Faux Brummell
@shodanalexm.bsky.social
Person of disinterest.
Member of the Liberal Elite (Non-Metropolitan branch).
Same username at the other place.
Living a peripatetic life across the English-Welsh border.
Perpetually trying, and mostly failing, to write something substantial.
Member of the Liberal Elite (Non-Metropolitan branch).
Same username at the other place.
Living a peripatetic life across the English-Welsh border.
Perpetually trying, and mostly failing, to write something substantial.
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“A Santas Against Sewage swimming event had to be called off due to sewage in the water prompting an onshore protest over pollution instead.” 🤦♀️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
So depressing to have to check www.sewagemap.co.uk every time before swimming.
Cornwall map this week after 🌧️ is 🤮
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
So depressing to have to check www.sewagemap.co.uk every time before swimming.
Cornwall map this week after 🌧️ is 🤮
December 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“A Santas Against Sewage swimming event had to be called off due to sewage in the water prompting an onshore protest over pollution instead.” 🤦♀️
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
So depressing to have to check www.sewagemap.co.uk every time before swimming.
Cornwall map this week after 🌧️ is 🤮
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
So depressing to have to check www.sewagemap.co.uk every time before swimming.
Cornwall map this week after 🌧️ is 🤮
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He doesn't say, "Sorry I said things like that. It was wrong. I deplore such attitudes, and want everyone to respect others regardless of their appearances or ethnic origins."
He just insists anyone critical of him has got it wrong, and carries on leading a party featuring racist figures.
He just insists anyone critical of him has got it wrong, and carries on leading a party featuring racist figures.
December 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
He doesn't say, "Sorry I said things like that. It was wrong. I deplore such attitudes, and want everyone to respect others regardless of their appearances or ethnic origins."
He just insists anyone critical of him has got it wrong, and carries on leading a party featuring racist figures.
He just insists anyone critical of him has got it wrong, and carries on leading a party featuring racist figures.
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Yet another example of what Michael Lewis has described as “an experiment in capitalism with too much money”. Searching for this kind of ‘spatial fix’ not new, as @quinnslobodian.com describes in Crack-up Capitalism.
www.ft.com/content/b127... Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
www.ft.com/content/b127... Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Yet another example of what Michael Lewis has described as “an experiment in capitalism with too much money”. Searching for this kind of ‘spatial fix’ not new, as @quinnslobodian.com describes in Crack-up Capitalism.
www.ft.com/content/b127... Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
www.ft.com/content/b127... Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
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It’s no longer necessary to suppress information. You just have to make the cost of sorting fact from fiction, in terms of time and effort, too high to pay for the ordinary person’
@harikunzru.bsky.social on what the age of AI slop means for our information ecosystem
www.artforum.com/features/yea...
@harikunzru.bsky.social on what the age of AI slop means for our information ecosystem
www.artforum.com/features/yea...
Slopocalypse Now
Hari Kunzru surveys the AI slop that dominates our feeds and likens the way it drowns out information to a new form of censorship.
www.artforum.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It’s no longer necessary to suppress information. You just have to make the cost of sorting fact from fiction, in terms of time and effort, too high to pay for the ordinary person’
@harikunzru.bsky.social on what the age of AI slop means for our information ecosystem
www.artforum.com/features/yea...
@harikunzru.bsky.social on what the age of AI slop means for our information ecosystem
www.artforum.com/features/yea...
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oof - latest Full Fact newsletter written by someone having to leave because of Google pulling funding.
December 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
oof - latest Full Fact newsletter written by someone having to leave because of Google pulling funding.
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Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
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"New research from Democracy for Sale shows that three-quarters of all donations to Reform have come from just three men: Christopher Harborne, Jeremy Hosking and Richard Tice."
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo... via @petergeoghegan.bsky.social
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo... via @petergeoghegan.bsky.social
75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men
Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:47 AM
"New research from Democracy for Sale shows that three-quarters of all donations to Reform have come from just three men: Christopher Harborne, Jeremy Hosking and Richard Tice."
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo... via @petergeoghegan.bsky.social
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo... via @petergeoghegan.bsky.social
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US diplomats are being asked to assist fascists in Europe as part of national security.
December 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
US diplomats are being asked to assist fascists in Europe as part of national security.
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Latest £9m donation to Reform UK shows elections not fair if they can be 'bought by handful of individuals', MPs told - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
December 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Latest £9m donation to Reform UK shows elections not fair if they can be 'bought by handful of individuals', MPs told - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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I think "financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion" might be the worst thing I've ever read
the competition is strong but it's a real contender
the competition is strong but it's a real contender
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I think "financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion" might be the worst thing I've ever read
the competition is strong but it's a real contender
the competition is strong but it's a real contender
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it's as if being a billionaire CEO of a giat company is perfectly negatively correlated with being a decent human being.
