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Female British Leftie, Not a pagan more like a story telling Atheist, & a little bit of politics. twitter: x.com/pagan386

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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 13/10/2026
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In the last hour Israel have started dropping bombs on the few surviving buildings in Gaza, in their final steps to ethnically cleanse the whole of Gaza. All during a supposed Ceasefire.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No doubt all the people who printed, posted or broadcast this now disproved story respect their readers/viewers/listeners/followers enough to correct the record asap… www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Come for the tips… Stay for the tea👏👏
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/10/2026
President Trump directed staff to use taxpayer money for TV ads praising him and his presidency, setting in motion a $20 million contract that used funds from the Department of Homeland Security, according to people familiar with the matter. nyti.ms/4jBqx63
President Trump stands in a dark suit and red tie. A crowd of people and a large American flag are in the background. A headline reads: "Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency." Photo by Doug Mills for The New York Times.
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Douglas Natelson @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🧪 Outright lying, all the time, even about facts that are trivial to check. If it wasn’t destroying the country, I would almost have to admire the commitment to the bit.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Picking on Byline Times sends a message to other political journalists: Be careful. Don't be too critical. We can do the same to you." @adambienkov.bsky.social speaks to LBC's @mrjamesob.bsky.social about Byline Times' ban from Conservative Party Conference.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/09/2026
Who gets to own what we create? In WHO OWNS KNOWLEDGE, host Lisa Petrides talks with Internet Archive Senior Policy Counsel Lila Bailey about knowledge as a shared cultural commons & knowledge controlled through copyright, licensing, and corporate platforms. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
Podcast cover art for "Educating to Be Human," with the title shown in three colorful speech-bubble logos (orange, blue, and pink). Below is a headshot of a smiling person with blonde wavy hair, wearing a black blazer, standing outdoors against a blurred green and brick background, with white text reading "with Lila Bailey."
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Mx Jay Baker (they/he) @mediaactivist.com · 23/09/2026
It reminds me of when I was a kid and our Doncaster neighbourhood had "toxic waste out" posters in so many of our windows because there was no way the rich and powerful were going to dump it in their own backyards - they wanted to dump it on working class communities like ours.
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noyb – European Center for Digital Rights @noyb.eu · 23/09/2026
📰 "The campaign group which forced the EU's highest court to strike down past US-EU data sharing deals has slammed the latest changes to European data protection laws designed to accommodate AI." #DigitalOmnibus #EU #AI 🔍 Continue reading ▸ www.theregister.com/legal/2026/0...
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Privacy group slams EU for changing the data rules to cater to AI
Schrems campaign raises specter of another legal challenge as legislators propose changes to GDPR
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nearly 10% of Housing owned by billionaire Landlords is empty, because they make more money keeping rent so high it is empty than if they lowered it and had 100% occupancy. Jail the billionaire landlords then you will be able to house ALL the homeless for FREE.
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 23/09/2026
There's a quiet trade in every ecosystem: convenience now, dependency later. Interoperability could loosen that grip - but opening a system to competitors also opens it to new risks. privacyinternational.org/long-read/58...
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Interoperability, Privacy, and the Limits of the Digital Markets Act
Technology giants like Apple, Meta, Google, and Microsoft spend billions of dollars to keep you in their walled gardens. The more data that is kept within one ecosystem, the harder it is to move to…
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sociopaths.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 02/09/2026
#OtD 2 Sep 1889 around 1000 workers attended a public meeting with socialist and anarchist speakers in Great Yarmouth, England. Authorities had tried to ban the meeting, and one radical was arrested and jailed. Learn more: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9232...
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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paggles @paggles.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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1500 UK Charities Hit by Beacon CRM Cyberattack: A Wake-Up Call for the Nonprofit Sector’s Digital Security + Video - UNDERCODE NEWS
Charities exist because people trust them. Donors trust them with their money, supporters trust them with their personal information, and vulnerable
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paggles @paggles.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
www.mylondon.news/news/north-l...
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Police hunt after girl sexually assaulted at station by man who fled on train
The man fled after being confronted
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 08/08/2026
#OtD 8 Aug 1845 UK Parliament passed an enclosure act taking away public land and appointing officials who could enclose more land without approval from MPs – one of 5,000 such acts passed. This dispossession created the working class stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1076...
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Sometimes I think about how Michael Gove was able to dismiss the Tories £ 10 billion PPE waste & industrial scale corruption as an ‘ honest ‘ error & UK media said ‘ Oh that sounds credible ‘ 🙄 & the story disappeared after 2 days .
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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 08/08/2026
Between improvements in generative AI, Grok’s mass generation of nonconsensual sexual images, and a US administration using the technology for propaganda, the long-predicted threat of weaponized deepfakes is here.
