How I feel about a lot of stuff

I was tempted to go full clickbaity on this one and title it: “You won’t BELIEVE which MPs made nearly £70k from X” But honestly? You already know. It’s Farage and the lads who shout most loudly about "protecting women and children" all while taking money from X. Because of course it is.

What's everyone up to tonight? I'm heading to a party full of Nazis where everyone will personally attack me. If I don't go then the Nazis win.

As someone who has reported on deepfakes for years now, I’ve had a few moments while reporting on Grok where I feel sick to my stomach thinking about the continued escalation of sexual abuse with this technology and where it’s going. We’re not ready for this. And it didn’t have to be this way.

Meme going around here that the Grok policy change (around only generating images when @ed by a paid user) was a “hallucination”. It wasn’t, it’s a real policy change; the misreporting is that this does NOT limit free users from generating images using other interfaces for Grok, such as its app.

The Times photographer really goes out of their way to make sure you know their columnists are top-tier cunts. Every headshot oozes with 'No, where are you *really* from?' energy.

Labour defends Trump.

I appreciate the paywall in of grok is far from perfect but should have quite a big positive impact I’d have thought?

This is why the far right, who pretend to care about women, are so desperate to keep the deep fake sexual abuse app www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref...

I’ve just had a Razzo pizza from their Leith branch and honestly it is the best pizza I have had anywhere in Edinburgh by a considerable margin. Recommend.

Have the BBC not heard of the BBC World Service?

See when someone in the public sphere is being investigated for a sexual offence or something aren’t they normally suspended for the duration? Shouldn’t government therefore get off X at least for the duration of Ofcom’s investigation?

X have replied to Ofcom An Ofcom spokesperson said: "We urgently made contact on Monday and set a firm deadline of today to explain themselves, to which we have received a response." "We're now undertaking an expedited assessment as a matter of urgency and will provide further updates shortly."

My concern that if Musk does relent a little and has one new guardrail put on Grok and a suite of images taken down... ... UK politics and media will instantly return to business "as normal" where most of both spheres are having their brains cooked by a firehose of white supremacist filth daily.

Characteristically excellent thread from @sundersays.bsky.social I don't know of anyone who has done more to expose the realities of X, especially on its continual failure to remove overtly racist material.

I wonder if there are similar discussions among snp politicians, I doubt it.

"No way to prevent this" says only site where this regularly happens.

Drew a definitive map of the regions of the UK in a group chat earlier. I will not be accepting questions at this time.

You should watch this video from BBC verify, they have analysed the footage of ICE shooting that woman www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

Scottish Green MSPs have used budget negotiations to deliver free bus travel for young people, scrap peak rail fares, fund nature restoration, expand free school meals and more. Labour have campaigned for nothing and achieved nothing.

One of the best

'Musk’s Twitter has no interest in cleaning up its act. It works actively to undermine our democratically elected government and is, as we speak, causing harm to children' It is time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter, writes Labour MP and former transport secretary, Lou Haigh

Kind of weird that the UK government’s position seems to be that they will continue to post on a site they believe to be acting unlawfully.

Shut it down.

Trump said he could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and suffer no consequences and ICE are essentially proving him correct.

As a technician running an app, you have a god's-eye view of everything. You alternate between pottering about and bursts of frantic work in response to incidents. If the payments system goes down, you're not sleeping tonight. If your site starts spitting out child porn YOU CAN PAUSE IT IMMEDIATELY.

Not one coherent argument why it's okay for anyone, but especially supposedly progressive people, to keep posting (socially!) on a platform whose very infrastructure is being used to mass humiliate and abuse women and children

I reckon if either of Nicola Sturgeon or Humza Yousaf were still First Minister the Scottish Government would have been off twitter by now.

Almost a year to the day I wrote this for The National. If Musk funding technology to make child sex abuse images isn’t enough to get people off that damn app then I don’t know what is. Labour are going to tackle misogyny? Here’s an easy one. Ban X! www.thenational.scot/politics/248...

rip jeffrey epstein, you would have loved grok

New on @labourhame.com: Labour Hame editor @dhothersall.bsky.social, a former Twitter addict, says that while he understands the motivation of staying on a platform where vital communities of support and engagement have been built and prospered, it is now morally unjustifiable to remain on X.

There are no excuses now for not knowing that X is a toxic cesspit. If you are still on X, these are your values.

Under Swinney calls for independence feel more like a distraction from being a mediocre government than a rallying call for radical change.

Agreed. And it's why I have said from the start of that conversation that punching Nazis into the face is an act of kindness towards them - because if it is not done often enough, they will end up starting wars, and then they will have to be killed.

Surprisingly weak statement from John Swinney.

If you saw anyone else doing the same thing - blatantly ignoring constitutional processes, kidnapping a foreign leader, ignoring international law - you'd call it that it is. In days gone past, so would America.

It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

If the British government, and indeed other governments, can’t muster a fast and strong response to Twitter adding a facility enabling users to create and share AI child sexual abuse material then not sure what Musk could ever do that would actually provoke a response.

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Come for the chart of shifting party support, stay for the fury at the fact we're going to have one of the most consequential Scottish (and definitely most consequential Welsh) elections since devolution, yet the Westminster media can't stop speculating about PM Farage in 2029 long enough to care.

I’d rather have an snp Scottish government than a Labour or Reform one but they really did just take all of the political capital built by the yes movement and turn it into jobs for the lads. A dick move.

Pleased to say I nailed the roast spuds this year and that’s what Jesus would have wanted.

I'm going to crack an egg in my bath tonight as a tribute.

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There’s a certain type of unionist desperate to talk up Reform (the party) in Scotland just do they can prove that Scotland is as shit as the rest of the UK. What a bleak outlook on life and politics that is.

The one man to defend the initial FIFA pricing was Reform's leading Scottish voice, the multimillionaire peer Lord Offord, who said he was going to the Scotland v Brazil game & said the commercial pricing should be a commercial decision & wouldn't change bsky.app/profile/sund...

President Trump’s comments about Rob Reiner go against everything the great office of FIFA Peace Prize Winner stands for.

“Trump is a cunt” just becomes more true every day