Watched Gremlins for the first time in 30 odd years. Hold up well. I enjoyed it as it my son. My hit rate for old movies we should watch it still 50/50 though

Last working day for me so of course there is an outage with a 3rd party service at work to battle through. Not quite the soft ease into Christmas I hoped for!

Having wisdom teeth out sucks hard. A week on and still in pain and so sick of soap 😟

A depressing milestone on the TrumpActionTracker - 2000 logged actions since January. www.trumpactiontracker.info Shortly about to be 2002 as I have a couple more to add tonight :-/

Yes, govt bent to pressure from MPs over the benefit cap. That's how parliamentary democracy works - and why it's a good thing. It means a leader has to carry a wider movement with them. There's a counter-pressure to the strategists in No. 10. It matters that we elect a Parliament, not just a PM.

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Dealing with Twilio’s support AI now makes me understand why lots of folks hate AI. Terrible implementation and a complete waste of time.

Not often I’m hit by the dead of someone famous. But sad tonight for the loss of the best bassist of my youth. Name sake of my old pet dog too. Sleep well Mani.

Privileged to share a guest post today by a US veteran and intelligence analyst on the echoes they see between the regimes they used to monitor and today’s US. They asked to remain anonymous - itself a sign of how worrying things have become in America. christinapagel.substack.com/p/authoritar...

Both the Budget and the asylum bill are disintegrating before they've even been formally announced. Absolutely dead government.

If I was devising a set of announcements to elevate (but not satisfy) the hard right, alienate the middle ground and completely discourage your base, I couldn’t come up with a much better strategy than McSweeney and Number 10

Why seek political office if you have a stonking majority and you use it to…endlessly fret about losing your majority rather than running a country? It’s no good. There is no theory for how to make things better. It’s not even well managed decline.

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Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.

quick rundown of some classic autocratic behaviours over the past few days in America Covering attacking enemies, helping allies, cowing institutions and purging the military All actions and more on www.trumpactiontracker.info? youtu.be/Mx4c4JfgLeU

Thursday's @theguardian.com cartoon #zohranmamdani #mamdani #zohranfornyc #NewYork

Musk: This Muslim man has a difficult name. Also Musk: My children are named Seldon Lycurgus and Techno Mechanicus.

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

This has always been been my worry with AI. Not that they would generate a video that’s shows something false but presented as real but that it gives people the chance to claim what’s real is false. I’ll never understand why those working on GenAI do so. What good comes of it? What is truth now?

The hypocrisy of Reform going on TV to allege that certain groups are constantly over represented on TV is truly epic.

The Trump Action Tracker has an update! Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions. www.trumpactiontracker.info? 1/2

Sadly, there's a lot to be said for Marina Hyde's analysis here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If it walks like a duck, sounds like a duck and looks like a duck…

Vance’s Double Standard: Nazi Jokes Are “Kids Being Kids,” But Mocking Charlie Kirk Gets Your Visa Revoked JD Vance thinks praising Hitler and talking about putting political enemies into death chambers is harmless “kids being kids,” but criticizing Charlie Kirk is somehow deserving of…

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

This deserves more attention than it has received. Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working". Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...

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every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

Claude Code tip: prompt "use sub-agents" and it will do exactly that, firing up multiple parallel sub-agents to achieve a task, each with a fresh context "Write markdown documentation for the context passed to each of the templates in this project. Use sub-agents." simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/11/...

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

"We proudly commit war crimes."

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Loving this level of anger from @chrischirp.bsky.social 😁 Ridiculous idea. For shame Labour again.

The depressing thing about today is that it was sold as Starmer's answer to Reform. This is apparently what he has to offer as a vision of a confident diverse nation: ID cards. Just utterly joyless and emotionless.

“We’re not Tylenol experts, of course not.” Should have stopped there Richard, because the rest of what you said was incoherent.

Fantastic to see our TrumpActionTracker featured in this @yorkshirebylines.co.uk article! @sandylaping.bsky.social @peteduncanson.bsky.social Do have are read. Tracker is here: www.trumpactiontracker.info

Imagine you're in a weird romcom where Paul Hollywood is your rival. Do you go "let's have a bread baking competition" or do you emphasise your own relative strengths? Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.

Dog walk Cocker picking and then Mexican Brunch made with our only home grown chilli. Now this is a Sunday! Sadly time to do some DIY now but a hell of a start so far.

Bumper conker season this year! Fresh post storm pickings!

Oh @attackmonkey.bsky.social one for you and daughter to play together 🙂

Again.

We need to be very clear about this. Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...

I don’t feel very represented on the BBC news website at the minute. Wall to wall coverage of Trump being welcomed. Nothing I can find of those in the nation who really don’t welcome him. White wash (or Orange Wash?)

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With the ramping up of the zero-sum mindset language coming from JD Vance and Trump and the RE media I’m at a lost as to how you can possibly find middle ground here to work towards. I can’t see how there can be any coming together to “de-escalate” at all!