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Stephen "Now on Bluesky" @scobb.net

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Award-winning technologist. Volunteer. Carer. No longer using X except to criticize Elon Musk and his right-wing extremist friends https://t.co/tsInY1rZre

Coventry, England, UK
Joined July 2008
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Caregiver in Japan shows a safer way to lift patients
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Stephen "Now on Bluesky" @scobb.net
2 years
1.4 million people on X voted to re-enable this disgusting man, which Elon did. The guy then used X to promote another disgusting man. Enough is enough. To all who say this is okay because it's all free speech, I say: you are wrong, dangerously wrong.
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The conspiracy theorist was banned from Twitter - now X - but its owner has now reinstated him.
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Stephen "Now on Bluesky" @scobb.net
2 years
A measure of how twisted & toxic @ElonMusk's X has become is the number of people here who've rushed to defend Alex Jones' right to accuse family members of Sandy Hook shooting victims of being actors in a hoax, because they actually think that's what Free Speech is all about🤮
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Stephen "Now on Bluesky" @scobb.net
2 years
To be clear, my decision to depart X at this point in time is prompted by @ElonMusk platforming Alex Jones, the wretched man who spent years accusing the family members of Sandy Hook shooting victims of being actors in a hoax, saying he had a right to do so because: Free Speech.
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Stephen "Now on Bluesky" @scobb.net
2 years
I hate to leave Twitter. I've met great people here, folks who've been very kind to me and my partner. As a man, I didn't get hassle and abuse here. But I realized misogyny would always be the norm for women on Elon's X. He's turned Twitter it into a platform for disgusting crap.
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Stephen "Now on Bluesky" @scobb.net
2 years
At 14:00 GMT 10-Dec-23, I requested an archive of my Twitter/X data. When that has been downloaded I will be closing my X account. @ElonMusk has ruined this platform. You can find me at https://t.co/cvXq09h4pL and through various links here:
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Researcher, Author, Public-Interest Technologist, CISSP, NHS Volunteer, Carer
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Prof Colin Talbot
2 years
“some people” ??? So because some of those on these marches, including some who are very much white British, don’t share his political views this “proves” integration doesn’t work? I’d take a dim view if I saw that sort of misuse of evidence and inference in a student essay.
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Darshna Soni
2 years
“What's your evidence that integration (of asylum seekers) isn't working?” “I've seen it recently with the marches through London, where I saw some people who simply did not share British values.” Robert Jenrick conflates issue of immigration with pro-Palestine marches
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Stephen "Now on Bluesky" @scobb.net
2 years
Let's break down a classic X-style "Ad for Crap" The top left image is what the ad's website appears to be selling, the other three images are from the ad video on X, in other words three different devices, none of which appear to be the item the ad is selling.
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@iainthomson
2 years
Getting books for the trip home and realised I'd lost my library card, so shamefacedly asked for a replacement. "Is there a charge?" "Don't be silly, we're your library. Now, you look like someone that would like our spaceship card." I love librarians, natural empaths.
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@JujuliaGrace
Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙
2 years
It is incredibly concerning to see this rhetoric from Wes Streeting. Our public healthcare system has been intentionally crippled by underfunding+ funnelling of public money into the private sector. It is ludicrous to suggest the NHS itself is to blame for systemic problems🚨💙
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Michelle Cowbourne
2 years
The stars at night, Glastonbury Tor.
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Stephen "Now on Bluesky" @scobb.net
2 years
Disappointing! At least give us a hint that you can see the difference between foreigners being hired by British firms and fools like me that fell in love with a foreigner 38 years ago and wants them to live with me here in Britain. (The foreigner is the one with antlers.)
@BBCPolitics
BBC Politics
2 years
"Is asking people to have a minimum income of £38,000 to bring families here... the right kind of level?" #BBCLauraK asks about UK family visas "We have called for the salary threshold to be increased" says Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall https://t.co/3Z7CARpOBD
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Stephen "Now on Bluesky" @scobb.net
2 years
Interviewer: As someone who grew up in a city famous for creating some amazing vehicles, a person who has driven hundreds of different vehicles in the last 50 years, including many pickup trucks, can you think of one word to describe Elon Musk's Cybertruck? Me: Abomination.
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Stephen "Now on Bluesky" @scobb.net
2 years
To be clear, Elon's X takes ad money from creeps who may well be defrauding customers. Then waits for subscribers/victims to report the dodgy ads. Then claims this is an admirable feature of his platform. All while attempting to profit from tech (like AI) that enables such ads.
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Stephen "Now on Bluesky" @scobb.net
2 years
Techbros ruining life on Earth #197: Showing ads on a social media platforms like Twitter/X along with "responsible" explanations of why those ads should never be shown: > this store is part of an AI generated network of stores selling [crap] that may not be shipped at all <
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Stephen "Now on Bluesky" @scobb.net
2 years
Incredibly ignorant and/or twisted talk about immigration from Tory Robert Jenrick: "Communities are leading parallel lives.. some people on the marches didn't share British values..." So the white Brits in black shirts who marched for Sir Oswald Mosley were what, non-British?
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mRr3b00t
2 years
Someone has picked up the wrong bag at bsides London: we have this bag (which is not the right bag!) #BSidesLDN2023 I’m just opposite to the Exabeam stand! Can people please retweet 🖖
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David Dinenberg
2 years
Have a great weekend!! Enjoy all the holiday parties! Just remember, #Cannabis is safer than alcohol!! #LegalizeIt #CannabisCommunity #Mmemberville
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