Got a new phone, all the apps verify my new device no problem. Except one. Linked In. Their paid ads platform and support are also third rate at best. Way worse than Meta.

Got me some anti fash merch, thanks @pauldegregorio.bsky.social #ResistPersist

In a worrying turn of events, an Android update removed the comma key in favour of just the emoji key. You can turn it back on though

I am not impressed by the polling some people keep sending me on assisted dying: buff.ly/wErlwoC

Reform has lost 1 in 20 (5%) of the 677 councillors it gained in May elections In Kent alone, it has lost 14% of its councillors... -11 have been expelled -6 suspended -9 have left the party -1 has defected to UKIP -9 have resigned from the council altogether www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Short but to the point from @stevedarlingmp.bsky.social in Parliament this week.

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Saw the Bad Seeds do this live at Brixton when Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus came out. It was excellent.

I'm beginning to think you can't trust random videos on the internet

Post is by James Buchan who defected from Reform to the Tories in Dartford Council. Pretty damning stuff...

"...it seems unsustainable for those who care about British democracy to remain on a platform whose owner is fixated on its very destruction."

The fun thing about having a small team working with you is you can say "hey you're spending this week digging for stolen mobile phones in London flowerbeds, I promise you it's a thing". www.londoncentric.media/p/london-pho...

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Nice of my home insurer to drop this on me ready for the so called storm.

Henry VIII is rolling in his grave! news.sky.com/story/kings-...

Who doesn't want a strong influence over their robot army?

🎶 If you like a lot of "flavoured coating" on your biscuit... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hardly a surprise but jeez www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The blanket ban on assisted dying in this country has put Louise - and too many like her - through more than any grieving widow should have to experience. I join Louise in her relief that this process is over. But it should never have happened. news.sky.com/video/assist...

Important article about how a real opinion poll in a real newspaper can still be a cast iron example of disinformation.

My latest Substack examines how flawed polling and flawed journalism are distorting the debate over assisted dying kellnerp.substack.com/p/peers-beware

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage. Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

Cathedrals are woke now

doomscroll break

I'm down with this

I am shocked. Shocked I tell you

Freedom is just another name for “a gap in the law”.

Nice of those "conservative Christians" to remind us how out of touch they are, in particular on same sex marriage, by accusing the ABC of : "unbiblical and revisionist teachings regarding marriage and sexual morality"

Feels like all that NFT hype was just something for the big tech nazi dudes to kill time creaming over while they waited for AI hype to turn up.

The biggest barrier to the widespread adoption of renewables, is the fact that the richest, least intelligent, most self-important, fashiest 50 dudes in the US, wasted the low interest rates of the 2010s investing in monkey jpegs instead of solar cells and battery production.🤡 Now they fear China.

Google have also really ballsed up the camera software, the migration from Nest to Home was a big step backwards. My old cameras on Nest are superior to my one disappointing new one on Home.

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Solidarity goes out to my Japanese brothers at this difficult time. www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc....

Justce for Kent Witches now! www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/...

American Christians deciding the Pope doesn't know the Bible because he said immigrants are human is the perfect summary of the evangelist movement

Oh look, a policy worked… NO2 has reduced to the legal limit for the 1st time ever, something that wasn’t seen as feasible as little as 6 years ago. bbc.in/4o4ymAx #ULEZ #Pollution #CleanerAir

Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference. “One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception. “The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

Think I'll give the Riyadh comedy festival a miss tbh

#Margate Counter-Protest against racism today! We outnumbered them again. Ukip had 9 people on their side 😂☠️ #StandUpToRacism @standuptoracismuk.bsky.social

On far right rallies: "It’s just same old, same old. I wish the media would stop talking about this as an unprecedented movement. There’s nothing unprecedented about it. Anyone who has even the slightest knowledge of 20th-century history should know that.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This feels like a significant insight: "anti-immigration voters see Labour’s pivot as inauthentic mimicry....For them, if immigration is the defining issue, Reform or the Conservatives will always be the more credible option, no matter what Labour do" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I love this paragraph, from this depressing article about tech oligarchy. Also this: "To break the rules — and very often the laws — in order to have an impact on the problems that plague their voters: this is the promise of the political miracle." Free link: on.ft.com/4nQDqIm

This is not good. Looks like Trump is going to be able to influence the TikTok algorithm on an ongoing basis in the USA. That'll ruin it/make it Twitter for vertical video.

New argument against AI regulation just dropped. Checkmate, atheists. www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...

Sadiq Khan bringing Sharia Law to London like

Why would Trump repeatedly lie about Sadiq Khan and London? It's a mystery.

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.