This one hits hard.

THREAD. A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks. You will find the all-important captions to the photos in the alt text.

The alt text 😂

Don’t think I’ve read an issue of @bylinetimes.bsky.social so quickly before! This is outstanding! Do get a copy if you can. 👍

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From AI tools to the arrest of Prince Andrew: How newsrooms are digging into the Jeffrey Epstein files reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/epstein...

superb cross examination

Take the route of civility. Need more of this in the UK.

Thinking today of the berk of a private secretary who demanded a written apology from me for being insufficiently forelock-tugging to Andrew Windsor when I was working in the Foreign Office. I’d had the nerve to suggest he might not be the reputational asset we needed as a trade envoy to Ukraine.

My penny's worth: This is the cleanest, shrewdest way for monarchy to cauterize the wound: misbehaviour while in a politically-appointed civil position, rather than alleged sex offences enabled by royal status. My hunch is that no UK police force would arrest the King's brother without a Palace nod.

Bus. Thrown. 😂

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Your challenge for the day is to invent a ReformUK policy. On Shrove Tuesday next year we get to see if they’ve adopted it. Remember, it should appeal to insane pensioners and absolutely nobody else. QT with yours!

Now the rest of them. Not just the sex offenders, but all those named in the Epstein files who’ve used their power and influence to undermine our democracy and sell the country out. Investigate them all.

oh to be the person behind the counter at the cop shop who gets to say 'can you confirm your date of birth? oh it's today. happy birthday' what a treat

Your cartoon has brought to mind this Stewart Lee piece as an accompaniment. youtu.be/MDUeO4lRhu4?...

Ok I have far too much to do today to spend more than 2 minutes on this but here’s my political cartoon of the day, please enjoy

I know he hasn’t been charged with anything yet (although it’s a bold arrest if evidence was flimsy!) but I do hope this is the beginning of the end of the monarchy. They are a dreadful family with too much privilege and power.

Feeling quite patriotic. This is what equality under the law is meant to look like.

Good luck to anyone trying to publish any other news today.

That's the shortest time anyone has had a second home in Norfolk, I can tell you.

Side point: it is literally Andrew Windsor’s birthday!

BBC reporting that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. There is no precedent for a senior member of the royal family being placed under arrest in modern British history. A seismic moment for the monarchy.

Okay it’s true… my feed has just gone nuts!

I can’t tell if this sudden run of posts about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor being arrested are true or not…??! Too many dodgy urls doing the rounds!

I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website* I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

From 2017

Meanwhile, in Germany, the public weighs in on what they think of the Epstein Administration. #BrutalButAccurate

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

Hoping my OH doesn’t mention pancakes today. I cannot be arsed.

Trying to explain to my dad why he needs to change the password on his emails since I migrated his website (and emails) to a new server. I have resorted to using rice (emails) and mugs (servers) to explain how they have been moved. This is why I don’t do web development for clients anymore. 🤯

Powerful stuff.

More dystopian ideas from Meta and their evil chief goblin. 🫣 archive.ph/TxupO

Watch out for the midterms. The Trump administration has chipped away at free and fair elections over the last year - here are some of the things they've done over the last month... All actions available on www.trumpactiontracker.info Subtitles available! youtu.be/EkgsDCtAv-E

Penalise women? What about the men who don’t want kids? And those who can’t have children etc. This is so fk’ed up. What a complete moron this stupid boy is! 👀👀👀👀

Since the government is about to introduce a social media ban for under-16s based largely on vibes – and Jonathan Haidt's shitty book – in the hopes it boosts its popularity (it won't), I'll re-up this. If we're banning under-16s, why not over-60s?

Yeah, he’s definitely not well… the slurring is getting way worse. 👀

On Monday I went on Ed James' BBC West Midlands (WM) Radio show and he let me talk about the the divisive outbreaks of flag measles and Raise the Colours for 10 mins! The first 3 mins did cover most of what I wanted to say though:

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😭😭😭

Wow! Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report. This is a *big* legal win. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

If you need inspiration, just consider that your purchases on Amazon help fund the $40 million Trump bribe that was the Melania documentary.

I cannot stress enough how enjoyable it is to deprive that withered old cunt of your money. Waterstones, Argos, Boots - it is so easy to get whatever you need, and it feels kinda fun, like taking a holiday in 90s Britain

BBC admitting they failed to report the killing of Alex Pretti appropriately. Good. Now be better.

Death cult update

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".