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Mark Lawson

@marklawsonkernow.bsky.social
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Graphic #designer in #Cornwall, UK - #EV, #renewables, mad cocker spaniel #dog, #wine, volunteer youth worker, wrong side of 50. Treat others as you’d want to be treated yourself. Creative problem solver.

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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 1h
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 7h
It’s heartening to know that, in a major global political force that has taken such a dark, selfish path as the USA, a country I could never forgive what it has inflicted on the world in its choice of president, that there ARE decent Americans. Thank you for reminding us, and Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
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David @davidpeacock40.bsky.social · 7h
Let me guess - the money saved to be given to the rich in tax cuts?
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 18h
Our modern day ‘Robber Barons’ A cartoon by Daniel Boris
Cartoon illustration by Daniel Boris depicting a smug looking trio of men dressed in smart black suits clutching bags of money with a dollar sign on the front of each bag. The three men are wearing hats with the logo of their tech company they own - from left to right is Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla, and Jeff Bezos of Amazon
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 18h
Tonight there are going to be many trans individuals genuinely fearful for the future, again. People, once again, scared to seek treatment, scared of how they will be treated. This isn't some hypothetical debate. It isn't some fluffy, intangible, issue. People's lives are on the line, YET AGAIN.
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 18h
It’s coming 📉 ⏰ 🎈📌
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 14/10/2026
Can someone help us get this message to Andy Burnham? Labour voters want public ownership, not public control - it is time to deliver it
Graphic that says "Andy Burnham, Labour voters want you to deliver public ownership" and shows that 77% to 91% support public ownership of different public services
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 19h
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/10/2026
If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
via Harry Eccles
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I mean isn’t he head of the Church of England or something? That’s pretty Christian last time I checked 🤔
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Threatening the king is treason isn’t it?
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
We must crush Elon Musk and the oligarchs. It's either us or them. They are playing for all the marbles.
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Musk is vile, disgusting, and shouldn’t have this level of power. He needs to feel a LOT of pain of consequences for his hateful actions.
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The fact that Ukrainians must die because greedy corrupt super rich nasty men in the USA want to win their mid-term election so that they can continue to plunder the nation to further enrich them & their mates, is the lowest, most disgusting thing I’ve learnt in a very long time. These men must go.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet
Kai Shaikh, a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Toronto, also currently at SLMath, observed that theorems are easy to use as benchmarks, but that they capture little of the wonderment at the heart of math. "Just like a photograph of a mile marker can't provide much of the value of actually going on a hike," he said,
"it would seem to me that proofs without stories, or even stories without struggle or mystery, and first glimpses of strange beasts, are not very meaningful or valuable to us humans."
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
In a world where AI is being used to reverse engineer licensed software offering it for free, is there a world where the Starlink terminals that Musk so cruelly restricts access to for Ukraine could be AI re-programmed to work without Musk turning them off? Let AI do something worthy for a change?
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Cartoonist: Mike Luckovich
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 14/10/2026
Ukraine says Starlink shut down interfering with drone operation as White House accuses Ukraine of election interference for blowing up Russian data centers.
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ah, live near the coast and having a tide timetable app is always to hand 😉
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
We also learned today that when Putin isn’t happy he makes a call to Trump who gets Musk to turn off Starlink making Ukraine vulnerable to the murderous Russian attacks. The USA is acting in Russia’s interests.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“You could almost believe that the real purpose of government was to do the bidding of corporations, foreign states and the ultra-rich... Will Burnham allow the mob rule of private business to keep dominating our lives…?” @georgemonbiot.bsky.social asks: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Palantir is worming its way into the British state – it’s time to curb this controversial US company’s influence | George Monbiot
Tom Watson has said ‘mob rule’ must not decide public contracts. Perhaps he should take a look at his new employer, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Fair enough. It’s time to stop the bots!
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Vance – the Antichrist
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Not just Australia. Absolute muppets voting for making life worse, much worse, here in the UK also 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 13/10/2026
Happening everywhere.
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Great British BakeOff contestants bakers don’t appear to know what a ‘flat bread’ actually is! #GBBO
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I can’t imagine what it is he saw in her to give her the position 🤔
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
They’ll come for the sick and disabled and lgbt communities among others and anyone who isn’t white or doesn’t speak their version of English. They’ll never be happy. There will always be a scapegoat. They are empty vessels made of hate.
