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Robert S

@ro8ert.bsky.social
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A fool persisting in his folly. Long since out of interesting things to say. Software engineer; tree-hugger. Running, reading, gardening. Rugby union fan, but I rarely post about it. Currently learning Greek & Arabic. GTTO Deport racists he/him

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Two top Trump advisers James Blair and Chris LaCivita travelled to Bosnia’s Republika Srpska to provide election advice to its Putin-friendly government, the NYT reports. They were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each.
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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This year's Xmas cards have arrived already - all the neighbours will be getting these this year.
Two boxes of RNLI Xmas cards
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 04/10/2026
The government is keeping a list of people who question their policies The Home Office fought for more than a year not to disclose their ‘database’ of critical X and Reddit posts. metro.co.uk/2026/09/25/s...
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The government is keeping a list of people who question their policies
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"I hate the world's hegemons, but boy do I have to admit I love their stupid speak n' spell that incinerates a hectare of rainforest every morning"
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MKC @mkc44.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
William I - French Henry II - French Edward II - Welsh Henry V - Welsh Henry VII - Welsh James I - Scottish Charles I - Scottish William III - Dutch George I - German George II - German
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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Where is the evidence that 'technology' has done this?
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer
Line chart titled 'GB News has lost £142m to date', showing cumulative losses in pounds rising steadily from around £3m in 2020/1 to £142m by 2025. The red line climbs most steeply between 2021/2 and 2023/4, reaching roughly £110m, then flattens as growth slows towards £142m. A note states the latest figures cover the seven-month period to 31 December 2025. Chart by Press Gazette, source: Companies House
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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The right's claim to being champions of free speech, like their claim to be the parties of "law & order", has long been shown to be a sham, here as much as in the US.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 30/09/2026
“That, to me, was an implicit threat. It feels very Palantir. Very Big Brother”: MP @labourlewis.bsky.social reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
‘We’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir. (l-r): Clive Lewis, Tom Watson and the Palantir logo, against a pink background
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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The right's claim to being champions of free speech, like their claim to be the parties of "law & order", has long been shown to be a sham, here as much as in the US.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
US social media companies are interfering in the Brazilian elections in favour of the Far Right’s Flávio Bolsonaro. Meta is the latest. It’s just blocked the campaign account of President Lula in the final stretch of the election.
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Meta restringe la cuenta de Lula y su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera
De cara a las elecciones en Brasil, Lula enfrenta a Meta por restringir su cuenta mientras su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera.
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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Is Miliband familiar with the expression, "Fine words butter no parsnips?" Kind of feels like someone should explain it to him.
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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Is Miliband familiar with the expression, "Fine words butter no parsnips?" Kind of feels like someone should explain it to him.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
Bought my Xmas cards from the #RNLI this year. You know it makes sense! #FuckTheFash
shop.rnli.org
Christmas Cards | RNLI Shop
Every purchase of our charity Christmas cards from the RNLI makes a lifesaving difference. The profits will help to prevent tragedies at sea for years to come.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.
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Parmijohn (B.Eng) @parmijohn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"Homeless sets the floor for everyone's wages"
"Fear of homelessness keeps poorer workers in line"
"Middle class gets told poor workers are 'unskilled' and so they don't deserve to have livable wages"
"While the rich keep profit created by both of them"
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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
All travel terminus announcements ever
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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 22/09/2026
When Ed Sheeran played the victim card after the Macklemore fallout, he did what all Israel appeasers do: he pretended genocide is too complicated to understand. www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/calling-ga...
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Calling Gaza “the most complex political issue on the planet” is pro-genocide propaganda
When Ed Sheeran played the victim card after the Macklemore fallout, he did what all Israel appeasers do: he pretended genocide is too complicated to understand.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NEW | I’m not surprised, but I am livid. BBC NEWS, ‘DANNY TOMMO’ AND THE DINGHY ATTACK THAT DISAPPEARED While the rest of the media – even the very worst parts – report on Daniel Thomas’ actions, BBC News fails to give its audience the facts. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/bbc-news-d...
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BBC News, ‘Danny Tommo’ and the dinghy attack that disappeared
While the rest of the media – even the very worst parts – report on Daniel Thomas’ actions, BBC News fails to give its audience the facts.
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026
1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.
