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Academic in London. Anti-fascist, electronic music and raving and all things culture lover. Entirely personal views, laughs, and rants here.

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Rear view of a panda sitting next to a wall, with its head turned away, and a fluffy object in the foreground.

Rear view of a panda sitting next to a wall, with its head turned away, and a fluffy object in the foreground.

“Are you ready to apologize to your sister yet?”

13.03.2026 13:07 👍 375 🔁 79 💬 12 📌 2
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Campaigns & Communications Manager | Good Law Project Join the team

Want to fight against authoritarianism and the rise of the far-right? 💥

Join our team campaigns team ⬇️
https://goodlawproject.org/vacancy/campaigns-communications-manager-2/

12.03.2026 17:30 👍 70 🔁 39 💬 0 📌 0
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First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

12.03.2026 04:13 👍 4344 🔁 2005 💬 35 📌 114
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Who needs Churchill or a bloody beaver on a crisp £5 note?😤
I have been designing some alternatives which I think you’ll agree are infinitely more superior. 👍

12.03.2026 08:13 👍 1101 🔁 256 💬 132 📌 20

Excellent, as ever!

07.03.2026 17:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Iran Crisis: They Wanted Sovereignty. Just Not Like This If anyone has ruined the special relationship, it's not Starmer- it's Trump

No legal basis. No clear objective. No exit. And much of Britain’s political class spent the week calling Starmer a coward for noticing.

Latest substack from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

06.03.2026 18:52 👍 848 🔁 243 💬 44 📌 28

there are like 50 people in the country who want the UK to get involved in the Iran War, one of them is Kemi Badenoch, one of them is Nigel Farage, and the other 48 are newspaper columnists

06.03.2026 10:09 👍 1386 🔁 374 💬 25 📌 4
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Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

03.03.2026 19:20 👍 1442 🔁 510 💬 20 📌 15
A dog is squeezed in a corner between a washing machine and a cabinet, looking at a robotic vacuum cleaner in the center of the room.

A dog is squeezed in a corner between a washing machine and a cabinet, looking at a robotic vacuum cleaner in the center of the room.

it is best to find out early who can and cannot be counted upon when the robot uprising begins

04.03.2026 02:13 👍 564 🔁 115 💬 16 📌 10
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lol

04.03.2026 02:37 👍 632 🔁 232 💬 27 📌 21

Putin: 73 years old
Trump: 79 years old
Netanyahu: 76 years old
Narendra Modi: 75 years old
Xi Jinping: 72 years old
Khamenei: 86 years old

The planet is run by elderly narcissists who think the world can't go on without them and have started a world war to prove themselves right.

03.03.2026 09:39 👍 75 🔁 31 💬 6 📌 2

Prediction markets cannot be a vehicle for profiting off advance knowledge of military action.

We need answers, transparency, and oversight.

01.03.2026 04:55 👍 339 🔁 47 💬 5 📌 1

Reminder that Donald Trump Jr. sits on Polymarket's advisory board and his firm invested double-digit millions into the platform last year.

The DOJ and CFTC both had active investigations into Polymarket that were dropped after Trump took office.

01.03.2026 04:55 👍 492 🔁 163 💬 9 📌 4

When this person bought in, the market had this at a 17% probability. They turned roughly $87,000 into over half a million dollars overnight.

01.03.2026 04:55 👍 241 🔁 31 💬 2 📌 1
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It appears that a Polymarket account called "Magamyman" made $515,000 in a single day betting on last night's U.S. strike on Iran, with the first trade placed 71 minutes before the news broke publicly.

01.03.2026 04:55 👍 892 🔁 419 💬 55 📌 95
Single-panel cartoon by Tom Toro.
Two men sit in a book-lined study. The older one says:
"Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it."

Single-panel cartoon by Tom Toro. Two men sit in a book-lined study. The older one says: "Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it."

01.03.2026 18:12 👍 155 🔁 56 💬 1 📌 0
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😂

28.02.2026 10:40 👍 100 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 0
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The Enshittificator Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

Criminally funny, but also I'm crying inside

Norway comes for the #TechBros

www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree

vimeo.com/1168468796?f...

27.02.2026 13:52 👍 549 🔁 349 💬 15 📌 64
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Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.

OpenAI employees pushed for the company to inform Canadian police about a user they thought would engage in real-world violence months before the person did just that, killing eight people in a horrific attack in Tumbler Ridge.

The company only reached out to police after the shooting had occurred.

22.02.2026 02:18 👍 909 🔁 393 💬 6 📌 61
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Interesting to see this line confirming in passing Morgan’s responsibility for a horrendous and damaging immigration policy…

21.02.2026 14:00 👍 231 🔁 34 💬 4 📌 8

as an older person (+50) who’s never used ai, here are things i recommend about life:

- do DIY (the biggest is learn to cook but any other work you can do for yourself, learn it and do it)
- observe nature (all the animals around us have already figured life out)
- talk to people in real life

15.02.2026 22:11 👍 207 🔁 33 💬 7 📌 8
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The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

15.02.2026 14:47 👍 4190 🔁 1853 💬 129 📌 316

Raging at simplistic expectation that another wave of tech led disruptive capitalism will have any public benefit.

LTDA got to explain how drivers help disabled and older people get in/out of cars and they raised lost property too.

Has anyone contacted DDPOs like @inclusionlondon.bsky.social?

15.02.2026 11:12 👍 76 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 1
Wilfred Pickles, a Yorkshireman born in Halifax, was selected by the BBC as an announcer for its North Regional radio service; he went on to be an occasional newsreader on the BBC Home Service during World War II. He was the first newsreader to speak in a regional accent rather than Received Pronunciation, "a deliberate attempt to make it more difficult for Nazis to impersonate BBC broadcasters",[80] and caused some comment with his farewell catchphrase "... and to all in the North, good neet".

Wilfred Pickles, a Yorkshireman born in Halifax, was selected by the BBC as an announcer for its North Regional radio service; he went on to be an occasional newsreader on the BBC Home Service during World War II. He was the first newsreader to speak in a regional accent rather than Received Pronunciation, "a deliberate attempt to make it more difficult for Nazis to impersonate BBC broadcasters",[80] and caused some comment with his farewell catchphrase "... and to all in the North, good neet".

Love this - defeating nazis with the Yorkshire accent:

14.02.2026 20:37 👍 160 🔁 46 💬 4 📌 3
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What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

11.02.2026 22:03 👍 12080 🔁 4011 💬 78 📌 192

This man is completely unhinged.

14.02.2026 08:56 👍 1303 🔁 207 💬 169 📌 12
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‘Handmaid’s Tale future’: Reform’s Matt Goodwin sparks outcry with fertility comments Byelection candidate accused of indulging ‘alt right fantasy’ by suggesting women need ‘biological reality’ check

This says everything we need to know about Reform Uk's view on women.

Completely unacceptable.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/13/reform-matt-goodwin-fertility-comments-outcry-handmaids-tale

14.02.2026 09:09 👍 268 🔁 113 💬 27 📌 15
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European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women" The resolution, though nonbinding, is a significant shot at those who seek to erode transgender rights on the continent.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."

Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.

It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Our latest.

13.02.2026 17:17 👍 12026 🔁 4302 💬 85 📌 287
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Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway….

📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way

13.02.2026 12:59 👍 2047 🔁 660 💬 30 📌 35
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UK to ban political party donations from foreign-owned companies Government says new legislation will curb overseas interference in elections

UK to ban political party donations from foreign-owned companies

12.02.2026 14:21 👍 149 🔁 56 💬 13 📌 2