Reposted by Offa’s TykeTechRadar | the technology experts [Unofficial] @techradar.com.web.brid.gy · 12htechradar.comSpotify is down for many right now —here's what we know about the outageSpotify is down for many users right now, with thousands reporting problems with the mobile app —here's what we know so far. 021
Reposted by Offa’s TykeAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 18hIf I never hear from Sharon Graham, ever again, it will be several months too soon. She is typical of the intellectual dishonesty plaguing this country, which demands radical change, but objects to anything actually changing. 59742115
Reposted by Offa’s TykeCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026NEW: Meet the real AI ‘rogue agent’: Lord Watson of Palantir. I am sick to the teeth of this current AI hype cycle & its perversion of language. The only thing going ‘rogue’ right now are AI boosters, a gullible & compliant press & a Labour Lord 1/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/meet-the-r...broligarchy.substack.comMeet the real AI “rogue agent”: Lord Tom WatsonA Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now 30998387
Offa’s Tyke @offastyke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Zero sympathy for this POS. Actions have consequences. Especially those caught on camera. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comDaniel Thomas pleads not guilty after alleged dinghy slashing in ChannelFar-right activist who was filmed appearing to slash boat with blade is refused bail as he denies charges 000
Reposted by Offa’s TykeNaomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reform UK's new 'Small Boats Watch' app is not only cruel, it is in clear violation of Apple and Google’s rules and must be removed immediately. You can take action now: bestforbritain.org/take-action/...bestforbritain.orgTell Apple and Google: Remove 'Small Boat Watch' from your app store - Best for Britain 15217113
Offa’s Tyke @offastyke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Finally found a way to report Reform’s disgusting Small Boat Watch app hosted on the App Store! You can do so here. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ 110
Offa’s Tyke @offastyke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It’s a small Bluesky world when someone you follow in politics (unknown to me) reposts your childhood friend’s ex-husband’s posts (who I also don’t follow). 👀 000
Reposted by Offa’s TykeFionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I only want to hear from Hampshire Police when they have nicked Danny Tommo and had him remanded in custody. There are so MANY criminal offences - including very serious ones- caught on video It would be utterly inexcusable not to act and charge him appropriately. 519256
Reposted by Offa’s TykeIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Why does the UK press continue to treat Trump like a normal politician when he is demonstrably wicked and insane inews.co.uk/opinion/trum... 52880215
Reposted by Offa’s TykePhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This piece pretty much sums it up. www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...technologyreview.comDon’t be fooled by this summer of AI hypeBreathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny. 1207
Offa’s Tyke @offastyke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Where’s a good place to buy cheap printer ink (inkjet) from that’s not Amazon? Had 6 years of ink with my printer so completely out of the loop on suppliers! 🫣 Thanks in advance of any suggestions. ☺️ 000
Reposted by Offa’s TykeIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It is very hard to satisfactorily describe just how badly the BBC's journalistic standards have collapsed in recent years. Quite completely fucking useless. 38781173
Reposted by Offa’s TykeDuchess Gemma 🐠🕷️🇪🇺 @gemmagould.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Right fuck this. I have reported Danny Tommo’s YouTube video and I implore others to do the same. They are platforming a man who live streamed himself essentially committing a crime and he will be making money off of it as well. Please please report the video www.youtube.com/live/lkeZbk8... 83564246
Reposted by Offa’s TykeWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026...wilfully obstructing or hindering an emergency worker responding to emergency services; breach of section 58 of the merchant shipping act under both deliberate intent and captain’s negligence. That's nine possibilities for starters? 319527
Reposted by Offa’s TykeWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Endangering another during a journey by sea; criminal damage; carrying an offensive weapon; possession of a bladed article; conduct endangering ships or individuals; unlawfully and intentionally destroying a ship breaching section 11 of the aviation and maritime security act; 14540158
Offa’s Tyke @offastyke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My blood is boiling. Arrest these dangerous goons!! Far-right wankers. 😡😡😡 030
Reposted by Offa’s TykeAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit" 2411218545332
Reposted by Offa’s TykeAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I mean, I am a gay man and I think about cock less often than Hegseth or RFK Jr do. 3750459
Reposted by Offa’s TykeIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo... 561583561
Reposted by Offa’s TykeAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026... believed disinformation, it was somehow disrespectful not to give it equal billing with real information. Instead of redoubling efforts to educate, they decided it was easier to entertain. They pretend their job is to just take the pulse, because it's easier than trying to save the patient. END 2991879
Reposted by Offa’s TykeAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026... to spread panic by doing pieces based on the premise that "yes, most UK spiders are deadly" or "all clowns are, in fact, serial killers" or "don't call it a phobia; buttons are very frightening!" The BBC lost its reporting sea-legs with Brexit. It cracked into accepting that, if enough people... 659850
Reposted by Offa’s TykeAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026... mutually exclsusive? There is a name for being genuinely worried that foreign, dark-skinned people are dangerous. In fact, all phobias are genuinely felt. It's part of the challenge. But "genuine" does not equal "legitimate". And it just does not seem a great strategy for a state broadcaster... 469480
Reposted by Offa’s TykeAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026... attempt to report any of the facts around this. The underlying assumption that asylum seekers are disproportionately dangerous criminals was simply treated as fact. With even Victoria Derbyshire asserting "these people are genuinely worried; they are not far right". But are those two things... 955358
