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please ENJOY this clip of Mark Zuckerberg *just trying to answer a video call* with the new 'neural band' Meta is shilling and failing miserably during a live demo You get a prize if you can withstand all 1:42 of this youtu.be/D97ILdUbYww?...
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Patel is completely unhinged
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Iāve done some quick maths here based on some rough premises, and as far as I can tell if this guy started at thirty and would normally live to 80, then in order to *break even* in waking hours of life heād have to live to 110.
I think this shows you canāt trust a shred of āevidenceā that comes out of the FBI. Unhinged, unprofessional, partisan and incompetent.
SWALWELL: Did you ever tell the AG that Trump's name is in the Epstein files PATEL: The AG and I have had numerous discussions about the entirety of the Epstein files S: Did you tell AG that Trump's name is in the files? P: *crashes out* S: We'll take your evasiveness as consciousness of guilt
Led By Donkeys: āWeāve done, I reckon, 25 or 30 projections since weāve been going. Often the police come along and we have a chat to them, and they even have a laugh with us and occasionally tell us to not do it. But no oneās been arrested beforeā - for your āActually worse than Toriesā folder
Nailed it!
ooh. what does legal Bluesky think of this? Is āmalicious communicationsā a thing? Would projecting a genuine photo of someone on a building be judged malicious in a court of law?
Seems like an awful coincidence that they blamed ātransā before they had remotely any evidence, then it turns out the guyās roommate is trans and he calls them āmy loveā in messages?
It looks increasingly plausible, in my reading, that Morgan McSweeney brute-forced his mentor and erstwhile collaborator into one of the most coveted diplomatic positions in politics as some sort of payment for services rendered.
Most racists aren't accelerationists, nor do they fantasize about shooting Black people. They have unquestioned belief in their in-group's superiority and see accusations of racism as personal attacks from people who don't Understand The Problem. Like this guy.
It begs the question, who are they really murdering and why?
Got a few for Lyon, will dig them out
Now this is how you do social media. Oh, and policy, too.
Imagine if we tried to make things better for everyone instead of scapegoating the most vulnerable in society.
Janice and Kerry claim they're not racists. And you might be tempted to believe that until you read what Janice and Kerry think and then conclude that ... yup - they're racists.
Good of the telegraph to remind us that as well as racist coked up men with prior convictions for dv, the racist march led by a racist that descended into racist violence also included some racists who shop at oliver bonas & think running the church fete tombola makes them nice people
It all started with Gordon Brown having to apologise to a racist for being caught calling her a ābigoted womanā.
No civil war thanks, Elon, we're British
āEh, I donāt have a party?ā Is my initial reaction whenever I see āYour Partyā writtenā¦
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The primary aim must be getting the govt off X. This offers the possibility of a cascade effect taking journalists etc off it. We need to seperate the national debate from the extremism engine.
Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?
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Likewise, British media. After all, surely X / Elon is a rival for eyeballs and ads in the media space. But generates sod all traffic now, I hear.
Apart from anything else, UK politicians of the centre and left should all realise that there's massive kudos and traction to gain from attacking both Musk and Trump because the vast majority of Britons absolutely loathe them both.
NEW: Labour MPs are demanding a crackdown on X after Elon Musk told the Tommy Robinson rally "you either fight back or you die" Demands include: - Government should rethink its use of X - Online Safety Act should be strengthened - More resources for regulators to enforce the law
i would like the centrists to tell me what the middle ground is here
These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.
āPrejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.ā Samuel Johnson
What would Orwell think about a huge face on a gigantic screen telling a crowd of people they should wage war on foreigners and dissidents? No way of knowing, I guess.
If this is true, then theyāll also need to make jerking off illegal. And the Trump administration is full of wankers.
ChatGPT is not a āsearch engineā. This is where so many people come unstuck.
The firing of Karen Attiah infuriates me. She has been a voice of reason on a Washington Post opinion staff that has steadily become an embarrassment to a free press, thanks to Trump-enabling oligarch owner Jeff Bezos. This is what "media capture" looks like in a society descending into fascism.
here's Elon Musk's dad going 100% mask-off on the entire white South African racist colonialist package and saying "Elon agrees with me" EXTREME ANTI-BLACK RACISM CONTENT WARNING www.mundoamerica.com/news/2025/09...
