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Sadly, I'd bet money on Reform winning in 2029.

Labour and the Tories don't oppose him. They just reinforce his arguments and suggest they'll do the same things differently. That loses supporters while promoting Farageists. The UK has no visible way out right now. I hate it here.

Having a rather amusing conversation after I pushed back on the advice that using public wifi without a VPN will get you hacked. I bet someone $10k that I could log into my bank account via their wifi network and they couldn't even tell me my username. This guy is telling me he'd "use Pegasus" 1/3

🧵 I think it would help if people stopped ‘feeling’ whether or not a person or party is/was extreme or far right.

There’s actually a fairly respected definition. Let me take you through it & then you can decide if someone meets the definition. This is aimed, in particular, at journos [1]

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

bluesky: we give you moderation tools so you can make your experience here whatever you want, which is why we don't ban transphobes

also bluesky: just don't use those tools in a manner that makes us sad

Yeah, I just hope we can work out how to turn back.

It's also sad that reform has reinvented itself as the 3rd choice now. It has fewer MPs than the Lib Dems or SNP. Before the last election, it won zero seats and relied on defectors. But now the whole country treats them as the opposition.

I agree. But, as a country, we don't seem to be willing to do anything different.

And no, I don't think Labour will survive either.

Both parties lost the ability to lead the country 20 years ago. Now it's just "parrot any populist nonsense and wonder why people don't vote for them."

While I agree with this, the reality is that the Conservative Party hasn't been Centre-Right for a decade. The Labour Party is a Centre-Right party and the ideological child of Thatchers policies today. The Tories killed themselves a long time ago because power and money corrupted them all.

Reform UK’s Skelton East, Redcar and Cleveland by-election candidate Craig Holmes, trousers down like a toddler doing a pee pee on someone’s property.

He’s standing for election next Thursday.

I've been in stand still traffic for 54 minutes now.

Comically, Google Maps says there is congestion with a 19-minute delay...

It's said that for nearly an hour... when does the 19 minutes start?

I think it's good that the government want to spend a lot of money on pointless private sector projects. . .

Wait...

UK government says digital ID won't be compulsory – honest : Even spy-tech biz Palantir says 'steady on' as 2.76M Brits demand it be ditched

After decades of every successive government opposing ID cards (digital or not) while in opposition, then supporting it when in power, we still have zero actually worthwhile reasons for it. It is just adding complexity and digital risk to existing things.

www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/u...

A daft black cat in a box (he barely fits in)

I didn't order this??

I don't think so. But I've never tried before. I can't see a way right now, though.

It's pretty wild that the Labour party is going out of its way to lose the next General Election, four years before polls open.

It's like they watched the tories self-sabotage and decided to do the same, but faster.

I'm truly lost for words as to how stupid they are.

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!!!Urgent – please read!!!: !!!Ongoing crisis and human rights breaches!!! Due to a human rights failure in Finland based on fraud. I'm being forced to self-represent in the Helsinki Court. Three years ago, via defamation and fraud, a corrupt former legal aid lawyer had me banned from public legal aid in Finland. It is a constitutional crisis, but due to the face a sitting district court judge is involved, authorities refuse to act or acknowledge it. This also means they refuse to recognise a 4E Pre-Arraignment Dismissal from Ireland. This Puts Finland in ongoing breach of ‘Treaty on the functioning of the EU Article 82’ of EU Law. This denies me access to justice in my police brutality, corruption, Torture, and sexual violence case in ireland. via institutional abuse, I have been forced into a blindspot where I essentially have no rights. and where I allegedly do, it is lip service. stemming from the public legal aid ban, no law firm will take the cases. “not for legal aid money” “this is too complex for legal aid money” I am trying to escape severe domestic abuse: systems abuse, coercive control abuse, and financial domestic violence from an ex-partner who has weaponised false reporting. This is a complete denial of constitutional rights, justice, and human rights. This has left me trapped in an impossible legal maze with no way out except self-representation with no legal training, no finnish. as ridiculous and unbelievable as that sounds. Cont: 1/

⚠️ URGENT HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS PLEASE READ:⚠️

Facing an impossible legal situation in Finland with 3 days to prepare court submissions with no Finnish, no legal training.

A Constitutional crisis involving corrupt officials blocking access to Justice

Images explain better & how you can help if able
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100% of mathematicians agree that cutting prices by 1500% is impossible.

Lots of people misunderstand the difference between London and the UK.

Being surveilled by cameras is not a good thing. It doesn't justify other "not good things."

Compulsory ID cards are not a good thing. History shows it becomes a way to target minorities and other oppressed groups.

There are almost zero public surveillance systems where I live. The excessive surveillance is bad, not a reason to do other bad things.

ID cards change the perspective of the citizens relationship to the state. Their existence creates a new category of crime as well - not carrying ID.

You need to read this thread.

I was getting as many as 20 calls per day from these scam farms. I received maybe 2-3 calls per year from callers not in my contact list.

It’s absurd to expect me to answer hundreds and hundreds of junk calls, just in case, to meet your silly and subjective definition of a “moral character.”

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

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