Maker, Designer, DIYer, Cottage Industrialist, Open Source Hedge Wizard, Unlicensed Artist, Lowtech #FBPE @dataknotsdesks.bsky.social @jameswallbank@mas.to
Joined September 2011
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19 Jul 2020
This is not a normal time. I think we're at the early stages of an attempt to turn the UK into an autocracy. There follows a thread about the military methodology that I think the Johnson/Cummings Regime is using to wage information war against you, and how you can fight back.\1
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James Wallbank retweeted
13 Dec 2024
Chairman of @marksandspencer Archie Norman @therealarchie tells me on @TimesRadio that Brexit means they've had to hire a warehouse just to store the paperwork needed to export to the Republic of Ireland….
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James Wallbank retweeted
9 Dec 2024
I remember when the working class had more self respect than to let posh privately educated pricks brainwash them into being racist or believing mad conspiracies. They profit from your bigotry for fucks sake. They’ve got you fighting culture wars so you don’t start a class war.
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James Wallbank retweeted
6 Dec 2024
Haven’t watched a full episode of #BBCQT in years. Most enjoyable to watch Farage getting his arse handed to him by Campbell over Brexit. But the star turn was this guy.
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James Wallbank retweeted
5 Dec 2024
Britain has record levels of poverty and record levels of ill health. It's almost as if the two were somehow related.
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James Wallbank retweeted
19 Nov 2024
Labour is hiking taxes on billionaires.
Don’t be distracted by the farmers protesting in Westminster. Inheritance tax on farmland means the super rich will pay their fair share.
Here’s who’s most affected:
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James Wallbank retweeted
15 Nov 2024
A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, the health care we can access and, now, the information we receive.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
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James Wallbank retweeted
16 Nov 2024
1/ X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk's own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from the Queensland University of Technology.⬇️
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16 Nov 2024
Fair play to X, it's become a brilliant tool for discovering people's Bluesky handles.
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Strikes me that though he seems cautious as fuck, Starmer has balls of steel. I mean, who takes on these vested interests in the face of the media? Landowners, private schools, landlords, exploiters. Who *does* that ffs? So long overdue everyone's in shock it's really happening.
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14 Nov 2024
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James Wallbank retweeted
13 Nov 2024
Astonishing how many people are slagging me off for being critical of X and Musk. We live in an age of pitiful clothcap-doffing unctuousness.
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James Wallbank retweeted
14 Nov 2024
Just got this message on Bluesky. What is echoed there is not opinions, but the mutual respect with which they are exchanged.
"I would say one of the best pros is that as a conservative I have engaged many liberals and most people have been very open to conversation. It overall just seems more civil and like what conversation or sharing your cultural beliefs and values should be like."
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#PoliticsLive
Gareth Wyn Jones, a distressed farmer, has a net worth of £25 million and earns £3 million a year from his YouTube efforts to plead poverty on behalf of his colleagues.
Perhaps Jo Coburn could have mentioned this.
Google him.
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James Wallbank retweeted
12 Nov 2024
Racists
12 Nov 2024
Who thinks Nigel Farage would be a better Prime Minister than the lying Sir Keir Starmer #Starmergeddon
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James Wallbank retweeted
13 Nov 2024
I made the decision to transition to the other place only this afternoon. Already - it's like old Twitter.
And then I saw this...
There's a massive shift going on!
Follow me there - I'm trying to find my tribe!
theguardian.com/media/2024/n…
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James Wallbank retweeted
13 Nov 2024
Just the most astounding couple of paragraphs.
Pure oligarchy territory.
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