Anonymong

The inane ramblings of a political window licker

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

Looking forward to UK government confirmation that 4chan will be exempt from the UK's social media ban due to its educational content.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

More videos from are coming out from yesterday’s riots by second and third generation migrants in Brussels.

It will be a long and hot summer in Europe

[L’Atlantista 🇮🇹🇺🇦 @Latlantista]

Non ho mai scritto a riguardo della raffineria di alluminio ad Aughinish in Irlanda; pensavo erroneamente: quanto alluminio può mai produrre l’Irlanda per la Russia?

Mi sbagliavo. La raffineria di Aughinsh, posseduta dal colosso russo “Rusal” (posseduto dall’oligarca Deripaska) produce un terzo di tutto il (poco) alluminio ancora prodotto in Europa. Tutto questo alluminio è trasportato in Russia dove viene usato per nutrire lo stesso complesso militare industriale che rade al suolo le città ucraine facendo stragi di civili.

Ma lo scandalo è ancora maggiore di quello che potrebbe sembrare: che le sanzioni europee non siano affatto complete e permettano ancora tali follie non era una novità. Quello che personalmente mi ha scandalizzato è il modo in cui i politici irlandesi, incalzati dal bravissimo reporter Caolan, neghino che la raffineria abbia una qualche connessione con il complesso militare russo, nonostante tutto, a partire dalle insegne fuori dalla struttura, porti a tale conclusione.

Questa roba deve finire all’istante. La raffineria va sanzionata, chiusa e basta.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The government to us: “reduce the your carbon footprint and pay green taxes.”

The government to giant tech corporations: "feel free to build mega AI data centres that massively deplete energy and water resources and we will give you taxpayer funded subsidies to help you.”

[Anonymong @giolla]

@In_Otter_News2 @otterbrewery

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

Rachel Reeves has put taxes *up*, and ended up actually raising *less* money.

How has she managed that?!

It turns out that when you punish people for taking risks, hiring people, or working hard, they're less likely to do those things. Who could have guessed?

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

For the leftie idiots commenting …In 2025, more than 40,000 doctors applied for 12,833 specialty training posts.

Of those applicants, 15,723 were UK trained doctors and 25,257 were overseas trained doctors competing for the same places.

The GMC says 138,405 doctors who qualified abroad were licensed to practise in the UK, representing 42% of all licensed doctors.

It is a waste of our talent and our money to give visas to foreign doctors when we have thousands here unable to find places.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In 1958, scientist John Calhoun created a mouse paradise known as Universe 25: unlimited food, comfortable shelter, and no predators. Starting with just four males and four females, the population exploded to 2,200 before social behaviors collapsed, reproduction ceased, and by day 600 the entire colony had died out.

[Cut My Tax @CutMyTaxUK]

Tax allowances have been stuck in the permafrost, sometimes for decades, reports a study by the Association of Taxation Technicians

Absurdly the £3,000 annual gift exemption for inheritance tax purposes — hasn't changed since 1981. In today’s money it would be worth almost four times as much or £11,800

The inheritance tax threshold has been stuck at £325,000 for 17 years ago and is now frozen until 2031. If it had risen with inflation, it would be around £525,000, 60% more.

The rent-a-room scheme allowance has been frozen at £7,500 since 2016. It should be £10,500 today.

If the higher rate income tax threshold was not frozen at £50,270, it would reach £70,000 by 2030.

All these allowances and thresholds should be legislated with a built-in inflation adjuster such that they increase automatically in line with inflation each year.

US tax thresholds are raised automatically each year in line with inflation. That's a key reason why US thresholds are so much higher than British ones. You have to earn $640,600 in the US in order to pay the top income tax rate of 37%. In Britain, the figure is almost 10 times less. Here earn just $66,000 US dollars (£50,270) and you start paying a 40% tax rate.

[Cat Brown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚜🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪 @MrsBr0wn_82]

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland is facing a massive data centre explosion and most people have no idea.

In a small village in Fife called Auchtertool.

A giant 600 megawatt AI hyperscale data centre called Cato is being proposed on farmland right next to Auchtertool in Fife, just 7 to 8 miles from the existing Queensway Park data centre in Glenrothes.

This monster project will cover around 61 acres, the size of about 35 football pitches.

One project alone using as much electricity every year as half a million Scottish homes, roughly 20% of the entire country's electricity consumption.

These hyperscale AI data centres are popping up across Scotland, sucking up massive amounts of power, water for cooling, and farmland, while we already pay some of the highest energy bills in Europe.

Scotland and its people have become the AI testing ground for the tech bro's
Are you happy with that?

Hopefully you will make a stand against this with me and others like @JamesMelville
Who has been fantastic at highlighting this all week, please have a look at his page.

To oppose this, go to the Fife Council planning portal and submit your objection now.

The application is 26/01243/PPP.

You can also contact your local councillor, your MSP, and your MP to raise concerns about the impact on our grid, bills, and countryside.

Every voice counts.

Ive put all the links in the comments including a MP template letter and planning documents.

Please share this with family and friends.

Thank you

[Anonymong @giolla]

I hope that a small group carry out the rush bearing to to maintain continuity as a gap of even one year can change the status of traditional events, and that’s how culture is destroyed

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Fury as 400 year-old parade through Lake District town cancelled after police demand for marshals https://t.co/YaRdNMld3s

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

Higher taxes that most people will pay? Or spending cuts that most people will feel?

That's it. Pick one.

If your answer is "government waste" or "tax the rich", then you're part of the problem.
The strategy of taxing "other people" has run out of road.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

But we've reached the limit.

We estimate that two-thirds of full-time workers can now expect to pay higher rate tax at some point in their working life.

Higher rate tax is no longer for "other people".

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

Everyone is keen on putting up taxes on "other people":

[Sal the Agorist @SallyMayweather]

22 yrs ago today, after a long zoning dispute with local officials that ruined his business, welder Marvin Heemeyer had enough & created the Killdozer.

He destroyed the mayor’s house, the judge’s house, town hall, the police station, & the bank - while avoiding hurting civilians or their property.

Happy Killdozer Day to those who celebrate 🎊

[Toni @toniwriter]

Not sure police or public will be ready for the fallout of this when Palantir inevitably get hacked.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Packed village hall meeting in the Fife village of Auchtertool to discuss the proposed massive 600MW AI data centre right next to the village and on scenic farmland - that is estimated to consume so much energy - equivalent to half of Scotland’s entire energy consumption. No environmental impact assessment has been provided by Fife Council. This must be stopped, No one voted for this.

[Russ @rustglas]

@SebMilbank @Babygravy9 An insight into how the South Asian mind works.

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

On digital ID, the Committee concludes that our current digital infrastructure is not up to scratch, and that rolling digital ID out on it would be "irresponsible".

They are right.