Hilary
@hilarym.bsky.social
Dog & cat owning nana. 🐩 🐈⬛
🐦 refugee, of course (was charleyfarley).
Slightly overwhelmed at starting over again
- goodness me; I wrote that a year ago! 😳 Didn’t realise I’d been here that long
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🐦 refugee, of course (was charleyfarley).
Slightly overwhelmed at starting over again
- goodness me; I wrote that a year ago! 😳 Didn’t realise I’d been here that long
Repost not necessarily endorsement
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Today I asked the former council Tory candidate, who has gone to live in Russia on an “anti-woke” visa and whose business wants others to do the same, what so attracted him to live under the kleptocratic, murderous Russian regime. This was our exchange.
youtu.be/TgqI7U33o5A?...
youtu.be/TgqI7U33o5A?...
What is Putin’s ‘anti-woke’ visa? | LBC
YouTube video by LBC
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December 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Today I asked the former council Tory candidate, who has gone to live in Russia on an “anti-woke” visa and whose business wants others to do the same, what so attracted him to live under the kleptocratic, murderous Russian regime. This was our exchange.
youtu.be/TgqI7U33o5A?...
youtu.be/TgqI7U33o5A?...
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"I has the precious!"
[AI Satire]
[AI Satire]
December 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"I has the precious!"
[AI Satire]
[AI Satire]
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Ofcom has reversed course. After dismissing complaints about Rupert Murdoch’s transphobic TalkTV, the regulator will now be launching an investigation into the rightwing broadcaster 🔎
https://goodlaw.social/ycba
https://goodlaw.social/ycba
TalkTV: Ofcom bows to pressure | Good Law Project
We said we’d sue over Ofcom’s decision to dismiss 22,000 complaints about transphobia on TalkTV – now the regulator has caved.
goodlaw.social
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Ofcom has reversed course. After dismissing complaints about Rupert Murdoch’s transphobic TalkTV, the regulator will now be launching an investigation into the rightwing broadcaster 🔎
https://goodlaw.social/ycba
https://goodlaw.social/ycba
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Listlessness is the leitmotif here: govt is liable to continue to be pushed about by vibes
Gradually shifting language on post-Brexit. Closer partnership is the aim, but EU leadera are "not saying join the customs union" which is a side-step answer. Prefers not to repeat UK will never rejoin for decades, as focus is on closer post-Brexit links.
December 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Listlessness is the leitmotif here: govt is liable to continue to be pushed about by vibes
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The botched Brexit deal has left a billion pound black hole in the public finances.
We must fix it - starting with a customs union.
We must fix it - starting with a customs union.
December 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The botched Brexit deal has left a billion pound black hole in the public finances.
We must fix it - starting with a customs union.
We must fix it - starting with a customs union.
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Covid fraud under the Tories cost the UK taxpayer £10.9bn.
VIP lanes and crony contracts.
Lack of anti-fraud controls in Covid scheme.
Money handed out for non-existent employees
Newly formed companies got public money
No competitive tenders
Poor checks on quality.
How much would be recovered?
VIP lanes and crony contracts.
Lack of anti-fraud controls in Covid scheme.
Money handed out for non-existent employees
Newly formed companies got public money
No competitive tenders
Poor checks on quality.
How much would be recovered?
Covid fraud under the Tories cost the taxpayer £10.9 billion
The counter-fraud and error measures during the pandemic under the Conservative Government were accused of being 'so lax they may as well have left the door wide open'
www.mirror.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Covid fraud under the Tories cost the UK taxpayer £10.9bn.
VIP lanes and crony contracts.
Lack of anti-fraud controls in Covid scheme.
Money handed out for non-existent employees
Newly formed companies got public money
No competitive tenders
Poor checks on quality.
How much would be recovered?
VIP lanes and crony contracts.
Lack of anti-fraud controls in Covid scheme.
Money handed out for non-existent employees
Newly formed companies got public money
No competitive tenders
Poor checks on quality.
How much would be recovered?
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Jamming space satellites and shutting down the production of Land Rovers – inside Putin’s hybrid war on the UK trib.al/yFbQueT
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Jamming space satellites and shutting down the production of Land Rovers – inside Putin’s hybrid war on the UK trib.al/yFbQueT
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It's interesting that British politics has been so slow to master social media/internet distribution, given how quickly British politicians mastered newspapers, radio & TV when they were new tech. Baldwin would have built a podcast studio in Downing Street & be pumping out content all the time
Keir Starmer doing an email newsletter is a good idea, but the execution needs a complete overhaul:
Politics that makes a difference
Over half a million children, lifted out of poverty
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
It's interesting that British politics has been so slow to master social media/internet distribution, given how quickly British politicians mastered newspapers, radio & TV when they were new tech. Baldwin would have built a podcast studio in Downing Street & be pumping out content all the time
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Anarchy in Londonistan.
December 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Anarchy in Londonistan.
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Look at all those Muslim terrorists turning London into a Hell hole. I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK.
December 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Look at all those Muslim terrorists turning London into a Hell hole. I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK.
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Steve Richards, "The number mission of this Labour government is economic growth"
"If Labour want it, they should go back into the EU Customs Union as quickly as possible"
"If Labour want it, they should go back into the EU Customs Union as quickly as possible"
December 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Steve Richards, "The number mission of this Labour government is economic growth"
"If Labour want it, they should go back into the EU Customs Union as quickly as possible"
"If Labour want it, they should go back into the EU Customs Union as quickly as possible"
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wow. so, let’s not even try, then! /s
how about we automatically use respirator masks when there’s an airborne pandemic, and improve the air quality controls of all buildings NOW?
how about we automatically use respirator masks when there’s an airborne pandemic, and improve the air quality controls of all buildings NOW?
