James Wallbank

Maker, Designer, DIYer, Cottage Industrialist, Open Source Hedge Wizard, Unlicensed Artist, Lowtech #FBPE @dataknotsdesks.bsky.social @[email protected]

[James Wallbank @accessjames]

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

[James Wallbank @accessjames]

I'm out.

[Cathy Newman @cathynewman]

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….

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

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.

[Max Kinnings @maxkinnings]

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.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Britain has record levels of poverty and record levels of ill health. It's almost as if the two were somehow related.

[James Wallbank @accessjames]

@Conservatives So you had nothing to do with the Chagos deal? C'mon, spill the beans!

[James Wallbank @accessjames]

@PhantasieIsland @SydesJokes @eddiemiller9000 @she_jam @NessaAudrey88 @pelovelo1 @jackmoxley @LanceCraig15 @22angelaharris1 @LadyPingu_2 @Bazzapat @inkometenz @Jez_Horrox @SimonHaydonx @Goxley4 @BrownWhitney9 @mrjellysgazebo @MarianTrevilli1 @janejane24 @CarolLyle4 I hear you, but X is not even close to a fair fight. Posts are throttled according to political leaning.

X is not a town square—it's a wholly owned private space, in which the owner has decided to give megaphones only to people who agree with him.

[James Wallbank @accessjames]

@clairebubblepop It's not "extra tax". It's SOME TAX. Like, half the amount that normal people pay!

[James Wallbank @accessjames]

@BuckCllr @MrJamesMay That doesn’t answer the question, though. Why is farmland overpriced?

[Sebastian Salek @sebastiansalek]

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:

[James Wallbank @accessjames]

20 Million!

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

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.

[James Wallbank @accessjames]

@HelenTBracken Agreed. Found you there!

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

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.⬇️

[James Wallbank @accessjames]

Fair play to X, it's become a brilliant tool for discovering people's Bluesky handles.

[James Wallbank @accessjames]

@Rats_Nest_Org @PaulbernalUK Yes—found you both there!

@dataknotsdesks

[James Wallbank @accessjames]

@HullfcPete @Scarborough_GB Huzzah!

[James Wallbank @accessjames]

@HullfcPete @Scarborough_GB Aha! You worked it out! @dataknotsdesks.bsky.social, for what it's worth—but just search for me by name if that's easier!