May Labour's Yvette Cooper, the former Home Secretary, be remembered always as the politician who imposed the ban at the behest of Britain's powerful weapons industry, so it could continue to profit from the deliberate massacre of the people of Gaza

Just going to leave this here

Fuentes then fantasizes about “breeding gulags”: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.”

This is a real timelapse video of the Moon transiting in front of the Earth. It was captured by the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft in November 2022 while flying at it's furthest point from the Earth. The video covers about 3.75 hours of real time. 🔭🧪

I’m with you. I’m glad McSweeny has gone 💯 But ousting Stamer now? Ok with who & how will that help? It creates bigger mess & gives Reform & Tories endless ammunition I think Starmer needs more time. The world is in too much turmoil, & international relations too frayed to change leader now

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Amazon Prime: Cancelled.

"It doesn't work and I don't know why" closely followed by "It now works, and I don't know why"

"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.

Today's colour palette: British Phone Booth colorpalette.pro?color=oklch%...

Royal Commission, followed by prosecutions. Now.

Bezos burning the Washington post to the ground is as firm a reason for the continued bbc licence as ever there was. Eventually everything that can be owned by a billionaire will be owned by a billionaire and at that point its future will be determined by the whims of a man making 166k per minute.

Star Fleet is what you get from public investment in space. Weyland-Yutani is what you get from private investment in space.

Sad to hear of the death of John Virgo. After a long hiatus from playing/watching snooker, I got back into watching the Masters at Ally Pally, and really enjoyed JV's depth of knowledge and his profound love for the sport. You don't need to worry about where the cue ball's going now, JV. RIP.

We need a Royal Commission to investigate Brexit, and its backers.

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

You can’t just say AI tutors are going to teach disadvantaged kids. You might as well say inflatable dentists will solve the NHS backlog. The casual anthropomorphising of AI has got to stop. They’re not ‘tutors’, it’s software. It’s not ‘one-to-one’, it’s a kid on a screen on their own.

I've been asking where are all the protest songs? Here it is. And it's a belter.

BREAKING: Gregory Bovino announces he's defecting to Reform UK.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

She's gone to the Farage Memorial Home for Incurable Racists And Tyrants.

UEFA should boycott over Greenland. CONMEBOL should boycott over Venezuela. CAF should boycott over USAID cuts. Everyone should boycott because of ICE. No one should come to the U.S. under Trump.

it does feel fundamentally dysfunctional, right, to beg lawmakers to use the law to force law enforcement to obey the law

10/ This all means we have a situation where the President of the United States can relentlessly, ceaselessly and at least somewhat costlessly trigger one crisis response after another all over the world at the tapping of his thumbs. That's why everyone looks so tired. /end

absolutely insane to see Musk feted at Davos as the icon of a boldly "optimistic" future in 2026, as if he hadn't just spent the last year buying elections for fascists, making Nazi salutes, condemning millions in Africa to death, and building "Mechahitler," and a nonconsensual porn/CSAM generator

Y2K IS FINALLY HAPPENING

Just got back from my time traveling dinosaur safari and you won’t believe how many butterflies I stepped on! Now to take a big sip of water and check on President Harris’s trip to Davos

Not technically wrong

"The right hand has no idea what the far right hand is doing."

Carole's been spot on the money so far. This impotent Labour government, cowering like a rabbit caught in headlights in the face of reality, offers nothing but "peace in our time". Anyone recall how that went last time?

The goal here is to do whatever it takes to force the MAGAs to back down before we get to a point of "the USA launches an imperialist war against the European Union." Achieving this may require temporarily inconveniencing us Americans. sorry!! tough shit!

lol ... and nope.

1/ So, should the EU retaliate against Trump's Greenland tariff threats? There are roughly three schools of thought, each progressively more interesting than the last. A brief tour through the logic of escalation and deterrence: 🧵

These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.

This is 100% correct and the EU should do it immediately. The USA will break if a bunch of entitled Americans suddenly can’t book get-aways in Paris.

The frozen wastes of Greenland sounds like an excellent location for the first battle of Cold War II - and with the USA as the adversary, let's hope it stays cold until America wakes the FUCK UP and removes Trump.

Apropos of nothing: "adhering to the sovereign's enemies, giving them aid and comfort, in the realm or elsewhere" is high treason.

Hard to see how more wrong the geopolitical case for Brexit could have turned out

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

I loved this one too

Starfleet is what you get from public investment in space. Weyland-Yutani is what you get from private investment in space.

Some Tories, after 14 years in power… …are saying nothing now works in the UK. So they’re joining Reform, so they can complain about the Tory record - and you can vote them right back in, in a few years’ time, under new anti-Tory branding. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Surely this misses the point. Generating child pornography is illegal, it is a criminal offence. This is a matter for the police. There should be immediate action rather than waiting for months for Ofcom to do something. It should be banned right now.

Imperial forces scour the ice state of Minnesota in search of rebels…

When you look at that bright point of light this evening, think of the Jovian fleet. #Juno (2016) is there right now, peering beneath the cloudy veil. #EuropaClipper (2030) and #ESAJuice (2031) are sailing through interplanetary space with a mission to explore Jupiter's ocean moons. (Credit: ESA)