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Also surprised that @AnthropicAI doesn’t have a GitHub connector on their mobile app either. Neither does @GeminiApp

The Grok mobile app’s GitHub connector is straight-up bad compared to the smooth GitHub mobile agent sessions or Codex mobile. I’m actually sad about it, was really curious to see what Grok could do with my codebase. 😔 @xai

@DigitalEU Hold a referendum on whether the members countries want to stay or leave already 🤣🤣🤣🤣 what a joke of a priority

💊 Emojis used as coded language to promote illegal activities online? Some platforms are now detecting emojis used as code for drug sales. This is one of the key findings of the first EU-wide report on systemic online risks. Dive in → link.europa.eu/CQhKGc #DSAForReal

One can only hope

@THFCHarvey18 Worth noting that Tories are less supportive of this madness as compared to Reform. Would have loved to see Restore here too

This country has a serious issue with wanting failure and not wanting people to do well for themselves

@TimSweeneyEpic Cool but you should still resign and let someone that loves Fortnite in charge of Epic Games

Doing comp sci research with Opus 4.6 Extended (here, in the context of an upcoming Verse programming language theory paper) is really a Flowers for Algernon moment. It's a superpower, like having a team of graduate students that can answer questions on demand on any topic.

@RupertLowe10 The state should have no business whatsover in how adults decide to entertain themselves. This overreach should be condemned by MPs across all parties.

I couldn’t care less what Kanye West says or does. If Brits want to part with their money to watch him shout into a microphone, let them. He’s a nutcase. But it should be up to those people who purchased a ticket if they attend his events. Not Starmer. Banning him is too far.

@_brian_johnson Thanks a lot for the advice, Brian!

@aBez95 Deep dives get respect, build in public gets familiarity. Mix both and you stop choosing between audience and credibility.

Planning an X comeback / another attempt to build some online presence. Unsure whether I should go down the “build in public route” or technical deep dives route 🤔 what do people find more appealing

@TimSweeneyEpic @slimsnerdy @BackersGamesF @TimSweeneyEpic just resign and let someone else take over that actually cares about Fortnite

@BackersGamesF Epic is in contact with the family and will solve the insurance for them. There is high confidentiality around medical information and it was not a factor in this layoff decision. Sorry to everyone for not recognizing this terribly painful situation and handling it in advance.

ARE YOU HAPPY NOW @TimSweeneyEpic ???????

I noticed this week that reaching out to friends and family for a chat as well as getting out of my comfort zone and going to the pub by myself to work from my phone and just chill for a minute helps the process

When personal life throws curveballs, how do you stay motivated and keep working towards your goals?

Update for anyone following the thread: After sharing all the details again via DMs and a few checks apparently now the issue is that I have an active billing account which basically means “you already pay us so why would we give you credits” so yeah I stand by my statement that @googlecloud startup programme is a scam. Love their products though.

Despite being a huge fan and heavy user of Google Cloud and someone who’s always advocated for their products, I have to call it out: their Startup Program is a complete scam. I applied for the $2,000 in credits I’m eligible for as a non-VC-backed founder. Denied. Reason? Some of my company’s products are structured via a joint-venture route. I even sent them the full legal contract and EU trademark registration proving I own and control 100% of the tech. Apparently that’s “not good enough.” Super disappointed.@googlecloud , do better. 🚫

@BasilTheGreat I reported them to my bank last year after the incident with Rupert and they cancelled it on my behalf and got my money back too

🚨NOBODY CAN CANCEL THEIR REFORM UK MEMBERSHIP More and more people are reporting they find it impossible to cancel their Reform UK Membership I'm even hearing people say they cancelled and the direct debit for renewal was taken out AGAIN Surely this is illegal?

@kimmonismus I remember a few months ago, I was commenting the exact same thing on a post about DeepSeek and its fans were quick to bark then 🤣🤣🤣

Holy sh*t: Anthropic says it uncovered large-scale “distillation” campaigns by DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax that allegedly used ~24,000 fraudulent accounts to generate 16+ million Claude exchanges, aiming to copy Claude’s strengths in agentic reasoning, tool use, and coding. They caught them red-handed. The cyberwars started

@PWestoff @Nigel_Farage @RupertLowe10 They lost me when they threw Rupert under the bus last year and their latest anti work from home stance was the last nail in the coffin for them ever getting any vote from me

Support for @Nigel_Farage has collapsed overnight. I have never seen anything comparable to this in my life. Two NF vids below represent this. Feb 14: 2M views 47k likes Feb 17: 69K 3.1k ALL comments negative. The defenestration of @RupertLowe10 has finished Farage.

