Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialElizabeth Zelle @kohizeri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"the assessment did not consider the crocodiles" is my new metaphor for people choosing to just ignore the data point that doesn't agree with them 14842286
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialAlexis Conran @alexisconran.com · 09/08/2026It’s the question I get asked the most. The answer is troubling.open.substack.comIs your mobile phone listening in on you?The scary thing is ... it doesn't have to. 77829
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 04/07/2026Want to run a fake London estate agency and repeatedly scam people out of thousands of pounds through rental scams? The good news is that for £250 you can join all the official renters' protection schemes and do it with a UK government badge of approval! www.londoncentric.media/p/london-ren...londoncentric.mediaFake estate agents are buying the government's seal of approvalLondon's scammers find a new tactic • "I felt sick... They’re doing everything except for actually having a flat." • What happens when the scammers get inside the systems? 13339173
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 08/06/2026How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comAndrew Tate’s Empire of AbuseHow the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women. 79020
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialAlona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Incredible work by Heidi Blake, who not only talked to victims of the Tates, but also to the Tates. This is one of those works of journalism that reminds you how little we often know about things or people, like Andrew Tate, who are always in the news. And yet, so much about them remains unreported. 414851
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialHughstergeist @hughster.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Sharing for the next time anyone comes out with "ooh, I don't like Dominic Cummings but he has a lot of interesting points don't you think" 1506
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19/05/2026‘Far beyond the powers of national authorities to control. That is a truly astonishing state of affairs. The fact is that a great deal is being done to combat it. It’s just that none of it works.’ John Lanchester on money laundering. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukJohn Lanchester · Squillions: Where’s all the cash?If it were an industry, money laundering would be the third biggest business in the world, behind commercial property... 11810
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialWill Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 15/05/2026Yeah if you're only counting scandals where there's personal enrichment (Ecclestone and Cash for Peerages for instance both involved payments to the parties and were significantly bigger in size) 411661
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialGraeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from” 493099644
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialAsh Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 13/04/20261/8 The UK energy headlines are about to get loud again. Before that happens, here’s a simple explanation of how the systems actually work, that I created for my students a while ago and have updated to 2026. It explains why the risk is often misunderstood. #UK #Energy #EnergySecurity 7238101
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 22/03/2026Let me know when you can replace about 110 million tons of the “toxic” (google the basics of the nitrogen cycle sometime) stuff with whatever you’re selling, meanwhile the rest of us will try to keep the farms working so people don’t starve this year 441969162
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21/03/2026I'm seeing a lot of these fake Donald Trump truths being posted on BlueSky (and lesser sites) at the moment. Its pretty easy to check, and you owe it to yourself and other people before sharing it. 1272408685
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialbeccatot.bsky.social @beccatot.bsky.social · 29/01/2026I can’t help but think that if men were treated the way women are treated all around the globe that there would be international outcry and immediate change 0182
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialThomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 12/01/2026One thing that unites these people, above all else, is there never ending, self-pitying WHINING. The "very painful things" they wrote were facts that you avoided tax, had to pay millions in fines, hid it whilst Chancellor then threatened legal action against anyone who reported it. 620974
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialAlistair Green @mralistairgreen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Comedian doing his first hour after starting comedy 5 weeks ago and doing 2 open spots 2127634
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 11/01/2026I think the misogynist contempt that’s evident as a motivation in the murder of Renee Good makes her killing by a state actor more similar to so-called private violence—eg domestic violence homocides—than some arguments that rely on a firm distinction between state and private violence can sustain. 341360256
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10/01/2026I wrote this almost 11 years ago theweek.com/articles/444... 141347417
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 12/10/2025NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S 6722351489
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialMegan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social · 03/10/2025There is almost always a violence against women connection for terror attacks. 35823
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Re: the male loneliness epidemic, there is *still* not enough emphasis on how many heterosexual girls and women are staying single out of self-preservation, because the sexual norms that many heterosexual boys and men have adopted are exceptionally dangerous. 301900459
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialJeff @jeffm2018.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Oh look. Same time frame? www.theguardian.com/world/2019/o...theguardian.comBrexit party MEPs vote against plans to tackle Russian propagandaResolution seeking upgrade of EU counter-disinformation unit nevertheless passes easily 825989
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17/09/2025We should also probably avoid basing our politics on information systems that reward outrage and where the truth has zero value. 519135
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Rayner resigned. Your move Farage. 571190495
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialJohn Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 24/08/2025I disagree. The British people focus on the boats because it isn't right that 50k people can arrive uninvited every year 1623
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/08/2025‘It’s a robot war’: eastern Ukraine faces onslaught of Russian glide bombs, rockets and kamikaze dronestheguardian.com‘It’s a robot war’: eastern Ukraine faces onslaught of Russian glide bombs, rockets and kamikaze dronesPutin has escalated strikes on Donetsk region and is likely to demand Ukraine hands it over in talks with Trump 23623
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialwaneella @waneella.bsky.social · 05/08/2025No Sleep Again Full version: youtu.be/zK9HSXrvUMg #ドット絵 #pixelart 12688177
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 22/07/2025We should have listened when the modems screamed at us. 125118942739
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialmakena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 17/07/2025SCOOP: DOGE moved to kill Direct File, the IRS's popular free tax filing tool, days after meeting with private tax filing software lobbyists. www.wired.com/story/doge-d...wired.comDOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With LobbyistsA key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts. 11841741825
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 14/07/2025anybody else’s gyre feel wider lately 1071911342
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Some people deny reality because they’re confused. Some deny it because they’re scared. Some because they’re angry. But then there’s something deeper, something more organised. Something I call disordered denial. 18516163
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialMike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/05/2025OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/ 736225117753
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialDr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 12/05/2025The rate of annual sea level rise has more than doubled over the past 30 years. edition.cnn.com/2025/05/09/c... 39543
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialBellingcat @bellingcat.com · 07/05/2025Exclusive: Bellingcat in partnership with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...bellingcat.comUnmasking MrDeepFakes: Canadian Pharmacist Linked to World’s Most Notorious Deepfake Porn Site - bellingcatDouble life: open source investigation reveals Canadian hospital pharmacist's links to MrDeepFakes, the most notorious deepfake porn website in the world. 17827363
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 01/05/2025thank you Private Eye for taking apart this flakey headline-grabbing research 27650269
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialAdam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Tourists canceling trips to the US. 531186309
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/04/2025Americans were told reciprocal tariffs would be simple. But where did those numbers come from? Read FT Alphaville’s take on the method to the Trump administration’s madness: www.ft.com/content/e025... 3225471
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialThomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 29/03/2025The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social 20784073865
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialNovelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 28/03/2025when people like Bill Gates say shit like "there won't be doctors or teachers in ten years" we should consider that as a threat. His ass is going to see a real human doctor! His grandkids will have real human teachers! He's talking about YOU!! 152113626
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 13/03/2025Surprised to see so many headlines from news outlets suggesting Putin has agreed to a ceasefire. He’s done no such thing. He’s basically said he would do in theory, providing his conditions are met, on his terms. Which is just a variation on what he’s always said. 852803674
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialGeneral Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 04/03/2025"20k troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years" JD Vance's comments and this picture coming to an election leaflet near you soon 32603220
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialLuke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Over the weekend we asked the British public to describe in a word how they felt about the Trump-Zelenskyy Oval Office meeting. The answers somewhat speak for themselves. 14544188
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/03/2025Breaking News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the Pentagon to halt offensive cyberoperations against Russia, officials said.nyti.msHegseth Orders Pentagon to Stop Offensive Cyberoperations Against RussiaThe defense secretary’s instructions, which were given before President Trump’s blowup with the Ukrainian president, are apparently part of an effort to draw Russia into talks on the war. 52120881026
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this 15297223929
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialBlair Spookily @blairloudly.bsky.social · 05/01/2025[ceo tossing and turning in bed] the air. the air they breathe should be a subscription service. 653943969
Reposted by vivienneGNW.bsky.socialDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 18/02/2025OTD in 2022 i denied any invasion would happen. So you can believe my promises about peace now. 462135599
