Ian

Ian

@tpfiz.bsky.social

Yorkshire heart, global soul I was retired once.... but that didn't work for me! Fuelled by coffee and good conversation...... but mainly coffee

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Misread that as"undoing the hams of Brexit". Thought that tied it nicely with Liz Truss' insane rantings on Pork Futures 🤣

Amen

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

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The people of Serbia celebrating the defeat of the dictator who held full authoritarian control of their country for nearly 14 years. This is what democracy looks like.

Sir Alan Sugar looks happy

BladeoftheSun@bladeofthes.bsky.social

Lula wins in Brazil. I hope the Right like crying because they are going to be doing a lot of it. Pedro Sanchez will win next in Spain. Now Lula needs to lock up all the traitors who tried to fix the election. They will cry over that too, keep crying those tears are so sweet.

Setting aside the fact that he might actually think that, the fact that a sitting President of the USA would openly use such disrespectful language about an allied country tells you all you need to know about him.

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social

Trump, "I'm not in love with Norway. Frankly, Norway sucks. Norway has become a sh*thouse country" My view: That is the language of a president throwing a tantrum because Norway didn’t give him the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Another stunning defeat for a Trump-aligned right-wing leader in Europe. Serbian students voted out their authoritarian leadership after months of protests against corruption, taking their fight from the streets to the ballot box and turning people power into political power.

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Mark Carney on Elon Musk crippling Ukraine’s Starlink: “I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision… against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of its citizens against naked aggression."

When that milk was poured into a used petri dish and left in the middle of a dung heap at high noon on mid Summers day

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social

Still ageing like milk

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It struck me that almost every seemingly intractable problem on today's front pages could be substantially alleviated simply by taxing the extraordinarily wealthy people and corporations whose greed, short-termism and pursuit of power we protect at the expense of almost everything else.

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⚡️️️️️️️Amid Starlink crisis, Finnish tech giants announce plan to help Ukraine build its own sovereign satellite system. "Ukraine needs secure, sovereign, and high-performance satellite communications systems that it controls," ICEYE CEO Rafal Modrzewski said.

kyivindependent.comAmid Starlink crisis, Finnish tech giants announce plan to help Ukraine build its own sovereign satellite system"Ukraine needs secure, sovereign, and high-performance satellite communications systems that it controls," ICEYE CEO Rafal Modrzewski said in a press release announcing the deal with Kyiv.

Looks like we're flying straight past the 3 day working week that the Tech bosses were stating would be the benefit of AI and going straight for zero.

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At long last... I have found something that I most definitely would not fear!

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Am I having a stroke right now?

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff to Vladimir Putin today: “You talk so much about Trump being a humanitarian, you are a humanitarian also, sir. And I salute that. I commend you.”

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Just 10 people have already poured over $1 BILLION into this year’s midterm elections. 90% has gone to Republicans. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. We need to get Big Money out of our democracy.

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Burnham urges officials to come up with more radical options for Thames Water. Here are some suggestions. Enforce laws. Prosecute execs for harming health, environment. Cancel licence to operate. Put TW into special administration. Nationalise at knockdown price. Apply to all water companies.

theguardian.comBurnham urges officials to come up with more radical options for Thames WaterExclusive: Utility seen as ‘litmus test’ of PM’s promise to bring ‘essentials of life’ under public control

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Worth noting this, in light of Meta's temporary ban on the 'No Kings' Instagram account

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...