Just a cosy little human interest feature chatting to people who went to support a far right racist criminal thug What on earth is the BBC up to?

I have rarely seen such unadulterated bollocks. I loved Twitter, it was so important for my job. Then a mad megalomaniac took it over and made it so no one would see my posts unless I paid him money - and even if I did that I would be submerged in nazi hate. But yeah this is our fault.

I think he means Brexit was worth it even though it made OTHER people poorer. Twat.

Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital. Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wikipedia: ▫️Free ▫️Sources at the bottom ▫️Full edit history ▫️Discussion page to check controversies ▫️Openly stated editing policies Academia: "This isn't trustworthy!!" AI: ▫️Literally none of the above and, usually, the complete opposite Academia: "I guess we have to embrace this!"

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

It melts my head that X is still used for official Government communications, and, catching up on today's news and the fact we have a foreign billionaire inciting violence on our streets, it's clearer than ever that this should end. I raised this in Parliament last week 👇

This exchange says it all.

Tellingly, this is all very much a subplot on Today. Anti-extremism really struggles to get any kind of purchase in the mainstream debate. There is no discussion about whether the govt should come off X, because that would entail the journalists conceding that they shouldn't be on X either.

Seems @ofcom.bsky.social really dropped the ball with new rules on in-contract price-rises. Last time I had to get a new telecoms contract, the big players mostly did CPI/RPI (= vaguely reasonable) + 3.9% (= pure money-grab). Now they add on whatever the hell they want — e.g. 13% here from EE.

The message should not be that political violence is bad because it targeted a good guy who was “practicing politics the right way” (which Kirk definitely was not). Political violence is bad because it inherently corrodes the democratic polity, because it makes democracy impossible.

Keep thinking of arguments for why it would be completely insane to dump a prime minister with a huge majority just 14 months in, and also about how if he's not going to say a single word in opposition to the kind of shit we saw today then I no longer feel convinced by any of those arguments.

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

The simple way to reconcile these two things is to recognize that the first is a bad opinion & the second is an outright lie

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

We cannot move forward or escape this nightmare until mainstream figures finally admit that there are many, many people on the right - including some of its most powerful voices - who are openly seeking violence and tyranny and exploit every situation to move it closer.

Poor Cooper. Must be so sad to have big plans for how many more lives you can utterly destroy, and how many marginalised groups you can demonise, and instead you see someone even worse take over the role.

National Trust member? Here's your annual reminder to vote in the AGM to keep out the "anti-woke" dickheads Restore Trust keeps trying to plant on the board. The recommended resolutions and candidates are all OK, so follow the emailed link and it only takes 30s. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

It’s official - “Nigel Farage is right, don’t vote for him” is a demonstrably awful strategy for Labour. Boosts salience of immigration, costs votes on the left, doesn’t persuade any voters on right (why would they accept a crap knock-off when they can have the original?)

I'm so tired of tapping my "Trump is already and openly rigging the elections and if Dems don't go nuclear to stop him nothing else they do will matter" sign I just vaguely gesture in its general direction. via @drjennings.bsky.social

Destroying government records is illegal and the people doing it should face grievous consequences. The attorneys overseeing it should be disbarred.

This is all so dangerous. Starmer needs to step up - urgently - and make the alternative case; the case for immigration, the case for respect and dignity, the case for not become a cruel, shrivelled-up nation of threatening, flag-waving, prejudiced wankers.

Folks think you're crazy when you talk about the worst Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & it just keeps coming:

Unprecedentedly wild corruption, on a scale that would have ended any other presidency in the post-WWII era, happening right in front of us, every day. Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, &, well 👇🤷‍♂️

Violent or destructive left wing protest is framed as delegitimising the protesters' stated cause. Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause. As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.

AI folks have now discovered “thinking”

A short AI-in-HE-teaching Summer reading list. (1) Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Pope condemns ‘barbarity’ of Israel’s war in Gaza

They've managed to criminalise legitimate protest and undermine anti-terror laws in one move. They should be goddamned ashamed of themselves.

Reform are against the 5,000 jobs in South Wales and energy security that floating offshore wind could support. And apparently now against… electricity, with this nuts letter opposing any cables, batteries, or in fact anything getting built

The same people who deny that releasing 40+ billion tonnes of chemicals annually into the atmosphere changes our climate think that an airplane spraying a few tonnes of chemicals into the atmosphere definitely does. I want the world to be less stupid, as well as less evil.

Doe he stand by his claim that immigration has caused "incalculable damage" to public services/the economy? This is far worse and far less defensible either factually or politically than the clumsy/stupid but not fundamentally malign "island of strangers" phrase. www.thesun.co.uk/news/3580587...

I obviously can't speak for other jews, but to me the world's richest man tweaking his AI so that it now describes things it doesn't like on a scale of "bagel to full Shabbat" and "Peak Jewish" is a somewhat higher priority than people being mean about the IDF at Glasto.

Parliament in a nutshell: Yesterday MPs, including Yvette Cooper, celebrated the suffragette legacy of civil disobedience that won women the right to vote.. Only to then vote to designate non-violent direct action group Palestine Action as terrorists. Westminster is broken.

Indiana Jones and Are You Fucking Kidding Me Why Do I Have to Put Learning Outcomes on My Syllabus The Outcome I Want is For the Students to Learn What's Assigned on the Parts of the Syllabus They Can Barely Find For All the Dumb Boilerplate Nonsense I'm Supposed to Put on the Syllabus

Medical research: swearing produces pain relief. But the more often you ordinarily swear, the less effective that pain relief is. www.jpain.org/article/S152...

Can't get over how we're being asked to pretend "Death, death to the IDF" is some kind of hate crime at the exact same time IDF soldiers are telling the Israeli press they're being ordered to massacre starving civilians at aid sites.

My opinion on the Bob Vylan / Kneecap controversy is that the IDF just bombed a seafront café

As a Jew I am far, FAR more alarmed by our institutions equating me and other Jews with the IDF, who are responsible for the murder of over 80,000 Palestinians, by dint of framing any critique against the IDF as ‘antisemitism.’ Linking all Jews to the IDF is *actual* fucking antisemitism.

A REMARKABLE JOURNEY: Not long ago, the UK’s power sector was the country’s largest source of carbon emissions. Today, it has become the smallest emitter among all sectors.

why would these positions be contradictory, exactly? traditionally when we identify someone as our (political) enemy we do, in fact, want to disagree with them on key issues

Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied

Every single day. on.ft.com/409SaZx

Every day. Deliberate massacres of unarmed, starving civilians. The world does nothing. A shame on all of us. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UCL are going back to all in person exams. There is no other solution to this problem currently available.

More importantly: thousands more are not caught, and will graduate with a good degree despite having acquired little subject knowledge and limited thinking skills. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Yes to this by Thomas Aubrey on.ft.com/4jSU1sK Lessons from the Victorians for funding big projects

Can’t decide whether to use ALL CAPS, all lowercase, Sentence case or Title Case in your app UI? No worries: just pick a different one at random, separately for every control, like Renault do. 🙄