This is so funny. The more you learn anything about anything, the truth is clear: private corps and rich individuals cannot and will not do literally anything (never mind things that help poor people's health, safety, wellbeing or happiness) without legislation, subisidies and babying by the state

So Thames Water put literal shit in our water And they hiked bills *40%* And they posted a £100m+ profit this year And they still demand a government bailout? Gotta be honest lads, should Thames Water executives be worried about going to jail? It feels like maybe that's a thing that might happen

I have not yet read the article, so – maybe there's some genuine reason Alice Cooper and Tommy Henriksen had no other options and were forced to hire a 19-year-old girl. Maybe every single female hard rock guitarist in the USA over 25 was busy

My "I Sue Human Rights Organisations Because They Support Human Rights" t-shirt is raising lots of questions

Very pleased to give bereaved families’ statement following publication today of #covidinquiry report into procurement. Lays bare the corruption & cronyism that led to avoidable deaths, incl my mum’s, & wasted billions of public £. @cbffjuk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Former Conservative MP and chief of staff to Theresa May, Lord Barwell on why he was stripped of the whip by Kemi Badenoch. Turns out it came down to one Tweet in which he criticised her decision to oust Tory candidates who want to achieve Net Zero by 2050

Can we really accept there was "no cronyism or corruption" in Johnson's PPE VIP Lane, when two thirds of the £14.9bn total spent on PPE was wasted on unusable PPE. The scumbags who killed 10,000s through Covid are still laughing at us, sitting on giant mounds of stolen public money.

Can we really accept there was "no cronyism or corruption" in Johnson's PPE VIP Lane, when *two thirds* of the £14.9bn total spent on PPE was wasted on faulty and unusable PPE. The scumbags who killed 10,000s through Covid are laughing at us, sitting on giant mounds of stolen public money.

Very jarring hearing on 6music news that "£20bn was wasted on Covid PPE". £20bn was wasted on *poor and unusable* PPE. Given the rampant disinformation around the pandemic, still ongoing today, this phrasing really matters

Like I said. Continuity Starmer.

Officers shooting a man, running away from law enforcement, who is not a target of law enforcement, and who poses no threat to law enforcement, is murder. Federal officers do not have the power to commit summary executions because they are aggrieved.

Once you start mass removal of citizenship on political grounds you've stopped functioning as a viable democratic state. But that was always where this agenda was heading.

From an ethics perspective this is like a whole parade of red flags. 1) Context: the use of emerging tech in a context that could have consequences for a person's liberty and rights 2) Power assymetry: are prisoners able right to review auto-generated transcripts, which are prone to mistakes?

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For those unaware, A) Sam Neill was a great horror actor, and B) check out his underrated banger, In The Mouth Of Madness

At a press conference on Thursday, the head of UK Counter Terrorism Policing, Laurence Taylor, said the threat from extreme-right wing terrorism was rising and had been a key driver of the decision to raise the national terror threat level from substantial to “severe” in May

quote I got in 2017 going viral again - it happens like three times a year (most people don’t realize the Nazi who said it to me was arrested few hours later after he and two other Nazis opened fire on counter-protesters) www.huffpost.com/entry/attemp...

RIP

If you’re ever wondering whether person (x) is reasonable or whether they’re just a hooting wingnut crackpot, then I have always found “do they have serious, very aggro beef with Amnesty International” is one of the best indicators.

Whatever you can say about Holden Bloodfeast, I think it's very sweet they did the Make A Wish thing so he could achieve his greatest wish before he died: watching countless Iranian children be grotesquely massacred to serve the demon god of imperial conquest.

My hunch is they thought: if users are already "remixing" other users' pics with ChatGPT, then surely a good idea to keep them in-platform. They underestimated how much ppl distrust Meta with anything, never mind forcing you to opt-out of strangers stealing your pics with AI

Why didn’t these clowns turn on Farage at any point in the last twenty years? I’m afraid the answer is: he’s their boy, they made him and it has always been in their gift to taketh away, but they did not want to get rid of him, until now. And when they decide that it is time, it is (finger snap)

I see the commentariat are giving us permission to notice Farage’s obvious dodgy Russian links *now*. How kind. A pity they spent years throwing Carole Cadwalladr under the bus for doing the same. And treating the whole Boris Johnson/Lebedev story as no biggie. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

They’re deliberately trying to steer the conversation away from her being a despicable wanker with deranged opinions that were comically out of synch with the public, and they’re doing it specifically because they’re trying to please unpleasable shitheads like you.

