Dan Matthews

Dan Matthews

@danmatthews.me

Laravel developer. Building charity software over at @socialsync.io.

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Hey just a quick question what type of numerals do we use for everything

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Farage looks awful. Hate ages you, but so does running from scandal to scandal without having the sense to quit.

Gerry Hassan@gerryhassan.bsky.social

Nigel Farage does not think his long-term associate Raheem Kassam made racist comments calling Kemi Badenoch a "Nigerian scammer." Yet again Farage gets irritable and bad-tempered under questioning.

Shit in our rivers is legal for a price. Perfect metaphor for how neoliberalism is fucking us over IMO.

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social

Anglian Water fined puny £1.6M for polluting 14km of River Brain. Ignored alarms telling them that sewage was being dumped. Highest levels of toxic ammonia. AW has numerous criminal convictions. No exec prosecuted, licence to operate not cancelled. Fleecing normalized.

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"They can start cutting people's faces up. They can stab someone. They can shoot someone." EXCLUSIVE: Our hidden cameras capture the leader of Turning Point UK organising a fake rally for a foreign government and helping arrange a murder-for-hire with loyalist paramilitaries.

It does sound silly small-potatoes stuff, but this kind of guardrail regulation on private companies after they're being trusted with so much infrastructure level stuff is a great precedent to prevent runaway predatory capitalist practices.

Politics UK@politicsuk.com

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has announced changes to car parking fines - Drivers will have a 5-minute grace period to decide whether to park and 10 minutes to leave after a parking session ends - A £20 maximum charge on appeal for minor mistakes, such as entering the wrong number plate

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The problem with stats like this, is that it makes it sound like they pay for the full price of the car. Friend of mine's dad had a motability car, still paid £190 a month for it, without it would have been £310/month - it's not the whole cost. And as with every far-right "fact", it hides nuance.

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For every 27k cars sold, that's ~3k cars sold under motability, but: - How many of those people would be stranded without a reduced cost car? - New cars have the best safety ratings. - You can get adaptations for your disability covered. - How many are _actually_ taking the piss. ...

And the problem with defining who's "taking the piss" is that it, in itself, is SO nuanced. Let's see this for what it is - an attack on the disabled and an attempt to turn public fervour away from the people actually draining the state dry - billionaires.

Zelenskyy has realised that the true targets here are the data centres - the ones propping up both regimes, destabilising the west that should be providing aid. The bots are the "vocal majority" giving the AFD and MAGA the balls to say "there are loads of us!" and by shutting them up, he might win.

Yep. I honestly have considered getting back on X a few times because I feel like i'm missing out on tech conversation, but ... most of that tech conversation is just wanking each other off about AI at the moment. I just can't support Elon in any way. Dude is demonstrably dangerous.

Anil Dash@anildash.com

I (probably obviously) disagree with John's POV here, but let's grant that all of what he says is true, and that X is good in all the ways listed in the post; let's even grant that's true for all demographics (it's not). It'd *still* be a site that pays known CSAM distributors at its owner's behest.

We really need to hold the media accountable before we try to re-enter the EU. It would change many things.

T.T.@tonduturk.bsky.social

Oh fuck off. The EU won't plunder Britain. What's left to plunder ? !!. The country is in the shit after Brexit and 14 years of the Tories. Everything's been sold off and there's nothing left to plunder !!. The UK right-wing media is a disgrace.

Ah yes, the treatment of a man that married a non-white woman, vs. the man that was best friends with a paedophile and human trafficker, who is also accused of sleeping with one of the aforementioned underage, trafficked, women

Nah I love having to wear noise cancelling headphones in my own living room because our neighbours have a fucking huge soundbar against the shared wall. 🙄

Tom Watson is, case in point, a 'traitor' in much more of a regard than anyone that the right-wing thugs call traitors for opposing their racism. Words used to mean the things they actually mean.

Just Treatment @justtreatment.org

US spy-tech company Palantir hired former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson to defend its £330m NHS contract. Last week, as patients and health workers protested in 40+ places across England, he went on X to attack them. 🧵... www.bmj.com/content/395/...

Why not expand the UK GOV Digital team to run it in-house? Why an outside contractor?

Just Treatment @justtreatment.org

🚨The government is looking for UK alternatives to Palantir to run the NHS data platform, the FT reports. This follows a week of protests in 40+ places across England and a rally of hundreds at Palantir's London HQ. Help keep the pressue up: nopalantirinthenhs.com

Ah, Prime Day. The biggest non-event in the history of mediocre sales. Opened amazon to order some dog poop bags and got my eyeballs blasted right off my face.

Bought a HBO max subscription a while ago so i could download Lanters episodes and watch them on the iPad on the train. Found out the full Silicon Valley series is on there, so i will be keeping it until a rewatch is completed.

Oh and i'll put money on it being Nathan Fielder being the one that gets naked. Or knowing how weird she is, some sort of weird naked-woman-sushi setup.

She's so GOATed.

Wear The Peace@wearthepeace.bsky.social

Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.

I keep thinking "we should shut facebook down", but I think what I really think we should do is get everyone with an ounce of sense to leave it and just let the reform UK voters and Russian bots eat it from the inside, like a honeytrap for corpse-eating flies.

They'll limit the comments on this because it's two local lads, but you can bet if it had been anyone non-white they'd be leaving them open so people can have a good whinge about "the usual suspects" and "looks like more doctors and engineers" in the comments...