George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/11/2024One of the forms of hybrid warfare Russia is developing to use in Western nations is cyber-attacks to disable sewerage systems, flooding the rivers with shit. How, in the UK, would we detect them? 1833814720
Ethernet card @ethernetcard.bsky.social · 20/11/2024simple fix: Smart/IoT/Digital techbro bullshit doesn't belong in sewage systems. You can have a perfectly serviceable sewage system without digital internet connected bullshit in it. 000
Julian Yaqub @clagsborough.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Another form is Weaponized Gene Therapy (WGT), in which the Ruskies release a manmade virus over Westminster that shrinks victims' amygdalae, thereby inducing psychopathy among MPs and the parliamentary press pack. Who would notice that? 100
David Knopfler @davidknopfler.bsky.social · 20/11/2024How indeed. Like self imposed sanctions - they can’t do to us what we insist on doing to ourselves. 041
Gaisfordsurf @gaisfordurf.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Hey George, this is already happening because of privatisation and all the company profits going to Dubai investors since yr 2000. Russia needs to find another target. 010
Blue Sky News Muse @blueskynewsmuse.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Considering that UK rivers are already inundated with it, I’d probably first realize a cyber-attack had disabled the sewers by noticing an improvement in water quality. 000
Marge Mordsith @marge-mordsith.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Maybe that's where its been tested? Or what gave him the idea 000
cheryldb.bsky.social @cheryldb.bsky.social · 20/11/2024So privatisation of our water is a clever defence strategy? That's OK then lol. 000
Malcolm Evison @sinnaluvva.bsky.social · 20/11/2024The privatised water services are already dumping shit in our rivers - would there be a difference? 020
John✊🏴 YES! @johnl67.bsky.social · 20/11/2024They could check Scotland water, we don't have shit in ours and the tap water is still drinkable. 081
Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024The Great Stink of 1858 lead to sweeping changes after sewage floating in the Thames forced parliament to close. Now the sh*t has actually gotten into parliament. 031
mebeardedwonder.bsky.social @mebeardedwonder.bsky.social · 20/11/2024If a country struggles with a bit of snow on its tracks or on schools, it's unlikely they would be able to detect cyber attacks. Having observed some government systems, one might conclude they are not fit for purpose. 000
thebushofgoats.bsky.social @thebushofgoats.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I look forward to hearing from a spokesperson from the water companies highlighting this is the real reason our rivers are full of shit, not their venality or profiteering after all... 000
AndyDenizen @andydenizen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Definitely under the radar... #EndSewagePollution #ProtectRivers #Chalkstreams 000
GdJRoundhay @roundhayg.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I feel a Tory revisionist excuse is now inevitable. 🤦♂️ Kuenssberg will be falling over herself to get Bozo slumped on her couch to burble "Turns out it was the Russians taking a dump in our rivers all along". 000
Tea With Soy @teawithsoy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Maybe they’ve already done it but our water companies are so rubbish we haven’t noticed 010
Homer Thompson @homerthompson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024The place already resembles India so much already. You'll never notice 000
Smart Growth UK @smartgrowthuk.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Because the Russians don't mess about when they attack rivers. 000
adjectivecat aka brad @adjectivecat.bsky.social · 20/11/2024i don't know about detection, but it could be prevented by keeping infrastructure offline 000
dastardlyrogue.bsky.social @dastardlyrogue.bsky.social · 20/11/2024The business I work for is currently developing a sensor for measuring the quantity of fecal matter in waterways, so with that probably. Still, it's ridiculous that such a thing should be necessary. 000
Drewie77 @drewie77.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Attacks on utility companies legacy SCADA systems is a real and active threat, and one that governments, utilities, and IT companies are working on. Under investment in Water goes beyond treatment, reservoirs, and pipes sadly😞 200
Leonardo @leonardousa.bsky.social · 20/11/2024If Russia disabled the sewage system in one of major US cities managed by progressives we wouldn't notice 000
Grahms & List ... Sometimes @laikax.bsky.social · 20/11/2024The Tories would float to the surface? 010
amplify2024.bsky.social @amplify2024.bsky.social · 20/11/2024And do you really think the new administration will keep us safe from Russia? 000
Paul @paul63b.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Get Fergie the Sharky on the case. He can detect shitty water up to 3 kilometres away. 010
James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Lol, I expect the FSB and the GRU investigated this possibility and classified it as 'already achieved'. 060
Juejuebeans 🦋 @juejuebeans.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Seems to me, looking around us.. Russia must have made a first strike! 😳 010
Tintenfische @tintenfische.bsky.social · 20/11/2024GCHQ monitors the traffic of the water companies as it dies with all critical infrastructure. 240
