Robin Wilton 🇱🇧
@komadori.bsky.social
Privacy advocate. Germ me for Bluesky DMs:
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Good piece from Katie Normington at De Montfort University reminding us the post 92 universities have done excellent research for a long time and that this ought not be endangered by the White Paper call for specialisation
wonkhe.com/blogs/labour...
wonkhe.com/blogs/labour...
Labour must not repeat history by sidelining research in post-92 universities
The abolition of the binary divide in HE made visible the wealth of research excellence in what became known as the post-92 part of the sector. Katie Normington worries that forcing specialisation ris...
wonkhe.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Good piece from Katie Normington at De Montfort University reminding us the post 92 universities have done excellent research for a long time and that this ought not be endangered by the White Paper call for specialisation
wonkhe.com/blogs/labour...
wonkhe.com/blogs/labour...
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It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
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This week we’re hosting digital & in-person actions calling on platforms like YouTube & Reddit to resist age verification mechanisms that will censor vital information off the internet!
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-12...
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-12...
Online ID checks censor abortion information, Fight for the Future calls on platforms to resist
Digital rights nonprofit, Fight for the Future, is following up on a week of grassroots actions against online ID verification with a week of digital and in-person actions calling on platforms to resi...
www.fightforthefuture.org
December 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This week we’re hosting digital & in-person actions calling on platforms like YouTube & Reddit to resist age verification mechanisms that will censor vital information off the internet!
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-12...
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-12...
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1/US stepping up attacks on the EU. This has left many in Europe scratching their heads but it is part of the neo-royalist agenda. The EU stands for the rules based order and stands in the way of a new order based not on rules but clique interests.
www.politico.eu/article/top-...
www.politico.eu/article/top-...
Top US official says EU regulation ‘undermines’ NATO ties
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said Europe’s policy agenda was hurting its credibility in Washington.
www.politico.eu
December 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
1/US stepping up attacks on the EU. This has left many in Europe scratching their heads but it is part of the neo-royalist agenda. The EU stands for the rules based order and stands in the way of a new order based not on rules but clique interests.
www.politico.eu/article/top-...
www.politico.eu/article/top-...
Farage's strategy throughout his time as an MEP was to turn up when he could get a PR video clip out of it, and otherwise to steer clear of any risk of getting put on the spot. He's allergic to accountability, and that's not going to change.
It's telling that Kuenssberg finally has no Reform guest, so that they dodge any question of Farage's racism
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Farage's strategy throughout his time as an MEP was to turn up when he could get a PR video clip out of it, and otherwise to steer clear of any risk of getting put on the spot. He's allergic to accountability, and that's not going to change.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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This country benefits more from a poor person who’s a good person than it does from a billionaire who’s a shit.
December 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM
This country benefits more from a poor person who’s a good person than it does from a billionaire who’s a shit.
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How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
December 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
I stand by what I wrote 12 years ago, in response to a Scoble article that said privacy advocates were overdoing their objections to Google Glass. No, we weren't. jumpingqi.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/t...
In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.
Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.
futurism.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I stand by what I wrote 12 years ago, in response to a Scoble article that said privacy advocates were overdoing their objections to Google Glass. No, we weren't. jumpingqi.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/t...
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@daphnek.bsky.social puts it very well too: bsky.app/profile/daph...
Don't let anyone tell you that the Commission's DSA enforcement against X is about speech or censorship.
That would, indeed, be interesting. But this is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring laws that would get bipartisan support in the U.S. (I bet similar bills *have* had that support.) 1/
That would, indeed, be interesting. But this is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring laws that would get bipartisan support in the U.S. (I bet similar bills *have* had that support.) 1/
December 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
@daphnek.bsky.social puts it very well too: bsky.app/profile/daph...
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read the kates @katestarbird.bsky.social
Don't fall for the manipulative "censorship" framing of EU's fines against X for DSA violations. The EU is trying to enforce their laws. X is breaking them. And the U.S. government is defending big tech, billionaries, & bullshitters rather than protecting users. www.linkedin.com/posts/daphne...
