This is a common issue in our era.

If Flock cameras are only used for catching criminals, why are they tracking what stickers you have on your cars? Imagine searching a database to find all individuals with stickers indicating "left-wing tendencies". This is an actual Flock display.

Do not attempt at home

Attack on Lindisfarne goes to extra time

Please repost if you want our Freedom of Movement restored. We were robbed of our right to live, work, study, and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.

So much radical. So much populist. So much anti-establishment

this is one of the many small changes Trump is making in his attempt to manipulate the midterms

I wouldn’t be thrilled about this ridiculous policy at the best of times. But it’s absurd that the UK govt isn’t tackling it without the means to authorise its own citizens using British-based services. Still: welcome to featured creep. It won’t just be social networks soon.

Spent years building up a big following on Twitter, essential for publicising my aviation blog, which I live from. Desperate to leave it & publicise on nicer platforms, but I have too few follows. If you want to help me escape, do give this a share. Much obliged. My blog here: hushkit.substack.com

maybe when the US stops demanding visitors' social media accounts for a visa

If you don’t already follow @jennycohn.bsky.social, then do so now. Thread 🧵

A Brit in the semis of Wimbledon, England still in the World Cup and Nigel Farage spending the summer arguing with a bin. Oh this happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea

Support Ukraine. Get a heat pump; install an induction cooker.

According to Bild, Russian nationals have been detained on the Serbia-Hungary border. They were allegedly planning blow up a German defense plant that provides aid to Ukraine. And this, dear Europeans, is why you need to stop issuing visas to Russians.

I haven’t bought Viz for over 30 years but omg I’m straight back to the 90’s here

Last night Ukraine could not intercept a single Russian ballistic missile. The USA deliberately starving Ukraine of Patriot missiles is now clearly understood by the Russians as American support for their terror bombing. The USA is helping Putin kill Ukrainians.

This is the Bluesky equivalent of the Great American Novel. Gripped all the way to the end.

Happy birthday, America! Get well soon.

The whole reason Musk bought and broke twitter is that it used to be one of the few places rich assholes encountered pushback

You couldn't write this stuff... This is what foreign interference looks like. "Tens of thousands have joined pro-Restore Britain Facebook groups being run by people who appear to be based in Pakistan and Bangladesh, an investigation has revealed." www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Clement Attlee making a timeless observation in 1934: "No one believes that when Sir Oswald Mosley talks about preserving the right to free speech he is really genuine in the matter. He preserves free speech just as long as it suits him."

Hear that? It’s the sound of a canary falling off its perch, choking

Yesterday, for the first time in 50 years, we reached the point where deaths in this country overtook births. As of last year, we also reduced net migration to its lowest level since the last decade, and it looks to be even lower. We are very rapidly heading to a massive demographic crisis.

#r4today reporting BBC’s investigation into people smuggler ‘King’. Justin Webb totally crestfallen when told by immigration specialist that Brexit binned the data sharing agreement we had with the EU. So, we can’t now properly check. We don’t have access to Eurodac - the fingerprint database. Ffs.

we take your privacy. seriously

Abolish the Home Office

I set myself a reminder to post this last week on the date itself and forgot. Better late than never, eh, Russian official?

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Just a reminder: everything AI does with copyright it does with privacy. And more.

my grandad and his brothers were off stacking nazi corpses high in an actual world war and now a few gens later we have this happening in plain sight, and nobody is seemingly bothered, and our wonderful government is just gonna keep on using X no biggie

Giving this a little bit of a payday bump. So overwhelmed by the support we've had - and every little extra makes a difference. Beyond the vehicle, we can fund drone detectors, unmanned evac vehicles and more. If you can spare anything at all, it is massively appreciated and will save lives.

Another stupid Mahmood idea - getting “trained” members of the public to decide asylum cases - is ripped to shreds here by someone who knows what they’re talking about… Politicians have truly lost their minds on immigration. It’s making us a very wretched and angry place.

Thread (up & down from here). I also don’t know what Mahmood is playing at, but her statements are repulsive. All she’s going to do is divide the Labour Party further between people who hate her, & people who hate her but delude themselves that she might appease the right wing press. She needs to go

Reminder that the world's first trillionaire is a far-right activist who barely sleeps so he can promote far-right content on his microblogging site Here's an updated version of that famous Economist figure

Question for friends of #Ukraine and #NAFO: I have a line on around 80 good, free, computer monitors from a civilian organisation in the UK. Can anyone point me to somewhere that is able to receive them, and get them to Ukraine? Some donors may be uneasy about anything explicitly military…

So tired of nasty policies against marginalised people being promoted for competitive political advantage. Cruelty as a political game show.

This is *pitch-perfect* from @davidallengreen.bsky.social on the Court of Appeal judgement in the Palestine Action case. And what a final quote. Highly recommended

Best Twitter riposte of the day.

If the mythic Overton window shifts to the right, and you obligingly follow suit, it will simply move further toward that extreme, and reward only the tip of the spear.

Interesting thread about the potential cascade effects that might start kicking in due to the lack of fuel in Russia. Lots of possible implications. 👇

I’m with Kemi on this. Whichever political party introduced right to buy, mismanaged its implementation, failed to build replacement social housing stock, and then framed endless house-price inflation as a “good thing actually, probably the best thing to ground the economy in” should be ashamed.

The black lines are the ACTUAL situation. The blue the projections. In reality carbon capture pretty much flat-lining Meanwhile Solar romping way beyond projections

Seems of much wider application, to me.

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

This basically. Labour has relentlessly increased the salience of the issues Reform prioritises, whilst winning over basically no Reform voters, and simultaneously alienating their own base. It's just terrible politics.

In the end, there were just a lot more human rights abuses than I was expecting from the human rights lawyer.

Glorious

More on the Secret War between Russia and the UK/EU that I’ve written about: Russian hackers were behind a cyberattack last year that crippled Jaguar Land Rover that cost billions in damages and harmed the British economy, investigators have concluded.

Increasing control is indicative of a dying country....