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Weaponized deepfakes
AI-generated imagery of people doing things they haven’t done in real life is increasingly being deployed in malicious ways.
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Richard Brooks @rbrooks45.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
In latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social In the Money, Bank of England eases capital rules for banks at same time as its financial stability report warns of risky asset valuations and members of its financial policy committee worry about dangers of the move…
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 29/07/2026
#OtD 29 Jul 1996 four women anti-war activists were acquitted in Liverpool, UK of all charges related to extensively damaging a fighter jet. They were found not guilty on the basis of preventing a greater crime: the genocidal occupation of East Timor stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1010...
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progressivebeat.bsky.social @progressivebeat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"Powered by US money and far-right European think tanks, Cambridge has recently become an outpost of a peculiar blend of national conservatism and apocalyptic Christianity, through the figure of James Orr – Head of Policy at Reform UK described as Nigel Farage’s “Kingmaker“."
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 03/07/2026
A government customer of NSO Group used the company's Pegasus spyware to hack into the phone of a European politician, who at the time was serving on an EU committee tasked with investigating the spyware industry.
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Politician who investigated spyware abuses had his phone hacked with Pegasus spyware | TechCrunch
A government customer of NSO Group used the company's Pegasus spyware to hack into the phone of a European politician, who at the time was serving on an EU committee tasked with investigating the spyware industry.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The publicly funded clean-up of the former Redcar steelworks has turned into a private windfall. Teesworks Ltd, 90% owned by two local businessmen, holds an option to buy the remediated land at £1 an acre. It’s now agreed in principle to sell 222 acres to AI firm Anthropic for £222m.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Trump made more than $1bn from crypto in first year back in office. High office is now the key to personal and family riches. Former US President Harry Truman once said: "Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook."
bbc.co.uk
Trump made more than $1bn from crypto in first year back in office
The president's crypto income far outpaces his earnings from real estate and Trump-themed items such as watches.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Masks, Flares and Climbing Statues: The Protest Bans That Quietly Came Into Force This Week New powers criminalise face coverings at demonstrations and ban protests… bylinetimes.com/2026/07/01/masks-fl…
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Masks, Flares and Climbing Statues: The Protest Bans That Quietly Came Into Force This Week
New powers criminalise face coverings at demonstrations and ban protests outside politicians' homes
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Govts bend laws to support the City. UK at/near the bottom of the G7/OECD league for investment for 30 yrs. Illicit financial flows, takeovers, asset-stripping rife. Financial engineering prized. 405,000+ professionally qualified accountants, highest per capita in the world, numerous scandals.
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The finance curse is devouring the UK
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Th...
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Richard Brooks @rbrooks45.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Last week’s @privateeyenews.bsky.social In the Money revealed the Palantir UK set-up with hundreds of sales staff, no UK directors and minimal returns to U.K. company, limiting tax payments. Buy the mag for details!
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Starmer never claimed to be a socialist. Burnham does, using that language in Makerfield campaign vids. Starmer opened the door to private capital and didn’t pretend otherwise. Burnham opened the same door, waved the same capital through, then stood in front of it telling people he’d kept it shut.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
THE STARMER / BURNHAM COMPARISON Starmer’s complicity is structural and visible: BlackRock formally embedded in 3 UK freeports, the partnership announced in Nov 2024. Burnham’s is more insidious it is wrapped in socialist branding, buses, the northern voice, the anti-Thatcherite rhetoric. Thread
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 24/06/2026
From mitigation to precaution: rethinking development in strategic chalk aquifers Groundwater, a critical national resource, is threatened by industry and climate change – to protect us, the planning system needs to catch up By David Eddy
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From mitigation to precaution: rethinking development in strategic chalk aquifers
Groundwater, a critical national resource, is threatened by industry and climate change – to protect us, the planning system needs to catch up
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Stop chemicals polluting Thames, petition demands. Thames Water hasn't built a reservoir since 1989, infrastructure investment neglected. Now plans to swap 75m litres a day of the River Thames with wastewater. What would pesticides and stimulants do to human life, marine life, biodiversity?
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Stop chemicals polluting Thames, petition demands
Thames Water wants to swap millions of litres of river water with wastewater during dry weather.
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 19/06/2026
The companies building surveillance tools in conflict zones are playing central roles in our lives The militarisation of tech is reshaping our townsquares
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Blurring the Line: How Militarisation of Tech is Reshaping our Town Squares
We are at a war footing as we enter an era where the tech world is increasingly defined by conflict. Innovation has never been driven solely by social needs, market forces or the common good.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 19/06/2026
#OtD 19 Jun 1937 police massacred 16 people and injured nearly 300 when striking steelworkers' wives and children demonstrated in their support in Youngstown, Ohio. Many were shot in the back as they ran from the police stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9116...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 04/06/2026
Environmental organisations have called for the project's suspension, citing threats to biodiversity.
