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Anarcho-syndicalist, autistic, crofter, cyclist, depressive, entrepreneur, geek, searchable, Trans ally, Zapatista. Politics & environment, especially # LandReform . Clinically insane. he/him. Credo: Life is harsh. What we can do - and what we should do - is strive to make it less harsh for the people around us. Addendum: you would not deliberately block a wheelchair ramp. Do not post images to social media without alt text. Pronouns: any/don't care

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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

Anarcho-syndicalist, autistic, crofter, cyclist, depressive, entrepreneur, geek, searchable, Trans ally, Zapatista. Politics & environment, especially # LandReform . Clinically insane. he/him. Credo: Life is harsh. What we can do - and what we should do - is strive to make it less harsh for the people around us. Addendum: you would not deliberately block a wheelchair ramp. Do not post images to social media without alt text. Pronouns: any/don't care

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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · 4d ago

Guess who's behind the sudden rush of age verification legislation? In the US, #Meta is spending $26.3 Million to hire at least 86 Lobbyists from 40 lobbying firms, and lobbying in at least 45 states. It is confirmed that Meta wrote the Louisiana age verification bill. In the EU, Meta is spending ten million euros annually on lobbying, retaining 18 lobbying firms. Age verification isn't about protecting children; it's about attacking privacy. https://tboteproject.com/

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Anarcho-syndicalist, autistic, crofter, cyclist, depressive, entrepreneur, geek, searchable, Trans ally, Zapatista. Politics & environment, especially # LandReform . Clinically insane. he/him. Credo: Life is harsh. What we can do - and what we should do - is strive to make it less harsh for the people around us. Addendum: you would not deliberately block a wheelchair ramp. Do not post images to social media without alt text. Pronouns: any/don't care

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Simon Brooke

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

Anarcho-syndicalist, autistic, crofter, cyclist, depressive, entrepreneur, geek, searchable, Trans ally, Zapatista. Politics & environment, especially # LandReform . Clinically insane. he/him. Credo: Life is harsh. What we can do - and what we should do - is strive to make it less harsh for the people around us. Addendum: you would not deliberately block a wheelchair ramp. Do not post images to social media without alt text. Pronouns: any/don't care

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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · Mar 05, 2026

Is it just me, or do others find it odd to hear journalists say that the UK 'must' take action to protect 'ex-pats' who have chosen to evade their fair share of taxation by moving to the Gulf?

I think an appropriate response would be to say to them, yes, of course you can return to blighty if you pay off all the taxes you've evaded while you've been away, but if you choose not to, you're on your own.

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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

Anarcho-syndicalist, autistic, crofter, cyclist, depressive, entrepreneur, geek, searchable, Trans ally, Zapatista. Politics & environment, especially # LandReform . Clinically insane. he/him. Credo: Life is harsh. What we can do - and what we should do - is strive to make it less harsh for the people around us. Addendum: you would not deliberately block a wheelchair ramp. Do not post images to social media without alt text. Pronouns: any/don't care

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Simon Brooke

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

Anarcho-syndicalist, autistic, crofter, cyclist, depressive, entrepreneur, geek, searchable, Trans ally, Zapatista. Politics & environment, especially # LandReform . Clinically insane. he/him. Credo: Life is harsh. What we can do - and what we should do - is strive to make it less harsh for the people around us. Addendum: you would not deliberately block a wheelchair ramp. Do not post images to social media without alt text. Pronouns: any/don't care

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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · Mar 01, 2026

Everyone in the UK, there's an official petition to parliament to 'Call a public inquiry into pro-Israel influence on politics & democracy'.

Please could I strongly urge everyone to sign it?

#Israel
#PalestineAction
#Palestine
#GazaGenocide
#UKPol

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/752646?ref=ed_direct

Curiously, there's a distinct east/west split on this petition!

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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

Anarcho-syndicalist, autistic, crofter, cyclist, depressive, entrepreneur, geek, searchable, Trans ally, Zapatista. Politics & environment, especially # LandReform . Clinically insane. he/him. Credo: Life is harsh. What we can do - and what we should do - is strive to make it less harsh for the people around us. Addendum: you would not deliberately block a wheelchair ramp. Do not post images to social media without alt text. Pronouns: any/don't care

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Simon Brooke

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

Anarcho-syndicalist, autistic, crofter, cyclist, depressive, entrepreneur, geek, searchable, Trans ally, Zapatista. Politics & environment, especially # LandReform . Clinically insane. he/him. Credo: Life is harsh. What we can do - and what we should do - is strive to make it less harsh for the people around us. Addendum: you would not deliberately block a wheelchair ramp. Do not post images to social media without alt text. Pronouns: any/don't care

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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · Feb 15, 2026

No! No! No! No! No!

#LLMs don't hallucinate. LLMs NEVER hallucinate. LLMs CANNOT hallucinate. LLMs don't have the cognitive ability to hallucinate. Any more than they have the cognitive ability to tell the truth, or to understand what truth is or why it matters.

These are things LLMs can NEVER do.

Anyone who tells you different is either a fantasist or a malign actor.

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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

Anarcho-syndicalist, autistic, crofter, cyclist, depressive, entrepreneur, geek, searchable, Trans ally, Zapatista. Politics & environment, especially # LandReform . Clinically insane. he/him. Credo: Life is harsh. What we can do - and what we should do - is strive to make it less harsh for the people around us. Addendum: you would not deliberately block a wheelchair ramp. Do not post images to social media without alt text. Pronouns: any/don't care

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Simon Brooke

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

Anarcho-syndicalist, autistic, crofter, cyclist, depressive, entrepreneur, geek, searchable, Trans ally, Zapatista. Politics & environment, especially # LandReform . Clinically insane. he/him. Credo: Life is harsh. What we can do - and what we should do - is strive to make it less harsh for the people around us. Addendum: you would not deliberately block a wheelchair ramp. Do not post images to social media without alt text. Pronouns: any/don't care

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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · Feb 11, 2026

This is genuinely important and good news: as I expected, no British jury is going to convict #PalestineAction activists of non-violent protest.

