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Paul Evans

@pauledevans.bsky.social

I’m an indie comic creator from the UK. 🛒 Shop https://tinyurl.com/pauledevans ☕️ Tip https://ko-fi.com/pauledevans 🤲 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly 🤠 Creative director, designer ♻️ Green, left, liberal 🪿 Whimsy magnet 🦞 Chaotic good 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Cis he/him

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Marina Purkiss@marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 14h ago

This is pure extraction of wealth from one group of people to another We urgently need: Windfall tax on oil giants Windfall tax on banks Both are creaming money off us during a cost of living crisis Even Thatcher had the balls to tax the banks Will you @andyburnham?

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Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6h ago

Zack Polanski, "If we decarbonise by 2050, that would cost less than a single (fossil-fuel) energy shock" "We've now had two energy shocks in just a few years" "We cannot keep waiting, we cannot keep hoping for magic technologies - it already exists, what is lacking is the political will"

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2d ago

saying this not as a dig to Paul but as a general point, but it does worry me that we've ended up in a world where the two options are seemingly "leftist bubble" or "oh hey the nazis are here" - surely we should be able to have a politically heterogenous platform with tight rules on hate speech etc?

Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 2d ago

The new CEO of Bluesky wants to change Bluesky from being a leftist bubble. The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with being a leftist bubble: the idea that everything has to be all-encompassing and suitable for everyone is a trap. 🧵 1/4

Paul Evans@pauledevans.bsky.social · yesterday

"Bluesky is a political echo chamber,” no more so than a nice dinner party. What, you’d have me invite Heinriek Himmler and Idi Amin to me board game evenings for ideological balance?

Paul Evans@pauledevans.bsky.social · 2d ago

There's a lot of smack talked about the BBC on The Bluesky at the moment. They are far from perfect, and they are for sure guilty of platforming Farage in a way that's elevated him to the prominence he has today. But it's still an exponentially better establishment than most other UK news sources.

The Empty City@davidallengreen.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW How the BBC turned the litigation table on Trump The president now faces a dilemma about revealing his business records By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

And so in another splendid Order in this case, the court sided firmly with the BBC. Nothing in the litigation rules means that disclosure can be delayed. Trump’s lawyers wanted to hide behind an “expert report” at trial setting out the purported damage. But the court said the documents need to be produced now. Trump’s representatives even contended that producing the business records would be “overbroad” even though they are claiming an astronomical amount of damage to Trump’s commercial interests. Trump and his lawyers essentially wanted it both ways: to mount a wide-ranging damages claim but with the narrowest range of produced documents to support that claim. The court said no. As with many other things to do with Trump, this case smacks of bluster but little tactical (and still less strategic) thought. What seemed a powerful first move was not really thought through. Trump presumably assumed the BBC, like other entities he has brought suits against, would simply fold. But the BBC also said no.