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Andy_Larter @andy-larter.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

But what does it mean? They obviously haven't read Habermas or Minnie the Minx.

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Andy_Larter @andy-larter.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

OK. How do I remove Meta AI from WhatsApp? And anything else for that matter.

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Andy_Larter @andy-larter.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Is there anybody out there interested in mutual critique of work in progress? Regularly. Like once a fortnight or once a month. Or whenever. Quick but thoughtful turnaround. I’m thinking a thousand or two words a time. Contact me and discuss.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

On the 5th anniversary of Brexit, a throwback to David Frost in 2015, "It is in the UK's national interest to stay part of the EU, we benefit economically from it very much" "The EU Single Market adds uplift to GDP" "To somebody on an average salary that's about £1,500 a year"

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

BREAKING: In a new executive order sent out by the White House, Donald Trump has revoked the federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order, EO 11246, that was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 and has protected employees of businesses seeking federal contracts from discrimination ever since.

(b) The Federal contracting process shall be streamlined to enhance
speed and efficiency, reduce costs, and require Federal contractors and subcontractors to comply with our civil-rights laws. Accordingly:
(1) Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965 (Equal Employment Opportunity), is hereby revoked. For 90 days from the date of this order, Federal contractors may continue to comply with the regulatory scheme in effect on January 20, 2025.
(ii) The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs within the Department of Labor shall immediately cease:
(A) Promoting "diversity";
(B) Holding Federal contractors and subcontractors responsible for taking "affirmative action"; and
(C) Allowing or encouraging Federal contractors and subcontractors to engage in workforce balancing based on race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion, or national origin.

(iii) In accordance with Executive Order 13279 of December 12, 2002
(Equal Protection of the Laws for Faith-Based and Community
Organizations), the employment, procurement, and contracting practices of Federal contractors and subcontractors shall not consider race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion, or national origin in ways that violate the Nation's civil rights laws.
(iv) The head of each agency shall include in every contract or grant
award:
(A) A term requiring the contractual counterparty or grant recipient to agree that its compliance in all respects with all applicable Federal
anti-discrimination laws is material to the government's payment
decisions for purposes of section 3729(b) (4) of title 31, United States
Code; and
(B) A term requiring such counterparty or recipient to certify that it does not operate any programs promoting DEI that violate any applicable
Federal anti-discrimination laws.

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Andy_Larter @andy-larter.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

A whole bunch of self-serving gammon who don't believe in science. And at least one who is corrupt, who lies and cheats. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

Farage and Truss attend UK launch of US climate denial group

British arm of Heartland, which has taken fossil and Republican funding, to be led by ex-Ukip head Lois Perry

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Andy_Larter @andy-larter.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

#albumcovers This is a beauty. And "Cactus" is on the album. Amongst other great songs.

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Andy_Larter @andy-larter.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I remember that crispy noodle experience. Wonderful. And the Vesta curry led to my adventures in Indian food. You know, grinding spices, varying proportions of cumin or fenugreek seed, making paratha. We only had rice in puddings when I woralad at home in Bradford.

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 13/01/2025

#Gaza: Since Oct 2023 we have only been able to evacuate 13 children from #Gaza to our hospital in #Jordan. We call on the Israeli authorities to ensure medical evacuations for all Palestinians in need of care now including caregivers while guaranteeing their safe return. shorturl.at/dUE08

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

8. *I mean, FFS, what hope do we have if hardly anyone knows what capitalism is? I endlesly hear the bleat “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”. God, I hate that self-exonerating mantra. Of course it bloody is, if you haven’t yet managed to imagine capitalism!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

7. Resistance to capital and capitalism (which is a completely different thing from commerce, by the way, but perennially and deliberately confused with it*) is our only hope of escaping the dire, multiple predicaments we face. But where is it? Where is everyone?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

6. Just about everyone else in public life is working, at some level, as a concierge for capital. Farage and Truss occupy the extreme and obvious end, but they’re on the same spectrum as, say, Wes Streeting and Samir Shah.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

5. Those who dissent from the demands of capital have been almost entirely marginalised from politics, the media and public life. From the Labour Party to the BBC, we are treated almost as pariahs. Our crime is to seek to defend humanity and the living world from the greed of the few.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

4. I don’t say that left and right have no meaning (generally, people who make this claim have recently moved to the far right). But the real political divide is between those who grovel to capital (a group extending all the way from Starmer to Farage) and those who seek to resist.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

3. This is why the BBC has so assiduously promoted Farage, building him from the entirely marginal figure he was into a major political force, by giving him wall-to-wall access and coverage. Because it too, like almost all major institutions, bends like a reed to the demands of capital.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

