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@steverose7

Assistant features editor for The Guardian. Writer on culture high and low, tech, film, TV, architecture, arts, race, environment, etc. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/steverose

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I think this is the real reason the US started a war: so they could make cringey teenage movie montages and feel really cool and tough.

06.03.2026 12:56 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

05.03.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dubai influencers share near-identical videos with footage of Dubai crown prince | LBC Videos featuring the caption β€˜I know who protects us’ have been circulating on social media

I had no idea until this all started that the UAE licences and pays many influencers to live there and write positively about the regime.

That puts a whole new spin on things.

Propagandists in pocket of regime.

It's why all the messaging is the same.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/duba...

05.03.2026 13:52 πŸ‘ 970 πŸ” 431 πŸ’¬ 86 πŸ“Œ 18
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Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

01.03.2026 05:23 πŸ‘ 8603 πŸ” 2935 πŸ’¬ 118 πŸ“Œ 364
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β€˜A woman of her time, in the worst way’: Industry, Ghislaine Maxwell and the Epstein scandal An heiress helping to traffic young women to brutal billionaires: the finale of the banker drama used one of its characters to take on a huge real-life scandal

β€œAre you done?” No I’m fucking not Industry! Get on with making season 5 right away!
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

04.03.2026 20:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜The Epstein files won’t knock him out’: what Anthony Scaramucci learned in Trump’s inner circle He lasted just 11 days as White House communications director, before being fired from the Trump administration. The financier and broadcaster discusses working for the president – and becoming his bi...

I spoke to the one and only ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

03.03.2026 12:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A racist meme that is retweeted by John Cleese

A racist meme that is retweeted by John Cleese

Friends, I regret to inform you that John Cleese sucks.

02.03.2026 07:03 πŸ‘ 155 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 6
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Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything.

01.03.2026 22:44 πŸ‘ 15834 πŸ” 5039 πŸ’¬ 426 πŸ“Œ 196

Anyone still relying on X for credible news … probably won't be reading this.

01.03.2026 10:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Enshittificator Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

Criminally funny, but also I'm crying inside

Norway comes for the #TechBros

www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree

vimeo.com/1168468796?f...

27.02.2026 13:52 πŸ‘ 549 πŸ” 348 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 63
Screenshot of an article written by Steve Rose for The Guardian titled : Leave Big Tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple - and more.

Screenshot of an article written by Steve Rose for The Guardian titled : Leave Big Tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple - and more.

Big Tech alternatives are finally getting mainstream media attention! πŸŽ‰

The Guardian published a piece on how people can leave Big Tech behind & choose privacy-focused alternatives, a topic we’ve been passionate about at Tuta for a long time. πŸ™ŒπŸ”

Thank you to Steve Rose for mentioning us at Tuta!

27.02.2026 08:44 πŸ‘ 157 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3
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Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

This piece by @steverose7.bsky.social is excellent - I've learned SO much - and will W be the new BlueSky, will we all move there next ....
And I'll defo be trying LibreOffice, being such a spreadsheet geek!
Thank you Steve, thoroughly enjoyed this read
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

27.02.2026 10:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for reading. This is by no means a comprehensive list but there are many good alternatives out there - and switching is easy!

27.02.2026 10:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win.

The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong.

Can’t help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year ago…

27.02.2026 07:52 πŸ‘ 2550 πŸ” 685 πŸ’¬ 110 πŸ“Œ 61
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Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

Fed up with big tech? Here's the good news: we don't have to use it! There are better, safer, free European alternatives to just about everything Silicon Valley is offering, and there's nothing stopping us making the switch. So here's some alternatives.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

26.02.2026 10:26 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

#FindYourTribe

26.02.2026 07:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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DOJ has not released some Epstein files related to a woman who made an allegation against Trump The files do not include records from three FBI interviews with a woman who said Jeffrey Epstein abused her and who also made sexual abuse allegations against President Trump, according to an NBC News...

