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Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · Apr 27

"End times fascism is a darkly festive fatalism – a final refuge for those who find it easier to celebrate destruction than imagine living without supremacy"

Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · Apr 25

Silicon Valley is run by people who genuinely think the world as we know it is going to end in the next few decades. Many also WANT this to happen: they WANT the biological world to be replaced by a new digital world. They WANT "posthumans" to take the place of humans. A 🧵:

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Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 1h

Well fuck, if businesses can't, working people sure as shit can't either.

Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 1h

Keep drawing attention to the founding members..

a group of men are posing for a picture together .

Alt: Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 4h

Lloyds warns car finance scandal could cost it £2bn.

No one forced it to mis-sell financial products. Execs got bigger bonuses but won't bear any of the cost.

Lloyds promised to investigate HBOS frauds, promised a report by 2018. Still waiting. FCA does nothing.

Lloyds warns car finance scandal could cost it £2bn

The bank has set aside an additional £800m, saying the number of eligible claims is expected to be higher than previously thought.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 3h

BREAKING NEWS

In a move that has shocked absolutely no one with basic arithmetic skills, populist right wing party trying to win votes with fantasy economics traipses around in fetching hair shirt after all their policies are found to be economic fantasy.

Reform UK
Reform UK abandoning manifesto pledge of £90bn in tax cuts, deputy leader admits
Richard Tice says party will concentrate on cutting civil service and scrapping net zero once in government

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Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 14h

a man in a suit is waving his hat in front of a man in a hat .

Alt: Winston churchill, founder of antifa

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 22h

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 1d

He is fucking part of it.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

“Irrelevant”? The Power Trip at Durham County Council

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“Irrelevant”? The Power Trip at Durham County Council

When elected representatives start calling other elected representatives “irrelevant,” democracy begins to erode from within.

substack.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Private equity wrecked UK high street, says Iceland Foods boss

PE model - low wages, cut staff/investment, high debt, profiteering, tax abuse.

PE devoured Debenhams, Maplin, Byron Burger, Cath Kidson, Comet, Flybe, Poundworld, Toys R Us.

Controls care homes, vets, supermarkets.
archive.ph/tJVkV

Private equity has wrecked the high street, says Iceland boss

Richard Walker says private buyers take out costs and fail to invest then sell to the highest bidder in a cycle that makes retailers steadily worse

www.thetimes.com

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Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 2d

Those quotes are doing all the work in stopping libel action..

But it is clear what the headline is trying to achieve.

Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 2d

And they all seem to have a penchant for domestic abuse.

Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 2d

How much meat and dairy does he want tampons to have?

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Russell Scott @russellscott1.bsky.social · 2d

Baroness Mone isn’t the only Tory Peer named as a VIP Lane referrer.

Also on the list:

Lord Agnew
Lord Gove
Lord Leigh
Lord Feldman
Lord Chadlington
Lord Marks
Lord Deighton
Lord Bethell
Lord Lansley
Lord Prior
+10 other Tory MP’s 👀⤵️

Listen to my chat with @BylineTimesPod :

bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 3d

Billions of pounds worth of unused #PPE literally went up in smoke.

@russellscott1.bsky.social has been investigating the UK's biggest waste of taxpayer's money - and wonders why no one has been held to account.

@goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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Byline Podcast: PPE, The Pandemic and Cronyism with Russell Scott

Adrian Goldberg hears from Russell Scott, author of 'VIP Lane – Cronysim and the Pandemic', which is out now via Byline Books.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Harvey White. Learn mor...

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Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 2d

People forget who the founding members of antifa were..

a black and white photo of a man wearing a top hat and making a peace sign .

Alt: Winston Churchill

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students-watch.bsky.social @students-watch.bsky.social · 3d

“We took the freedom of speech away”.

And they will unironically defend him hearing this.

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Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 3d

No dear.

A mandatory ID.. the app isn't the problem.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s Nathan Gill, traitor, guilty of 8 charges of Russian Bribery.

By the point he recorded this he had already taken bribes but was yet to be arrested.

He was Leader of Reform UK in Wales.

Reform UK have been silent.

x.com/NathanGillME...

Nathan Gill on X: "I’ve just voted ➡️ Reform UK, if you vote for the same old parties, you cannot expect change. Go out and #VoteReformUK and we will change things for good. https://t.co/H0xg0MKe31" / X

I’ve just voted ➡️ Reform UK, if you vote for the same old parties, you cannot expect change. Go out and #VoteReformUK and we will change things for good. https://t.co/H0xg0MKe31

x.com

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Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 3d

I too, missed out winning the London Marathon.

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Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 3d

Bullshit.

Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 3d

Simple, write placards saying..

"WE LOVE AMERICA"

"WE HATE WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO IT"

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Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 3d

I cannot unsee Constable Odo in Eric trump..

a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is standing next to a woman in a red dress

Alt: Star trek deep space 9 Constable Odo

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Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 3d

No, what **you** are debating is logic..

But logic based on a flawed understanding of syntax and semantics.

Get the first part right before thinking of analogies.

Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 3d

** note. You do have to provide residency status.

This isn't determined by passport alone.

Oh wait, look, now it is mandatory to have digital ID to open a bank account!

Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, sorry, dear.

Your use case doesn't work.

One is a private entity.. the other is government border checks when entering a completely different jurisdiction.

Of course, if you actually focus on the text, you'll see the rollout is mandatory.. subsequent additions to it will be too.