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🚨 New call for evidence for Timms Review 🚨 We strongly encourage Disabled people to share their thoughts on PIP. We believe that nothing short of a new benefit system with a new ethos of dignity, respect, trust and support is needed. Read more 👇 disabilityrightsuk.org/news/new-call-…

Apparently the last Government bought the gas from elsewhere or they simply forgot that they also had to deal with Norway??? we don't even own any drilled anyhows???

The last remaining colony of puffins on the Dorset coast is in danger of being lost altogether, conservationists have warned. Home to about 40 pairs of puffins around 80 years ago, the colony near Dancing Ledge in Purbeck has dwindled to just three pairs in recent times. Although these birds have engaged in courtship behaviour, mating, and nest building in each of the last three years, and even feeding chicks in 2023, they have not raised any fledges in recent years. The National Trust is stepping up its investigation into the decline of the last colony, with motion-sensor trail cameras trying to establish why no chicks are surviving to fledge.

Just to be clear, we already have free data centers. They are called libraries.

You would have thought the royals had done enough to trash their brand but visiting the country doing its utmost to undermine our economy literally Trumps that. WTF is the government doing permitting a state visit to the USA now?

@Bricktop_NAFO (yet) another example of the curse that is Venture Capitalism.........sharks asset stripping for shareholder profit!!

A British company that has been in business since 1809 is struggling. Go and buy yourself something and support them. They ship internationally.

This website shows you how much money is being siphoned off from human artists by AI slop on Spotify. Over $2.5 million lost by real people - and that's just from 50 AI ‘artists’. Slop dilutes royalties. A major reason AI training on copyrighted work should not be considered fair use. sloptracker.org

Stopping crypto donations to political parties is not enough. Stopping donations is what is required. We don’t need to end some political corruption. We need to end all political corruption.

The first trailer for ‘Pressure’ is here, the film which tells the story of the most important weather forecast; the D-Day forecast. Andrew Scott stars as Group Captain James Stagg – the Met Office meteorologist tasked with delivering the weather forecast and helping shape D-Day's plans. In cinemas 9 September. #pressuremovie @StudiocanalUK

Wow, what fantastic news. UC Health is being halved for all new claimants so disabled people are no longer "unfairly locked out of support" that might lead to 2% of them finding employment. Yay!

👁️Police are using live facial recognition in #Westminster and #Barking + #Dagenham boroughs today Our director @silkiecarlo tells us why this Orwellian tech is undemocratic, intrusive and disproportionate. YOU can take action #StopFacialRecognition⤵️ you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop…

🆔A social media ban would be a trojan horse for more surveillance & censorship in the UK It would require government mandated ID checks on each of us putting our rights & online freedoms at risk Have your say on a proposed ban using our guide⤵️ bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/blog/respond-t…

Tesco can fuck off with their little tokens to vote for which local good cause will be funded. You made several billions of profit last year, just give all three the money you bastards.

GB News loves pushing ableist bs, anti-migrant hysteria & endless culture war whining... …all while claiming to be the “voice of real Britain”. 🤦‍♀️ Really??? They’re funded by Dubai-based investment firm Legatum + hedge fund billionaire Sir Paul Marshall (who also owns The Spectator & UnHerd). Not exactly your average bloke down the pub. 🍻 Watch who actually owns them 👇

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🚨 Europe's top human rights chief has just torn apart the case for banning under-16s from social media. Michael O'Flaherty, the human rights commissioner for the Council of Europe, has issued a stark warning to politicians rushing to ban teens from the internet, declaring that such draconian measures are neither "proportionate nor necessary". Instead of taking the easy way out, perhaps our government should listen to what the human rights experts have to say: 💬 "We haven't remotely tried hard enough yet to ensure effective oversight of the platforms". Banning kids lets tech monopolies completely off the hook for their predatory addictive algorithms. We must demand genuine corporate accountability, not lazy prohibition.

Reminder: AI is not a fleet of alien spaceships overpowering earth's defenses. It's a handful of mentally ill billionaires desperate to get even richer by impoverishing millions. And a corrupt administration colluding with them. We've fought tyranny before. We can do it again.

By 1968, the psychedelic movement had seeped into every corner of pop culture - music, film, art, and even cartoons. One of the strangest and most delightful examples was “Psychedelic Pink”, the 39th episode of the Pink Panther series.

Finland QUITS plan to move its election platform to Amazon servers. They want to maintain control over their own critical infrastructure, not outsource it to countries that may not have its best interests in mind!

The US Navy sent its two most powerful warships to fight Iran. Both are now gone from the front. The USS Gerald R. Ford, the most expensive warship ever built at $13.2 billion, left the Red Sea after a fire broke out in its laundry room. That’s the official story. The real story is what a Pentagon testing report quietly revealed at the same time. The Ford’s jet launch system is unreliable. Its radar is unreliable. Its weapons elevators, the lifts that move bombs and missiles to the flight deck, are unreliable. Pentagon testers said there is simply not enough data to assess whether the ship can keep operating if it takes enemy fire. Fixes for these combat systems have been identified. Most remain unfunded. The ship also doesn’t have enough bunks. It needs at least 159 more. This is the Navy’s flagship. Delivered years late. $13.2 billion. Deployed into a war zone with systems the Pentagon itself cannot certify as combat-ready. Then there’s the USS Abraham Lincoln. Iran claimed repeatedly that its missiles forced the Lincoln to retreat. The US called it propaganda. What’s not disputed: the Lincoln moved from 350 kilometers off the Iranian coast to over 1,100 kilometers away. Both carriers are now parked far beyond the range of Iranian anti-ship missiles. The Pentagon calls it “tactical repositioning.” The Ford has been at sea for nearly 11 months, one of the longest carrier deployments in modern US history. Maintenance on nuclear carriers takes months under normal conditions. After a fire, an 11-month deployment, and a backlog of deferred repairs, analysts are now talking about 12 to 14 months out of action. America went into this war with two carriers. It now has zero operating near the fight. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1