Still Positive...we can change @positivelycurious.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Maybe the UK water companies are already in bed with him 060
owenlaw76.bsky.social @owenlaw76.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I think they are already here. If they double down with wrecking the public transport system we ought to consider a place in cabinet for them. 080
lostfifer.bsky.social @lostfifer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I suspect you’re talking about the water companies in England 000
flyfella.bsky.social @flyfella.bsky.social · 20/11/2024There would be less shite in the rivers, no way are the Russians as good as UK Water coys at getting people to eat shit and pay for it….. 000
Extinction Distinction @thirdzenith.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Once they successfully hacked your parliament, there’s no need to hack anything else as those stooges will do Russia’s bidding from now on. 000
Mary Fitzsimons @fuckthis.bsky.social · 20/11/2024That's funny. Seems like Russia isn't the enema in this case. 000
Chris Wade-Evans @cwadeevans.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Don’t give Thames Water or any of the rest of them more ideas for excuses. 010
John @jonmalta99.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Sorry George but I think you meant England not the UK. In Scotland we don't have anywhere near the problems of the privatised water companies in England. 020
God-Emperor Tsunami 💙 #FBPE #BLM #GTTO @tsunami65.bsky.social · 20/11/2024You can bet that Ruzzia is also spreading lies about the farmer's inheritance tax, stirring up trouble on the domestic front. 051
Simon 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇨🇦 @snipes821.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Rampant Private Equity and it's stranglehold on our lives and infrastructure is far more damaging and nobody is noticing. 000
The elephant in the room @nellyphant.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Looking at the state of this countries infrastructure, I would suggest Russia has been active for some time, years in fact. 020
@fra9k7 @fra9k7.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Don't give the water companies ideas! They'll try blaming Russian cyber-ops. 000
David Thorne @davidthorne.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Yes and probably funded through the complex web of foreign ownership already in place and the massive dividends paid out in lieu of any proper management! www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comRevealed: more than 70% of English water industry is in foreign ownershipGuardian unpicks complex web of investment firms, wealth funds and tax haven-based businesses that own most of sector 010
Random Acts Of Dave @davehollis.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Enough sulking and complaining, it's time to transmute all this misery into groan-inducingly sardonic gallows humor like an adult. 000
haggisking.bsky.social @haggisking.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Maybe the Ruskies are to blame and not the fat cats. 000
Dr Andreas Sotiriou @hasyourregtried.bsky.social · 20/11/2024We wouldn’t know the difference tbh 0230
Mark K @mdkpro.uk · 20/11/2024We’re one step ahead of them, apparently… www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...standard.co.ukLondon housing developments flushing raw sewage directly into riversSeven housing developments in north and west London are found to be flushing sewage directly into rivers that flow into the Thames 010
secretboxx.bsky.social @secretboxx.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Oh I don’t know? Re Nationalise the water? Love from Scotland 000
Andrew Morgan @andrewmorgan666.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Don't give the water companies that idea. They would love that. 000
robscope.bsky.social @robscope.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I think the water companies are doing that without any help 000
Adrian Farrell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @adrianfarrellat.eurosky.social · 20/11/2024Given UK history of not even looking for Russian interface it's somewhat of a moot point. 010
Prince Andrew (Parody Of Course) @weblet.bsky.social · 20/11/2024In mainland Europe this would be a problem, detected & steps taken to prevent it. In the UK it'd go totally unnoticed as it would be regarded as the norm 130
jj4444.bsky.social @jj4444.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Maybe we've been under attack for a number of years!😉 Talk about playing the long game. 020
redjonnyred.bsky.social @redjonnyred.bsky.social · 20/11/2024You've just handed the water companies their next excuse to carry on as they are? 🤔 000
nailesh.bsky.social @nailesh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024all russia 🇷🇺 has to do is snow bomb great Britain 🇬🇧..about an inch if snow ❄️ will bring the country to a grinding halt 000
timjenkinson.bsky.social @timjenkinson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Most people in the UK would probably welcome a nuclear attack to end the misery his threats are useless. 000
Mark @markcbh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Am I being petty if I feel the answer should still involve getting Thérèse Coffey into a wetsuit and snorkel? 010
kernowsocialist.bsky.social @kernowsocialist.bsky.social · 20/11/2024We’ve done the job ourselves and paid rip off companies to do it! 010
