Simon Valentine

If by some miracle the whole AI industry falls apart because some tech bros decided to spend trillions on compute without spending maybe tens of millions a year on licensing art, I will laugh so hard I'll be in danger of a ruptured spleen.

A large (maybe 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall) sign on the end of a row of bookshelves that tells the “address” of books that have sensitive content.

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Seems I raised three far-left extremists 😉

Which reminded me of this. I actually saw the plane fly over our house www.timefadesaway.co.uk/strathallan/...

Remember when Musk lied about the reason he bought Twitter was to get rid of the Bots and trolls?

bsky.app/profile/carn...

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Way to go! 🔥👍💯❤️👏
This 14-year-old girl hands Megyn Kelly her ass for her utterly disgusting minimization of child sexual abuse.
You go girl! #cdnpoli

Lots of stuff here that you won't read in most of the legacy media which seems completely uninterested in the backgrounds, associations and possible motivations of those behind the BBC crisis.

Why was the BBC having its homework marked by a lobbyist who hasn't worked as a journalist for 20 years?

Get your colleagues and friends off it, folks.

The thread as a shareable webpage: https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:2lnzohxdi7dw7z3e7747qjnm/post/3m4uubodd7s26.

THIS IS SO GOOD

Nigel Farage's Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English The party's candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon 'lineage' and attacked 'third world cultures' in now-deleted posts

What we have become Part 2 today:

Nigel Farage’s Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English

The party’s candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...

Grainger criteria To qualify as a 'philosophical belief' under the Equality Act, the belief must satisfy the five criteria set out at para 24 in Grainger plc v Nicholson [2010] and mirrored in the Equality and Human Rights Commission Code of Practice 2011. These are that: The belief must be genuinely held The belief must not simply be an opinion or viewpoint based on the present state of information available The belief must concern a weighty and substantial aspect of human life and behaviour The belief must attain a certain level of cogency, seriousness, cohesion and importance The belief must be worthy of respect in a democratic society, not be incompatible with human dignity and not be in conflict with the fundamental rights of others.

A District Judge has cleared Tommy Robinson on a terror charge because he found Robinson had a protected belief. How does that pass the 5th limb of the Grainger test?
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

The reform party nativity scene.

No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.

And not a wise fvcking man in sight…

OMFG. I can't stop laughing. We need more of her.

#USDemocracy

NT members: time to vote…

Quite touched by this, tbh.

Jeremy Clarkson article that says if you can't sort out your teeth you can't sort out the country.

I've got lots of things to say about Jeremy Clarkson.

Really not worth it. He knows his game is over and so is resorting to personal attacks.

Piss him off instead and
Join.greenparty.org.uk

This represents me with unnerving accuracy..... #motosky

Nigel Farage now says that any suggestion he's been soft on Putin is "just nonsense".

Here's a quick reminder of what he's said in the past

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

Reform candidate visibly squirms as he's confronted by a local family in Caerphilly.

Nigel Farage is cosying up to the US anti-abortion group that challenged Roe v Wade. Women in Britain should know that | Zoe Williams ADF, a conservative Christian lobby group that counts among its allies JD Vance, has stated that its goal is to see abortion rights curtailed in Britain, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

Nigel Farage is cosying up to the US anti-abortion group that challenged Roe v Wade. Women in Britain should know that

www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

Great to see so much good reporting on the Christian nationalist and far right threats to women’s rights and the influence of foreign anti abortion interests on the UK right

Robert Peston @Peston Heseltine has just addressed a packed meeting of the European Movement at Tory conference. He does not show the restraint of most party leaders in his critique of Farage and Reform: “right wing equivalents to the fascists of the thirties are back on the march: Le Pen in France, AfD in Germany, Fdl in Italy, Vox in Spain and conspicuously Reform in this country. Much of President Trump's language in America coincides with words here in Europe. The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem which needs a solution although recent events here have cast a dark shadow…We must make clear that we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Nigel Farage. We have to deal with President Trump for the next 3 years. we don't need his mouthpiece anywhere near Number 10.” 4:26 PM · Oct 7, 2025 · 16.2K Views

Michael Heseltine tells @europeanmovement.co.uk event that the Farage's Reform and European populist far right parties are “equivalents to the fascists of the thirties” and adds: ”We have to deal with President Trump for the next 3 years. We don't need his mouthpiece anywhere near No.10.” ~AA 🔥