The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply. I want to make sure this is very clear.

Today in Shoddy AI In Facebook Nostalgia Groups, an entire class of kids doing typing wrong. (More in ALT. Remember to ALT your images, kids)

It's not often my old stamping ground of Brentford pops up on here :-)

#WATCH | Residential building in Gaza detonated by Israeli forces, this is the "Israeli Ceasefire"

Donald Trump is so obviously going to annex Greenland. And European leaders will respond with unparalleled levels of "monitoring the situation".

A cartoon: Cycling on a budget. Summarising just a small amount of the info you'll find on budgetcycling.uk. (Image from the book 'From A to B', by Dave Walker, published by Bloomsbury.)

It's quite incredible how this poor and inaccurate tool has been prioritised and integrated *so* effectively that I regularly have people tell me something they've 'looked up' and I have to say 'you're not just reading the AI overview are you' and they are. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

'A young man, dressed in jewelry and presenting in a way some deemed “too feminine,” was verbally confronted in a men’s restroom by a stranger who decided he did not belong there.' www.transvitae.com/g... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

AN ARREST VIDEO EVERY DAY (until the Palestine Action ban is lifted) DAY 4 - a Jewish woman wearing a “Jews Against Genocide” tabard was arrested on Aug 5th in Parliament Square alongside 500 others for peacefully holding an “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” sign.

it's funny when watching US movies or tv shows i used to be like "man, they sure do use food poisoning as a plot device *a lot* in america..." then i learned their food poisoning statistics and it blew my mind. that's just how they live! people DIE of food poisoning regularly in the US. it's MAD.

@ianmartin.bsky.social - also pleasing :-)

Reminded of this... alexanderperrin.com.au/paper/shortt...

Bizarre to hear the UK government running with the lines that it can't comment on hypotheticals about the future. All policy is predicated on opinion about hypotheticals in the future. That's the basic job of government.

Sweep the fresh snow away before it freezes and then apply a brine solution using a small vehicle such as a Multihog (which does other jobs too) multihog.com/testimonials...

The WMDs were never found because they never existed. 2009: Gaddafi proposes a gold-backed African currency called the "gold dinar" for oil trade. Hillary Clinton's own leaked emails confirmed this was the PRIMARY reason for intervention 8/

Every country on Earth needs dollars to buy oil. This lets America print unlimited money while other countries work for it. It funds the military. The welfare state. The deficit spending. The petrodollar is more important to US hegemony than aircraft carriers 6/

My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜

Restarting this little project.

The website is budgetcycling.uk. There’s various guides that I wrote a few years ago that do need updating, but hopefully the general principles still apply.

Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela.

All it takes for evil to thrive is for mediocre world leaders to say “I’d rather not say”

Cars aren't the solution regardless. We have to move away from cars and fully transition to public transport.

You could write a whole master’s thesis on this post

This leaves me wondering how many other countries are on Trump's "to invade" list for 2026, and whether the UK government will oppose any of them.

Dear random angry UK persons: Yes, the Venezuela thing is awful. It doesn’t give you license to abuse people with North American accents in London. Rather a lot of us agree with you and some of us have voted with our feet and/or are part of the resistance

sssshhh but leadmojo.co.uk/smelt

Singers and musicians born on this day include Marcel King, Bernard Sumner, Cait O'Riordan, Robin Guthrie, Mark Hollis, Beth Gibbons, Michael Stipe, Tim Wheeler and Martin McAloon 🎂 🎤 🎸 🎂

The problem with this is that usually the disinterested *also* fund production and consume art. Because even slop costs. But if you don’t care very much nowadays, you can just have endless slop for free. So only real fans pay, and the base level funding of these industries collapses.

What flavour of patriotism is calling for Trump to kidnap the democratically elected leader of the UK?

Just a reminder that listening to BBC World Service in the mornings is far superior to listening to the Today programme. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Latest from me in The Guardian: about how Farage, Jenrick etc won't be beaten until their delusional version of the UK's past is exposed. And why this should happen in the culture (a la Rock Against Racism) rather than through, say, Keir Starmer speeches www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In 1887, British forces kidnapped & exiled the King of Opobo in today’s Nigeria. British Palm oil traders had persuaded the government that the tariffs he imposed restricted their profits. It was a milestone in the Scramble for Africa and indirect rule by Britain. alanlester.co.uk/blog/antisla...

hey remember climate change? didn't it have something to do with... oil? I'm sure it can wait.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has criticised the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro on X, calling it an 'act of war' and saying the 'blatant pursuit of regime change' affects not just those abroad, but also tens of thousands of Venezuelans in New York.

The truth is that statistically more people always don’t care than love… everything. Art, politics, music, film. The disinterested outnumber the avid. But it’s the first time they’ve industrialised catering to the apathetic to this extent, and threatened to quash the alternative, with menaces.

We have to fight back. It’s CAMRA time, people. Aggressively reject it. It’s not Luddite. It’s caring.

Found this laminated and zip-tied to a railway bridge today. Thought "oh, that's interesting!" Went over for a closer look, and it's fucking AI slop. The bigger words are words, the rest are nonsense. Why?! What is this for?! What did the people who made it think they were *DOING*??

“Ladies and gentlemen. I suppose you’re wondering why I’ve gathered you all here today… Now, I do not say this lightly but… one of you… is the murderer!”

This is exactly why I get out on the streets. And actually it benefits others too - it was lovely to see people coming out of their homes to wave and applaud our recent March for Unity through the most multi-ethnic part of Oxford. Just to know someone is taking a stand gives hope.

Realised what’s unsettling for me about AI prose, art etc escaping into culture. It’s algorithmic, so it’s an average of what most people think is probably OK. Therefore when it’s shared, it shows statistically that most people don’t care if something is any fucking good. And that scares me.

Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"

I am not going to go into politics or current news coverage. I am, however, going to emphasise you cannot trust your own eyes. Images will be generated and manipulated. While image manipulation has always been part of war, the sheer scale is new.

Buddy, hope left the building, went to lunch, had 4 margaritas and a bloody mary, got into a fight with the server, was tossed through a window, severed an artery, had its leg amputated, spent three nights in ICU, got divorced, defaulted on the mortgage, and is living in a van down by the river

You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

This targeting of an individual International Criminal Court judge is mind-blowing

‘Warm Spaces have also been set up again across the capital in libraries, churches and community spaces for people to get a hot drink and stay in the warmth during the day time.’ #libraries #homelessness

jfc