ManleyAJManley @amandamanley.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Well, we’d notice our waterways were full of sh……….oh 😬😏 010
Mr Snodes @mrsnodes.bsky.social · 20/11/2024TBH it’ll be hushed up in the same way that cyber attacks have completely fucked TFL since August yet MSM seem complicit in “keeping it quiet” (And I’m reallynot a conspiracy donut.) 000
Arthur Seaton #FBPE #Wessex @southsaxon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024We’d probably notice a slight improvement . 010
razzamatazz72.bsky.social @razzamatazz72.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Maybe they've already done it and in our ignorance we are putting the blame on the water companies? *maybe* 2110
Penny Morgan @damepenelope.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Ah, now I understand. The reason the water companies have been filing our rivers with shit is to thwart the Russians. How clever is that? 🤣 000
barneym.bsky.social @barneym.bsky.social · 21/11/2024We'd have to rely on a press release from Moscow. 000
The Political Diva @thepoliticaldiva.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Are you aware of the cyber-attack they did on the HSE (Irish NHS equivalent) in 2021, George? Might be of interest. 000
pmcretired @patcaf1.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Maybe we could ask to be first. Might improve things. 020
CAFCA @caxskye.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Might actually improve matters - guess many of the systems are still struggling with Y2K. 000
Rippers @ripley123.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Many thanks to our patriotic water companies for making our sewage systems safe from sabotage, by preemptively sabotaging them. 010
WayneJ 🏴🇩🇪🇪🇺 @glandwrwj.bsky.social · 20/11/2024They don't need to do that of course in the UK as we're probably making a better job of it ourselves or? 000
Cartimandua @cattygran.bsky.social · 20/11/2024We wouldn’t, but thanks to frequent previous exposure to shit we’ll all be immune 010
Lefty LouLou aka San Portablo girl.🏴 @leftyloulou.bsky.social · 20/11/2024What water CEO would sell their souls for some extra rubles? 031
Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Yeah, they will have to think of a different plan for the UK. I wouldn't put it past those swines to intercept a transmission of The One Show and replace it with the Bolshoi Ballet 😱 120
coondogger1956.bsky.social @coondogger1956.bsky.social · 20/11/2024They will never tell you the truth. 000
pmh @philipmhoward.bsky.social · 20/11/2024No need for cyber attacks... Just promote private ownership of public infrastructure and let capitalist nature take its course. 010
Yarbles @jebemtidusu.bsky.social · 21/11/2024If you want to know what Russia intends tec.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/aleksan...tec.fsi.stanford.eduAleksandr Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics 000
Yarbles @jebemtidusu.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Well they flooded the house of commons with a considerable amount of excrescence as well, or was that the Israelis? So difficult to know who our politicians are bought and paid for these days! Certainly not the electorate 000
Gareth Faull @lotsofrobots.bsky.social · 20/11/2024So the Torys were playing the long game! Was it phase one of making the UK so shit nobody would care enough to become our enemy? Brilliant! 010
orginorg.bsky.social @orginorg.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I guess the recent sewage fountains in russia was the trial run? 000
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I guess the message is: give our self-proclaimed "patriotic" governments enough leeway, and they will do to our country exactly what our enemies would. 51269
Matt Pearson @mattpearson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024If they did further ruin the sewage system the UK government would make sure they could send the bill to the UK taxpayers. Remember we have to pay the polluter. 000
meditationxvii.bsky.social @meditationxvii.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Didn’t Israel try that first against Iran? What a crap (excuse the pun) world we live in. 000
Self-contained @self-contained.eurosky.social · 20/11/2024We never seem to hear of any planned/attempted cyber or psycho-social attacks by the western allies on Russia. Are we falling behind in this capability? Is the Kremlin not reporting or commenting on our attacks? Are we so successful the Russian authorities don't know? 000
Carole @crolla.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I doubt they’d bother with us. Can’t get much more shit in our rivers. 020
PhilipM @biblio-phil.bsky.social · 20/11/2024A dastardly plot that Professor Moriarty would be proud of. 000
Signal Noise Ratio 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond23.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I think you've just found a source of funds to take over and rescue Thames Water. 020
Duncan Poundcake @duncanpoundcake.bsky.social · 20/11/2024We've done that to our own water system and rivers already. We don't need the Russians to help with that. 000
unreliableubahn.bsky.social @unreliableubahn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024They'll be no shit left to process properly if they do. Crisis! 000
zeocrash @zeocrash.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I'm looking forward to water companies referring to sewage dumping as a "cyber security exercise" now. 010