![Q. Why? A. Until 1965, Africa was very civilized because each country was governed by a European country, and there was law and order. Look at Spain's example. Spain's history is the history of world colonization. Where Spain went, it brought order, civilization, cities... We did the same, but 500 years later. When the Europeans left, everything fell apart. Nothing remained. South Africa today is a lawless country, where even the police chief and Interpol director [Jackie Selebi] was sentenced to 15 years in prison for corruption. The African National Congress [ANC, which has governed South Africa since the end of apartheid] has looted the country. We are bankrupt. The US has cut all economic aid because South Africa supports Iran, Hamas, and all those terrorist groups. Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia [which also had its own apartheid], is as if it ceased to exist. Q. Why did that happen? A. All European countries have practiced racial discrimination. What happened is that South Africa maintained it when it achieved full independence in 1961. So apartheid is not something South Africa invented but something it continued. For example, the Netherlands did not allow people of color to enter its territory until 1920, despite having colonies in countries with people of color. South Africa maintained apartheid for an obvious reason: as soon as European countries left Africa, everything went to hell, civilization ended.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/bafkreieezpkvcwpx7xi7gta4m335mmpmublgsbnutphytt3fx5bfsykbpy@jpeg "Click to view full size")
![Q. How do we know that the Democratic Republic of Congo or Rwanda won't follow in China's footsteps, which 100 years ago was one of the poorest countries in the world, where people were literally dying of hunger and living in perpetual civil war? A. It's impossible for Congo to ever become like China. China was printing paper money 2,000 years ago. They always achieved extraordinary feats. In April, I went to Stanford University [in California], and many of the students and professors I met there were Chinese. They are the nicest, most decent, civilized, and intelligent people you can imagine. As far as I'm concerned, all the Chinese - and all the Japanese - who want to go to London can go. Q. Do your children share your views, or are there big arguments at family meals? A. They share them. Q. What about Elon? A. Yes. My views are not based on any crazy ideology but on the experience of having traveled through Africa, where you have to be careful about what you eat and drink because if you make a mistake, you could be dead in two weeks... Think about Spain. It's an exquisitely beautiful country. If you bring people who don't appreciate that beauty, what can you expect other than them destroying it? They won't do it on purpose, but because they don't understand that beauty. I like people to move up in life, so I have a lot of black people working for me in minor roles. They are very useful, helpful, try to do things right, do as they are told, don't argue with you... but I would never live in their communities under their lifestyle.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yn75hmwkitdshnylue6d3grk/bafkreig4o2sjtxgga2cpv2kxnoml7mpupkyvqrt3262plzoq5jfves7rum@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Love this. But the first, in 2025? š«£
Sure, itās not a confession. But itās orders of magnitude more likely than because he knew a trans person or was a secret leftist. Itās occumās razor. Theyāll find the truth on his computer. But will Trumpās administration release the truth? And will he troll them with a fake motive confession?
Everyone who knew who knew who the Groypers were had them down as the most likely suspects the moment Kirk hit the floor. The bullet casing inscriptions merely cemented it. And then you have the republican family, and him apparently being online and left to his own devices from young age.
Good on Sam for writing this. It's past time everyone left X, Musk's comments at "Tommy Robinson's" march really should illustrate exactly what people are actively supporting by remaining. That govt accounts remain after he called for a change of government and incited violence is absolutely insane
an important thing for everyone to realize is that Elon manipulating the feed of which posts you see on the site (and which of your posts are seen by others) is *much* easier than Elon manipulating the Grok AI is. It's a brainwashing machine
Another thing I love about the present moment - Musk regularly goes 'don't worry, we are going to change THAT' whenever Grok produces an answer that doesn't align with his priors, yet the British Labour government thinks that they are going to be able to land an argument on there in 2029.
Elon Musk has shared an obviously AI-generated image of the Unite the Kingdom rally in London. The first AI error is that the Arc de Triomphe is in Paris, not London. And once you zoom in, you'll notice that the Union Jacks and the crowd have other errors typical of AI images.
We need to get a grip and make racists afraid again. Absolute evil bastards.
Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
This story feels like itās going to have huge repercussions
And Musk is skewing the X algorithm so Tommy Robinson posts have greater reach than those of Nigel Farage. And he gains followers at a faster rate (370,000 since January, Farage 70,000). The explanation is in this shared post. ā¬ļø Figures from Muskās own AI bot Grok in the thread below.
We are extremely saddened to learn of news regarding the passing of boxing legend and lifelong #ManCity fan, Ricky Hatton. We send our heartfelt condolences to all of his family and friends at this difficult time. Rest in peace, Hitman. š©µ
If you supported the country you live in you wouldnāt be calling for a regime changeā¦ So can Tommy and his mates kindly follow their own advice and F off?
He said he did, then he didnāt, then he said he did, but just to be sure heās getting expert tax advice for himself. As you do. Did Nigel Farageās ābrokeā girlfriend really buy their Ā£885k home? www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Did you post this on X?
I've written to my MP about yesterday, Yaxley-Lennon, Musk and the threats we are facing, calling for him to work cross-party and condemn both the thuggery, and work to stop foreign billionaires calling for violence and threatening us in the UK. I also said they should get off X.
I recently created a new X account. I do this every now and then so I can check on who gets boosted into new users' feeds. Guess who was in mine this morning?
Thatās why Iām surprised heās not been quicker off the mark! Instead he seems to have been focusing on turning into a personal trainerā¦
Over in Nova Scotia, their provincial *Conservative* government has a school lunch program, supported by $80 million in government funding, which has universally accessible with a pay-what-you-can model. Population is about 1.1 million.