Don't let anyone tell you that the Commission's DSA enforcement against X is about speech or censorship. https://lnkd.in/g3Cyeeyk
That would, indeed, be interesting! But this is just the EU… ...
Don't let anyone tell you that the Commission's DSA enforcement against X is about speech or censorship. https://lnkd.in/g3Cyeeyk
That would, indeed, be interesting! But this is just the EU enforcing...
www.linkedin.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
read the kates @katestarbird.bsky.social
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BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake?
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
December 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake?
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
I bet McCrery gets paid in full for work done to date. Trump is always scrupulous in ensuring his contractors, lawyers etc. are paid.
December 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I bet McCrery gets paid in full for work done to date. Trump is always scrupulous in ensuring his contractors, lawyers etc. are paid.
Good. This is the kind of robust pushback the anti-trans propaganda movement urgently needs and richly deserves.
December 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Good. This is the kind of robust pushback the anti-trans propaganda movement urgently needs and richly deserves.
Farage is expensively educated. He had the opportunity to use that education to grow up, and to reason his way beyond the racist, sexist, homophobic attitudes of the time. While many others did just that, he chose not to: that's no-one's fault but his own. He's a waste.
Nigel Farage's analogy between antisemitic and racist comments attributed to him during his schooldays and the BBC's Black and White Minstrel Show must go down as one of the most absurd comments ever made by a British politician. Does anyone seriously believe that this man is fit for high office.
December 5, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Farage is expensively educated. He had the opportunity to use that education to grow up, and to reason his way beyond the racist, sexist, homophobic attitudes of the time. While many others did just that, he chose not to: that's no-one's fault but his own. He's a waste.
Enshittification, Part 509.
![Comic. Doing a task using a company or organization’s website: [flowchart] Go to website, try to log in → Did it work? → Yes → Try to do your task. → Did it work? Yes → Nice! Done! If logging in did not work → Spend hours troubleshooting account / login. If that works, go to Try to do your task. If no → Give up and call customer service. If spending hours troubleshooting doesn’t work, also give up and call customer service. After calling customer service: Hold message: “Did you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website? Just go to w-w-w dot…” → Throw phone and laptop into the sea.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiewqnkcrrc4tgla7j5skyz2djf3mrrvre3577c4xcgzurvq33bw4y@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Enshittification, Part 509.
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🔴 Farage's Reform took in £10M in donations in last quarter - more than any other party.
£9m of that came from one donor - Christopher Harborne.
The same Harborne who gave Brexit Party £10m+, mostly after BXP stood down from Tory seats in 2019...
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-black-...
£9m of that came from one donor - Christopher Harborne.
The same Harborne who gave Brexit Party £10m+, mostly after BXP stood down from Tory seats in 2019...
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-black-...
The ‘black hole’ in Reform UK’s finances
Plus: We’ve spotted Liz Truss in Davos (again)
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:08 AM
🔴 Farage's Reform took in £10M in donations in last quarter - more than any other party.
£9m of that came from one donor - Christopher Harborne.
The same Harborne who gave Brexit Party £10m+, mostly after BXP stood down from Tory seats in 2019...
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-black-...
£9m of that came from one donor - Christopher Harborne.
The same Harborne who gave Brexit Party £10m+, mostly after BXP stood down from Tory seats in 2019...
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-black-...
Shortest measurable units of time:
- the interval between hitting "Post" and seeing the obvious tpyo in your message;
- the time between an authoritarian accusing an opponent of something, and the discovery that it was not so much an accusation as a confession of their own sins.
- the interval between hitting "Post" and seeing the obvious tpyo in your message;
- the time between an authoritarian accusing an opponent of something, and the discovery that it was not so much an accusation as a confession of their own sins.
This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
popular.info
December 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Shortest measurable units of time:
- the interval between hitting "Post" and seeing the obvious tpyo in your message;
- the time between an authoritarian accusing an opponent of something, and the discovery that it was not so much an accusation as a confession of their own sins.
