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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
OpenAI is hallucinating its revenue numbers. Apparently.
OpenAI reported revenue $18 billion dollars lower than it claimed a couple of weeks ago.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Found it elsewhere. So, a study from 18 months ago. And it speaks to Gaza, not the West Bank. Even so, any current data?
Text reads: Conducted by the Geocartography Knowledge Group for Penn State University in March 2025, the survey of 1,005 Israeli Jews paints a chilling picture of a society increasingly radicalised by religious nationalism and emboldened by war.

The poll found that 82 percent of Jewish Israelis support expelling Palestinians from Gaza and 56 percent back the expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel —
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So lock up the owners and confiscate their toy because they are too irresponsible or incompetent to have them.
Financial Times headline reads: OpenAI says governments among ‘dozens’ of organisations hacked by its agents
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@pkrugman.bsky.social At 24%, those oligarchs are really pulling their weight.
Headline reads: 58% say the US is worse off under Trump Vs Biden, 24% say it's better
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I can't decide whether the Financial Times is being serious or having a (sick) joke or testing its new headline-writing AI.
Financial Times headline reads: Investors need to know, you are ahead in the race to destroy humanity.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You have to ask yourself if there isn't a better use for that money.
Financial Times headline reads: OpenAI expects to burn $280bn by 2030 - AI start-up has projected deeply negative cash flows as it invests in infrastructure and faces price pressures.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
How about this?
Map shows north America split into Canada, South Canada (the US north of the Mason-Dixon Line), North Mexico (the US south of the Mason-Dixon Line), and the US (the 13 original states).
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Looking forward to an explanation, preferably to a judge and jury.
Headline from Haaretz reads as follows: "Revealed: Netanyahu Received an Explicit Warning Days Before Oct. 7. He Didn't Brief Israel's Security Chiefs"
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
From the OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual 1944.
(11) _General Interference with Organizations and Production_

(a) Organizations and Conferences (1) Insist on doing everything
through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to
expedite decisions.

(2) Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at great
length. Illustrate your “points” by long anecdotes and accounts of
personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate
“patriotic” comments.

(3) When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study
and consideration.” Attempt to make the committees as large as
possible—never less than five.

(4) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.

(5) Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes,
resolutions.(6) Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt
to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.

(7) Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees
to be “reasonable” and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments
or difficulties later on.

