We’d all be better off if the takeover had never happened.

Translation: Trump is about to bail out of his Great Iran Debacle and let everyone else pick up the pieces of the chaos he left behind.

There are two types of people who know a lot about war - those who glorify it and those who study it to try to have it happen less, like an oncologist studying cancer. Edgelords and students. X kept the former, the latter moved over here.

Burrowing Owl on the ground making sure visitors read the sign!!! #birdoftheday birds on the ground photo by David Chernoff

going to stick my neck out here and say orbital data centres are never going to happen. Stop credulously reporting this bullshit, please.

There are lots of Labour supporters on here, but I still haven’t heard a defence of Starmer’s decision to collaborate with Trump

Unbelievable, but also yet another Brexit parallel. Just as that epic failure was somehow the fault of ‘Remainers’, so Trump’s boundless depravity is somehow the fault of the people who saw & described it clearly.

This should be put to a House of Commons vote.

Have you seen your Home Secretary? Labour's sadistic immigration policies have been endorsed with great enthusiasm by both Farage and Robinson. The rest of us will never touch any of you again.

Another one.

Yeah, I wonder if Starmer is about to lose all the credit he gained over Iran.

Everything is legal if the victims are brown.

Attacking for defence. Yeah.

I recently dealt with a case where two shop assistants got stabbed by a lady with severe mental health issues causing a ruptured bicep. They were not aware she had a knife. Please do not follow this advice.

On International Rewilding Day let us celebrate the true masters of rewilding... Since publication the beavers’ presence at Sculthorpe Moor have transformed a 52 acre enclosure. Its now a thriving, undisturbed wildlife haven with more dragonflies, damselflies, froglets & even kingfishers.

Absolutely not. If you are using AI to write you should 100% be ashamed. Shame is one of the last bulwarks against a total slop apocalypse. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/b...

Dammit, @duckduckgo.com are integrating AI too. There I was, about to set them as my default search engine, and they've fallen for the slop too. Any other ideas?

The old 'opt out' trap. Bugger off, Google.

What’s at stake in the fight against age verification is not just a single bill in a single state. It’s about whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control online that reinforces specific moral and religious worldviews. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I like the fact that Ronnie O’Sullivan made his 153 break in the ‘Likang Roasted Eel’ cup.

it's a real mindfuck to see the leadership of a publication creating some of the most important journalism of a generation trying to screw the people doing the work

There's a close relationship between Nick Timothy attacking Muslim worship and Shabana Mahmood wanting to make indefinite leave to remain take 20 years. They have the same origins.

The lists of MPs and Lords with foreign backgrounds/birthplaces is a hideous sign of how racism has taken a grip right at the top. We need to be clear, though, that the anti-immigrant policies of the major parties - yes, both Labour and the Tories - are as much to blame as Farage etc.

This list is so upsetting, it makes me want to stand for parliament with my foreign birthplace in tow

Within just 48 hours of the Tories refusing to sack Nick Timothy for his Islamophobic comments, the far-right is circulating a list of MPs “of foreign descent” trying to “silence” him. [1/2]

The piece notes that Connor Tomlinson - a campaigner to ban Jews, blacks and Asians from the civil service and parliament - is clearly a close associate of Lowe's young staff team, who share his ethnonationalist worldview and networks bsky.app/profile/sund...

Lucy White, Connor Tomlinson among active supporters/champions of Restore Britain who campaign to ban ethnic minorities from parliament + who are close associates of Lowe's staff. See this piece celebrating party's decision to refuse to set any boundary to racists/Nazis bsky.app/profile/sund...

I am really sorry to see this Sarah. Lucy White is an active member of a new political party, led by a current MP, Mr Rupert Lowe + he + his staff engage closely with her. Acknowledged in its Deportation report. She attended the launch.She advocates for the party on GB News bsky.app/profile/sund...

Just as a matter of interest, I don't hear anyone trying to 'silence' Nick Timothy. I see people trying to get Nick Timothy to take responsibility for what he said, and face the consequences of having said it.

Just had this flagged with me. This is disgusting. If Kemi Badenoch had one ounce of leadership in her, she would condemn this. I don’t want any faux sadness from her or Nick Timothy when one of us is hurt or worse. This is how low the Conservative Party have sunk.

That Nobel Peace Prize next year is guaranteed.

the brutal maths is that rejoining a customs union could provide 5 x the economic growth of the recent EU and India trade deals

Not a good few weeks for Joey Barton. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anyway, we should all be working from home more regardless of the Trump/Bibi oil crisis.

My suggestion to help the oil crisis: ban all petrol-powered leaf-blowers. 😀

Point one is really important, but likely to be hated by certain groups...

My view on Dune. I loved the books. I even rather liked the David Lynch film. I loved Dune Part 1. I disliked Part 2. I mean, visually impressive, but the way they messed with the characters, the religion and in particular the Paul - Chani dynamic annoyed me intensely. Part 3? I may not see it.

Because oil is everything to Trump, he assumes it is for the Iranian government. He doesn’t understand the nature of that government at all.

And a special thank you to (among others) @rcalo.bsky.social @daniellecitron.bsky.social @lessig.bsky.social @daniel-solove.bsky.social @hartzog.bsky.social @anupamchander.bsky.social @ethanz.bsky.social @hoffprof.bsky.social @paulschwartz.bsky.social on whose work I relied!!

Thrilled to publish my latest article BAN COOKIE BANNERS: A CASE STUDY IN TECH REGULATION with the Harv. J. of Law & Tech! A cri de cœur to end this worse-than-useless regulatory compliance regime and let something that actually protects users take its place. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 1/

Looking at the proofs of my forthcoming book. I like this little declaration at the start. "Without limiting the author’s and publisher’s exclusive rights, any unauthorised use of this publication to train generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is expressly prohibited."

If there is no fiscal saving, the vibes case for creating an enormous constituency of grievance about a decade's unsettlement for people already here is really weak. So much better to set a 10 year ceiling at most; empty the hotels; use the £ saved there better + get a routes/returns deal

Still backbench support for policy as well as 100+ opposed 3 reasons * MPs believed "save billions" soundbite * Control" of boats + hotels a political imperative Yes.Control matters (but this is settlement policy for care workers) (20 year refugee route: ???pull factor impact, cf 2023 asylum ban)

Tony Vaughan MP says the settlement reform should be abandoned, not tinkered with, as @ippr.org analysis shows it will increase child poverty by 60,000 - 90,000 yet not make a net fiscal saving at all, because 300k children will wait longer for settlement www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Law schools might enjoy this one….

One for pub quizzes for years to come…

"We must be honest about the scale and impact of hundreds of thousands of low skilled workers getting settlement rights" This from the Home Office, which has been consistently dishonest throughout this process. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’m going with, no.

All I can see is:

There is a different point that government has reported adjacent costs of £5 billion for ending this visa, but yet to account for maybe £7-14 billion hit by delivering negative net migration in 2026-27 that ist yet in Treasury numbers. But this imaginary £10 bn saving needs to be a real number first