With my 15 minutes of PM I would join us to the largest local trade and free movement block, i.e. Europe. I would then establish a Department of Anarchy and staff it with Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.

Maybe we should all get a turn at being prime minister, like jury duty. In my 15 minutes as PM, I would give all queer people pride month off work as paid leave and ban the BBC from commissioning any more Mrs Brown’s Boys.

Yes, quite. It's the biggest scandal of this administration, so far, probably. It's an average Tuesday under Johnson.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

I'm still angry that this was taken away. FFS.

Dear Americans: No. You can’t just turn up and live and work in the UK. There’s things like immigration laws and visas and a whole system that hates migrants almost as much as the US government

no disrespect, but I'm not subscribing to your Substack for reasons that should be obvious if you google words like "substack" and "nazis"

The most important advice I have for people considering carrying anything for self defense in the UK is that carrying anything with the intent to use it for harm, even in self defense, is itself illegal and so you shouldn't discuss it on social media in case someone goes searching after the fact.

Y’all, I’m losing my mind over here. I need everyone to read this article. I can’t go it alone!!! “Epstein argues that teaching children to write may be harmful because writing forces “linear” and “narrow” patterns of thinking, whereas the greatest thinkers never wrote.”

The Muppet Show is a beacon of lovely in the darkness. I really hope we get a full series.

Please let it not be Streeting

So, can we talk about how a bunch of billionaire paedophiles brought all the Western politicians into a room, told them to get flights going again and ignore a whole ass pandemic, and our administrations AGREED, or are we gonna pretend that wasn't a thing?

The popular blogging platform Substack – used by numerous British comic creators to promote their work – has suffered a data breach. The company is warning users to take extra caution with any emails or text messages you receive… https://downthetubes.net/substack-data-breach-hits-comic-creators/

Also it’s great that in all the anti-trans interventions in Aotearoa NZ, practically all TERFs have been dismissed as ‘experts’ on trans issues because being an obsessed bigot doesn’t make you an expert on anything except your own stupid prejudice.

Looks like 72 hours of drizzle in London! Wettest January in 150 years apparently. Rained every other day since Halloween it seems

At point where may have to rethink simulation theory, or at least that there are sick humored djinn twilight zone fucking with us.

this scandal couldn’t have landed at a worse time for Starmer given the PLP was already manoeuvring against him

Our place did hire a trans tech person a few years ago and she was very good.

Something in my brain greets every musician who tries their hand at acting with a, "Good for you!" but every actor who tries their hand at music with a, "Who the FUCK do you think you are?"

FFS

if we didn't have AI we could all afford to play cool games

Er, hello, yes, sorry, hello, we just wanted to remind you that as well as being soft on child abuse and massively corrupt, we’re also extremely racist

like do you honestly think that people fleeing warzones are like 'ha ha I'll call a taxi on the home office's dime'? the home office was ARRANGING taxis for some ludicrous reason nobody has been able to adequately explain

Wes Streeting wants people to forget. Never let him forget.

I keep hearing that chatbots will replace search, but I had a frustrating 20 minutes with the Beko chatbot where it claimed it didn't recognise the words "spare", "replacement", "part", "freezer", or a unique model number. Even enshittified Google still beats that into a cocked hat. Even _Bing_.

Saw my first waymo in London this morning. It had already passed me, so I didn't get a chance to step out in front of it, as is my god given right.

This is honestly a thought that has been rattling around in my head for weeks now. The Epstein Files shouldn't be political entertainment; they should be a list of people we remove from public life.

So just to put all of this in a timeline... - AFTER Epstein pleaded guilty to pedo crimes - While he was plotting all his accelerationist shit - Mandleson was still palling around with him - And taking his advice - And grooming McSweeney as his Mini-Me - Who then convinced Starmer to hire Mandelson

Flying drones and robot dogs being used to move medical samples between NHS hospitals www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/fly...

Thinking back over five years of me asking: what exactly is Mandelson’s role in this project? And the closest I ever got to an answer was people saying Yes it’s weird, somebody should totally look into that, but apparently nobody pressing them for an answer.

Yes there may be bigger things going on, but sometimes it's the details that really get under the skin. What a squalid, spiteful, craven little country www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just reminding myself of Columbus' achievements, slavery, brutality, introduced disease that caused genocide, adultery, kicked out of jobs and didn't even set foot in North America. What a piece of shit. I look forward to Trump's statue being pulled down.

Peter Mandelbrot. It’s just infinite scandals the more you zoom in.

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

I am once again begging people to learn anything about governments east of western europe

here is the cached version web.archive.org/web/20251220...

Whaaaat

Gentle reminder that many disabled and elderly people can't boycott Amazon. There's a myriad of reasons the alternatives are less accessible. Build community care networks instead. Offer to shop for someone. Deliver goods. Take them to a store. We're in this together.

Oh good...

‘No one can say with certainty if, or when, the bubble will burst. If it does, it will be a financial market trauma, but from the viewpoint of the planet it might be better sooner rather than later.’ Donald MacKenzie on AI’s scale. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The cost of government ministers (whatever their party) using ‘National Security‘ as an excuse to not disclose things is that at times like this Members of Parliament simply do not believe ministers. In the past MPs may have nodded along, but today they rightly insisted on independent assessments.

Do not love how this industry has been shredded and remade into a teetering heap of gig work Freelancers fighting each other for a dwindling number of scraps, generational talent falling out of the ecosystem entirely, former staffers struggling while billionaires stuff their pockets A fucking mess

I'm in the corner Eating fajitas Woah-ohhh I'm right over here You want some fajitas? Woah-ohhh

Yes, I am actually, FINALLY dubbing 120 minute cassettes of my Locas mixtape, which includes every piece of (real) diegetic music featured in the Locas stories in the original 50 issues of Love & Rockets. Cover art by Jaime (natch), cover design by Jordan Crane. Two down, many more to go…

Thinking about how the media labelled Mandelson “The Prince of Darkness” and Andrew MW “Randy Andy” 20+ years ago…

That and if the collapse happens now, even deleting all his tweets won’t hide the fact that Mandelson has been Streeting’s friend and mentor for a very long time and the clips defending him are harder to erase. Ergo too soon for Wesley’s leadership bid (it’s always too soon, he should never get it)

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

D... D... Dr. Dr I- Dr I am- Dr I am sad... Dr I am sad. Aid me? Dr I am sad. Aid me? "See clown!" Dr I am sad. Aid me? "See clown!" That clown...is me! - The Pagliacci Sequence

Hot Take 2: if this is Mandelson's position, there is no reason for him not to issue a statement to this effect. If he has not issued a statement to this effect, the BBC's "understanding" of his actual position may be inaccurate. Stop letting people play this game.