Richard Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Cook, counsellor, cleaner and slum landlord. Views are strictly my wife's.
"We are not of the Earth, we are the Earth."
Manganese.
Living in Wales.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

I enjoyed every second of this interview. Which makes one of us…

[Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy @GyllKing]

Haha

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel.

Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it.

A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

How a £1-an-acre trick is quietly handing Britain's industrial commons to AI companies, and why nobody has connected the dots until now.

My new essay on the Anthropic/Teesside data centre deal, the Paris AI Summit walkout, and why the UK's "free zones" programme is quietly sabotaging any future return to the EU.
Please subscribe, and support my research.
https://t.co/zdzH7NUWGB
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[Nahuel Lanzón @nahuelzn]

🇸🇴 Nunca vi algo así. En Somalia hoy se llenó un estadio para recibir como héroe nacional a Omar Artan, el árbitro al que Estados Unidos le negó la entrada al Mundial. Increíble.

[Wokerati Marty @WokeratiMarty]

The British establishment pulled out all the stops to prevent Jeremy Corbyn becoming PM, simply because he criticised Israel and wanted fairer wealth distribution.

Yet Nigel Farage instigates riots and they still court him as a potential PM.

Make it make sense.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Since Thames Water is once again staring down a gun barrel, the £3 billion bailout it had runs out later this year, I thought it might be timely to remind us all of the “Economically illiterate”, cost govt comes up with to renationalise the water industry, you remember the £100 billion.

It is of course made up nonsense produced by a think tank in a report which was bought and paid for my United Utilities, Anglian Water, Severn Trent Water and South West Water.

By their calculations it would now cost £26,659,419,800 to nationalise Thames Water. 🤣🤣🤣

What a joke.

[Nadeem Ahmed @Muqadaam]

“When is the British government going to impose sanctions on Israel for its endless violations of international law?”

Retweet if you agree with Corbyn

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Oh here we go again. @YorkshireWater claiming they are "INVESTING" £8.3 billion between 2025 - 2030.

That of course turns out to be completely untrue.

The only money I can see that shareholders are putting into the business is paying back the "loan" they took, by March 2027 and the £100 million they were supposed to pay to help reduce sewage dumping by the end of March 2025.

Every other damned penny of that £8.3 billion, that's £8.2 billion is being funded directly out of bill payers' pockets and not a damned thing to do with shareholders.

Why are water companies allowed to tell such utter lies?

Ofwat?

[Richard Powell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @timberichpowell]

@hicasamadim 2+2 =4 x 2 = 8
5+5 =10 × 5 = 50
6+6=12 × 6 = 72

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Pope Leo is right. We cannot allow a cabal of oligarchs to use AI to enrich themselves through war and exploitation. Society has to be in charge.
https://t.co/0cIzf50pep

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Stellar Man @stellarman22]

🚨 B-52s are departing RAF Fairford! Local video shows a loaded B-52 taking off.

~7 hour combat flight time to Iran puts them in striking range by 8pm

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Trump, Vance & Israel are all threatening to use nuclear weapons against Iran.

The irony is the US & Israel started this war because they claimed Iran—a country without nukes—was the biggest threat to nuclear war.

I hope the world can now see the real threat is the US & Israel.

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

Where are the human chains in DC?
Where are Democrats leading marches?
Where are the celebrities pretending to care about human rights in award shows?
Where are the intellectuals? The scholars? The veterans? The churches?

Where is ANY resistance to this?

Even Nazi Germany had some internal resistance.

This isn’t just Trump.

This is the collective failure of a society.

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

I have not seen a single mainstream media outlet give this the attention it deserves.

Israel blew up an entire Lebanese town, an ancient place. It should be headline news. There’s footage of it happening.

Imagine this was your town, and you saw every building blown up by a terrorist army to prevent you from ever returning. You would at the very least expect wall to wall coverage. Instead it passes without a word.

It’s not the only town Israel has blown up. And sadly it probably won’t be the last.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

BREAKING: 2 US B-52 bombers have arrived at RAF Fairford base in Gloucestershire, England, bringing the total number of bombers stationed there to 23.

Keir Starmer is heavily involved in Trump’s illegal war of aggression on Iran but doesn’t want you to know it.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Palantir is burrowing into the heart of the UK's institutions - our health, our defence, our finances.

Join me in telling the govt to send this dangerous company packing:
https://t.co/oqsZdtN3pZ