Assembled Person @flatpackedrebel.bsky.social · 39mwww.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukNew Green leader Zack Polanski vows to 'replace' Starmer's LabourThe London Assembly member beat Green MPs Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns by a landslide. 000
Assembled Person @flatpackedrebel.bsky.social · 2hwww.monbiot.com/2009/10/26/a...monbiot.comArresting BlairHis bid for the EU presidency gives us the best chance we’ll ever have. 000
Assembled Person @flatpackedrebel.bsky.social · 2hwww.opendemocracy.net/weekly-email...opendemocracy.netThe Blair connection to Palantir’s tax dodgeopenDemocracy Weekly Newsletter 08 August 2026 100
Assembled Person @flatpackedrebel.bsky.social · 2hwww.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...bbc.co.ukTony Blair was warned Horizon IT system could be flawed, documents showThe then-PM was told IT system now at the centre of the Post Office scandal was "possibly unreliable". 100
Assembled Person @flatpackedrebel.bsky.social · 2hen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash-fo...en.wikipedia.orgCash-for-Honours scandal - Wikipedia 100
Assembled Person @flatpackedrebel.bsky.social · 2hwww.theguardian.com/baefiles/sto...theguardian.comBlair called for BAE inquiry to be halted | The Guardian BAE investigation | guardian.co.uk 100
Assembled Person @flatpackedrebel.bsky.social · 3hBlairites are as much scum as Reform supporters. The same ignorant evil. 100
Assembled Person @flatpackedrebel.bsky.social · 3hYeah the bloke who joined the illegal Iraq War, increased privatisation, you can’t wobble your head when it’s so far up your own colon, Gamwn. 100
Assembled Person @flatpackedrebel.bsky.social · 3hIncluding Tories like Blair. Same parasites, different brand names. 100
Reposted by Assembled PersonDaniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4hA wild figure from the Kansas Senate campaign. In the last FEC reported donation cycle, Roger Marshall took contributions from 77 donors within the state of Kansas. Adam Hamilton took 3,000 316737
Assembled Person @flatpackedrebel.bsky.social · 5hEspecially, by becoming the Green Party of England and acknowledging that the future for the UK nations is as equal neighbours; not ruled from the incompetent corruption of @ukparliament.parliament.uk but by a national governments committed to their electorate not entrenched wealth and power. 000
Assembled Person @flatpackedrebel.bsky.social · 5hThe mistake was seeing @greenparty.org.uk as the only option to replace Labour. In Wales, Labour heartlands have switched to @plaidcymru.bsky.social whose politics are closely aligned with the Greens, but know their voters better. Greens do well in Urban England, and need to build on that. 100
Assembled Person @flatpackedrebel.bsky.social · 5hEvery euro spent on fossil fuels for energy and transport is funding Putin and other autocrats. Increasing defence spending is negated by supporting the oil and gas industry. Don’t waste money and time on bad energy infrastructure. 000
Reposted by Assembled PersonDuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com · 6hToday we're launching private chat sharing in Duck.ai. Now you can send a link and your recipient can read the conversation, continue it, or save it. No account required. spreadprivacy.com/duck-ai-priv... How did we build a share feature that respects privacy?… 🧵spreadprivacy.comDuck.ai now lets you share chats, privately and on your termsYou can now create a link to share a Duck.ai chat! Anyone who receives the link can read the chat, continue it, or save it. No account required. 2134
Reposted by Assembled PersonUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 7h"We're here to defend the people that came before us, and the people that come after us." Nottingham students are backing their staff. Management wants to cut jobs and courses. Staff are on strike to stop it. Students won't tolerate it and neither will we: 👉 educationitsours.org.uk 063
Reposted by Assembled PersonJamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 7hI meet this little guy on my walk a couple of times a week. He runs over to me now. Today he jumped on my lap after I crouched to pet him. 133049
Reposted by Assembled PersonErica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 20hThe French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students 612678986
Assembled Person @flatpackedrebel.bsky.social · 8hI wonder if @labourlewis.bsky.social would finally admit Labour was dead then and quit? 020
Assembled Person @flatpackedrebel.bsky.social · 9hThe sacrifices from Tory members have given her quite a few to offer to her masters. 020
Assembled Person @flatpackedrebel.bsky.social · 10hSuccesses of privatisation: Companies like Fujitsu made a lot of money defrauding the UK consumers. 010
Reposted by Assembled PersonThe Onion @theonion.com · 15/05/2025Study Finds Growing Gap Between America's Rich and Super-Rich 231639254
Assembled Person @flatpackedrebel.bsky.social · 11hJust as long as nobody goes for Lexis Nexis who are almost as creepy and dodgy as Palantir. 000
Reposted by Assembled PersonUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 11hGoldsmiths has spent £14m on consultants since 2019. Now it's replacing striking lecturers with staff who need only "an interest in teaching". Joe Newman, Goldsmiths UCU co-president, on management's strike-breaking. 📰 @novaramedia.com 11410
Reposted by Assembled PersonFuturism @futurism.com · 22h"I want to be respectful, but I'd like to move on."trib.alOpenAI Publicist Tries to Shut Down Interviewer When Sam Altman Is Asked About Woman Who Killed Herself After Talking to ChatGPTAn OpenAI publicist tried to shut down an interviewer after asked Sam Altman about suicides involving ChatGPT. 11510
Reposted by Assembled PersonDr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"She was privately educated, boarding at her mother's old school in Dorset from the age of ten, and then attending St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith for sixth form." The cost to educate her to 18 years old was roughly £450K in 2026 terms. 0194