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Callum @comradepangloss.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Knowingly aiding an enemy of your country makes you a traitor; doing so unwittingly makes you a useful idiot. The distinction lies in intent, but the consequence is the same: both serve interests hostile to their own country.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Farage/Johnson/Brexiters hate the Brexit Russia connection… this is why… “Isolation from the rest of Europe is the result that Britain’s enemies wanted in 2016. Sticking to that path is the route they would choose for Britain again today if they had a vote.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Brexiters can’t cope with the fact that Putin was cheering them on | Rafael Behr
Russian meddling probably didn’t affect the referendum result – but the Kremlin’s motives for wanting to undermine the EU still matter, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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🇺🇸IBWizard🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🌻😷 🖖 @ibwizard.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ugh. Horrid party man. The idea the Conservatives want us to be poorer and John Glen criticises PM Burnham as he did before he’s had a full year and we’ve yet to have a budget is just pathetic. We remember the 14 years Tory damage and plundering of the public purse. We remember who gave us Brexit.
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Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 13/10/2026
As we cross 1.5°C the impacts of extreme heat both direct and indirect can no longer be ignored. There are many places now that must face the reality of waves of extreme heat events. We better get ready really fast. Graphic source: heathealth.info/wp-c...
Summary of the health, productivity and socioeconomic impacts of heat, as well as the factors that can affect susceptibility to heat
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
When you think you’re above the law, there’s no need to bother with niceties l guess. It’s going to get real nasty for a while in the US with these gangsters in charge.
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The thing about unidentified burgundy coloured helicopters is that they’re usually Royal and yep according to the Princess Royal’s published online events diary, it is. Spose unless you’ve line of sight to the helo you can’t necessarily know who / what it is to track its progress 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Sir Ken McCallum head of MI5 - Russia remains "aggressor number one" and is fighting a hybrid war against the UK that is not being taken seriously enough. This "war" did not start last week. It's been going on for a decade+ and those denying it should be challenged. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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MI5 tackling more state threats than during Cold War, warns intelligence chief
Sir Ken McCallum says Russia, Iran and emerging threats from AI were increasing the risks to Britain.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
And the fact that support for right wing and agitating social accounts, as well as the current White House own propaganda machine has markedly dropped off has led to Musk being angry at Zelensky for hitting the Russian data centres where this misinformation comes from. It’s all very twisted.
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The bot farms in data centres generating fake social media users across all platforms are agitating & spreading misinformation, lies, reinforcing fringe opinions that help divide nations, these were all run from data centres INSIDE Russia. Made clear by 🇺🇦 taking them out & bot activity disappearing
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If anyone wants to block some suspected bots / friends of Russia / Putin / Farage / Reform voters - I had a bunch of blocks today likely thx to my v popular post about “Putin’s puppet” the propaganda conman chief Brexit pit stirrer that’s made our lives so much poorer. See screenshots of suspects:
A list of accounts that are suspected bots or bad actorsA list of accounts that are suspected bots or bad actors
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Ah the Putin puppet doesn’t like being called a liar ey? We just need Ukraine to take out a few more 🇷🇺 bot farm data centres and hopefully online life will become even more pleasant for all and our ‘civil’ society can find some peace again 🙂 live in hope!
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Seems my post has rather hit a positive nerve and a handful of negative nerves. Finding the Russia fans etc I guess who are now blocking me. No loss there. Blocked back! We don’t need more propaganda from dear old Nige and his Russia loving fans!
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is what “we will achieve all the goals of the SMO” means. They keep repeating it but many refuse to hear it. Russia wants to end Ukrainian independence. There’s nothing to negotiate but Ukrainian surrender. Therefore only pressure on russia and all the military help to Ukraine can bring peace!
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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Heat pumps ARE defence. We are fighting a war against fossil-fuel backed petrostates whose Achilles heel is our energy independence. Our weapons are as much heatpumps, EVs, grid upgrades, batteries, solar, wind as munitions. (I made this argument last week, speaking at @friendsofeurope.bsky.social)
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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Putin’s puppet says what now? Sure Nigelski.
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Mark Lawson @marklawsonkernow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
In light of the (obvious) news that Russia interfered with our Brexit vote & other matters & still does, and it’s now obvious after Ukraine took out a 🇷🇺 bot farm = vastly reducing online lies, any media repeating Reform’s mad pronouncements should be denounced for repeating the “Putin puppet’s lies”
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