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Thousands protest in Albania against coastal resort linked to Jared Kushner
Environmental organisations have called for the project's suspension, citing threats to biodiversity.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 04/06/2026
Many publishers rely on archived journalism for accountability & research, yet some are blocking the Wayback Machine from preserving it! 📝 Sign the open letter calling on these organizations to stop blocking web archiving & protect access to the public record ⤵️ www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders
Logo for the Internet Archive in black letters on a white background.
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Patrick Lynch @patrlynch1.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
If you swim, or even just wade, on ocean beaches, you need to understand rip currents. 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #rips #RipCurrents #RipTides #beaches alwayssomethingtosee.substack.com/p/rip-curren...
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Rip Currents: The Ocean’s Hidden Danger
The deadliest threat on the beach is often invisible
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Isolationism is kills science. I didn't expect to live in a time where I would not be allowed to work w/ other “foreign" breast cancer scientists. The WH attempts to restrict collaboration w/ Chinese researchers, as China blasts past us in their R&D investments. 🧪 www.science.org/content/blog...
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The Current Crisis: What's Happening to Science in America
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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 29/05/2026
Why are public libraries worth protecting? So that knowledge itself does not become privatized. That's the *real* danger of pushing everyone to go to sites like Google or to A.I. chatbots for answers.
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Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @thefinancenewsletter.com · 24/05/2026
The layoffs at Meta are so dystopian — Employees were told to work from home, then layoff emails went out at 4am while they were all sleeping. No phone call. No HR meeting. No human on the other end. Just an email. Meanwhile, Meta made billions in profit last year.
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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
bringing this one back because they just keep doing it
Fashion news
Tailors 'were working on advanced fabric so exquisite it is invisible to stupid people'
Reports say new imperial suiting fuelled nudity fears, with courtiers airing their concerns to the board before CEO
Sam Conman's sacking
Hans Christian Andersen Global fabrics editor
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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Palantir’s technologies facilitate human rights abuses on an industrial scale – often without any real democratic oversight. The Met’s attempt to award the company a £50m contract without competition is indefensible. This is the right decision.
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Sadiq Khan sparks row with Met after blocking £50m AI deal with Palantir
Exclusive: Scotland Yard criticises London mayor’s decision as disappointing and warns it could hit policing
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Hell no! "A new tool helps artists stop bots from buying up concert tickets .. it reserves spots for fans who are 'human-verified' by iris-scanning orbs" F*ck #WorldID & #ConcertID 'Sam Altman's startup is hoping Jared Leto's band will make you scan your eyeball' sfstandard.com/2026/05/21/j...
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Sam Altman’s startup is hoping Jared Leto’s band will get you to scan your eyeball
A new tool helps artists stop bots from buying up concert tickets. Instead, it reserves spots for fans who are ‘human-verified’ by iris-scanning orbs.
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Nobody Sincerely Believes Cuba Threatens The United States In a sign that the US is preparing for yet another evil war, Marco Rubio is now claiming that Cuba poses a “national security threat” to the United States. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/nobody-sin...
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Nobody Sincerely Believes Cuba Threatens The United States
Reading by Tim Foley:
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
How ‘Anonymous Quotes’ Are Used by Political Journalists and Spin Doctors to Deceive the Public A startling admission by a Times journalist has revealed how political journalism and power really works in Westminster, reports Peter Oborne
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How ‘Anonymous Quotes’ Are Used by Political Journalists and Spin Doctors to Deceive the Public
A startling admission by a Times journalist has revealed how political journalism and power really works in Westminster, reports Peter Oborne
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Je Czaja @jeczaja.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
"Grandma, what a big data center you have." "The better to spy on you my dear." www.shacknews.com/article/1491...
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49,000 Lake Tahoe residents will lose power to data centers
NV Energy has informed residents that it will stop servicing them next year.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 13/05/2026
Women’s representation is collapsing: we can’t pretend it isn’t happening This isn’t a “women’s issue”. It’s a democratic one. When half the population is pushed out of decision‑making spaces, every community loses northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
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Women’s representation is collapsing: we can’t pretend it isn’t happening
This isn’t a “women’s issue”. It’s a democratic one. When half the population is pushed out of decision‑making spaces, every community loses
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Iran War is bad news for people but a profit opportunity for corporations. Some of the companies profiteering: Oil and Gas Companies. Banks- speculating on commodities/food, driving up prices. Arms companies - selling weapons of mass destruction. Renewable energy - driving up prices.
bbc.co.uk
From oil giants to banks: The companies making billions from the Iran war
Through surging profits or soaring share prices, the war has been a boon for some firms.
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