David Innes

You’re right. Reform and their cheerleaders are hurting bad today - it’s absolutely glorious to watch

What a ludicrous waste of money

There seems to be widespread denial about just how extreme Reform is

From setting up a British ICE to ‘undoing the sexual revolution’ this is an extreme policy platform - and one clearly inspired and influenced by Trump’s US and its outriders

Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin faced GB News complaint over colleague’s claim of ‘inappropriate comments’ Exclusive: Nigel Farage understood to have known of grievance against byelection candidate, whose lawyer described it as resolved ‘minor workplace matter’ of miscommunication

There was a complaint from a young woman at GB News about Matt Goodwin's behaviour. Farage knew about it before the by-election selection.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics Plastic production has doubled over the last 20 years – and will likely double again. For author Beth Gardiner, metal water bottles and canvas tote bags are not the solution. So what is?

There are plastic particles in the brains of everyone on the planet yet every year the amount being produced and dumped into the environment goes up.
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The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

Plants like CO2

Plants don't like droughts, floods, fires, unseasonal frosts or being out of sync with their pollinators, which excess CO2 causes

This intelligent man knows all this, but he's using his platform to lie because he owns a coal mine

So much worse than genuine denialism - it's evil

Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said. Continued global heating could trigger climate tipping points, leading to a cascade of further tipping points and feedback loops, they said. This would lock the world into a new and hellish “hothouse Earth” climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach. The climate would also be very different to the benign conditions of the past 11,000 years, during which the whole of human civilisation developed. Continue reading...

Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say

Great job opportunity here for an experienced Project Manager looking for a new challenge . Fantastic team doing really innovative work to address health inequalities

X Posts about London Crime - large growth in number of likes after monetisation introduced

Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced…
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Elon making plans to go to Epstein's island:

If you answer “No” you get an invitation to Mar-a-Lago

Wow -- incredible!!!

Hopefully this means at least one more attacker coming in

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores.

TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.

Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.

Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

Matthew Goodwin, Reform and the politics of resentment The ‘heterodox intellectual’ turned populist is a morbid symptom of the digital age

Reform’s candidate for the Gorton and Denton byelection will be Matthew Goodwin. James Bloodworth profiled the controversial right-wing populist last year, calling him a “morbid symptom of the digital age”:

Just days after a group of Trump-aligned billionaires officially took over TikTok in the U.S., users reported their videos criticizing ICE and the shooting of Alex Pretti were suppressed or delayed.

The oligarchy is tightening its grip over even more of our media.

Beware.

Really hope you’re right!

I think there are 2 reasons why Farage is allowing this:
1) He’s got over confident and thinks he can get away with it
2) He’s realised since the council elections that relying on recruiting Twitter trolls as candidates probably isn’t a very good idea

Can’t stop thinking about what we will happen closer get to elections in 2026 - and even more importantly in 2028 - that MAGA will be on course to lose

in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission

Who's secretly filming fake TikToks inside Londoners' homes? We tracked down the viral video account invading people's houses to spread false claims about immigrants.

This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

WHO removing Us Flag

A National Security Assessment highlighted nature as a national security risk earlier this week.

Yet yesterday’s Habitats Regulations report shows many of England’s most important habitats are rapidly declining.

Just 3% are in good condition.

And half are in an unfavourable and worsening state 🧵

This could have been the lead story from every news organization in the country if any of them cared that the president is deeply racist.

Blistering thread.

Freedom of speech except for when reporters are asking awkward questions apparently

Anyone who still thinks there’s going to be free and fair midterms is surely kidding themselves at this point

It’s not popular relative to where they’ve been in recent years but 34% for a government that’s been in power for almost 20 years is still pretty good going and I’d be surprised if there are many parallels elsewhere in Europe

It's all about this. Rampant impunity everywhere. Men who think rules are for other people. Because they are rich. Because they have nukes. Because they own the tech. Sometimes all three.