Brutal correction on the Guardian’s review of Melania: “The star rating for this film was corrected on 2 February 2026. A formatting issue led an earlier version to be awarded one star, when the reviewer’s intention was zero.”

His ankles are congested. One side of his face is drooping. He cannot walk in a straight line. I do not believe in a God but I do believe in biology. Please may the orange shit-gibbon depart this life soon.

"because the Lords is a self-regulating chamber there is no mechanism to prevent a small minority of peers frustrating the will of the majority who want to see the bill progress" One more reason why the House of Lords needs to be abolished, full stop. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I wrote in detail about Reform’s plans for a fascist takeover of the UK using “uncontrolled illegal immigration” as their way in. Around 3,500 words. Reading time 15-20 minutes (I think). I’m gonna read it out for Shado’s podcast “Shado in focus” soon as well shado-mag.com/articles/opi...

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

Dear USA Policing and law enforcement losing the confidence of the community does not end well. Yours, Great Britain and Northern Ireland

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here > "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

🎥 ICE in Minneapolis is "the model" Historian Robert Kagan tells @carolecadwalla.bsky.social that the Trump administration is deliberately provoking people so they can invoke Insurrection Act & not hold midterms - & just four Rep senators could stop it all youtube.com/shorts/d3lsO...

Witnesses in the Columbia Heights area of Minneapolis are sharing this photo of a child taken by ICE agents on January 20th The child's father was also abducted and the mother does not know the whereabouts of either of them

The lesson learned in every playground everywhere is that the only way to deal with a bully is to stand up to them, and if that is not enough then punch them *very* hard where it hurts the most.

Trump Always Chickens Out #TACO www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

This week's messages for Europe Mark Carney: "We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition" US historian David Kagan: "Europe needs to become self sufficient in military & economic terms. It [faces] an aggressive America run by a megalomaniac" Full interview w @carolecadwalla.bsky.social 🔗 ⏬

🚨WOW! The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party now has almost 75,000 signatures! Let’s get it to the 100,000 needed! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

NEW | VIDEO ‘Europeans need to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan talks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’, the end of the western alliance - and why Keir Starmer needs to change course, fast Prefer to read? 🔗⬇️ youtu.be/0goGamFRtO0

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

America is now at the heavily armed secret police doing warrantless door-to-door house raids in search of undesirable ethnicities and/or political dissenters stage. The difference from well known historical cases is down to scale.

ICE must be dismantled, and its agents arrested and prosecuted

The president of the United States says you didn't see what you just saw

My statement on President Trump’s actions in Venezuela.

If this is true as Trump claims, we have lunched into an extremely bad direction, far worse than before. In any just universe Congress would remove Trump immediately. Abducting the head of state of a nation we haven't even declared war on? What the hell does it take?

Do you understand why the 51st State was not “a joke”? Do you understand why annexing Greenland was not “a joke”? The only people that thought Trump was joking were Americans with their heads up their asses, on both sides of the aisle. Your president is dangerous. What are you doing about it?!?!

Welcome to 2026. Where the world order as we knew it seems to be over. What next? Taiwan? Greenland? Balkans? The U.K. must double down on its relationship with the EU. For it is Europe alone that is now leader of the free world.

If he pulled this shit on Venezuela, he will go after Greenland and Canada next. Don't think he won't. He has lost his last fucking marble.

A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER IS IDEAL FOR ISSUING APOLOGIES

So Twiter has long been a Nazi haven and stroker of Elon's ego, but now it also generates child porn if you ask it! So I think the best time to leave Twitter was years ago, and the second best time is now. Here's what I wrote when I left in 2023: badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/goodbye-tw...

COMIC: What Artists Do

In light of recent Ai related nonsense in the creative industry, I wanted to present some easy-to-digest facts about Generative Ai

A type of practice that I find interesting historically is the rigorously untrue. Astrology, for instance, was often a very tightly defined practice with a seriously requirement of learning: it just wasn’t actually real.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Very good paragraph here from @cstross.bsky.social on LLMs… www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...

If the last 5 years of your social media history doesn't get ban you from Trump's USA, then we can't be friends 🙅‍♀️💁‍♀️

Dear Trump's USA: fuck right off. I want it on my permanent record have no desire to visit while your demented fascist orange shit-gibbon is in charge. bsky.app/profile/reic... bsky.app/profile/rami...

I've said for years that Twitter has become nothing but a hate site and a vector for harassment. And now it's a doxxing tool. Get the fuck off of Twitter, now. And pressure the organizations you work with to get off. It's a danger to everyone's safety.

The idea that if you keep teaching the word guessing programme words it will wake up is like if you keep breeding horses to run faster one of them will give birth to a locomotive” Cory Doctorow on why AI singularity is a stoopid idea ⬇️

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way” Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school @itvnewspolitics.bsky.social

The digital version of our Nathan Gill timeline is now online ⬇️⏳ www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...

The richest man in the world and the biggest loser in the world are the same person. Makes me wonder how many of the other billionaires who are shitting all over the planet are equally stupid and cringey. It's lunacy that these fools have been allowed to seize so much influence.

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Also make sure to turn off smart workspace settings (the button right below the first setting which shows up after you reload to turn off the first one) Unfortunately this will also turn off some basic formerly non-AI functionality like, y'know, spellcheck. 💀 As if this wasn't already a dick move.

I think a lot about how Starlink satellites have changed the night sky for all humans for an unknown amount of time and one guy was just…allowed to do that. To our whole sky??