Co. refuse to inform the public about what's coming Insane www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK government ‘irresponsible’ for not publishing emergency drought plans
Campaigners demand greater transparency into water companies’ plans not made public due to ‘security reasons’
theguardian.com
The second phase of the Holt Road cycle track has been completed and stops halfway, to be continued some time later in the year/next year. This may be the “correct” way to leave a half-finished cycle route, but seriously? That’s a 60mph road! No one in their right mind would want to cycle there.
Twats often argue that immigration has diluted British culture, but we tend to ignore the elephant in the room: the influence American culture has had on Britain over the last 40 years or so. I mean, proms. WTF?
A tech journal worked with a bookshop to put an AirTag into a shipment of books that it suspected were part of a scan-and-shred AI operation. The company which operates at the final destination - an Amazon-operated LLM trainer - has a logo depicting … [checks notes] a dinosaur shredding a book.
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
404media.co
CDF isn’t just about big legal battles. Tom Bosanquet was prosecuted for 'inconsiderate cycling' after allegedly delaying traffic for seconds. CDF covered his legal fees, and the CPS later dropped the case. 👉 Read Tom’s story and help keep CDF ready for the next cyclist: cyclinguk.org/cdf-tom
These people are quite, quite mad.
David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · 11h agoActual CEO of a space company people actually invest in says "by the early 2030s" -- just 5 to 7 years from now -- there will be mines and factories and large human workforce on the Moon, such that we'll be able to see lights of the lunar city from our front porches fortune.com/2026/08/17/b...
Can't wait for all the book-burning defenders to come out again about how this is "technically legal" and "required by copyright law."
Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 13h agoWe put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
Well I for one am astonished that a party run by multimillionaires and funded by billionaires wants to slash welfare to the bone and force people on benefits to work for nothing ... so that they can cut taxes for the rich www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Jenrick says Reform would make long-term benefits claimants clean up high streets – UK politics live
Party’s ‘welfare to work’ policy would force long-term claimants to do community work or face losing benefits
theguardian.com
A woman has been charged after deliberately driving a van into police officers in Larkhall
Woman charged after 'deliberately' driving van into police officers
thenational.scot
The wealthiest man in human history—who clearly performed several Nazi salutes on Inauguration Day 2025—is directly responsible for the deaths of up to 14 million people, including 4.5 million children, by 2030. He's not "quirky" or "weird" or "awkward". He's a fucking monster.
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 4d agoNot to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
When are these so called water executives going to be jailed? Along with the clearly corrupt toothless water regulator, ofwat. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought
Suppliers could factor water scarcity into charges as part of Ofwat proposal to reduce consumption
theguardian.com
The Germans really are exceptionally stupid. The newly established Digital Ministry has moved two of its six departments, including the “Security and Resilience of Public Telecommunications Networks” department, right next to one of russia's most notorious spy hubs in Berlin, the russia House.
Minister of State Seán Canney has said the Government is preparing legislation to protect gardaí when they are pursuing vehicles driving dangerously
Govt preparing laws to protect gardaí during pursuits
Minister of State Seán Canney has said the Government is preparing legislation to protect gardaí when they are pursuing vehicles driving dangerously.
rte.ie
What is the right-wing vision for a world where immigrants have been deported and public services cut? Care and other services would dry up. The return of living in squalor for those beyond working age? The workhouse? The pauper’s grave?
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
goodlawproject.org
Reform put this crap out for attention and in order to appear like a serious political outfit. They're in fact DEEPLY unserious and should be treated as such. Far too many people start to engage with what is essentially a game of pigeon chess. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK benefits ban for foreign nationals would include EU citizens
The move would require renegotiating the UK's Brexit deal and could risk stripping British expats living in the EU of similar rights.
bbc.co.uk
If you want to know Google's intentions, try browsing youtube as a guest. New motto: be as evil as possible.
Calling North Korea "unthreatening and respectful" when they send missiles, shells, and troops to kill Ukrainians is a special kind of lunacy.
Among many other things, the Withdrawal Agreement is international law and supposed to protect the rights of EU citizens who were living in the UK pre-Brexit. What Reform is proposing is a significant violation of that, undermining relations with the EU on other areas. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK benefits ban for foreign nationals would include EU citizens
The move would require renegotiating the UK's Brexit deal and could risk stripping British expats living in the EU of similar rights.
bbc.co.uk
Just Trump allying America with one of the most egregious dictators on the planet against one of the USAs closest allies in Asia. When is enough enough?
In the latest piece for my #calling353 series in @thejournal.ie I ask why Maureen Sweeney’s story gets left out of the new movie Pressure. It’s raining men: Why exclude this Irish meteorologist from her own story? jrnl.ie/7131294
It’s raining men: Why exclude this Irish meteorologist from her own story?
A new movie explores the role meteorologists played in planning D-Day – but Ireland’s Maureen Flavin Sweeney seems to be largely left out.
jrnl.ie
There are 71 Lib Dem MPs in Westminster. There are 8 Reform MPs. When was the last time a Lib Dem press release led the BBC News headlines or was the main story on the BBC News website? (Rhetorical question)
Gardai with army bomb squad have closed off half of Rathmines Rd Upper
The plots thicken ... Farage now denies ever knowing 'Mappin, a Scientologist, QAnon hoax proponent, promoter of Awoke Coin “anti-woke” digital currency, ex-business partner of Nigel Farage, hosted a rally for Reform UK at Camelot Castle, his hotel in Cornwall' via @cornwallgreens.bsky.social
