1. Assume the results of "research" done by Dom Cummings for his blog are reasonable and valid 2. Assume his analysis of the results is good faith 3. Assume the public's views on things like immigration and benefits aren't affected by media and political narratives 🌟 Journalism 🌟

Yeah, British politics is simple. You just need to improve public services without any meaningful tax increases, reduce immigration without any labour market impacts, and deliver growth and you'll be hugely successful.

wild AI story from the Olympics ice dancers were told to use songs "in the style of the 1990s." One Czech pair tried using AI to pump out a song to skate to, but their AI bot fully plagiarized "You Get What You Give" by The New Radicals and they had to change it sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...

I really think it's unfair to make athletes wear mics for televised events

Glad to hear Sir Keir wants to end the class divide

Starmer forcing his cabinet at metaphorical gunpoint to publicly support him and then claiming their support means he's safe

Begging the SNP comms team to hire a graphic designer slash proofreader

I only saw this Beano picture from the other day and it should be Keir Starmer's legacy.

Terrible headline, though, the AIs aren't "conning" their way into the press. Someone is doing it.

Age verification? The Winter Olympics has made me want to go back and play my favourite childhood computer game, Winter Olympiad 88 for the Amiga

On balance this is bad, but a twisted part of me is looking forward to hearing how Kirk will demonstrate her ignorance of Northern Ireland.

Just saw the BBC put a trailer for the new series of Gladiators in the middle of their coverage of the Winter Olympics. In what way is that not an ad break?

we went to nuttington-cum-shittown - until 1987 a town synonymous with artisan gravel production. now the town's biggest employer makes jelly for pork pies. we asked a racist if they wanted more racism. they said "yes".

here Reform have emailed a debate soc 'asking for' a Q&A event (NOT EVEN A DEBATE) and on getting turned down, immediately several of the biggest names in the party are threatening them, the society, the university etc free speech ambulance chasing will escalate tenfold if this works

Lovely review, but when did British people start saying 'Rube Goldberg' instead of 'Heath Robinson'? This makes me sad.

I keep reposting this article because it needs to be seen. This is what responsible journalism on a discriminatory act against trans people looks like. Jo put in the work. It's no longer just my and others' personal accounts vs. random men with opinions. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Weird how the media analysis of Labour is now flat-out talking about how Starmer, McSweeney and Mandelson "purged the left", yet anyone who said at the time that they were purging the left was called an antisemitic conspiracy theorist Corbynite crank by that same media

"Don't worry about the Discord thing, it's only NSFW servers and channels that will require age verification! :)" I could remove every speck of risque imagery/topics from my community and there's still a 50% chance we'd get flagged just because we're openly queer. It's not actually about the kids.

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Less than six hours between these posts. Excellent journalism, Paul. Thank you.

Other things that are really quite bad from a basic national sovereignty perspective include Scottish Labour MPs and MSPs backing Keir rather than Anas, and this isn't because I somehow like Anas, it is because that shows they are a branch office par excellence and that's bad

Reform just following the Trump playbook here

Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.

Oh I missed that we lost the pronoun labeller, damn. Checking out a new one...

I know it’s a very busy day but this story *really* matters Josh Simons says he hired ‘a PR company’ to investigate a ‘suspected illegal hack’ But if you’re worried about a hack, why pay £30k to a PR firm? A lot about this story isn’t right. And a cabinet office minister is at the centre of it

New earworm lads

R U looking at the me?

Eww gross I just realised if you use a blocklist to mute accounts, obviously you don't see them quoting you Guess I'll just have to block block block

This thread makes some very good and pertinent points, but what's making me reskeet it is the very last skeet in it, which absolutely blows my mind.

Those smearing me by saying I was "good friends" with Peter Mandelson forget that I do not feel human emotions such as "friendship" and was merely sucking up to him to advance my career and destroy anyone even vaguely left wing, hey why are you booing me | Wesley Streeting, right wing lickspittle

now that's the power of a union

Can they not fix the sound on the skating so we can hear the music

Theory: the people who assert that office working is inherently more productive than home working are the people who nobody in the office talks to

Torn between "if you say you're Scottish then you're Scottish" and "what is Kirsty Muir's accent?!"

Scotland, Wales and NI would like to remind you there are other options

Dawn Foster Forever

I for one welcome our new Prime Minister Lickspittle Cunt

If the Guardian wants to know why, despite being a Top Reader, I prefer to shut down begging popups on every single page than even give them my details, far less any money, this is why

In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions. Then covered it up again when caught. Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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All the political subtlety of Francis Urquhart on the roof of Parliament

Another day of Westminster journalists passing on what politicians tell them, with no verification or analysis, and left shitposters doing their work for them

How extraordinarily fortunate for Wes Streeting that the only text messages he sent Peter Mandelson just happened to be exactly the sort of things other Labour MPs want to hear from a potential leadership candidate

Nothing about Palantir? Then I don’t believe that’s *all* of his correspondence. Did he have auto-delete on at any time?

hi pippa did you verify that these were a)real b) all of them

OK but Pippa why would you believe this is all the messages

100% believe that Streeting publishing some innocuous WhatsApps between himself and Mandelson means that all the messages between them are innocuous. Frankly if you're not convinced by this you must just want Reform to rule Britain.

Every single MP who cheers Starmer today should lose their seat at the first possible opportunity

I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane