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Tom ⬛️

@drtomjones.bsky.social

Rugby (XIIIs & XVs) • Power tools by Stihl • Shoes by George Cox • Books by John Connolly • Music by The National • Bikes by Indian Motorcycles • Movies by Roland Emmerich • Food by Tankuma • Data by John Burn-Murdoch • House in Queensland • Heart in Osaka

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Tom ⬛️@drtomjones.bsky.social · 49m ago

And this is why the billionaires want to build those data centres… so they can flood the zone with shit … wall-to-wall right wing propaganda telling us how terrible it would be to tax the bastards.

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 13h ago

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

Tom ⬛️@drtomjones.bsky.social · 2d ago

BYE-LAW 6 WORLD RUGBY A Member Union may be suspended or expelled [if] it may no longer be considered as fully responsible for the organisation of rugby related matters in its territory Politicians should stay out unless they can bring more funding www.carmarthenshirenewsonline.com/llanelli/ms-...

MS Fears Devastating Blow to Llanelli if Scarlets Are Axed

Carmelo Colasanto MS, Member of the Senedd for Sir Gaerfyrddin, has told the Senedd that the Welsh Rugby Union's (WRU's) plan to cut professional rugby from fou

carmarthenshirenewsonline.com

Roscoe@saysroscoe.bsky.social · 3w ago

So the only tool the RBA can use is to up interest rates so the poor can't spend, go out, eat etc? Why aren't the billionaires hit in any way whatsoever? What about a tax on unjustified price increases? Share profits? Why only hit the poor?

Chris Cook@chriscook.news · 3w ago

A big new story from us: a big new leak means that we can put numbers on the scale of A7 -- the Kremlin's huge money-laundering machine. $6.9bn laundered through the international banking system via SWIFT, with $1.1bn sent to StanChart alone. www.ft.com/content/3848...

Kremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9bn through global banks

FT finds thousands of Russian payments handled by Standard Chartered, Citigroup and other international groups in vast leak from inside fintech A7

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Robert Saunders@robertsaunders.bsky.social · last mo.

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
gamera obscura october edition@ohrobin.bsky.social · last mo.

Non-voters are called apathetic, but they’re not. they’re politically homeless and feel abandoned by the existing order. Fascism mobilizes them and gives their anger and ignorance a scapegoat. Turns humiliation into hatred. Explanation is not exoneration, but that’s how it happens.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · last mo.

According to exit polling for the Saxony-Anhalt elections in Germany today, 2/3 of people who hadn't voted in the last election voted for the neo-fascist AfD. www.tagesschau.de/inland/landt...

Non-voters: 170,000 to AfD, 32,000 to CDU, 16,000 to SPD, 16,000 to Die Linke, 10,000 to BSW, 10,000 to the Greens, 2,000 to the FDP