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Coincidence corner: Nigel Farage and crypto.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Coincidence corner: Nigel Farage and crypto.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
Ringo coins Tomorrow Never Knows (RARE)
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November 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
Billionaire-owned social media platforms have incentivised the mass spreading of incendiary bad-faith communications and political lies on a vast, society-rupturing scale.
We've normalised this madness. But it doesn't have to be like this.
We've normalised this madness. But it doesn't have to be like this.
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Billionaire-owned social media platforms have incentivised the mass spreading of incendiary bad-faith communications and political lies on a vast, society-rupturing scale.
We've normalised this madness. But it doesn't have to be like this.
We've normalised this madness. But it doesn't have to be like this.
I've subscribed to @bylinetimes.bsky.social, as they were one of the only orgs to follow the money trail behind Trump's attack on the BBC. Thank you @nafeez.bsky.social
Subscribe here: subscribe.bylinetimes.com/subscriptions/
Subscribe here: subscribe.bylinetimes.com/subscriptions/
November 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I've subscribed to @bylinetimes.bsky.social, as they were one of the only orgs to follow the money trail behind Trump's attack on the BBC. Thank you @nafeez.bsky.social
Subscribe here: subscribe.bylinetimes.com/subscriptions/
Subscribe here: subscribe.bylinetimes.com/subscriptions/
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EXCLUSIVE: My @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation reveals: 'memo' which sparked President Donald Trump to threaten a $1bn lawsuit against BBC was written by lobbyist at firm paid by pro-Trump tech giants and Trump donors bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
EXCLUSIVE: My @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation reveals: 'memo' which sparked President Donald Trump to threaten a $1bn lawsuit against BBC was written by lobbyist at firm paid by pro-Trump tech giants and Trump donors bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
I requested it and Byline Times did follow the money...
"The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President"
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
"The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President"
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
November 20, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I requested it and Byline Times did follow the money...
"The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President"
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
"The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President"
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
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Nightmarish idea for a startup tbh
November 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Nightmarish idea for a startup tbh
Airstrip One
Astonishing to see people fussing over this as if it's just another bit of internal BBC navel gazing and not the senile emperor of a dying global hegemon enforcing fealty from one of its most loyal satrapies.
Exactly, so the BBC didn't need to shoot themselves in the reputation by editing it that way. But they did, and here we are
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Airstrip One
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NYT opinion section defends enslaving AI should it become conscious.
Maybe one day we can talk about real problems too!!! 🤞🏻
Maybe one day we can talk about real problems too!!! 🤞🏻
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
NYT opinion section defends enslaving AI should it become conscious.
Maybe one day we can talk about real problems too!!! 🤞🏻
Maybe one day we can talk about real problems too!!! 🤞🏻
"The incoherence is the point... fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology"
Abbie Richards @abbierichards.bsky.social is wonderfully eloquent
THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!
November 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
"The incoherence is the point... fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology"
Abbie Richards @abbierichards.bsky.social is wonderfully eloquent
November 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Abbie Richards @abbierichards.bsky.social is wonderfully eloquent
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Great piece by Fred Turner on the pivot from Californian ideology of connection (which built the web) to Texan ideology of extraction and theocracy thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...
thebaffler.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Great piece by Fred Turner on the pivot from Californian ideology of connection (which built the web) to Texan ideology of extraction and theocracy thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...
Re: Resignation of the BBC’s Director General Tim Davie, please follow the money.
Eugenicist / fascist tech bro multi-billionaires with weird TESCREAL beliefs (inc. pro human extinction) and a lot of crypto,
fund:
Eugenicist / fascist tech bro multi-billionaires with weird TESCREAL beliefs (inc. pro human extinction) and a lot of crypto,
fund:
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Re: Resignation of the BBC’s Director General Tim Davie, please follow the money.
Eugenicist / fascist tech bro multi-billionaires with weird TESCREAL beliefs (inc. pro human extinction) and a lot of crypto,
fund:
Eugenicist / fascist tech bro multi-billionaires with weird TESCREAL beliefs (inc. pro human extinction) and a lot of crypto,
fund:
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My guess is that a right wing Director General of the BBC resigning for not being right wing enough is probably bad.
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
My guess is that a right wing Director General of the BBC resigning for not being right wing enough is probably bad.
Tim Davie's resignation is largely due to "crybullying" foreign billionaires. Billionaires want unchecked power - which means they will not tolerate even a hint of criticism. www.usefulideasproject.com/p/political-... #bbc
Political crybullying
A tactic used to close down the space needed for political debate.
www.usefulideasproject.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Tim Davie's resignation is largely due to "crybullying" foreign billionaires. Billionaires want unchecked power - which means they will not tolerate even a hint of criticism. www.usefulideasproject.com/p/political-... #bbc
Jack Antonoff explaining the production of 'Please Please Please' - Behind the Song www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLAo...
November 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Jack Antonoff explaining the production of 'Please Please Please' - Behind the Song www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLAo...
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I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.
Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.
Feels like so many of our convos are revolving about how voters respond to what politicians are doing, or what parties’ positions on issues are, without much actual empirical sense of what they actually know about those topics.
October 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.
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This is an interesting piece but I just read it going “the missing bit is the section on how the internet has fried everyone’s brains”.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK
How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.
www.bbc.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
This is an interesting piece but I just read it going “the missing bit is the section on how the internet has fried everyone’s brains”.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
British media keen to persuade us that charging the owners of a £3million house an extra £10,000 in "mansion tax" every year is a "fantasy" because wealthy people don't like to pay tax, or something.
October 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
British media keen to persuade us that charging the owners of a £3million house an extra £10,000 in "mansion tax" every year is a "fantasy" because wealthy people don't like to pay tax, or something.
"Everything must be seen and experienced before it can be recycled, shredded or, as a last resort, binned. We must honour and mourn. We must absorb the past out of each object, so it can turn into empty rubbish. This alchemy is deeply exhausting."
"... when they arrived for the wake, they looked around the rooms with older faces and young eyes." great line from Anne Enright, on the agony of clearing her family home www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
October 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"Everything must be seen and experienced before it can be recycled, shredded or, as a last resort, binned. We must honour and mourn. We must absorb the past out of each object, so it can turn into empty rubbish. This alchemy is deeply exhausting."
"... when they arrived for the wake, they looked around the rooms with older faces and young eyes." great line from Anne Enright, on the agony of clearing her family home www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
October 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"... when they arrived for the wake, they looked around the rooms with older faces and young eyes." great line from Anne Enright, on the agony of clearing her family home www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Normal Times in Dire Times
Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.
frederickjoseph.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...