Darran

Low grade meme generator.
I don't own Bitcoin but my dog does.

[Darran @DStuck3y]

If a product or service is "free", you are the product.

[The Hacker News @TheHackersNews]

#TikTok has quietly revised its #privacy policy to allow it to automatically collect biometric information such as faceprints and voice prints from the content its users post on the platform.

Read details: https://t.co/hy4opM5gES

#datasecurity #infosec #cybersecurity

[Darran @DStuck3y]

Fawning media is about to repeat the same mistake.

[Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick]

In two to three years time, when Starmer and his government are no doubt deeply unpopular, I hope we in the media will ask ourselves: "Why were we so supine during the long 2024 election; why didn't we hold Labour properly to account while we could, and ask more probing questions, and explore their records, rather than give them such an easy ride?".

[Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick]

In two to three years time, when Starmer and his government are no doubt deeply unpopular, I hope we in the media will ask ourselves: "Why were we so supine during the long 2024 election; why didn't we hold Labour properly to account while we could, and ask more probing questions, and explore their records, rather than give them such an easy ride?".

[Adam @AdamFulwell_]

We’re told to carpool into work, reduce emissions, reduce plastics etc etc and the BBC are incinerating a hole in the Ozone layer with a helicopter to show footage of a train??

[Darran @DStuck3y]

In what world do any of them have any economic credibility?

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham is choosing between Ed Miliband, Wes Streeting and Shabana Mahmood to become his Chancellor

[@thetimes]

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

I have never taken part in a coup against any Leader of the Labour Party and I am not going to start now. 2/3

[Darran @DStuck3y]

Someone is going to have to run against him just to make it look like there's some kind of debate.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Darren Jones is being lobbied by dozens of Labour MPs to launch a leadership bid to stop an Andy Burnham coronation

[@Tony_Diver]

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

I think this hashtag needs to be trending tonight, don’t you?

#GeneralElectionNow

[Darran @DStuck3y]

No incentives only punishment.

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Burnham’s economic architect Miatta Fahnbulleh recommends, among other things:
•A wealth tax and yet another windfall tax on oil and gas.
•Mass nationalisation e.g. of land, transport, and energy.
•Extending national insurance to investment income.
•A cap on interest rates and charges on every form of consumer credit.
•Hiking capital gains tax to income tax levels.
•Hiking divided tax to income tax levels.
•Abolition of the upper earnings limit for national insurance.
•Huge expansion of the benefits system including a “minimum income guarantee” paid to everyone apart from the rich.
•Nationalisation of banks and creation of new “green” banks with taxpayer funds.
•Block on private banks lending to anyone with a “large amount of greenhouse gas emissions” and “penalisation of banks that provide too many carbon-intensive loans.“
•Forced sale of existing businesses to employees.
•A tripling of the stamp duty surcharge to 9% for multiple homeowners and an increase to 6% for non-residents.

[Tim Newman @whitesundesert]

Nothing will enrage a bureaucrat more than someone doing the job the bureaucrat was supposed to do.

[Darran @DStuck3y]

The split in the right will keep Labour in power

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham has won the Makerfield by-election

🔴 LAB: 24,937 (+6,725) - 54.8%
➡️ REF: 15,696 (+2,893) - 34.5%
🟣 RES: 3,111 (NEW) - 6.8%
🔵 CON: 997 (-3,382) - 2.2%
🟢 GRN: 308 (-1,468) - 0.7%
🔶 LD: 163 (-2,572) - 0.4%

Changes w/ 2024
58.75% turnout

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham has won the Makerfield by-election

🔴 LAB: 24,937 (+6,725) - 54.8%
➡️ REF: 15,696 (+2,893) - 34.5%
🟣 RES: 3,111 (NEW) - 6.8%
🔵 CON: 997 (-3,382) - 2.2%
🟢 GRN: 308 (-1,468) - 0.7%
🔶 LD: 163 (-2,572) - 0.4%

Changes w/ 2024
58.75% turnout

[Darran @DStuck3y]

It is no surprise that multiple countries enforce the same restrictions at the same time.

[Global Dissident @GlobalDiss]

🚨🇪🇺 EU wants INTERNET BY PASSPORT - and plans to block VPNs to enforce it.

“The new age verification system cannot be bypassed via VPN.”

Their plan is totalitarian surveillance! 1984 is coming!

[Darran @DStuck3y]

Trump got tricked into an endless war by those with their own agenda.

