It is also deeply unhealthy to have local govts who don’t provide many visible/valuable services for most residents (because they lack the resources). Encourages distrust and populism - “what am I paying my council tax for? The council does nothing for me.”

The worst thing about this is not that Jenrick is a racist, but that Kemi is so braindead and unaware of the consequences that she is using her position as a black woman not even to downplay it, but to fuel the sentiments behind it.

Has Jenrick always been racist or did he become one because it was convenient to do so?

Organisational culture in HE means signing up to behavioural frameworks and below inflation pay rises, if you get a rise at all, while being gas lit about how much management respect you.

Pivot to instant messaging with video and transcription as the integration of copilot and other LLMs into email software renders emails pointless as proof of discussions. You need to know you are speaking to a human being for decision making. Accountability and compliance demands it.

A forum I frequent has just asked users not to use chatgpt in arguments...

Is it servicing a huge debt we don't know about?

Halifax blocking the ability for me to pay an invoice because of a fraud risk and then having a 20 minute wait + on their fraud line is suboptimal. Especially when it's a genuine payment and it needs to go through fairly soon...

That's me :)

Just wrote an email to a manager discussing how to 'incestivise' someone rather than 'incentivise' them and now I have to hand in my notice

More of this please.

And this is why banning perverts should be an essential step in building a social media platform - people like this simply have no sense of what is acceptable in a public space and what is not and they inevitably encourage terrible behaviour from other people intent on normalising harmful things.

Are rugby players more susceptible to mnd or is this just the Texas sharpshooter fallacy? It's a rare disease. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

I still don't understand why none of the directors of institutions are fighting back. They all just surrendered.

Oh... America deserves to be ruined, we don't.

Syed having a belated nervous breakdown as he realises his entire thesis he's based his career on was false and he got conned by Dave Brailsford into thinking doping was marginal gains.

I know Doctorow and his thesis isn't for everyone, but at least in the UK, ramping up the resources available to Trading Standards and unleashing them on Amazon would do wonders for the state of the nation.

Social media has turned her into a terrible and radicalised human being, somebody should refer her to Prevent. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Do you think they'll tell their journalists to get off X? That's how this got through, reporters whose brains have rotted. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Freestyling green tomato, date and chilli sauce today...

Gentleman, this is what you get when you have daughters.

Genuinely inexplicable. Do they think the only non Christians Robinson and his mob hate are Muslims?

Only somebody who has been locked in a casket, buried 10km deep at the bottom of the Mariana Trench for the past two decades could write this about OJ.

There is a direct link between Richard Horton and Andrew Wakefield. And it is the anti-vax community Wakefield inspired and worked with that is the link the RFK Jr and the ongoing collapse of the NIH. Massive fucking dishonest balls to write this editorial when he should have resigned long ago.

Furries and other perverts are the pioneer species of any new online ecosystem. It is simply the way of nature that they get destroyed by more sophisticated and complex communities who emerge later.

Peaked yesterday, 6/10.

It's quite funny that Bluesky have absolutely fucked it over moderation and sown the seeds of either destruction or a massive sellout. They just don't know it yet. And nor do the people angry at their CEO.

Did the serious financial press ever comment on his visible steroid abuse? And does that factor into how seriously investors take his claims?

why are West Midlands police allowing flag hangers to block a public highway, exactly

Polanski is a bit of tit, isn't he

Silly graph here - start by looking at relative dairy consumption and realise that outside of populations in Europe and central Asia or with recent ancestry there, people in the rest of the world mostly do not retain the ability to fully digest lactose as adults www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Anyway trying not to think of the other stuff.

As an aside to this, when was the last time the BBC said Farage made stupid stuff up in a headline?

Crane is in distress lads

Got some of those lion excrement infused granules, put them around the place and the neighbour's cat is currently on their extension roof absolutely screaming the place down.

Time and time again I see people motivated by principle and passion to work for lower pay and long hours in the academic and non-profit sectors only to get fucked over by events. It's a huge problem. The thing is, and I say this as one of them, pay and conditions are better in the private sector.

Wanton destruction by ignoramuses. Proper barbarians sacking Rome stuff.

Without clicking, which MP do you think this is? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The funniest thing about Sagan's book is that he absolute fucks his argument with the attack on Beavis and Butthead by not realising that Mike Judge is very much on Sagan's side of things.

The curriculum is all about teaching children about the joys of reading for pleasure, then as soon as they get that ability it then bores them to death with busywork and deadly dry tasks identifying different types of adverbial in selected prose.

You can be an explicitly racist, far right agitator and that's acceptable for the Royal Society. Wonder how many Fellows are happy in such company. Most I would imagine. Another western institution full of weak, cowardly people.

Given how Yong has gone a bit weird over the last few years when a scientific understanding has conflicted with his politics, I'd not be taking advice from him.

I do not think the chair of global public health at edinburgh university should have written this article like this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... not least because a (maximum and unlikely) 29% increase in the risk of cancer from food is not in the category as a 2,500% increase from smoking

In exciting news Openreach are doing our street in the next few days.

Ffs. Banter as a slogan will be banned when I am in charge.

I have a cold and I'm not sure if it's a mild cold peaking today, or it's slowly ramping up to be an absolute beast.

Has there been any political reaction in the USA to their defense secretary advocating for war crimes and their president threatening to use the army against citizens?