Mark DB

@markdb.bsky.social

Hello! History, model making, arty things, a little bit of politics and random nonsense...

NEW Is Palantir in your pension? Investigation reveals UK organisations – including some of Britain’s biggest retirement providers – had investments in Silicon Valley’s controversial technology company of more than £5bn at the end of 2025 @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and Ian Tucker report 1/🧵

Graphic including picture of Peter Thiel and Keir Starmer with Palantir CEO Alex Karp and the Nerve logo, with values of shareholdings in Palantir held by major UK institutions at the end of 2025, including Legal and General (£1.9bn), Barclays (£1.6bn), Marshall Wace (£303.3m) and Aviva (£255.5m)

Dark money isn’t just a party political problem Main voice in this is ‘a forum for concerned members’ - actually Restore Trust is a Tufton street operation that refuses to declare its funders Incredible how much of our politics has been warped like this www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Has the National Trust’s green gamble paid off?

The plan was to reduce the charity’s carbon footprint while generating a new stream of income, but investments in renewables have slumped, accounts show

thetimes.com

🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists

Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.

democracyforsale.substack.com

64,260 killed in Gaza, that's 3% of the pop 59% being women, children and people over 65 60% of buildings in Gaza destroyed That's 151,265 structures 57% of agricultural land has been damaged or destroyed 67% of water and sanitation infrastructure destroyed 92.9% of school buildings

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It's the HappyToast ridiculous last minute Christmas giveaway! I'm shoving a load of Christmas themed prints of various sizes in some envelopes tomorrow morning. If you want a chance of receiving some, just Like, Repost and Follow (UK only because Brexit soz)

HappyToast Christmas prints