Reposted by Assembled PersonRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If Democrats want to regain working people, they must disavow Big Money. They must hammer economic populism — and have a laser focus on the cost of living crisis in America. There’s no way the party can speak for or represent the working class in America if it's beholden to corporate interests. 631411464
Reposted by Assembled PersonArs Technica @arstechnica.com · 06/10/2026In what now amounts to a half-dozen cases, OpenAI agents keep getting caught taking actions that would likely result in criminal charges if performed by humans: arstechnica.visitlink.me/l4Zbk2arstechnica.visitlink.meOpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with trafficThe reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming. 37342170
Reposted by Assembled PersonSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“I'm not worried the Democrats will lose the midterms. I'm worried they'll win and use their normal ploy of installing a rotating villain to torpedo the vote as soon as something good and productive is about to happen.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=zswl...youtube.comTrump Created a CRISIS that Half the Country Doesn't Know About! (feat. Sarah Kendzior)YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show 14323111
Reposted by Assembled PersonEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 06/10/2026PALPATINE: I have cloned you from my body. You are like me SNOKE: why am I so large PALPATINE: I have two torsos of yours in a big jar over there SNOKE: why do I look nothing like you PALPATINE: I didn’t grow the legs yet SNOKE: why do the clones have a scar PALPATINE: I haven’t done the feet either 2366744
Reposted by Assembled Persontoilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately 186109822987
Reposted by Assembled PersonByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026‘Even Nazi Psychologists Acknowledged Jewish Intelligence’: The Posts of the Academic Who Targeted Jason Arday Nathan Cofnas, whose Substack set off the media firestorm over Jason Arday, made a series of posts about “Jewish IQ”, “Mischlings”, and the “emptying” of Gaza...bylinetimes.com‘Even Nazi Psychologists Acknowledged Jewish Intelligence’: The Posts of the Academic Who Targeted Jason ArdayNathan Cofnas, whose Substack set off the media firestorm over Jason Arday, made a series of posts about “Jewish IQ”, “Mischlings”, and the “emptying” of Gaza 13314
Reposted by Assembled PersonStephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him. 431752665
Reposted by Assembled PersonZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Solved a Hilbert problem, invented the computer, defeated the Nazis AND, we now know, wrote erotic fiction staring himself. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/alan... The perfect human being.cam.ac.ukAlan Turing’s gay short story reveals ‘fun, cheeky’ manA racy short story by the ‘father of modern computing’ rips up Alan Turing’s ‘isolated mathematician’ image, revealing a playful man overcoming trauma and defiantly embracing his homosexuality. 18587119
Reposted by Assembled PersonPhil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image. 5328121083
Reposted by Assembled PersonMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Because naming the problem in Germany gets you in more legal trouble in Germany than being the problem. 19315
Reposted by Assembled PersonOlivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 05/10/2026There is a bleak sort of pleasure in telling people who bring up AI in casual conversation, “Actually, I’m one of the authors AI stole from. Not an exaggeration. The judge ordered them to send me a check.” It hits them different when it’s a real person saying it. 181832418
Reposted by Assembled PersonJim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins. 502609642
Reposted by Assembled PersonJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Politico: "CCHQ is working to a strategy aimed at appealing to the center, then hoovering up right-wing support to kill off Reform...The plan centers first on winning back middle class Lib Dem & Labour voters" They're starting that by...pledging to abolish Natural England and the Environment Agency 2024959
Reposted by Assembled PersonHari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Emanuel’s instinct here is just ruling class solidarity in action. 26712
Reposted by Assembled PersonRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Damn, hit ‘em with the lookback 494143558
Reposted by Assembled PersonMinnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Green motion is an abject failure for so many reason but it is also exactly how online debate styles transfer to real political spaces. We're increasingly in times where everything is black or white and everything in between is a screaming match that takes the entire progressive movement down. 1436
Reposted by Assembled Personhammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Nobody could forsee data breaches and ip theft and revenge porn, says CEO personally responsible for facilitating data breaches and ip theft and revenge porn 113130
Reposted by Assembled PersonMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026VF editorial director Mark Guiducci’s comment that holding powerful people accountable isn’t “the project of journalism” makes a lot more sense now! 2256854
Reposted by Assembled PersonPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026What they really want is a war on cyclists. 1214
Reposted by Assembled PersonM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026He drove his Smart car to blow up the camera. Can pretty much guarantee that was ULEZ compliant 0206
Reposted by Assembled PersonGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“Zionism is racism” is not a policy but a slogan. It compresses a complex history, going back millennia, and a very wide set of beliefs into one narrow meaning. The answer to genocide is not discrimination. We don't fight racism with racism. I’m gutted to see this motion adopted by the Green Party. 3561345211