One thing about the English local elections today - we’ll have a pretty robust map of racist 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 by the end of tomorrow.

Congrats to Lincolnshire voting for change: by electing someone who was in power for the last 14 years, jumped ship to Reform at the last minute and someone even Liz Truss only reluctantly entrusted a low-level govt position to #election #localelections

So apparently kääjiä has dropped out of #eurovision too?! What is actually happening

#northernlights from the UK last night

My Top 10 prediction for #eurovision tonight. Assuming no other acts get banned of course…

Was a bit underwhelmed by #eurovision tonight. It had some gems in there but I thought Tuesday had better entries. Still a great show of course.

Very excited for #eurovision tonight. Tuesday set a high bar and now I’m ready for more weird shit.

NHS paying up to £2,000 for an agency Nurse’s shift. The owners of the agency get ~50%. NHS Privatisation means paying more for less. It is nothing more than a way to funnel public money into private hands at extraordinary speed.

Lee Anderthal on Sky News claiming that there is no difference between Labour and Conservatives. Shows the perspective from the hard-right, that literally everyone else is a ‘liberal snowflake’ #localelections #ukelections

You couldn't make this up. Johnson introduced photo ID as a deliberate attempt to rig the vote, knowing that poorer and younger people were less likely to possess it than the older, more settled Tory base. He promised it wouldn't make voting more difficult. He lied. Now ...

Can’t wait for the future when I can just forget about politics. I’ll read with my feet up while my robot dog brings me a sandwich and a freshly made latte.

It would be nice if we got to keep some of the profits of running our essential train service instead of foreign wealth funds benefitting. Or, you know, just making it marginally cheaper.

Great, and important, to see us exceeding NATO minimum spending but the quality of the spending is paramount! If this is going to be hoovered up by Capita then no one (apart from their shareholders) will benefit.

Just a quick reminder that the Tories STILL haven’t made ANY meaningful progress on legislating AI. The EU implemented its European AI Act months ago and we haven’t even started. All we have is Sunak fanboy interviewing Elon. There is no preparation for us in the UK.

The Rwanda bill is so cartoonishly-badly written legislation it’s almost irrelevant that the Commons has passed it. It might as well have ACME printed across it. We’re going to see it fail and fall apart across the summer. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk...

When the Conservatives pride themselves on being hard-right but they’re not even competent at that either.

Happy anniversary to my HIIT exercise mat. Two happy years spent being ignored in the corner of my office.

I have conflicting thoughts about the paywall in The Guardian app…

I’m learning Norwegian on Duolingo and I swear the pronunciation of the same words changes lesson-to-lesson. Dialects are already tricky enough without that Duo!

@pfrazee.com please could we have a ‘joined on’ date added to our profiles? It would really help my gatekeeping and condescension of all future users.

Oh my God, are we actually about to see Braverman make a bid for Prime Minister? Maybe Jenrick has been promised Home Secretary role in her cabinet? *shudders*

Now they want to send everyone to Rwanda?! 🥴

For anyone who might think that Nigel Farage is being a ‘good sport’ on I’m a Celeb, Led by Donkeys have a nice summary of his character to date:

Just finished work, so who’s CEO of OpenAI now then?

I’m so curious about what led to Sam Altman being ousted from OpenAI. Something happened to make the board act that swiftly.

Finally deleted my account in the other place last night. Staying for Stardew Valley dev updates and Sam Coates insights simply not worth it now the dial on right-wing hate has been wrenched up a few clicks.

Spend two hours reading and when I come back Sam Altman has been fired and Apple pulls out of Twitter advertising?! Bad timing!

Two years ago if you’d asked me which was worse, Twitter or Truth Social, I’d have been a lot more certain in my answer than if you asked me today. It’s such a cesspit on there today, the idea that I would let them hold my money is just laughable…

This is technical, but also delicious. Unless the government introduces a Rwanda bill *today*, it is shit out of time to stop the Lords from blocking it iandunt.substack.com/p/rwanda-thi...

Just discovered the UK government’s new Environment Secretary, Steve Barclay, is married to the head of infrastructure planning at Anglian Water. AW being one of the companies being investigated for dumping raw sewage in rivers. How can he be trusted to fully hold them to account?

Just finished the first half of S6 of The Crown. Some of the dialogue was ropey and lots of annoying meaning-laden side glances but I don’t think it deserved the one and two star reviews it’s been getting.

Fun game of musical chairs with my cat, except there’s no music and it’s every time I stand up.

Leaked footage of Rishi Sunak yesterday following the Supreme Court’s ruling on his Rwanda plan:

Sunak opting to completely ignore international law and widely adopted human rights conventions, that the UK was part of building, in order to appease the hard right. This puts us in a tiny group which includes the likes of Russia and Belarus.