Palantir hoovering up European defence and NHS contracts whilst funnelling earnings back to the US to pay negligible corporate tax is a complete failure of digital sovereignty. European states must stop enriching tech firms that drain public coffers. Is it time to ban them? #FBPE
Palantir funnels earnings to US to avoid European taxes, report finds
A new study finds that Palantir, which boasts of high profit margins in the U.S., barely scrapes a margin in Europe, which helps slash its tax bill.
politico.eu
- We believe in second chances! - So you think refugees deserve a second chance at making a life? - Not like that - Young people who’ve made mistakes shouldn’t be punished? - Nope - Benefits to help people get back on their feet? - Ha! - So who do you believe in second chances for? - Nazis!
'So we've heard the concerns of the Jewish community about standing a convicted neo-Nazi anti-semite as a local candidate and decided to give him a national job instead...'
Apparently, Badenoch believes that everyone deserves another chance to make things Reich.
Giles Wilkes@gilesyb.bsky.social · 6h agoAmazing.
Fucking fuck's sake man what in God's name is the fucking matter with you? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Kemi Badenoch gives former neo-Nazi advisory role after he withdraws as Tory candidate
Joshua Bonehill-Paine says Conservative leader has asked him to work with party’s culture and integration commission
theguardian.com
But they seemed like such nice, patriotic, community-minded chaps. (Except the ones currently facing murder, child abuse & assault charges, obviously.)
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.
If this had been written as satire 10/15 years ago people would have thought it was too ludicrous. Humanity is speedrunning its own destruction.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h agoNASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on rockets crashing into the moon: "It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."
“I’m staying in the race because, thanks to President Trump paving the groundwork, sexual assault and violence against women is widely and openly accepted now, so there’s really no reason to drop out.”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayTAPPER: Hold on -- hold on, 'cause I'm not done with the list of women who have accused you of violence. Are all three of them lying? REP. MAX MILLER: Yes. And I'm not getting out of the race because in 2016, President Donald J Trump faced the most extreme allegations in the world ...
sometimes there is absolutely nothing more fun than understanding works of art through people's varied professional perspectives
Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · yesterdayYou can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.
The Telegraph are now searching Bluesky for things to be offended by while listing all the awful things one of their reporters did.
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 15h agoThey linked to me in that Telegraph article about Rod Liddle ffs. I didn't even warrant a name, just 'transgender activist'. At least they called me 'he'. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...
This is truly jaw dropping and I just keep thinking would this sort of candidate have been allowed to stand ten years ago - probably not - so what does that say about our politics?
I'd only notice because I'd stop getting annoyed every time it pops up when I'm trying to do something. Clippy was less annoying.
Clippy Microsoft Office Assistant
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Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterdayGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
Happy birthday to an actual President, Barack Obama. 💙
It’s disgusting for the Conservatives to ask Jewish groups to meet their ex-neo-Nazi candidate, presumably in the hope he will charm them and they’ll offer their blessing. They should not expect Jewish people to sanitise this appalling choice. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tories offer Jewish groups meeting with ex neo-Nazi activist candidate
Joshua Bonehill-Paine was jailed over neo-Nazi activism, but has been selected to stand in a new Somerset Council seat in 2027.
bbc.co.uk
gah, this is the bit I hate - I never use AI products and very much go out of my way to never interact with anything produced by AI (I'm not even on Linkedin!) so it will....make me worse at weeding it out of my life in the future? I just want to opt out! why can't I be allowed to opt out!
Will Davies@will-davies.bsky.social · 16h agoStunning opening sentence to this piece www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
A name so on the nose even Dickens would blush.
Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 16h agoIf you don’t know the history of Bonehill-Paine, do check him out. It’s quite remarkable.
We are in the third drought in five years. We have the National Trust and NFU - those radical types - sounding the alarm on unprecedented temperatures. But so little from any single figure in politics talking about the climate crisis.
Neo-nazi criminals welcome in the Tory Party but not people concerned about climate change or supportive of net zero (as per their last manifesto). Conservatism is dead in the UK.
Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16h agoMultiple convictions including assaulting a police officer and a three year prison sentence for racially aggravated harassment of an MP. And she's defending his appointment
This would be the front page of every paper and subject of every current affairs radio show if a left wing party had done it. As it stands I doubt we'll even see the gushing about Badenoch's political judgement slow down.
Patch Thompson@patchthompson.bsky.social · 16h agoBritish politics is deeply unwell
So Badenoch would recruit a neo-Nazi but *not* someone who didn’t want to leave the ECHR or someone who supported our NetZero commitments. Second chances for this guy but not Dominic Grieve. The Tory party is truly wretched. It’s screwed the country, betrayed its own and lost its tiny mind.
![Badenoch defends former neo-Nazi pick as council candidate
By Will Meakin-Durrant
Kemi Badenoch has said her party
"believes in second chances".
, after
the Conservatives selected a former neo-Nazi once jailed for harassing a Jewish former MP as a local election candidate.
Joshua Bonehill-Paine
posted on social media that he was "tremendously proud" that he has been chosen to stand for election to Somerset Coun-cil, in the Crewkerne South ward.
Bonehill-Paine (inset) was jailed in 2016 after he was convicted of racially aggravated harassment.
He wrote several blog posts about the former Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, Baroness Luciana Berger, labelling her "an evil money-grabber" with a "deep-rooted hatred of men".
He was previously jailed for producing an ad illustrated with a picture of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, which promised "an absolute gas" at a rally in Golders Green, north London.
Badenoch said: "I want to be very clear - and I think people can look at me and know that I'm not a person who would be recruiting neo-Nazis.
"Josh is someone who actually has been certified by the Home Office to train police officers on antisemitism and on countering extremism.
"Yes, he [has] previously convicted but he has shown contrition for his crimes, has been rehabilitated and is spending every day working to solve the very problem which he knew that he had caused previously.
"And the Conservative Party believes in second chances."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c4xtyto7nrklhfkroyrsce2w/bafkreicb7ehutwjwq4iundbhvecrngv57va75dd54vru2qurb7gq2ve3xa)
Abuser Max Miller using abuser Donald Trump to justify his own extreme abuse describes the state in affairs in the US. We will never recover as a nation.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayTAPPER: Hold on -- hold on, 'cause I'm not done with the list of women who have accused you of violence. Are all three of them lying? REP. MAX MILLER: Yes. And I'm not getting out of the race because in 2016, President Donald J Trump faced the most extreme allegations in the world ...
Holding placards is terrorism but this isn't?!
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.
The UK has existed as a state since 1801. The current borders of the UK have been in place since 1922. Do Reform UK politicians NOT know the basics of UK history?
It is appalling that low lifes like Lowe get any media attention other than contempt. That this racist bigot and his deplorable party get any votes at all is a stain on this country.
Nadine Batchelor-Hunt@nadinebh.bsky.social · yesterdayI just can’t believe we’re seeing this sort of stuff from a sitting MP Just want to say to British Somalis that you are loved and I’m so, sorry this is happening.
Why have something like the NHS when America can have tacky gold statues and be at war?!
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · yesterdayMacFarlane: We are near the new gold-plated statues the Trump administration unveiled near Memorial Circle, Memorial Bridge, and the Lincoln Memorial. It’s really, really gold.…
I think this confuses the private person, who can be mourned by friends, family and colleagues, and the public figure, whose legacy can be assessed based on his work. These are two different things and they have to coexist
Leo Enright@ollopa11.bsky.social · 2d agoI am saddened by the tone of commentary in this place about my former BBC colleague. The level of vitriol seems more suited to the other place. I worked with Rod at the Today programme. He took no prisoners, but he was witty and personally capable of genuine warmth. My sympathy to his family.
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Community: Abed Nadir's Thumbs Up
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Michael Warburton@michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2d agoThis Film often has the piss taken out of it for being a rather sedentary piece about 2 people just talking a lot — BUT — it has one of the most brilliantly prescient monologues in the history of Movies imho. MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (1981) Have a listen.
There was a lot of great World Cup posts on here, following the games and dissecting them. Have started to see more gardening stuff too.
Scoiattolo@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz · 2d agoGood lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.