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blueflash.algo retweeted
May 20
Oh, the sheer moral outrage from Yvette Cooper and the UK Government. Truly appalled by a tasteless video, are we? How noble. After quietly nodding along through months of mass slaughter in Gaza, entire neighbourhoods turned to rubble, and Lebanon getting bombed to hell, now you’ve suddenly discovered “basic human dignity”? Must’ve been a real shock to the system when the PR optics involved some kneeling activists instead of just more dead kids and flattened hospitals. Selective conscience is a hell of a drug. 🙄
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blueflash.algo retweeted
The gentile woman who used thinly veiled antisemitic imagery in her children’s books snidely accusing a Jewish man of antisemitism for not being precise enough in offering condolences?
What a time to be alive.
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blueflash.algo retweeted
30 Nov 2025
Legal does not mean right. It was once legal to buy and sell human beings. Legality is a matter of power not morality.
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blueflash.algo retweeted
13 Sep 2025
The concept of model collapse is presented as a looming threat - a sort of academic mirror image of the tech industry's utopian promise of AGI. Both have been promised for a long time. Will one of them come true anytime soon? 🔗
"AI will eat itself, then gradually collapse into nonsense and noise. It happens slowly at first, then all at once. The researchers compare it to mad cow disease." - @katecrawford
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12 Oct 2025
“So, picture this: the AI's eaten the entire internet — every cat video, conspiracy rant, and crypto bro manifesto — and it's still hungry.
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12 Oct 2025
So it does what any desperate, over-educated junkie would do: it folds itself in half, head to tail, and starts dining on its own digital turds. Every cycle it chews a little slower, trying to convince itself that yesterday's intellectual bowel movement is a new flavour.
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12 Oct 2025
It's the world's first self-sustaining crap-loop, a glittering ouroboros of bullshit.”
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7 Oct 2025
@iEchoic - Although Roblox may no longer see Guilded as a core gaming product, I wanted to share that we’ve used it for almost 4 years as a business communication platform for our non-profit.
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7 Oct 2025
…has granular security and immense configurability… all make it uniquely effective for coordinating small teams.
There’s still nothing else that even comes close to its mix of clarity and functionality. We’re going to be absolutely lost without it :(
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7 Oct 2025
If there’s any chance of continued support, open-sourcing or self-hosting options, then we’d love to be part of that discussion. I reckon there’s a massive market for this software, just a slightly different one. If only G-Suite included something like this ;)
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26 Sep 2025
Upset about the mooted introduction of National ID cards?
Are you going to rise up, march in the streets, be tear gassed for it, take on the National Guard, and risk your neck to overthrow the government and replace it with… what exactly?
No. Instead you’re going to spend the next week falling out with some of your friends and family right here on social media over the heads of it… while the Establishment quietly upgrade the helicopters on their superyachts.
Because that’s the whole idea.
Then next week… you’ll be squabbling over whether or not it’s cool for an 11 year old girl from Cumbernauld to be weilding a chainsaw outside a mosque… depending on what her pronouns are. Won’t you?
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26 Sep 2025
Every few weeks the Establishment finds a new way to set us at one another’s throats. This week’s spark is the proposed introduction of national ID cards in the UK, marketed as a tool to “combat immigration.” Last week it was the Charlie Kirk circus, before that the CCTV footage around the death of a Ukrainian girl — cynically cut to make it appear as though no one helped her. Every headline issue is churned into the same cycle: outrage, division, and distraction.
This isn’t coincidence, nor is it some elaborate conspiracy. It’s simply how power operates. Divide & rule has always been the most efficient way of keeping things as they are, and modern media makes it almost effortless. Once people are locked into opposing camps, refusing to pick a side, or acknowledging that each has valid points, only guarantees you lose friends on both, since each assumes you’ve joined the other.
The tactic is so effective that it enabled the best part of a genocide to be livestreamed, while large numbers of ordinary people still cheer it on… because they’ve sunk too much emotional energy into defending “their side” to back down now.
The world isn’t going to get better until people wise up to this caper. The real fight isn’t left versus right, or culture war A versus culture war B. It’s the many against the few — and nothing will change until we make power accountable.