@Houseofyogi This is beyond upsetting. No idea how anyone can get behind this outrageous theft with no logical base whatsoever

Unrealized gains tax for Gen-Z: You buy a Pokémon card for $50. Someone offers you $500 for it. You say no. You love that card. You're keeping it. The government says: "Cool, but that card is worth $500 now. You owe us $100 in taxes." You: "…I didn't sell it." Government: "Don't care. Pay up." You don't have $100 lying around. So you're forced to sell the card you love just to pay a tax on money you never received. Next month? That card drops back to $50. Your card is gone. Your money is gone. And the government shrugs. That's a wealth tax on unrealized gains. They don't pay you back the tax... Now picture this. Your mom calls you crying. She has to sell the house she raised you in. Not because she can't afford it. She's lived there 30 years. It's paid off. But some website says it's worth more now and the government says she owes $15,000 she doesn't have. So she sells your childhood home. The kitchen where she made you breakfast. The doorframe where she marked your height every birthday. Gone. To pay a tax on money that was never real. Now picture the opposite. Your dad put everything into his small business. For 20 years he built it from nothing. One year the business is "valued" at $2 million on paper. He owes a massive tax bill. He empties his savings. Sells his truck. Borrows money. Pays it. Next year the market crashes. His business is worth $200,000. He lost everything to pay a tax on a number that doesn't exist anymore. Does the government give him his money back? No. Does the government give him his truck back? No. Does the government care? No. They sold this idea as "taxing billionaires." But billionaires have armies of lawyers, offshore accounts, and trusts. They'll be fine. You know who won't be fine? Your mom. Your dad. Your neighbor with a small business. The farmer down the road who's had the same land for four generations and now has to sell it because dirt got expensive. You're not taxing wealth. You're taxing people for owning things. It's like getting a parking ticket for a car you might drive somewhere someday. They want you to own nothing and be happy. To fund the fraud, waste and abuse of the welfare state they created. There is enough money. More tax isn't needed. It's all a lie. But you've been gaslit into believing this is a rich vs poor debate. I hope you understand what's at stake.

How would a Restore Britain Government support small businesses? First step, and possibly the most important. We understand the problems and trust me, I know how difficult it is. I’ve been there, I’ve done it. The effort that goes into keeping a small firm profitable and operational is vast, and NOBODY in Government understands that. THE most important way to help small businesses is tax. GET IT DOWN. Corporation tax - we should be aiming for the lowest in Europe. Undercut our neighbours, take their business. Be ruthless. Make Britain the most attractive place to operate on the continent. Watch how the money then flows in. Rates will slashed on income and dividend, thresholds pushed up. We must urgently reward success. NI not raised, but cut. If we want businesses to hire, MAKE IT CHEAPER. Because what happens when employment gets more expensive? Costs get passed on. Contracts stall. Hiring cancelled. Investment is paused. It grinds the economy to a halt. Businesses stop spending money. They wait and see. Everyone suffers. IR35 will go in the bin on day one. Things change, contracts change, circumstances change. IR35 accounts for none of that, adding layers of unnecessary paperwork and regulation. Flexibility matters. VAT threshold would be doubled. There are so many businesses hovering just under £90k, desperately avoiding VAT. Fair enough, I don’t blame them. So let’s hike the threshold and unleash that demand. We would like to see a tax holiday for small businesses in the first few years - give them the breathing space they need to grow and find their feet. HMRC will pick up the phone, and you will be able to speak to an advisor who can actually speak fluent English. What a mad shock that would be... We will end the HR-ification of Britain that is used to blackmail employers. Regulatory frameworks that are used to suffocate small businesses will be burnt away. Farage attacks private sector employees working from home. I couldn’t give a shit where people choose to work. If the employer and employee are happy, then it’s none of our business. Failing public sector officials? Different story. Business rates for small businesses, abolished. We will brutally crack down on illicit trading - does Britain need so many Turkish barbers and vape shops? The answer, quite obviously, is no. Let’s be honest about what’s really often going on here. Money laundering. There would be free car parking in high streets all over Britain. These little gnomes in councils have no idea. If parking is free at the retail parks, people will just go there. Let’s encourage them back into our high streets - that means tackling crime too, obviously, but one step a time here... Licensing laws, planning bureaucracy, council red tape. We will obliterate it all. Let’s back British hospitality. Cut VAT, business rates abolished and burn back the endless nonsense they have to deal with. Ease laws on closing times and fast-track permits for outdoor seating. If people want to enjoy a late night drink or two, it's none of our business to tell them otherwise. Restore Britain will put those jumped-up little council bastards back in their box. I promise you that. Inheritance tax will be abolished. If a family wants to pass their business down the generations, then Government must not stand in the way. Tax has been paid, there should not be another bill following a death. It’s wicked and cruel. Above all else - businesses need stable, long term thinking. The Budget should be a complete non-event, other than further tax cuts. This can all be funded by brutalising down the fraudulent state that has become the enemy of the people. And let me tell you this. ANYBODY who gets business will understand that these measures will pay for themselves many times over. If we reward hard work, then we’ll get more of it. More tax will be paid, and the economy will boom. These are just my initial thoughts on what a Restore Britain Government would do. We would create an environment in which it's easy to do business, and then we would leave you the hell alone. The message is this to small business owners... Restore Britain is on your side. You finally have a political party that will fight for your interests.