Of course, this is why the UK government is trying to get rid of jury trials, but ...

Will the proscription of Palestine Action as a 'terrorist organisation'(!) also fall?

#Palestine
#GazaGenocide

Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary at Israeli defence firm site | Palestine Action | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/04/palestine-action-activists-cleared-aggravated-burglary-israeli-defence-firm-elbit-systems-filton

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Anarcho-syndicalist, autistic, crofter, cyclist, depressive, entrepreneur, geek, searchable, Trans ally, Zapatista. Politics & environment, especially # LandReform . Clinically insane. he/him. Credo: Life is harsh. What we can do - and what we should do - is strive to make it less harsh for the people around us. Addendum: you would not deliberately block a wheelchair ramp. Do not post images to social media without alt text. Pronouns: any/don't care

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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

Anarcho-syndicalist, autistic, crofter, cyclist, depressive, entrepreneur, geek, searchable, Trans ally, Zapatista. Politics & environment, especially # LandReform . Clinically insane. he/him. Credo: Life is harsh. What we can do - and what we should do - is strive to make it less harsh for the people around us. Addendum: you would not deliberately block a wheelchair ramp. Do not post images to social media without alt text. Pronouns: any/don't care

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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · Feb 05, 2026

"An analysis in October suggested that on just 27% of the vote (roughly in the middle of its polling over the past year), Reform UK would win 48% of the seats, allowing it to take power with a small coalition partner. If Reform UK forms the next government, it will be for one reason and one reason alone: our electoral system." -- George Monbiot, citing https://electoral-reform.org.uk/first-past-the-post-could-catapult-reform-uk-into-government/ George's essay: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/04/labour-reform-greens-splitting-vote-unfair-electoral-system #UKPol

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Anarcho-syndicalist, autistic, crofter, cyclist, depressive, entrepreneur, geek, searchable, Trans ally, Zapatista. Politics & environment, especially # LandReform . Clinically insane. he/him. Credo: Life is harsh. What we can do - and what we should do - is strive to make it less harsh for the people around us. Addendum: you would not deliberately block a wheelchair ramp. Do not post images to social media without alt text. Pronouns: any/don't care

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Anarcho-syndicalist, autistic, crofter, cyclist, depressive, entrepreneur, geek, searchable, Trans ally, Zapatista. Politics & environment, especially # LandReform . Clinically insane. he/him. Credo: Life is harsh. What we can do - and what we should do - is strive to make it less harsh for the people around us. Addendum: you would not deliberately block a wheelchair ramp. Do not post images to social media without alt text. Pronouns: any/don't care

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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · Jan 26, 2026

And once again, with #AltText4You "We can't have clean energy because it will destroy the oil industry. We can't have healthcare because it will destroy the health insurance industry. We can't have peace because it will destroy the weapon industry. Capitalism is a system which disables the option to do the right thing."

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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

Anarcho-syndicalist, autistic, crofter, cyclist, depressive, entrepreneur, geek, searchable, Trans ally, Zapatista. Politics & environment, especially # LandReform . Clinically insane. he/him. Credo: Life is harsh. What we can do - and what we should do - is strive to make it less harsh for the people around us. Addendum: you would not deliberately block a wheelchair ramp. Do not post images to social media without alt text. Pronouns: any/don't care

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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

Anarcho-syndicalist, autistic, crofter, cyclist, depressive, entrepreneur, geek, searchable, Trans ally, Zapatista. Politics & environment, especially # LandReform . Clinically insane. he/him. Credo: Life is harsh. What we can do - and what we should do - is strive to make it less harsh for the people around us. Addendum: you would not deliberately block a wheelchair ramp. Do not post images to social media without alt text. Pronouns: any/don't care

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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · Dec 27, 2025

OK, this is genuinely scary. It's a picture of me, aged 5. It was taken in 1960. It was scanned and uploaded to Google Photos in 2002. No one has told Google where it was taken. But the map, bottom right, is correct. Obviously, in 1960, my father's pre-war Exakta camera did not have GPS. Could you identify, from that picture, exactly where it was taken? Google can.

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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

Anarcho-syndicalist, autistic, crofter, cyclist, depressive, entrepreneur, geek, searchable, Trans ally, Zapatista. Politics & environment, especially # LandReform . Clinically insane. he/him. Credo: Life is harsh. What we can do - and what we should do - is strive to make it less harsh for the people around us. Addendum: you would not deliberately block a wheelchair ramp. Do not post images to social media without alt text. Pronouns: any/don't care

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Anarcho-syndicalist, autistic, crofter, cyclist, depressive, entrepreneur, geek, searchable, Trans ally, Zapatista. Politics & environment, especially # LandReform . Clinically insane. he/him. Credo: Life is harsh. What we can do - and what we should do - is strive to make it less harsh for the people around us. Addendum: you would not deliberately block a wheelchair ramp. Do not post images to social media without alt text. Pronouns: any/don't care

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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · Nov 19, 2025

"Israeli officials openly stated the goal: to destroy #Gaza and make it uninhabitable. By textbook definition, this is genocide: the deliberate targeting of people not for who they are as individuals, but because they are members of a group marked for destruction" #GazaGenocide https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/18/israel-accountability-gaza-genocide

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