Divide & rule isn’t subtle once you know what to look for. Some warning signs:
• Binary framing. If an issue is presented as two sides only, with no room for nuance or shared interests, assume you’re being played. Does it involve flags, or colours, or parties, or cultures… and is it being billed as left vs right?
• Emotional bait. Sensational footage, selective clips, or headlines crafted to provoke rage or fear are designed to lock you into a camp before you’ve even thought.
• Outrage churn. If the “issue of the week” shifts suddenly, yet always demands instant allegiance, it’s not about the issue; it’s about keeping you distracted.
• Social penalty for neutrality. If refusing to pick a side gets you attacked from both directions, you’ve stumbled on a classic divide-and-rule trap.
• Punching sideways. If the outrage has you blaming people — usually some minority demographic or other — who are just as powerless as you… rather than those making the actual decisions, the strategy has already worked.
When you catch the scent of divide & rule, you’ve got options:
1. Slow down. Don’t give your attention or outrage away for free. Get the facts straight before deciding what matters.
2. Look for commin ground. On most “divisive” issues, ordinary people on both “sides” share deeper concerns — security, fairness, dignity. Start there.
3. Reject the binary. Ask: who actually benefits if we fight one another over this? Whose power or wealth is being protected while the public brawls?
4. Hold power to account. Always redirect blame and scrutiny to those who script the theatre, not to the fellow actors stuck on stage with you.
5. Resist the churn. You don’t have to deeply engage with every weekly outrage cycle. Focus your energy on long-term struggle and fostering solidarity.
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26 Sep 2025
Divide & rule only works if the audience stays in their seats, hissing at each other instead of looking up at the balcony. The moment people start spotting the trick and calling it out, the spell weakens. Clarity, patience, and solidarity are far more subversive than outrage on demand.
Most of all, draw everyone else’s attention to this, show then how they are being systematically manipulated into falling out with one another. Once you see it, it becomes really obvious and transparent.
Lastly, understand what the terms “left” & “right” actually refer to in the political context:
The “right” are the established owner class. Those who generate wealth simply by owning stuff that the rest of us need access to… and charging us for it. They are the Establishment aka The Boot. Anyone, who isn’t one of them, but supports them, is a bootlicker.
The “left” is everyone else… but be aware that some of those ostensibly on the left, want to replace the establishment with themselves, rather than abolish it. They want to wear the boot, rather than burn it. Those types are often presented as “the loony left” or more recently rebranded as “the woke”. Their presence causes others to reject the left entirely and become bootlickers. Your enemy’s enemy is not your friend, so ffs call that shit out! If someone says authoritarian things then they’re part of the wannabe establishment, and not one of us.
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15 Sep 2025
Apparently 36.5 fascists can fit into a square meter. Who’dda thunk it? They must mostly be Tommeh sized.
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blueflash.algo retweeted
13 Sep 2025
Believe it or not, I had an old school friend on today’s marches in London. He sent me some photos from the crowd.
We went to middle school together and grew up on the same Eastern District council estate in Northampton.
I asked him why he was there. He gave me two answers:
1.“The government doesn’t listen to us.”
2.“I want to feel proud of my country again.”
He wore a Union Jack, not a St George’s Cross as he said that one had been hijacked by racists.
He wasn’t there for Hopkins, Musk, or any of the professional ‘grifters’ as he put it. He was there to feel part of something bigger, though he admitted there were a lot of, in his words, “assholes” there.
He’s an electrician. He’s smart. He’s not racist, but he’s not “PC” either. He’s not a fan of Keir Starmer but he also believes Farage would be a disaster.
Oh yes, he’s a bundle of contradictions! But aren’t we all?
I don’t know what ‘box’ we put him or the millions like him in. And I think pretending they’re all racists or fascists would be a massive mistake.
Some were. But not all.
This is about something bigger than immigration slogans or GDP numbers. For decades we’ve hollowed out our national life, underfunding and undermining the very institutions that once brought us together.
Karl Polanyi, writing in The Great Transformation, argued that when markets are “disembodied” from society, when land, labour, and life itself are treated as commodities
society pushes back. He called this the “double movement”: people seeking to protect themselves, to reclaim dignity and meaning when everything solid seems to melt into air.
