as an older person (+50) who’s never used ai, here are things i recommend about life: - do DIY (the biggest is learn to cook but any other work you can do for yourself, learn it and do it) - observe nature (all the animals around us have already figured life out) - talk to people in real life

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Raging at simplistic expectation that another wave of tech led disruptive capitalism will have any public benefit. LTDA got to explain how drivers help disabled and older people get in/out of cars and they raised lost property too. Has anyone contacted DDPOs like @inclusionlondon.bsky.social?

Love this - defeating nazis with the Yorkshire accent:

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

This man is completely unhinged.

This says everything we need to know about Reform Uk's view on women. Completely unacceptable. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/13/reform-matt-goodwin-fertility-comments-outcry-handmaids-tale

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway…. 📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way

UK to ban political party donations from foreign-owned companies

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

Thanks to a court ruling today, extending Temporary Protected Status, Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, and elsewhere are (for now) safe from the planned ethnics cleansing operation. The ruling is notable.

Nigel Farage and Reform are threatening to sue the Conservative party for using "alleged mental ill-health as a political weapon" against Suella Braverman. Just imagine doing such a thing

normal dog, switzerland, 15th century

The families of Danes killed in Afghanistan have a message for Trump www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

You can tell by the eyes.

Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

Neil Coyle MP has written a brutal takedown letter to Nigel Farage for his breach of parliamentary protocol, because Farage visited Coyle's London constituency without notifying him. 10/10 no notes. (H/T @simonpegg.bsky.social)

The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...

I was 20 when HS2 was announced. Great to know i’ll probably be in my late 60s when the Birmingham-Manchester section starts work let alone finishes. Seems like a country doing things the right way!

🚨 NEW: Neo-Nazi group White Vanguard (WV) has suffered a major split. A series of calamitous errors has cost the group half its membership, forced a change in leadership and left its future uncertain. Read our report: hopenothate.org.uk/2026/01/07/t...

Our friends in Denmark should know we stand shoulder to shoulder with them. Greenland is not for sale, invasion or questioning and neither is NATO. This world needs more alliances, not more aggression, to keep it safe and democratic.

Morning! Have a treat as it's the new year:

Please give a thought to people whose New Year’s Eve was spent in bomb shelters because a criminal invader was trying to destroy their energy infrastructure.

youtube.com/watch?v=uEti... One of the best ambient techno tracks IMHO

Waiting for 2025 to end.

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

The Liz Truss Show - Behind the Scenes

The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground. Wonderful!

Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year. As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet

Reform UK are learning the hard way that it's easy to shout insults at the players from the touchline. Far harder to get up on the pitch and play. They've been an absolute disaster wherever they are elected.

Reform UK-led Derbyshire council announce closure of eight residential care homes just days before Christmas. That's going to spell misery and considerable upset for hundreds of vulnerable people and their carers. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“So he tells me he’s been grounded, and I says to him… I says Hank, it’s probably because of your bad altitude!”

Around half of San Francisco is without power right now and something like 1/3rd of intersections I drove through had waymos stopped in the middle of them making a dangerous situation even worse. Do not let Waymo into your city.

Whenever my Samsung washing machine finishes a cycle, I always race to turn it off before the tune ends and I don't know why.

Your usual reminder that the UCKG is an extraordinarily shady outfit. It is not clear what the money they collect is for or where it goes. They are collecting all over London today. Avoid.

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Me: So do you like Christmas Carols? Carol: Yes. Carol: Yes Carol: I really do. Carol: Same Carol: I can't believe you're gonna post this

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

He is sovereign, but He is just

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That Samsung AI ad where the guy goes to a museum and his phone tells him about all the art is such a good idea. I hate when you go to museums and they never tell you what any of the stuff is

'The king - standing on the left'

Just this. Thank you @theguardian.com

Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance in September to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for seeking to place restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether. He did not declare that Reform had just received a £9 million donation from one of its biggest investors