NEW: NBC News also now confirming my reporting that DOJ is withholding at least three FBI interviews with the woman who accused Trump of assaulting her when she was a child nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

26.02.2026 00:06 πŸ‘ 946 πŸ” 446 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 31

You’re not alone Dorian! Nastiest, horniest, riskiest, don’t-quite-understand-what’s-going-on-but-who-cares show on air. Mondays aren’t going to be the same without it.

Maybe we need more # action on BlueSky?

25.02.2026 22:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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We Are As Gods

I take it you mean you've met Stewart, not me?

But thanks - he's truly a fascinating guy.

There is a documentary about him (haven't seen but meaning to). www.weareasgods.film

25.02.2026 13:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Tech legend Stewart Brand on Musk, Bezos and his extraordinary life: β€˜We don’t need to passively accept our fate’ He was at the heart of 1960s counterculture, then paved the way for the libertarian mindset of Silicon Valley. At 87, Brand is still keen to ensure the world is maintained properly – not just today, b...

I spoke to the legendary STEWART BRAND. Who's lived too big a life to fit into one interview, but has much wisdom to impart.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

25.02.2026 13:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
screenshot of a tv user guide, showing two channels under Tue 8PM:

MSNOW - State of the union
TCM East- Gaslight

screenshot of a tv user guide, showing two channels under Tue 8PM: MSNOW - State of the union TCM East- Gaslight

Masterful Troll, TCM.

24.02.2026 15:19 πŸ‘ 6758 πŸ” 1643 πŸ’¬ 67 πŸ“Œ 98
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BREAKING: The MeidasTouch YouTube channel has officially surpassed 6 MILLION subscribers β€” and that's not all. We’ve just crossed 9 BILLION views on YouTube as well.

Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen.

Let’s keep building.

24.02.2026 01:36 πŸ‘ 9206 πŸ” 1545 πŸ’¬ 283 πŸ“Œ 91
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I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News" How the sexist backlash to AOC and Gretchen Whitmer at the Munich Security Conference led me to a scammy "local news" outlet pushing a coordinated right-wing narrative

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

23.02.2026 21:38 πŸ‘ 6571 πŸ” 1979 πŸ’¬ 132 πŸ“Œ 116

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22.02.2026 18:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It remains astounding how unfaithfully the media covers Trump’s ramblings day to day. We’re a decade into this β€” and his rambling gets worse β€” and yet the coverage continues to portray his public appearances as if they’re coherent.

20.02.2026 19:19 πŸ‘ 3060 πŸ” 927 πŸ’¬ 109 πŸ“Œ 43
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Color Game β€” How Well Can You Remember Colors? We show you colors. You recreate them from memory. Challenge friends to beat your score. It's harder than you think. Play free at dialed.gg.

I got 42.71 - is that good?
dialed.gg?c=H4GVJD

20.02.2026 19:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Color Game β€” How Well Can You Remember Colors? We show you colors. You recreate them from memory. Challenge friends to beat your score. It's harder than you think.

The Color Game. β€œHumans can’t reliably recall colors. This is a simple game to see how good (or bad) you are at it. We’ll show you five colors, then you’ll try and recreate them.” I scored 39/50 but got a perfect score on one color. [dialed.gg]

20.02.2026 18:56 πŸ‘ 72 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 41
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Elon Musk is v invested in Rupert Lowe's political project - to reverse ethnic change {white "race extinction"] in Britain

"Our ancestral land must not fall"

"there has been unrelenting hate and poisonous propaganda in the West against anyone White, straight or male over the past decade or more!"

20.02.2026 08:33 πŸ‘ 200 πŸ” 92 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 23
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An Unknown Woman: how I discovered a hidden tragedy tied to Russia’s most famous painting It caused a scandal in imperial Russia, then became a staple of popular art in the USSR. But when I spied a copy of Ivan Kramsky’s portrait in the film Sentimental Value, it opened a door to an untold...

Fascinating story - www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

20.02.2026 07:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

19.02.2026 14:22 πŸ‘ 24958 πŸ” 5173 πŸ’¬ 449 πŸ“Œ 147