Michael Henderson

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[Waqas🔶️ @m0w4q45]

I was a prison officer, Nick. You can't preach "tough on crime." Your lot cut nearly 7,000 prison officers since 2010 and handed our jails to G4S and Serco. You broke the system, then act shocked it doesn't work.

You know what actually works? Lads out on licence getting their track tickets, learning a trade, coming home as taxpayers instead of reoffenders. That's using human capital, not warehousing it. A lad sat in a cell doing nothing helps nobody.

And funny how quiet you all go on the tax dodgers and the oligarchs bankrolling Putin's war. Boris took a Russian ex-KGB man's hospitality at his Italian villa, dodged his own officials, then made the son a Lord. Where's your "lock them up" energy for that?

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

At this point prices in The UK are just made up:

What do you mean a return train to London is £140?

How is a weekend away in England £600? I can go abroad for a week for that!

Why is a house that was £700 a month a few years ago now £1500 a month?

How is a full tank of fuel now costing more than £100?

Why is my car insurance going up every year on the same car with no claims?

How is 2 carrier bags of shopping costing me nearly £100?

We're honestly done aren't we.

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

This is indeed a superb letter from The Astronomer Royal of Scotland. “Someone, somewhere, has taken the decision to defund astrophysics research in the UK, but no-one seems quite sure who that was, or why.” I agree - my colleagues in particle physics have also tried, without success, to discover who owns the decision to damage physics research in the UK, perhaps irreparably, at a time when our economy desperately needs the skills and knowledge we develop and teach. @UKRI_News need to get a grip urgently and fix the problem someone, somewhere, has created.

[Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) @EscanorReloaded]

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.

One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.

Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.

You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.

The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.

And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.

To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.

You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.

Enjoy.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Massive bombshell. Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah warns that AI will displace human labor on a catastrophic global scale. He confirms tech elites have absolutely no mechanism to share the wealth, leaving the global poor completely abandoned to suffer. He is 100% accurate.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Essex Patriot @Essex_Patriot]

British economy snapshot over the last 4 years:

Gas: +94.1%
Electricity: +78%
Fuel: +49.3%
Airfares: +34.4%
Hotels: +37.8%
Groceries: +25.0%
Eating out: +26.5%
Baby food: +26.3%
Dog food: +58.1%
Rent: +25%
Used cars: +30.5%
Public transport: +18.7%

Real average weekly earnings: -2.8%

The UK population is being killed

Source: ONS

[Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️ @Normanjam67]

A new name for the working class, 'lower-value human capital'.
They don't give a shit about you and your family.

[Brendan May @bmay]

So glad Reform is running several massive local government budgets for vital services. Please stop voting for these utter imbeciles.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute bombshell. An activist exposes the UK legal system's terrifying descent into authoritarianism to protect Israeli arms factories.

The judge literally banned defendants from mentioning genocide and secretly reserved the right to sentence them as terrorists.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

I don’t mind my data being used my for research to help the NHS etc, however, because the government have now allowed Palantir access, I have withdrawn my consent using this link:

https://t.co/OZpVijLzMB

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks...

HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless.

Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it

So where's the wall-to-wall coverage?

Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

[BanksyCat @Banksycat]

PAY ATTENTION. Your digital life was just sold to a billionaire. Tony Blair brokered the deal. The King announced it. You had no say.

For 20 years Blair tried to force Digital ID. Failed in 2006 when his £4.6BN Identity Cards Act was scrapped. He learned. You can't force people. You make them walk into the trap optionally.

In 2025, 2.96 MILLION petitioned against it. Government pretended to listen. Made it optional. But the trap was always the same. Once banks integrate it, employers require it, schools demand it. Optional becomes mandatory in practice. You won't function without it.

Why? Larry Ellison paid the Tony Blair Institute £257 MILLION.

Oracle already holds £700M in government contracts across Treasury, Home Office, NHS. They're not building a service. They're owning your life.

In February, Blair and Ellison met in Dubai. Ellison called for unification of all government data for AI. Not to help you. To predict you. Control you. Monitor every transaction, every movement, every choice.

TBI released the report in September. Starmer moved days later. King made it official. Once Digital ID embeds in NHS and tax system, no government can remove it without economic collapse.

It becomes permanent. Survives every election. Every Prime Minister.

Blair learned in 2006 that forced control gets rejected. So this time he's embedding it so deep rejection becomes impossible.

This is institutional entrapment. You're getting a digital leash designed to predict and control your behaviour through AI.

