Steve West

Act until Nov 3rd to stop LinkedIn from abusing your data to train AI! | Tuta Soon your data like your resumes and profile information will be used to train LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Co.'s artificial intelligence. And no, you didn’t opt-in. Take action and stop this now.

LinkedIn's default permission for using your data for AI kicks in on November 3. Here's where to switch it off on your account:

> Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement

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A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe The Mastodon migration from Twitter in 2022 was massive for the non-commercial community network: The number of accounts swelled with more than…

Always worth reading @hildabast.bsky.social

This time on a possible @bsky.app to Mastodon migration

Network effects
Fediverse
The Academic addiction to @altmetric.bsky.social

Much more thoughtful discussion

absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/10/30/a...

#AcademicSky

The Discord Hack is Every User’s Worst Nightmare A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

So the Discord hack is the latest. People forced to upload their ID to a private company in order to use its service get hacked. Again.
Thanks again to the stupid UK #OnlineSafetyAct
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

Mastodon.social is not a good way to join Mastodon. If you’re already on it, you might want to move your account to a different Mastodon server. | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the ... An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

If anyone’s planning to give Mastodon a try, here’s my top tip: fedi.tips/its-a-really...

REVEALED: The big polluter and arms industry bosses overseeing government departments Two in three Whitehall department non-executive directors have corporate backgrounds - and only one is a trade unionist - analysis released ahead of Labour conference reveals.

One feature of the British state’s undemocracy is that Whitehall departments have boards of directors, made up of ministers, civil servants and non-executive directors. I went through the CVs of all of the latter, and found extraordinary corporate capture: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

BallotBoxScot's profile - Liberapay Ballot Box Scotland is already the leading Twitter source for all things elections in Scotland, but I need your help to keep growing!

Incidentally if you value the fact that I do things like "my normal day job, then a rare evening extended bit of day job, and then poll reporting immediately upon getting home despite it being after 10pm", why not chip a few quid into my donations pot? liberapay.com/BallotBoxScot

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

In the #GreenSurge of 2015, the biggest day saw 3,000 people join the party.

Could you help us towards that today?

Tense scenes in Glasgow city centre right now as hundreds of anti immigration protesters gather at the top of Buchanan Street, with counter protesters from trade unions and other anti racist groups massing further down the precinct

Palantir just took over the CDC.
The head of the UK branch of Palantir UK is Louis Mosley, grandson of renowned British fascist Oswald Mosley.
Palantir has 24 contracts with key UK public institutions; the NHS, Ministry of Defence, the police force, the Cabinet Office, and the DLUHC.

A 'good constituency MP'? how ‘hard working local politicians’ are facilitating a genocide I ran into my MP today...

How ‘hard working local MPs’ are facilitating a genocide: substack.com/home/post/p-... - by me

"He went out to get flour for his family, was shot in the stomach and then a tank ran over him"

Humza Yousaf describes how his father-in-laws's cousin was killed in Gaza.

I don’t know how to wrap up the day and fall asleep. So many people died today. Again.

A humanitarian aid line was attacked and five people killed. They needed that aid because of Russia’s war, and Russia killed them for trying to get it.

1/3

You should only provide government issued ID when it's for something critical, such as:
* Getting a passport
* Obtaining a citizenship card
* Acquiring a driving license
* Opening bank accounts
Any other request for your ID by any app will likely lead to it being leaked or sold.

Post by @nixCraft@mastodon.social that’s especially pertinent to UK folks on Bluesky:

If any random app asks for government issued IDs with a selfie, it's a major red flag. 🚩
Do not provide them. Please share this warning with all your friends/family.

British surgeon Nick Maynard, who has just returned from volunteering in Gaza, explains to #GMB viewers how Israel confiscates all baby formula that doctors like him try to take with them.

Why does Israel do this? Because they want to starve Palestinian babies to death.

These pictures will be remembered for centuries.

Future generations will ask:

"Who did what, and when?

Who made this abomination possible?

Who spoke out - and who remained silent?"

Make sure you have good answers.

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.

🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

We are pleased to announce our candidates for the 2026 Scottish Parliamentary elections!
💚
Help us elect the most Green MSPs ever to Holyrood next year!
members.greens.scot/join

You can follow our lead candidates here:
@lornaslater.bsky.social
@katenevens.bsky.social
@qmanivannan.bsky.social

Photo of Palestine demo in Edinburgh

Massive turnout at Parliament Square to say Stop the Genocide in Gaza

"A US based aid group, which runs a clinic in Gaza hit by the Israeli military, has told the BBC the site was a bloodbath. At least 15 Palestinians were killed, including at least 9 children, who were queuing outside the health clinic for maternal checks and supplements"

I'm not holding my breath as he has completely avoided talking about the issue in public, and he sent a long, wooly, standard reply supporting the Govt position when emailed.

Hoping that my MP @chrismurraymp.bsky.social has a conscience and votes against the cuts to disability benefits which will drive my family and friends around the UK into poverty, making their lives virtually impossible.

Text: Scottish Greens National Action Day Help elect Q Manivannan Join our big Green action day in the Fountainbridge-Craiglockhart by-election campaign! Saturday 21st June 10@@am Meet at the steps to Asda on New Market Rs, near the Corn Exchange venue Opportunities to doorknock and leaflet Followed by music, food and fun activities at the local canal festival! picture: 9 smiling green activists surround candidate Q in the middle. Some activists are holding bright green vote green posters

14 smiling green activists surround candidate Q in the middle, standing outside a building. Kate is holding a bright green vote green poster

9 smiling green activists pose sitting and standing at the end of the canal, with a canal boat just visible behind them. Some activists are holding bright green vote green posters, some leaflets about candidate Q, and one has a collapsible bike

Candidate Q poses with MSP Lorna Slater by the gardens of Rosebank colonies. Q is holding a canvassing clipboard and Lorna is holding leaflets about Q.

Yesterday was our penultimate door-knocking session for Q's campaign - and was our biggest yet!

One more to go - join us for our action day tomorrow at 10am!

Let's get @qmanivannan.bsky.social elected 💚🌱

A different Steve West (independent socialist) is standing in the Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart by-election. I've met him and he's a decent guy.
He wouldn't get my 1st preference vote if I lived in that ward though.
I'm backing our Green candidate @qmanivannan.bsky.social to win next Thursday.

Liverpool has the most cooperative housing outside of London. So why does no one know about them? Ella Benson Easton journeys through the city’s co-ops to find out why this radical way of living is one of Liverpool’s best kept secrets

In my twenties, me and my friends set up Equinox Housing Co-op in Longsight, Manchester. It’s still going strong.

We used the same principles of democratic, collective ownership as these brilliant 50 year old housing co-ops in Liverpool.

www.livpost.co.uk/liverpool-ha...

End of 10 Windows 10 ends in 2025. Don’t buy a new PC — revive yours with Linux. It's fast, secure, and help is available to get you started.

There must be lots of folks here who have a Windows 10 PC that can’t be “upgraded” to Windows 11. Several of my friends have grumbled that they will be forced by Microsoft to buy a new PC. Don’t do it!
endof10.org

In #Edinburgh extending 20mph to more streets is being labeled as a “bad scheme” or “unnecessary”.

What’s unnecessary about 40% fewer deaths and 75% fewer children killed on 20mph streets?

Are such deaths and injuries worthy collateral for getting to the next traffic lights quicker?