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Stewart Lee's latest for @thenerve covers much ground, but always brings us back to Neil Young. Along the way we are treated(?) to the disturbing image of serial killer Fred West in a Bee Costume; & the metric for social distance from a paedophile? the bag o' sweets www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Interesting poll of Labour members. Starmer 42-30 > Streeting 37-48 < Rayner 37-53 < Burnham (not MP) Least likely contest of all is Starmer-Mahmood: wins 55-17! But if a 2026 contest did happen, my hunch is q.difficult for incumbent to run (without unified ministerial + backbench support).

this is the question.

"Rhe only reason we know any of this [about Mandelson] is because Epstein became entangled in the MAGA movement’s narrative. "What we still aren’t asking is how similar networks of influence are operating elsewhere today." New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/release-th...

We urgently need a parliamentary debate on Palantir. Please sign this & share with your network. Via @the-citizens.bsky.social & @change.org. www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...

Hours after Alex Pretti was executed, Apple's Tim Cook went to the WH for the debut of the Melania 'documentary' His taste and his timing disgust me. I won't pretend I'm giving up the laptop I'm writing this on, but I'm not buying more of their stuff anytime soon. spyglass.org/tim-cook-cap...

£8,282 raised — thank you 💙 Next milestone: £9,000 Weekend goal: £10,000 Every share helps: 👉 gofund.me/31d302f20

🧵 An urgent appeal to protect one of the UK’s most important Little Tern colonies at Beacon Ponds in 2026. Without funding for professional wardening, the project may not be able to run this season. ⬇️

See "‘It does not have to be this way’: the radical optimism of David Graeber" www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

“AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more [when the AI bubble bursts].”

The Little Terns at Beacon Ponds have made a remarkable recovery, but they need urgent help to thrive in 2026. Your support can fund a professional warden, ensuring these birds are protected from threats. Please share and contribute if you can! gofund.me/83bf3bdd8

Louay is having trouble getting online & hasn't seen donations in days. He sent these photos of Sham before & after the war. His heart is breaking every moment for his beloved children. Any donation or share helps. Don't let sweet Sham down 🥺 www.chuffed.org/project/help...

A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming

Hilton Hotels doubles-down on their support for the American Gestapo. When looking for a hotel, there are *plenty* of other choices.

I will never regret being part of the movement to free Alaa Abd el-Fattah, or writing the foreword to his extraordinary book, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated. Read his honest and heartfelt response to those playing politics with his hard-won freedom. #FreeAlaa Always. freealaa.net/alaa-response

As it's clear some are already logging off for the hols, thought I'd better get my traditional Nativity dire-rama up. This year's title: 'If you tolerate this, then your Christmas will be next' However you celebrate the end of another circuit round the sun, enjoy yourselves my Bsky chums.

If you are sick and tired of Governments failing to implement a peat compost ban again and again - to save all of the habitat it destroys each year and bring security to jobs and businesses in horticulture - please sign this petition actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal... I’ve signed

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Kholoud. Kholoud worked in education before this. She lost her brother and sister in the 2014 Gaza war and another brother and brother in law during this one. She is helping many of their children (I’ll list them in the replies) and her mother

This is not a useless task so long as there’s a chance just one person can see this and help. So here’s hoping. Six families, etc.:

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

Marah and her daughter Mila need food, shelter and medical care. Please help if you can.

"The smoking gun quote that brought down two of the most senior editors at the BBC was itself misleadingly edited. But unlike the BBC’s edits – which at least accurately conveyed the overall impression of the march – Prescott’s edits gave a false impression of the comments." 👉 buff.ly/lRs7cws

Absolute craven capitulation for no good reason at all. The edit was but a speck compared the horrors Trump has inflicted upon journalism.

The #DeadInternet in action, AI scraping bots to amplify and spread false reports. The purpose is to generate interest from other bots.

Lewis is absolutely right here

I just listened to the most interesting 14-minute speech delivered at The Art of Tax Reform Summit. Yes, really. youtu.be/ODSKfN6pSMs?...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Marah’s still really sick. Please help if you can. Even sharing her post will expand its reach.

This poor woman is suffering badly in Gaza . Please donate if you can

"The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

MY GOD, I HAVE A NEW HERO. SHE HAD THEM SO HOOKED AND THEN BAM, SHE ATE THEM, BONES AND ALL.

Please sign if you care about European wildlife

To learn more about this complex relationship between beavers and salmonids, including the full details of Dr. Needham's methodology and the discussion about upcoming documentary 'Balance the Scales', listen to the entire episode 209. 10/10

There's only one Taylor Swift, whereas 65 million US households own a dog. A dog fed on wet food emits ~ 6.5 Tonnes CO2e/year, while one only fed dry food comes in at 0.83 Tonnes/yr. So US pet dogs emit between 54M & 423M Tonnes of C02e/ yr. Globally, private jets emitted 15.6MTCO2e in 2023.

Poems from the children of Gaza. "And the question remains - will we tell it or become the story?" What a line. 💔

Ditched Spotify for Tidal. I should have left over their treatment of artists, refusal to pay them a living rate but having plenty of cash for Joe Rogan to push far-right extremists and COVID denial, but I was lazy. The final straw was their CEO funding military AI. www.vice.com/en/article/m...

I have just donated, these families are starving 🙏

This is the kind of success story that Yvette Cooper is so terrified you might read, she’s going to try and make sure it vanishes and that publishing anything similar would be illegal palestineaction.org/barclays-div...

'Israel will occupy Gaza and stay there indefinitely.' @mrjamesob.bsky.social 'cannot see Netanyahu's plan to clear Gaza failing' because there is 'no international resistance to what they're doing.'

For convenience, see; foe.uk/v9oem

Read and weep.

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