Gates comes out of the gate just after this week we've seen a) A person dies every minute because of a heating planet b) we've past the disastrous 1.5C global warming threshold c) the worst hurricane recorded due to global warming just hit Jamaica and now Cuba. Othering at its best/worst.

Politico: "Reform UK will hold its third press conference in three days at 10 am. Head of policy Zia Yusuf and welfare spokesperson Lee Anderson will pledge £32 billion of cuts to disability benefit PIP" Why so many press conferences? Answer: Because they know the broadcasters will keep showing up

"Civil war in the UK is inevitable" is the racist equivalent of cosmic channelling. You create a mantra around your heart's greatest white supremacist desire and then try to speak it into existence.

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it. The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

Things that are making me laugh: The Green Party have more members than the Tories. I have more Bluesky and X followers than Zack Polanski. #MakeYourVoteCount

Tell me again how israel is not the aggressor?

As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have

OBR to downgrade UK productivity. UK at or near bottom of the OECD investment league for 30 yrs. Problem: City has short term horizons, direct state investment neutered. China invests 40.4% of GDP in productive assets, India 30.5%, UK 18.2%, OECD average 23%. Must abandon neoliberal constraints.

America’s super-rich destroying the planet’s safe climate spaces. Wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%. Corporations spend $277,000 a year on anti-climate lobbying. Super rich control political system, strangling life. What's to be done

Just as an aside: tell EVERYONE you know about this. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is what happens when Pam's let feelings fester without condemnation. What he is doing now is too little too late.

At 185 mph maximum sustained winds, Cat 5 Hurricane #Melissa is now just 7 mph shy of what @michaelfwehner.bsky.social r.bsky.social & Jim Kossin have defined as the cutoff for a prospective "Cat 6" hurricane: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

UK is going to be quick to follow unless we do something about this. Working hard will not propel you like it used to, now we are sliding back into inherited wealth.

This is what annoys me sooooooooooo much. You finally have a real platform to create meaningful change - they could have literally done ANYTHING to put a line in the sand and say - from this day forth: CHANGE. And then you choose to be Conservative- Lite / Reform-Lite.

It's almost as if 2024's massive rejection of mealy-mouthed, downward-spiral, centre-right, blame-the-poor, end-game-capitalism, austerity-obsessed politics was a signal to Labour that the country was desperate for something else.

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

Endless conversations about economic security rarely seem to touch discussion of the interconncted ICT systems that are the most obvious potential points of widespread failure. Just isn't fitting the political narrative. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I do feel that this picture shows that 'mansplaining' goes beyond just men.....

Really don't understand why the world seems hell bent on proving the crackpots who were saying 'the Jews are the secret puppet masters' right. Simultaneously we have actual Jews begging the world to actually hold Israel to account. The latter are right the former wrong.

ugh..... pretty sure that for a pretty f-ing long time it wasn't the West but the (middle) East that was pushing modernity - but keep on pushing the narrative that it's always been just us.....

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

Sky News now offering clarification. They’d previously stated that the Maccabi ban was just about safety of Maccabi fans. Now they admit it was also about Maccabi violence. Ladies & gentlemen, our corrupt journo-political complex just got caught out.

Josh MacAlister: "Weetabix, Sainsburys, Morrisons & Magic Breakfast.. British businesses stepping in" Weetabix is owned by a US company, the largest shareholder in Sainsburys is Qatars sovereign wealth fund, Morrisons is owned by US private equity & Magic Breakfast is a charity

In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government. She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her. So I confronted him.

I wonder why people think that education has become the new class battleground.... www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Looking at the comments - and this is only a very, very narrow view of what actual people think. But I think that more people than most would expect think that Labour would rather die than be leftist. But I agree with Henry Mance on that the Reform / Conservatives win is not a guaranteed win.

"AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat" is something from a Final Destination pre-production brainstorming session www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

Is it just me or is this kind of odd?

The reason why Labour is imploding is because they have done again & again & again..... and at some point no one believes a single word they say. You CANNOT vote for a party that does nothing but sell lies. There is an 'easy' way to get people to vote for them again. Do the things in your manifesto

University tuition fees in England to rise with inflation from 2026. Student debt is £267bn, could double in a decade. Due to low wages unlikely to be repaid. Young people burdened. Most European countries don't charge uni fees. England destroying social mobility. Must abolish tuition fees.

Lisa Nandy: "He's right to say that it is unprecedented in recent times that an entire group of away supporters have been entirely banned from a game" Unprecedented in recent times? In 2023 Legia Warsaw fans were banned from a game at Villa Park.

In just 1 week (October 7-13) illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank: Mounted at least 71 attacks on Palestinians Murdered one Palestinian Injured 99 Palestinians Targeted 27 villages Destroyed more than 1,400 olive trees

Rachel Reeves set to launch ‘blitz on business bureaucracy’ to save firms £6bn. Translation - cut transparency, accountability, check on business abuses. Govt may reduce public filing requirements for small companies. Expect more shell company abuses.

I don't often agree with Henig - but here I do. It feels very much like we are trying to get people to focus on an enemy... and we've chosen it to be China as it has values that differ from us in obvious ways. Therefore it is easy to paint them as 'the other you should fear'.

Of course we can debate if the Chinese are more motivated by the survival of their own regime or world domination, but I would note that I've heard less explicit attacks on western democracy from that country as compared to say, the Vice-President of the US.

The UK state hands subsidies to corporations, doesn't invest directly in new industries, infrastructure'. Corporate profits, dividends boom. UK is left behind UK invested 18.2% of GDP in productive assets OECD countries' average 23% China 40.4% India 30.5%. Neoliberalism is destroying the UK

@endorphins.bsky.social Je staat gewoon in m'n release radar!

Not only that but so stupid it hurts. At least say you've had it once, otherwise you literally cannot know if'something is the best'. Now it's just clear that you are dumb and proud of that fact

Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament. But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside. Good night.

Holding govts to ransom. Goldman Sachs warns Rachel Reeves against tax rises on banks. Banks happy to be bailed out, take QE, mis-sell products, not to be prosecuted for frauds, hike charges, pay lousy rates on savings. Need windfall taxes. Raise top rate of income tax.

Thank f*** we now finally get the perspective from the Palestinians as much as from the Israeli's on how they feel about the war ending..... Oh no - I forgot.... we only get reporting from the hostage square.....

Sorry but a really good strategist pulling out the word that literally every political analyst has done before to characterise a political party does need to be ooh-ed and ahhh-ed. Nor the 'they don't know why they win, they don't know why they lose' line. No matter how nice the guy is. #linkedin

Anyone else disappointed by the MX2 By Native Instruments? Stem controls should have been a LOT better. No routing the FX to a specific stem, no Pattern Player has never been a big thing and they always focus too much on it. Really a bit underwhelmed....

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

Please remember.... Keir Starmer thinks it's great that these guys want to set up data centres here. Also remember that we are paying the highest energy prices.... pretty sure they won't.

Might be good to start by acknowledging that Britain is amongst the best integrated of any multi-ethnic society, and that integration is getting better, not worse. Also, if culture is the determinant, does that mean we will strip the citizenship of natives with racist and fascist ideas?

About ninety percent of all global historical emissions have been produced in the lifetime of our current president.

Today we are horrified that people used to sooth babies with gin and morphine. Future generations will feel the same about us giving tablets to toddlers, smartphones to preteens and social media access to teenagers.

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*