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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 21/09/2026
But far more important – the documents also hammer home why the mass piracy for training purposes is not “fair use” under copyright law. Again and again, OpenAI and Microsoft acknowledged they were using copyrighted books to create new works that would compete directly with the originals. (6/7)
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Private equity turns to financial engineering to lure insurance billions. Using collateralised fund obligations (CFOs), slicing and dicing debts, loans, to create dodgy instruments. Back to the practices that brought the 2008 crash. Who will bail them out this time? archive.ph/vrBQn
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Private equity turns to financial engineering to lure insurance billions
Structured financing helps fuel growth of secondaries funds by making investments more attractive to risk-averse investors
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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How long before the RNLI gets proscribed as a terrorist organisation...?
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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Can you imagine the press reaction if Palestine Action were forcing Ambulance Stations to close? Or the Socialist Workers Party were shutting Fire Stations? No, of course not, cos it wouldn't fucking happen. These people are terrorists and should be treated as such. Ban, arrest, imprison.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026
We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious.
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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
And yet after Brexit exposed our flawed electoral system - declared 'not fit for purpose' by the DCMS select committee report on disinformation after the 2017 GE - has anything been done to address the issue? I'm not aware that it has.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Russian oligarch and close personal friend of Putin Umar Kremlev secretly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars toward Donald Trump Jr’s May wedding in the Bahamas, ProPublica reports. Kremlev and several other Russians were among the 50 guests.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
"AI" - chatbots that wake up, "set their own goals," and "spontaneously" start hacking servers - is fake. It doesn't have "a 10% chance of ending the human race." The Hugging Face hack isn't a mysterious, supernatural occurrence.
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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I can't stand Last Night of the Proms myself, but I've just turned over & looking at the audience now, the union jacks seem to be well outnumbered by EU flags. Excellent.
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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Racism is fine if it's polite. Middle England in a nutshell.
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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Exactly the sort of people I would expect to do so - I recognise no decent people on the list. The ridiculous Boris Johnson's prime place alone is enough to indicate the state of the rest.
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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Racism is fine if it's polite. Middle England in a nutshell.
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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Mahuchikh chilled approach to joining in the claps for Olyslagers is a level of enthusiasm I can get behind. #athletics
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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thank you Pakistan for giving us some weekend #cricket to enjoy. This test match could yet be one of the all time great turnarounds...
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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“what if the AI doesn’t want to be shut down so it kills all humans?” well, the funny thing is, llms don’t exist between prompts. there is no there there. the model is sent a request, it “starts up” to receive it, processes it, and then it “shuts down” again. every single time.
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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There is a whole new generation to be instructed in Islamaphobia - ideally before they meet any actual Muslims and do something awful, like befriend them.
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Senior rabbis have come out backing Ed Miliband over sanctions on Israel's illegal settlements. Yet the media keep citing Chief Rabbi Mirvis as if he speaks for all Jews. I explain why no one should be listening to this deeply compromised figure: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-09...
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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We're going to need a planet to do that on though, aren't we?
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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
To be fair, speaking out against Israel's ongoing atrocities should be the bare minimum for any MP to be taken seriously.
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Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Surprised there's not more discussion on Michael Sheen's 'Buried' doc on BBC, with its shocking revelations of Monsanto dumping lethal forever chemicals, now bubbling back to the surface, across Wales & England in the '70s with the seeming complicity of the UK govt. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Two - Buried with Michael Sheen
Michael Sheen tries to find out if the people of Wales are in danger.
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026
werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.
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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
To be fair, speaking out against Israel's ongoing atrocities should be the bare minimum for any MP to be taken seriously.
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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is classic dogwhistling to the middle class racists of middle england - being polite is what matters, and ignore the blatant racism in calling it "safe".
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Robert S @ro8ert.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is classic dogwhistling to the middle class racists of middle england - being polite is what matters, and ignore the blatant racism in calling it "safe".
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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Over on X, the far-right British Patriots have launched a hate campaign against the RNLI They are recording RNLI volunteers in order to dox them, reveal their identities and publish details of where they and their families live These men are dangerous
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 07/09/2026
I can’t have been the only person to spend half an hour working out that LEGITIMATE CONCERNS is an anagram of EGOCENTRIC AILMENTS
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