I’m just some random on the internet but I’d rather you didn’t pay Spotify. Here’s one example for why, among many.

In November 2021, Prima Materia, an investment company cofounded by Ek and Spotify investor Shakil Khan, was announced as the lead investor in a €100 million fundraising round for Helsing, a European defense company that develops military strike drones and AI systems. Ek also joined Helsing’s board along with its co-founders Torsten Reil, Gundbert Scherf and Niklas Köhler.[171] In 2025, Ek’s firm increased its investment in Helsing, leading a €600 million funding round in the company that valued it at €12 billion.[172]

Several artists have objected to Ek’s investments in defense technology. The German DJ and techno producer Skee Mask urged his nearly 17,000 Twitter followers not to give their “last penny to such a wealthy business that obviously prefers the development of warfare instead of actual progression in the music business.” According to Sameer Gupta, a percussionist based in Brooklyn, New York, “All that money that’s being taken from artists and musicians is being funneled to this,” referring to Helsing. “I don’t know a single musician who would ever say, ‘That’s the function of music.’”[173] In 2025, the bands Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hotline TNT, Massive Attack, and Sylvan Esso removed their music from the streaming service over objections to Ek’s investment in Helsing.[174][175][176][177][178]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Spotify

If you watch the video that was released you’ll see it’s not as clear cut as your comment makes out.

For example, the officer was also wielding a sledgehammer, a protestor had just slipped on the wet floor and as they were getting up again the sledgehammer wielding officer used the handle to shove them to the ground again.

Only parts of the footage have been released and the parts they did release didn’t paint the picture of an innocent bobby being brutalised by terrorists, as they tried to portray in multiple press releases beforehand.

They also released the footage during the midst of an active trial despite having it for months prior.

The police’s actions are not those of an impartial or innocent organisation.

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The same source the AI techbros are using

Wtf is this blatant vote manipulation?

https://lemvotes.org/post/sh.itjust.works/post/51690370

Scots is common throughout the country. There’s also a local variant in the north east called Doric which to others is near impossible to understand. It’s perhaps more rural only, although there’s certainly still people in Aberdeen that speak it.

Do you know where in Scotland this person was from? That might help narrow it down.

Was there a lot of Fs? In Doric the “wh” from English questions is changed to an F.

What? - Fit?
Where? - Far?
When? - Fan?
How? - Foo?
Why? - often how is asked to mean why, or just fit why will be asked

If you are in a Doric shoe shop you can legitimately ask “Fit fit fits fit fit?” which means “Which foot fits which foot?”

This appears to have been under the previous Conservative government.

However, with the actions of the current Labour government against pro-Palestine groups and supporters it wouldn’t surprise me if they are doing similar.

Westminster is full of scumbags. Scottish independence can’t come fast enough. Fuck the union, fuck this racist, classist, moralless, support of genocide. Fuck the intimidation of war crimes prosecutors. David Cameron should be prosecuted as an accessory to genocide for doing so.

The New Flemish Alliance (Dutch: Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie [ˌniu ˈvlaːmsə ʔɑliˈjɑn(t)si] ⓘ, N-VA) is a Flemish nationalist,[7][8] conservative,[13] and liberal-conservative[14][15][16] political party in Belgium. The party was established in 2001 by the right-leaning faction of the centrist-nationalist People’s Union (VU).[17]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Flemish_Alliance

Politically, De Wever has described himself as a conservative and a Flemish nationalist.[62] He is an avowed admirer of Edmund Burke and his political philosophy, and has described British conservative writer and social critic Theodore Dalrymple, former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek as influences.[63]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_De_Wever

Tells us about all we need to know.

Is that what you were saying? Because that’s not how I read or understood it.

I did just wake up… maybe I need another hour or two.

I don’t remember when or why I tagged you as ‘Fascist sympathiser’ but it certainly appears to be accurate.

What ridiculous rhetoric you’re spouting.

In return, they will be allowed to stay and be provided with medical care and spiritual support from a priest.

I didn’t realise Jesus taught “provide care and shelter, but only under arbitrary oppressive conditions”.

Fucking organised religion showing its tendency toward corruption as usual.

Cops doing what cops do.

They’ll use the term “reasonable force” to justify assault and continue on with their day as if nothing happened.

The BBC are talking 'bout the GDP
That means fuck all to me!

https://youtu.be/st6qnWeePDY

Forces implies an unwillingness and resistance. Knowing YouTube, they were probably more than happy to help in the covering up of war crimes.

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On the decentralised platform, with everyone from Russian tankies, to Portuguese anarchists, to American MAGAts and everything in between on it? If you say so…

Amnesty International, Liberty, and the UN disagree with you.

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/uk-banning-palestine-action-disturbing-legal-overreach-uk-government-amnesty

https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/governments-use-of-terrorism-powers-against-protest-groups-sets-concerning-precedent/

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/07/un-experts-urge-united-kingdom-not-misuse-terrorism-laws-against-protest

https://freedomhouse.org/country/united-states/freedom-world/2025

A country actively kidnapping people off the streets, removing due process and habeus corpus, deporting prisoners to random countries, building concentration camps, and deploying troops on the streets has a score of 84/100. Forgive me for not feeling particularly free with my score of 91.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_House#Criticism

Having a read of this I think it’s fair to say boiling down a nation’s “freedom” to a single number is a silly unacademic metric, before even getting into the likelihood of bias and manipulation.

If it looks like a duck fascist, swims like a duck fascist, and quacks like a duck fascist, then it probably is a duck fascist. Regardless of what a likely bias think tank’s research may say.

A pathologist provisionally determined Daulby had a gunshot wound. Since the attacker did not have a gun, the injury may have been “a tragic and unforeseen consequence” of police actions, Greater Manchester Police Chief Stephen Watson said.

Daulby and another man, who was hospitalized with a gunshot wound, were among worshippers being hailed as heroes for barricading the door to stop the attacker from entering, Watson said.

Not just one of the dead but one of the hospitalised as well. Did they just spray into the crowd and hope for the best?

Europe loses about 1,500 sq km (580 sq miles) a year to construction. About 9,000 sq km of land – an area the size of Cyprus – was turned green to grey between 2018 and 2023, according to the data. That is the equivalent of almost 30 sq km a week, or 600 football pitches a day.