Roland Tansley ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ

Roland Tansley ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ

@rotal.bsky.social

Fully affiliated member of the Don't be Dickheads to Each Other Party. ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ "To maintain a tolerant society, we must not tolerate the intolerant." - Roland Tansley, serial plagiarist, currently in dispute with Karl Popper's estate

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Ever wondered where TV news channels find all these young guests with near identical hard-right libertarian views? Well it turns out they're being pushed out by specialist 'talent agencies' backed by pro-Trump cash bylinetimes.com/2024/10/08/t...

bylinetimes.comThe Pro-Trump Money Pushing Libertarian 'Young Voices' on British TVTalent agencies funded by right-wing American fossil fuel billionaires are helping to funnel hard right views onto our TV screens

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โ€˜If Vladimir Putin is allowed to succeed in reducing Ukraine to a vassal state, he will not stop there. Our security โ€” British, French, European and transatlantic โ€” would be jeopardised.โ€™ www.ft.com/content/ad00...

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Lebanonโ€™s displaced citizens are returning to a sobering trail of destruction, with entire neighbourhoods obliterated. Barely a village has been left untouched, exposing a scale of civilian suffering that has surpassed previous wars with Israel on.ft.com/4eOl06p

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Roland Tansley ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ reposted

Can you imagine if this was Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. The global outrage? It would be an image seared into your memories. But I bet for many of you, as this is Gaza, it's the first time you've seen this angle.

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๐Ÿ“ขย App Version 1.95 is rolling out now (1/6) Lots of bugfixes and performance improvements in this one!

Roland Tansley ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ reposted

The General Election petition is another Reform con job. They are fucking traitors implementing Bannonโ€™s Republican playbook. Good old fashioned British signees here. The fake patriots doing Putinโ€™s work for him. Obviously. As usual.

Roland Tansley ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ reposted

1/ ๐Ÿšจ Conspiracy theories about the 2024 election miss the bigger picture. The truth? It wasnโ€™t one night, one hack, or one fraud. It was a system rigged in plain sight โ€“ right in front of us. The playbook was out in the open for years. But hardly anyone paid attention. Hereโ€™s how they did it... ๐Ÿงต

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Letโ€™s talk a bit about what you, an average German newspaper reader in 1933, would have learned about Hitlerโ€™s rise to power. Letโ€™s assume you read the โ€œVossische Zeitungโ€, a comparatively liberal middle-class newspaper. In modern times, the Berlin State Library library letโ€™s you read it online: 1/

zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de 1933 - ZEFYS ZEFYS, das Zeitungsinformationssystem der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin ist ein Portal fรผr den Nachweis und Zugriff auf aktuelle und historische Zeitungen aus Deutschland und der ganzen Welt.

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๐Ÿ”ดJeremy Clarkson, James Dyson and Junk Stats: Is This the Best the Anti-Inheritance Tax Farming Lobby Has to Offer? How millionaire landowners are using dubious statistics to campaign against the Governmentโ€™s inheritance tax reforms bylinetimes.com/2024/11/19/j...

bylinetimes.comJeremy Clarkson, James Dyson and Junk Stats: Is This the Best the Anti-Inheritance Tax Farming Lobby Has to Offer?Millionaire landowners are using dubious statistics to campaign against the Government's inheritance tax reforms

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"1% of the population own half the land in England...the media have portrayed a very distorted view of the countryside, how land is used & who owns it" Great to speak to @mrjamesob.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk about the #ClarksonTax protests - watch the full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-kR...

youtube.com'Small farmers deserve support but not tax-dodging landowners' | LBC analysisYouTube video by LBC

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Wish this got as much coverage as the landed gentry having to pay some tax ... Child poverty is at its highest ever level - but yeah let's interview whinging millionaire landowners about their 'hardship' ...

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"If it wasnโ€™t plain before, recent years have brought home that Britain is an inescapably European country." Terrific column by Janan Ganesh on a disastrous decade for UK foreign policy:

ft.comHow Britain squandered the best hand in the worldHaving had three friends in high places โ€” the US, the EU and China โ€” the UK contemplates life with none

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โ€˜Classic BBCโ€™ :)

BBC Newsnight@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

โ€œSo itโ€™s not about you, itโ€™s not about your farm and the fact you bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax?โ€ @vicderbyshire.bsky.social speaks to Jeremy Clarkson at the farmersโ€™ protest in Westminster where thousands of farmers are protesting the governmentโ€™s inheritance tax plans. #Newsnight

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โ€œSo itโ€™s not about you, itโ€™s not about your farm and the fact you bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax?โ€ @vicderbyshire.bsky.social speaks to Jeremy Clarkson at the farmersโ€™ protest in Westminster where thousands of farmers are protesting the governmentโ€™s inheritance tax plans. #Newsnight

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This man who's protesting today because he'll have to pay a bit more tax said that public sector workers striking to be paid a living wage should be shot! The Government is working so we have an NHS, Schools, decent transport, and a country fit to live in!

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The National Farmers' Union, which you'll hear from a lot opposing inheritance tax, is not on the side of ordinary Brits. It acts more like a land owners club. See this from them, opposing access rights (via the Right to Roam campaign)

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Bluesky is built to make social more like the Web again, so we will never suppress links. Link to your writing, your art, your personal site โ€” this is the social internet, designed from the ground up to be open and interoperable.

Matt Pearce@mattdpearce.com

Hard to describe as a journalist how grateful I am to have a text-based app that does not suppress hyperlinks. I donโ€™t know if people realize exactly how hostile the corporate internet has gotten toward news.

Roland Tansley ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ reposted

as an experiment, I posted the same post to twitter and bluesky. here is the time series of engagements (sum of comments, reposts, likes) from the two platforms. Note that I have 39K followers on twitter and 7K here, so engagement per follower here is more than 10 times higher here on bluesky.

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Britain really has to focus now on securing its borders - against the influx of dark US money and the influence of foreign oligarchs. Much much more dangerous to democracy than a few small boats

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Kemi Badenoch and four leading Shadow Cabinet members have all received donations from funders of a Tufton Street climate science denial group Badenoch now says she is a "Net Zero sceptic" and backs calls to scrap "radical" climate change measures bylinetimes.com/2024/11/05/k...

bylinetimes.comKemi Badenoch and Shadow Net Zero Secretary Funded by Backers of Tufton Street Climate Science Denial GroupThe Conservative party leader and several leading members of her new Shadow Cabinet have ties to the opaquely-funded group campaigning against plans to reach Net Zero