GB News has *yet again* aired commentary linking LGBTQ+ people to paedophilia... www.attitude.co.uk/news/gb-news... These advertisers appeared in the ad slot which followed: All Clear Travel, Maxus, Repair My Kitchen, Mobex Touch, Mansfield Fireplaces and Stoves Centre

🚨NEWS: The Trump DOJ has subpoenaed New York Times reporters Julian E. Barnes, Eric Lipton, Tyler Pager, and Eric Schmitt after they reported on security concerns involving Trump’s new Qatari-donated Air Force One.

Here's what the landlord lobby don't want you to know: If rents went down by 20%, renters would save £2400 a year. The government would save £2 billion a year. And landlords would still make 4.5 times as much profit as the average business.

This is the sort of thing people imagine they're going to see Andy Burnham talking about but I'm not holding my breath.

Quite funny to see such a generational shift, alongside the giant attack on our futures and living standards, and the big UK media are still wheeling out the clichés "this horrible fucking monster was actually lovely and polite, don't be disrespectful you horrible lefties!" Absolutely not washing

I see Ann Widdecombe has died. When she was Home Secretary I showed her round Drake Hall womens’s prison. There was a pregnant woman on a bed in the early stages of Labour and she asked the prison officers why she wasn’t handcuffed to the bed. That’s the kind of woman she was.

If you wanted to see utter madness of Labours strategy under Starmer in a chart this is the one - particualrly when you consider the 'green/left defectors' group is *2-3x* the size of the Reform one. Focusing on winning over.... a smaller group which is less likely to vote for you. Genius.

England is the only country in the world that has *completely* handed over its entire water resource to corporate interest. Just saying.

Dawn Foster died five years ago on this date. I really miss her and I think about her every day. If you’re new to her work or want to introduce it to someone, this was the best tribute written about her: tribunemag.co.uk/2021/07/in-m... Dawn Foster Forever

A trans woman got 21 months in jail for giving a cis guy a blowjob without explicitly saying she was trans. Cis men, meanwhile... bsky.app/profile/gemm...

not that there isn't some pleasure to take in farage falling out of favour and taking a kicking, but i always resent what a fix the whole mainstream UK news media is. when you're in they help you hide your scandals, when you're out they suddenly rediscover them. breaking news: some old news we hid

The new UK Health Secretary reassuring Telegraph journalists that he's transphobic enough for them. Why did he change his mind? Because throwing trans people under the bus is cheap politics for the Labour Party.

One of our weapons against the transphobes who are implementing all this transphobic hate-legislation is memory. Streeting, Starmer and Phillipson need to be remembered for State Transphobia in the same way Thatcher is remembered for Section 28.

Despite more than 1 in 4 MPs signing my motion against the Code, it is due to come into force without any debate or vote in Parliament. I have written to the Minister for Women and Equalities urging her to withdraw it now. 2/2

The eventual outcome of a Tory PM supporting gender self-ID in 2017 is a Labour government in 2026 enthusiastically presiding over the introduction of the most transphobic legal framework in the western world - without any debate or vote in Parliament For Labour, a moral stain worse than Section 28

As I've said many times, to the reactionary mind, there is only one meaningful binary: us & them. It helps if you translate everything they say into those terms. "Good character," "real American," "Constitutional," "godly," "unbiased" ... they all just mean "us." Inverse of all those is "them."

I don’t think Platner is bringing out the worst of the left; I think he’s sliding some careless leftists rightward. This was always the risk with him. And any candidate for whom one excuses bigotry of any sort. It’s always a rightward slide.

BBC 10 O'clock news report not only didn't mention Comcast at all, but framed Sky-ITV merger as a way to help them "compete with American streamers". Complete failure of journalism.

Surely this would help Count Binface

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

There was a time Klippenstein seemed like a good one. This is grim. For context, this is an extract from a longer post, which is arguably worse in full – he claims there were no bad or serious allegations until this week, and dismisses "getting a drunk tattoo and extramarital sex". Huge yikes