Reposted by Gavin Comptononlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25. 3729771280
Reposted by Gavin ComptonMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/09/2026My wife has a story that helps explain why AI runs amok. When she was a kid, her mom dropped her off at a grocery store, handed her $5 and said, “Get some eggs.” My wife returned with both the eggs and the $5. She had followed the instructions, which weren’t quite precise enough. 926759
Reposted by Gavin ComptonTerry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026From the current Private Eye: brilliant. 03212
Reposted by Gavin ComptonSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Reform represents a national security threat. They’ve sold out to malign foreign powers - Russia, Trump’s America and Orban’s Hungary… sharing populist disinformation to whip up discontent at home. They should be fully investigated and banned from public life. 316952
Reposted by Gavin ComptonEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 23/01/2026🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However... 421622572
Reposted by Gavin ComptonAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/01/2026What happened in Minnesota today was not a mistake. It's a deliberate and inevitable outcome of ICE operations - part of the authoritarian script for state violence against citizens. Regime thugs target minorities Regime thugs kill protesters Regime exploits larger protests to escalate repression 621411383
Reposted by Gavin Comptondepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 15/01/2026wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage 92124523985
Reposted by Gavin ComptonMicah @rincewind.run · 08/01/2026banning X is a national security issue for every country, plain and simple its explicit goal is to amplify and empower the largest Nazi-adjacent party in every country in which it operates it is also the largest deepfake porn generator in the world this is not a difficult call to make 2652441813
Reposted by Gavin ComptonWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/01/2026I keep going back to this. This is a taunt. They're taunting us. There is no other possible interpretation of what they're doing. But media simply ignores this deranged behavior, because if they talk about it, one must conclude that DHS is a rogue agency, of villainous paramilitary thugs. 1053278894
Reposted by Gavin ComptonDavid Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Every country needs to be following Finland's lead here. Media literary skills are going to be crucially important in the age of AI, where knowing what's real and what's not is going to be increasingly difficult apnews.com/article/fake...apnews.comFinnish children learn media literacy at 3 years old. It's protection against Russian propagandaFinland has been fighting fake news by teaching media literacy to children as young as 3. The Nordic nation includes this in its national curriculum to help citizens recognize disinformation, especial... 342222892
Reposted by Gavin ComptonBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that 5868551793
Reposted by Gavin ComptonPeter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · 16/10/2025The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis. 5027361026
Reposted by Gavin ComptonOur World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 11/09/2025Technology can change the world in ways that are unimaginable until they happen. Switching on an electric light would have been unimaginable for our medieval ancestors. In their childhood, our grandparents would have struggled to imagine a world connected by smartphones and the Internet. 25616
Reposted by Gavin ComptonAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/09/2025As Yvette Cooper pushes forward new laws to make it harder for child refugees to get safe passage to join their parents in the UK, here's a picture of her from 2020 campaigning for the complete opposite. 46653315
Reposted by Gavin ComptonBeau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Very possibly the most British road sign in Britain: 58754166
Reposted by Gavin ComptonPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 15/05/2025“Apparently, TV wildlife presenters can live as long as 99 years” From the new Private Eye, in shops now. 751383
Reposted by Gavin ComptonUK Politics News // Papernaut @ukpolitics.papernaut.co · 05/05/2025DAILY MIRROR: Farage’s Reform party sparks outrage by banning Ukrainian flags in council buildings, drawing accusations of appeasing Moscow amidst a historic VE Day commemoration. - by Lizzy Buchanmirror.co.ukNigel Farage's Reform accused of 'sucking up to Moscow' in council flag spatOne of Reform's first acts on winning control of 10 local councils was to insist that town halls can't fly Ukrainian flags in solidarity with Kyiv against Russian aggression 41540206
Reposted by Gavin ComptonWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 02/05/2025To be clear, the centre ground on net zero is that the public are broadly supportive - even if there is some conditionality to that support. The idea that net zero is a source of significant electoral discomfort for Labour is a zombie political fact. 20589164
Reposted by Gavin ComptonThe Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain... 216132475374
Reposted by Gavin ComptonMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Everyone loves sausage dogs, but are you familiar with the other sausage animals? Here's a handy guide. If you like this cartoon, I can draw one for you. www.worldofmoose.com/products/sau... 1641582
Reposted by Gavin ComptonThe Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 02/03/2025🇵🇱🇪🇺 "The paradox is that 500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans for help to protect them from 140 million Russians," — Tusk ❗️"We must rely on ourselves, fully aware of our own potential and believing that we are a world power," he said. 702493606
Reposted by Gavin ComptonDavid Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 28/02/2025No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them. 813295047822
