Ally Tibbitt
Journalist | Audience @uk.theconversation.com | Trustee of @mysociety.bsky.social | Co-editor of @gairlochtimes.org.uk | Based in Scottish Highlands but often roaming. Contact via @Signal.org username: allytibbitt.92
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- Reposted by Ally Tibbitt“The United States has dropped from 30th to 48th in that same year, the biggest drop of any nation BY FAR. Its reputation-peers are now Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan…” That was last year. I can only imagine where the US reputation is now. The fastest destruction of a nation’s reputation in history?
- This is bit of a spanner in the works. A lot of cash riding on getting this through... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- Reposted by Ally TibbittThe CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
- Reposted by Ally TibbittGood to see the ICO opening an investigation into X to understand whether personal data has been processed lawfully and whether appropriate safeguards were built into Grok to prevent the generation of harmful manipulated images using personal data. ico.org.uk/about-the-ic...
- Reposted by Ally TibbittChaotic carnival of chancers latest: - Jenrick and Braverman vote FOR the abolition of the two child limit while the other four Reform MPs vote against - and of course Farage doesn’t even bother turning up to do his job
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- A new House of Commons register of interests has been released and uploaded to TheyWorkForYou theyworkforyou.com/interests
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- Reposted by Ally TibbittSad news from Wikipedia. Following lengthy discussion on the talk page, they've removed Matt Goodwin's claim to be the first in his family to go to university on the grounds that it [checks notes] isn't true. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ma...
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- Reposted by Ally TibbittI'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files more to follow www.ft.com/content/c950...
- Nice work if you can get it... mahadk.com/posts/ai-ski...
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- Reposted by Ally TibbittHang on, I had missed the fact that the AI Skills Hub cost £4m. mahadk.com/posts/ai-ski... If this wasn't tax payers' money it would be quite funny. Also, can only assume PWC spent some time rolling around in gold because they did NOT spend it on building this
- That's not even all his employees in Scotland.
- Of the 32 screenings taking place during the next week, 23 have sold no tickets www.heraldscotland.com/news... @andrewlearmonth.bsky.social 𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘈𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘯/𝘗𝘈 𝘞𝘪𝘳𝘦/𝘗𝘈 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴
- Absolutely incredible bit of data crunching here. Factoring in Scotland is scandalously opaque. www.reddit.com/r/Edinburgh/...
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- The LLMs are eating each other. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- Reposted by Ally TibbittAlex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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- Reposted by Ally Tibbitthello Mr Vice President this is your economist speaking I am advising you to keep using this metaphor
- They bought Greenland instead.
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- Reposted by Ally TibbittA YouTube link for those looking for it. No words. youtu.be/btqHDhO4h10?...
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- Not hugely reassuring.
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- The most stupid timeline imaginable, somehow got more stupid.
- It doesn't cost much to buy a Scottish political party. Noting the "conditional" nature of this donation. Half now and half later... If Scottish Labour does what the millionaires tell it to do. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2577321...
- Why is it you can only buy one very specific kind of cucumber in the UK? And this is not like the cucumber you can buy elsewhere in Europe. Why has there been a cucumber divergence?!
- Reposted by Ally TibbittHere's the other side of the story you won't read in today's headlines about the cost of meeting net zero targets. The reality is the IEA report is deeply flawed and based on some pretty blatant cherry-picking of clean tech costs. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524063...
- In which @mysociety.org reveal the absolute guddle that underpins UK political donation declarations. It could be so much more straightforward. research.mysociety.org/html/leaky-p...
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- Reposted by Ally TibbittPoland suffered a major cyberattack on its power grid at the end of December and "came very close to a blackout”, the government has revealed. “Everything points to Russian sabotage," says the digital affairs minister.
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- Because everyone follows every political party and government account on x.com and the algorithm treats each account with the same weight.
- Reposted by Ally TibbittFound the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net
- Reposted by Ally TibbittJust seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.
- Reposted by Ally TibbittFor those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
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- Reposted by Ally TibbittBack in November I told Westminster's women and qualities that the UK government needed to get off X. The committee's chair @sarahowen.org.uk is completely right - X is not an appropriate channel for comms. Quite the opposite
- Absolutely outstanding.
- Reposted by Ally TibbittThe Peptide Craze in the US. It's reckless and unfounded. erictopol.substack.com/p/the-peptid... Today @nytimes.com @jasmine.bsky.social goes deep into the use in Silicon Valley, the supply from China, and the reasons this biohacking is popular t.co/lQXUBHNEaG
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- Historic Environment Scotland's bizarre obsession with restricting access to the Radical Road should finally be put in the bin by council planning officials. parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2026/01/02/h...
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- Kind of, almost snowed in. #ohwell
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- Just discovered a new cocktail. I may not make it into 2026 at this rate.
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- Interesting from Oxford NUJ. oxfordnuj.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/w...
- Reposted by Ally TibbittThis Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
- Energy firm makes ridiculous excuse to customer about why they can't fix their smart meter. Performs sharp U-turn under scrutiny. gairlochtimes.org.uk/octopus-tell...
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- Completely and utterly false. www.theferret.scot/lord-offords...
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