John O'Connell

John O'Connell

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Londoner escaped to Staffordshire. โœŠ Political Activist ๐Ÿ๏ธ Biker ๐ŸŽฅ Movies Freak ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Linux Geek ๐Ÿ‘น Troll Hunter.

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John O'Connell
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Hi !! Veteran Fighter against Right Wing Hatred (literally, once, now electronically) Identifier of Anonymous Hate Accounts (I have old school geek skills) Rider of Motorcycles (Yes, plural) Welcome.

John O'Connell
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The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

John O'Connell
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Unrelated, but my favourite song from Les Miserables is 'Empty Chairs at Empty Tables'. ... ...

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social

By all accounts this is what most of the recent Reform media events have looked like. Bubble well and truly burst

John O'Connell
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Why did #Trump / #Republicans choose this unimportant individual as a spokesperson? #Minaj isn't even a US Citizen so she can't vote. Her father is in jail. Her brother is in jail. Maybe her family just represents those 'Republican values'. ...

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Heโ€™s described as a โ€œTory Activistโ€. No mention at all that he worked directly for Kemi Badenoch, in her office. He was a Tory Employee, and apparently, vetted as such.

Andrew Fisher@fisherandrew79.bsky.social

What's remarkable about this article is that there's no mention of the police. No mention of a charge, an investigation, an arrest, even an interview www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukTory activist in 'contract killing broker' claim had worked for party HQJack Ross was contracted to do social media work for the party until earlier this year, the BBC has been told.
John O'Connell
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A reminder that Russia are currently four years in to a war with Ukraine, that Putin said would be won in three days.

Dmitry Grozoubinski@explaintrade.com

"Suicidal provocation of Russia while our armed forces are at their most woeful state since WW2". Mate, the Russian army is currently pulling T-55's out of storage and losing ~1,800 men a day in foot and motorcycle assaults that achieve nothing. This is "poke the bear" nonsense.

dmitryopines.substack.comโ€˜Poking the Bearโ€™: From Putin to TommoRejecting the worldโ€™s dumbest idiom.

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Jan Rosenow
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Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

bbc.co.uk'It's offensively cheap': How solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclearAfter defying projections, solar's dramatic growth means it is overtaking nuclear as a global power source. Here are seven reasons for solar's success, and where it might go from here.
John O'Connell
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The continuous, never-ending stupidity and excuses of #Reform. They organised a Business Conference on a Monday and were surprised why so few showed up. Farage, of course, who would have signed off the choice of day and date, blamed his staff. ...

John O'Connell
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Just in case you're wondering why people around the world have a big problem with #Genocide #Israel. "Where would the Palestinians go?" "We'll just kill them." ...

John O'Connell
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At this point I remain baffled why the Tories that were in charge of the UK's #Covid Response are not in jail for fraud, corruption, misconduct in a public office, and excess deaths due to their incompetence.

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Ciaran Martin
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A month ago, Sir Jim Ratcliffe lectured the Prime Minister, telling him he should run Britain in the same way he runs Manchester United

John O'Connell
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After all that and a busy week, now chilling back with Radio 3 Unwind and Cinematic Soundtracks through pretty good headphones. Part of my regular Sunday night routine. It's like hitting a reset button before the Monday arrives. ...

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Rebecca Taylor
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Guardian now reporting that Student List will have a majority in the Serbian Parliament!! ๐Ÿ‘ #Serbia www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

theguardian.comVuฤiฤ‡ concedes Serbian election, says Student List will be the largest party โ€“ Europe liveStudent List movement projected to have 138 seats in the new parliament, well clear of the 126 required for majority, to Vuฤiฤ‡โ€™s 104
John O'Connell
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Laila Cunningham, of #Reform, wants to reverse all of this. Laila Cunningham, of #Reform, wants your kids to breathe the smog and dirt again.

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John O'Connell
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So .. a Far Right Watch Summary after the weekend. An 'A' List of 64 'anonymous' far right user accounts, - the very worst offenders: All posting threats of violence, rape or death. All reported - but that's just the beginning. ...

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John O'Connell
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Some background: What is FRW? A group of us used to do this years ago, under the banner of 'Far Right Watch', mainly on that other place (you know the one). Anyways, we're back at it. Old geeks, old school skills. We're quite good at it. You might say, we got the band back together ... ...

John O'Connell
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So .. a Far Right Watch Summary after the weekend. An 'A' List of 64 'anonymous' far right user accounts, - the very worst offenders: All posting threats of violence, rape or death. All reported - but that's just the beginning. ...

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We continue: 650+ accounts on our 'B' List which we consider 'borderline' but we have AI monitoring those accounts 24/7 to look for keywords denoting threats and violence. Too many to monitor manually, so we let AI do the work. It's pretty efficient, especially as that number will only grow. ...

John O'Connell
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So .. a Far Right Watch Summary after the weekend. An 'A' List of 64 'anonymous' far right user accounts, - the very worst offenders: All posting threats of violence, rape or death. All reported - but that's just the beginning. ...

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Family: Of the 44: 31 have Facebook profiles. 22 of those profiles are open. 15 have family members linked in profiles. - Full package of violent and hate-filled posts dropped into their timeline and family members tagged. It's called consequences. ...

John O'Connell
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All accounts, identified or not, sent a no-so-polite message that they are on our radar. Perhaps they'll take the hint and close their accounts. Perhaps others will see the activity and choose to moderate their behaviour. Total Death threats received so far: 131. All reported. ...

John O'Connell
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So .. a Far Right Watch Summary after the weekend. An 'A' List of 64 'anonymous' far right user accounts, - the very worst offenders: All posting threats of violence, rape or death. All reported - but that's just the beginning. ...

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Employment: Of the 44: 23 employers identified. 7 found to be self-employed. 1 is a pensioner. 7 are on UC or benefits of some kind. The rest, no occupation or employment identified. ...

John O'Connell
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23 employers identified. - Full package of violent posts sent to employers, head office, or local office. Little feedback from them, but they have no duty to do so. 7 found to be self-employed. - Full package of violent posts dropped into local Trade Directories and Company Facebook profiles. ...

John O'Connell
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So .. a Far Right Watch Summary after the weekend. An 'A' List of 64 'anonymous' far right user accounts, - the very worst offenders: All posting threats of violence, rape or death. All reported - but that's just the beginning. ...

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John O'Connell
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And yes, we're NOT BIG FANS of AI in general but it does feel quite satisfying to be using it for this purpose. 44 account operators identified IRL. About our average Hit Rate. (We'll keep working on the others) ...

John O'Connell
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Summary: Police Action: 15 identified sufficiently (and threats sufficiently severe) to warrant police reports - Full package of evidence posts sent to local forces. We believe that there are now 11 active investigations from this week, and still 9 from previous weeks. ...

John O'Connell
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So .. a Far Right Watch Summary after the weekend. An 'A' List of 64 'anonymous' far right user accounts, - the very worst offenders: All posting threats of violence, rape or death. All reported - but that's just the beginning. ...

John O'Connell
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Fed to our *nix/*sh/Python scripts (A little bit of Rust, Ruby, SQL and C++ in there, and increasingly, a bit of AI), all running on a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl) (If you didn't understand any of that, don't worry.) ...