Colette Austin

An experiment:

If you see this post, please like it. Am comparing numbers to the other place for a piece.

Starbucks is a massive tax-avoider, putting local coffee shops out of business. Been boycotting them for years.

The EU should curb *all* Russian travel into the EU.

Confusing to all of us that she would be interested in a shrivelled warthog like him!

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Everything looks simple to stupid people.

I think you mean ‘releases from captivity’.

Words cannot describe how tone-deaf it is to publish this article at this moment.

But The Economist has been consistently tone-deaf in their Europe coverage for years. They will never get over their obsession with America, even as the US descends toward dictatorship or civil war.

Why? When they could spend that money making Russia less of a festering shithole?

Oh fuck off, Charlemagne!

I must have watched Fog of War about 20 times!

Western holidaymakers should boycott Tunisia.

Who the fuck authorizes shit like this? 🤬🤬🤬🤷‍♂️

Now give us the net Russia-Europe migration figure! 😂

Is it me, or does this tweet betray a certain lack of self-awareness on the part of Tommy Robinson aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon? 🤔

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."

These ‘wealthy British parents’ can’t be that ‘wealthy’ if they can’t even afford VAT on school fees. Don’t be silly.

The US building energy-hungry, water-thirsty data centres abroad, including in the UK, is looking like resource-stripping - in the same way that China and the Saudis have been buying US land to grow wheat for their own consumption, to conserve their own water supplies.

Exactly! 👍

This is goading people to burn flags in protest. Trump wants those images broadcast to justify ordering violence against protestors.

From outside the US, looks like the Trump Administration is actually trying to provoke civil conflict.

Victoria Derbyshire posted earlier that he hadn’t been charged - suggesting, I think, that he was bailed pending further investigation.

Tho’ there is reportedly a strong correlation between Islamist terrorism and previous brushes with the law for sexual and/or domestic violence.

Ok, I’ve got you now. Yes, every second new BSky follower seems to be a bot, a scammer or a porn star! It was even worse on X. People feel the need to post that they had a coffee, or went to bed early, or whatever! There’s a lot of mundanity to wade through to find the news!

By ‘engage’, do you mean post and/or reply?

I only social media (Twitter, now Bluesky) to see the news and to find out what *qualified* commentators have to say about it.

I’m not here to ‘express myself,’ as the article put it, and every random person expressing themself is mostly noise to me.

The Age of Enshittification In a new book, the technology critic Cory Doctorow expands on a coinage that has become bleakly relevant, in Silicon Valley and beyond.

“Enshittification” was a term coined by Cory Doctorow, in 2022, to describe how the technologies that dominated our daily lives seemed to be all getting worse at the same time. Now, in a new book, he expands on the word that has become bleakly relevant.

I didn’t.

A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...

Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

Rosyjski wywiad ukrył materiały wybuchowe na cmentarzu. Podejrzane puszki wjechały do Polski Kurier rosyjskiego wywiadu wojskowego GRU odbierał polecenia: kup łopatę, jedź na cmentarz, wykop puszki, zostaw niedaleko Łodzi. Puszki idealnie pasują do uchwytów mocowanych do dronów.

In Poland authorities have captured a Russian intelligence operative carrying explosive-filled cans, drone components, and SIM cards. In Lithuania, explosives were discovered in a cemetery.

All part of a big Russian plot to commit terrorist attacks across Europe.

Calls for New Inquiry Into Russian Interference After Reform’s Former Welsh Leader Pleads Guilty to Bribery As the Kremlin steps up its political interference efforts in the West, is it time for a new Russia Report?

ICYMI: Anti-corruption campaigners and the Liberal Democrats are calling for fresh investigations into Russian interference in British politics, after Reform UK’s former leader in Wales admitted to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia. ✍🏼 @bylinetimes.bsky.social

You’re perhaps forgetting that we’ve all actually met Americans.