NHS England: “It will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so.”
This has got to be one of the most 🤯 things I’ve ever seen written down in an official document.
This has got to be one of the most 🤯 things I’ve ever seen written down in an official document.
December 7, 2025 at 6:09 AM
wow. so, let’s not even try, then! /s
how about we automatically use respirator masks when there’s an airborne pandemic, and improve the air quality controls of all buildings NOW?
how about we automatically use respirator masks when there’s an airborne pandemic, and improve the air quality controls of all buildings NOW?
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He's a COVICTED RAPIST
He's an alleged CHILD RAPIST
He's an alleged CHILD RAPIST
December 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
He's a COVICTED RAPIST
He's an alleged CHILD RAPIST
He's an alleged CHILD RAPIST
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In the mid-1980s, Tory-run Westminster Council became one of the most corrupt local authorities in British history. It is a story with many dimensions. This is about one of them: www.onlondon.co.uk/true-london-... #london #truelondon
Podcast: 40 years of Walterton & Elgin Community Homes
Marking a big anniversary of a remarkable north Westminster campaign against corrupt Conservatism
www.onlondon.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In the mid-1980s, Tory-run Westminster Council became one of the most corrupt local authorities in British history. It is a story with many dimensions. This is about one of them: www.onlondon.co.uk/true-london-... #london #truelondon
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⚠️ Yellow weather warnings issued ⚠️
Heavy rain and strong winds from Monday evening to Wednesday morning
Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning
Stay #WeatherAware⚠️
Heavy rain and strong winds from Monday evening to Wednesday morning
Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning
Stay #WeatherAware⚠️
December 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
⚠️ Yellow weather warnings issued ⚠️
Heavy rain and strong winds from Monday evening to Wednesday morning
Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning
Stay #WeatherAware⚠️
Heavy rain and strong winds from Monday evening to Wednesday morning
Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning
Stay #WeatherAware⚠️
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back in the day when Christmas was Chrismtas
December 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
back in the day when Christmas was Chrismtas
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You cannot win the 21st century with 20th century communication. The right has performers. Labour has administrators. The country hears one side roar and the other side clear its throat. You cannot inspire hope from under a duvet.
December 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
You cannot win the 21st century with 20th century communication. The right has performers. Labour has administrators. The country hears one side roar and the other side clear its throat. You cannot inspire hope from under a duvet.
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You might think that the "Labour" Party would consider labour itself to be a contribution to society, alas no, only "having lots of money" is a real contribution.
Perhaps they need to change their name to the Capital Party?
Perhaps they need to change their name to the Capital Party?
December 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
You might think that the "Labour" Party would consider labour itself to be a contribution to society, alas no, only "having lots of money" is a real contribution.
Perhaps they need to change their name to the Capital Party?
Perhaps they need to change their name to the Capital Party?
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I spend so much time verifying everything now from art to cited sources to photos to historical references to citations to quotes to legal and medical information that it's really hard to fathom how much work AI has collectively added to the world, not reduced
Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
December 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I spend so much time verifying everything now from art to cited sources to photos to historical references to citations to quotes to legal and medical information that it's really hard to fathom how much work AI has collectively added to the world, not reduced
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Another Farsge free Sunday morning on TV. Can this keep up until Christmas?
December 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Another Farsge free Sunday morning on TV. Can this keep up until Christmas?
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Happy Advent to you and your kin! And everyone else's kin too, come to that. As every December so far this decade, I'm going to do an Advent Calendar of beautiful and brilliant carols, with each day's added to a YouTube playlist and also to the ongoing Spotify one, now in its sixth(!) year.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Happy Advent to you and your kin! And everyone else's kin too, come to that. As every December so far this decade, I'm going to do an Advent Calendar of beautiful and brilliant carols, with each day's added to a YouTube playlist and also to the ongoing Spotify one, now in its sixth(!) year.
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
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Hackney Labour MP Meg Hillier and the pro-privatisation think tank that attempts to "leverage public resources into the hands of the corporations who donate money to their cause".
Its current funders benefit from lucrative NHS contracts.
#RottenLabour
labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/m...
Its current funders benefit from lucrative NHS contracts.
#RottenLabour
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Meg Hillier and Re:State, the privateer’s think tank
Labour MP Meg Hillier sits on the Board of a right wing, libertarian think tank who attempt “to leverage public resources into the hands of the corporations who donate money to their cause.&#…
labourrightwatch.wordpress.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Hackney Labour MP Meg Hillier and the pro-privatisation think tank that attempts to "leverage public resources into the hands of the corporations who donate money to their cause".
Its current funders benefit from lucrative NHS contracts.
#RottenLabour
labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/m...
Its current funders benefit from lucrative NHS contracts.
#RottenLabour
labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/m...
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Home truths. I don't agree with absolutely everything in here, because much can happen in politics and negotiations, but right now it is pretty much spot on especially given the UK is mostly talking to itself rather than the EU.
For my last Sunday Scribblings of 2025, back to one of my recurring themes, the future relationship between the UK and the EU. It is not going anywhere, anytime soon.
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Sunday Scribblings
The UK, Europe and the Myth of Sisyphus
hayest.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Home truths. I don't agree with absolutely everything in here, because much can happen in politics and negotiations, but right now it is pretty much spot on especially given the UK is mostly talking to itself rather than the EU.
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Can you imagine how few British people would be living abroad if you had to be high earning and intelligent to live in Magaluf?
December 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Can you imagine how few British people would be living abroad if you had to be high earning and intelligent to live in Magaluf?