Today we're in London marching with the Green Party bloc as part of the @togetheralliance.bsky.social against the far right. We're marching for love, hope and unity as a counter to the hatred, despair and division of the far right. Time to show the world who we really are! togetheralliance.org.uk

While our American cousins take to the streets to protest against Tяump's authoritarianism on No Kings Day, we're marching in London to prevent his divisive politics being imported to the UK. I'll be playing a few songs in Whitehall around 2:30pm www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is an incredibly readable and thought rich piece. Very much worth five minutes of your day.

I'm not a believer in the Great Man Theory of History, but there's a certain credibility to the Fucking Idiot Theory of History. And a Fucking Idiot may well just have got us all into World War Three. 6/6

"How does one hate a country, or love one?" Ursula Le Guin always out there expressing my exact feelings in trying times.

This is ghoulish and needs to be reversed immediately. That the censor claims Soul Music by the late, great Terry Pratchett "may include sexual material, violence, abuse, substance misuse, or psychologically distressing themes" shows they've no fucking clue what they're talking about.

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Feels like I just sat in a meeting on the Titanic about what our iceberg avoidance requirements were, whilst steaming full speed ahead less than 1km from said iceberg. And everyone was just going with it (with varying levels of WTF on their faces depending on how informed they were).

ME: oh a little Zohran video for St Patrick's Day, probably just celebrating Irish culture, maybe a few green beer jokes ZOHRAN (2 minutes in): ...and that's why King Leopold I of Belgium is a big wet bitch. Furthermore...

Wes Streeting is planning a Cass review for neurodivergency. We are the latest group targeted for public punishment in Labour's vain quest for rightwing support. Lives will be ruined and lives will be lost if they get their way. Please sign this petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Remembering Terry – in our hearts and on our bookshelves. #TerryPratchett

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

I lost quite a lot of today trying to work out why a bunch of #m365 apps stopped working, on multiple devices. Eventually tracked it down to Microsoft CDN being listed by Google Safe Browsing (res.cdn.office.net which resolved to res-stls-prod.edgesuite.net.globalredir.akadns88.net)

"I would do anything for my grandchildren"

I only had a ChatGPT account for test queries I ran out of curiosity, but I've still cancelled my account, because regardless of what you think about the technology, supporting an organisation which is bankrolling authoritarianism is a choice, and it affects real people, so do this one small thing.

I think the shift once people realise a vote for the Greens isn't a wasted vote will be massive. People have been crying out for politicians they can trust for years, now there's a viable option which doesn't leave a bad taste in your mouth.

Watching Channel 4s #DirtyBusiness about the absolutely shit state of our water industry, and whilst rage-researching one of the most egregious offenders, Sir James Bevan, I spotted a petition calling for removal of his knighthoo, why not join me and sign it? www.change.org/p/remove-sir...

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

Gorton and Denton by-election result: GRN: 40.7% (+27.5) REF: 28.7% (+14.7) LAB: 25.4% (-25.3) CON: 1.9% (-6.0) LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1) Green GAIN from Labour.

Since @networkrail.bsky.social did something to our local cell tower when they were working on the line, every morning I roll a D20 to see what bandwidth I'll get. First good roll for two weeks!

Well worth a few minutes of your time I humbly suggest 👇👇

Can I suggest that everyone disgusted by Farage’s shameful treatment of @annasophiegross.bsky.social follows her en masse? Let’s show her our support, solidarity and that we stand with her, and every other journalist, who is doing their job and holding all politicians to account.

I'm definitely experiencing some nerd cognitive dysfunction. After nearly two years on the boat with stable connectivity using a FRITZ!Box 6850 5G router I've had a week of intermittent and protracted outages. 1/3

Just going to leave this here

Ratfcliffe is a billionaire Brexiteer. His a football club is full of migrant players. When he talks about “colonisation” he’s talking about all black and brown people in the UK. People who do more for their communities than a billionaire who steals from them and trashed the economy they live in.

So our local mobile phone tower is apparently offline again so I'm connected to one 3.2km away, which probably means as a boat dwelling water gypsy my Teams calls will suck today. Might need to pop in to my local cafe again (any excuse!)

Those taught to hate unions must also hate having sick pay, weekends off, annual leave and health and safety laws.

The dude whose company, thanks to Labour, will run our military analytics and to whom Wes Streeting is giving our personal healthcare data.

We're off to our local repair cafe at Buckden Village Hall, lots of people booked in to extend the life of their bikes, electronic devices, clothes and tools. This is Nat's first time running the event, something she's wanted to do ever since we came across the idea in Devon in 2020.

I'm surprised it's taken this long, but today I had to do my first slop rebuttal, where someone made a confident statement based on output from Copilot, and it failed to pass even the most cursory examination, or comparison with observable reality.

There's a one hour special on Nigel Farage and Reform UK, and whether they are ready to lead, on BBC2 Presumably, there will be a similar one hour special on Zack Polanski, and whether The Greens are ready to lead, as well?

Am I the only one who finds the data and evidence around greenhouse gas emissions from the UK government to be heavily focused on how we've reduced omissions since 1990 and much less focused on whether we're on track to hit our targets for 2050? 1/3

So happy to see this, a working class socialist to represent the people of Manchester as opposed the 1% represented by Labour and Reform. Go Hannah!

It's quite worrying the SoS is equating learning how to prompt in 20 mins or under with diagnostic uses of AI in healthcare. I also still can't really believe govt is investing in universal training in proprietary tools. That Microsoft koolaid must be pretty intoxicating

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just stopped myself before I tried a firmware update on my @[email protected] StarBook at 22:48 when I'm tired and about to go to bed. Definitely need a personal tech change freeze after 9pm.

I've never in my life felt hope like this. I was 6 when Thatcher came to power and screwed everyone, I've never known anything other than neo liberalism and profit before people. Let's try something else, why not?!

A real shame if this photo went viral again today.

Some crypto/tech types want to build a major new city on agricultural land. With no experience in doing any thing like this. Hmm. Sounds familiar. Where have I heard this one before?

I've written an end of year substack post about tracking Trump, where we are ending the year and some implications for Europe and for me personally... christinapagel.substack.com/p/personal-r...

The Labour Government refused a 1% asset tax on the super rich, yet raised taxes on people already struggling. All whilst their "black hole" turned out to be utter nonsense. Active choices to refuse to fund our communities which they desperately need. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Having used my #Fairphone5 with @calyxos.bsky.social and @fdroidorg.bsky.social I'm struck by how much better the experience is compared to my (work) Android Samsung Galaxy A16. If you want to retain that freedom of choice sign this petition to stop Google taking it away c.org/XQBckBYV9W

A lot of dogs don't like vacuum cleaners, some are petrified. Not so much our dog, he's completely unfazed.

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know." Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."

Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported. www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/

I swear if I hear "We need to capitalise on AI" one more time I'm going to flip the table. This whole industry is a masterclass in snake oil sales, they've convinced a whole class of 'leaders' that they have to use it, without it being of actual use to 99% of them.

Interesting that (a) he didn't feel able to give a categorical 'no' in response to the question & (b) he answered a completely different question to the one he was asked — from which we may draw the conclusion that he did not want to be pressed about _current_ RefUK MPs &/or members & Russian bribes

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk