Tom McAdam

What will be Starmer's verse in the Brexit poem?
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int Strasbourg 14/10/2025

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
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Take a bow Ed Davey 😅

Dog in a patch of snow itching to get back on the trail and search for mice, looking out onto the summits with patchy snow on them.

And there I was thinking the hiking season was behind us this year. Not quite!

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

Malware apps posing as free VPNs are on the rise A recent report on the Klopatra malware operation shows hackers taking advantage of a surge in VPN use.

A second own goal for the Online Safety Act after last week’s Discord users’ ID hack.

More people are using VPNs so of course hackers are touting free VPNs that are actually malware.

It’s time to call it the Online Harm Act.

www.engadget.com/cybersecurit...

We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Remember when Nigel Farage said, 'If we vote to Remain on June 23rd, it will be the end of the steel industry in this country. It's as simple as that.'

Now we all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it

The picture of Farage with the T shirt from Gill’s briber’s wife, taken the day Gill appears her Pro Russian TV channel, is taken in Gill’s office

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Adding to the list of "why to not have online voting".

Private companies' incentives rarely align with the needs of voting systems in general, and this highlights risks of their owners not being impartial.

Nothing says "I want independent judges" like threatening to sack any judge who disagrees with you, while holding up a judge's wig like a puppet

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

In the era of state-sponsored attacks on critical infrastructure, it's just not worth it. I wrote about this last year: tomm.org/2024/no-to-o...

How the PINs Ontario voters threw away in 2022's municipal elections opened online voting to fraud | CBC News A new study suggests the integrity of online voting in the 2022 Ontario municipal elections could have been undercut by two fundamental security flaws that would have left 70 percent of municipal elec...

Again for the people at the back: online voting isn't worth the risks.

Let's not risk the crown jewels of democracy to hacking.

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String of Correctly Spelled Texts from Trump Fuels Speculation That he is Dead The texts were the work of someone with at least a seventh-grade education.

Brilliant. @borowitzreport.bsky.social

Here's how I do mine: tomm.org/2022/prepari...

It's changed a bit since then as I've added Google Drive and email backups to the mix, which I'll write about soon.

NIRS fire destroys government's cloud storage system, no backups available A fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) Daejeon headquarters destroyed the government’s G-Drive cloud storage system, erasing work files saved individually by some 750,000 civil se...

Your Monday reminder that if "make some backups" (and test restoring them periodically) has been on your to-do list for a while, you really should get around to it

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That didn't take long, did it. Who'd have thought that badly-implemented age verification would backfire with data breaches of users' provided ID.

Brace yourselves for many more of these, fraudsters are going to have a field day.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

gotta focus on those silver linings 😢

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So @robertjenrickmp.bsky.social looks at the videos of ICE violence and thinks "we could do with some of that here" or "saying that might get me some votes". Both options are deplorable.

Dog sitting in the driver's seat of a microlino car with the front door (which is on the front of the car, and includes the front windscreen) open.

Microlino car parked in a parking space that could fit two of them comfortably.

My friend asked me to take care of his @microlino.bsky.social while he's away. I don't know who loves it more - me or the dog.

When we're driving he sits with his head on my arm, happy to be up front with me rather than having to sit in the back seat away from the hoomans.

Really, Sky? Her husband's name deserves more prominence than her own?

Celebrations as UK Government announces legal humanist marriages, but law change some way away' The UK Government has announced that it will finally legally recognise humanist marriages in England and Wales, but only as part of wider marriage reform on which it has announced further consultation...

The commitment to legally recognise our humanist weddings as marriages is great news, but putting it in a full marriage law reform process with another (the fourth in 12 years!) consultation means more years of delay. Is there a word for joy and disappointment at once? humanists.uk/2025/10/02/c...

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone. We will not let hate or those who spread it win. We stand with you

As Yom Kippur ends, it is terrible that a holy day has seen people killed at a place of worship in Manchester

I hope many of us will express solidarity + support for Jews in Britain, and work with them + those of every faith and none to deepen our efforts to tackle antisemitism, hatred + extremism

A chart titled "How Rich is Donald Trump: $7.3 billion," showing his wealth skyrocketing in 2025

Look at that huge jump in Trump's wealth in 2025.

Americans can't afford groceries or health care.

But the Trump presidency is working out great for Donald Trump.

www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

Sums up this most dismal moment.

Emma Watson, who has been appropriately critical of the raging she-devil JK Rowling, said a nice thing about her past relationship with the author in a vain attempt to be kind. Unsurprisingly, the toxic termagant cannot just stifle herself, touting her performative victimhood and endless cruelty.