The politics of drawing a moral line: When we need to call out racism for what it is open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Heather Cox on what went down on Tuesday at the meeting of all the armed forces chiefs in the US and what it means for the states. https://youtu.be/6mvLKY0FQrI?si=v9DkR4cV1d3gMgPo #fascism #usa #nokingsday #nokings

They are each 1,000 times more useful than Lord Glasman will ever be (or than I will, for that matter). His attacks on them are gobsmackingly snobbish and misanthropic. They reveal the real spirit of Blue Labour: a hatred of public sector workers and of the enabling state.

This is his repeated attacks on what he calls the "lanyard class". Who are the terrible people who wear lanyards? Doctors & nurses, care workers, teachers, managers, administrators, secretaries. The people who hold society together, who keep everything running, who do the jobs he wouldn't stoop to.

After clashing with Maurice Glasman recently, I've come to realise just how pernicious he and his Blue Labour movement are. We could discuss his chumminess with Steve Bannon and JD Vance, endless pandering to the far right and evident hatred of the Labour left. But there's something even worse. 🧵

This is a brilliant demolition of Kemi Badenoch's nonsense about the Climate Change Act by @fionaharvey.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It's such a relief to have a leader of one of the main parties in the UK calling out where the problems in the country are coming from, not immigrants but the 1% etc. Zak Polanski in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/03/migration-britain-superpower-labour-green-party

Fascism in the US and the UK, do we stand aside and keep quiet or do we stand against and speak up? https://youtu.be/hKvBzvVYlKw?si=JS09jBZnZ20NIzah #richardjmurphy #fascism #usa #uk

Heather Cox on what went down on Tuesday at the meeting of all the armed forces chiefs in the US and what it means for the states. https://youtu.be/6mvLKY0FQrI?si=v9DkR4cV1d3gMgPo #fascism #usa #nokingsday #nokings

There are two fundamental truths you need to understand American politics. The first is that Republicans demonize minority groups. They will shift any discussion they possibly can towards doing so. The second is that Democrats debate political strategy, rather than actually making any […]

[uspol] I assume that the US govt shutdown is exactly what the Trumpets want, because it *officially* puts all the budget power directly into his hands? He now gets to *legally* decide what carries on working and what doesn’t. I mean, there’s no reason for them to ever “start it up again” […]

The route I cycled this week started several years ago. I actually cycled most of it before, but the new A27 Bypass cycle path wasn't completed back then, and I took a different route into Brighton. That different route was NOT good! I changed the start/end location, too, and now am happy with it.

Fascism in the US and the UK, do we stand aside and keep quiet or do we stand against and speak up? https://youtu.be/hKvBzvVYlKw?si=JS09jBZnZ20NIzah #richardjmurphy #fascism #usa #uk

Pittsburgh is a very elegant city even in decline. The population has cratered. But if you look closely you can see this 1920s opulence in the stonework of the bridges and the sheer ambition of the little brick houses in the former steel towns. And all of these towns had thriving Black […]

We're excited to announce that #fedify has been awarded a service agreement by the @sovtechfund! The Sovereign Tech Fund is investing €192,000 in Fedify's development over 2025–2026 to strengthen the fediverse ecosystem. This investment will enable us to significantly expand Fedify's […]

Exclusive: ex-CDC director talks about why she was fired “I would never do that, as a scientist,” Susan Monarez says of being asked to approve changes to vaccine recommendations without knowing the details. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

And it's a little sad. Because it's not like there aren't a few dozen exciting use cases for LLMs and image generation engines. For example speech to text. Using an LLM to clean up dictation, which tends to be horrible, is pretty effective. What LLMs do well is find the most obvious answer […]

So now we get Political Violence like in America, first it was flags and slurs, now it's physical attacks on anyone who doesn't fit in On Yom Kippur as well 😔 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/2/uk-police-shoot-man-suspected-of-stabbing-at-manchester #terrorism #fascism #racism #ukpol […]

This resolution of the International Association of Genocide Scholars #iags deserves to be better known - their scholarly assessment is that what is happening in #gaza is a genocide. https://genocidescholars.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IAGS-Resolution-on-Gaza-FINAL.pdf

My cure for the state of the world is to buy a dog, secure matching furniture, and then occasionally go and look at him during the working day to remind yourself that everything might be OK.

