"The lights are on, but nobody's home" translated into many languages. Enjoy!

This is too good to hide behind a paywall! archive.is/202512181741...

A perfect encapsulation of that Daily Mail/Telegraph/GBNews ecosystem that whips followers up to be angry about things that they really needn't be:

This is full of good advice. Tells you everything you need to have to last three days with no water, heat or power. 72tuntia.fi/en/

Russ's "A week in Tory" is what originally got me into Twitter before it went off the rails. A litany of Tory gaffs and corruption every week. Well researched, referenced and hugely detailed. I thought at the time it would become a useful tool for future historians. Well worth checking out.

Worth a go to try and get it further up the agenda:

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No surprises, but interesting reading nonetheless.

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Gullis wears the perpetual expression of a man who has just been cut up by a Honda Accord" Fantastic stuff!

Interesting situation for Starmer given his stance on corruption. Does he class Bangladesh alongside the likes of North Korea, Afghanistan, Russia? Or does he do something?

Introduce yourself with 5 cars you have owned.... Ford Fiesta Ford Orion Ford Galaxy Audio Cabriolet VW Golf Only the Audi was new - a "cutting edge" internet purchase in 2005 when that was still unusual!

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Bloody well said!

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I already had a gut mistrust of Streeting. Now I have evidence to support that gut feeling.

Is it just me, it has the Bluesky app logo on Android recently changed very slightly to a slightly more purpley blue?

This totally sums up AI in my common experience!

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The dead hand of Farage is all over Brexit and it’s made us all poorer. The idea that he should now be cast as the saviour of an economy he damaged is ridiculous and only fools would let him have a second chance to finish the job. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...

How do you even begin to explain this to the average low-information racist boomer?

Good news!

Imo something like the triple lock ought to encompass public sector pay too. Maybe less generous, but done properly it could eliminate frequent pay disputes, strikes etc. At the end of the day, unless they are trying to degrade real terms pay, why wouldn't you do this? 1/2

You cant parachute asylum seekers into deprived areas, in completely inappropriate housing, then say those migrants are 'dividing our country'. You divided the country because you can't organise a basic service and process claims in a timely way

Incredible story! And before anyone comments... N.b. the mini data centre in question is *not* running AI. "they swapped their gas boiler for a HeatHub – a small data centre containing more than 500 computers." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Top tip: Seen a house you like but can't afford it? Just put up some flags on the nearest lampposts and watch the value plummet!

This is cool

Maybe suitable on the "Discover" feed, but surely not "Following"?

I'm not religious, but Lord forgive me for wishing Anderson to have a stroke or some other delibitating illness requiring a mobility aid!

But bosses who pump sh1t into our rivers won't be jailed under new government proposals

In other news: The total expenditure on PIP in the financial year ending April 2024 was £21.6 billion. So it looks like they plan to tax people £10 billion a year for being disabled. www.the-independent.com/politics/ben...

Six days left to opt out of LinkedIn's new AI and advert policies....

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It strikes me that if 20% of our population is non-white, 80% white then unless adverts feature exclusively solitary people, the 50% figure suggests on average an advert features 3.1 people. Advert need to reflect normal, social beings, so an average of 3.1 feels about right to me! (0.8^3.2 =0.5)

The Trump Action Tracker has an update! Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions. www.trumpactiontracker.info? 1/2

Nail hit squarely on the head, as usual by cws. This message needs banging out ad-nauseum until the next election.

I'm not at the moment, but if you are a member of the National Trust, pay attention, and take action now. Don't let the Nazis take over!

♥️Caerffili ydw i♥️ (Je suis Caerphilly)!

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If you're going to hang up flags, do it for a festival and do it PROPERLY! Soriano nel Cimino, Italy getting in on some patriotic St George flag action!

Brilliant!

What? Farage was a paid presenter on Russia Today? Next you'll be telling me that he's on record of admiring Putin, or has a policy of making the UK more reliant on Russian gas exports!

Not even closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. Why are politicians sooooo slow to smell the coffee?

He seems to have been a bit quiet lately (what's he up to?), but this is an excellent observation!

Sooner or later it's obvious we need to be back with the EU, but our politicians are, generally, too cowardly to say it. This article appears to give a pragmatic way forward. Maybe our ancient, arcane constitutional processes could help?

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I wonder why Labour have not made more noise about their delivery, since day one?