Reposted by Offa’s TykeAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026... that asserted the BBC's agnosticism on whether those things are real and people should be afraid of them. We are living The Age of Argumentum ad Populum, because nobody is prepared to say "you are wrong" to a large enough group. During this entire Piddington episode, I did not see a single... 355257
Reposted by Offa’s TykeAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way... 791709563
Reposted by Offa’s TykeKate Bevan @katebevan.com · 17/09/2026One of the key problems with AI is that the AI bros and their behemoth companies have absolutely no governance or guardrails. It's not that the AI is conscious or going rogue or whatever. It's that it's run by feckless arseholes. www.ft.com/content/2c34... 1024460
Reposted by Offa’s TykePeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026🔴950 people have now taken Democracy for Sale's survey about big money in British politics How worried are you about politics for sale? Should donations be capped? Do take the survey - and share it! thanks 😀 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comHow concerned are you about UK political funding? – A Democracy for Sale surveyWe're Democracy for Sale, a newsletter covering dark money and influence in UK politics. We're trying to better understand our readers' and the wider public's opinions and concerns about political fun... 99579
Offa’s Tyke @offastyke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Anyone surprised… anyone?? Bunch of thugs. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comLeader of Reform UK in Wales stands down after arrest on suspicion of assaultDan Thomas, a former Tory councillor, was elected to Senedd as leader of the opposition in May 000
Reposted by Offa’s TykeJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 15/09/2026More on Reform’s new super-donor: Delo agreed to pay a $10mn fine and was sentenced to 30 months’ probation, while the Department of Justice fined the exchange $100mn in January 2025.” www.ft.com/content/410b... 213762
Offa’s Tyke @offastyke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I wonder how long it will be until the surprise of Mitch McConnell being alive changes to seething rage over his paid 3 month absence. Lots of Americans wouldn’t be afforded that level of paid time off work. 👀 000
Reposted by Offa’s TykeEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026Free newsletter: The idea that we're nearing the creation of AI systems that we can't control and that pose an existential threat to humanity is a lie and a distraction from the tangible harms and problems caused by LLMs and AI labs' near-unlimited resources. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...wheresyoured.athttps://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-already-in-dangerous-hands/If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter, and you can subscribe on the following links: $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month. In return you get a weekly newsletter… 381529493
Offa’s Tyke @offastyke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I am so very sick of the enshittification of literally everything at the moment. No I don’t want help writing an email to my family. Just feck off already! 😡 120
Reposted by Offa’s TykeArthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Given that it’s been extremely widely reported I don’t really understand, but apparently Ben Delo doesn’t want people to know about his guilty plea in the case where he, according to the DOJ “Designed BitMex as a Platform to Flout U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Rules”. www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...justice.gov 58843
Reposted by Offa’s TykeAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia. 5963723613371
Reposted by Offa’s TykeIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Think Reform fucked it with their donations. They're so outrageous, so obviously obscene, that they've managed to accidentally create a consensus for tougher action on political funding. 1652421450
Reposted by Offa’s TykeJess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵 341834794
Reposted by Offa’s TykeThe Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 14/09/2026That's not the definition I found in my dictionary, but it fits ;) 171153225
Reposted by Offa’s TykePeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026What I don't understand about Rayner's comments on banning crypto donations is, once more, that these *are not* donations in crypto, they're donations from crypto billionaires The donations aren't in crypto because pretty much nobody does anything in crypto (except money launders, drug dealers etc) 21430102
Reposted by Offa’s TykeJames Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12/09/2026BREAKING: Our banned interview with Kimmel generated 6 million views on YouTube. 896299497571
Reposted by Offa’s TykeJohn Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I wrote about Ben Delo back in July... was obvious something like this was about to happen. Also, further evidence that Starmer was completely asleep. Donations reform should have been a priority as soon as Labour got in www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 22412160
Reposted by Offa’s TykeCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Riddle me this. If somebody donates £36 million to a political party and £5 million to its leader, how is the £5 million not political? Asking for a parliamentary standards commissioner. 8551041296
Reposted by Offa’s TykeRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power 431410562
Reposted by Offa’s TykeByline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026With two crypto billionaires donating £72m to Farage’s party in one day, there’s a good reason that for months Byline Times has featured ‘Crypto Politics’ as one of its major themesbylinetimes.comCrypto PoliticsCrypto Politics Dark money flowing into British and American political parties from donors whose interests shape policy on tax, regulation, and public services. Political fixers operating between oligarch funders and party leadership — in the Conservatives and Labour alike. The revolving door between government, lobbying firms, and the industries they once regulated. Foreign interference channelled […] 520595
Reposted by Offa’s TykeWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Anyway, it's not as if we have a country that speaks the same language as us that has gone through the same process that we could learn from. 1037123
Reposted by Offa’s TykeWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Politicians on the centre-left and centre-right simply don't seem to understand they are in an existential battle for the future of British democracy. 601452378
