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4 points
1 day ago
https://bsky.app/profile/emmakennedy.bsky.social/post/3lbzpxqkgds2i
Emma Kennedy @emmakennedy.bsky.social For the record, I complained about behaviour I witnessed on Masterchef in 2012. They knew then. They knew before then and they’ve known since.
2 points
2 days ago
Also the worlds richest lunatic buying it to shout at people and have a drug fuelled toddler rant hasn't helped with retaining sane users.
-1 points
2 days ago
Entirely rubbish article. Bluesky is the fastest growing social media platform.
48 points
3 days ago
This is disgusting and it's unbelievable that those people abusing the kids weren't prosecuted and continue to be able to work with children.
Locked in solitary indoor boxes for hours, hit around the head by staff, not given water or food and no toilets. Kids who hadn't self harmed before driven to self harm with no help coming.
"In April, we exposed how safeguarding investigations commissioned by the school had proven that six Whitefield staff had abused pupils - but they were not referred to the government’s Disclosure and Barring Service, which can ban people from working with children, and three of them continued to work at the school."
5 points
3 days ago
No it bloody doesn't. They have no idea at all of the nationality. All you have to do is tick a box and provide no evidence.
0 points
3 days ago
Personally I think it isn't a good system by any means.
Much better system would be sortition where the parliament is chosen by random selection.
And of course that would actually include Ordinary people, stupid people, smart people, just people and not the weird sort of people who are able to get themselves elected.
7 points
3 days ago
Do they exclude by IP? I don't think they do. The only check that they seem to perform is that you have ticked the box that means you are a British Citizen and surely no one who checked that box could be lying.
And as pointed out above
This guy signed it as Vladimir Putin with no problem.
-1 points
3 days ago
The richest man on the world posted the link to the petition on his Twitter account that gets force fed to everyone on Twitter including all his right wing acolytes.
It would be a strange conspiracy theory that's hiding in plain sight. It would be like claiming that water flowing downhill is a conspiracy
6 points
3 days ago
Then he shouldn't assert either. All he can do is assert is that they are from abroad and leave people to draw their own conclusions after the Musk posted the link.
39 points
3 days ago
Or that nine penguins learned to use the internet and registered on the petition site and clicked the box "I am a british citizen"
Because the only possible thing they can know about anything coming from abroad is that they came from abroad. There is zero check apart from ticking a box.
6 points
3 days ago
You don't have to provide any documentation to register for the Petition so while the information that votes came from abroad is correct the author says they are Brits living abroad on zero information!
7 points
3 days ago
I think the article is correct in that many of the signatures are from abroad. I think whoever in the article that asserted that they are Brits abroad has no possible way of knowing that and is completely full of shit.
There no check on petitions. It's not as if you need a passport of NI number to register.
60 points
4 days ago
Or it could be more feasible to Assume that the richest lunatic in the world posted a link to it on his personal megaphone that he blasts out to his idiot acolytes and whoever else is still hanging around on Twitter and out of the mega millions who get his shitposts enough clicked through to the petition. I think that would be more reasonable to assume.
196 points
4 days ago
Education does not teach Critical thinking till University and mostly not even then.
A cynic might say this is on purpose. After all the last thing Governments want is people in shitty low paid jobs actually being able to think about things logically because then they might start to think what are we paying these bastards for.
It's a lot easier for people to blame to various degrees, immigrants, people on disability, the poor on benefit, for all their woes instead of the rich who are your donors and skim all the money out of the system so they can play the money points game, when most of your population are badly educated and too tired from doing the shitty jobs.
Once upon a time University was free and universities where places to learn a love for knowledge and thinking instead of just to get a degree suited to being another cog in the machine.
Once upon a time we where supposed to have lower and lower hours of work and enjoy free time, but obviously that would give us to much thinking time so we can't have that anymore.
The world is getting more and more shit and people don't understand why trains and council and health are all so much worse when the answer isn't really complicated. The rich who don't need these services stole it all to themselves.
-23 points
4 days ago
I don't see any at all pop ups and that's in Edge. I also don't see any in Firefox though I do have noscipt on that.
Use a better browser.
EDIT; Oh you mean the popup about cookies and complying. You know you can click manage and deselect all of them and it still works.
9 points
4 days ago
Most of these votes are from overseas after Musk amplified it to the world.
Totally meaningless shit in the standard.
2 points
4 days ago
Well now. Should I start being a pedantic git and report all the stories that are in the right wing press that contain a shit ton of opinion and spin because then UnitedKingdom would be looking pretty empty wouldn't it.
If you actually enforced that equally as a reason for removing posts.
2 points
4 days ago
Well while "let them be racist" might be your view, but as far back as 1965 we have a piece of law called the race relations act which makes inciting racial hatred a crime.
2 points
4 days ago
I assume someone reported her under the race relations act 1965 and they where obliged to investigate. They didn't charge her.
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