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David Knopfler

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Singer songwriter and founder member of Dire Straits.

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Yes β€” but baby steps might get the job done

01.01.2026 19:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So they are going to investigate foreign interference but are excluding the most important evidence - a central smoking gun - the referendum

16.12.2025 15:43 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Must have been something I said about the founding chair of GB News

12.12.2025 11:49 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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11.12.2025 01:07 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Institutional MAGA Racism The far-right β€œGreat Replacement Theory” is a racist and xenophobic conspiracy theory that falsely asserts white populations in Western nations are being deliberately and systematically replaced by no...

open.substack.com/pub/davidkno...

08.12.2025 09:41 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wtf

26.11.2025 01:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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22.11.2025 18:56 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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11.11.2025 11:31 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Grok was so conflicted trying to defend the new biased database that it pretended to amend 10,000 of the worst entries including uncritical praise for Hitler β€” but then when audited by Claude and ChatGPT admitted it had merely pretended to amend them to pacify me and went into β€œBad Dobby” mode

31.10.2025 09:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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23.10.2025 08:18 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The lone and level sands…

23.10.2025 07:22 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A sea anemone has a reach of up to one centimetre an hour - which is considerably more than Elon Musk’s X grants to me if I post on X … just pointless

22.10.2025 09:44 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Let me correct this

08.10.2025 23:40 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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08.10.2025 23:23 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is the way to stand up to these bullies! Respect ✊

09.06.2025 14:47 πŸ‘ 38538 πŸ” 10658 πŸ’¬ 1234 πŸ“Œ 1045

Bending over syndrome - alive and well. It’s so disheartening

06.04.2025 10:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Behind a paywall making him an agent for their revenue collection.

06.04.2025 10:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

9,342 - that’s how many times you could wrap dollar bills round the world to match how much money Donald Trump cost shareholders and their associated pension plans with his tariffs announcement.

04.04.2025 04:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

9,342 - that’s how many times you could wrap dollar bills round the world to match how much money Donald Trump cost shareholders and their associated pension plans with his tariffs announcement.

04.04.2025 04:21 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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02.04.2025 17:20 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Introducing #InstaFacism The new axis of edgelord strongmen & how to WhatsApp a Russian spy

Another must read from the ever excellent Carole Cadwalladr

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

31.03.2025 12:10 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sale of X and professional conflicts Elon Musk’s β€œsale” of X (formally Twitter and his own company) to xAI (also his company) in conjunction with his oversight role at the US Securities and Exchange Commission ( with his DOGE apparatchik...

open.substack.com/pub/davidkno...

29.03.2025 07:02 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Feels a bit like that doesn’t it? Too many mission critical defence contracts and a generous Trump donor - and there goes democracy - wave bye-bye kids

27.03.2025 10:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In unrelated news…

25.03.2025 09:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If a company with say 140K employees and some powerful links to defence contracts faced a 30% stock drop, what tools might the Fed theoretically use to stabilize it?

25.03.2025 09:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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open.substack.com/pub/davidkno...

22.03.2025 22:09 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Who stands to gain from crippling the UK? Was a bad actor responsible for the substation fire that has closed Heathrow - and probably for days? Where are the triple redundancies for an event like this? BIG lessons will need to be learned!

21.03.2025 08:16 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Good to see I wasn’t the only one to see the ducking stool principle being applied

20.03.2025 14:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Political Sadism and Defying the Power of Cruelty | Common Dreams It’s easy to be an asshole, especially under duress, while compassion takes practice and intention. If we recognize our own capacity to be cruel, we can opt to counter it or at least refuse to nourish...

Political Sadism and Defying the Power of Cruelty www.commondreams.org/opinion/defy...

17.03.2025 10:44 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Magical arrangement - said to have been Frank Sinatra but as producer he employed Nelson Riddle. Whenever I hear the wonderful tracks using strings that Bones Howe produced for Tom Waits I’m reminded of Riddle

16.03.2025 23:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0