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Of course the UK 'doing a better job' has meant that, instead of 60,000 'unelected bureaucrats' as employed across all EU bodies to serve 27 countries, the UK now has an extra 100,000 bureaucrats aka civil servants to cover the same jobs just for 1 country...

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

This same week we had normally thoughtful Labour MPs reposting positively about exploitation that will further amplify climate change. Crazy. @lizzicollinge.bsky.social

Not quickly enough - needed to be 10 years ago.

Nuffield Trust finds that the NHS surcharge (at £1035/year + £776 for students + children) raises 60% more than the cost of the healthcare it covers, putting £2.5 billion into the NHS Rapid drops in immigration therefore hit the NHS finances www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/articles/ana...

It’s a function of the Right to never admit the fallibility of its economic system. It’s the job of the ethnonationalist to blame “the other” for every grievance. I therefore present you with the least surprising headline in newspaper history.

The NHS has issued new guidance on same sex spaces for patients and staff. This guidance is based on the EHRC code of practice which we believe is exclusionary of trans and non-binary people. We continue to hold serious concerns about the implications of the guidance, and how it will be implemented.

"The Brexit majority has gone for ever – rejoin now has a majority of 9m" "Millions of Brexit voters have died and the young want to get back in" Sounds like a plan #RejoinEU

Her first degree needs revoking; no branch of maths is like AI text output.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social "I support everyones right to self determination but not at the expense of another group because thats racist" Spot on Zack. If self-determination requires the dispossession & displacement of another people its not self determination, its ethnic cleansing & colonisation

Dale Vince, "Zack Polanski said we have double standards in the west" "We allow the genocide, the ethnic cleansing, the apartheid state of Israel, we trade with them, we supply arms to them" "Contrast that to how we treat Russia for it's invasion and occupation of Ukraine"

Fantastic from Zack.

For 10 weeks, we asked five AI chatbots the same questions every day. None repeated the core misinformation they were tested on, but they reported proposals as law, quoted outdated figures and gave different answers on different days. Our first report: fullfact.org/ai-benchmark...

Producer: “Who can we get to represent the views of voters in struggling working class towns?” Researcher: “How about a London born privately educated banjo player who is the son of the billionaire who owns GB News?” Producer: “Perfect!”

I accompanied 1 classmate for a grade exam; took me 90m (including practice, rehearsals) when aged 14.

When Harry met Sally for tax purposes

I will never vote @labouruk.bsky.social again while it continues to demonise disabled, trans and poor people and plays party politics over criticising a genocide which they pretend is bad. Even my Tory MP is less extreme than these despicable fools chasing bigots who will never vote Labour.

Protected groups in the UK Zionists Transphobes Racists Islamaphobes Ablelists The super rich Aristocracy Royals Groups not protected in the UK Muslims (and othee non christians) Trans + people Intersex people Anti war protesters Disabled people Poor people Unemployed people Chronicaly ill people

No-one is more ugly than someone with a poisonous mind.

Viewed from the UK, this is absolutely insane

Congratulations to Nobel Prize winner @deisseroth.bsky.social! Follow along with the prize announcements all week via @nobelprize.org

If you just substitute the words 'working age' for 'fighting age', suddenly the arrival of youngish men and women doesn't sound threatening. Rather, it sounds like exactly what we need for an ageing population.

The decision of a growing number of forces to ditch Palantir shows it is simply not delivering value for money on contracts. It raises further questions about the risk:reward ratio of entrusting the company with sensitive data and contracts.

Result! news.sky.com/story/us-rem...

A spokesman, George Osborne, said "if more of you could come forwards as a fascist tech bro, you could come after hours whenever you like and that would relieve the pressure on queues for people I don't care about" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Barbarism (US) update

I absolutely abhor what the IDF is doing but this afternoon has just hastened the @greenparty.org.uk's journey into the same electoral cul-de-sac that Corbyn's more questionable followers dragged Labour into. What were they thinking?

One of the most racist messages ever created by the Conservatives.

More than 20 NHS trusts in England have stopped using Palantir’s waiting list tools, according to FT analysis that casts doubt on widely cited claims about the success of the controversial data project led by the US software giant. as.ft.com/r/6c8844ae-e...

Make a speech or actually do what he said he wants to do? I'm waiting for actions before getting giddy with excitement

No civilised country has the death penalty.

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Captain Smit Machchhar, who was stabbed while fighting off his co-pilot during a mid-air brawl on a Flydubai flight, was hailed as a hero by the leaders of India and Israel, who said his actions averted a disaster. ft.trib.al/fBgKwMS

See also theologians with numbers or economists as they prefer to be known.

For Decades Doctors Thought Post-Infection Syndromes Were Hysteria, Then Stress, Then Trauma, Before Finally Discovering They Were All In The Mind

Not even a European country. Uefa only have to open an atlas...

Israel fans chanted IDF and made monkey noises at black Irish players during the game against Ireland. Ban Israel.

Keep calling Twitter, Twitter? Will do.

It absolutely blows my fkn mind that the UK Government is currently arresting people for protesting this! #FreePalestine

Absolutely fascinating to see Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Burnham, flailing to adjust her stance to a politician with a moral argument and a positive message, who stands up for his policies and answers her questions clearly. She is getting so agitated at him not playing the game by the 'rules'.

This man pleaded not guilty to THREE attempted murders. The first victim was a Muslim, who they haven't mentioned because they are racist and don't care.

I wonder whether panels such as x.com/MatthewStadl... give @matthewstadlen.bsky.social pause that he should stop letting GB "news" drag his reputation through the mud when appearing on trash like this.