Drew Gray
@drewdgray.bsky.social
Historian of crime and London; Arsenal fan and member of the Arsenal Advisory Board, Chair of aisa-arsenal.bsky.social Green Anarchist, and wannabe photographer
Alongside Privacy International we are challenging the Government's regime of secret TCNs and calling into question whether the Government should be able to weaken end-to-end encryption and threaten our privacy rights so seriously. www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...
Liberty responds to Apple’s new legal challenge against UK Government’s secret access orders - Liberty
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do you enjoy a popular history podcast? Interested in the Jack the Ripper story? Well you might enjoy me chatting about it to Rob Attar #podcast #JacktheRipper #History open.spotify.com/episode/5daZ...
Was Jack the Ripper Queen Victoria’s grandson?
History's Greatest Conspiracy Theories · Episode
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Blimey Jesus has aged incredibly- gone grey over the summer!
The hill I will die on: opinion writers are irrelevant, let’s stop wasting column space on them. They can always start their own blog
The hill I will die on: Games are the opposite of fun, and I’d ban them for anyone over 12 | Emily Watkins
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
to truly appreciate how excellent BBC's coverage of athletics is you only have to watch TNT's
It's a shame that the Commonwealth Games are only live on TNT.
Chelsea fined by the FA but avoid points deduction. The only deduction that puzzles me is why we haven’t got the outcome of another club’s investigation #115
Disposable bbqs need to be banned. You don’t need a bbq, have a picnic instead
So Robert Bush is given 20 years. I doubt that will be an easy imprisonment
Let’s kill the creative industry in the UK shall we? I mean it’s not like everyone is relaxing by watching TV, listening to music, going to the theatre, critiquing Nolan’s Odyssey… even STEM folk like to unwind
Creative & performing arts subjects received £16.8 million SPG 2024-25; £12.9 million in 2025-26; £ O million in 2026-27. The University of Creative Arts will thus lose half of its government funding this year; Art University Bournmouth 40.7%, Norwich U of Arts 40.4% and Leeds Arts U 30.3%. 1/2
So, Labour intends to ensure vocational qualifications at school have equal status to academic ones. Presumably that means that they will also improve entry level wages for non degree jobs as well?
‘China has developed fast chip-making technology’
Seagull Steals Food, Breaks Windshield
ALT: Seagull Steals Food, Breaks Windshield
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Every time anyone questions Reform about money or anything else, it’s ’political bias’ apparently. Just play by the same rules as everyone else chaps. What have you got to hide?
I met a Reform voter today. Very quiet, gentle man who doesn’t seem to have e racist bone in his body. He’d like us to give Reform ‘a go’ because Labour and Tory have failed. It’s 1930s Germany, ‘let’s give those national socialists a go, what harm can they possibly do?’
We missed out on Morgan but can take solace in signing Tzolis
Arsenal can’t afford any new players for the men’s team because they’ve blown the budget on reinforcements for the women 😎😊