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Unemployable philosopher gone technical

Interested in threat models for: energy, food and society

Resources:
https://github.com/jivoi/awesome-osint
https://www.transparency.org/en/library/
https://www.eff.org/wp/surveillance-self-defense-international
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Nothing much here that hasn’t been known for a long time but it is helpful to have people explaining exactly how bleak and disgusting this heist against the public was, and continues to be.
November 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social
Jonathan Freedland is studiously ignoring that Britain's woes didn't arise promptly after 2019. Brexit is not a cause but a symptom: of deindustrialisation, of the failure of neoliberalism, and of the toxicity of the British press.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland
The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Even if this is an idiotic plan to create a monstrous rival that the tremendously left wing Wes can sweep in and defeat, the damage is done here. We will be hearing this shit from the far right for decades, with a stamp of approval from the Labour Party. It is a calamity in itself.
November 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Notice how nobody is asking “How did it ever come to this”, because everyone understands very well exactly how this happened.
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Look upon your works, ye shitey, and despair
* Britain is becoming a more racist country because concerns about migration have been ignored 'Being called a 'fucking Paki' is not a new thing for me, but there's a lot more of it around in recent times than there has been over the course of the rest of my life. 'And more of my own family have been racially abused in that way recently. My family members, my immediate family members, my extended family members, my parents, my siblings, my cousins. There are examples across our family and also the people I represent of more people telling me about being sworn at, told to fuck off home. "Fucking Paki', 'fucking Muslim', headscarf-wearing Muslim women in particular attract 'fucking Muslim' on a regular basis. The position on race relations, I feel, if you're an ethnic minority in Britain, you can say with confidence unfortunately, has deteriorated." * Mahmood on claims by a Labour MP she is trying to 'appease the electorate' with hardline migration policies
November 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Again, it was very obvious more than ten years ago that these politics were absolutely poisonous and certain to spawn horrors, but all the lads were absolutely determined that they were correct and the stupid hippies were wrong, so they dug in their heels and insisted. And here we now are.
November 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
The shift from “migrants are the cause of racism” to “migrants are the cause of fascist rioting” is a big one in political terms but not, I think, in the minds of people who have for decades been saying that it’s not racism at all and even if it is, it’s not bad or shameful.
Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social Follow back The Home Secretary explaining that the rise in racist violence is, actually, the natural response to higher levels of immigration is a state of affairs that can't exist without the government having largely decided that racist violence is, if not legitimate, at least understandable.
November 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
We can’t fix this now, because it would require too many important people to admit they have behaved horrendously, then apologise. They are not going to denounce, fire and exclude each other and then themselves. So it will just get worse and worse, indefinitely.
November 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
This is BTW the logical outcome of seven years of allowing far right racists to set the terms of what racism is, how it works and who is racist. The second we decided to give them the microphone, it was already over.
flyingrodent.bsky.social flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 6h
The shift from “migrants are the cause of racism” to “migrants are the cause of fascist rioting” is a big one in political terms but not, I think, in the minds of people who have for decades been saying that it’s not racism at all and even if it is, it’s not bad or shameful.
Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social Follow back The Home Secretary explaining that the rise in racist violence is, actually, the natural response to higher levels of immigration is a state of affairs that can't exist without the government having largely decided that racist violence is, if not legitimate, at least understandable.
November 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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runningdog.bsky.social
Mate if you’re so underestimated how come all the commentators incorrectly predicted you were going to be awesome
financialtimes.com Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d
'There is a hint in Reeves’ comments that she is acutely aware of her own political mortality.'

Click to read our interview with the UK chancellor on.ft.com/4oS3IuV
November 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Imagine how easy it would be to hang a collossal public death toll around the necks of these clowns right now. Easiest thing in the world, just show the clip from the report announcement, show sobbing relatives talking about they’ve been vindicated after years, then boom: smash cut to this arsehole.
November 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
The day after Leave won the EU referendum was the moment to start monstering fuck out of the Tory party for their idiotic and catastrophic mismanagement. Had we done that then, we might not have had to put up with this shit now.
November 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
It took a two year campaign of digital deep mining, bullshit and screeching to convince the public Old Jezza had a racism issue. This government is straight out wearing black in front of a billowing sixty-foot Union flag like Norsefire, promising to fuck up the migrants. These things are different.
November 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
These things would be equivalent if Old Jezza had made the acceptability of big nose caricatures the core of his appeal to the electorate. They are not even slightly comparable if he didn’t do that, and it is IMO impossible to miss this unless you are determined to miss it.
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
I again point out: the big sales pitch to National Front voters is one of the central planks of the government’s policy platform, and e.g. the mural stuff was a Facebook comment that had to be hacked out of the arse end of digital history by dedicated wingnut cranks, and this distinction matters.
November 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
"You can agree or disagree with him, but Polanski does not pretend to be something he is not.

He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions.

Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes."

