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Pete Slater

@peteslater.bsky.social
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Software consultant Sometimes a photographer(using Canon gear) Uses Linux Likes cats Plays guitar(not very well) Drives an EV

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Danny Robins @dannyrobins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just 1 more sleep until the return of the #Uncanny Halloween Countdown! 😱 It's a yearly tradition now! A brand new mini case delivered to you every single day in October, to freak you the heck out as we count down to #Halloween… Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds & watch on YouTube
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
thenerve.news
They’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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Pete Slater @peteslater.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Section 61 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 makes it pretty clear that it is a criminal offense to try to evade the rules around foreign donations regardless of whether money changed hands or not. www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/4...
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Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000
An Act to establish an Electoral Commission; to make provision about the registration and finances of political parties; to make provision about donations and expenditure for political purposes; to ma...
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Pete Slater @peteslater.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Gamers Nexus are doing very good work exposing the crap that big companies are foisting upon us. Well worth watching their videos and maybe chipping in to help out.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 04/09/2026
“It’s crucial to remember that Farage is a symptom, not a cause. He’s the beneficiary of forces that are upending systems across the world.” @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on why it all comes back to the cash trail… www.thenerve.news/p/nigel-fara...
thenerve.news
Follow the money: the Farage funding timeline
As the revelations around donations to Reform and its leader multiply, we’re keeping the receipts. Carole Cadwalladr introduces a master timeline of our investigation into Farage’s biggest funder, cry...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Nigel Farage and Reform foreign donations scandal excluded from all but one national newspaper front page this morning. No sign of it at all on the front pages of the two papers which splashed the polls secretly funded by a Reform donor earlier this year
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 04/09/2026
With all respect to the BBC, the reason this story "matters" is not about whether it distracts from Reform's conference. It "matters" because it is important our leaders are not conspiring to break the law.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Two senior Reform UK officials step down after Channel 4 report www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Two Reform officials step down after undercover report on party donations
Reform says Dan Jukes and James Orr have left their roles as it launches an investigation into the report.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"champions of free speech" latest
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Majority of Britons agree with Prime Minister Andy Burnham that Brexit was ‘wrong turn’ for UK www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Majority of Britons agree with Burnham that Brexit was ‘wrong turn’ for UK
Andy Burnham hit out at the impact of Brexit and the impact of decisions made in the 1980s as he addressed the House of Commons as prime minister for the first time
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 03/09/2026
Sewage dumped into English waters for more than 43,000 hours over summer
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Sewage dumped into English waters for more than 43,000 hours over summer
Water companies dumped sewage into England's waters for more than 43,000 hours during July and August, new data from campaigners Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) shows.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Reform UK, which promises to "defend free speech" at all costs, has again banned Byline Times from its conference
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Pete Slater @peteslater.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I still don't understand why anybody thought that putting national infratsructure into the hands of the private sector was a good idea. Nationalisation is the only way to ensure that the services that make the country work, actually work for the people of the country and not just investors.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
People can "just adapt" to a changing climate, a thousand rightwing voices keep telling us. Either they lack imagination or they don't care. Try "adapting" to this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Nepal flash flood: more than 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after disaster kills at least 165 at Tibet border
Entire populated areas swept away after glacial collapse causes catastrophic flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims
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Pete Slater @peteslater.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This nonsense from Farage needs to be called out. The UK GDPR doesn't strangle small businesses, it ensures that people using their services and systems have some measure of control over the data they collect about us. www.politico.eu/article/nige...
politico.eu
Nigel Farage wants to scrap GDPR for the UK
Reform UK said GDPR has “strangled small businesses and tech firms.”
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Pete Slater @peteslater.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
FFS this is the kind of attitude that makes crossing the road at traffic lights so bloody dangerous these days.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
England's water companies to hike customer bills by an extra £3.4bn. Over a trillion litres of water lost to leaky pipes Sewage dumped in rivers No new reservoirs since 1989 Exec pay and dividend bonanza Over 1,200 criminal convictions Still allowed to trade Captive customers fleeced.
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Water bills set to rise for many after firms permitted extra funding
Ofwat has given provisional approval for 13 water companies to charge customers more to pay for investments.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Reform UK are doubling down on this claim this morning… Lee Anderson says that he believes Nigel Farage over the police and the BBC (who were interviewing him).
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Nigel Farage suggests the police advised him against attending the result of the Clacton by-election. Essex Police completely deny this, telling the BBC "we have a proportionate and robust policing operation to ensure the safety and security of all participants in the count"
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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Must-read level insight from Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net for @thenerve.news: "This has created a situation in which everyone – "boards, executives, employees, vendors, consultants" – has a strong incentive to lie about how much AI is delivering for their companies."
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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 23/07/2026
"His voice is disappearing into the ether... Reform should have thought about this." Nigel Farage loves media attention, but is he now learning that he has silenced himself? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/nige...
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Nigel Farage silenced – and it's his own fault | The News Agents
An angry Nigel Farage called for a general election in front of a fake Downing Street door, but his speech got very little attention this time around.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Lobbying giant filmed offering reporter payment for flattering client coverage in national press. Journalists asked to write anti regulation articles after the Grenfell fire. Anything not for sale to super rich and corporations - political parties, press, think-tanks ... Who checks corruption?
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Lobbying giant filmed offering reporter payment for flattering client coverage in national press
Exclusive: Guardian investigation of CT Group uncovers practice that appears to seek hidden influence over public opinion
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Pete Slater @peteslater.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I have no time for AI and don't want to see my city of birth be messed up by having Microsoft build a hyperscale datacentre in it. So I've signed this petitiion. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
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Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!
Microsoft wants to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 22/07/2026
This could very well be the most important story in politics for the last decade and a half. Please read and share this equally harrowing and illuminating account by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social of just how dark the money in politics pit really goes. Absolutely mind blowing.
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Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denial
The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity finally appeared to be coming to an end. Carole Cadwalladr, wh...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A reminder that this is the guy we're all now supposed to be listening to on the subject of the safety of MPs
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Pete Slater @peteslater.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The thing that makes life interesting and exciting is the struggle to do something difficult and the satisfaction of achieving that goal. Handing over our agency to AI demeans us as people and takes all the fun and joy out of life. www.frank.computer/blog/2025/05...
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Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used
I’m tired of this phrase and this simple way of thinking about tools. This blog post is a wandering train of thought on the topic of what tools are and why it matters to be even slightly more mature i...
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Pete Slater @peteslater.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I didn't expect to see Money Saving Expert promoting the use of AI and doing so in such a cringe article. www.moneysavingexpert.com/family/free-...
moneysavingexpert.com
30+ AI tools to save you time & hassle
AI tools can give your productivity a real boost and free AI tools aren’t hard to come by. We’ve listed our favourites to helps you get more work done in less time.
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Pete Slater @peteslater.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Well I'm not surprised by this at all.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/07/2026
George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts
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George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts
The Star Wars director has called AI technology ‘the future’ of film-making and advised ‘there’s nothing you can do about it’ Star Wars director George Lucas has added his voice to the growing chorus of film-makers receptive to the rising use of AI tools in moviemaking. Speaking in an interview with A Rabbit’s Foot, Lucas, 82, said: “Artificial intelligence means it’s much easier for us to make movies.” Continue reading...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Secretive $500bn El Salvador based crypto firm backed by Farage's biggest donor. Its biggest Thailand based shareholder gave £9m in cash to Farage's Reform party. Farage lobbied Bank of England over crypto regulation. Foreign money shaping UK politics.
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Nigel Farage: The secretive crypto firm backed by Reform's biggest donor
Tether is a giant in crytocurrency, an industry that Nigel Farage believes the UK should be embracing.
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 10/07/2026
This is just another example of our risible two tier advertising regulations. Hard checks for TV, radio, print newspapers yet slop, shite and scams rife online... Cool in 90: the fake portable air conditioners sweeping the Internet www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'Cool in 90 seconds' - the fake portable air conditioners sweeping the internet
The ASA says adverts claiming small devices can rapidly cool rooms were too good to be true.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The Green Party say they will not stand in the Clacton by-election either. Zack Polanski: "This is a desperate stunt from a desperate politician whose lifetime of grifting is finally catching up with him. Greens will play no part in his political circus"
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Ritchie 🎮 @beadlesghost.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Pete Slater @peteslater.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Man of the people, and multimillionaire, Nigel Farage does like the sound of his own voice. It's a shame he's such a terrible bore.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Oh get on with it, you whining coward.
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Jonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
He's either: a) Not going anywhere and is just doing this for attention. b) Using the scrutiny of his finances as an excuse to retire, move to Dubai, and enjoy his millions in peace. Vote now.
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Pete Slater @peteslater.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Sony announcing that they are no longer supporting physical media and going digital only puts the recent decision they made to no longer support games for PC in a new light.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The £17 billion of tax HMRC is choosing not to collect youtu.be/cNej_KOdbQU?... That's enough to pay for 50,000 council houses a year, and HMRC don't seem to care that it's being lost.
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The £17 billion of tax HMRC is choosing not to collect
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Curse of private equity Asda Cuts 7,500 Jobs, Accelerates Restructuring Under Financial Pressure. Private equity loaded it with debt after its 2021 acquisition. Paid interest of £730m, £2.2bn since 2021. Assets stripped, real wages cut, market share shrinking. Future?
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Asda Cuts 7,500 Jobs as Retailer Accelerates Restructuring Under Financial Pressure – International Supermarket News
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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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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Oh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Brexit cost 6% of UK economy, Bank of England company data suggests
Analysis showed how much the UK could have grown if it had not exited the EU.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Has neoliberalism captured you? youtu.be/aDel0t89sZo?...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenot.bsky.social Huge kudos to all involved for doing the job the UK police & CPS failed to do: naming the alleged spymaster & clearly showing Kremlin’s role. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Russia was behind arson attacks targeting PM, BBC reveals
Evidence shows Russians directing the plot and stoking tensions with fake far-right and Muslim groups.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This is how it begins to end. As the people find their courage, and their voice.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 09/06/2026
"It just shows what a stupid, bad-tempered, cornered man looks like." "There's nothing left. You're not under any illusions that he's winning that fight. Did Trump walk out of a TV interview because of the questions, or because of his failures in Iran? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/trum...
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Trump shows the world what a ‘stupid, bad-tempered and cornered’ man looks like | The News Agents
Donald Trump threw a strop during a TV interview and walked out, on the same weekend the ceasefire between Iran and Israel collapsed. Was he angry at being questioned, or that his war efforts had…
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Follow this: First, Trump quietly buys up to $5 million of Dell stock. Then, he urges his followers to “go out and buy a Dell.” Today, his Pentagon awards a $9.7 billion deal to Dell. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Dell Wins $9.7 Billion Defense Deal To Streamline Software Buys
A unit of Dell Technologies Inc. won a $9.7 billion contract to help the US military handle its licenses for Microsoft Corp. software related to email, spreadsheets and other needs across classified a...
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The Rest Is Politics @therestpolitics.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Being President is just another way to make money for Trump 🤑
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