Chris Murphy

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[Chris Murphy @poolhayes93]

@DanielPriestley Gary isn't demonising high earners, which is why his slogan is 'tax wealth, not work". I think you both make good points and all of these factors are producing the economy we have. Benefits paid to the poor from middle class tax income only help the (super) rich.

[Chris Murphy @poolhayes93]

@Footballera0 So...nothing like Pogba

[Chris Murphy @poolhayes93]

@benstokes38 Look forward to seeing you back in the team this time next year (once the dust has settled and it becomes obvious the team is lost without you).

[Chris Murphy @poolhayes93]

@campbellclaret Everyone else's suffering is just fodder to your new found hobby of virtue signalling. You'll never stop being an awful person.

[Chris Murphy @poolhayes93]

@Keir_Starmer Of all the events since you became PM, why is it this time one which results in such a strong, instant response. You are a terrible, terrible prime minister. Good riddance.

[Chris Murphy @poolhayes93]

@FUDdaily Not disagreed with your posts before & don't want to offend but the above is just the diatribe of a nerdy kid, never in the cool gang. Even the most interesting kids with multiple hobbies spend a lot of time on their phones. It's what they are doing on them which matters.

[Chris Murphy @poolhayes93]

@ZackPolanski Are you insane?

[Chris Murphy @poolhayes93]

@nazirafzal This is utter nonsense, racism is simply a prejudice based on race. The whole prejudice+power is a lie created to deny the racism of minorities.

[Maggie Oliver @MaggieOliverUK]

A brief update on the @Indep_Inq_GG “Grooming gang” Inquiry…

This week the Inquiry panel for the Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs (the official title, not my choice of words) was questioned by the Home Affairs Select Committee. We hadn’t been made aware this was taking place and only found out on the day via a social media post and hence we couldn’t let our survivors know in advance. Much of what was said however has left us with more questions than it answered in all honesty. What was repeated was the importance of placing victims and survivors at the “heart of the panel”!!!

This is what that has looked like so far…….

We have not heard from the Inquiry team since we took over two dozen survivors and their families to meet with them in February. In that emotionally charged meeting, survivors spoke about their experiences and their anger at how badly they have been failed, most for decades. They shared their expertise and expectations for the Inquiry.

Their anger and trauma was palpable, and most of that was actually directed at the “establishment” including police, cps, social services, government rather than towards their abusers tbh! They clearly demanded the agencies that have failed them (and still are in many cases!) are held ACCOUNTABLE, right up to the top of those agencies!

In early March, we submitted both our and the survivors’ extensive comments to the draft Terms of Reference. We have received no reply.

In April, our legal team @HoweAndCo wrote to the Inquiry on behalf of all our survivor group expressing the importance of victims and survivors being granted proper legal status in the Inquiry and public funding to ensure they can be properly represented by legal experts. This will go some way to addressing the imbalance between survivors and the very agencies, organisations and individuals whose decisions have caused so much of their trauma. Police forces and local authorities around the country will have undoubtedly been working with their legal teams since the inquiry was announced almost a year ago.

This is PRECISELY the imbalance I saw 8 years ago when I was involved in the @IICSAVSCP Independent Inquiry Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). Because the “Organised networks” strand became little more than a platform for public institutions to say what a great job they were now going with barely any survivors heard, it became a meaningless paper exercise and that’s imo why we’re here now….

I’ll leave you to read the Home Office’s response attached below and our reply and make up your own mind as to whether we should have confidence that this will be granted.

So many survivors have fought hard for this Inquiry. People are sharing traumatic details of the worst times of their lives again in the hope that they will finally see people held accountable for decisions that destroyed their lives. Survivors must have legal status and representation if there is even the slightest chance of this happening.

Please share far and wide. We need people pressure to make this happen. Further updates to follow next week….

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A guy named nbatman on Reddit accidentally built the most useful website on the internet.

It's called FMHY (Free Media Heck Yeah).

This is the website Google delisted from search for DMCA violations, Reddit shadow-banned for promoting piracy, the Motion Picture Association flagged as a top piracy threat, and the RIAA pressured hosting providers to drop. It is still online. It is still updated every month.

Here's how it works.

FMHY is the index. The wiki itself hosts nothing. It just tells you where every free thing on the internet actually lives, organized into 14 categories with safety ratings on every single link.

→ Movies and shows in 4K from 50+ streaming sites
→ Music at Spotify and Apple Music quality
→ Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, JetBrains
→ Every paid course on every major learning platform
→ 100 million books and papers through Anna's Archive
→ Free alternatives to every paid AI tool
→ A SafeGuard browser extension that flags unsafe sites in real time

It started as a single Google Doc maintained by one Reddit moderator in 2018. Google killed it with a DMCA takedown in 2023.

The community rebuilt the wiki on its own domain, mirrored it to GitHub and IPFS, and now runs it across 12 backup domains simultaneously.

There is no company. No CEO. No central server. Six anonymous volunteers maintain the entire thing in their spare time. Donations through Ko-fi pay for the hosting. Nobody profits.

Hollywood can't shut this down. Spotify can't shut this down. Adobe can't shut this down.

The entire subscription economy is held together by you not knowing this wiki exists.

https://t.co/AAr2rLlqgy

[Chris Murphy @poolhayes93]

@GSpellchecker Untrue in Britain not America. Think there is a UK/USA misunderstanding here.

[Chris Murphy @poolhayes93]

@wokeandwoofing I can't wait for the sitcom based on your life ;-)

[Chris Murphy @poolhayes93]

@avidseries All the hand-wringing articles regarding changes in culture etc and, as per usual, the actual answer to the change in the behaviour is economic.

[Chris Murphy @poolhayes93]

@moving_charlie Your 2nd and 3rd sentences completely contradict one another. Job creation and wage growth are insufficient to address the concerns Gary is highlighting, you're not truly addressing the point he is making as you have a fanciful vision that everyone can be rich.

[Chris Murphy @poolhayes93]

@Keir_Starmer You utter moron, the 'diverse' aren't 'tolerant' that's what we are trying to point out. You can't square that circle and never will.

[Chris Murphy @poolhayes93]

@WaterUK 'working together' the water companies should be re-nationalised asap.

[Chris Murphy @poolhayes93]

@Keir_Starmer None of us can quite believe how terrible you are at your job. It is absolutely staggering.

[Chris Murphy @poolhayes93]

@jaysutherlanduk @ThePosieParker It isn't his finest moment but his frustration is that many moderately wealthy people will defend protecting inheritance - out of self-interest for their families - and won't engage on the unfairness of work being overtaxed and wealth under taxed.

[Chris Murphy @poolhayes93]

@mehdirhasan Well at least he found time to make you look a tw@t. LOL.

[Chris Murphy @poolhayes93]

@FFS_WhatNow His content is free. The patron is optional.