Tbh the most surprising thing is that Gregg Wallace hasnāt gone down that path (yet)!
Iām a broken record on this, but ā there are so many examples of famous people radicalised by midlife career/personal knockbacks. Ant Middleton was on ydayās march. He got done for tax offences and lost his TV work. Now heās mates with Tommy Robinson.
Many shocking things about the last 24 hours; but the contrast between the Labour governmentās response to peaceful protest against genocide, and its non-response to violent racist protest against liberal democracy, is high on the list.
They must be able to criticise Tommy Robinson fascism or we're completely lost. This isn't even Farage we're talking about here. Goddamn them for even needing to hear that.
Unless something changed I am under the impression that incitement is a criminal offence. Moreso, it is from a man who is applying for a license to sell electricity to British consumers. Apply the law without fear or favour Mr. Starmer.
Foreign billionaires donāt get to incite violence against Britain. We cannot stay silent. 1/5 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Just a reminder that Labour told us we couldn't revisit the Brexit question because it would "strengthen and embolden" the far-right. Well, I don't know about you, but they look pretty strengthened and emboldened to me right now anyway, so what do we have to lose? #RejoinEU š¬š§šŖšŗ
if someone said this at trans pride it would be front page news for a week and every columnist in the country would feel the need to go on a bizarre rant about āgender ideologyā( without explaining what that even means ).
āA row of men lean against the metal shutters that keep them out of Westminster tube station, as they piss through the bars directly onto the steps on the other side. Nearby a furious man in his early 30s yells ābring the cocaine here now, mateā. It is not yet 2pm.ā
Still absolutely nothing to say about far right thugs rioting and attacking the police while a US tech billionaire calls for a violent insurrection on our streets
Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social
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And this has happened *without* a massive sea change of actual popular opinion in favour of these thugs; the elite flip has not been responding to the public, but to social media
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Elon sharing the name of 66 random not-famous people to his many millions of followers because this person said they said things she didnāt like about Charlie Kirk. I erased the names and employers from the screenshot but you can see their jobs. Nurses, teachers etc.
If I were the UK Government I would simply not route all my communications through the platform whose owner just called for regime change in Britain and said "fight back or die"
That's it, precisely. Can't help but wonder if the reason they decided not to use facial recognition tech for this one event (and a uniquely, inevitably violent event, unlike the others), is that they were worried about how many police officers they'd identify.
Sky News says police are "overwhelmed by the numbers". Met coped perfectly well with 2x as many at the pro-Gaza rally, 5x as many at the anti-Brexit march, and 15x as many at London Pride. They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.
Never mind get off it, it should be proscribed. As someone else said, we jailed Islamic fundamentalists for far less.
Esp given assassination of Kirk in US i find Musk's intervention here, calling for dissolution of parliament and a new govt, really scary . Also UK govt bodies should get the fuck off X.
Less bamboo required
Left: Elon Musk, "You see how much violence there is on the left..The left is the party of murder" Right: Man on the far right march, "Keir Starmer needs to be assassinated. Someone needs to shoot, someone needs to shoot Keir Starmer" Anyone know if he has been arrested by the police yet?
Home Secretary Theresa May banning Tyler the Creator from the UK: "The home secretary has reached this decision because you have brought yourself within the scope of the list of unacceptable behaviour by making statements that may foster hatred, which might lead to intercommunity violence in the UK.
We jailed and deported Abu Quatada for less
Name a leftist murder, Elon, I challenge you.
Can you stop posting on X and lobby for the government to also stop?
Proscribe Elon Musk and X, not Palestine Action. Heās the danger.
Rain is Antifa
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Spent the best part of an hour trying to unblock a first floor drainpipe in the pissing rain. Eventually managed to get my jet wash rodding hose down which did the trick, but it took some skill - and luck - because it was above the porch roof. I got soaked. As soon as I finished, the rain stopped. š
Add this to the three UK papers that splashed on the ridiculous trans misinformation re bullet markings...no wonder everyone's lost their minds.
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Elon Musk gets 6 million views for a post saying "either we fight back or they will kill us" He was sharing Will Chamberlain sharing a parody account + seeming to see it as sincere. So Chamberlain's post heightens affective polarisation. Musk seems to suggests violence is inevitable + necessary
This is excellent. Journalists just donāt understand internet subcultures enough to report on this. Especially when you have the Trump administration desperate to pin it on āleftistsā or trans peopleā¦
The reporting on Charlie Kirkās killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age. They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & itās starting to do real harm. #r4today
The fact the press are totally uninterested in both Trump & Musk endorsing far right political violence is totally unsuprising but also a sign that if you want a press that isnāt working to destroy democracy youāll have to clear out the dregs currently clogging the system
Here's a good rundown on what you're (attempting to refer to), most of the messages seem to be direct references to video games and internet slang. A lot of outlets have only reported them in part, or out of context, in an effort to play up a narrative: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-the-me...
you could write an entire book about this post and I will for the right price
She's as a Christian fundamentalist with extreme views and she's on the front page of the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...