He wants out regardless.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The US has circulated its version of the Memo of Understanding with Iran to G7 leaders in France. It’s as bad if not worse than expected.
— The moment it’s signed (Friday) sanctions on the export of Iran oil are lifted. So the regime can start replenishing its coffers immediately.
— The US commits to doing nothing to undermine or destabilise the Iranian regime (it started the war to remove it).
— The US specifically commits to ending its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz but Iran does not commit specifically to returning the Strait to toll/fee free transit exactly as before the war, with no Iranian control/regulation whatsoever .
— All sanctions against Iran will be dropped should phase two negotiations go well. And America will withdraw its forces from the region.
— The US ‘undertakes’ to work with Iran and Gulf allies to create a $300 billion reconstruction package for Iran. So America will now become a partner with the tyrants of Tehran, who Trump only recently wanted to overthrow, in rebuilding their economy.
— All matters related to Iran’s nuclear capabilities are kicked into the ‘final agreement’ in 60 days time (or longer if necessary).
— No mention of Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities or its financing of terrorist proxies.
And that’s just about it. When Trump insisted the war would only end with ‘unconditional surrender’ it never crossed my mind he meant his own.

[Darran @DStuck3y]

Anarcho tyranny

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Good news! After decades of ignoring rampant environmental crime on the Roding, @EnvAgency has finally decided to act.

Bad news! It’s not against Thames Water for illegally dumping billions of litres of sewage in the Roding, or the waste criminals who have dumped thousands of tonnes of rubbish on its banks, but against myself & a small volunteer charity for… restoring a river without a permit!

Within a week of the magnificent work of River Roding Trust volunteers completing the arduous work of restoring 250 metres of the Aldersbrook this winter, EA investigators had been down to the site and rattled off a letter threatening us with prosecution for doing the work without a permit. This is despite the fact that the Trust have repeatedly asked the EA to do this vital work on the Aldersbrook themselves & they have refused. It is also despite the fact that they have not investigated the huge illegal sewage outlet on the Cranbrook a few hundred metres away, which illegally discharges 750,000,000 litres of raw sewage straight into the River Roding every year.

[Darran @DStuck3y]

One commentator stated this was to sow confusion and division, therefore making governance more difficult. Part of "Hybrid War".

Looking at the last 2 years the Govt is achieving that without Russian intervention.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Russia was behind arson attacks targeting PM, BBC reveals https://t.co/gNgD9uSfQ5

[Poppy Coburn @kafkaswife]

I suppose it’s too much to ask the Conservative Party to actually bother to look at the academic consensus on teenage social media use and mental health outcomes, which has found NO EVIDENCE the two are connected.

Why bother with a silly little thing like the truth when such a golden opportunity to censor speech has presented itself?

[Darran @DStuck3y]

It's not the ban, it's the enforcement.

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Ishaya_]

The people I don't get the most are the "kids will find a way" crowd 😅

Think about the things western society almost UNIVERSALLY agrees children shouldn't have: alcohol, cigarettes, & restricted physical substances.

We put age restrictions on them b/c we understand the devastating physical & developmental consequences.

Do teenagers still find workarounds? Absolutely.

But the fact that a 15-yr-old can sneak a drink doesn't mean we should abolish the legal drinking age. Even the most rebellious adults who accessed drugs early in life will fiercely protect their own kids from having open access to those same substances.

So why is the proposed social media ban facing such fierce backlash?

B/c the damage is silent.

You can't see an algorithm eroding a child's mind in a lab the way you can see a cigarette damaging their lungs.

Let's make the invisible harm visible(which is what I believe the campaigns leading up to this should've done a lot more).

Nearly 40% of children ages 8 to 12 are already using social media. Adolescents spending more than 3 hrs daily on these platforms face double the risk of mental health issues like anxiety & depression.

When asked about the impact on their body image, 46% of adolescents aged 13-17 said social media actively makes them feel worse.

For teenage girls using platforms like Instagram, about 1 in 3 reported feeling worse about their bodies due to the app.

As many as 72% of teens say they have been cyberbullied. Cyberbullying is more strongly correlated with suicide attempts than traditional face-to-face bullying.

These apps are altering brain structure during a highly vulnerable developmental window, affecting areas like the amygdala that manage emotional learning.

If a legal, physical product was doing this much quantifiable damage to an ENTIRE generation, we'd pull it from the shelves immediately. We need to stop pretending screens are safe just b/c there's no smoke.

[Darran @DStuck3y]

He'll then use a leadership contest in Labour to boost his profile even more and draw a line under the Starmer era.

Then we will have more of the same but with a northern accent and a sovereign debt crisis to follow.

[Darran @DStuck3y]

I've not been following the Makerfield by-election but I suspect Burnham will win, not by being a great candidate, but due to the opposition vote being split between Reform and Restore.

[Darran @DStuck3y]

In which case Burnham will be seen as a saviour and the opposition schism will be largely overlooked to push that narrative hard.

[Darran @DStuck3y]

Lewis not understanding economics.

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Musk as a trillionaire- anyone as a trillionaire- is a grotesque economic, moral and political problem. We cannot have individuals with that level of power, whatever they might have achieved.