It was the fuck aroundest of times, it was the find outest of times🤣 #SheShed www.newsweek.com/entertainmen...

If this is true, they don’t understand data protection. Data has to be *adequate* for the purpose. Fundamental.

This. I’m not accepting this.

Oh yes, that’s obviously completely true.

Client-side scanning comes to 3D printing, with proposals to have printers forced to embed algorithms to scan for weapons. Printing weapons is a bad thing, but so is ubiquitous surveillance from your own devices. A dangerous model for other areas. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Keir Starmer in 2020: "I had 8,000 staff as Director of Public Prosecutions and when they had victories I celebrated on their behalf and when they made mistakes I carried the can. "I never turn on my staff. You should never turn on your staff"

It was a long night maldivesfinest.com/heron-kurama...

We know how this goes: After Starmer said he wanted Mandelson, everyone else makes (if needed: heavy-handed) phone calls of 'Make it happen' and voilá, a failed security clearance is overruled.

In German we call this 'Bauernopfer' (pawn sacrifice). What a mess for the Starmer government.

It doesn’t take hindsight to realise Mandelson’s appointment was a terrible idea. It didn’t take foresight to realise it at the time. It just took sight.

It’s really depressing to see people still pushing the line that the Mandelson appointment ‘made sense’.

Slightly dishevelled this morning, my heron friend

I mean, if there’s one person you’d need to be sure had passed the vetting, it’s the guy known as the Prince of Darkness.

Why is it, when it was Starmer who made the decision to appoint Mandelson, that everyone else is having to resign?

Don’t mention the AI… I did once, but I think I got away with it.

This is absolutely not a story about AI but about people deciding to live above Heaven nightclub and then trying to close it down as ‘their window overlooked the entrance of the club and they were disturbed by the noise of music and customers at the venue’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This isn’t enough for Starmer to escape Mandelsongate

Farage thugs manhandle man with pacemaker after he objects to the Reform leader's chauffeur parking in disabled bay that he needs to use. Lovely People. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

It’s all going very well. Like Trump University.

The man who thought he’d rediscovered the word ‘groceries…’

"The number of serious knife crime offences recorded by police forces in London fell by 11% in the year to September 2025" What is the wierd link between the UK/US right and the depiction of London as a hellscape?

Ah, the old ‘throw the officials under the bus’ routine.

I see Starmer has gone for the ‘incompetent rather than corrupt’ defence over Mandelson.

Yes, it's definitely AI's fault.

"pope should stay out of politics." brother you need to stay out of a size medium

Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater. This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning. Never doubt your power to change the system.

Unlike Starmer, Pope Leo realises that having principles and opposing evil (and yes, Trump is evil) is not only good for the soul but politically effective.

impeccable

📌Pope Leo XIV TODAY: “The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants. Blessed are the peacemakers, but woe to those who manipulate religion and the name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.” He is NOT backing down.

As well as being a great scoop by Guardian colleagues, this feels potentially very, very bad for Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

As a desi, I’m fascinated by the Indians who caped hard for Trump. Many of them seem to have felt insulated by their wealth and success—the “model minority”—only to now realize that a lot of MAGA hates them. @ashwinrodrigues.com reports: www.wired.com/story/maga-i...

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Incredible.

Alternatively, not nearly enough

It’s unpatriotic to have a patriotic media. That’s not the media’s role.

Not sure what quality assurance is being used by BBC in these pieces, but wording is v important. It is irresponsible to use "advisers" or "lawyers" without caveating that these are *fake* advisers, or people posing as legitimate advisers/lawyers. as’https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crl19dzdd38o

🚨🚨Welcome and very significant news on #EU-UK relationship and #brexit reversal: yesterday, the European Union and the United Kingdom have enabled the UK's association to #Erasmus+ in 2027. 🧵 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Teen births crashing is good!!!

Ironically the BBC stumbled on a really important story: Desperate asylum seekers being forced to turn to fraudulent fee-charging “advisors” to navigate a system that is intentionally impossibly baroque and from which all sources of free advice have been removed. But no: they chose Fake Gay Panic.

Everything after, "...Thiel backed start-up..." is not an announcement. It is a warning.

Kill it. Kill it dead. Burn the ashes. Bury them in the desert.

The people who really need to go from most universities are the central managers.

And how many say ‘dimetrodon’ before the dinosaurspainers tell them it’s not a dinosaur?

The correct conclusion to draw from this is that immigration is bloody good for the economy. True in the U.K. too.

On the other hand, a ‘full time job’ is also not a normal thing. Most humans did not have anything resembling a full time job until relatively recently. Yes, including men.

this is why you're not supposed to cross those databases, idiots

Anti immigration policies are idiotic, part 94

My theory on Starbucks: it caters primarily for that not insignificant sector of the market that likes the idea of coffee, but doesn’t actually like coffee.

Several hundred thousand people contributed to a govt consultation about settlement changes on waiting 10-15 Nothing like the energy on reporting that as on asylum That exemplifies the big skew identified in the BBC review that over-covers asylum, undercovers work & study migration dramatically

While topic is legiti, this midmarket tabloid tone has a v significant editorialiising skew that is more Expressi than BBC in validate & amplify perspectives on politically contested issue in election period. Esp as it reinforces such big misperceptions on scale, direction of change on immigration