Sam Smith

Just going to leave this here

📣 Update on the Scottish Government's announcement of £20m funding for social care sector from CEO of C-Change Scotland, Sam Smith.

Name them
shame them

3 million disgusting nudified images were produced by Grok in just 11 days.

Existing safeguards don’t work; we need preventative measures for AI.

My letter with other MPs to @lizforleicester.bsky.social.

BREAKING from 🇵🇱:

Polish government has appointed a special analytical team that will investigate this matter, Polish PM Donald Tusk announced.

Tusk: “There are signs that Epstein was connected to the Russian intelligence”

French police raid X offices and summon Musk in probe involving sexual deepfakes Grok, the social media platform's AI chatbot, has sparked global outrage for generating a slew of sexually explicit images and Holocaust denial statements.

French police have raided the Paris offices of X and summoned Elon Musk for questioning as part of a cybercrime investigation into artificial intelligence-generated pornographic deepfakes and Holocaust denial. www.ms.now/news/french-...

Trump family crypto firm sold major stake to UAE investment firm The investment, worth a reported $500 million, gave Emirati-backed investors a 49 percent stake in World Liberty Financial, a Trump crypto company.

A crypto company run by President Trump’s family members sold a large stake to investors tied to the United Arab Emirates just days before Trump’s inauguration, linking a Trump family business to a prominent member of the UAE’s governing elite.

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

Staying off the battlefield ‘general election campaigns are where plans for social care go to die’ – Wes Streeting I’ve been ask to contribute to a discussion this week, ahead of next years Scottish el…

Wise words from @neilmcrowther.bsky.social .
How do we debate social care when 'negating the frame reinforces the frame?' The crisis narrative turns people off and offers no solutions.

Staying off the battlefield makingrightsmakesense.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/s...

Greenlandic Politician Tillie Martinussen:
We do not want to be rich like Americans. Look how greedy they are, even trying to invade their friends.
Even if there are minerals and oil under our land-and they are worth far more-we still would not sell ourselves.

Taking over Greenland is not a joke. Trump is sending messages to foreign leaders and making threats that will destroy the most important alliance we have. Are Republicans in Congress and Marco Rubio really ready to throw NATO away because they’re too afraid to stand up to Trump?

“Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi….But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis.” — D. Thompson*

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

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London’s homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade Sadiq Khan says ‘public health’ approach has made the capital one of the safest cities in the western world

More appalling news from dystopia central

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I needed this 👇🙌

Campaigner turned down MBE over ‘scapegoating’ of people with disabilities Exclusive: In letter declining proposed award, Tressa Burke, CEO of Glasgow Disability Alliance, accused government of ‘fuelling hatred’

Honour of a different kind.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Prime Minister Carney announces new support for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine Since Russia’s unprovoked, unjustified, full-scale invasion, Canada has provided nearly $22 billion in multifaceted assistance for Ukraine, including over $12 billion in direct financial support – mak...

Ukraine’s cause — freedom, democracy, sovereignty — is Canada’s cause. At this critical juncture, we are reinforcing our support with up to $2.5B in new loan guarantees and other mechanisms to help Ukraine secure a just and lasting peace, and to recover and rebuild.

www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

🎄 Merry Christmas from C-Change 🎄

▶️ Sam and Will share a short Christmas message, reflecting on the year and thanking everyone who makes our work possible.

#BetterIsPossible #SupportingGoodLives #HumanRightsDefenders #Christmas2025

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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it.

Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Musk promoting a post of the EU flag turning into the Nazi flag

The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent.

It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Nightly votive in the porch garden.

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." — Hannah Arendt
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This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.

And Scout, who is lying, shaking under a blanket 😔