Don't call my boss, Elon!

Controlling my emotions and expenses.

If I'd thought I was smart enough, I'd have shorted TSLA!

Not a pandemic! Not vaccines!

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@jack ALL INFORMATION IS DISPUTED. ALL OF IT. STOP PRETENDING, JACK. JUST LET PEOPLE TALK.

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@toadmeister @SpeechUnion Thank you, Toby, for everything you and your people at DS and FSU do to cradle fragile Liberty. Merry Christmas, m'lud.

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@hameser @vesperdigital You have made yourself look really stupid with this little tweet. Is it because you are, in fact, really stupid?

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@nsandihelp Are you, in actual fact, a robot, "Ben" ? No response required.

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@MoneySavingExp @MartinSLewis Hello! Thanks for what you do! Are you aware that NS&I's website is more broken today than it was when you wrote about it all these years ago? I cannot withdraw money. Today is the worst it's ever been. https://t.co/ldLFCxtUCn

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@nsandihelp Please make an announcement on your website and via email when you have identified the problem. Then perhaps another when you believe it is fixed. As I have offered many times, I am available for help by demonstrating the problem. You already have my contact details. Thanks.

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@nsandihelp Nicola is dealing with it. Maybe. I hope she gets a serious promotion if she is allowed to take charge of sorting it out... and actually sorts it out. But we are not holding our breath.

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@BrownandMason @STEPtoFusion Fusion. Are you kidding? And getting rid of highly responsive forms of power generation is suicidal. It's almost as if we have a nutcase in charge of energy policy, isn't it?!

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@MoneySavingExp @MartinSLewis @nsandihelp But the seriousness of this cannot be exaggerated. Having to set aside half my working day to repeatedly authenticate on your terrible website is not sustainable for anyone. Not even for someone as persistent and patient as I am. Sort it out. Please. This is about MONEY.

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@MoneySavingExp @MartinSLewis @nsandihelp Maybe someone at @nsandihelp saw this thread and pressed the Open Sesame button. It might be a coincidence, but it's not the first time that tweeting has suddenly made it work. It's as if someone at NS&I needs reminding to put more money in the meter!

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@RogerSuddaby @nsandihelp Today is the worst it's ever been. After four hours (yes, 4 hours), I still have not managed to complete my business - it keeps kicking me out with the same stupid message about having used the back button on my browser. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GET THIS SORTED. YOU'VE HAD YEARS NOW.

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@nsandihelp URGENT URGENT URGENT

I have put up with your shockingly bad website for years. EVERY time I use it, it's like pulling my own teeth out. I log in, successfully. With MFA. BUT WHENEVER I TRY TO DO ANYTHING, IT KICKS ME OUT, TELLING ME THAT I HAVE USED THE BACK BUTTON.

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@RogerSuddaby @nsandihelp OH, WELL, WHAT DO YOU KNOW, I AM HERE AGAIN, NSANDI, AND YOUR STUPID GODDAMN WEBSITE IS STILL CRAP AND KEEPS KICKING ME OUT RANDOMLY. SORT. IT. OUT.

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@toobaffled Imagine: a vaccine so safe that you need to be threatened to take it, to protect you from a virus so deadly that you need to be tested to know if you have it.

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@SpeechUnion @metpoliceuk @Glinner Rock on Toby, Glinner. Sanity must and will prevail.

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@RhonddaBryant @MidWalesMike You are totally clueless, Chris.

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@RhonddaBryant Do you have children, Chris? Do they know what a VPN is? Heck, do YOU know what a VPN is? Do you know how incredibly free and easy it is to circumvent national restrictions? Wake up, or stop lying. We ALL know what the OSB is for, and it definitely isn't about children's safety.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

@peterkyle Don't insult our intelligence with your sanctimonious PR checklist.

Every item you've listed - detecting abuse content, blocking grooming, hiding profiles, filtering porn - was already technically feasible before your Act. Platforms like YouTube, Meta, and TikTok were already using AI tools, hash-matching databases like PhotoDNA, and user-report systems to flag and remove illegal material. If they failed to act, that was an enforcement problem - not a legislative one. You didn't need to write a censorship charter to fix that.

But what your Online Safety Act does is something else entirely. It doesn't just go after illegal content. It goes after legal, uncomfortable, inconvenient truth. It casts a wide, vague net over so-called "harmful" material - even if that material is factual, journalistic, political, or historically significant.

Let's get specific. Under your Act:

Katie Lam's parliamentary speech exposing grooming gangs is age-restricted. A 15-year-old girl can be raped - but can't watch an MP describe the crime.

"Three Girls" - the BBC drama that empowered real victims to come forward - is now hidden behind filters for under-18s.

Documentaries, campaign footage, protest videos, even survivor testimonies can be blocked or throttled by platforms afraid of Ofcom's regulatory wrath.

And don't pretend this is just about pornography. It's about power. It's about control. You've created a system where truth must be vetted by bureaucrats before the public can see it. Where dissent is algorithmically buried. Where "safety" is the pretext, and silence is the outcome.

The Act you're defending doesn't just tackle abuse - it shields institutions from scrutiny. It treats public outrage as the threat, not the crimes that fuel it. You're not protecting children, Mr Kyle. You're protecting the state from being held to account for decades of failure.

So no - we are not on the side of predators. We're on the side of the children your party ignored, the victims your councils betrayed, and the public you now seek to silence.

Repealing this Act isn't a threat to safety. It's the start of restoring truth.

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@RMXnews Frau Susan. Hor mir mal zu. Theory is when nothing works and everyone knows why. Practice is when everything works and no-one knows why. In your little world, you have managed to take the best of theory and practice: nothing works, and you don't know why.

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@AlBonDeega @davidkurten Yes, and the parents need to understand why they should refuse it. If enough people resist, it won't become convention. Once something has become convention, by resisting you then run the risk of being attacked and denounced by a mass of sheep.