Let's make his dream come true...

This is something pro-AI politicians don’t seem to be able to grasp. Again, if *I* even rip a CD to MP3, I am breaking the law. But a tech org swallowing down everything it can access and not paying the creators? Yeah, that’s just fine.

Reminder: it is still *illegal* in the UK to rip a legally bought and owned CD to MP3 on your computer. But Google will likely convince the UK govt that every creative endeavour should be available for it to remix and regurgitate, entirely for free. One rule for the public; another for megacorps…

Douglas Adams clip I'd not seen before, and it's not what he's saying I find of interest, but it's clearly filmed in his home office, and it's a procrastinator's paradise www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edkl...

Utterly preposterous scaremongering. These people really do have utter contempt for us, don't they? Spouting obviously ludicrous bullshit & expecting us to take them seriously...

Also, this.

See Age Verification for ‘safety’

This is a big problem. If the last information people receive is always “numbers went up” because “numbers went down” is never reported we shouldn’t be surprised that perceptions about immigration end up so skewed. Media should take some responsibility here - this is a salient and polarising issue.

A majority of GB (not UK) adults always say this in surveys, but like many things a majority of GB adults say, whether it happens or not will have no bearing on what they think of Burnham or the government, nor on how they vote next time (either soon or late). So its not very useful info on its own

"Unplug your chargers".

We had half the commentariat squealing in terror at Stop Funding Hate highlighting horrific Mail headlines to companies advertising with them, and then McSweeney can be like “Yeah, I orchestrated a hate campaign against this online news site and crashed its revenue” and that is: okay, thank you sir.

Russia will attack in 2030, apparently. And fair enough, their leadership is plainly deranged. But I still have questions.

Looks like I've annoyed someone

Deeply stress-inducing story about a couple heading for an absolutely miserable old age, this.

Ah, that’s sad. Penelope Keith has passed away. I only met her a couple of times but she was hilarious and charming and swore like a sailor and was a total delight.

.. and where is the arrest warrants for British far-right who flooded Belfast and incited the violence? Danny ‘Tommo’ Thomas was pictured metres away from this incident with masked men. Thomas was involved in travelling to France to export far-right violence too. [1/2]

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

Also: the unspeakable hypocrisy of these people saying refugees should 'pay their way'. We have spent years, decades actually, begging the Home Office to let asylum seekers work so their could have some meaning and material advantage in their life, to no avail.

What is insane is that I can say that I witnessed these developments on the tail end of my own young adulthood. I witnessed the final “enclosure” of the youth commons as I walked across the finish line. It is fucking insane how much more life has been locked down for children! It is sickening! Evil!

“Every school functions as a prison now”, “it is functionally illegal for people under 18 to congregate without strict adult supervision outside of their homes and schools”, “most extracurriculars cost large sums of money for non-trivial involvement” huh i wonder why kids are so anxious & lonely

When the world's this fucked up, I only trust news that came from a broken puppet.

Christ, Mahmood really is fucking evil... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Minivans, station wagons, hatchbacks... if we had kept vehicles with lower profiles but added in all the safety features cars now have we'd all be a lot better off than with the battering rams we now call SUVs and light-duty trucks.

Again, you would also think that a nation that believed the threat of war was imminent would crack down on this kind of foreign agitator.

When billionaires preach "abundance," remember that the richest man in the world killed the poorest children in the world just for the LOLs. And if these AI fascists get their way, most of us will join the starvation class. www.thenerdreich.com/a-silicon-va...

That list of “10 big ideas for Burnham” that is getting reshared a lot does not include a single one about making people happier or their lives easier. So much wonk stuff is about ‘growth’ and ‘innovation’ with absolutely no mention of human happiness.

Is this the first time since 2019 that the lib dems have said *in so many words* that Labour are too left wing and they’re more right wing?

Albania!

Even from below, Uni is too cute! :3

I am very sad to report that Penelope Keith has died. Wonderful actress. Probably best known for her roles in TVs "The Good Life" and "To the Manor Born."

Don’t think you can be called Edgy when your opinions and language are echoed by the editorial voice (and private staff conversations) of the biggest billionaire owned media outlets on earth. That’s pretty damn Middley to me.

Wow, like if Jerry Sadowitz was a fucking salesman hack.

Let's face it, Kemi understands fuck all about anything...

Does Kemi Badenoch actually understand how anything works, at all?

While I'm not a fan of rooting, if ever something was worthy of rioting over, it's this. ‘Financial pandemic’: £1 in every £11 spent on UK public contractors goes to private equity www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

What I love is that they knocked up this cheap Minecraft ass shit and yet despite losing all the intricate detailing of the actual planned arch, still managed to keep the overwhelming Nazi vibe of it.

Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan, covering more than 62 sq miles and consuming more energy that the entire state. This is madness.

just staggering how you think the latest home secretary is the worst, and then the next one is somehow even worse...

Opinion | A UN report into Israel's deliberate targeting of Palestinian children has found that at least 20,000 children were killed in a two-year period. Too many of us don't want to acknowledge this. www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/29/i...

The second policy announcement on the same Monday morning that has me reaching for the phrase “stunning, as in abattoir”…

State fair? Fucking state-of-it fair, more like...

The delusion is honestly wild. This governments only legacy on LGBTQ rights is to be have overseen the biggest regression since the decriminalisation of homosexuality. That’s the new Labour legacy.

Fortunately, the actual Times article is behind a paywall and archive. doesn't work. But (a) some philosopher or other will say anything for funding [sad, but true] and (b) whose values are "our values"? [My values are not Rupert's]

I don’t really care about the internal party politics - Burnham has to bin her off entirely

Nonsense on a par with Lord Maurice "bring back the stocks" Glasman. Glasman leads Blue Labour, and Mahmood is a Blue Labour acolyte. bsky.app/profile/snig...

Which is of course the point, taking away responsibility from the state for its cruel treatment of asylum seekers and simultaneously throwing some red meat to the vile racists they so badly want to appeal to

Gay marriage is literally not legal in Israel and the settler-colonial regime is incredibly obsessed with natalism because queerness is seen as a dereliction of your National duty to reproduce the Nation's citizens. The chest-thumping about Israeli "tolerance" has always been a naked farce.

what the actual fuck

"UNESCO sees adjunctification as a systemic, global problem that undermines job security, academic freedom and career attractiveness." And yet UK uni leadership see it as 'an agile workforce dedicated to cutting edge teaching and research'. Funny.

We're old enough to remember Starmer talk about ten year plans and two-parliament missions lol