It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.

For a guy who gets lots of hate (Martinelli, not Stuart) both the touch to control and the finish are exquisite

Good stuff, this vercel.com/design/guide...

Tbf, nothing will ever beat the GW website front page at that time. "The Queen is dead: PREPARE FOR SKIRMISH COMBAT!"

Ah, iOS 26 is great, actually. Lots of beautiful details. Feels genuinely novel in places. The bad bits simply don’t register in practice. Lovely stuff.

i’m a believer in ineffective altruism. i think that everyone in america should be issued a vga to s-video cable adapter and a bale of hay

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Absolutely !!!insane!!! to me that the UK government, lobby and newspapers litigate at length every minor infraction by the BBC, rival newspapers, or what some random columnist has posted. But all of them just carry on not even commenting about this media owner. He’s not hiding, he’s telling you!

Release your inhibitions cast a lightning bolt spell

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

51 - Beth Mead has become the first player to register a half century of assists in the Women's Super League. Bullseye.

is it only asylum seekers our Labour Prime Minister would object to living next to or would the sentiment apply to black and brown people in general? if merely the former, would he like to explain how he knows people he sees, say, in the street, actually are asylum seekers and not citizens?

the title (person who knows how to actually use sass) changes (design systems maintainer) but the job stays the same (getting mad at people hardcoding a slightly different shade of green)

Here's one for all the game devs out there www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

Just make it exist first. You can make it worse with each new pass while getting increasingly frustrated later.

an actual gift of the internet age is how relatively easy it has become for non-wealthy people to maintain memory systems. both personal ones (photos, backups, searchable mail) and collective ones (wikis, archives, fan communities) the glee with which that is being destroyed right now floors me

A hell of a 'shot, chaser' in today's Playbook:

When you register your name in the Icelandic phonebook you can choose to state your profession. And they have a pretty loose definition of what exactly a profession entails. This person for example has opted for „þjóðhetja“. It means „National Hero“.

they are murdering the people who tell the truth.

we need a PaRappa the Rapper of the left

Through his AI policy & his defence policy, Starmer’s approach is dangerous & irresponsible It enmeshes us ever deeper into dependence on the US. We really are losing our sovereignty, but to America, not the EU. & all shrouded by a pantomime of wanting “foreigners out”🤦‍♀️

We have recently published a number of archive videos from our 2024-25 London Lecture Series. Today's new title is Tom Stern on "Proust's Theory of Memory and Knowledge". royalinstitutephilosophy.odoo.com/r/eM7 #philosophy #lecture #proust #memory #knowledge

‘tis the season

Never in doubt

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Reading this tweet as this news push alert arrives.

Why doesn't the world stop when children are being starved. Why does anything matter more than that. I just don't understand and feel completely sick

We have a Labour government refusing doctors’ pay rise, causing strikes in the NHS. A Labour govt that cut aid to starving Palestinians who it is selling weaponry to Israel to kill. A Labour govt that week-in, week-out, accuses foreigners of destroying our country, to justify it all. #r4today

We go again

Hero

Christ these are daily war crimes and the EU won’t do a thing about it.

Mad #sweeng

So Keir Starmer's strategy on welfare cuts has essentially been to: 1) Fail to engage with Labour MPs before launching the policy 2) Ignore all warnings about a rebellion 3) U-Turn at the very last minute after the damage is done 4) Promise a new approach 5) Suspend the MPs anyway

The basic error in this judgment, imo, is the assumption that what the judge describes as 'gender ideology' is contestable. In the Equality Act Parliament decided it is not. For the same reason as the police do not need to be 'impartial' on racism they do not need to be 'impartial' on transphobia.

My father used to say, "Some day you'll understand there's nothing more important to a man than having a powerful magnet." Then he'd use his powerful magnet to catch a passing car, and robbing the people inside was how we got by. Glad I've given you a better life *points submarine magnet out to sea*

It's shameful that we were even considering renewing him. The people at the top of the club were not blind to this situation, and still considered it in the interests of sporting expedience. Lessons should be learned.

Just unbelievable how corrupt it is

I've been banging this drum for years now, I know, but Zohran's Big Night is a clear illustration of the power of giving people a vision of the future that boldly contradicts the rhetoric of Republican fearmongers. Not just "disagrees on policies," but actively paints a different image of the world.

Brilliant news - MPs have voted to decriminalise abortion www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is the ideal toolbar

Today marks nine years since Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right extremist, a terrible loss to those who knew and loved her and to politics. Zero lessons were learned though and the far-right continues to be pandered to. With more political assassinations in the US it all feels too familiar.

The suit includes the legal definition of Shrek

The kind of match that has everyone in the room murmuring “maybe tennis is the best sport” at each other, stupefied. Special stuff.

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

A player at a Premier League club has been accused of sexual assault by four different women and has carried on playing. We can't name him for legal reasons. “It’s a systemic failure,” says Nazir Afzal, the former Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England. ✍️ @mjslater.bsky.social

This week’s Arsenal Women Newsletter. Arsenal Women are the Champions of Europe and it means the whole fucking world awnewsletter.arseblog.com/what-it-means/

The first half of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning: - Attempts to assign impossible missions - Promises of final reckonings - References to the events of every Mission: Impossible film, including this one

It’s good

ARSENAL ARE THE CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE