iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

HS2 reports subcontractor over alleged fraud. Is there a pristine sector? Fraud/Corruption is endemic: In a rat race people are rewarded for hitting targets & self worth is determined by material outcomes, seeds of fraud and corruption are sown. How do we change our value systems?

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HS2 contractors referred to taxman over supply of workers

The firm managing the giant rail project has shared whistleblower allegations with HMRC.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

ICE throws gas at protesters who immediately cone it then use boards to help fan the gas back at ICE.

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WIRED @wired.com · 15/06/2025

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. It's already happening. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.

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The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to…

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 13/06/2025

Fuuuuuuuuck.

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Asclepius ⛈️⛵️🌳🚴‍♂️🏂🧗‍♂️🍻🤣🏉🎸 @naturalmessiah.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

When it comes to #NHS investment & the question of "How will we pay for it?", is it worth flipping the question & asking, "What would be the cost of getting rid of the NHS?". Reflection on the burden of a sick population & the loss of productivity would underline the value NHS investment generates.

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Alfred E. Neuman ( MAD Magazine ) @alfreds-mad-world.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

#writerwednesday #madmagazine

When You're Poor...And...When You're Rich

Writer • Frank Jacobs
Artist • Jack Davis
Issue • No. 190
Year • 1977

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Isaac Asimov on, "If God is Dead, Everything is Permitted?"

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Faolan @brujofaolan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

ADVICE ON PARIS PRIORITIES? I’ll be back in the “City Of Lights” next week for a certain exhibition opening and some meetings/tours — I’m making a list of #Paris transformations to catch up on since I was last there. What places or things should be on the list? Bonus points if you include a pic.

Before and after of Paris green street transformation

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David Colquhoun @davidcolquhoun.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The parallels with 1930s just keep coming. "Hitler Used a Bogus Crisis of ‘Public Order’ to Make Himself Dictator" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Hitler Used a Bogus Crisis of ‘Public Order’ to Make Himself Dictator

Using disorder he had helped manufacture, the chancellor seized control of Bavaria.

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After 20 years I am leaving @virginmediatv.bsky.social in #Sheffield. Prices go ever upwards whilst TV packages become ever-underwhelming. But worst of all, the absolutely rubbish connection speeds are forcing my hand.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

UK govt can raise £bns in tax revenues to reduce inequalities, redistribute wealth, cut taxes for low/middle income families and invest in social infrastructure. One example: End National Insurance loopholes enjoyed by law/accountancy firms. Watch the video- How do you rate the Minister's reply?

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 11/06/2025

Our ability to study faint radio signals from when the first stars began to form is being threatened by SpaceX's Starlink satellites, which seem to be unintentionally leaking radio signals that overpower astronomers' telescopes

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Starlink satellites are leaking radio signals that may ruin astronomy

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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Prior to 2017, HMRC had a separate unit to investigate the tax affairs of the super rich. But then they scrapped it. As a result our schools and hospitals are likely losing £billions. taxjustice.eaction.org.uk/tackletaxavo...

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Asclepius ⛈️⛵️🌳🚴‍♂️🏂🧗‍♂️🍻🤣🏉🎸 @naturalmessiah.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

A piss-poor click-bait article in the @irishtimes.com that contributes to the confusion & stupidity that surrounds body image. Basic foods, regular walking & occasional challenging exercise will all lead to ⬆️ body composition & ⬆️ mental health - but ⬇️ clicks. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

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Rachel O'Dwyer: ‘Skinny is social capital’: Extreme thinness fad is back and it’s more dangerous than ever

Latest fad shuns old-school diet culture and is coded instead as luxury, wellness and discipline

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10/06/2025

Video shows two Palestinian children searching for food among the garbage amid Israel’s forced starvation in Gaza.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

“We found there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10% then driving in that city went up by 10%.” Still one of the best articles on why building bigger roads leads to more cars stuck in the same congestion. Understanding #InducedDemand Via @wired.com

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What's Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse

The concept is called induced demand, which is economist-speak for when increasing the supply of something (like roads) makes people want that thing even more. Though some traffic engineers made note ...

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Post Office Horizon IT scandal payouts hit £1bn. Postmasters pressured into accepting less. No contribution from PO execs, Fujitsu, lawyers, accountants and others who benefitted from wrongful prosecutions. Despite evidence no one charged for perverting justice. Will they ever be?

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Post Office Horizon IT scandal compensation hits £1bn

A total of £1.039bn has been awarded to just over 7,300 sub-postmasters, the latest figures show.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Public ownership of England’s water companies could cost close to zero. Companies have violated their licences. Shares worthless. Debt low value. Railtrack, Northern Rock were taken over without compensation for investors. Can do the same for water companies? But govt obsessed with privatisation.

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Public ownership of England’s water companies could cost close to zero, says thinktank

Exclusive: Common Wealth report argues debt, pollution and underinvestment justify process known as special administration

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This is profoundly interesting. Two icons on the same side but with conflicting ideas about the solution. #SlyStone and #MuhammadAli

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Asclepius ⛈️⛵️🌳🚴‍♂️🏂🧗‍♂️🍻🤣🏉🎸 @naturalmessiah.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Whenever society laments the lying & disinformation on social media, remember that #TheTelegraph, #DailyMail, #Sun and #Express were lying to you and manipulating you long before now.

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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The Telegraph has started a 'thorough investigation' into the article's publication.

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Asclepius ⛈️⛵️🌳🚴‍♂️🏂🧗‍♂️🍻🤣🏉🎸 @naturalmessiah.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Amazing that you can summon 'riot fuel' for a protest like this. We had it harder back in my day when you'd have to make do with what was parked nearby.... 👀

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

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Julien Hoez @julienhoez.eu · 09/06/2025

If you want to draw political victory from these kinds of events, you need a unified bloc pushing in a unified direction, with messaging that penetrates across social lines. If you don’t, you’re easy pickings for state / governmental machinery

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 08/06/2025

Jeremy Bowen spells out the problem for Israel trying to deny war crimes: its own ministers have admitted to them www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Reform are essentially copying Trump. So if you want to know what a Reform government would be like, look at the US today.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

35 years of England water privatisation. Industry controlled by companies with 1,135 criminal convictions. 1trn litres water a year lost in leaks. Sewage dumped in rivers for 3.62m hrs a year. £85bn dividends, £70bn+ debt, people fleeced Last decade, £112m exec bonuses . Must end privatisation.

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Nationalisation is the only way to fix the crisis in the water industry

Despite the damning evidence the government is clinging on to private ownership of water, which has fleeced customers for 36 years.

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

This week I met a young man with significant visual impairments, who relies on a guide dog to get around He showed me just how much more difficult his life is made by those who selfishly and lazily block pavements when parking their cars

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Selfish drivers force me and Ribbon into dangerous roads

Scott Keegan knows all too well the problems created by drivers who selfishly park their cars across pavements

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Asclepius ⛈️⛵️🌳🚴‍♂️🏂🧗‍♂️🍻🤣🏉🎸 @naturalmessiah.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

To anybody celebrating a #birthday & anxious about being another year older, hang in there, because pretty soon it all turns around and instead of the State taking drugs off you, they start giving you drugs!

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Holding people to ransom. Thames Water bidders demand immunity over environmental crimes. TW has over 187 criminal convictions; allowed to negotiate fines, dump sewage in rivers, hike bills, underinvest. Immunities for TW will be demanded by others. End the circus. Let TW crash. Nationalise.

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Bidders demand Thames Water granted immunity over environmental crimes

Exclusive: ‘Ransom note’ requests would leave Environment Agency unable to prosecute company or management

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Corporate Welfare and magic money tree. Reeves considers £1bn energy bill subsidy for manufacturers. No means testing, no stake acquired. It will boost shareholder returns. Better to end energy profiteering, change Ofgem pricing formula, levy windfall tax, nationalise. archive.ph/BebSR

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Reeves considers energy bill subsidy for manufacturers

Businesses warn of rapid deindustrialisation unless their electricity costs are reduced to make them more competitive

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Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

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Stop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Today's Daily Telegraph - whose owner Redbird Capital has invested millions in fossil fuels - is angry about UK government plans to insulate people's homes & mandate the installation of carbon-free energy systems on new housing... With advertising from HSBC, Uber eats, Lotto & Nationwide

Screenshot of Daily Telegraph article. A sub-heading is titled "Miliband's latest misstep". The text attacks UK government minister Ed Miliband over policies reportedly including £13 billion of government funding for insulating buildings across Britain, and plans to mandate the installation of solar panels on new buildings. The article also suggests that "gas boilers will effectively be banned in newbuilds in favour of heat pumps". The Telegraph frames this as a "misstep" which will give Ed Miliband "access to the fruits of your wallet"

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The problem #Trump has is that if he doesn't defeat #Musk whilst holding the power of office, #Musk only has to wait three years to exact revenge, by which time #Trump will be much less powerful and ripe for picking off.

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Uncle Rico Dynamite @unclericodynamite.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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This is the #BrexitPoint; the point where #all blame for a shit-show consequence of a decision is placed on the people who were against the motion, and none of the blame is accepted by those who were for it.

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Asclepius ⛈️⛵️🌳🚴‍♂️🏂🧗‍♂️🍻🤣🏉🎸 @naturalmessiah.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

#RobotCastleTheory: Once YOU have helped the ultra-wealthy replace human labor with AI & robots for farming, healthcare & security, THEY will raise the drawbridge—leaving you on the outside. To them, you're no longer essential—just excess, a threat, a burden.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Mega historical bust ups. A thread. 1. King John and Philip of France The powerful foreigner cynically helped put the incompetent, odious sex offender on the throne only to launch an all out war against him. John bankrupted his kingdom, fell out with everyone and shat himself to death

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

They do say it’s a fine line…

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Asclepius ⛈️⛵️🌳🚴‍♂️🏂🧗‍♂️🍻🤣🏉🎸 @naturalmessiah.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The richest narcissist in the world has a tantrum with the most powerful narcissist in the world - who responds with a tantrum also.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Ben Habib - gone Rupert Lowe - gone Zia Yusuf - gone If Nigel Farage can't even hold this tiny group together, imagine what a disaster he would be in government.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Reeves given £27,000 donation from lobbying firm linked to Thames Water bidder KKR. Companies don't donate, they buy access to policymakers to advance their interests. No matter what politicians say, people see this as corruption. Must ban all political donations. archive.ph/BMaQ9

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Reeves given £27,000 donation from lobbying firm linked to Thames Water bidder

The contributions raise fresh questions over transparency in Westminster lobbying

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Dr. René MD 🇺🇸🩺 @drrenemd.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Yesterday I posted about an assinine remark made by James Richardson of FEMA. Perhaps we ought to listen to meteorologist John Morales about the ground reality of hurricane forecasting:

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