December 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
it's as if being a billionaire CEO of a giat company is perfectly negatively correlated with being a decent human being.
I seem to have seen plenty of grumpiness about Spotify wrapped putting people's listening age as much older than their actual age. All I'm saying is that it put my listening age several years lower than my actual age. I'm the John Peel de nos jours!
December 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I seem to have seen plenty of grumpiness about Spotify wrapped putting people's listening age as much older than their actual age. All I'm saying is that it put my listening age several years lower than my actual age. I'm the John Peel de nos jours!
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Concerning behaviour from some letting agents in advance of the Renters' Rights Act coming in. Even though agreeing to a minimum term wouldn't be legally binding, tenants who don't want to commit are being asked to lie or get put off from renting a perfectly good home (also feat. @nearlylegal.co.uk)
December 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Concerning behaviour from some letting agents in advance of the Renters' Rights Act coming in. Even though agreeing to a minimum term wouldn't be legally binding, tenants who don't want to commit are being asked to lie or get put off from renting a perfectly good home (also feat. @nearlylegal.co.uk)
What a world.
The capacity to generate ever more, ever more pointless, if not outright damaging, AI slop takes precedence over providing homes and livelihoods for actual people.
The capacity to generate ever more, ever more pointless, if not outright damaging, AI slop takes precedence over providing homes and livelihoods for actual people.
AI to cause job losses and homelessness?
'Power hungry' data centres making London housing crisis worse by delaying new homes
Electrical grid capacity in west London stretched to limit as AI ‘factories’ compete with housing developments for energy"
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
'Power hungry' data centres making London housing crisis worse by delaying new homes
Electrical grid capacity in west London stretched to limit as AI ‘factories’ compete with housing developments for energy"
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
Power-hungry! Data centres making London housing crisis worse by delaying new homes
Electrical grid capacity in west London stretched to limit as AI ‘factories’ compete with housing developments for energy
www.standard.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
What a world.
The capacity to generate ever more, ever more pointless, if not outright damaging, AI slop takes precedence over providing homes and livelihoods for actual people.
The capacity to generate ever more, ever more pointless, if not outright damaging, AI slop takes precedence over providing homes and livelihoods for actual people.
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2025:
A WordPress plug-in accidentally pushes something to live - the chair of a national institution resigns
OpenAI intentionally release products to a mass market that includes errors, manipulations and stolen material - cool, cool
Is this how it works?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
A WordPress plug-in accidentally pushes something to live - the chair of a national institution resigns
OpenAI intentionally release products to a mass market that includes errors, manipulations and stolen material - cool, cool
Is this how it works?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
2025:
A WordPress plug-in accidentally pushes something to live - the chair of a national institution resigns
OpenAI intentionally release products to a mass market that includes errors, manipulations and stolen material - cool, cool
Is this how it works?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
A WordPress plug-in accidentally pushes something to live - the chair of a national institution resigns
OpenAI intentionally release products to a mass market that includes errors, manipulations and stolen material - cool, cool
Is this how it works?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Whose opinion keeps changing? Not mine. It was, is, and always will be - they're OK, to be honest, I can take it or leave it.
The long and winding road: Stuart Maconie on why our opinions about the Beatles keep changing
The long and winding road: Stuart Maconie on why our opinions about the Beatles keep changing
Fans and historians have spent 60 years debating what the band means – and which member is greatest. Will the returning Anthology project and Sam Mendes’s planned biopics create new arguments?
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Whose opinion keeps changing? Not mine. It was, is, and always will be - they're OK, to be honest, I can take it or leave it.
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Just utter imbeciles pulling out every cable that holds together the modern world in a desperate hunt for immigrants
November 24, 2025 at 11:41 PM
'Sright
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Parliament & press are having the most basic seminar on ‘media bias’ after decades of denouncing Media Studies.
November 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Parliament & press are having the most basic seminar on ‘media bias’ after decades of denouncing Media Studies.
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The Age of the Toddler
November 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The Age of the Toddler
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Moose is great, I mean really great.
I genuinely hate having to plug my work on here. I would rather post my cartoons and drawings without a link to my website, but unfortunately social media is an important element of our business, so I have to do it. I do appreciate the reposts and thank you for the support since I came to Bluesky.
November 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Moose is great, I mean really great.
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One cannot overstate America's insanity
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
One cannot overstate America's insanity
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Cover version suitable for a laidback Sunday morning ...
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Should I Stay or Should I Go | @theclash | funk cover ft. Sophia James
YouTube video by Scary Pockets
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November 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Cover version suitable for a laidback Sunday morning ...
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“Why do you think Russia paid your close, but less well known, colleague to say the sort of things that you were saying for free at the same time?”
November 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“Why do you think Russia paid your close, but less well known, colleague to say the sort of things that you were saying for free at the same time?”