'The country is too metropolitan and too middle class to see what the country wants' - to be fair, this is the position that Labour generally goes into elections with.

You're right, but I don't understand *why* you're right. People on IPSA salaries and who work for think tanks are not well paid enough be as lacking in price consciousness as some of them appear to be!

Adulthood is just constantly needing to empty the dishwasher so that you can fill the dishwasher.

I filmed this at 5 PM whilst swearing at the stupid vape/bong/tartan tourist tat shop where the fire started, now look below, and you know what folks I want to see every stupid vape/bong/tartan tourist tat shop in this country shut down by lunch tomorrow. 😡🤬🖕

I am also shocked by the lack of coverage of this fire. It’s so far only affecting the Union Street buildings, but one of those has partially collapsed, from what I can tell backwards into the station. And it’s not yet contained. This is major and more than halfway down BBC’s homepage.

“Trump gets asked question, response visibly demonstrated he literally has no idea what he’s talking about, everyone just moves on without acknowledging this” is one of the most infuriating patterns of the last decade

Are we shocked that the US-Israeli strikes on Iran keep hitting medical, educational, utility and civilian infrastructure? After everything the Israelis did in Gaza?

Incredible poasting

Of all the complaints against Starmer, the most absurd is that it's "weak" to have a Cabinet that doesn't just rubber-stamp what The Leader wants on questions of war & peace. I'd take Cabinet govt - in which ministers kick the tyres of big decisions - over the kneel-and-obey model of Farage any day

Cooper: If you worry about every single social media post, you're going to spend a lot of time doing social media posts. Kuenssberg: Well the President seems to spend a lot of time on social media. Yes! He does! And that's part of the reason his brain is pickled!

Aside from all the grift, I wonder if there really is something psychological in Blair, part messianic, part dogmatic, part self protective, that means if he admits his role in the Iraq war was a horrendous error & he is responsible for that, his entire sense of self will collapse like Jenga bricks

Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

yes yes treason etc but also can we talk about "they'll tell me things my own country won't tell me" my man, that's called "getting played". you got played

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

I thought the best person to talk to Laura Kuenssberg about the important moral and ethical issues of the day would be Robert Jenrick, the man who overruled a planning decision to save a billionaire pornographer £45m in exchange for a £12,000 donation.

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

I'd just like to point out to #BBCNews that nobody gives a fuck about Ian Huntley, good riddance.

Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?

Trump’s War On Iran: Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/trumps-war-on-iran-myth-vs-fact/

I've just realised that this isn't as mad as it sounds, because he's just trained himself on many, many AI responses, where it just has supreme confidence in something and hasn't remotely bothered to look at any evidence for or against.

"It does X, unless you can explain X to me, so I can see that it doesn't do X" is just an absolutely wild position to take on *any* subject

feels like if you aren't even clear on what consciousness is, it's premature to start debating whether an LLM possesses it you could say you are... putting descartes before the horse 😎

These people are fucking dimwits and they embarrass us as a species.

Needs to be noticed

These intolerable cunts

So much online conservatism these days is just "I miss being a kid"

Even THE LAWYERS FOR THE VICTIMS are saying "oh look, the only people they've interviewed so far are women, that's weird given our clients' statements". Every time.

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

*uncrunches your nuts*

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"What do we want?" "A compilation album!" "What shall we call it?" "Now!"

Just once I would like one branch of Trump's administration to talk to another branch - any other branch - of Trump's administration, and get their fucking story straight.

I think it's time for Royal Mail to admit they just can't do First Class mail any more. When you don't deliver every day then it's very obvious that First Class as a service basically doesn't exist, and the price hikes make it very clear Royal Mail doesn't *WANT* it to.

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them. I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea. newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

I remember when ‘Brexit Means Brexit’ became a way for silly people to insist that they supported something they could neither justify nor explain. Obviously the context is very different, but something similar is already happening with the ‘war’ in Iran. And it’s mostly the same people doing it.

the hysterical right wing backlash to starmer refusing to be totally dragged into trump’s fucking mad war has got me defending him more than basically anything he’s actually done

Given that the next step would be withdrawal of athletes who've trained for years for this moment, I think this is really about as strong a statement as we could expect from UK gov at such a late stage.

By Jen Sorensen.

Netanyahu has wanted to do this to ALL the neighbouring countries for four decades and finally he gets a US President stupid enough to not only let him do it, but to hold his hand and clear the path for him.

So the head of the FBI is an alt-right podcaster using the job for holidays, and new DHS secretary is this guy (not that the previous was any better). Good job the US hasn't just started a war with a nation with a long history of managing and financing global terror networks. Oh, wait a second...

Farage absolutely hated saying "I don't follow public opinion, I've long held this belief" when Mason pressed him (briefly) on why he was taking such an unpopular position on the US-Israeli war on Iran. It's not just that he hates taking unpopular positions, he hates it being pointed out even more.

The nature of human rights is that they apply to, you know, all humans

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

This would legitimately be a bit much if a YouTuber were wringing this much content out of a monumental fuck up, and yet, here we are, Reform's great whine hope...