Mandelson’s malign influence runs right through the heart of this Government. Not least in the govt’s NHS data deal with Palantir – a spy-tech firm co-founded by a man who thinks the NHS should be ‘ripped up.’ I've written to Wes Streeting urging him to ditch this dangerous deal.

Sure, billionaires are monstrous amoral pedophiles who look at other human beings like disposable trash, but at least they contribute absolutely nothing of value to civilization and are actively contributing to the destruction of humanity

I always think of this LeGuin spiel (roasting Rowling ofc)

I don't think people realise just how staggeringly rich 250 billion is. If you know someone who makes a quarter of a million a year, it's likely they're "your rich friend" because they're comparatively loaded. They would have to work *a million years* to get that much money.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

an incredibly thorough consideration of Gaiman and Sandman, well worth reading

What I find amusing about the Express' cinematic universe is that the UK is simultaneously free and thriving thanks to Brexit and poor and oppressed thanks to the current government. This dichotomy is also reflected in Mail/Telegraph etc but its at its most acute in the Express.

Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

Oh.

🚨 There's a NEW item on the Dropout Store! A reminder from Brennan: laws are threats created by a dominant socio-economic group. And what better way to remember this, than on a t-shirt to wear close to the chest.

It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

I've been getting back into @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social During one of the fireside chats Lou said he had an image of some people riding a scifi ATV on the outside of a ship hovering above earth as inspiration for their new show and I wanted to have some fun visualizing that. #art #scifi

Kelsey Dacey, 37, who is definitely not a phone addict, just has a hyperfixation on the lovely glowy supercomputer full of instant dopamine hits.

quantum quantum quantum

Ummm like we’re like not even friends. We only hung out like twice. I don’t even KNOW her. But you know like I love her but like we don’t know each other. We just hung out a few times. Oh my god you’re obsessed with me

If drastically restricting EHCPs was always a cornerstone of the govt's SEND plans, why didn't it make the case in all the "listening" events and long months of putting up kites & briefing? If/when this move is in the white paper, it'll all look risibly cynical www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Increasingly obv that the govt wants to remodel a big chunk of the SEND system so that provision based on specific/individual needs & provision becomes one where support is delivered to groups.That will have the benefit of saving money & it suits some ideological prefs. It also defies what SEND is

Juliana is a Jerry Cornelius novel in that ways which can't be helped and a Jenny Everywhere novel in all the ways which can. opensource.com/article/18/1...

Perfect piece of art, no notes.

that was my take too - social media is bad for kids because it *enhances* the negative aspects of regular teenage life. before, if you didn't fit in, didn't have many friends, were bullied, etc, you could escape that after leaaving school. now you can't. also congruent with the evidence

Issue #43 of our newsletter is out now, ft. Bastion, The Bone Temple, CRISIS, The Chaos Engine, Don Tolliver, Scare City and more!

hey dude, didn’t your wife marry the nazi pedo twice? THOMAS BRODIE-SANGSTER: (sighs) yes, my wife married the nazi pedo twice

Hey what's your passive perception? . . . Uh-huh. Alright, what's your AC? . . . Uh-huh. Yeah, sorry, bro. The Dick Hitter runs out of the woods and hits you in the dick real hard. You take 2d100 bludgeoning damage.

Faux-troversy is a nouveau word we should get more comfortable invoking.

i continue to believe that politicians should be given a generous pension from the day they are sworn in, at the same value as their salary, which should be very high and inflation adjusted if they take any other money until they are dead they should go to prison and lose their pension

President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

I HAVE SOMETHING TO COMMUNICATE

Moebius

Notoriously left-wing The Economist, with its love of the free market economy and fiscal prudence.

where are the people who would rather murder grandma than have children miss school? why specifically were we forced to open schools then and not now? why shouldn't we do everything to end the occupation in St Paul to get kids back in school? what is different now? where are the yokel think pieces?

The coolest Congresswoman there’s ever been.

Happy Sex Matters losing two cases in one day despite being funded by billionaires to all who celebrate

Today the spooky, sweet adventure begins on My First Dungeon! The folks at @manysidedmedia.bsky.social do a brilliant job bringing Sweet Revenge to life with gorgeous sound design and a score to match. I know I’m completely hooked and can’t wait to see where this campaign goes. tr.ee/h9OJ_FvzSr

Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia

Wow. Yikes.

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

Worrying news that Russia has now been caught menacing Butlins, of all places.

Latest from me, and one of the most important pieces on Special Needs I've written so far: "In fifteen years of political journalism, I don’t think I have seen anything quite like this: a mad game of briefing, counter-briefing and official stonewalling." maybeimamazed.substack.com/p/why-the-po...

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“It was hard to see the full extent of the damage at first, due to the low lighting conditions and the autistics hissing whenever we tried to use torches. It turned out they’d gnawed through the wiring and taken out the big light.” Read the full piece on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/148356...

Poirot

Looking forward to the day when we win hard enough to not need articles like “what are the paramilitaries spraying at you?: a helpful guide”