Reposted by Gavin ComptonIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Trump cannot be given a state visit to the UK. It should never have been offered. The invitation must now be withdrawn. You might as well hand it to Putin. 2245122989
Reposted by Gavin ComptonThe Onion @theonion.com · 28/02/2025Supporters Praise Trump For Upholding Traditional American Value Of Supporting Murderous Dictators For Political Gain 201147252873
Reposted by Gavin ComptonOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Withdraw the state visit invitation to Trump. Offer one to Zelensky instead. With bells and fucking whistles. 1043294790
Reposted by Gavin ComptonChris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 28/02/2025The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/ Slava Ukraini.war.ukraine.uaDonate to Ukraine’s defendersThe National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 8519321254
Reposted by Gavin ComptonNonstop Eurotrip 🇺🇦 @nonstopeurotrip.com · 23/02/2025The Danish use any excuse to shorten things 🙃🇩🇰 818229
Reposted by Gavin ComptonBrendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Those who said we didn't need the EU or a European defence force because we had NATO are now seeing that if you can't rely on the latter you'll need the former. For the millionth time: In a world of nationalistic superpowers, Europe is a strong EU or nothing. We should be in it. 215331
Reposted by Gavin ComptonAdrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social · 21/02/2025With Twitter/X becoming de facto US state media, Europe (and Canada/Australia) needs to properly fund social media alternatives. Not just things like Mastodon, but alternatives to Facebook Groups like Discourse. A few billion a year should help detach us from US tech giants. 1214
Reposted by Gavin ComptonGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/02/2025There's a common path in the development of authoritarian or totalitarian regimes, regardless of whether they are overseen by Catholic Inquisitors, Protestant enforcers, monarchists, fascists, Nazis, Stalinists, Maoists .... First they eliminate words. Then they eliminate people. 33969429
Reposted by Gavin ComptonEd Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 18/02/2025Donald Trump is the President of the United States and the Spokesperson for Vladimir Putin. Only we in the UK and Europe will protect Ukraine. 471310278
Reposted by Gavin ComptonConvolver @convolver.bsky.social · 18/02/2025This is, even for this administration and party, even for our country at this time, astonishingly and shockingly repugnant, a new moral low. The politicians who dared demand this are pimps and mobsters, they befoul the Capitol with their presence, they are a stain on the tattered honor of our flag. 13715
Reposted by Gavin ComptonRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 14/02/2025To the right-wing pundits crowing over Vance's speech: if you are really "less worried" about a dictator-state that's invaded its neighbour, killed tens of thousands of people, reduced cities to rubble & engaged in mass rape and child abduction, than you are about "wokery", then you are truly lost. 371747396
Reposted by Gavin ComptonAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/02/2025You've probably seen a lot of dodgy reporting over the past couple of weeks suggesting that Gen Z is desperate to be ruled by a dictator The reality, as @natashadevon.bsky.social found this week, is very different bylinetimes.com/2025/02/14/n...bylinetimes.comNo, Gen Z Do Not Want to Be Ruled by a DictatorThe media has been full of incredibly dubious claims that young people want to be ruled by a dictatorship. The reality is very different, finds Natasha Devon 12549232
Reposted by Gavin ComptonOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15/02/2025He's right. The only people who don't want a 'European Army' are Mr Vladimir Putin and his apologists and useful idiots. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukVolodymyr Zelensky calls for creation of an 'army of Europe' to face Russian threatsThe Ukrainian president suggests Europe can no longer rely on the US to come to its defence. 721519328
Reposted by Gavin ComptonJay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 12/02/2025This is from a 2020 presentation. Now it's just the chaos we live in, and no such description is needed. 7225901002
Reposted by Gavin ComptonHarry Wilkin$ @hs-wilkins.bsky.social · 03/02/2025NOT THAT ARSED ABOUT WHERE THE CLOCKS WENT WERE THEY. 510722
Reposted by Gavin ComptonDr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 25/01/2025Hi. Do you think it’s ridiculous that wealthy foreigners could potentially donate huge sums of money to British political parties and would like Labour to maybe do something to close the loopholes that allow this? Then maybe sign this petition:petition.parliament.ukPetition: Tighten the rules on political donationsWe want the government to: Remove loopholes that allow wealthy foreign individuals to make donations into UK political parties (e.g. by funnelling through UK registered companies). Cap all donations ... 27376
Reposted by Gavin ComptonEd Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 08/01/2025We can't let British democracy turn into a plaything for overseas billionaires with short attention spans. At PMQs, I urged the Prime Minister to work with us to make sure power always sits with the voters, not wealthy foreign oligarchs. 1883104762
Reposted by Gavin ComptonChris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 27/12/2024I just donated and set up a monthly payment. If you can, maybe consider kicking them a couple of guineas. One of the truly great achievements of the internet, that site. 919880
Reposted by Gavin ComptonAnthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 04/12/2024Hoardings are up, maybe they’re finally going to finish the thing. 1757283
![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
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