- the interval between hitting "Post" and seeing the obvious tpyo in your message;
- the time between an authoritarian accusing an opponent of something, and the discovery that it was not so much an accusation as a confession of their own sins.
It's interesting, isn't it, that the racist politicians who think insufficiently "British" people shouldn't be allowed to stand for elected office don't have any qualms about receiving massive sums from people who aren't even UK residents?
December 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
It's interesting, isn't it, that the racist politicians who think insufficiently "British" people shouldn't be allowed to stand for elected office don't have any qualms about receiving massive sums from people who aren't even UK residents?
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Crypto-investor who lives in Thailand gives record-breaking donation to Reform UK, to help it win power in a country he doesn't live in.
Britain's political funding laws are a charred and smoking ruin. Ducking change was a catastrophic mistake by Labour.
www.ft.com/content/db73...
Britain's political funding laws are a charred and smoking ruin. Ducking change was a catastrophic mistake by Labour.
www.ft.com/content/db73...
Reform UK gets record £9mn donation from Christopher Harborne
Nigel Farage’s party attracts far more funding than both Labour and the Conservatives
www.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Crypto-investor who lives in Thailand gives record-breaking donation to Reform UK, to help it win power in a country he doesn't live in.
Britain's political funding laws are a charred and smoking ruin. Ducking change was a catastrophic mistake by Labour.
www.ft.com/content/db73...
Britain's political funding laws are a charred and smoking ruin. Ducking change was a catastrophic mistake by Labour.
www.ft.com/content/db73...
"Carry On Grifting"
A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"Carry On Grifting"
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EFF: “After Years of Controversy, the EU’s Chat Control Nears Its Final Hurdle: What to Know”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/133436
#ChatControl #EndToEndEncryption #censorship #privacy #surveillance
https://alecmuffett.com/article/133436
#ChatControl #EndToEndEncryption #censorship #privacy #surveillance
EFF: “After Years of Controversy, the EU’s Chat Control Nears Its Final Hurdle: What to Know”
Good primer on the remaining badness: After a years-long battle, the European Commission’s “Chat Control” plan, which would mandate mass scanning and other encryption-breaking measures, at last cod…
alecmuffett.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
EFF: “After Years of Controversy, the EU’s Chat Control Nears Its Final Hurdle: What to Know”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/133436
#ChatControl #EndToEndEncryption #censorship #privacy #surveillance
https://alecmuffett.com/article/133436
#ChatControl #EndToEndEncryption #censorship #privacy #surveillance
Exhibit n of ♾️
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With the new brand of politicians who depend on information warfare just to stay in office, every accusation is always projection of their own failings. Always.
Dozy Donald.
December 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Exhibit n of ♾️
bsky.app/profile/adam...
bsky.app/profile/adam...
With the new brand of politicians who depend on information warfare just to stay in office, every accusation is always projection of their own failings. Always.
Dozy Donald.
The realities of Trump aging in office:
He appears to doze off during events.
His public appearances mostly occur during a short window: Between noon and 5pm.
He sits while others stand.
His covers bruises with makeup.
He had an MRI scan that he tried to hide from the public.
He appears to doze off during events.
His public appearances mostly occur during a short window: Between noon and 5pm.
He sits while others stand.
His covers bruises with makeup.
He had an MRI scan that he tried to hide from the public.
December 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
With the new brand of politicians who depend on information warfare just to stay in office, every accusation is always projection of their own failings. Always.
Dozy Donald.
The realities of Trump aging in office:
He appears to doze off during events.
His public appearances mostly occur during a short window: Between noon and 5pm.
He sits while others stand.
His covers bruises with makeup.
He had an MRI scan that he tried to hide from the public.
He appears to doze off during events.
His public appearances mostly occur during a short window: Between noon and 5pm.
He sits while others stand.
His covers bruises with makeup.
He had an MRI scan that he tried to hide from the public.
Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Dozy Donald.