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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋

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I am British and grumpy. Tories, Brexit and most other things make me grumpy. I'm a ridiculous blue rectangle in a silly green hat and I demand to be taken seriously! Born 1970s Unable to age verify so no DMs danielrigal.co.uk @DanielRigal@mastodon.social

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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 10h
This is a depressing tale from our post-truth, AI hallucinated hellscape. Quite apart from what it says about bullshit on the internet, it is sad that this happened to Bill Nye as he has already had more than enough drama in his personal life without AI making stuff up. youtu.be/3Br7Uv_rvVQ?...
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Charity Nye Doesn't Exist
YouTube video by STRANGE ÆONS
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 13h
This makes the Germans sound like clowns but the fear is that this shit goes on all over but we only get to hear about it in Germany because only the Germans are on top of it enough to ever find out. BBC News - Former German spy chief arrested for espionage and treason www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Former German spy chief arrested for espionage and treason
August Hanning is accused of obtaining classified information for a foreign power.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 13h
They will probably get jobs in private security and, if that gets too boring, spend their time off beating people up in pubs.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 13h
Do you think that these evil fuckers are grateful to have been (somehow!) acquitted of criminal responsibility? Or do you think that it is more likely that they are cursing their luck for having been fired? BBC News - PCs who used Taser and baton on amputee, 92, sacked www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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PCs who used Taser and baton on Donald Burgess at care home sacked
A disciplinary hearing finds both officers used unnecessary force on Donald Burgess at his care home.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 13h
"Grok. Automate all my fun for me so I can spend more time being a miserable sack of shit."
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 18h
Y’all are acting like you’ve never seen an octogenarian drug addict who spent decades attacking little girls w/his BFF Jeffrey Epstein while laundering money for Russian mob ask Iran to nuke LA & San Diego to help MAGA midterms while a bunch of cornhusk crackers cheered before?
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 17h
It must have been hard making a horror movie in 1936. More people would have shat themselves during the Newsreel.
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Norin 🦈 🔜 Nycc 3679? @mahoukarp.com · 06/10/2026
Godzilla and King Kong, two besties hanging out #art
Illustration of Godzilla and King Kong having a good time chilling in the city
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 19h
It's not so funny now that all cities are Slough.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 19h
Way better!
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 21h
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
As we join the great theoretical scientist, he is deep in thought. So still, quiet and focused that he might almost be asleep. But inside that brilliant mind, what new idea is forming? What certainty is being meticulously interrogated? What ingenious theory is ready to change our world forever? (the scientist snores lightly) Ah, it seems he actually is asleep. And that's fine. Science is hard and not every day can be a success. We will come back another time.
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 21h
The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards Jeremy Clarkson spending decades denying global warming only to sink his fortune into a farm just as global warming really starts to kick in
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 21h
How much is Newsom paying Trump to make him look good by comparison?
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 21h
Oh brother.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 21h
This is not just about how dangerous the products are. It is about how dangerous the AI companies are. The ChatGPT eating disorder advert is clearly a big step beyond Grammarly but why should we allow any of this? It seems much more like smoking than vaping and the companies behind it just as dodgy.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 21h
When I see adverts for Grammarly, targetting students without even clearly warning them that the product is AI, then I think that maybe a full advertising ban is justified. Why should people fail their degrees, and end up in debt, just for these bastards to make a few quid? This can ruin careers.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 21h
I've been thinking about this and I think we need to treat AI as a health risk and restrict advertising. The question is whether it is more like smoking (advertising banned) or vaping (advertising restricted)?
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 22h
Weird how the Americans are all over this but don't give a shit about measles and other easily preventable diseases that are killing Americans in America. BBC News - US 'watching closely' after plague researcher dies in Russia www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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US 'watching closely' after plague researcher dies in Russia
Donald Trump says the US was looking "very strongly" at the case of a lab technician who died at a research centre in Siberia.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 22h
Trump normally doubles down when caught. (That's one of the reasons why he is such an inept criminal.) This must have really scared the shit out of him to make him back down. BBC News - Trump says he will stop using taxpayer funds for ads after bipartisan pushback www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump says he will stop using US taxpayer funds for ads
The ads, which tout Trump and his policies, could have violated US laws barring public government funds being spent on political advertising.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 22h
This guy is clearly a total clown, even if he is not (currently) a Nazi. What amuses me is that he somehow thought that he could be part of the "master race". That's not how racism works. BBC News - Samoa leader apologises for Nazi salute after video from 2007 emerges www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Samoa leader apologises for Nazi salute after video from 2007 emerges
Schmidt acknowledged that his actions "were inappropriate and capable of causing offence and hurt".
