The fact that despite these numbers the media is constantly pushing Reform is why billionaires need to be taxed to normal human levels of income and barred from any political influence.

"So I asked chatGPT"

“…volunteers from the River Roding Trust removed 200 bags of rubbish,…from Alders Brook, a tributary of the river that runs through rural Essex & Barking, earlier this year. But the EA has sent Powlesland a letter saying he is being investigated for illegally intervening without a permit.” 🤔

Why these litter pickers are breaking the law to clean up a London river www.channel4.com/news/why-the...

How about.. No.

my conspiracy theory around the online safety act and digital ID is that a significant part of it is MPs wanting to criminalise criticising them online

his proudest moment is being forced to do something he spent over a year fighting against. he's so full of shit. nothing about keir starmer, or the labour party itself at this point, is honest. it's all about branding, buzzwords, and 'narratives'.

What you have to understand is that for Starmer's team, the right is not the enemy. The left is. Its driving mission, from the moment Starmer took over, was to stamp out first the Labour left, then the wider left. It hates us, deeply and viscerally, with a passion never directed at the right.

A POTUS who nonpartisan historians agree is one of the smartest America ever had, Barack Obama, found a way to get Iranian enrichment to zero without bringing the Strait of Hormuz into it at all It took one of the worst businessmen in US history—a bona fide idiot—to screw it up

The despair in 2026 just keeps fucking boiling over. Meanwhile literal nazis walk our streets terrorising our neighbours and nothing is done.

Personally I think the bigger issue with social media is all the racist middle aged people calling for civil war and organising riots But what do I know

The recording, documenting and dissemination of actual reality - by bloody plebs - is a problem for our govt. They seem utterly determined to wrestle back control

The sotto voce bit today is that the country has seen the best part of three years of horrific live-streamed genocide that successive UK governments have been materially assisting. And they saw it on social media, because the national press has been deeply complicit in obscuring what’s happened.

Why do politicians want to crack down on the public routinely seeing evidence of appalling war crimes that said politicians have *at very least* done nothing to resist or impede? I suggest to you that this is not the trickiest conundrum you’ll ever encounter.

Thing, I'm not even against the idea of an assisted death law for terminally ill people that wish for it. Problem is, Labour make it damn apparent that it isn't their goal. For one, they stripped off the guardrails against this being used on disabled people and ignore every expert telling them +

‘give every child the best start in life’ he’s murdering trans kids and ensuring disabled and neurodivergent children get left behind their peers.

It's almost as if the whole point of the past seven years of law and policy on this issue was neither protecting children nor fixing social media nor curbing big tech, but building both a domestic surveillance tech sector and a captive market for it. internet.exchangepoint.tech/the-dog-that...

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

The day judges can sentence you for crimes you have neither been tried nor convicted of you no longer have a functioning country.

The Big Bad Scary Russians, who are now in the fifth year of what was supposed to be a quick three-day 'Special Military Operation' in Ukraine. They need a better bogeyman, this one is rubbish.

It's incredible how light Labour's bench is when it won 400+ MPs at the last election. We can't even get good scaremongering, excuse me if I'm not afraid of an adversary in "some shape or form" and think that means everyone earning less than £30K must die.

It is quite strange to listen to political coverage currently, even from mainstream sources, and remember that net migration has quartered since its peak, and is likely to fall to Cameron's tens of thousands target next year and this has made no difference to the discourse.

It may look to you like the 50 year rollback of the postwar settlement is an astonishing, unnecessary calamity that needs to be reversed. To them, they’ve been telling and explaining and working jolly hard for five decades, and the public just *refuse* to get it, because we are so unreasonable.

Look at the chat about how obvious it is What Needs To Be Done (massive cuts to fund military spending); how urgently we need to do it to stave off the Russian threat, and how spoiled, unreasonable and ungovernable the public are. What are they working themselves and each other up to, do we think?

Here there be teeny tiny dragons.

The UK is the 5th-largest military spender in the world, yet all of its equipment is unusable, ultra-expensive crap from privatised companies & the US. Not only that, but why does a small, poor, insignificant country like the UK need to spend so much on dumb war machines?

always complete this checklist before leaving the house

A good thread illustrating the horror and banality of what society is doing to trans kids.

Every politician and commentator right now is trying to thread a needle along the lines of "this appalling and deplorable violence, which of course I understand and sympathise with..."

Banning Twitter might help, sure. But we’re not in this shitshow because one Nazi zillionaire bought a social media platform in October 2022, are we?

Newspaper headline: "Death threat MP says comments from left forced him to hire security" Newspaper 5th paragraph: David 'Heydrich' Williams of Stevenage was a member of Patriotic 88 who says the MP was too soft on...

Edwin Hubble famously kept the company of his black cat Copernicus on late nights at the Mount Wilson Observatory. At STScI, these are just a fraction of the pets who keep us company while we expand the frontiers of space astronomy.

If houses had been set on fire *by* ethnic minority people, I suspect the BBC would have somehow rediscovered the active voice

It’s mind blowing the Maine Senate race is going to be between a guy who is a walking red flag who swears the Nazi tattoo he had for years isn’t who he is now, and a sitting Senator who has actively voted in support of naked fascism and misogyny, but with a frown so you know she doesn’t like it.

Never, ever mistake these racist thugs for ‘concerned’. They’re taking the grief of the victims’ families and consciously, determinedly adding to it.

Musk is going to incite riots in the UK whenever he feels like it, because Labour is terrified of standing up to rich people

As I said years ago, "division" between far right crackpots and the rest of society is actually good and the correct way things should be. The problem is that powerful people wanted to be on the side of the far right without the rest of us getting mad about it.

Politicians who fanned these flames should hang their heads in shame. Time and again we've seen this story play out. Single incidents used to fuel a far right narrative - and communities across the nation paying the price.

If you were the richest person in the world, how would you use your wealth and power to benefit mankind? 1. Help fund international medical aid programs 2. Disseminate violent right-wing propaganda designed to instigate pogroms against minority populations.

By the way media / government, what happened in Belfast is terrorism, acts of violence designed to terrorise the public, they were not "protestors" This is the correct use of the term, not how its been used to define grannies opposing genocide (who are protestors)

The argument for the BBC appears to be that we need a hypothetical BBC to protect against the risk of getting the kind of media which the BBC actually is

Nigel Farage urges the nation to respond with ‘cold indifference’.

therapist: What's causing your anxiety me: [gestures broadly at everything] therapist: [starts gesturing too] me: [sobbing] therapist: [sobbing]

So the two-tier policing Black people, the Irish, the travelling community have complained about for decades, was never taken seriously enough to warrant a two hour discussion, only the pretend two tier policing which really doesn’t affect racists whites, at all. Got it!

This is a great story, always worth a share.