JBryan

Before technology advanced, everything was art and elegance…

Just had my council tax bill through and it's gone up *considerably*. Also had to pay extra for my green waste, again. It immediately reminded me of this masterpiece.

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When the government tells you: “We’re in the same boat”

🚨 Let me tell you why this Goldman Sachs headline is the most dangerous one you'll read today.. Companies spent $450 billion on AI last year.. fired tens of thousands of people to "restructure around AI".. replaced entire departments with chatbots.. And Goldman Sachs just said it contributed basically zero to economic growth.. so where did the money go? > It went to Nvidia.. $130 billion in GPU sales.. Jensen is the only man on earth who got rich from AI that hasn't produced anything yet.. > It went to stock buybacks.. companies fired people, cut costs, reported "record profits" and bought back their own shares.. the money went UP not OUT.. Jesus! > It went to a bubble.. the same way crypto money went to Lamborghinis and not infrastructure.. AI money is going to valuations and not productivity.. here's the part that should terrify you.. They already fired the people.. Atlassian 1,600.. Meta 21,000.. Block 40%.. Amazon warehouses.. the jobs are already gone.. But the growth didn't come.. the productivity didn't come.. the revenue didn't come.. they burned the village to build a city that doesn't exist yet.. and Goldman Sachs just looked at the empty lot and said "there's nothing here"

The Government will collect £331bn in income tax this year, and spend £333bn on welfare. In other words, we now spend more on people not working than we raise from those who do. And the cost? Debt per person has risen from £11.5k in 2000 (inflation adjusted) to over £41k today.

People love to call Kier Starmer incompetent but he’s following the plan exactly They figured out a while ago that politicians can simply stop answering questions and therefore never be held accountable He’s doing exactly what he was put in power to do

Distracted by the slaughter of children in Iran & Lebanon? Me too! But what better time could there be for govt to quietly relaunch its Digital ID plan? Missed it? Me too! But look who’s celebrating… The director of ‘govt innovation’ at the Tony Blair Institute! 1/

Please do take a second to repost this - our country, traditions, heritage, and indeed faith deserve that much :-

They want you to trust them with your biometric data for Digital ID after this??

Read this thread. Every word. And then read it again, because you will not believe it can be true. But it is. Every word. @DavidLammy and @sarahsackman want to remove the right to jury trial in cases involving *death*. Homicide cases.

Remember when Boeing employees were sounding the alarms before planes started crashing? Well... it's happening again ⬇️ Maybe listen this time?

The government lied. On 19th February they stated that they were not preparing legislation to link Digital ID to social media. Not even a month later on 15th March, the government admit that legislation will be brought to the Cabinet next month. Ireland, the testing ground in Europe yet again for draconian legislation attacking our fundamental civil and human rights, yet again. We were the first country in Europe to implement the Covid pass restricting access to indoor venues to those who were vaccinated or held a proof of recovery as a cruel tactic to coerce people to take the vaccine. Their cruel tactics worked. Ireland had the highest number of young people that took the Covid vaccine in Europe, if not the world. Other countries followed suit, such as France and Germany. Now they are coming after the Irish people again. This is NOTHING about protecting young people and all about coercing people to comply with Digital ID by restricting access to social media. All eyes on Ireland. If they get this over the line we will be transported into a digital prison society, whereby your every movement will be controlled, monitored, traced and tracked. It is fundamental that we push back as a coecive force on a grassroots level to stop this dystopian legislation in its tracks, or forever regret it. Get involved on a local level to spread awareness of the dangers of Digital ID, through social media and leafletting. Lobby your Councillors and TDs and demand that they vote NO to any legislation linking Digital ID and access to social media. We defeated the government's Referendum. We stopped the draconian Hate Speech thought police Bill. We achieved the highest spoilt vote in history. We CAN defeat this. Join Una McGurk Senior Counsel and Paddy Holohan Independent Councillor in their campaign #NoDigitalID #NoDigitalIDIE

"Vegan leather" is plastic. "Vegan wool" is plastic. "Vegan fur" is plastic. Every wash cycle releases microplastics into the water. Every year it degrades slightly and releases more. At end of life it will sit in landfill for four hundred years or end up in the ocean. The sheep, meanwhile, grows a new coat every year, requires it removed, and produces a fibre that has been biodegradable since the Neolithic. But yes. The sheep is the environmental problem. The sheep, standing in the Lake District in the rain, growing renewable fibre from grass. The sheep.

I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize. Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness. Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding. He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history. The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future. A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite. That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Kriss Donald: “I’m only 15, what have I done?” “Kriss was snatched while walking with a friend, forced into a stolen silver Mercedes despite desperate resistance—he reportedly cried out, ‘I’m only 15, what have I done?’” The UK’s most shocking racially motivated killing. A Pakistani gang targeted him because he was white. He was taken to a flat where he endured hours of prolonged torture and brutality. The perpetrators stabbed him repeatedly (13 times, including a severe throat wound), beat him, and eventually doused him in petrol and set him alight while still alive. Forgotten... The anniversary of #KrissDonald’s death is tomorrow, 15 March, 2004.

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

⚠️Digital ID + facial recognition Snuck into the digital ID consultation is an admission that the police would be allowed to repurpose our digital ID photos as mugshots to create a population-wide facial recognition database. It is for precisely this reason that the public is rightly sceptical of a sprawling ID system that has been sold to us under various guises - whether to 'stop the boats' or improve public services - but which invariably hands more power and more of our personal information to the state, at our expense.

A reminder... without women, there was no Bletchley Park. By January 1945, women made up 75% of the workforce, taking on roles across almost every level of the organisation - from operators and linguists to engineers and analysts. Their contribution reflected a wider shift across wartime Britain, where millions of women stepped into vital roles in industry and the armed forces. Yet despite their expertise and dedication, many faced official and societal scepticism and barriers to progression - particularly in technical and senior positions. Today, we celebrate their skill, resilience and lasting impact. Discover their stories and the difference they made by visiting Bletchley Park. #BletchleyPark #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026 #GiveToGain

I’ve written to every Member of Parliament today. Proposals before Parliament would remove jury trials from offences carrying up to three years in prison. Freedoms rarely vanish overnight. They are chipped away in the name of efficiency. Juries did not cause the crisis in our courts. Removing them will not fix it. When the state seeks to take someone’s liberty for serious offences, the judgment of ordinary citizens should never be optional. This is close to becoming law. Please read the letter. Contact your MP now.