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NEW: 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

to avoid confusion I have made a little table of Mitford siblings

Microsoft Word now automatically saves new documents to the cloud Word documents will be automatically saved to OneDrive

Microsoft Word to begin saving people's documents in the cloud *by default*

Reminder that LibreOffice is free and a good drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office software: www.libreoffice.org

www.theverge.com/news/767522/...

So close to the goal, I just need another 200 or so people to chip in NZ$3 each (which for my overseas followers is less than 2 American dollars or Euro)

Travel eSIMs secretly route traffic over Chinese and undisclosed networks: study Convenient tech brings big bundle of security and privacy risks.

Travel eSIMs secretly route traffic over Chinese and undisclosed networks: study www.itnews.com.au/news/travel-...

60 Minutes Australia: Trump & Epstein : 60 Minutes : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 60 Minutes Australia segment on Trump and Epstein. Uploaded for preservation as it was made private on youtube.

60 Minutes Australia ran a well-reported 20 minute segment on Trump & Epstein yesterday. But it’s been pulled from the internet. It would be a pity if this link to the report went viral

archive.org/details/60-m...

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

If you want to see Michelle Mone kicked out of the House of Lords and arrested until she pays the £232,000,000 she owes give this a RT.

If you want Rishi Sunak's involvement in the £14,900,000,000 PPE Fraud he covered up investigated, LIKE.

📢 #Auckland
🥐 #BakeForUkraine bake sale 🇺🇦
📍 #Britomart Saturday Market
🗓 Saturday, July 19
🕑 8 am - 2 pm

Come to the #Britomart Saturday Market and support Ukraine by buying the most delicious food and cakes, Borshch, varenyky (pierogi) and chebureky!

Please share!
www.facebook.com/events/12303...

Gaza - Doctors Under Attack.

download and share. It hasn't processed for streaming yet, but it will soon. You can download though.

drive.google.com/file/d/1MBH0...

If a sitting president can openly muse about arresting and disappearing someone who is likely to become mayor of the country's largest city, while also getting the funding for a massive secret police, it'd be hard to find sufficient evidence to qualify that country as a democracy.

This bit I put up on my way to take my kid to the playground has done weird numbers completely unasked so now I’m going to actually request a signal boost, purely because Posting would be the funniest possible way to get a comms job #nzpol #kikorangi

Re-reading the Danish intelligence report from February 2025, which, I think, is the least conservative assessment of Russian reconstitution timelines & capability among all the published views from European intelligence services in the past year.
www.fe-ddis.dk/globalassets...

People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT

This is fantastic work by @milesklee.bsky.social documenting the way ChatGPT can cause users’ mental health to deteriorate quickly into catastrophic delusions. This technology never should have been released to the public and that was obvious from day 1
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Absolutely chilling stuff

#Thread 🧵My recent story reveals a secret voter persuasion project by the political firm Cambridge Analytica for the gun industry. Based on hundreds of internal documents, you can see - for the first time - the 2016 process that helped Trump win the presidency and secured the Senate for the GOP.

This bullshit cost Bellingcat tens of thousands of pounds, which we're unable to recover, so if you'd like to support Bellingcat, you can find details here: www.bellingcat.com/donate/

And this, my friends, appears the holy trinity of US media prepared to stand up to intimidation.

Chomsky, Varofakis & Greenwald issued joint declaration calling for Panama, Greenland & Canada to negotiate, trade land for peace and not provoke nuclear armed madman...

Lol

Who is 'the money behind the money?' As the Guardian announces the 'sale' of the 233-year-old Observer to Tortoise Media, I wave hello to my new bosses (hi!) with an investigation of their finances.

The Guardian is pushing ahead with its 'sale' of the Observer.
But the journalism continues...
If you value the Guardian or Observer, I urge you to read this. It's my attempt to investigate 'the money behind the money'.
Who is 'buying' us? And why?
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Have Yourself a Merry Indie Christmas Volume IV, by Various Artists 65 track album

Indie rock v homelessness. It never fails to get my bells jingling: v4velindre.bandcamp.com/album/have-y...

YouTube video by Oz Katerji The Battle for Kyiv Trailer

My documentary, The Battle For Kyiv, is available online now for the next two weeks as part of the Byline Documentary Festival, you can watch it from today until the 8th December using the link below thanks to @bylinetv.bsky.social!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ERJ...

How to Speak Truth to Power ...when that power is your own news organisation? I don't know. And I wish it was a question I didn't have to ask.

Why have the Guardian & Observer's journalists voted overwhelming to go on strike? I've attempted to summarise our concerns, the reports so far & why a Scott Trust board meeting tomorrow is a pivotal moment for press freedom & the future of journalism.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

YouTube video by Michael Head - Topic X Hits the Spot

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx7V...

How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.

I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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A catalogue of questionable ads, as served to a disused Twitter account (in NZ, following left / liberal accounts). Today, loons against flouride:

Pungent Stench

Even a few years back, I heard reports that some older TV3 news bulletins haven't been preserved as broadcast, with only raw footage remaining. If Nightline has been lost, we need a public inquiry...

From a (fairly unscientific) quick glance, your excellent posts seem to come through, but not many of the reposts. Please don't stop!

(one solitary win in August 2022, when the other side didn't bother to respond)