(8) Be worried about the propriety of any decision—raise the question
of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction
of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some
higher echelon.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This must be what Hegseth has in mind for a testosterone-enriched army.
Poster from the film The 300 showing ripped Leonidas armed with a spear confronting the Persian horde.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So, should this (presumably ex) MAGA fanboy go left or right? Does FAFO have a lasting effect?
Milo Yiannoupoulos tells Piers Morgan he "didn't really understand the physical reality of how institutionalised the brutality is in America".
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
@edzitron.com Was it something you wrote, perhaps about the AI emperors having no clothes?
Bluesky message from Ed Zitron to the folks who host his site on Ghost, saying his site is down, no-one is answering his calls, and it's costing him thousands of dollars.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only
Kelly's Heroes.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
So the FT is calling for governments to have policies to replace low-paid voters with robots? Or is it saying robots are worth it only if they replace high-paid workers? Either way, how clever is it to say to say the quiet bit out loud?
Screen shot of Financial Times story reads: Government can bring robotics to life - without policy there are few incentives to automate business functions where labour costs are low.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Here you go. From Apple's 10-K report at the SEC.
A screenshot of Apple's latest annual report (October 2025), showing its effective tax rate was around 15 per cent.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Notice on the YouTube site reads: It was removed following a copyright removal request by The Economist.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The front grille of an Edsel that lives on the island of Værøy.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Convincing evidence of the need for digital sovereignty.
Financial Times headline reads: Donald Trump warns of 100% tariff on countries implementing digital services tax.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Here's the model.
An aerial photo of of the World War Two Flakbunker built by the Nazis in Hamburg's St Pauli area to protect the city and harbour.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Europe's emergency number seems an appropriate time to remind everyone that Google plans to stop you from loading apps you want onto a phone you own, unless you get it from Google, with all its surveillance shit. Tell your government this is unacceptable. Do it today. This IS an emergency.
Screenshot from F-Droid reminds us that in 112 days Google will stop you from loading apps you want onto your phone, unless you get them exclusively from Google's AppStore.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
"Clever leveraging" is the new term for corruption, it seems. Thank you so much, FT (Fucking Tools)
A Financial Times headline reads: Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed — how tech turned to oligarchy
Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff pinpoint the SpaceX entrepreneur’s clever leveraging of state support to exert influence over government itself.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Er, it's 1 April... "Free while supplies last"
AI-powered review by Reviewer3.com. Every endorsed paper is eligible for AI review. AI reviews are free while supplies last.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Sometimes life imitates art. I snapped this in Hamburg, Germany while waiting to see Project Hail Mary 😅
A single man sits at a bar with subdued overhead lighting. Behind him is a reproduction of Hopper's Nighthawks.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Could this be related? Or is AI in the pipeline?
Headline from the Financial Times reads: Accountancy regulator eases supervision of UK audit firms. FRC says new approach is a response to a 'changed world '.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Old jokes are best.
In an election stunt gone wrong, Boris Johnson sits suspended from a zip wire while holding a union flag.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The British slave owners received millions in compensation for agreeing to end slavery. They have been paid. Slave_Compensation_Act_1837
From Wikipedia 
Together with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 73), it authorized the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt to compensate slave owners in the British colonies in the amount of approximately £20 million for the freeing of slaves. Based on a government census of 1 August 1834, more than 40,000 awards to slave owners were issued. Since some of the payments were converted into 3.5% government annuities, they lasted until 2015. Most were sold and the money sent abroad for investment.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Why is this not the standard press photo of Nigel Farage? ©️ Joel Goodman
Photo of Reform leader Nigel Farage giving a speech. The light above his head provides a halo effect, but the microphone gives him a Hitler moustache.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Iran "I am Spartacus. No, I am Spartacus..."
The state of Israel: IDF vows to target ‘every' Khamenei successor as Iranian council says it reached consensus on next leader.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
In a scene from the cartoon movie Shrek, Lord Farquaad says, "Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make."
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Perhaps they saw the French welcoming committee.
Two uniformed men at the arrivals terminal in France hold a sign welcoming influencers and tax exiles arriving from Dubai on behalf of the tax office.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Screen shot has a headline: CIA reportedly arming Kurds for ground offensive. Comment reads: They did that in Afghanistan with bin Laden, and look where that got them.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
A wall plaque remembering that Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, lived in the building from 1891 to 1938.A wall plaque remember that Stalin lived in the house (now a boutique hotel) in 1913 while writing his most important work, Marxism and the national question.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Tesla's logo changed to mirror Musk's infamous Nazi salute, and the Tesla name rearranged  anagrammatically to read STEAL.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Bongino cosplayed that guy. Stephen Miller cosplays this guy.
Image shows Heinrich Himmler in Nazi uniform.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The same is true for phone calls. And that's why governments, security people and surveillance economy businesses want your metadata so badly. With it they know who you are, who your friends are, how often you contact them, where you and they were, etc. Should you trust them?
Emily Maitlis says, "And the beauty of an e-mail, it is time stamped, it is date stamped and it has those addresses on."
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
If he'd never been upstairs, how did he know where the photo was taken?
Andrew told Maitlis"I don't remember going upstairs in the house because that photograph is taken upstairs."
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Aping their real boss.
Image of Putin with a skeleton jaw and teeth on a huge poster opposite the Russian embassy in Riga, Latvia.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Problem solved.
A CD player that looks like a turntable.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Should be able to get a fair in if they do it like this.
Inside a Nazi concentration camp hut showing prisoners three to a bed in a stack of four beds.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
When you're up against Ben Hur...
Screenshot of part of a Reuters report reads: "The case is Rodriguez v. Google LLC, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, No. 3:20-cv-04688.
For plaintiffs: David Boies and Mark Mao of Boies Schiller Flexner; Bill Carmody and Shawn Rabin of Susman Godfrey; and John Yanchunis and Ryan McGee of Morgan & Morgan
For Google: Michael Attanasio, Benedict Hur and Simona Agnolucci of Cooley"
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Artistic impression of a black hole in a star field with the words, Thank you for contacting the abyss. Your scream is very important to us.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This site also deserves a visit and remembrance.
The "Stairway of Death" at Mauthausen, Austria, a notorious SS for-profit death camp, that produced crushed quarry stone for building projects. Prisoners were forced to carry stones weighing up to 50kg up these stairs. At the top they were often pushed off the cliff (out of picture to the right) into a shallow pool in a ritual the SS called "parachute practice".
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
He's cosplaying this guy.
Reinhard Heydrich, head of the SS, Hitler's personal army, intelligence, security, and murder squads.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
What do you think he meant, GOP?
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Trump's message calling for people to come to DC on January 6th. "Be there, will be wild," he wrote.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The value of a dollar under Biden and under Trump. Denmark and Sweden are doing the right thing selling USDs.
A five-year graph of the USD against the Euro shows the dollar started rising when Biden was inaugurated, and fell when Trump was inaugurated.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The Daily Mail might be right?!
Headline from the Daily Mail reads: Enemies of the People
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
He cosplaying this guy.
A formal portrait of Reinhard Heydrich, SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei.
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This story?
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iangrant25.bsky.social @iangrant25.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
French Intelligence, working with the Ukraine, deliberately fed false high-level intelligence to Trump's regime to test whether it would leak. The information quickly surfaced in Russian channels, confirming their worst fears. As a result, France and other European services have effectively cut the United States out of critical intelligence flows related to the Ukraine and broader security matters. The conclusion among allies is chillingly direct: information shared with Trump cannot be trusted to stay out of Vladimir Putin's hands.
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