Head Like A Hat
@prettyhatmachine.bsky.social
Likes: 228.6mm nails, collective bargaining, and abolishing Oligarchy.
Dysgu Cymraeg.
Labelled “rude” by Bluesky for upsetting Nazis.
All comments before noon poorly proofread. Worse later.
Butlerian Odonian; Syndicalist burdened with Electoralism.
Dysgu Cymraeg.
Labelled “rude” by Bluesky for upsetting Nazis.
All comments before noon poorly proofread. Worse later.
Butlerian Odonian; Syndicalist burdened with Electoralism.
Pinned
This setting in @bsky.app is being weaponised by the Far Right.
Comments expressing any frustration with ICE, over Gaza, etc, are being censored.
It is worth disabling this and using other moderation lists until @moderation.bsky.app are less incompetent and employ people who understand context.
Comments expressing any frustration with ICE, over Gaza, etc, are being censored.
It is worth disabling this and using other moderation lists until @moderation.bsky.app are less incompetent and employ people who understand context.
I have a suspicion that the last words Trump will hear as he chokes his last will be “Mastercard send their regards”.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK bank bosses plan to set up Visa and Mastercard alternative amid Trump fears
Exclusive: First meeting to be held over domestic payments system aimed at reducing reliance on US networks
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 10:32 PM
I have a suspicion that the last words Trump will hear as he chokes his last will be “Mastercard send their regards”.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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😬Not the best look for Reform’s Gorton & Denton candidate Matt Goodwin
White supremacist far right activist says
“you've appeared on our podcasts, had dinner with us, had us write for your Substack, and sought our advice on how to write your social media posts”
Tad awkward😬
White supremacist far right activist says
“you've appeared on our podcasts, had dinner with us, had us write for your Substack, and sought our advice on how to write your social media posts”
Tad awkward😬
February 16, 2026 at 9:55 PM
😬Not the best look for Reform’s Gorton & Denton candidate Matt Goodwin
White supremacist far right activist says
“you've appeared on our podcasts, had dinner with us, had us write for your Substack, and sought our advice on how to write your social media posts”
Tad awkward😬
White supremacist far right activist says
“you've appeared on our podcasts, had dinner with us, had us write for your Substack, and sought our advice on how to write your social media posts”
Tad awkward😬
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Reform is soft on Russia. And it's stuff like this which explains why 👇🏻
Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.
Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil
The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?
goodlaw.social
February 16, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Reform is soft on Russia. And it's stuff like this which explains why 👇🏻
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Note that this is a newish amendment to the Save America Act. The earlier version was plenty bad. But this is even worse. Curiously, I had a really hard time finding this latest version online. I knew to look only bc the Brennan Center alluded to an amendment along these lines.
Page 15 of the GOP’s Save America Act wld force all 50 states to submit their voter rolls to the DHS’s centralized voter purge program (called “SAVE”), which they know has had error rates as high as 14% & links to an SSA database that they know was compromised by DOGE. #NoOnSave 1/
February 16, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Note that this is a newish amendment to the Save America Act. The earlier version was plenty bad. But this is even worse. Curiously, I had a really hard time finding this latest version online. I knew to look only bc the Brennan Center alluded to an amendment along these lines.
Charlie don’t surf.
February 16, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Charlie don’t surf.
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A new study warns UK winters are becoming significantly wetter — with rainfall rising 7% for every degree of warming.
Yet Reform dismiss the scientific consensus and want scrap action to stop the climate crisis.
Yet Reform dismiss the scientific consensus and want scrap action to stop the climate crisis.
February 16, 2026 at 7:01 PM
A new study warns UK winters are becoming significantly wetter — with rainfall rising 7% for every degree of warming.
Yet Reform dismiss the scientific consensus and want scrap action to stop the climate crisis.
Yet Reform dismiss the scientific consensus and want scrap action to stop the climate crisis.
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🚨BREAKING NEWS!
Medics that broke windows at JP Morgan HQ to expose fossil fuel financing links to climate devastation found NOT GUILTY today by jurors.
The climate crisis is a health crisis and health professionals have a duty to act when lives are at risk.
Read more here:
healthforxr.com
Medics that broke windows at JP Morgan HQ to expose fossil fuel financing links to climate devastation found NOT GUILTY today by jurors.
The climate crisis is a health crisis and health professionals have a duty to act when lives are at risk.
Read more here:
healthforxr.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:18 PM
🚨BREAKING NEWS!
Medics that broke windows at JP Morgan HQ to expose fossil fuel financing links to climate devastation found NOT GUILTY today by jurors.
The climate crisis is a health crisis and health professionals have a duty to act when lives are at risk.
Read more here:
healthforxr.com
Medics that broke windows at JP Morgan HQ to expose fossil fuel financing links to climate devastation found NOT GUILTY today by jurors.
The climate crisis is a health crisis and health professionals have a duty to act when lives are at risk.
