Sylvaine Tuncer
@sylvainet.bsky.social
Social scientist, anti-fascist, raver, runner, in London. Electronic music and all things culture lover.
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
EXCLUSIVE: We have obtained accounts from Circulo Independente LDA, a Portuguese company established by Adam Geary to run Stephen Lennon’s political operation. Was the company established overseas to avoid British company rules and, ultimately, Corporation Tax? hopenothate.org.uk/tommy-robins...
Tommy Robinson’s Algarve Empire: Exposing his shadowy Portuguese companies – HOPE not hate
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Summer of terrifying drought and wildfire, bus drivers sweltering in shocking temperatures, everyone losing sleep unable to get cool at night and *this* is the policy they come up with? Just makes things worse and does nothing to address inequality or enable people to walk, cycle or catch a bus. 🤷♀️
Liberal Democrats@libdems.org.uk · last wk.Petrol and diesel prices are higher than they've been for a long time and people need help now.
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Wide shot of the BRITISH MUSEUM. There are suggestions of fascism around the streets - tanks, barricades, an Orwellian 'Big Brother'-style poster on a wall. A voice of a TOUR GUIDE emanates from the museum:
TOUR GUIDE:
So the Tapestry tells acrucial chapter of our nation's history...
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[Cut to interior of museum. A long Bayeaux-style TAPESTRY is on display, and the Tour Guide is speaking to a tour group]
TOUR GUIDE [smiling]:
How modern fascist Britain was created.
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TOUR GUIDE:
The Tapestry begins here with the 2008 Crash, then austerity, then the AI Crash...
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TOUR GUIDE:
...and by the end of the room it's just full-on fash.
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CHILD IN TOUR GROUP [gesturing to the tapestry]:
What's this middle bit?
TOUR GUIDE:
This is the 2026 Battle of Legitimate Concerns
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TOUR GUIDE:
[show a reporter standing next to the Dover protests]
Here's the media saying the government have got to do something about the legitimate concerns...
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CHILD:
...About the failure of capitalism?
TOUR GUIDE:
No about brown people on boats
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CHILD:
[pointing at boats crossing the sea on the tapestry]
Are these boats the mega-dinghies?
TOUR GUIDE:
Not all of them
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[we see one of the boats is a giant yacht]
TOUR GUIDE:
That one's a superyacht,
carrying money from the American fascists to the British ones.
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TOUR GUIDE:
You see really it's as much a story of convergence as it is of conflict.
[An alarm sounds in the museum]
DING DING DING DING
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TOUR GUIDE:
Ok, tour over everyone
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TOUR GUIDE:
It's time for the Two Minute Hate!
[They all leave the museum]
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That wouldn't happen to be tax paid on profits made, in no small part, from the delusions and often outright misery of thousands upon thousands of his fellow countrymen, would it?
UK’s top taxpayer says he would ‘not wish to be reborn’ in Britain
Betfred founder Fred Done threatens 500 shop closures over tax rises that have left him fearful for the UK’s prospects
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Five police forces who’ve been trying a Palantir surveillance tool are set to drop it: https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-five-police-forces-to-drop
Revealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance tool
Exclusive: Palantir's UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in a controversial data pilot.
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That’s a hard agree from me. I am genuinely astonished at the number of otherwise sensible commentators who still discuss his latest wild actions as if they’re within the parameters of the normal policy making process.
Joe Walsh@walshfreedom.bsky.social · last wk.
🔴 Something Tom Watson won't tell you: Five police forces in the East Midlands working with Palantir on a controversial surveillance programme are ending their involvement Exclusive by Democracy for Sale and Liberty Investigates. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-f...
Revealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance tool
Exclusive: Palantir's UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in a controversial data pilot.
democracyforsale.substack.com
Dear small businesses I'd much much much rather see your ugly Microsoft Paint Papyrus font 'graphic design is my passion' flyer than anything AI.
A new era for Byline Times goes to press! @peterjukes.bsky.social & I are proud to have worked on a print redesign with our new art director Sonny Dhamu. With your support, we continue to grow. This issue marks a story no one else can/will. Two Cambridge professors. Two very different narratives...
The UK government is making upwards of £4.9bn in profit from visa fees, citizenship fees & the immigration health surcharge. Meanwhile, people are getting into thousands of pounds of debt or going without food just to afford to these immigration fees. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
Government makes £5bn a year from immigration fees while applicants…
Home Office’s fees are up to 10 times the processing cost – and rising every year
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Ben Delo isn't just a "billionaire expat" with a soft spot for Farage. In 2022 he was found guilty of serious criminal charges in the United States. American prosecutors said he deliberately built a dodgy crypto platform designed to help people hide dirty money. He admitted as much in court.
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🔴 More than 80% of all the donations ever received by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK have come from just two cryptocurrency billionaires, new Democracy for Sale analysis reveals. “If that isn’t a massive corruption risk I don’t know what is.” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-8...
BREAKING: 80% of Reform’s funding comes from two crypto billionaires
“If that isn't a massive corruption risk I don't know what is.”
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A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w agoHarborne has given Reform £36 million to match Delo's £36 million. The Telegraph describes it as a "show of force" from Reform's donors. The two men's £72 million is greater than all of the spending by all political parties on the 2024 GE www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
omg. (it wasn't me) www.famouscampaigns.com/2026/09/meta...
Meta smart glasses mocked by fake notices on London Underground
London’s backlash against camera-equipped smart glasses has reached the Tube, with spoof stickers styled as official TfL safety notices appearing inside Underground carriages and warning wearers that ...
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These articles all seem to argue that “it’s going this way so we should accept it” Which ignores the fact that all of the things we value came from movements that forced concessions, from unions, to giving women the vote, and ending slavery We do not make society better by complying in advance
Russell Garner@rgarner.bsky.social · 3w agoWhat one has to remember, when reading an AI puff piece that has plausible-looking notes of caution in it, is that The Guardian is in partnership with OpenAI. I found myself looking for the "sponsored advertorial" badge that never came.
The Alternative for Deutschland is formally classified as ‘far right extremist organization’ by Germany’s domestic intelligence service So why is BBC news calling alternative AfD ‘hard right’?
“How does the book say to ask?” “May I please have some food.” “And, what did YOU say?” “I don’t remember.” “What did YOU say?” “Gimme food, bitch.” “See the difference?” “I guess.”
"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.
"Allegations that Cofnas was not qualified for his research role and would cause a “negative impact” by promoting racial pseudoscience were made to university leaders months before Arday died." Yet another missed opportunity to stop the spiral that killed Arday. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Ghent professors challenged expertise of Jason Arday’s plagiarism accuser
Allegations Nathan Cofnas was unqualified for Ghent role and would cause ‘negative impact’ made to senior leaders months ago
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US global power was built on alliances. Trump is burning them all and now he is running out of diplomatic (and ballistic) ammunition www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
With no friends left to burn, Trump is running out of diplomatic ammunition | Rafael Behr
Everyone can see that the Iran war has been a strategic disaster for the US, while a failing president pretends he is winning, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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"We still have to burn down a forest and scrape the entire sum of all human knowledge to re-create this milestone that happens in our living rooms over the course of a year."
Even Babies Are Still Way Better at Learning Than AI Models
Human babies are much faster and more efficient than large language models when it comes to learning language.
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