What is funny (*not funny) about the "why pick on X" line of argument in light of the latest egregious action is the absolutely enormous body of evidence that X has been the wrong side of the law for at least two years and nothing has been done.

You know, I didn't think YMCA would become an authoritarian anthem.

Ultimately it’s not a hard question, or shouldn’t be: if there were a website called creepywank dot org, where you could upload any picture or screengrab of anyone and get AI to produce a photorealistic picture of that person, regardless of age, in a state of undress…should it be legal in the UK?

When the UK government uses X, is X providing a completely free service to the Government, or is there any way X could be seen to be benefitting financially? The reason I ask is because if it’s the latter, shouldn’t the SAFE rules on advertising apply? www.communications.gov.uk/publications...

If it's a criminal offence why is this in the hands of Ofcom alone and not the police?

wrote about The Other Place www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Would be nice if Liz Kendall announced this afternoon that the Government was ceasing activity on X for the duration of the Ofcom investigation.

Nothing says "Ofcom is seriously considering strong sanctions against X" like the fact that they are using X as the primary social media site for publicising their action.

Hear me out on this - maybe all of the billionaires who've left London were actually serial killers?

Nadhim Zahawi MP: In Farage’s Britain, it would be legal to discriminate against me on the grounds of race conservativehome.com/2015/03/23/n...

Someone needs to do a “buyer’s remorse return your timeline to something bearable by unfollowing these twats who feature in a lot of starter packs” pack.

Followed a load of people in a flurry of starter pack sharing and now my timeline is shit and has people going why have I got all these new followers, don’t tell me it’s because of starter packs it must be because I’m special.

Swede (Slightly diminish a band)

Some Grok users, mostly men, began to demand to see bruising on the bodies of the women, and for blood to be added to the images. Requests to show women tied up and gagged were instantly granted. ‘Add blood, forced smile’: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Oh god, it's literally this

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.