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 23h
What the military types brought to the table was their own estimates of about ten times what Badenoch said. What was less clear is how large an area it could cover and how effective it could be. Maybe the idea is that £10B could cover some of the City of Westminster and to hell with the rest of us?
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 23h
I had already formed the opinion that the Tories £10B "iron dome" was bullshit, so I was feeling a bit smug when I heard military types explaining that no, you can't build that for £10B! Then I remembered that Kemi Badenoch is a blithering idiot and that *any* fool could see that you couldn't.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"David Ellison says the merged studio will be called Skydance" This is going to be like AOL Time Warner all over again, isn't it?
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Folks, live your lives so that when you die you do not garner eulogies from people like Gyles Brandreth and Nadhim Zahawi.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The advert was on an LGBT themed video and I have not seen it previously. Obviously, I can't prove that this is intended to promote eating disorders among LGBT people but you do have to wonder...
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I just got a YouTube advert for ChatGPT promoting its use for dietary/nutritional advice. This is probably the most dangerous and irresponsible advert I have seen since they banned tobacco advertising. I have reported it. If you see it then please also report it. Lives are at stake here!
Screenshot of the YouTube Report Advert screen filled in with the following complaint and the Submit button ready to press:

"This advert is going to get people killed! You can not run an advert promoting the use of an LLM for dietary or nutritional advice. This is the domain of trained professionals. An LLM will pick up on whatever people want to be told, no matter how unhealthy, and amplify it. This will promote and exacerbate whichever eating disorders the users are most vulnerable to. I know that some people will use LLMs this in way anyway, without being prompted to, but having an advert that normalises this is going to kill more people that it otherwise would! Please take this advert off, either out of morality or just because you don't want YouTube to be mentioned in a coroner's report."
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am overtaken by an intense wave of nostalgia for the days when Tory MPs actually went to prison.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Scumspawn is going to have a difficult day. I can hear Satan cursing his luck from here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Jeffrey Archer: Best-selling author and former politician dies aged 86
His last book, Adam and Eve, is set to release this month.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a community note for the ages.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/03/2026
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crude drawing of a smiling anthrpomorphic dog with a word bubble reading

i want them to pay for what they've done
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump’s “Super Intelligence Force” puts AI, intelligence, trade and defence officials under his control while giving tech companies direct access to policy decisions they could profit from, creating fertile ground for corporate profiteering, regulatory capture and corruption.
The White House Verified Account
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“I am announcing the formation of the Super Intelligence Force (SIF). The Super Intelligence Force is tasked with coordinating the effort of the Federal Government to ensure that America continues to lead the World in Super Intelligence, which many say is bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and the Internet, and will protect the interests, and improve the lives, of all Americans.” - President DONALD J. TRUMP 🇺🇸
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Following the Historic White House Accord on Super Intelligence, where the World's most important Technology Companies came together, and confirmed their responsibilities to the American People, I am announcing the formation of the Super Intelligence Force (SIF). The Super Intelligence Force is tasked with coordinating the effort of the Federal Government to ensure that America continues to lead the World in Super Intelligence, which many say is bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and the Internet, and will protect the interests, and improve the lives, of all Americans. The Super Intelligence Force will coordinate the Federal Government's engagement with Consumers, Public Interest Groups, Religious Organizations, Critical Infrastructure Providers, and Super Intelligence Companies, and will be led by Director of National Intelligence, Jay Clayton, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Andrew Ferguson, Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, and Chief Technology Officer, Emil Michael, and Director of the Office of Personnel Management, Scott Kupor, and will report to the President of the United States (ME!), and the Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 04/10/2026
The Super Intelligence Force will report directly to the man who thinks windmills cause cancer.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Maybe America has good operational reasons to pull out that are nothing to do with any of that. All I am saying is that it looks bad. It projects an image of cowardice and surrender, even if that is not what it actually is.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There is absolutely no reason, at present, to believe that the incident near RAF Fairford was anything to do with Iranian terrorism but... Just imagine if it was. This would be seen as a massive victory in Tehran! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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US removes all bombers from RAF Fairford back to home stations
A statement says all bombers deployed to RAF Fairford have been "re-deployed to their home stations" in the US.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Crazy Talk? This excellent article explains exactly why being alive in 2026 is so infuriating. It resonates with some of my experiences and I'd like to talk about them. The Fascists Are Making You Sound Crazy(Denny Carter writing for Bad Faith Times, 16 Jan 2026) I don't have any really good…
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Crazy Talk?