Read more here:
healthforxr.com
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Poll Analysis: Norstat 10th - 13th of February 2026
Holyrood seats projection:
SNP ~ 64
Reform ~ 21
Labour ~ 18
Green ~ 11
Conservative ~ 10
Lib Dem ~ 5
Independence:
Yes ~ 51%
No ~ 49%
Holyrood seats projection:
SNP ~ 64
Reform ~ 21
Labour ~ 18
Green ~ 11
Conservative ~ 10
Lib Dem ~ 5
Independence:
Yes ~ 51%
No ~ 49%
Poll Analysis: Norstat 10th – 13th of February 2026
The SNP remain hot favourites to win the election, as Labour struggle to stay ahead of Reform and their favoured coalition partners, the Lib Dems, emerge with their worst poll showing in a fair while.
ballotbox.scot
February 16, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Poll Analysis: Norstat 10th - 13th of February 2026
Holyrood seats projection:
SNP ~ 64
Reform ~ 21
Labour ~ 18
Green ~ 11
Conservative ~ 10
Lib Dem ~ 5
Independence:
Yes ~ 51%
No ~ 49%
Holyrood seats projection:
SNP ~ 64
Reform ~ 21
Labour ~ 18
Green ~ 11
Conservative ~ 10
Lib Dem ~ 5
Independence:
Yes ~ 51%
No ~ 49%
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The government has decided to drop plans to postpone 30 local elections.
Labour Dubbed A 'Zombie Government' After Starmer Commits To Yet Another U-Turn
The government has decided to drop plans to postpone 30 local elections.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
February 16, 2026 at 5:26 PM
The government has decided to drop plans to postpone 30 local elections.
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The government is playing whack-a-mole with online safety.
Plans to further age-gate the Internet dodges the real issue – the power of Big Tech.
Failing to regulate AI and the age verification industry puts the rights of users in peril.
Read our response ⬇️
www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...
Plans to further age-gate the Internet dodges the real issue – the power of Big Tech.
Failing to regulate AI and the age verification industry puts the rights of users in peril.
Read our response ⬇️
www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...
Online harms: Millions could be forced to use unregulated age verification
Open Rights Group has responded to the government’s latest announcements on online safety, including proposals to: Big Tech Programme Manager James Baker said: “The Government is playing whack-a-mole…
www.openrightsgroup.org
February 16, 2026 at 5:17 PM
The government is playing whack-a-mole with online safety.
Plans to further age-gate the Internet dodges the real issue – the power of Big Tech.
Failing to regulate AI and the age verification industry puts the rights of users in peril.
Read our response ⬇️
www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...
Plans to further age-gate the Internet dodges the real issue – the power of Big Tech.
Failing to regulate AI and the age verification industry puts the rights of users in peril.
Read our response ⬇️
www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...
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Matthew Goodwin's thing on giving women incentives to have more children - does it apply to migrant women/women of colour or just white british women? Pls can a journo ask him.
February 16, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Matthew Goodwin's thing on giving women incentives to have more children - does it apply to migrant women/women of colour or just white british women? Pls can a journo ask him.
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🚨 The government has agreed an #NHS drug price hike with Trump’s administration - and neither the public nor MPs have had a say in it.
This deal could force the NHS to pay BILLIONS more for medicines, pushing other services to breaking point.
Watch, share, and tag your MP. ⬇️
#PatientsBeforeProfits
This deal could force the NHS to pay BILLIONS more for medicines, pushing other services to breaking point.
Watch, share, and tag your MP. ⬇️
#PatientsBeforeProfits
February 2, 2026 at 3:41 PM
🚨 The government has agreed an #NHS drug price hike with Trump’s administration - and neither the public nor MPs have had a say in it.
This deal could force the NHS to pay BILLIONS more for medicines, pushing other services to breaking point.
Watch, share, and tag your MP. ⬇️
#PatientsBeforeProfits
This deal could force the NHS to pay BILLIONS more for medicines, pushing other services to breaking point.
Watch, share, and tag your MP. ⬇️
#PatientsBeforeProfits
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Pleased to contribute to this piece, which reveals the scale of the financial strain on graduates.
Campaigners like @rethinkrepayment.bsky.social are right to demand the Chancellor unfreeze repayment thresholds & commit to meaningful reform, before a generation loses faith in the system altogether.
Campaigners like @rethinkrepayment.bsky.social are right to demand the Chancellor unfreeze repayment thresholds & commit to meaningful reform, before a generation loses faith in the system altogether.
Students in England leave university with three times mor...
New data reveals England had the most expensive public higher education cost per year of OECD countries
observer.co.uk
February 16, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Pleased to contribute to this piece, which reveals the scale of the financial strain on graduates.
Campaigners like @rethinkrepayment.bsky.social are right to demand the Chancellor unfreeze repayment thresholds & commit to meaningful reform, before a generation loses faith in the system altogether.
Campaigners like @rethinkrepayment.bsky.social are right to demand the Chancellor unfreeze repayment thresholds & commit to meaningful reform, before a generation loses faith in the system altogether.
In Wales you have a lot of English migrants who moved for affordable housing.
Those with kids may be very tempted by this policy.
Those with kids may be very tempted by this policy.
20 hours a week of free childcare for every child aged 9 months - 4 years.
