Love that it's Ric all the way down (near enough)

Alternative headline: Elon Musk's X charges users $8 per month to produce sexually explicit images

This can be stopped almost instantaneously. But X has decided that there needs to be a tool out there that creates CSAM and governments should be asked why they think it's OK to allow it to continue

An interesting place in the Netherlands is Baarle-Nassau/Baarle-Hertog. There's a bunch of Belgian exclaves there that are full of fireworks shops that, I imagine, will become even busier

How is this better? Politicians shouldn't be allowed to use this as a reason to not act

Exactly the same vibe youtu.be/FE_DF2-H_T0?...

The BBC is pissing away its credibility, and for what?

Christ. Imagine being the Cambridge spokesperson and coming up with the bullshit about reverse discrimination against private school pupils. A good day's work there, really earning that salary www.theguardian.com/education/20...

It's a difficult world without allies, even for America

If there's one way to celebrate Kevin Keegan that's exactly how to do it. Howay the lads! #nufc

Mental game but it feels like a turning point for #nufc. All season, there's been a sense that the side lacks character (other than Bruno). They all turned up tonight, not playing well necessarily, but playing with conviction until the final whistle

My assumption is that for all the current noise, the most likely outcome is an extensive (and very lopsided) security and economic cooperation agreement between the US and Greenland/Denmark

The "Predator force" they think they are vs the "Predator force" they actually are...chris hansen would like a word.

Let me be absolutely clear: this is NOT acceptable... but while there's a slight chance of investment from the world's richest man, we'll allow this to continue unabated

Governments can stop this in an instant. It's a choice to not do so

AI is not ready to be transformative. It will be, but we're not there yet. The next 5 years is really going to a story of organisations leaping headlong into AI and then spending millions to correct the mistakes

Who's going to do the joke? You know the one

I'm not sure how the US can hold international sporting events anymore www.letsrun.com/news/2026/01...

One of the biggest commercial missteps of recent years has to be Lego releasing this £24 set one week after Christmas rather than one week before. Every Millenial and Gen Xer would have found one under the tree

It's all just vibes with these lads. If they want to know what imperial ambitions look like in the 21st century it's ~400,000 dead soldiers and another ~700,000 wounded to take and hold a small fraction of Ukraine. The US has no tolerance for losses on that scale

Another Reform council finding out that there's no fat to trim in local government. It's just social care, SEND, and bins after years of austerity www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We're at a point where the government will have to decide if it serves the interests of the British people or Elon Musk. I don't think we're going to like the answer

In this house, we recognise only one Robin Hood

The government position is seemingly that pornographic images of children are tolerable as long as a platform has a big enough user base. Gutsy leadership right there

I think Stranger Things works in the same way that the Star Wars prequels work. It tells a pretty fun story very clunkily. It's not meant to be prestige TV so comparisons with the Sopranos and Game of Thrones don't make sense. Like the prequels, it should have been 3 movies, not 5 seasons of TV

A goal from the early-2000s. Stick that in your xG

It's insane the lengths that these people will go to so that they don't have to update their worldview. I mean, he's doing the bloody meme here

I'm assuming competent European leaders are contingency planning for a world where the US is no longer an ally. Obviously can't be overt about this but it would be idiotic to not prepare for a US that is hostile towards Europe

This needs repeating over and over. We already have Russian incursion into European airspace, it wouldn't surprise me to see even more obvious poking at European defences over the next year, especially in the Baltic states

We had a good run

Kleptocratic fascism is leftist now?

Fearful journalism

A reminder: don't read or amplify Visegrád24

This is an abject failure. They might as well have asked a refrigerator for a comment

"You may not know anything about the issue, but I bet you.reckon something" youtu.be/OQnd5ilKx2Y?...

The basic question is why are any of these companies allowing their LLMs to 'nudify' images of anyone, even adults? Every one of the AI companies could stop this in an instant, they're choosing not to. Regulate them now

I doubt that this will resonate with the people that matter

This is a perfect West Ham signing. A striker who doesn't score goals, at the peak of his value, and old enough that his next move will be a free. They would be as well just piling up £25m on the centre circle of the London Stadium and setting fire to it

Reading the replies to this, I reckon everyone who watched Andor is on Bluesky (just as the only people who watched Succession work in the media)

My review of GAME OF THRONES -- the good, the bad, the rest -- has been public for years now. I think it's a great show that fundamentally changed television. It's not perfect the way MAD MEN or THE SOPRANOS is, but it's so wildly ambitious it's hard to believe. www.polygon.com/tv/2019/6/3/...

I'd argue that he manipulated Frodo into doing a job he couldn't do himself

It's not about immigration, never has been. Immigration is just the acceptable way into a debate about far darker policies. Just look at how remigration is seeping into acceptable discourse. Labour needs to stop chasing these voters, they're gone, no way to satisfy them that isn't monstrous

With that age group - older, working class men - Farage's weakness on national security should be effective. He's heavily in the pocket for overseas politicians and billionaires, whether Trump or Putin, and there's plenty of evidence to back it up

I, a very credible realist: Russia holds all the cards. Victory is inevitable Russia: *sends soldiers into battle on fucking horseback. In 2025*

While this is already priced-in for Farage's hardcore supporters, it might still matter to those people who are thinking about switching to Reform. His inability to even apologise for his behaviour will be repulsive to a lot of centre-right voters that he needs

Imagining the President of the US, a grown adult, saying "And now add the lazers! Pew, pew, pew!!"

The long section on anti-white racism is a fascinating insight into a man who seems completely divorced from reality and motivated entirely by imagined grievances. It's the politics of 'so, you think you're better than me?' archive.is/202512232107...

One does not simply walk into fucking Mordor

I'm very sympathetic to this view. Stranger Things feels like a good 2-hour movie that they've heroically fit into 5 seasons. It's like the anti-Andor