Sebastian Sutherland

Building fintech products

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Stephen Flynn, "On Brexit, everyone across the UK right now feels that Britain is broken"

"And the guy who orchestrated Brexit, Nigel Farage, doesn't have to face the consequences of the economic damage that Brexit has done to the UK"

"It has made us smaller, it has made us poorer"

"If the Labour party want to defeat Nigel Farage they need to accept the premise that Brexit has been a disaster"

"And explain to people across the UK that the only way, the best way to grow the economy is to get our public finances in a fit state, as a result of realigning our relationship with the EU"

[Sebastian Sutherland @sebsutherland]

@EmaSpeaks @mikulaja Any comparables for CAC in FS? When I last worked for a bank, the CAC was well over $1,000 (many years ago however!) so these numbers by themselves don’t seem to bad without having anything to judge against…

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Reform are panicking about people pointing out that they want to replace the NHS. So please don't share this clip of Nigel Farage saying he'd rather healthcare was done through insurance companies.

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

Moms 🧵

1.

[Yebba’s Heartbreak @WolfDeArte]

@StevenValdezII1 @samstaydipped Roselyn Sánchez

[Non-Ironically T.V.'s B. Dave Walters - EVERYWHERE @BDaveWalters]

Unfortunate, but necessary information

[Amazing Maps @amazingmap]

A Map of Scottish Clans and Families

[Tony Kent @TonyKent_Writes]

This is the Shadow Justice Secretary.

In his very first tweet in the role, he has chosen to lie to you.

Keir Starmer did not let Jason Hoganson out early. Hoganson was serving for domestic violence. DV is specifically excluded from the ‘release on 40% of sentence’ scheme that Starmer’s government has introduced.

As a result, he was released at 50% of sentence instead. Which has been the release provisions for quite some time.

Anyone want to guess whose party introduced 50% release?

These lying fuckers just cannot be trusted.

[Jake Shields @jakeshieldsajj]

Israel soccer hooligans went to Amsterdam to cause problems

They tore down flags and mocked dead Palestinians

The people got mad and beat them up now they are playing the victim

With social media, the world can see what is actually happening

[Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis @DrLoupis]

Do you agree?

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

🇮🇱Pro-Israel lobby groups and individuals have donated to 13 out of Labour’s 25 cabinet members, Declassified has found.

The list of recipients includes Keir Starmer, his deputy Angela Rayner, chancellor Rachel Reeves, and foreign secretary David Lammy.
https://t.co/xEdyiQw6zs

[Rania @umyaznemo]

Ethnic cleansing 101

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

Patients with IV lines still attached, including children, were burned alive in a hospital by Israeli forces and NOT ONE British newspaper thought to make that front page news.

The act itself is fucking despicable.

But the press is complicit.

They BURNED CIVILIANS ALIVE.

[Dilly Hussain @DillyHussain88]

His name was Sha'ban Al-Dalou.

A 19-year-old software engineering student at Al-Azhar University of Gaza and a memoriser of Quran.

He was burnt alive in a tent after Israel bombed Al-Aqsa Hospital last night.

May the image of him burning haunt his killers and their supporters.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline.

As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone.

For example:

1. Treating the 4 Israeli soldiers as more important than the 23 Palestinian children (by leading the story with their deaths and just chucking in the others at the end) implies their lives are of higher value.

2. Infantilizing active duty soldiers as "teenagers" while not emphasizing the age of the schoolkids, despite many of them being demonstrably younger.

3. The classic use of the passive voice: Israelis are "killed" while Palestinians merely "die".

4. Putting scare quotes around "23 die" subtly undermines the credibility of that claim. Maybe no one died, and the Palestinians are just lying?

5. Using the word "attack" for Hezbollah actions, but choosing a more neutral, clinical word like "strike" for Israeli aggression.

6. Allowing Israeli sources to dictate the framing of the story ("Israel names teenage soldiers") etc.

7. Actually naming the Israeli soldiers, but not doing the same for the far greater number of Palestinians, again sends the message to the reader that Palestinian lives don't matter nearly as much, if at all.

It's truly incredible how much propaganda has been packed into 16 words. We are swimming in an ocean of propaganda. That's why it is crucial to deconstruct it and critically assess everything you read, see and hear.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Make it stop

[Paul Graham @paulg]

65 doctors, nurses, and paramedics told the New York Times what they saw in Gaza. What they saw was a pattern of children being shot in the head.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Since you didn’t bother to acknowledge them, here are names of 34,000 Palestinians Israel has killed in Gaza over the last year. These are only the ones identified, 1000s more have been killed.

It’ll take you over 13 minutes just to get to the teenagers

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

If you are worried about

Benefit Fraud £0.5bn, but not Government Corruption £219bn.

Immigration £2bn, but not Tax Havens £150bn.

Junior Doctors pay rises £1.3bn, but not Bankers tax cuts £7.3bn.

You‘re buying their lies.