Steve Walker

Perfidious Albion

Tory Conference debate on free speech. You see? Sometimes being "cancelled" is a mercy.

I am once again asking us all to recognize that the Luddites were not anti-technology but anti-exploitation. If they were around today they would have joined you in a call for technology that serves everyone’s, not just the bosses.

You *are* a Luddite Bernie, and you should be proud to be one

I used an NHS system today.

I"m with the panda.

"2025 National Co-Op Month" logo. A globe with the banner "Cooperatives Build a Better World" with a puzzle piece holding the Wraith Games logo completing the globe

October is National Co-op Month AND 2025 is the UN "International Year of Cooperatives"!

Since Wraith Games is a worker co-op, we figured the best way to celebrate would be to share some info about co-ops and why they're rad!

Ya'll ready for a thread?

You might need to explain " gormless" to someone so evidently gormless

Promises, promises...

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

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The situation with Blackboard - now its owner is bankrupt and it's coming under new private equity ownership and control - is serious enough the UK agency for HE tech is advising all affected universities to seek assurances regarding data security inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/10/s...

Hate seeks to divide us. But hope endures when we stand together. Our solidarity is with the Jewish community today. #britainstandstogether

YouTube video by BBC News Poem about Manchester: 'This is the Place' - BBC News

This is the place

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'I shouldn't have said that': Reform councillor caught out in STV interview A REFORM UK councillor has been left red-faced following an interview where she claimed it is scary as someone “who was born and bred here”…

Reform UK Falkirk councillor caught out in STV interview

YouTube video by Sonny Rollins - Topic Someday I'll Find You

Happy Birthday Oscar Pettiford! Here's the bassist with Sonny Rollins and Max Roach on Noël Coward's "Someday I'll Find You," from the 1958 Riverside LP The Freedom Suite: youtu.be/0IGAe0mXKgs?...

Respect to the photographer.

All digital services must work well on sub-par connections, with sub-par devices, and make sense to "sub-par" users. For key individual-facing services a functional non-digital alternative must be retained. (Nothing original in any of this.)

Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference.

“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.

“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

So, something must be done about something else. This is something etc....

I could equally say, how might it be used by a racist Reform govt.? (looks across the Atlantic).

The onus is on proponents to show how their solution addresses it and risks at least mitigated.

The onus, surely, is on the advocates to demonstrate a) how it will achieve their objectives, and b) that it can do so without major negative effects.

So no, I don't think my logic is more sweeping. I've seen these arguments plenty of times from 'innovators'.

Something must be done!

This is something. We must do it!

Anyone who opposes us is an enemy of innovation/change resister/Luddite!

Timely...

Epstein’s contacts: “ far-right Silicon Valley billionaire and Trump supporter Peter Thiel, former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, and on-and-off-again Trump supporter and mogul Elon Musk”
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Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Mouse: "Your contract ends the day you end me, think about it."

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#cat #catday #bluesky #animals

So.

Immediately after discussing the seriousness of the JLR cyber attack, Liam Byrne moves smoothly on to why it's so important to put everyone's digital ID in a single place to access public services.

'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, which has transformed politics in the United States, is having an impact in the UK. But how is this influence being transmitted?

Lord Glasman "sought out, and was sought after, by some of the most important Trumpworld movers and shakers" JD Vance, Steve Bannon... Curtis Yarvin and "as @bylinetimes.bsky.social can reveal – the tech baron and Palantir data firm founder, Peter Thiel"

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JA Westenberg @Daojoan@mastodon.social My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.” Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner Kiddo: that’s AI Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

They've lost the 9yos

Golf courses take up more land than solar farms.

Fears of new PFI-style ‘disaster’ as firms handed £6m to advise on using private funds for NHS clinics Exclusive: Consultants and lawyers hired to advise on using public-private partnerships to build ‘neighbourhood health centres’ in England

The PFI disaster

Wes Streeting readies more of the NHS for privatisation. Hands £6m to advisers.

NHS will be a shell doling out contracts to private equity and corporations. Profits guaranteed.

Money will buy less. Higher taxes, lower value.

Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.

Inside the Tony Blair Institute A former PM, Trump's 'CEO of everything' and NHS data - what could go wrong?

🔴 NEW: Larry Ellison’s £257m bet on Tony Blair

Our investigation with @lighthousereports.com reveals how the Tony Blair Institute has been accused of pushing the interests of tech tycoon Ellison — Trump’s “CEO of everything” — and his company Oracle

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Israel attack on Yemeni newspaper was second deadliest on journalists ever recorded Press freedom group says ‘brutal and unjustified attack’ is deadliest since 2009 Maguindanao massacre in Philippines

‘Thirty one journalists and media staff were killed by Israeli strikes on newspaper offices in Yemen last week...’

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