Why do they make smoke alarms so bloody difficult to open when you need to change the battery?

Autism is not a regrettable condition. It is not a disease. Bigotry and ignorance, on the other hand, are.

This is so good. Negotiating skills + good will

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

Both the British people publically implicated in Epstein's web are noticeably from that stratum of British society occupied by people who love to hang out with the ultra rich but aren't, themselves, comparably wealthy. Yacht-wanters rather than yacht-havers.

Anyone buying into Trump and RFK Jr's bs doesn't give a damn about science. All of this has been repeatedly disproven. It's conspiracy crap designed to blame mums and treat autistic individuals as if we're the problem rather than the way we're treated. #r4today www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I generally rate Chris Mason but it would make things easier for all if Robbie Gibb - Brexiter & Theresa May’s director of comms at Number 10 - were not still a non-executive director of the BBC. Everything he touches turns to shit. Including, at the moment, a lot of the Beeb’s political journalism.

The Labour Party has a tradition of antiracism campaigning. It’s supposed to be in the party’s DNA. That they cannot say it’s just straightforwardly wrong to alarm families who choose Britain to live, work and raise children in is a total moral failure.

Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".

Breaking down in tears at the McDonald's drive through when the man switched my 2 Mcdoubles to 2 double cheeseburgers because they are buy one get one for $1, and I'm just not used to being loved like this.

Silver Surfer by Gary Frank. #comics #art

TIRED: "Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive" WIRED: "Zendaya is Meechee" INSPIRED: "Olivia Nuzzi is the West Coast Editor of Vanity Fair"

Ugh.

He got this idea from Starmer, didn't he?

Right now, Donald Trump is at a lavish banquet at Windsor Castle, while in Gaza a genocide is unfolding. He alone can stop the assault on Gaza City, end the aid blockade and secure the release of hostages - Keir Starmer must make that clear to him before this visit ends.

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

This must be the cloud computing I keep hearing about

I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

I actually quite like the idea of a burrito being, basically, a food spliff.

Yeah. Definitely believe Eric spoke to a black man who wasn't a servant.

The rules of time travel state that you can go back in time and kill baby Hitler, but only if you yourself are also a baby, which explains why all previous attempts to kill baby Hitler have been both failures and utterly adorable

This.

That feeling of desperately wanting your elected government to loudly call out racism & far right violent extremists... And nothing. Labour so afraid to lose power, it has forgotten both how to use it & that with power comes responsibility. As America gets ever darker, too little light here.

Yesterday they marched to "send them back" & the government is deperate to show they're listening. On Wednesday we have to take back the narrative - because a government that bows down to Trump & racists, opens the door to fascism, too.

Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state. Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.

The owner of one of the biggest platforms calling for violence on the streets of the UK is absolutely the limit of what is acceptable, that platform should be removed from the UK until certain conditions are met as legislated by our government. The sooner the better for all of us.

From the Observer. The final damning indictment of the failure of Starmerism.

Ah. Couldn't make any statements. Was at the footy. Hope he had a great time.

They should put Musk on a travel ban and nationalize his UK/EU-based businesses

Appalled by the violent scenes of police being attacked at the Tommy Robinson rally today. Those responsible should face the full force of the law. These far right thugs do not speak for Britain.

You could not fucking make it up.

When exactly is that spineless twat Starmer going to get up and condemn the fascists running amok in our capital city, cheered on by the Nazi owner of a Nazi website?

Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons. Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.

Musk's interference in our society needs to be investigated, as does the right wing American cabal that was so prominent in the ridiculously misnamed Unite the Kingdom demonstration today. They're all a danger to our democracy.

The UK Gov and Starmer need to grow a pair and end this interference in our democracy by men like Musk. Get off X, ban it like we did RT and Fox News. Next week the PM will fawn over Trump on his state visit. I get the reasons for it but it’s not worth sacrificing our dignity for ‘growth’.

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

Charlie Kirk spent his life making people like me unsafe. His followers sent me death threats for years and threatened my employer if they didn’t terminate me. His work was NEVER about free speech. It was about hate and emboldening violent people. The dishonesty of the past 24hrs is disgusting.

If Starmer needs an excuse to fire, this is it. Clearly outrageous but doesn't contradict Trump's desperate efforts to frame the 'birthday book' as a hoax.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

Elon Musk is a global purveyor of hate and disinformation and governments should treat him and his companies as such.

This. How long are European states going to put up with a man richer than some countries, who openly wants to harm our democracies and cause discord and violence within our borders, to have untrammelled access to all citizens' pocket computers/news sources?

Fuck me! The British Government just did something and it worked!

Sex with me is like opening a bank account. You’re eligible to get a free toaster.

TWICE. THEY DID IT TO ME, TWICE.

The better question is whether working people can exist in the city they built.