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[SpenceUK™ @SpenceUK]

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[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Concentration camps. They're talking about concentration camps.

[Claire 💙 @clairebubblepop]

Holy shit, DWP is being given powers to take money outta people’s bank accounts in new crackdown on benefit fraud. Well why tf can’t they do anything about the likes of Mone and all those who delivered useless PPE through the Tory VIP Lane?

Benefit fraud £1.4b
Useless PPE £13b

[Dr. Jennifer Cassidy @OxfordDiplomat]

If you listen to anyone this morning, let it be Gideon Levy. A phenomenal Israeli journalist who has been speaking truth to power for decades. Share his words. Far and Wide.

[Vlad Mihalcea @vlad_mihalcea]

After 20 years, I still love programming in Java.

With an extensive ecosystem of frameworks and libraries and a significant market share, learning Java has been one of the best career moves I've ever made.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline.

As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone.

For example:

1. Treating the 4 Israeli soldiers as more important than the 23 Palestinian children (by leading the story with their deaths and just chucking in the others at the end) implies their lives are of higher value.

2. Infantilizing active duty soldiers as "teenagers" while not emphasizing the age of the schoolkids, despite many of them being demonstrably younger.

3. The classic use of the passive voice: Israelis are "killed" while Palestinians merely "die".

4. Putting scare quotes around "23 die" subtly undermines the credibility of that claim. Maybe no one died, and the Palestinians are just lying?

5. Using the word "attack" for Hezbollah actions, but choosing a more neutral, clinical word like "strike" for Israeli aggression.

6. Allowing Israeli sources to dictate the framing of the story ("Israel names teenage soldiers") etc.

7. Actually naming the Israeli soldiers, but not doing the same for the far greater number of Palestinians, again sends the message to the reader that Palestinian lives don't matter nearly as much, if at all.

It's truly incredible how much propaganda has been packed into 16 words. We are swimming in an ocean of propaganda. That's why it is crucial to deconstruct it and critically assess everything you read, see and hear.

[SpenceUK™ @SpenceUK]

@DanielPriestley Yeah if the promlt 'use lots of corporate jargon' accurately replaces what the consultancy is producing then they deserve to be replaced by a low rent AI.

[Barbara @BarbaraSutton15]

I agree with our government that tough decisions have to be made so let’s make them-stop the subsidised cafes bars & restaurants on the Parliamentary Estate-rein in MPs expenses-introduce random drug testing & audit how much work they do

[SpenceUK™ @SpenceUK]

@elonmusk @vkhosla DOUBT

[SpenceUK™ @SpenceUK]

@curiosityonx Finally!

[SpenceUK™ @SpenceUK]

@stevenfellows @GlowieKong @martymadrid Who are these companies that don't have e-mail, zoom, Slack or Teams? They would be much more productive using tech instead of having to walk to people's desks or wait for them at the water cooler and have a face to face.

[SpenceUK™ @SpenceUK]

@stevenfellows @martymadrid Everytime I see a company or a manager complaining about remote work they are just outing themselves/ company as being unable to adapt to change. Red flag for their ability to react to change in their industry they'd likely make huge losses if a disruptor moved into their market.

[SpenceUK™ @SpenceUK]

@BrianGoetz Makes a nice change from the IDE screaming at me about the variable I just declared but didn't use. Or that it is useless and I should just return it. 😁

[Prof Colin Talbot @colinrtalbot]

After today’s events the EDL should be proscribed as a terrorist organisation and its leaders arrested and sent to prison.

RT if you agree.

[SpenceUK™ @SpenceUK]

@RyanEls4

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Must watch on House of Commons reform @EllieChowns

Dr Ellie Chowns, "As a newly elected member, I'd like to offer observations on three elements on how this house operates: sitting, speaking and voting"

➡️ Sitting
- Chamber is too small
- In Council and in European parliament we had own seat, desk, plug in devices
- Extraordinary there aren't enough seats for every MP

There is a practice of Christian prayers, as a daughter of preachers I am familiar with this. But in this day and age where we are a mix of all faiths and none, it might be time to represent a range of faiths

➡️ Speaking
- If we have more time limits more MPs would be incentivised to speak
- Trying to get a slot, bobbing up and down, last week I did for five solid hours without getting attention of the speaker
- This is not good for a democracy
- Find a better way of allocating speaking time
- The culture in this house is everything from excessive deference to braying, we need to clean to clean up politics, we are here to debate in as positive a spirit as possible

➡️ Voting
- It's extraordinary we do not have electronic voting
- While I've been here I've participated in 5 votes, that's taken 1.25 quarter
- If you add up all the votes thats 1.5 months of MPs time, totally unproductive
- If we got rid of the voting lobbies we could double the physical size of the chamber (everyone could then have a seat)

"My final point, if we want to be a truly modern house of commons: proportional representation"

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £354m a year tax free from the tax payer including £132m personal spending money and has an estate worth £22bn that’s never taxed.

Like if he needs a pay cut.
RT if you want the Monarchy gone.

#NotmyKing

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[SpenceUK™ @SpenceUK]

@supertanskiii "I was in London last year, it was doing well" ? Who was in charge and for how long 🤔

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

We gotta stop telling “both sides” to tone down the political rhetoric

Trump wasn’t attacked by a transgender member of MS-13 who snuck in w/the Mexican caravan to be radicalized by Black Lives Matter while majoring in CRT at Antifa University

It was just another random, Dollar Store white boy with an unregistered, easily purchased semi-automatic light rifle BECAUSE IT ALWAYS IS

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Today @bbclaurak did the following:

1) made an outrageous claim that intimidation lost Jonathan Ashworth his seat

2) mocked labour policy in a sarcastic sing song voice

3) got Nigel farage to comment on divisive politics

RT if you agree they need a new presenter.