Emancipated serf

I seem to be very much appreciate by beautiful young women. & highly successful bitcoin traders on here. As an overweight married 61 yr old with limited investible resources this surprises me. I'd go as far as to say I'm a little suspicious of both motives & judgement.

When democracy is killed it happens slowly, almost imperceptibly, it's not a deadly cobra strike it's a gradually but remorselessly tightening pythonesque asphyxiation.

Yes … what have we become?

@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com fyi you and a number of other public figures are featured in deep fake ads running on YouTube for the past 3 or so weeks.

Artists concerned at the takeover of the Festival business by unethical private equity firms are allying with Park neighbours fighting to protect their green spaces from commercial exploitation in London. #saveGunnersburyPark #ProtectBrockwell open.substack.com/pub/partylin...

Just back from Milton Keynes hospital where my Dad had a pacemaker fitted on the NHS & contemplating that in the USA we'd be charged 11 to 14k USD (or our insurance would). Thank the lord @keepournhspublic.bsky.social

@newsagents.bsky.social FYI folks there appears to be a v convincing deep fake ad ft Emily being interviewed on GMB, for an investment scam, running on YT today.

As Honest Bob Jenrick tours the country repeating far-right conspiracy talking points about “two-tier sentencing”, here is the letter his own government sent to the Sentencing Council last year approving the very Guidelines he now claims are evidence of “two-tier Keir”. The man is a fraud.

www.ceh.ac.uk/press/compre...

How Orwellian, how tragic, that the USA, forged by, & the product of, its liberation from its erstwhile imperial oppressor, should now be extorting wealth from an oppressed, sovereign nation. King George must be chuckling from the grave.

Farage et al are not patriots, they are agents of our enemies.

Sometimes the tabloids deserve credit - truth to power manifest

The cost of divisive populist politics is human lives. Shame on you Trump and your retinue of psychophants and crooks.

Early blooms here in London. Momentary respite from the neo fascist resurgence & betrayal of Ukraine by the orange sex pest

If you didn't know... • Exxon • Moulton/Coors • Walmart Have funded Heritage Foundation (#Project2025) for YEARS #Boycott

The extraction of rents by the 1% from wider population became harder after the 2008 crash even though they continue to take bns in subsidies, contracts & own public assets & critical infrastructure. Their response has been authoritarian politics & promotion of division. Trump & Musk personify this

Let's not be hypocritical when it comes to Musk's heritage. Who doesn't have at least one Grandparent who was a raging white supremacist?

On listening to a number of Putin apologists given airtime on @lbc.co.uk today I sought a credible source to challenge their pontifications of the cause of the war & whilst this is from 2022 this take explains why animal failed & explains Putin's motives jacobin.com/2023/02/wolf...

Broken arrow

@mrjamesob.bsky.social - Vis a vis your what is Kemi talking about earlier on @lbc.co.uk - an insightful treatise on the Rights purposely vague ' vision' & how the Centre Left's managerial pragmatism can't compete politically. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I concur.

@iaindale.bsky.social Kudos to you Iain for your thoroughly righteous take down of the callous, extreme, odious Trump supporter. If ever there was a personification of the terrifying spectre of a populist, authoritarian, expansionist, isolationist USA he is it. Dark times sir.

Seems fair

A Sunday am dog walk in Gunnersbury Park West London was a pleasant distraction from what's unfolding in the USA.

Betsy got weekend vibes

Heartbreaking & terrifying in equal measure - WTF is being done to stop & mitigate this scandal!! The high cost of unregulated capitalism. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The hold of the UKs landowners over the establishment casts a long, dark shadow on nature & the rights of ordinary people to experience the "countryside"

Fishy

Is it time to simply stop paying these ecocidal thieves? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Meet Delilah and Betsy my lovable and loving companions.

Truss using legal threats to curtail free speech is one of the greatest examples of shameless hypocrisy & hubris imaginable. It's laughable but also a sad indictment of our politics

$1,131,794,901 That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns. Well, the planet is burning. Don't let them look away.

Slava Ukraine

Make Jacob’s day by making your New Year's resolution joining a union youtu.be/jg0D2yNiqHM?...

Horrifying! Prosecute and convict as was done for George Floyd’s murderer in MN!!

Eton has nearly 4 times Millfield with over £194 million in reserves. apple.news/AiUamcN_ZTOq...

“Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back.”—Gore Vidal

"Some 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers. The revenue per acre is too low to warrant the purchase, unless you are extremely wealthy and are avoiding inheritance tax."

Will the desirable shift to plant based diets ever become the norm? There are so many seemingly compelling reasons to drastically reducing meat consumption and yet..... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So Nigel Farage, who has repeatedly suggested that migration puts women's safety at risk, has been harbouring a senior colleague who was jailed for violently assaulting his own girlfriend

Chat GPT prompt: Create archetypal Spectator TB presenter.... Bingo

FYI X cultists - Bluesky was developed, conceived, designed by the same guy who developed, conceived, designed Twitter aka X - not by the guy who subsequently bought & tanked it, the one who desowned his own child & pretends to be an engineer, not the one who hates workers. Not that guy.

Hear me pontificate & opine on the demise of my former employer Our Price on Radio 4's nostalgic series 'Toast'. Interview recorded at Broadcasting house where I accidentally backed into Vernon Kay at the lift. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Sage advice - we really should block the surveillance we blithely allow & value our personal data as though our lives depend on it - they might!

Mostly white. Mostly male. Not America as it actually looks. America as they want it to look.