Artist Filmmaker/Animator also on BlueSky & Threads @seanvicary
West Wales
Joined November 2009
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Animated #lichen, #DarkEcology & landscape memories:
field notes from my film Chain Home West movingimageartists.co.uk/202…
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Private equity puts PizzaExpress, Morrisons and Itsu up for sale.
All devoured and declining brands, asset-stripped. PE has no long-term commitment to any product, people or place.
Chances are another PE group will see opportunity for scavenging.
archive.ph/DFYPq
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Failures of privatisation.
Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 jobs
RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets. Regulator keeps lowering them
Postage: 1st class, £1.80, 2nd class 91p.
When privatized in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd 50p.
Poor service, triple price.
theguardian.com/business/202…
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Burnham could change tax relief on pension contributions for his projects.
Gross tax relief in 2024- 2025 was £83.9bn.
71% went to 7.7m additional and higher rate taxpayers.
29% to 30.4m basic rate taxpayers.
Giving relief to all at 20% leaves £14.5bn spare for social care.
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Andy Burnham announces end of triple-lock on the state pension from 2030.
Replaced by double-lock, slower growth in state pension.
Full state pension is already less than 50%of the minimum wage.
Poverty awaits future retirees.
£500bn of taxes not collected by HMRC since 2010.
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Tonight 6:45pm @TheatrMwldan
the latest film from award winning Cornish director Mark Jenkin:
‘Rose of Nevada’
mwldan.co.uk/events/rose-of-…
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The supreme irony.
Jacob Rees-Mogg sold Brexit as a bonanza and dismissed warnings that breaking European unity could make war more likely as Remain scaremongering.
Now the promised prosperity has vanished, Britain is poorer and excluded from European decisions and now Rees-Mogg tells ordinary people they may have to die to save their country.
Those who weakened Britain’s economy, resilience and alliances should be the last people lecturing its citizens about duty.
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Good morning
@tom_watson
Your journey from MP who most understood the Cambridge Analytica scandal to paid-up Palantir apologist is really quite the journey.
Hope the 💰💰💰💰is worth it.
Here’s some background reading ahead of your first day 🧵👇
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Wealthy want UK govt to ditch pension triple lock, cut welfare spending
Silence on corporate welfare
Profiteering
HMRC not collecting £59bn last yr
Poorest 20% paying higher proportion in income in taxes than the richest 20%.
They hit the poor, old, sick
independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
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"The most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating. Indeed, in a strange twist on the Old Testament tale, the oligarch class, having arrogated godlike powers to themselves, aren’t content to just build the arks. They appear to be doing their best to cause the flood"
- END TIMES FASCISM - And the Fight for the Living World, by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor. Coming Sept 15.
Extremely severe extinction events happen every 100M years or so and just switching to sustainable energy will not be enough to stop them.
Space satellites to control temperature and massive geo-engineering will be needed or it will be game over.
grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_dfaa…
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Sunak Built Teesside Freeport. Now He Advises Anthropic, The Company Positioned To Take the Profit.
Rishi Sunak announced Teesworks as his flagship Brexit freeport as Chancellor in 2021.
More than £600 million in public money followed, against a standard £25 million seed capital allocation. The freeport is now effectively closed.
Its auditors are refusing to sign off the accounts.
The public body overseeing it carries £420 million in debt.
The site is being repurposed as an AI Growth Zone.
europeanpowell.substack.com/…
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Carbon emissions from two planned datacentres in England will exceed all of ExxonMobil’s UK fossil fuel emissions.
Bad for health, environment.
Huge pressure on energy/water supplies
Few long-term jobs generated
Local people, not ministers must decide.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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There was a pivotal moment when a responsible & resourced news org could have investigated the race science network behind the Jason Arday allegations.
It is a tragedy that hasn’t happened until now but this is a much needed corrective from @NafeezAhmed & @BylineTimes
bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Times Higher Education investigated Jason Arday plagiarism claims in 2025, producing a dossier before spiking it after threats from his lawyers Carter-Ruck.
retractionwatch.com/2026/07/27/cam…
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Please read my @thenerve_news piece.
Nigel Farage has operated with impunity, a convicted money launderer at his side, while the vast majority of UK press turned a blind eye.
I’ve paid a personal price for that but Britain has paid a far higher one
ENDS
thenerve.news/p/nigel-farage…
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NEW: A convicted money launderer has operated at the highest level of UK politics for a decade. Why? Because Farage has enjoyed almost total impunity from the UK press.
In my new piece for @thenerve_news, I expose the decade of denial that’s enabled him to act with impunity
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The largest nuclear bomb in outer space exploded 64 yrs ago today.
Starfish Prime was a 1.4 megaton thermonuclear warhead, detonated at the altitude the Space Station now orbits. It created man-made radiation belts that wrecked many satellites & lasted 5+ years.
A year after the test the USA & USSR signed the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, leading to the global 1967 Outer Space Treaty.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfi…
