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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 20h

I guess folks with a common enemy can form a strong alliance. Never thought I’d find myself agreeing with MTG yet here we are.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There’s a whole raft of questions weighing heavily on the definition of “successfully interfered with”. Did they rig ballots or counts - unlikely. Did they swamp social media with bot accounts targeting impressionable personas to influence them to vote or not vote in a particular way- highly likely

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As a vocal critic myself (on social media), that’s me screwed then. Guess I don’t have quite the same impact as an MP but seriously scary that they are monitoring their critics. BIG BROTHER the reality.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wait. Which country is he talking about?

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I see what it can do for good every single day - and it can be spectacularly good. That’s why I know that it will do for bad actors will be VERY bad. Your argument is if it can’t do good stuff very well then logically it can’t do bad stuff very well either so what are we worried about.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Arguably, the model does possess intent - it’s programmed not to say “I don’t know” or “Statisically, this is improbable but it is possibly correct”

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A more realistic one would be “lying”. It is deliberately misleading because, particularly in LLM models, it is programmed to do so rather than to say, “I honestly don’t know” or “there’s an x% probability this is is incorrect”

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

AI is very good for good actors. It’s going to be very beneficial to bad actors and it is not anywhere close to being under control. If it were a 3yo toddler it would be spending a lot of time on the naughty step!!

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And people rarely challenge AI findings or AI actions - it’s like teaching a toddler they say, it needs to learn boundaries. Yeah, well toddlers push the boundaries but they don’t have the future of humanity as a potential consequence of its parents not enforcing those boundaries adequately.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A doctor operating in that condition gets suspended - a machine “oh it’s AI and it will hallucinate”. No, it’s not - it’s programmed to give you an answer based on probability. When it gives you that answer it doesn’t give you the probability score yet too often it’s below 1% - basically it’s lying

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Couldn’t agree more on the theft of language. My own personal pet hate is “hallucination” for when AI makes stuff up. Hallucinating is what happens when one or more of your 5 senses is not functioning 100% and you see things that aren’t there, aren’t real, are made up. Ai doesn’t have any senses!

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Was almost incredulous that the Tories are pinning their hopes for electoral success on the very policies that nearly wiped them out in 2024

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Swiftly coming to the conclusion that the SoS for Northern Ireland whom I respect greatly as an upholder of parliamentary proprietary is unfit to hold the office he currently holds. RTÉ News: Standoff continues in Portadown amid appeals for calm www.rte.ie/news/2026/09...

rte.ie

Standoff continues in Portadown amid appeals for calm

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s totally practicable. Introduce subscriptions. Prove ID to high standards. No ads and no malign algorithms. That AND make the platforms accountable for their content. Do the latter, the rest would probably have follow as a means of enforcement by the platform anyway.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just ban all online advertising on Meta, Google, X and TikTok platforms in the uk. It would be amazing how many societal problems would fade away. Ads need views and clicks, views and clicks drive revenue, need for revenue drives extreme polarised content because it generates more views and clicks.

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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s... Fuck 'em. Tell them they'll be shut down in the UK unless they fully comply. Then hit them harder with more and more stringent conditions if they want to operate here. They'll comply for sure - the financial damage to them of not doing so will be far worse.

theguardian.com

Meta launches legal challenge against UK media regulator over Online Safety Act

Action against Ofcom comes as social media companies are being accused of using courts to slow down implementation

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.

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Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think this is the pivotal campaigning issue for progressive parties, even the Tories, to latch onto. Not just Farage but anyone in Reform. Everything about them is doom and gloom, what they don’t like and absolutely zero vision about what a Great Britain looks like.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The American press corp should just walk out lock stock and barrel and totally refuse to report on Trump at all. Not a word, not even why they’re walking away. Just silence on Trump. He’s a narcissist - being ignored will wound him far deeper than any words

bbc.co.uk

Trump says he is banning CNN, Politico and MS NOW from White House

The US president has had a tense and fiery relationship with the US media throughout his political career.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thx for sharing these personal insights. Did you report the RefUK supporting official to his employer?