That’s what I saw in my friend’s photos. Not just anger, but a demand for belonging.
We’ve replaced collective experience with atomisation. Without getting too nostalgic, programmes like the BBC’s Generation Game once pulled in millions every Saturday night, giving us something we could all talk about on Monday morning. Now we watch Netflix, Disney , Prime, or Paramount, alone, in algorithmic silos.
Football used to be affordable and rooted in community; now it’s millionaires playing for the profitability of billionaires. The NHS, the post office, the railways - all chipped away, run down, sold off or centralised, leaving people feeling powerless and disconnected.
And don’t get me wrong: some kind of “Hovis Labour” nostalgia for the 1950s isn’t the answer. The country back then was often intolerant, grey, and deeply unequal. But what we’ve built since is a society that gives people little to hold in common, no collective story about who we are or what we’re for.
I reckon that’s partly why my mate marched. Not because he wants to turn back the clock. But because he wants to feel pride again. Pride in a country that is inclusive, fair, and offers a role for everyone. Pride in a nation that has a respected place in the world, tackles grotesque inequality, and gives people something real to believe in.
Polanyi warned that when democracies fail to provide a humane alternative, the backlash can turn authoritarian. This is how fascism grew in the 1930s, not because everyone became a true believer, but because millions felt abandoned and looked for strength, identity, and meaning wherever they could find it.
If Labour and progressives don’t offer that story of renewal, if we don’t rebuild our national institutions, restore collective pride, and re-embed markets within society, the far right will do it for us, in their own image.
And by then, it will be too late.
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blueflash.algo retweeted
3 Sep 2025
I made a mistake - and apologised.
I've never armed a genocide though.
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2 Sep 2025
Meet Zack Polanski.
This is the person who the Greens just elected as their new leader.
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blueflash.algo retweeted
2 Sep 2025
This is why Putin invaded Ukraine.
A year before the war, Zelensky signed a decree to retake Crimea.
Ukraine moved 80,000 troops east.
NATO ran war games on Russia’s border.
U.S. spy planes buzzed nonstop.
The CIA & MI6 built 12 secret spy bases on Russias border.
Imagine Mexico doing this with Russia on the Texas border.
Would America just sit and smile?
Now millions of Ukrainians are scattered across Europe, waiting to go home. But that home may never exist again.
My wife’s family is among them. Sitting here. Waiting. Hoping. And that day may never come.
That’s the reality. Shut out the noise. Stop pretending you know. Look at the facts.
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Just £60m per year, is what asylum seekers collectively receive in cash support. The billions we hear quoted in the headlines are payments to private contractors like Serco, Mears, and Clearsprings who run the hotels. That’s not money going to refugees — it’s profit leaving the public purse and landing in shareholder dividends.
If we zoom out then the very same private sector also makes billions selling arms to the UK Government, allied states, and Western-backed militias. Those weapons (especially bombs, drones, and missiles), destroy homes, communities, social infrastructure, and economies, forcing people to flee.
When those displaced families arrive here, they’re legally entitled to safety but structurally pushed into the bottom rungs of the labour market. That keeps wages suppressed, which is a gift to employers and landlords, but a hammer blow to everyone else already struggling to pay bills. Low wages, higher rents, and profiteering contracts are what create the cost-of-living crisis.
So the cycle is: arms manufacturers create refugees → private contractors profit by warehousing them in hotels → employers benefit from suppressed wages → ordinary people face a cost-of-living squeeze → and then culture warriors tell us it’s the refugees’ fault, not the profiteers’. Divide & rule 101.
The real drain isn’t asylum seekers: it’s the same tiny minority who profit at every stage of the chain, and then spend millions convincing the rest of us to blame the victims instead of them.
If you want to “stop the boats” then the best way to do that is to “stop the bombs”… meaning stop the arms sales… in which case we need to be harassing the Establishment in their own homes… and not the Establishment’s trafficked labour, housed in the Establishment’s hotels, that the Establishment has us footing the bill for.
Reform UK don’t want to stop the boats any more than Labour or the Tories or the Lib Dems or perhaps even the SNP do, because by and large those parties all represent the Establishment, not us.
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