The capitulations of the present UK government are disgusting, but incursions of US interests into the NHS are relentless and many decades old www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... #nhs #ukpol

Day 8 (a bit late): Timnit Gebru Academic authors are authors too, and there are a bunch of people I deeply respect both in my fields and adjacent. Gebru is someone I have huge respect for because she stood up for her (mild, completely reasonable) principles to the point of losing her job on […]

Oh neat, "tight beam" is a real technology. https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/nasa-laser-sends-terabits-from-beyond-mars-in-huge-success-for-deep-space-communications-test/

Does not matter what country are you living in, just remember to use your vote, your influence, etc... to remove every Zionist of any position of power. We just can't morally afford to have in those positions people who ignore international law and justify Genocide. #israelterroriststate

On the day the Tories announce they cease the already inadequate efforts to decarbonise, in the face of climate breakdown, it would be a good day to read our piece on the issue. It includes links to the long piece on which it's based […]

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Meta Vibes is a new facebook AI video "creation" tool and tiktok like short form video feed. I think it's just a way to create more demand for those data centers. People who really want to make content have found limited uses for AI, but have also experienced backlash from their audiences […]

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Today we're wishing our friends a meaningful Yom Kippur. The Day of Atonement is a Jewish holy day, in which practising Jews ask for forgiveness. It may be intended for children, but this explanation of Yom Kippur by BBC Bitesize is the best we can find! 👇 […] [Original post on newsmast.social]

#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #keepmasksinhealthcare #maskup #WearAMask #VaccinesPLUS #covid19 #covid #sarscov2 #davossafe #BringBackMasks #covidconscious #cleanair #COVIDcautious

Good to see that James Lawless has initiated the search for members of a science advice forum to assist evidence-based policy formation in Ireland and that the social sciences and humanities are included. #irishpolitics #policyformation […]

Scientists have used skin cells to create human eggs. The new technology could be a crucial step that would allow infertile women or same-sex couples to have babies with their own genes. @npr reports on how they did this, and the many ethical concerns around the technology, from "designer babies […]

The great Dr Jane Goodall, ethologist and campaigner for great apes and much else, has died at the age of 91. She loved this _Far Side_ cartoon, and wrote a forward for a later Gary Larson collection.

As you watch Israel's takeover of the #global_sumud_flotilla - note that it is doing so after sunset on Yom Kippur - the Day of Atonement, the highest holy day of the Jewish liturgical year. Under Jewish law it is a day so holy that one may not eat or drink - nor use a pen, nor flip a switch […]

The really obvious way the Western Media does not report on the Global Sumud Flotilla.... ...I would have thought the immanent interception by the IDF in the open sea of a multinational Aid flotilla attempting to relieve a genocide that the World has acknowledged to be happening is quite an […]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/1/gaza-sumud-flotilla-how-israel-breaks-international-maritime-law #globalsumudflotilla #madleen #freepalestine #gaza #humanitarianism #israel #mutualaid #solidarity

When the TV that exists for the sole purpose of displaying its HDMI inputs has the nerve to paint “WiFi not connected” over the signal

Why is Starmer becoming more confident criticising Brexit? Because quietly, without any great drama, a consensus has been reached. It's a disaster inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...

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Frightening video about what is going on in the States at this very moment. https://youtu.be/EE0XzayO9oA?si=8USSCCPqSP5ojXki

Saw this on reddit, and my immediate thought was also the top comment - "it goes in the square hole"

@wyden.senate.gov this week tried to pass new laws that would extend the privacy protections government officials enjoy to the entire public, but Ted Cruz scuttled the effort by lying about how the updates would have stopped sex offender registries from existing

When Russia says the 'situation is under control' on a nuclear reactor I start reaching for the iodine pills.... (This wouldn't happen with Solar or Wind....) #russia #ukraine #Zaporizhzhia #nuclearpower

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Remember when a museum facing the Russian Embassy in Riga (Latvia) put up a Anti-Putin poster?

Because they undervalue our contribution so much they don't accept that one day a week is good. That of that's what we can manage that's great and should be supported. We don't support people to do what they can and then punish them for not doing enough. 3/

It's one of the great insults with the DWP castigating disabled people for not working and punishing us back in to work. It ignored for most that working or some sort of occupation is something we actively want and value in our own lives. 2/

I'm currently doing one day a week in Uni and a half day in placement and i an genuinely loving "going to work". Physically it's rough as hell. It's such a careful balance of my fatigue and health issues and I'm having some tough days in between. But i feel like more of a person doing it. 1/

Republican Fascist Speaker of the House refuses to swear in newest elected House Representative, who would be the needed vote to release the Epstein files. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5529055-republicans-grijalva-swearing-in-house/

Frightening video about what is going on in the States at this very moment. https://youtu.be/EE0XzayO9oA?si=8USSCCPqSP5ojXki