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Good morning from Ozzy.

The EU is working on how to stop Russia from laundering its reputation through international sporting events, but as it talks, Moscow creates new facts on the ground. It remains unknown when the measures will be announced. In the meantime, Russia's lobbying to return to sports continues unabated.

If there are Choc Hobnobs in the house, I'll eat the lot in one sitting. So the last time I bought a pack was 3 years ago. They cost £1. Yesterday, in the same shop: £2.50. Inflation is 5% Not 150% Should cost £1.16 Not £2.50 Sometimes you lose sight of just how badly you're being ripped off.

Stop what you are doing and look at this lovely story. A photography student in the 80s took pictures of punks and mods on the street in Preston. He’s now tracked them down and photographed them again. The pictures and stories are really ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

⚡️️️️️️️Russia's assault on Ukraine's energy grid is a war crime, UN says. Russia’s attacks on energy infrastructure, which weaponize winter to inflict suffering, amount to war crimes, a UN inquiry has found.

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

may Lula make Zuck face the consequences

“Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” 💯

First Orban, now Vučić. Both fundamentally undone by rank corruption of their regimes. Which is so often the reality of the authoritarian right in power. Really worth paying heed to in Western Europe right now

Sportswashing continues. 🤬

"Some people cannot afford/don't have the space for extra groceries..." A close runner-up. The vast majority of people CAN keep a few provisions. Doing so will plainly reduce panic and make life easier for gov't AND those who can't afford to, during an emergency. In short, grow up.

"Stockpiling was illegal during the war..." One of the weakest (and, for some reasone, most repeated) arguments against taking basic steps to prepare for a short disruption, like losing power for a couple of days. Keeping a wind up torch and some bottled water is not "stockpiling" ffs.

🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...

appreciate well-intentioned invites to "important" AI discussions but most of the time folks have decided the outcome through their "it is inevitable" framing. no thanks i am much more interested in building my own table than coming to a table that's already set feel welcome to join my table

My friend is super cool. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

A gambling company closely linked to Nigel Farage’s right-hand "Posh George" Cottrell got its licence using a document which appears to have been faked. Major coop w/ @coramazov.bsky.social and @georgegreenwood.bsky.social democracyforsale.substack.com/p/gambling-s...

<head banging against wall repeatedly.gif> www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Maybe the BBC should get someone who actually knows what he is talking about then.

Timely does not quite do this justice.

It's always the fucking plants. On any house listing if the rooms feature pristine green plants, and slightly more than you'd expect, it's absolutely AI.

Of course he did. And then he dissembled about it

The French set fire to everything on the streets of Paris once every 3 years to ensure the Sun Deity offers a bountiful harvest next Spring, a rich tradition stretching back millenia, and one that will continue regardless of the ethnic demographics of the French population.

You can't continue to run a system that impoverishes and infuriates a significant percentage of the population. There are no walls high enough to keep out an angry, hungry quarter of the population with nothing left to lose.

What's happening in France is hard to justify but easy to understand. In 1981 the UK had riots because 1 in 10 were unemployed and couldn't afford to eat. In 2026, 1 in 5 are IN WORK and can't afford to eat. What happens when AI doubles that number? What levels of policing will control it?

This is nothing less than a battlefield intervention by the US in favour of Russia.

This is gold

Thread below this video gave me cause to remember this madness The way the crypto industry has bought the corrupt politicians and hoodwinked many of the non corrupt is wild www.bbc.co.uk/news/technol...

Trump, Musk, Weidel, Le Pen: These are collaborator-populists who triumph at the ballot box and yet would sell their country to a Russian despot iandunt.substack.com/p/these-are-...

"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding." www.ahmath.org/statements

they really are determined to make this place as bad as everywhere else

Superb analysis of AI prose: how it works and how it feels silentroom.media/the-craft/br...

This is an important point. I became a British citizen in 2013, but because I got my NI number in 2008, the lazy government records my various jobs as going to foreigners

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

It's already been said many times that the U.S., under President Donald Trump, was turning its back on Ukraine. But the past few days show something worse than abandonment: Trump is now actively helping Russia win the war.

No. Nationalise it. Don’t abolish it

Bloody hell that's terrifying.

Reminder that the EU had no compunction about banning Russia Today. If anything, Musk’s behaviour is more egregious - directly assisting a foreign enemy's military attack. And this is on top of his support for race riots, Nazis and CSAM! By any measure, a threat to national security.

This is so moving to read, in light of where we are now.

Many Starlink terminals in Ukraine are financed by Poland. Its Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has put Elon Musk on notice regarding the evolving situation.

Autumn sunshine and the cats of Walthamstow are still in bloom.

⚡️ 'This cannot be a coincidence' — Ukraine's Starlink access restricted without warning, Zelensky adviser says. Ukraine relies on Starlink to operate its mid-strike drones in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Looking to support Ukrainian drone operations following recent reports on U.S. pressure over Russian refinery strikes? Here is a list of official foundations, unit fundraisers, and state platforms funding Ukraine's UAV capabilities: kyivindependent.com/angry-at-tru...