Nick
@nicko66.bsky.social
Welsh person. Design and brand. Sometimes politics. Violin.
This is an absolutely fantastic video / marketing stunt. I just hope it is (mostly) real and they didn't use too much TV magic in the production. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ide...
Everything AI Does When You Ask It to Start a Lemonade Stand
YouTube video by Genspark AI
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Excellent news
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 4d agoSome of London's most attractive spaces are blue. Over the next decade, we'll restore habitats, tackle pollution and revive waterways across the capital. Here are the 10 locations being revitalised ⬇️ www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
NEW: Who funds Nigel Farage? And why has it taken till now for any journalistic scrutiny? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social who has tracked him for a decade exposes how the UK press & regulators looked the other way 🧵👇
In January, I stopped using X as a communication channel because the platform facilitated the creation of illegal and deeply harmful images by its AI tool, Grok. I am renewing my call for all governmental and parliamentary communications to stop using X. The platform continues to facilitate
No, European heatwaves are not CAUSED by a fall in air pollution. The word CAUSED is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting here! Let's look at what the study being 'reported' on was actually researching and what it found🤓 1/22 🧵
Big news in the Washington Post. Scotland's top rate of tax lost £30bn in revenue. An impressive feat when all of Scottish tax comes to about £20bn.
This stopped me in my tracks. Asylum saves lives.
Matt Ortega@mattortega.com · last wk.Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
«Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets»
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
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"The arts should be treated like eating your five a day... fundamental to children's wellbeing." We've tracked the decline in arts GCSEs and A-levels for years. The problems take root in primary school. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lack of access to arts in West Midlands affecting young people - report
A report claims an "arts entitlement gap" is getting worse and fewer teenagers study the arts.
bbc.co.uk
We need the arts to be: 🌱 Available from childhood 🔓 Accessible to all 🗺️ Thriving everywhere
As a bit of retail policy, talking about buses is fine. Think that there's been a significant overcorrection in not talking enough about trains, though, or the real reason why bus services got worse over the course of the 20th century (the car).
Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · 2w agoBuses are also more local transport. Place based policy is back. There used to be a think tank that wouldn’t shut up about buses.
Little known to many, on the 10th June, the government released the interim report on ADHD and neurodiversity services in the UK. It came out to very little fanfare. Why? Because it doesn't match the government & the press narrative on "an epidemic of neurodiversity diagnoses".
This is kind of an incredible website: Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.
Worse on Purpose
The brands you trusted quietly gutted quality to protect margins. Investigative essays on corporate enshittification. Free newsletter.
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His mother, María Arthuer, crossed the Sahara Desert barefoot in 1994. She climbed over Melilla’s border fence penniless and pregnant with Iñaki. Today, her son is a world champion. #respect
Luis Endera@luisendera.bsky.social · 2w agoSu madre, María Arthuer, cruzó el desierto del Sahara a pie y descalza en 1994. Saltó la valla de Melilla embarazada de Iñaki y sin recursos. Hoy su hijo, es campeón del mundo. #respect
Just one para from @jdportes.bsky.social brilliant (and beautifully written) @theguardian.com piece on Burnham and the economy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I am not sure that we appreciate how much hostility there is from the far right to the learning and speaking of languages. 1/2 www.thetimes.com/article/9a33...
Language centre closes after ‘far-right intimidation’
The director of the Language Hub in Glasgow claimed the premises were no longer safe for staff after a ‘surveillance’ campaign by anti-migration activists
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Along with being one of the greatest racers of all time, Italian cycling champion Gino Bartali carried forged exit visas hidden in his handlebars and seat to Jews in hiding during WWII, & ultimately helped save an estimated 800 Jews from the Nazis. Happy #BicycleBirthday, Gino! July 18 (1914-2000)
Why is Kemi Badenoch never asked about the hefty funding the Conservative party has taken from the oil industry and its lobby groups whenever she talks about her decision to scrap her commitment to Net Zero?
Best analysis I have read: www.theguardian.com/football/202...
The bigger picture: Tuchel gets blame for England exit but this is not only about him | Barney Ronay
The German will be pilloried for his semi-final decisions but that is to ignore the fact that English football culture is not set up to win major tournaments
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Boy he must have really been hoping no one would look at the documents he talked about tonight because they underscore what I've been saying for 6 years, which is that the Trump-Ukraine Scandal was infinitely worse than people thought from the facts revealed during Impeachment #1
this comic is from 2014 and is one of the most singularly vindicated comics. even if it was already correct then it is even more correct now
Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2
A reminder that this is the guy we're all now supposed to be listening to on the subject of the safety of MPs
After Zia Yusuf accuses critics of endangering Reform politicians with violent language, he is read a list of quotes where he called Reform's opponents "lunatics who deserve extinction", "sick arsonists" and "traitors" who will face a "reckoning". He says these are in "a totally different category"
A very good article. Most people probably don’t know that this was the very same police force which issued false accounts of the events at Orgreave five years before, and whose officers perjured themselves to secure the conviction of innocent pickets. The case collapsed when the lies were revealed.
Liam Thorp@liamthorp.bsky.social · 3w agoI’m a little bit lost for words when trying to sum up the spirit and fortitude of the Hillsborough families But after the privilege of watching them make history again today - I’ve tried to sum it all up here…
The way this whole story is playing out is deeply concerning And impossible to ignore that this time last week Farage, and Reform’s, funding was the only story in town Now Reform and its leader is playing the tune everyone else is dancing to www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Farage refused taxpayer-funded security because it was ‘inadequate’
Reform UK decided to continue providing its own protection for Nigel Farage, rather than ‘gamble with his life’, a spokesperson said
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