michaelekins

Experienced software developer from Glasgow, Scotland.
Advocate of Agile & Lean methodologies.

[Battlement 🇱🇰 @BattlementLK]

There are two types of Argentinians.

[Tom Hatfield @WordMercenary]

Keir Starmer was one of the most establishment protected Labour leaders of all time. The press constantly turned a blind eye to his scandals and viciously attacked his enemies, but it was still not enough to make anyone like him.

[Janet Mobbs @JanetMobbs]

He inherited a Labour Party with over 500,000 members, no debt and a manifesto clearly rooted in Labour values. Starmer shed members, almost bankrupted the party and turned it into a party for the rich and for genocide that is now politically, financially and morally bankrupt.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I know we’ve been calling them “robot dogs” this whole time but it is a bit of a misnomer when we’ve known from the beginning they were only ever intended as an all-terrain carrying system for autonomous weapons to suppress revolutions.

[Joshua Bailey @JoshuaBailey184]

Apolitical gamers are really being forced to learn previously niche, left-wing-coded concepts such as rent extraction & enclosure of the commons because of Playstation

[michaelekins @mekins]

@GhostStoriesEnd @ChazakielDoremi Whats the other?

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

FWIW - the Sunday Times were about to publish a similar exposé to the Farage one, about Cameron's involvement in HSBC fraud cover-up. The editor Camilla Cavendish killed it, Cameron got re-elected, Cavendish got a job at No10 & then a peerage.

[Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️ @Normanjam67]

Remember folks,
Russia and China are authoritarian societies, that's why they're our enemies. 🙃

[Robert Behrens @rcb05]

“And as a symbol of our independence, we will say the month first instead of the date. March 12th instead of the 12th of March, October 3rd instead of the 3rd of October, etc.”

“And July 4th instead of 4th of July, sir?”

“No. That one stays.”

[michaelekins @mekins]

@polplotting @Alexand3rTheMeh They are cowards, plain and simple. Every one to a man, same with any police force or gang

[ed edd and eddington @goblin_formula]

the publicist of the woman gassing the atmosphere with her private jets literally being named Tree Pain has convinced me that we live in a simulation created by a really uncreative person

[Uncle Ade 👑 @Uncle_Ade77]

"We didn't lose to Portugal, we lost to biased refereeing....I have played football all my life and never have I imagined a strand of hair touching the ball could determine if a team stays in the world cup or not"

- Luka Modric

[Joe Guinan @joecguinan]

Genocide, austerity, privateering, racist speeches and authoritarian crackdowns… oh, and the freebies. Not to forget the freebies!

[LiquidZulu, most consistent mofo you know @liquid2ulu]

"Should we always regulate the media, or only when we really really want to?"

Where is the option for "never?"

[jourdain searles @judysquirrels]

the thing about the rise of white supremacy and fascism is that it makes people so dull and boring. no original thoughts. no personal taste. no personal happiness or distinct sense of self. can’t like anything without consensus to back you up. can’t think on your own, etc.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is properly insane: quite literally the worst example of censorship I've ever heard of anywhere.

I checked the actual ruling (which you can see here: https://t.co/dBKFWZ2ZWm) and, to be clear, it isn't just censorship in the conventional sense - blocking access to a website or removing content from platforms - this is the criminalization of information relayed by private citizens, with prison sentences attached.

And the most insane aspect if that it does NOT matter if the information relayed is accurate or not. It just matters that it originates from RT or other media outlets banned in the EU.

In other words, truth isn't a defense anymore in the EU, it literally doesn't matter. It's purely based on the identity of the speaker.

The ruling is actually explicit about this: the regulation, quoted by the Court says that the prohibition applies to "any content," and they draw no distinction based on what the content actually says. If it originates from banned outlets, it's banned.

It is, quite simply, a complete unraveling of the entire post-Enlightenment legal and philosophical project where entire generations of Europeans fought to move from "who says it" to "is it true" as the operative question.

Think about the absurdity of it: if RT publishes a video saying the sky is blue and you share it on a publicly accessible website in the EU, you'd fall within the scope of this ruling, making you liable to criminal prosecution.

Completely and utterly absurd. But that's the EU today for you 🤷

[foxes in fiction 🥀 @foxesinfiction]

nothing could have prepared me for the Islamic Republic of Iran MTA train car that just pulled up next to me

[Arturo Dominguez @extremearturo]

This is what a police state looks like. It's not coming. You're living it.

https://t.co/HkvaNwM250

[Steve Herman @newsguyusa]

There’s something called the Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act. Any gift worth more than $525 is supposed to go to the government for safekeeping and a president can buy it for fair market value after leaving office. Following the first Trump administration, I tried to track some high-profile ones that I had witnessed the president receiving, including a gold medal from the Saudis, and they were not listed in government inventory and their disposition was unknown per officials.