James Cronin
Internet, charities, chocolate & dogs.
Founder, chair, director or trustee of a truly marvelous list of organisations that this box is too narrow too contain 🏳️🌈
- Reposted by James Cronin💥 GOOD. Because that £240 million contract gifted to Palantir, with no competition… …after Starmer had an off-the-books meeting with Mandelson and Palantir… …while Mandelson was officially LOBBYING FOR Palantir and so personally financially benefiting from such links and contracts… Stinks.
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- Generating novel training data guarantees citizenship. 🫡
- Reposted by James CroninSomebody should invent a socioeconomic system which is good at allocating resources
- Reposted by James Cronin"As co-chair, Beth, now 68, faced down intimidation from anti-trans groups to oversee a vote that cemented the Association’s inclusive ethos in 2024. It was, she says, 'the hardest thing I have ever done, and also the thing I’m the most proud of.'"
- Reposted by James CroninYour email has found me cold and shamed, lying naked on the floor.
- Reposted by James CroninTake me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
- Awful abuser behaviour :(
- NEW: The Justice Department published dozens of unredacted images of nude women (and possibly teens) as part of its Epstein release. The faces of those people were also left unredacted. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
- If he's boneless what exactly do they expect to find?
- Life goals
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- Reposted by James CroninThe Washington state Senate voted Wednesday to ban law enforcement from covering their faces in response to growing concerns over masked federal immigration agents. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/01/28/w...
- Reposted by James Croninme, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
- Reposted by James CroninBe wary of people calling themselves the "silent majority" because they are never silent and most definitely not the majority. Even mobilising every gender critter in the UK they could only muster a few thousand objections
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- Saw this and thought of you @dinahrose.bsky.social
- Reposted by James CroninHow fares the King
- Reposted by James CroninWe are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
- Footage shows Danish troops arriving in Greenland as part of a new military deployment. Among the personnel who landed on the island is Major General Peter H. Boysen, Chief of the Danish Army Command. #Greenland
- I've got a bad feeling about this @bbolander.bsky.social
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- Reposted by James Cronin"The number of trans people is simultaneously presented as so large that their participation in data projects jeopardizes the quality of information gathered (), yet also so small that their concerns about how they are counted can be ignored ()" Well worth your time reading this:
- New research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢 This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID. doi.org/10.1080/0958...
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- Reposted by James CroninFIFA could probably avert war here with a straightforward promise to move the World Cup from the US if it takes any military action in Greenland.
- Reposted by James CroninA real “tell your parents” paper (since everyone on Bsky is canonically 38). Review of 21 studies of ppl over 50: • Shingles vax associated w/47% lower risk of Alzheimer’s, 24% lower risk of any dementia • Pneumonia vax had 36% lower risk of Alzheimer's • Tdap had 33% lower risk of any dementia
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- Reposted by James CroninPeople performatively mispronouncing Irish names is one of my pet paimhs
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- Reposted by James CroninI have met so many Dans, and female Dans, and they always blow my mind
- Reposted by James CroninIn 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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- Baroness Jenkin should be ashamed of herself for being a transphobic PoS. Not content with policing people's access to toilets she now wants to control what clothes they wear. "Gender critical" was never about safety. It's about bigotry and control.
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- Reposted by James CroninFollowing coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.
- Reposted by James CroninThis is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
- Reposted by James CroninThe leading cause of death by far among ICE officers is COVID-19.
- Reposted by James Croninhi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress
- Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
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- Reposted by James CroninElon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead
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- Reposted by James Croninpound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
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- Crisis. DHL have failed to deliver the Christmas wine. Fortunately my emergency home reserve will easily suffice, however it turns out I am embarrassingly low on Champagne. No I don't know how that happened either... 😳
- Reposted by James CroninI've stuck randomly generated conspiracies onto Matt from the Telegraph's cartoons to create "Tinfoil Matt" (Not AI, me writing templates, the good old fashioned way to do these things with a strong degree of authorship.) Follow @tinfoil-matt.bsky.social NOW.
- Reposted by James CroninSince yesterday, many people have DM’d to say that they were strongly affected by my essay & wished they could share it. So I've revised, expanded, & posted it for free on both Substack & Patreon. Please feel free to share. www.patreon.com/posts/this-i... catvalente.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
- Reposted by James CroninJo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use
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- As predicted the online safety act has succeeded only in making us less safe. Admit your mistake. Repeal it now.
- Reposted by James CroninYou've heard of Elf on the Shelf but how about
- Booked. See you there
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- Reposted by James CroninThis is what true patriotism looks like! A sad middle aged man, puffed up to look like Rod Stewart & an immigrant himself, eating ‘English’ grub in an Islamic country whilst slagging off the UK, Islam and migrants. Charlie Muggins: Our Fluff Our Stain Our Belch Our Stray Pube. 🇬🇧
- Never trust Elon. He's a psychopath who values nothing other than himself.
- the most recent data shows Waymo's self-driving cars perform significantly *better* than human drivers. the most recent data shows Tesla Robotaxis perform significantly *worse* than human drivers, even with a safety monitor in the front seat. sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...
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