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#ActuallyAutistic journalist here! I have spoken to #ActuallyAutistic people for my pieces about RFK Jr., Trump and autism. Here for @msnbc.com www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... Here for @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Alien: Earth thoughts: Entertaining but implausibly silly. Too many characters blundering, excessively convenient abilities. Undoes the major Alien cosmic horror theme that some things are unknowable, unexploitable and uncontrollable.

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

I do not envy the position of responsibility of those who must decide, in real time, how to respond to this.

Stepping over lines, pushing limits, trying to do just enough to get an Eastern European NATO member to say they’ve been attacked and ask for assistance, so then Trump can ape Russian propaganda, refuse to send US forces, and everyone sees the NATO Charter has been rendered just a piece of paper

Today's @britishfuture.bsky.social report presents new evidence about public attitudes to asylum - which are not irredeemably hostile. It shows a growing public frustration at failure on boats + a strong public interest in more control, which can unlock broad public support for more compassion too

I have yet to hear any reason the "Your Party" MPs didn't join the Greens. Until I do, I will assume it's because of the egos involved.

In London, hate will never win.

Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1

"Extended air defence zone... within 150 to 200km of NATO borders... in cooperation with Ukraine" The idea of a no-fly-zone over western Ukraine, away from Russian air defence, has been knocking around for a while.

Stephen is correct as usual but also i'm glad he's called out the utter bullshit about eCoNoMiC aNxIeTy

The common sense meaning should make this Elon Musk's "rivers of blood" moment Though I think he goes further than Enoch Powell in a couple of important ways

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

The Prisoner (1967), starring and created by Patrick McGoohan, was one series of 17 episodes with a rushed ending. It doesn't seem to get as much attention as it used to. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a1_...

yeesh so much disinfo out there about the gunman "Notices bulges, OWO whats this?" - Meme about furries/roleplaying; not political "hey fascist! Catch! Up, right, down x3" - From Helldivers 2, satirical game, you nuke 'fascist' aliens even though you're a fascist yourself; the code launches a bomb

know your meme has already updated its page for this helldivers code. Helldivers is a work of satire. As such, I would caution against taking anything that references it literally. knowyourmeme.com/memes/eagle-...

They live and breathe confirmation bias. They want any excuse to perform the violence that they fantasize about, toward the groups they want to hurt. So of course they don’t notice a fuckin helldivers reference

Grateful @davidgilbert.bsky.social covered this. I NEVER celebrated anyone’s murder. I said I was terrified the far-right would use this as an excuse to retaliate, and they’re proving me right with every post. These guys are out for blood. They don’t care whose. This is really bad.

Sigh.

It is widely held on parts of the left that racism and fascism is caused by poverty, and that reducing poverty will defeat fascism. We should reduce poverty, but I am skeptical that doing so will defeat the fash. Study of Jan 6th insurrectionists: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This drone attack is not the behaviour of a power that fears that NATO will invade it. It is the behaviour of a power that thinks NATO: * inconveniences its attempts to subjugate its neighbours * won't invade * can be intimidated.

the rightwing loves to be like “this is the moment we become the nazi party”

I increasingly wonder if this is down to so many government people still using X and mistaking that for an actual measure of public opinion. Poll after poll after poll has shown that British voters don't like small boats but they hate street violence and open racism much more.

Manned aircraft from either side of the RU-UA war have been avoiding opposing air defence near the front lines. This opens up the possibility of NATO aircraft or air defences defending western Ukraine, behind the front lines, with no real prospect of engaging manned Russian assets.

I was highly amused at Adrian Edmondson being in Alien: Earth as I know him mostly from anarchic comedies Bottom and The Young Ones. But as the series has progressed, I am now thinking that Eddie and Vyvyan wouldn't be unusually foolish if they were amongst the Alien: Earth cast.

The takeaway: 👉 Accommodating the radical right on immigration doesn’t win back voters. 👉 It alienates the progressive base. 👉 And it raises the salience of the very issue the radical right owns. In short: it’s electoral self-harm.

Really interesting that support for *all* left-of-centre parties dropped as salience of immigration rose after "island of strangers" speech - our exclusive:

Graham Linehan once took issue with a sketch I did and tweeted about me referring to me not by name but only as to who my boyfriend was and called me an NPC ( non player character.) It was misogynistic and his “standing up for women” schtick is baloney.

The main issue facing any UK government isn't actually the number of people seeking asylum, in the grand scheme, proportionally, we aren't talking about huge figures, especially when compared per capita to countries such as France, but the constant images we see in the media. 1/

RFK's attitudes towards disability, neurodiversity, and mental health are typically fascist. Totalitarian regimes will appoint the incompetent because they will be reliant upon, and loyal towards, the regime. But his attitudes towards vaccinations (and miasma theory) are not. 1/2

Microsoft is trying to pad its copilot user counts. Investors have poured eye-watering sums of money into LLMs, and are going to want to see evidence that there will be a return. MS needs to show them that many users rely on copilot, which means they need to push it. Now Notepad has copilot.

So, which do historians like the most: Ridley Scott's Napoleon, or King & Conqueror?

I don’t want to be too shrill about this but I think the BBC, ITV and Sky have disgraced themselves in their coverage of the anti-refugee protests. A massive failure of judgement. But now we know the next time a progressive protest “isn’t news” that it’s nothing to do with numbers

A significant number of UK respondents understand "woke" similarly to the original African American Vernacular English meaning: literally "awake", figuratively aware of societal injustice, particularly racism. How did that happen? Britons don't speak AAVE. 1/3

If HMG continues to make such obvious bad faith arguments I'm going to start questioning their motives. Anyway, @mozilla.org has a good VPN. It has a Firefox plugin that allows exit points to be set per site. www.mozilla.org/en-GB/produc...

FDA's AI Elsa is making shit up. This is very dangerous. from @owermohle.bsky.social edition.cnn.com/2025/07/23/p...

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

Dominic Grieve. 👏👏👏

How can we not see 🇺🇦’s courage as a gift? While the West debates, Ukrainians found the courage to stand for freedom & fight. Peace in Europe will come only if Europe stops hedging and stands united with 🇺🇦 to punish the aggressor: the surest way to prevent WWIII via @bylinetimes.bsky.social

Every time a "moderate" party in Europe has attempted to defang the populist right by adopting their policies they make the populists more popular by affirming their world view. Triangulation may work for tax and spend, it doesn't for culture war.

🔴 Russia has launched an online catalog listing abducted Ukrainian children for adoption, with filters like eye color and traits such as “obedient”—a move Ukraine calls modern-day child trafficking. united24media.com/latest-news/...

The House of Lords just released a major report on media literacy. Its core message is that the UK is falling behind, and it’s putting democracy at risk. committees.parliament.uk/work/9030/me...

The only solution to pornography is for parents to have meaningful conversations with their children. This involves things like consent, sure, but also more complicated issues like the difference between fantasy and reality. There is no policy solution to this problem.

After many recessions (but not e.g. WWI) gdp per capita returns to the pre-recession trend as if the recession had never happened. In 2008 it did not, effectively setting back GDP per capita by 5 years. from @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2022/02/we-a...

He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

Finally, a socially responsible use for the Great Highland Pipe.

Believe it or not, the EU-US trade deal just got messier. The White House has published a fact-sheet about the agreement with claims that directly contradict the European Commission's version of events. Let's take a closer look.