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The local authority rep (a plump red faced man in his late 50s) started a speech (in from of my newly arrived refugee) that she was welcome but these young men of fighting age arriving on boats were not. (Getting even redder in the face). He elaborated more on the theme of taking jobs etc.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The two crypto donations to Reform are, I submit, noise to generate a backlash with out any intention of being paid (or at least to remain paid). The govt was very clear on 25th March 2026 that any laws on funding would be backdated to this date so the donors and Reform both know full well this…

hansard.parliament.uk

Foreign Financial Influence and Interference: UK Polit - Hansard - UK Parliament

Hansard record of the item : 'Foreign Financial Influence and Interference: UK Politics' on Wednesday 25 March 2026.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m fully expecting the residents, now citizens, of Piddington to demand access to the free market within the UK, be a signatory to its customs union so as to avoid punitive tarrifs and allow freedom of movement across the Common Work Area . Oh and higher taxes to pay for bought in public services.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sam Altman is Kaa in the AI jungle

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yeah but you aren’t delivering are you? You just put the whole sector into chaos/inertia by pausing the reorganisation that we were all gearing up for.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’d say the usual suspects - the Mail, Express, CeeGeebies - all give out the impression pensioners shouldn’t pay tax. Emphasis on *impression*.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Which is far more of a societal problem worth addressing than arguing about whether those who do get a reasonable pension should/should not pay income tax.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Also remember the vast majority (not all) of pensioners on the old state pension have nice index linked final salary pension income on top of their state pension and are already paying income tax.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

5/ WHY do we keep falling for it? It is getting more and more evident that marketing is the root cause of so many of the things that are wrong in the world. All about money. Money matters, people don’t. The wake up and dawn of realisation will come - one day. Batten down the hatches when it does.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

4/ It plays well with Reform’s base. It gets support from some eejot journalists/presenters who repeat the “unfair, it’s not British” mantra being pushed by Reform. Its marketing. It’s in the same vein as Sydney Sweeney’s ads designed for maximum noise, maximum brand awareness…

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

3/ So, Reform know the rules will be changed and know they will be retrospectively applied. Ergo the “donations” are designed to create maximum noise against the “biased, unfair establishment”. The same old “they’re all out to get me” narrative we hear time and time again from Farage.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

2/ … is the case. The day Phillip Rycroft published his report the govt announced that it accepted recommendation 1 and that this would be capped at £100,000 for overseas donors effective that day.

gov.uk

The Rycroft Review: Report of the independent review into countering foreign financial influence and interference in UK politics

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

hansard.parliament.uk

Foreign Financial Influence and Interference: UK Polit - Hansard - UK Parliament

Hansard record of the item : 'Foreign Financial Influence and Interference: UK Politics' on Wednesday 25 March 2026.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Reform, should they ever win a GE, will populate the HoC with racist, divisive morons with abut 6 GCSEs between them. I’ll wager none of them would be ministers of any description and that a handful apart, they will all come through the Lords with newly created peerages. Going price for a peerage?

theguardian.com

Christopher Harborne matches £36m Reform donation of Ben Delo

Party leader, Nigel Farage, says he is humbled by the contributions from cryptocurrency billionaires

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

On Irish unification I find myself agreeing with Trump - for the first time ever - BUT saying this out loud, in Ireland, when you’re POTUS? Not a great move. Will Burnham react?

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Farage - man of the people. The billionaire people. The crypto people. The “I pay little or no tax” people. The “I don’t care about the people” people. Reform given £72m by two donors in record-breaking haul news.sky.com/share/13584780

news.sky.com

Reform given £72m by two crypto billionaires in record-breaking haul

The donations come amid a criminal investigation into allegations Reform UK breached rules on political donations.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Better late than never - but obvs better still if there was no suspicion of criminal activity by one of the main political parties in our country (one could argue Reform was set up as a limited company so as to make a profit for its shareholder then again not many companies break the law)

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Jeez! Just when you think we might have reached rock bottom the tech bros plumb new depths. The question now is how far down can they drag us before we offer adequate resistance?

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Inclined to agree whilst hoping he is - but then I’d hoped Starmer would have been too 🤷‍♂️

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I do know the answer is housing density - planners insist on maximising beds per square metre on any site. It’s just annoying I can buy a 4 bed detached house for £450k around here but a 4 bed modernised detached bungalow to the same standard is nearer £600k

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Why are there so few new build bungalows? The fact is the scarcity pushes the price up of those that exist and means you typically pay about 30-50% more for the same square footage of property. It discriminates against older and disabled people who want single story living but also want a garden

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Are there any politicians, let alone world leaders, who even come close to these numbers? Carney isn’t populist but he does have a unifying enemy of his state - and he is no pushover in that battle.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

At last Ofcom taking some action against GB News. Whether it will be adequate/effective remains to be seen.

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you don’t subscribe to The Nerve - you really should. Whilst you’re registering have a good read of this thread from Carole. It’s about legal action a certain Chakrit Sakunkrit is taking against Führerage’s former no2

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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Well I never thought I’d see a Reform councillor defect to Labour but hey, what do I know? Local Labour peeps are saying it could be the first of many!! His ward in Skem is prime Reform country. Run down old “new town”, low employment - lots of flags.

lancs.live

Reform UK councillor for Lancashire defects to Labour Party in historic first

Councillor Nigel Swales has moved to the Labour Party from Reform UK - the first in the country to do so

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