Gareth

Well, what to write? Spurs fan, Labour 🌹 member, like business, tech, cars, and film news.

[Gareth @theroguegrafter]

@BBCNews There is a link between anti vaccine sentiment, AI generated profile pictures, and blue tick accounts.

[Gareth @theroguegrafter]

@BenShindel @guardian This is terrible writing — generated by ChatGPT

[Gareth @theroguegrafter]

@JohnLeFevre Hey up @grok can you fact check this for us?

[Gareth @theroguegrafter]

@carlfhoward @PaulEmbery Absolutely nothing to do with UK government block Grant to councils being cut by 75% whilst statutory responsibilities remained the same over the past 16 years and everything to do with *checks notes* heat pumps. Got it. Cheers buddy.

[Gareth @theroguegrafter]

@Trevorlloyd92 Yeah, lots of talk about Vinay and Lange #OUT but nothing about a piss poor team and an atrocious medical team that also needs a clear out.

[Gareth @theroguegrafter]

@dapperlaughs Wait - so it's okay for Trump to ban TikTok over Chinese "interference" but it isn't okay for Starmer to ban X over deepfake kiddie porn. Got it.

[Gareth @theroguegrafter]

@TRobinsonNewEra Nonces protecting nonces - Starmer wants to stop kiddie deepfake porn and Trump and his Epstein buddies don't. Weird isn't.

[Gareth @theroguegrafter]

@joshxhowie I wouldn't worry unless they're Israeli or fans of flat pack furniture assembly

[Gareth @theroguegrafter]

@jamiesusskind That argument mistakes an ideal for reality. “Better arguments” only work when people have equal access to power and attention. They do not. Money, media and institutions decide what gets heard. When those channels fail, persuasion alone becomes meaningless.

[Gareth @theroguegrafter]

@mr_james_c Measuring public-sector productivity is genuinely hard. Outputs like healthcare, policing, education, and justice do not price themselves through markets. The ONS has to proxy value using activity measures and outcomes, which is why the chart flags recent data as “experimental”.

[Gareth @theroguegrafter]

@StewartNial @Finny__ @MerrynSW How do businesses function without state apparatus - teachers, engineers, scientists, administrators, meteorologists, surgeons, refuse collectors. You need to have a think about countries that don't invest in this infrastructure and how they fare.

[Gareth @theroguegrafter]

AccuWeather & other US weather apps lobbied against the US Gov making a free weather app. AccuWeather lobbies against free apps that can save lives - think NOAA alerts - because big weather wants to monetise access. & sometimes business shouldn't be involved in everything either.

[Kristian Niemietz @K_Niemietz]

Well, yes, when the state is involved in everything, it will eventually do something useful by accident. Doesn't mean that the state is a great entrepreneur, or that it should be involved in everything.

[Gareth @theroguegrafter]

@StewartNial @Finny__ @MerrynSW Wow, I didn't know that working for the government was tax free. That's brilliant news. Gonna get myself a tax free civil service job. Thanks buddy.

[Gareth @theroguegrafter]

@ccfc_colin @Finny__ @MerrynSW You know police officers, nurses, civil servant administrators, and the likes all pay tax. If you work for the state, it isn't tax free earnings. That's 6m tax payers.

[Gareth @theroguegrafter]

@ATaylorFPGA @MerrynSW There are 147,000 FTE doctors in the NHS. There are 360,000 nurses in the NHS. 170,000 Police officers. The 50,000 cap would make us all unhealthy and less safe. That's quite a dream you have there buddy.

[Gareth @theroguegrafter]

Maybe if the world's only Jewish state wasn't actively involved in the murder of 70,000 men, women and children perhaps Jews worldwide would feel safer. Israel knew this could happen and they didn't care.

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

‘I've been studying terrorism for 20 years, and I've never seen things this bad. The West is under attack – full stop. The question now is, what the hell are we going to do about it?’

[Gareth @theroguegrafter]

@SCynic1 @GaryLineker When you have 70,000 men, women and children to get through in Gaza it takes time.

[Gareth @theroguegrafter]

@habibi_uk I love how right wingers get mad at Eid festivities and rage on about how we are a Christian country but are happy with a Menorah in Trafalgar Square - one of the most famous squares in a Christian country.

Y'all need to learn basic consistency guys.

[Gareth @theroguegrafter]

@George_Osborne Austerity AI incoming

[Gareth @theroguegrafter]

@russellquirk Your "mate" doesn't seem to know how to run a business if he can't remain solvent without paying the basic wage in the UK. Maybe he is better off shutting it down. We need to move away from low pay wage slavery at any rate. One less is a good thing for all.