This excellent article explains exactly why being alive in 2026 is so infuriating. It resonates with some of my experiences and I'd like to talk about them. The Fascists Are Making You Sound Crazy(Denny Carter writing for Bad Faith Times, 16 Jan 2026) I don't have any really good answers as to how to convince people that you are not crazy when you talk about the insidious rise of contemporary fascism.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
(This was Star Trek, btw. I have no idea what Adultery (sponsored by Skoda) is and I expect that finding out would only annoy me.)
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
(Literally the first time I've watched ITV1 in years. No proper ad breaks with conventional adverts. I guess broadcast TV is even closer to death than I thought.)
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If I worked in advertising I don't think I would recommend "Adultery sponsored by Skoda" but then I don't take cocaine.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A guy who would have liked to be the schoolyard bully but wasn't capable.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 04/10/2026
Calling it "super intelligence" will scare people even more than "artificial intelligence." This issue is framed. The name change, intended to make AI sound more dominant and inevitable, will likely harden resistance. Trump steaks, Trump vodka, Trump airlines, Trump casino, Trump intelligence...
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Do the Greens deserve some pushback for this? Yes! Do they deserve to be Corbynised? No! That wasn't done in good faith to Corbyn and it isn't being done in good faith to the Greens. There is far more antisemitism in other parties but it is coded differently and the media cheerfully ignores it.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My take: Have the Greens goofed? Yes! Is the media coverage of the Greens goofing written in good faith? Hell no! Every conference season Labour, Tory and Reform all get fairly uncritical News coverage of their headline policy. The Lib Dems barely get mentioned and the Greens get monstered!
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don't want to end up like The Ancient Mariner, compelled to tell my story at random to whoever will listen but... Sorry. I've gone on too long. Don't you have a wedding you should be going to?
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sure, it's all in old documentaries for those who care to look but how do you make people care to look? How do you not sound crazy just asking people to consider it? Contemporary fascism is completely obvious once you get your eye in for it but how can we get people to see it if they haven't?
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's not like I can take them back to the 1980s and show them what I saw then, anymore than anybody can take them back to the 1930s and show them what they saw then. Hell, most people around at the time didn't even have a clue what was going on. Why should it be different now?
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So now I am like the author of that article. Through a mixture of diligence and more luck than I am comfortable admitting, I am better placed than most to be able to see Nazi shit, point at it and say "That's Nazi shit!" but I still don't have a way to make other people see that it is Nazi shit.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I was also fortunate that, when I found YouTube, I stumbled upon channels like Hbomberguy and ContraPoints before I stumbled across any of the more plausible far-right gobshites. I think I could have fallen for some of them, at least to some extent, if I hadn't been forewarned.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
By way of my university, I had access to Usenet from about 1990. The far-right bullshit there had many similarities but it was also individualised. It wasn't organisations posting. It was people. I saw the birth of the new propaganda style: Crazy people who are only joking, or are they???
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My Dad had acquired some copies of Searchlight magazine through his work. They showed how contemporary far-right propaganda from the NF and BNP was just a rehash of the original Nazi propaganda. I wasn't trying to, but I got my eye in for propaganda.
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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Then, as now, The World At War was on TV and the early episodes of that do a great job of explaining how the Nazis groomed a whole nation into acquiescence. They weren't squeamish about actually showing you the propaganda.
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