2. Everything they do supports such interests, which pay their bills and give them platforms. All the culture wars, the grandstanding, the rhetoric about immigrants are designed both to conceal their real agenda and to shift blame onto scapegoats.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

1. This is what it’s really about. Farage, Truss and co have no convictions of their own. They are mere channels for the demands of capital. Here they are, supporting a climate science-denying lobby group funded by oil and oligarchs. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧵

theguardian.com

Farage and Truss attend UK launch of US climate denial group

British arm of Heartland, which has taken fossil and Republican funding, to be led by ex-Ukip head Lois Perry

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Andy_Larter @andy-larter.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I'm reading "Case Histories" by Kate Atkinson. I've never managed to get on with Atkinson's novels but this one was mentioned in Sophie Smith's article "Sleeping Women" (LRB 26.12.24) Piqued my interest.

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Andy_Larter @andy-larter.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I wonder if any of my writer friends/followers would be interested in exchange beta reading. I'd quite like the idea of a, say, monthly exchange of work in progress. If you are interested, let me know.

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Imo Musk is obviously trolling; but it’s worth mentioning that this is a very senior figure of an incoming US administration calling for regime change against an ally with a democratically elected government. Oh, and who has also reportedly been in close contact with Putin for several years.

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/musk-putin-secret-conversations-37e1c187

Elon Musk's Secret
Conversations With Vladimir
Putin
Regular contacts between world's richest man and America's chief antagonist raise security concerns; topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters
By Thomas Grove (Follow), Warren P. Strobel Follow), Aruna Viswanatha Follow), Gordon Lubold Follow and
Sam Schechner Follow,
Updated Oct. 25, 2024 at 11:53 am ET

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Andy_Larter @andy-larter.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Has Farage got something on BBC? Why is he (and the muskrat) no 1 item on R4 lunchtime news? When will they say they're both appalling scumbags?

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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Anyone still using this odious creature's platform please stop now - you are legitimising him.

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Feels like 'dishonest reporting' is an understatement here. It's downright misreporting to be so declarative about a view held by less than one in three respondents, especially when - I presume - it's not even the plurality response. Similarly poor for the BBC to then credulously repeat it.

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andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it! After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻

The first Bee Network service pulls out of a snowy Altrincham Interchange early this morning.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

This is extremely shoddy poll reporting.

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Andy_Larter @andy-larter.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Farage is a mendacious danger to our democracy and he goes unchallenged by most of the media.

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Andy_Larter @andy-larter.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Farage and Bad-Enoch get positive coverage as opposed to Starmer, who is reviled, or Davey, who is ridiculed.

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Andy_Larter @andy-larter.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

The BBC seems to be afraid of the right-wing press. (I hear Farage AGAIN on the radio.) That’s where the BBC has a problem. It’s terrified of the BBC-haters - Daily Heil and the tories. They need to stop worrying and focus on all the people that love the BBC.

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Andy_Larter @andy-larter.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Quite the most unpleasant shit of a corrupt, mendacious creature.

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Andy_Larter @andy-larter.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

"The future secretary of commerce is a billionaire. The future secretary of the treasury is a billionaire. The future secretary of the interior is a billionaire. The future secretary of education is a billionaire. The future special envoy to the Middle East is a billionaire." (LRB 26.12.24)

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Festive Giveaway! RT and follow by 5pm on Friday 27th December. I’ll pick one lucky person from all entrants on Twitter and Bluesky. One lucky person can pick either shelf 1, 2, 3 or 4 from my Bertvent books of the year as a New Year treat! UK only.

4 shelves of books:
Shelf 1: A Curtain Twitcher's Book of Murder; Sandwich; The Other Valley; Orbital; Sometimes People Die; The List of Suspicious Things
Shelf 2: Ink Ribbon Red; Falling Animals; All the Colours of the Dark; Freakslaw; Leading Man; William
Shelf 3: Anyone's Ghost; Bored Gay Werewolf; The Betrayal of Thomas True; Guilty By Definition; The Pairing; The Actor
Shelf 4: The Last Murder at the End of the World; The Examiner; The Husbands; Helle & Death; Death on the Lusitania; The Fellowship of the Puzzlemakers

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Andy_Larter @andy-larter.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow. Brilliant.

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Andy_Larter @andy-larter.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

My response to this is that Bishop Treweek could not risk her position in the CofE bureaucracy or in the House of Lords. Instead she talked about 'process' which seems to me to have already failed if ArchB of York is still in post.

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Andy_Larter @andy-larter.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

"There are important conversations and processes that need to go on" said Bishop Treweek as part of an interview in which she avoided the questions posed by Edward Stourton. A total waste of time except to say that, as usual, a bureaucrat could not deal with a personal question.

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Andy_Larter @andy-larter.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Yes - I bet he does. Not enough though. Needs to resign his post. Privileged tosser.

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