Wake up before optional becomes permanent.

[lordmicky.base.eth @0xlordmicky]

When Allyson Felix became pregnant, Nike threatened to cut her sponsorship contract by almost 70% because of her pregnancy.

They told her:

“You should know your place… and just run.”

Amid all this, at seven months pregnant, Allyson had to undergo an emergency C-section due to a serious complication.

Her baby girl spent over a month in the neonatal intensive care unit.

But two years later, Allyson qualified for her fifth Olympic Games, with her daughter in the stands cheering her on.

Allyson left Nike.

And she founded her own shoe brand: Saysh One.

At the Tokyo Olympics, she ran wearing her own sneakers, carrying the motto:

“I know exactly where my place is.”

With 11 medals, she surpassed Carl Lewis and became the most decorated American track and field athlete in history.

And to all women, she gave this message:

“I raised my voice and built this company for you, so that you’ll never have to train at 4:30 in the morning, five months pregnant, just to hide it from your sponsor.” ❤️

[❤️‍🔥 @3fvnta]

welcome to the uk btw

[Camus @newstart_2024]

What if the biggest “win” for families in the last 50 years was actually a trap?

Rory Sutherland dropped this on Alex O’Connor’s podcast: The two-income household started as a nice option. Both partners work, more money comes in. Feels great at first.

Then reality shifted. Governments got double the tax. Existing homeowners watched their property values soar. House prices rose to match two salaries.

Suddenly one income wasn’t enough anymore — even for high-earning singles like consultant surgeons. Families traded ~35 hours of free time per week for only modest gains in lifestyle.

What began as freedom quietly became an obligation. And it left single people and parents who want to raise their own kids at a real disadvantage.

This one stings because we sold it as pure progress.

Personally, it makes me question how many modern “upgrades” we’ve normalized without counting the real cost — especially lost time with family.

What’s something you once thought was clear progress that now feels like it came with a heavier price than we admitted?

[Good Guy Boris @BorisGoodGuy]

Reuters spent months trying to unmask Banksy.
A Greek builder got caught in the crossfire.
Banksy then installed a full bronze statue in the most surveilled postcode in London overnight.
The builder showed up at the plinth the same morning.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

I can't figure out if vaccines work or not.

Tough one.

Need Sherlock Holmes on this one.

[Wat_the_deuce 🍀🇮🇪☘️ 2 @wat_thee_deuce_]

"a man has ruined a weekend away with his girlfriend" 😆😆

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

She laced her shoes just like any other morning runner. No uniform. No badge. No sirens humming in the distance. Just a woman in plain clothes, hair tied back, stepping onto familiar streets where so many women had learned to keep their keys between their fingers and their eyes fixed straight ahead. The sun was gentle, the air quiet, and for a moment it felt almost peaceful. She began to jog, heart steady, breath even, blending into the rhythm of the neighborhood the way countless women do every day—hoping, not expecting, to be left alone.

It didn’t take long. A horn blared. A voice shouted something sharp and unwanted. Footsteps followed too closely, lingering where they didn’t belong. The ordinary fear crept in fast—the kind women recognize instantly, the kind that tightens the chest and shortens the breath. Only this time, she kept running. Not because it didn’t hurt, and not because it didn’t anger her, but because somewhere nearby, unseen, others were watching. Every comment, every act of intimidation was noted. Every moment that so many women are told to ignore was finally being taken seriously.

This was the quiet heart of the “Jog On” operation in Surrey: women protecting women by walking straight into the truth. For a month, volunteer female officers ran these routes, not to provoke, not to trap—but to show just how constant the harassment really is. Sometimes it happened more than once in a single minute. Sometimes it came from people who laughed, certain there would be no consequences. And yet, by the end of the month, there were arrests. Real ones. For harassment. For assault. For theft. Proof that what women experience daily isn’t “nothing.” It’s harm, and it matters.

The operation began because nearly half of women who face street harassment never report it. Not because it’s rare—but because it’s exhausting. Because explaining it means reliving it. Because too often, nothing changes. But change started here, on ordinary streets, with ordinary-looking runners who carried something extraordinary: the power to say, “We see this now.”

The message from Surrey Police was simple and quietly powerful. You cannot tell who a woman is just by looking at her. You cannot know her strength, her story, or who stands with her. That runner you honk at, shout at, or follow might be alone—or she might be backed by an entire system ready to protect her. And maybe, just maybe, the next time you think about crossing a line, you’ll pause. Because the world is changing in small, brave steps. One jog at a time.