There are Lieutenant Columbos everywhere for those with eyes to see.

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

I really do think Trump misheard Talarico saying "cisgender" as "six genders," and that's just a thing he says now. The first person I saw make this observation deleted the post saying it, but yeah.

It's good to be king.

New from me today: in 2022 SIO worked on a takedown analysis of accounts linked to the Pentagon. Among other things, they were promoting a series of sites attributed to CENTCOM. The op was embarrassing; it triggered a big review. Here’s where things went next: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/fewe...

Hey @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social - this is still a failing FOI service in Bristol. FOI requests are sitting there, not being looked at, until the deadline has passed. I'm not allowed to shout at officers, so I have to shout at politicians instead. You know that, right?

So, energy from the background quantum noise. I was not expecting that to be a real thing, any time soon. But here we are: thedebrief.org/free-energy-...

"Hands up if you're going to lose your seat in 2027!" BCP Lib Dem and Labour councillors - and John Beesley - vote to improve Bristol City Council's governance by appointing Tim O'Gara as BCP's monitoring officer. This followed 1 hour 16 minutes' debate, all of it in private session.

On the NS podcast, it’s starting to sound like there may be a few drawbacks in having put the Writhing Snakepit factions of the Labour Party back in charge.

I do think this country is very governanable. But the combination of our class system, education system and institutional racism means the people who can take routes to govern are the least capable people on earth. The term is 'failing upwards'. Until we fix this we're cooked

Billion dollar idea: PHP, but with enabled_functions rather than disabled_functions, and function autoloading to bridge the difference. The result has fantastic precision on security requirements for code distribution.

This is a fundamental interference with the principal of trial by jury. Our betters have decided that we've gotten out of pocket in opposing a genocide and can't be trusted to effectively inflict discipline and punishment upon ourselves in a way they approve of

Labour are creating a ready-made "Lock up your political opponents" machine to hand to Reform in 2029.

Hey @alexmckinstry.bsky.social you appear to have ruffled feathers. How late would you estimate this will run to? www.youtube.com/watch?v=x76p...

Codes of Conduct are hard: It really is incredibly bad that producing lies for money is a really seductive way to earn money. www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

So - my email about Item 7 at tonight's Council was referred to the BCP CEO, who emailed all cllrs yesterday. Says the MO recruitment process was in line with the Constitution, & supported by Penna PLC; that pre-appointment checks were carried out, incl references; no change to the recommendation.

Looking like the exemption WILL be challenged though. Received 4 replies to my email: one from a Conservative member, who is bang on top of the issues; one from a LD ("Tonight's group meeting should be fun!"); one from an LD sycophant; and one Independent ("I read your email with interest").

The trouble we have is that the Sensibles cannot acknowledge that this shit is bad, because that opens the door to acknowledging that a lot of other things are bad, and have been bad for years, and specifically that all those things were roared on by said Sensibles at the time.

Jury members were not told that four Palestine Action activists they convicted after a retrial for criminal damage to an Israeli weapons company site would face sentencing as "terrorists", for a protest that took place before their direct action group was banned www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Apropos of nothing in particular, here’s a reminder of the tenures of UK prime ministers since Brexit, in years.

This country might be about to have its 6th Prime Minister in 7 years. Why? Because they’ve all failed to take on a rigged economic system that enriches the few at the expense of us all. People want a society where children don’t go hungry. That is really not too much to ask.

Huge pity seeing Cllrs Joe and Kate Salmon resign from the Green group on BCP. Wonder if this means tomorrow night's political balance paper could be deferred; which could also allow Cllrs Adams, Dove & Butt (all code of conduct cheats) to be removed from the Investigatory & Disciplinary Committee.

Codes of Conduct are hard: the UK has a leader who told a story about his sister not being able to afford to buy Sunday Lunch at the family meeting, and so brought her own sandwiches. He was already a multi-millionaire at this point. We are so fucked.

You have no idea how aggravating I find it that these people simply refuse to meet Bono, so that I can finally tick off the last entry on my list of predictions

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

Trump gathered all of the very worst people in the country in one place and got them to break a million laws and then pardoned all of them, and now local law enforcement has to go get them one by one as they commit new crimes.

Great article documenting the humiliating demise of Steve Reed's Lambeth Labour mafia /ht doctoriaindarcy at the bad place. www.brixtonbuzz.com/2026/05/made...

[i want it on record] i predicted Starmer will still be PM in 2029 six weeks ago they have no bench. none. there is nobody who could beat him in a leadership race, every single one of the contenders is loathed by the electorate. they haven't just lost the dressing room, they fucking knocked it down

... Finally, SOMEWHAT irked at the governance of the actual meeting; public participation not allowed, MO's appointment tacked on to "Annual Council" (which is normally just the election of the Council chair & vice-chair). Mr O'Gara's career summary marked "exempt", probably to keep debate private!

O'Gara was in the news last year for appealing an ICO enforcement notice re the shocking FOI response times at Bristol; the appeal, which failed outright, was lodged minus any consultation with councillors. O'Gara was called out for it by the Audit Committee. www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

I've included these, plus other, widely-documented governance concerns, in an email to all 76 BCP councillors sent at 12.04pm today. Incidentally BCP is due a review of its own code of conduct complaints process (WAY overdue, with 5 councillors now in deliberate breach of disciplinary sanctions) ...

"Non-tenants handed power to complain to watchdog over social housing" The LGSCO might be getting a letter. www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/non-ten...

From the worse place.

About 15 ago, I spent an afternoon researching Thorium nuclear reactors, to understand what new technology needed to be invented to make them possible. I could see about ten problems that each needed a huge research program. It's nice seeing progress on one of them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8v1...

I don't think what you see on the surface has anything to do with the cause. I think this is about how electronic communication hollowed out political parties and no-one noticed. /cc @isaac-kh.bsky.social

It turns out that Context Deprivation is a serious problem.

Oh. This is what a landscape that has never been smoothed by glaciers looks like.

👇👇

Usually the onion is funny but this is a miss. This has happened to my cousin Tebney & we have no recourse

Holy shit that's hilarious.

The next Area Committee 8 is not in Kansas any more.

I would love my skyline to be filled with renewable energy.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. This is basically stochastic governance.

I have no idea what is going to happen to the Labour party or this government. Though would like to place a wager that Single Transferrable Vote system (or similar) is brought into the UK.