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See you at @phatcontroller.bsky.social Co-Founder @ADRNorg Book series editor: Digital Africa Free typo with every Tweet
Joined October 2008
Of course he did.
Billionaire Elon Musk funding Tommy Robinson Elon Musk funded Tommy Robinson's legal fees in relation to his 2025 trial for a terrorism-related charge. Tommy Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) and his team publicly confirmed this, and Robinson thanked Musk after he was
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10% of Meta income is from scams and illegal goods ads.
Meta's fraud problem: The social media giant projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by @Reuters show https://t.co/sMmL09NETp
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Lessons from history. In 1981 I was elected to GLC with Ken Livingstone. We cut fares, invested in housing & public services, increased wages & finished Thames Barrier to protect London from climate change. Thatcher abolished us. If Trump comes for Mamdani we should join uproar.
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Digital Public Infrastructure: states and corporations sharing citizen data to automate governance decision-making. What could possibly go wrong? #PostOfficeScandal #RoboDebt
🚨UK tax authorities forced to re-evaluate their policy of suspending benefits without due diligence after 23,500 families had their child benefit payments wrongly cut. https://t.co/iXYGQk6S7H
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Decolonise Palestine
ANNOUNCING 🇵🇸 The Ramallah Congress on the Decolonisation of Palestine, 11-12 November 2025. Convened by the @ProgIntl, @AlShabaka, and the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute at @BirzeitU, the Congress aspires to create an engine of collective action for the liberation of Palestine.
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Rise against digital IDs https://t.co/Q5ApBl8RM6 from @This_is_Rise Hmm. Against the surveillance state and yet collecting email addresses without a privacy notice
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This is a great story Farage wants to destroy the National Health System because he will make an enormous amount of money out if it
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Fight the Power!
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95% of AI investments delivered zero returns. Crash coming soon.
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” @JohnCassidy writes.
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The Banality of Evil. Don't let the bastards normalize their violence. https://t.co/LesOUrCCcC
philosophybreak.com
For 20th-century German philosopher Hannah Arendt, most evil is committed by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Bound and tortured Palestinian hostages Israel's National Security Minister Ben Gvir: “Do you see them? This is how they are now, but one thing remains to be done and that is to execute them” This is what the US, UK and Europe support: https://t.co/u98vl9iyEV
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Human life cannot be left to the mercy of a ruler’s whim. No president has the right to kill arbitrarily and without accountability. Congress must do everything in its power to stop these air strikes so the administration does not murder more people abroad or in the U.S. Join us
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Solidarity with MP @DawnButlerBrent who is suffering a tirade of racist abuse stimulated by hateful Reform rhetoric and enabled by social media platforms.
🚨 Yet another horrific Block of the Month. This is only a sample of what I’ve received. #ButlerBlocks I’ve suffered a relentless wave of racist abuse this #BHM2025 — and again after challenging the Reform MP’s racist comments. Lets unite in calling this behaviour out.✊🏾
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About 700 people have been killed during 3 days of election protests in Tanzania, the main opposition party has said. Protests erupted on election day over the stifling of the opposition after the exclusion of key candidates from the presidential ballot.
theguardian.com
Demonstrators took to streets after president’s main challengers were excluded from ballot
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White Supremacism is State Policy
The South African government has criticised the US's decision to prioritise refugee applications from white Afrikaners, saying claims of a white genocide have been widely discredited and lack reliable evidence. https://t.co/Ns4PNl2cZ4
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