Is there ever going to be a significant political force in the UK again actually arguing for personal freedom and civil liberties in any way? I don't agree with a SM ban, but that's not really my specific issue, but all of our mainstream politics is just endless bans and crackdowns.

I see all the "I'm centre left, honest" journos are pushing the term "anti-bedtime left" to dismiss anyone to the left of them - suppose that was the next logical step along from "student politics"

Trio

Yes it is! If it's something 999 people out of 1,000 don't do, and you do a hit piece on a politician for not doing it without mentioning that, it's still a smear

Not only was this ridiculous as an argument for NFTs but it's also how eg Doctor Who has always worked. Terry Nation owned the Daleks, Kit Pedler the Cybermen, other writing teams the Brigadier, K-9, the Sontarans. No NFTs needed, just an invention called a "contract".

I do love that every couple of years an English newspaper discovers that devolution means different countries have different politics and they're shocked

Love this bit on Ai from the Royal Society. A classic case of the probability engine getting itself in a mess and revealing its complete lack of understanding

what do you mean ‘study’ lmao. just look at the policies!

The older I get, the more annoyed I get at the fact that good things always get wrecked by capitalism. Remember when ebay was good? Remember when Airbnb was good?

The Financial Times have turned quote posts off on their Polanski hit piece, always a sign of confidence

I'm not sure what a parliamentary inquiry into Murrell's embezzlement could possibly achieve - I get the feeling those calling for it are just super mad that this hasn't affected the SNP as badly as they think it should.

Move over Irony you're dead. Killed by Paul Hutchinson & The Daily Turncoat. Long live Hypocrisy📯 Pretty sure Streeting is going to call for people to stop the crazy unhinge media's obsession with another woman this morning because of her hubby or by noon, soonish, perhaps tomorrow, next week.....👀

Cackling at this. They're so mad. They've been trying so hard to push the idea that this will hurt donations

To those in service, thank you for your sacrifices.

Just saw two pairs of very fast jets take off from Prestwick and now show up on flightradar 👀👀

My dad has disliked Nicola Sturgeon since about 2010 and he's shouting at the telly about how unfairly BBC News are treating her lol

The Observer have got an interview with Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes's son about being a nepo baby, so they've sent their 24-year-old "social media executive" to talk to him She's Jason Isaacs' daughter 😂

This is a very good piece on police interviews and the right to silence in Scots law (which - online know-alls please note - is not the same as in England), with reference to Nicola Sturgeon's decision not to answer police questions. www.scottishlegal.com/newsletter/6...

In case you thought Dawkins might have learned anything from he pasting he got over "my AI is alive and it's a girl", he's in the Observer today gushing rapturously over a sonnet ChatGPT wrote him based on a paragraph in The Selfish Gene

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Your regular reminder that PoliticsUK is a fake account owned by a Reform councillor Bailey Nash-Gardner who also works for Reform MP Andrew Rosindell. ***Stop following and sharing their stuff***

Repost to scare Bluesky developers

BBC somewhat proving Sturgeon's point by making this the front page national headline

No surprise here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

that they don’t put them in any kind of logical order does feel like a massive “fuck you”

Just saw a mention of Sebastian Flyte from Brideshead Revisited and swore loudly at having missed that High Life joke for 30 years

I think people forget the “you can’t change your sex” slogan is a newer line of GC rhetoric with only recent purchase. For nearly a century “sex change” was an accepted term, and while deployed clumsily and poorly, it was also understood as a reality the nuances of which were largely irrelevant.

Ban football

The new EHRC Code of Practice is not fit for purpose. It does not provide clear guidance or do enough to protect everyone from discrimination, and it is not compatible with longstanding British values. @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk and @MarieCGoldman.bsky.social have written to Bridget Phillipson. ⬇️

I'm seeing an increasing amount of "lol isn't AI stupid" posts that are faked which seems EXTREMELY counterproductive

This is funny but otoh I once tried to walk from Heathrow Airport to the Radisson Blue Heathrow and almost died, so.

my takeaway coffee cup had a QR code to scan for recycling information lol

Fancy coastal pigeons

Imagine writing this article and totally failing to mention hockey RPF fanfic lol

Can we perhaps entertain the idea that if the Tour de France is starting in Edinburgh it may have expanded too much #MakeEventsNormalSizedAgain

I hear the bad place is in meltdown because they’ve realised men in M&S might see a bra on his way to get a tie and something, something ‘SAFEGUARDING’ apparently. It must be exhausting to spend your life doing this. Wait until they realise how many period products men could see near ‘PARACETAMOL’

It probably says something about Scottish politics that Sturgeon's three biggest "scandals" are - cutting contact with her friend and mentor when she found out he was a sex pest - having a husband who was a crook - not suddenly u-turning on trans rights like every other mainstream politician did

see I’m fairly convinced that, with the odd exception, the press can browbeat the public into strongly disliking any politician of their choosing, but what they definitely can’t do is bully the public into actually liking someone

I cannot stop laughing at Zohran wearing an Arsenal kurta to Eid prayer. Probably the most accurate millennial Muslim representation yet. You just know he's been waiting for the right occasion to bust this one out.

If you have nsfw set to "hide" I implore you to set it to "warn". You still won't see anything except for a blurred post Otherwise once they roll out account-wide adult content labeling a whole lot of people including me are going to disappear from your timelines, even our sfw text posts

Why would you give Jessie Ware and her mum a podcast where they dine with people and call it Table Manners and not TableWare

I love the fact that somebody called Wakefield is standing in Makerfield, we're going to get so many journos saying "Wakerfield standing in Makefield" and so on

so...shirtless

Russell Davies without the "T"

Would be great if terfs could just “sigh and put up with” trans people…but they don’t, do they?

So, my informed understanding of what's happened at Haye on Wye is (1) they get their toilets from a contractor and all they specify is x for men and y for women (2) the paper signs were slapped by the contractor over the gender neutral toilets it supplied - so nothing is intentionally...

If Nicola Sturgeon does have questions to answer, then it is only as a politician and not as a wife No woman should be held responsible for the sins of her husband, just as no man should be held responsible for the sins of his wife My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social

that’s great, man. that’s wonderful. thanks (Russell T Davies on his new series in the Guardian)