Pinebronze Ballachulish @pinebronze

HMOs for Somali pirates don't pay for themselves.

BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking

13 hours ago

Jodrell Bank, home of UK's largest telescope, facing closure after losing government funding, BBC understands bbc.in/3RZyfeW

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@UnityNewsNet This needs to happen. The NPCs need to have their hopes dashed by Burnham

The new owners of the Telegraph are making their presence felt.

Some advice for Iran: The US wants you engaged in a protracted war with "Ukraine", but will actually be striking you from Romania and Bulgaria over the Black Sea. It's a trap. The best thing you can do is decapitate their Ukrainian proxies leaving them no puppet to use on you.

Do it, Andy Burnham. Not only do you have literally no mandate for anything, but making politics intrude on peoples' lives is surely something that won't backfire.

Jodrell Bank costs under £3m a year to run, by the way. We spend a £1bn a month on benefits for foreigners.

GB Politics @GBPolitcs

13 hours ago

🚨NEW: Jodrell Bank, which houses the largest telescope in the UK, is to be closed after the government scrapped funding for the facility

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You should make use of subsidised AI/LLM to stockpile projects you will need in the future now before these companies run out of money.

Landlords would have to pay 0.96% annually That means I’d have to pay around £7k a year and my tenants pay £4k less as council tax is abolished I think this would make every BTL in the country loss making on day 1 Can’t see any 2nd order consequences 🤣

Politics UK @PolitlcsUK

a day ago

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham is strongly considering replacing council tax and stamp duty with a 0.48% annual tax on a home's current value

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>>>We seem to be in a new round of damaging tax speculation until at least October following the previous 2 rounds under Reeves where it is not possible to plan anything due to the uncertainty

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

JUST IN: Georgia police supervisor arrested for allegedly using Flock cameras to track her boyfriend’s vehicle more than 30 times

@Ye_Olde_Holborn I grew up in a London overspill town with vast council estates - crucially then the people who lived there worked in the local industries or commuted to London. Who will live in these new council houses??????

Anthropic: “We are disrupting thousands of industries by being able to replicate their products in just a few minutes using AI making all of their hard work pointless.” Also Anthropic: “Chinese AI labs are replicating and ripping off our product making all of our hard work pointless.”

FAKE OXFORD GRAD SCAMMED THE NHS OUT OF £170,000 BY APPLYING FOR 2,071 JOBS Meet Amran Hussain. 40 years old, from Westerham in Kent. He just picked up four years at Maidstone Crown Court for turning NHS recruitment into a personal ATM. His method was not clever. He said he went to Oxford. He said he held senior NHS posts he never held. He handed in references nobody bothered to ring. Then he waited for HR to wave him through. They did. Repeatedly. He applied for 2,071 NHS jobs. He landed 13 of them. Once he got a job, the routine kicked in. Go off sick almost immediately. Stay off sick until the contract ran out or someone finally noticed and fired him. Do little or no actual work. Collect the salary. Total damage, £168,072 of @NHS money. Money that should have paid for scans, staff and patient care. Instead it paid for a man's imaginary Oxford career. He got away with it for years. Then in 2021 he applied to Devon Partnership NHS Trust @DPT_NHS for a senior operations role. He claimed to be Director of Transformation and Improvement at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust @CWPT_NHS. DPT did something wild. They actually checked. CWPT confirmed they had never employed him. Once that lie fell apart, the rest followed fast. Investigators found he had also talked his way into roles at Nottingham CityCare Partnership @ncitycare, Kent County Council @Kent_cc, and the UK Health Security Agency. Yes, the agency built to protect the country during a health crisis hired a man who invented his entire CV to walk through the front door. He pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud by false representation and was sentenced on Friday. Dave Horsley from the NHS Counter Fraud Authority @NHSCFA said the money could have gone straight into patient care and called it "not a victimless crime." He is right. It never is. Here's what should actually bother you. It took thirteen fake jobs and four years of public money before one single trust bothered to check a CV. Nobody outsmarted Hussain. Somebody finally just did their job. SOURCES @bbcsoutheast @BBCNews @live_coventry

Trump has been warned that a massive escalation in the war with Iran will not only fail to achieve any of its objectives but will also see him lose the House and Senate and then face almost certain impeachment and the end of his presidency.

@Ye_Olde_Holborn I used to visit my old University once a year on arrivals day to see the dweebs arrive. The place is the same drab concrete shit tip - but the ethos is gone. Replaced by woke numpties and imbeciles paying £££s to be indoctrinated with piffle. Not been back in 5 years. It's done.

We've been noticing for years. The state gets more and more expensive, yet it fails in its most basic duties. I've lived in Switzerland where everything is spotless and taxes are low. Britain is a completely dysfunctional society and a nascent failed state.

Rob Moore @robprogressive

3 days ago

Council tax goes up every single year, yet the roads are full of deep potholes, bin collections are cut to bi-weekly, & local services are disappearing. Where is the money actually going?

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Government offering civil servants £20,000 to move to Manchester.

"In recent days, Bitchat has seen a sharp rise in popularity in India. Market intelligence provider Sensor Tower shared data with TechCrunch that showed that India accounted for about 85% of the app’s global downloads between July 17 and July 23, compared with about 1% over the previous 30 days. Bitchat was downloaded more than 91,000 times in India over the past five days, after downloads jumped thirty-two-fold on July 19 from the previous day. The app’s daily active users in India also reached more than 330,000 on Thursday, the highest level recorded for the app in the country."

TechCrunch @TechCrunch

3 days ago

India’s move against Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat sparks legal debate techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/ind…

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THIS IS INSANE. 🤯 India gave GitHub THREE HOURS to delete BitChat. By the time the deadline hit, the app was already back. On a network with no company to send the order to. Here's what happened: • India orders GitHub to remove BitChat, citing "unlawful communication" • GitHub has 3 hours to comply or face legal action • Within hours, a developer mirrors the entire codebase on Radicle • Radicle has no central server. No company. No CEO to subpoena. No app store to pressure. • The instructions go out: clone it, seed it, keep it alive • Every person who seeds it becomes another copy the government can't touch The part nobody's saying out loud: this is the exact scenario BitChat was built for. It runs on pure Bluetooth. No internet. No SIM. No phone number. It was already unkillable at the app layer, that's why protesters in Nepal, Iran, and Madagascar used it to route around government shutdowns. Now the SOURCE CODE is unkillable too. India didn't delete BitChat. It just handed the entire internet a live demo of why decentralized infrastructure exists. You can order a company to take something down. You can't order a network that isn't owned by anyone. Command to mirror it yourself is already public. People are seeding it right now.

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Crypto Jargon @Crypto_Jargon

4 days ago

🚨🇮🇳BREAKING: India just ordered GitHub to take down Jack Dorsey's BitChat within three-hours. The mechanism explains why. BitChat runs entirely over Bluetooth, no internet, no servers, no phone number needed. That's exactly why NEET protesters started using it after mobile

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