Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

This. But as so many other things, doing something like this would require the @teamlabouruk.bsky.social government to have some backbone.

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

What do you call it when a British MP takes direct calls from a foreign leader to conspire against the BBC, our national broadcaster?

I’m just about to delete my Checkatrader app.

Celebrity Traitors but it’s the bbc board and we all get to vote *that* right-wing guy off, overnight ratings of 78 million

Aintcha sick of the bastard..where is my champion standing up for me and my fellow citizens who actually quite like the bbc warts and all...who do not appreciate him or his Yankee wank chum musk who is free to insult me and my country ..call for violence on our streets and all without any sanction.

Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK. And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there. THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.

Meanwhile, in Reform's Lancashire CC, the councillor in charge of care homes, owns a private care home, and is closing council care homes. 👀 A resident’s son, a Reform party member, said any move would “kill” his mother. ~AA #NeverThoughtTheLeopards www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection. Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?

This should go everywhere- and far beyond “us”, because we understand the horrors of this. Amazingly - many don’t.

Isn’t odd how all these America crimes .. insurrection.. Epstein .. have people being punished in the uk.. but in the country where they occurred.. nothing

London's latest Blue Plaque is a brilliant one. (It was put up at the Tesla dealership in Tottenham by campaigners)

Superlative.

Really great work, MAGA.

Dundee remembers all those who gave their lives in conflict.

Yep. And to think that so many people think this man is some sort of hero is such a sign of our twisted times.

Lets put BBC’s obsession with 4 prisoners at large freed in error into perspective👇🏼👇🏼 Feb 2024 the Met Police had 15,000+ warrants for criminals at large That’s 15K criminals they hadn’t caught or escaped other forces have 1,000’s too BBC said nothing Only now Labour are in Govt 4 are important❗️🤷🏼‍♂️

A curse upon all the companies who have launched Christmas adverts before the 1st December.

Beautiful. Paging @mascotsilence.bsky.social

Farage, who was paid £189,000 in January to promote gold bullion in his spare time, is currently wanging on about how out of touch the Labour frontbench is. Ok

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Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin’s notes.

‘Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952’

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Important to remember both the victim, Agnes, and the incredible reporting that the Sunday @thetimes.com did on this case to raise the profile of her unsolved murder

Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024. Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion. American capitalism is off the rails.

Sad, but that’s the reality in the U.S.

This is what Reform are doing at a local level! Do we really even want to think about what would happen at a national level!

Keir Starmer needs to wake up and fix our broken voting system before the next election, or he risks letting Nigel Farage into Number 10. We will keep fighting for fair votes to make sure every voice is heard.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

One year on, things are going from Badenoch to Worsenoch.

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

1/ Extraordinary. John Swinney appears genuinely unaware the SNP broke a 2021 manifesto commitment to freeze income tax rates. All the more remarkable as he was personally responsible for one of the increases, when he was acting Finance Secretary in 2022.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

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For as many years as anyone been counting two or more inmates been mistakenly released from British prisons most weeks. Record does not make it acceptable. System needs to be fixed. It does leave me asking why BBC now gripped by end-of-civilisation hysteria heard on Radio 4 Today programme.

it's beyond time to leave X; anybody still there ... unless you're a journalist or researcher who studies right-wing misinformation or whatever, why ...

Who is sick to death of this media hysteria about taxes going up, prisoners being wrongly released and just general Labour bashing?

For good measure.

once again, Elon Musk poses a threat to British democracy & we should be treating him as such, as well as disentangling ourselves from his businesses

X is designed to radicalise people. The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain. Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Mog Red Dwarf 🤝 Correctly characterising cats not as evil genius schemers but as friendly chaos agents with three brain cells apiece