hugha.bsky.social @hugha.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Depends if Russia thinks it will upset Thames waters Chinese owners or not. 000
Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Now I'm thinking the Water Bosses will claim allowing shit into rivers 24/7 is a national security move designed to sow confusion inside Russian digital warfare teams. 010
Martin Edwards 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳🌍 @martinedwards26.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Who knows, they might unintentionally make it better. 010
Old man yells at clouds @grovester.bsky.social · 20/11/2024They would probably hack the system, see how badly it’s run, and try to fix it out of professional pride 41528
Mark Maynard @marmk.bsky.social · 20/11/2024There is no chance that Russia could hack Thames water. Lotus Notes was decommissioned before any of the hackers were born, they wouldn't even know to look for it. That's the kind of forward thinking the Thames water shareholders have brought to the table... 261
Lorna MacGillivray @elemjay.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I think you mean England, George. With respect. 0101
Sandy @sablonneux-2024.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Looks like the water companies have already beaten them to the punch. 000
matterofactandy.bsky.social @matterofactandy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Their using kier starmer as a conduit with the amount of shit he talks 110
Birdie Carrington @bcarrington.bsky.social · 21/11/2024UK has masterfully if unwittingly created a decoy 😝 000
TheCloudchild @thecloudchild.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Perhaps they're behind it all...a wee brown envelope to Maigret back in the 80s and some agent farmers das boot... 000
AyeYerMammy aka Al CaPope @ayeyermammy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Seems like they've been active since Johnson had his "secret chat" 000
Jessian (aka Eoin) 🐼 🏴 🐶 @jessiankaanneo.bsky.social · 20/11/2024mmm maybe the rivers magically get cleaned up and become magically empowered. 000
Salvador @zakaliba.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Let's see if the lack of maintenance of public services is going to be attributed to the Russians. Why aren't the potholes in the roads bombings? 010
joodle123.bsky.social @joodle123.bsky.social · 20/11/2024They’re already full of shit. I can’t even swim in the sea where I live. 000
Los Paranoias @joey-pererez.bsky.social · 20/11/2024The people in the know detect them but the governments do nothing. 000
Andy King @2primates.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Not a great fan of the Kremlin, but it's hard to imagine how a Russian shit attack could be much worse than UK water companies' normal service levels. 000
Dr Susan B. @susan2024.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Is Thames Water a client of Russia? I have often wondered. 020
My life @77nonna.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Living next door to Putin is scary. We have problems with hybrid warfare daily. Putin has help from his allies, the Chinese. Chinese ships let anchors being dragged on the bottom of the Baltic so they ruin our communication cables. 2312
Fdemonkkkrats @fdemonkkkrats.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Resident and thief quid pro creepy sleepy child molester jim crow Joe sold Ukraine to Russia for election rigging 2020 100
Fdemonkkkrats @fdemonkkkrats.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Ready to make America great again get these racist baby killing baby eating baby transitioning baby molesting baby trafficking natzi demonkkkrat socialist dictators out of office once and for all no voter id means we can overwhelm the blue states with red ballots Vance Trump 2028 Vance Trump 2032 010
Si Parallel Universe MDANT ☘️🎬🎶🎨🎭⚽️ @siparalleluniverse.bsky.social · 20/11/2024The rivers in the UK would look cleaner 😉 000
barclaybassplayer.bsky.social @barclaybassplayer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024In all probability we wouldn’t notice any difference! 010
lostinpompeii.bsky.social @lostinpompeii.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Flooding the rivers with shit has already been activated. 000
Petra Sweden 🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴🇨🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰 @crson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024We wouldn't as the Tories already flooded the rivers with sht. 000
Patricia 🦀🐅 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇦🏴 @crabbytiger.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Sound like a practice we've already started! 000
Doctor Of Music @doctorofmusic.bsky.social · 20/11/2024We're ahead of the game there and no mistake. 000
Dave Bowen @eatmorechillies.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Our world-leading privatised water companies are far better at flooding our rivers with shit than any Russian hackers. And that’s something we should all be proud of. 010
Pam 🌱🐈⬛🦇🐰 @pammo.bsky.social · 20/11/2024How do we know we’re not already his testing laboratory? 060
mayscot.bsky.social @mayscot.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Think Scotland would have to communicate with rUK. If we suddenly spot serious pollution (which is not normal) we'd let you know. 000
Maciej Zefir Starzycki @zefir-mj12.bsky.social · 20/11/2024So it seems that instead of shirking their duties, private water companies were indeed steeling you against hybrid attacks. 010
