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Annibyniaeth i Gymru. Made from parts of foreign origin. Humans should have rights, software and corporations should not. Opposed to mediocrity. In favour of Collective Bargaining. Anonymous for personal safety. Don’t like typos? Pay me to write.
A reminder when someone has a serious case of Dunning Kruger, correcting their obvious cluelessness is “abuse” which is why when faced with being told they are wrong the response will be to block, remove, and then try play the victim like this.
Skinner: Am I Out of Touch?
Alt: Skinner: Am I Out of Touch?
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Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 8h agoSince people are still relentlessly abusing me over this, here’s why the so-called “boots theory” doesn’t make any sense. First, what is it? Some people have suggested I haven’t done the background reading, but it’s not a deep idea. It’s from a passage that’s four sentences long.
🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇
We’re supporting a legal challenge against the code of practice | Good Law Project
The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back
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I'd say Badenoch has lost the plot but I've never seen any indication she had plot to lose
If you learn your history, you learn how weird politics can be. The excellent Draper on the subject of Rupert Murdoch. youtube.com/shorts/bkNsk...
Murdoch v the Fascists
YouTube video by J. Draper
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If you don’t know the history of Bonehill-Paine, do check him out. It’s quite remarkable.
Here's a piece from me about the decision against Sex Matters on Friday, and its wider implications 👇
Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · yesterdayAnti-trans activists lost twice in one day, after the High Court rejected a challenge to police guidance. @jessothomson.co.uk argues that the ruling raises important questions for trans human rights: https://goodlaw.social/0kp3
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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This is all horrific stuff, and I invite you to go back to 2018/19 and reread her columns, newspaper interviews and podcast appearances talking about it, and then decide who it sounds like it was, that had been doing all this.
Big Oil is desperate to escape accountability for deceiving the public about the dangers of fossil fuels. But Boulder told the justices last week that ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy “have come to the wrong forum at the wrong time with the wrong arguments.”
Boulder urges SCOTUS to reject Big Oil’s ‘impatient,’ ‘failed,’ and ‘speculative’ arguments to stop climate deception case | Center for Climate Integrity
ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy “have come to the wrong forum at the wrong time with the wrong arguments,” Boulder told the justices, who will consider the case this fall.
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Reform MP Robert Jenrick: “Rod Liddle said the unsayable truth years before anyone else would come close.” Rod Liddle on child abuse images: “We should not be in the business of putting people in prison for simply looking at things."
The California Democratic Party has officially endorsed a one-time, 5% wealth tax on billionaires that will be on the ballot this November. They're right to support it — and Gavin Newsom is wrong to oppose it. Here's why.
Why I Support The California Billionaire Tax
Billionaires are crying foul about California's proposed wealth tax.Don't fall for their fearmongering.A one-time, 5% ta
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‘Nobody cares’: the Turkish farmers bearing the burden of UK’s plastic waste problem
‘Nobody cares’: the Turkish farmers bearing the burden of UK’s plastic waste problem
Britain exported 139,000 tonnes of rubbish to Turkey last year, leaving smallholders and poor districts of Adana to cope with the debris, microplastics and toxic smoke
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Knowing the names of the officers engaged in violence and egregious use of force is a key part of HRDAG’s larger efforts to support accountability hrdag.org/2026/07/05/n...
Naming Police Officers Who Kill in California
New Functionality in the Police Records Access Project Highlights the Names of Individual Police Officers Oakland resident Erik Salgado was 23 years old when he was stopped by the California Highway…
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BREAKING: Apple are back alongside ourselves and Liberty - in challenging the UK government's regime of secret TCNs. www.ft.com/content/2cc9...
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Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?
“While BP banks another round of enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price through sky-high energy bills and a climate crisis accelerating rapidly out of control with increasingly severe heatwaves, wildfires and droughts.” - Rosie Downes, FoE. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices soaring
Energy company’s $5.73bn quarterly profits come after Shell posted second highest quarterly earnings on record
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There’s a particular (and thankfully small) section of the Scottish Indy movement who are particularly patronising and dismissive of Welsh independence causes. Parity on devolution for example. Far too many of them popped into my timeline recently.
Immigrant Explains Difficulty Assimilating To Culture That Constantly Reboots Film Franchises
A reminder of Rod Liddle wanting to murder people for having fun. spectator.com/article/and-...
And now let’s bomb Glastonbury
A small yield nuclear weapon, such as the American W89, dropped on Glastonbury in late June would immediately remove from our country almost everybody who is hugely annoying. You would see a marked re...
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What about catharsis? Liddle was provably racist, misogynistic, virulently transphobic, and a deliberate spreader of misinformation. The man actively sort to do harm, people are understandably glad he’s no longer able.
Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d agoSad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.
At least the scumbag didn’t live long enough to fully enjoy his pension.
These are the European routes where taking the train is faster than flying between popular destinations, including Brussels to Paris and Madrid to Seville.
Trains over planes? The European routes where rail is faster than air
These are the European routes where taking the train is faster than flying between popular destinations, including Brussels to Paris and Madrid to Seville.
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Good riddance to disgusting rubbish.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d agoSunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle dies aged 66
This is a great story. I expect there's a lot of this going on, around the world. It reads almost as the tech version of an Onion headline, doesn't it? Exactly what @doctorow.pluralistic.net means when he rants about "process knowledge" walking out the door.
Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered
The first job was lucrative and went well, but a pension was preferable to rolling projects
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"[Byline] revealed that Cottrell entered corporate finance under a false Swiss identity, hired by the same City network that produced Reform UK’s own treasurer, Mehrtash A’zami. "Byline Times has since confirmed that this identity was stolen from a real person – Cottrell’s old school friend."
Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell's Accountant Co-Invested With Russia-Linked Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
The accountancy firm that administers George Cottrell’s Montenegro company, has invested in a property development with the alleged ringleader of the country’s largest money laundering cartel
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