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If You Are The Dealer, I'm Out Of The Game.

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For all our vanities we are but the food of worms. This is one of the universes best jokes.

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@MyWhiteNinja_ ❤️

[Koskovics Zoltán @KoskovicsZ]

The champions of democracy and liberalism:

[Yorkshire Victor Meldrew+his dog @TheMeldrew]

Yup

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@Tom_Antonov Probably the mandatory tampons.

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@JanRadovic The power and water usage is bizarre. I guess they can't code. As for patent and copyright it is a complete nightmare.
Unaccountable rubbish for unaccountable zombies.

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My Twitter Interaction Circle

➡️ https://t.co/fi10M7h144

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[Jan Radović 💙 @JanRadovic]

Starmer is a monster.

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@Alex_Oloyede2 Talking corned beef.

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@TheMeldrew Some people don't deserve thumbs.

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@MichaelTakeMP "A good walk spoiled." - Mark Twain.

[Labour Digital Rights Network @LabDRN]

While protecting young people from exploitation is a noble and vital goal, the PM is deliberately ignoring the terrifying reality of how his proposed policy would actually be enforced.

Companies like Apple and Google will effectively be forced to introduce state-mandated surveillance software (spyware) on every single phone, tablet and laptop in the UK.

Furthermore, because each device must know if the user is a child to block the content, this policy guarantees the roll-out of mandatory digital ID checks for the entire population, effectively killing internet privacy and online anonymity for us all.

We also must question the sudden sense of urgency and tough talk today.

Just last month, Jess Phillips resigned from the government over this exact issue, calling out Starmer for pursuing only "incremental change," and worrying more about upsetting tech bosses than protecting children.

Why the sudden pivot? It is hard to see this ultimatum as an act of genuine conviction. Instead, much like his rushed, unworkable social media ban, it looks like another desperate cynical attempt to shore up Starmer's political legacy before the looming by-election and leadership contest.

[Emo Philips @EmoPhilips]

great, now they’ll say THAT’S bad for you

[Barry Wall @HeadWarriorTWM]

I cannot ever recall feeling such visceral contempt for one man.

Listen to him.

He's quite mad.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

You mentioned the Nixon-Kissinger opening to China in the 1970s, when American corporations were invited to move manufacturing there in exchange for cheap labor.

You're right about the basic fact.

But think carefully about what you just described.

American political leaders made a deliberate decision to offshore manufacturing to a "low-wage authoritarian state" to benefit American corporations and American consumers.

The workers in China and later Vietnam who assembled those products for poverty wages were not incidental to the arrangement.

They were the point.

Their cheapness was the product being sold to American companies.

This was American policy.

Designed by Americans.

Implemented by Americans.

Benefiting Americans.

And your conclusion from this history is that the problem is the Vietnamese government.

Not the American government that designed the system.

Not the American corporations that lobbied for it.

Not the American consumers who bought the products and called it "free trade."

The Vietnamese worker, who had no seat at any of these tables, is somehow the subject of your "concern."

While the people who designed the table, chose the menu, and left the bill for someone else are apparently just a background detail.

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer threatens mandatory ID checks to use mobile phones

"Protecting children online is vital, but these are outrageous plans that will fail to address the underlying causes of online harm. This will only result in population-wide ID checks for all of us to use our phones, tablets and laptops.

"Put simply, the Labour Government is threatening ID checks for the internet. No one in a democracy should need to show their passport just to get online.

"These plans would replace efforts for meaningful tech and parental responsibility with performative, authoritarian government control that children can easily circumvent by accessing adult-registered devices. However, for the UK's 50 million adults using the internet, this backdoor digital ID requirement would invoke the death of anonymity and internet privacy.

"The Government's plan very likely means that unless you submit to intrusive identity checks when setting up your phone or computer, there will be a chokehold on your software and internet access leaving you with a child-locked device. Planned restrictions on messaging, streaming and browsing raise the potential of spyware in our pockets that will be exploited for other purposes before long.

"The Government mandating that all phones in Britain require ID and surveillance software is a crossing of the Rubicon that would make the UK one of the most authoritarian internet regimes in the world. This extreme technological censorship requires rigorous public and parliamentary scrutiny that is currently totally missing" - Silkie Carlo | @silkiecarlo

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Eriksen should not have played after the first heart attack. If you want to see a death we have news channels for that. #fifa2026

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@GabeZZOZZ Is it a reboot of the Bash Street Kids?