Putting money back in families' pockets, combatting child poverty, and giving every child the best start in life ✨
Vote Plaid Cymru on 7 May.
Putting money back in families' pockets, combatting child poverty, and giving every child the best start in life ✨
Vote Plaid Cymru on 7 May.
February 16, 2026 at 3:14 PM
In Wales you have a lot of English migrants who moved for affordable housing.
Those with kids may be very tempted by this policy.
Those with kids may be very tempted by this policy.
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"People are worried, and angry, about having to hand over biometric scans of their face to overseas companies just to access online platforms."
🗣️ ORG's James Baker on people being forced to use age verification systems linked to Palantir's Peter Thiel.
www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...
🗣️ ORG's James Baker on people being forced to use age verification systems linked to Palantir's Peter Thiel.
www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...
Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel
Following global pushes for age assurance by governments, Persona is increasingly being used by major online platforms to carry out biometric age checks.
www.openrightsgroup.org
February 16, 2026 at 2:34 PM
"People are worried, and angry, about having to hand over biometric scans of their face to overseas companies just to access online platforms."
🗣️ ORG's James Baker on people being forced to use age verification systems linked to Palantir's Peter Thiel.
www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...
🗣️ ORG's James Baker on people being forced to use age verification systems linked to Palantir's Peter Thiel.
www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...
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douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.
February 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
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In hindsight perhaps letting the most antisocial techbros decide how we communicate whilst also letting them have full control over what art becomes popular with their algorithms was a terrible idea.
February 16, 2026 at 9:41 AM
In hindsight perhaps letting the most antisocial techbros decide how we communicate whilst also letting them have full control over what art becomes popular with their algorithms was a terrible idea.
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Among the reasons I’m burned out and inimical to tech now is in my last job I watched social media companies fund meaningful outside research into halting the use of their platforms by terrorists and violent extremists at a platform design level and then ignore it all or do the exact opposite.
for all this social media research we have we sure don't actually use it to inform the social media we build
February 16, 2026 at 7:23 AM
Among the reasons I’m burned out and inimical to tech now is in my last job I watched social media companies fund meaningful outside research into halting the use of their platforms by terrorists and violent extremists at a platform design level and then ignore it all or do the exact opposite.
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How to baffle and confuse online advertisers.
A VPN masks your IP address, making it harder for companies to track you and build a profile that can be traded by the adtech industry.
✅️ Get a reputable VPN – don't use a free one.
➡️ www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/how-to-...
#StopStalkerAds
A VPN masks your IP address, making it harder for companies to track you and build a profile that can be traded by the adtech industry.
✅️ Get a reputable VPN – don't use a free one.
➡️ www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/how-to-...
#StopStalkerAds
February 16, 2026 at 9:15 AM
How to baffle and confuse online advertisers.
A VPN masks your IP address, making it harder for companies to track you and build a profile that can be traded by the adtech industry.
✅️ Get a reputable VPN – don't use a free one.
➡️ www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/how-to-...
#StopStalkerAds
A VPN masks your IP address, making it harder for companies to track you and build a profile that can be traded by the adtech industry.
✅️ Get a reputable VPN – don't use a free one.
➡️ www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/how-to-...
#StopStalkerAds
We Didn't Start The Class War: The Tudor Homelessness Crisis
YouTube video by J. Draper
youtu.be
February 16, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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I've often wondered how Steven Pinker's amazingly sloppy research and baseless claims* have for so long received a free pass. I wonder whether it could have something to do with a. his connections with the rich and powerful; b. his claims often aligning with what they want to hear.
*See next post.
*See next post.
This isn't something distant or far away. Super-agent & close Epstein ally, John Brockman had huge influence. His 'rockstar' writers, scientists and academics dominated our book pages & broadsheets.
We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
2/
We need nothing less than a total revisionist history of the last 20 years.
2/
February 16, 2026 at 8:53 AM
I've often wondered how Steven Pinker's amazingly sloppy research and baseless claims* have for so long received a free pass. I wonder whether it could have something to do with a. his connections with the rich and powerful; b. his claims often aligning with what they want to hear.
*See next post.
*See next post.
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NEW from @tbij.bsky.social:
The government has rejected calls by its OWN independent Migration Advisory Committee for visa reforms to protect migrant farm workers from exploitation
Labour seems wedded to a model of immigration based on creating a subclass of exploited worker.
It's sick.
The government has rejected calls by its OWN independent Migration Advisory Committee for visa reforms to protect migrant farm workers from exploitation
Labour seems wedded to a model of immigration based on creating a subclass of exploited worker.
It's sick.
February 16, 2026 at 8:43 AM
NEW from @tbij.bsky.social:
The government has rejected calls by its OWN independent Migration Advisory Committee for visa reforms to protect migrant farm workers from exploitation
Labour seems wedded to a model of immigration based on creating a subclass of exploited worker.
It's sick.
The government has rejected calls by its OWN independent Migration Advisory Committee for visa reforms to protect migrant farm workers from exploitation
Labour seems wedded to a model of immigration based on creating a subclass of exploited worker.
It's sick.
February 16, 2026 at 8:20 AM