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Zack Polanski: ‘People will have to find some other way to hurt me’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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mark-chivers.bsky.social
Current UK party memberships:

🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 Labour 309,000
⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️ Reform UK 260,000
🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟩 Greens 178,680 ⬆️
🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵🔵 Conservative 123,000
🟠🟠🟠🟠🟠🟠 Lib Dems 60,000
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 SNP 56,011
⭕️⭕️⭕️⭕️⭕️ Your Party 50,000 ⬆️
⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ Advance UK 37,000 ⬆️
November 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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shakethescales.bsky.social
Digital ID is a tool which features heavily in Shabana Mahmood's new immigration crackdown.

It's worth looking into these plans, because Starmer is really keen to have similar data on all of us.

Of course, the government would never, ever sell or abuse such data...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
199 we will roll out digital identity for all overseas citizens through the implementation of eVisas and new systems for checking visa compliance... Our ambition is to deliver the systems and capability to determine whether an individual is inside or outside the UK at any given time, and whether they have overstayed their visa. 200. Our introduction of ETA and eVisas means we now know more about everyone coming to the UK. This is already enabling us to maximise the use of upstream interventions to prevent the travel of people known to pose a risk by refusing them permission to travel... So. 201. At the border, we will use what we know about individuals permitted to travel - both what they tell us and what we already know - to determine how we manage their flow through the border and ensure checks are increasingly targeted, using improved intelligence to tackle threats. 202. We will continue to improve data on international flights and journeys within the CTA and explore new technologies to help us better manage these processes. 207. We will also continue to harness the latest developments in artificial intelligence, facial recognition and age assessment technologies to ensure that we gather the most accurate information available on each individual seeking to enter the UK. 208. Put together, the comprehensive, intelligence-led and effective roll-out of eVisas to all foreign nationals resident in the UK will have a transformative impact on our immigration controls: telling us when each individual leaves the country and when they have returned; telling us whether they have the right to work, to rent, to claim benefits or use public services and telling us how long they have the right to stay. Importantly, eVisas will make it much easier for Immigration Enforcement to identify those who try to stay and work in the UK illegally, to track them down and take action against them.
November 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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jacqimac.bsky.social
Starmer argues that voters have judged him too soon—delusional www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
Starmer argues that voters have judged him too soon—delusional
Starmer also thinks he'll still be the PM come the next election—not going to happen. He's growing more and more detached from reality
www.thecanary.co
November 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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rosewasnthere.bsky.social
Uhhhhh who was caught off guard by this?? Anyone paying attention to uk politics would've caught on to the fact that Kruger went nuts years ago
November 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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brianwoolfinder.bsky.social
Starmer "the antidote to Reform is delivery"

Also Starmer " We're cutting your winter heating allowance and disability benefits"

No, not that sort of delivery, Keith.
flyingrodent.bsky.social flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8h
Just so: the financial crisis laid waste to Thatcherism but our politicians and media are all Thatcherites, so they have spent all the time since desperately trying to prop up the Thatcherite consensus. Doing this has led them to the verge of fascism.
New Statesman @NewStatesman "This country has been failing for about 20 years" - @TomMcTague Listen to the New Statesman podcast:
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
I absolutely get this because I went through it between 2019 and 2021: the full round of anger, denial, bargaining, depression and acceptance. And what I ended up with is: politics is not real, 98% of daily politics is meaningless words that mean little more than “Fuck you” and “We decide”.
I feel fucking mental because I've written about it multiple times on here and multiple times elsewhere but it's not done anything, and yet I feel like I have to keep saying it because I'm watching those people fall further and further down the rabbit hole and I have no idea what else to do. I'm watching the fascists win not by being especially cunning or clever but by instead standing around and holding a big sign that says "jump in this hole if you're an easy mark!" and somehow guiding around two thirds of our political elite directly into the big hole. ALT Marie Le Conte @youngvulga... • 3h this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself it is also free to read youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent- you-… I know it shouldn't be the worst thing but somehow it is. Obviously I hate that some of the worst people alive are having a great time but what really gets under my skin, what makes me want to fling myself at the wall until 1 pass out, is that so many people I thought of as "cleverer than a housefly" are falling for it. That's also why I kept struggling to write about it so honestly, by the way. I don't love that I'm essentially arguing that many of my acquaintances are either malevolent or thick as mince - possibly both! - but that's where we've got to. I just can't think of any other explanation. Some of them have said that Bluesky is lame and again: how fucking dim and/or devoid of moral fibre do you have to be to look at a tableau with "occasionally tedious" on one end and actively seeking to destroy the West as we know it" on the other and go hmmm, but I just don't want to sit with the nerds at the front of the bus? Fucking look at yourself in the mirror for a minute there, jesus christ!
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
This is also why the story is always: Everyone thought Iraq had those weapons. We all bought big TVs before the 08 crash! We all agreed austerity was necessary, we all wanted to get Brexit resolved. Because if these things were everyone’s fault, then they were nobody’s fault at all.
November 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
It’s a big self-cleaning impunity machine. This is exactly why - say - an inquiry into corrupt links and cooperation between government, police and media might have been useful, and that’s the reason why the government cancelled it after intense pressure from media and police.
November 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
I’d point out that the Iraq report was instantly binned and never referred to again; that nobody is in prison for the Hillsborough disaster or for *soldiers literally gunning down civilians in the street*, and that there are no notable calls to exact consequences on Boris Johnson. This is standard.
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM