I hope there is at least one MP with the courage to ask the government to justify the frankly bizarre contracts being awarded to Palantir by HMG in health, justice and defence. The NAO and Parliament need to get involved.

Historically, either the justice system handles murderers or other people do

Heard the sad news about Sly Dunbar on the school run of all places. I don’t even really know where to start with his immeasurable contribution to music and, well, everything, but watching him at work is best. Here’s Sly and Robbie in action with Black Uhuru at the Rainbow in Finsbury Park in 1981

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

Sly Dunbar and Billy Bass on the same day? 2016 was bad for orange turd and deaths, 2026 is looking ropey in a parallel fashion.

So anyway is diminutive fictional character Greg Bovino based on Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw?

Kwik Fit's Thought Sommelier said my offside rear tyre might have a rich inner life

This is the part I cannot fathom. Nothing matters unless we can address climate change. But no government is doing anything like the work needed to save civilization.

I don't normally get aroused by junk mail, but I got off to a flyer this morning.

TikTok is getting people to self-serve pink triangles.

I just got multiplr strikes for saying his back was turned.

#TikTok has begun censoring anti-Trump and anti-Ice content

RE: that student arrested for eating AI "art" – Sorry, do you suddenly have a problem with ingestion without consent?

You might ask why Labour seems fixated on giving Palantir contracts for police and health in the UK?

I quite enjoyed One Battle After Another but there was absolutely no need for the Sean Pennis scene.

Every non-hype defense of LLMs starts with "you must already understand your work really well." Vibe coding isn't being done by those people. It's being done by execs who are making a prototype because it is now easy to do. This kills the systems of intention and maintenance necessary for good UX.

I’m really quite surprised at the BBC website today. ‘Here is a video, some people say it does not show what it very obviously shows’ is not how you report this.

Btw this will happen in the UK And all the demonstrations and collective work like shouting warnings, blowing whistles, demos, is already illegal. Remember the coronation? They had police arresting volunteers who escort women to safety at night “Because they might be protestors tomorrow”.

I'll tell you what's up: <points to Trending> it's the death squads

So how do we do this? We are not trying to convince people they are wrong. We are trying to weaken the systems that keep them certain.

The second reality is that media ecosystems are not neutral information channels. They are loyalty machines. Fox, X, and right-wing influencers are not merely spreading misinformation. They are stabilizing identity, hierarchy, and social cohesion.

They may say facts do not care about your feelings, but their lived truth is the opposite. Their feelings do not care about your facts.

The task for political leadership now is not just to tell the truth, but to make people care about what is true and what is not.

They know what they say is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. The media know that what they repeat is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Their supporters know what they are told is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Telling the truth is not enough, unless people care about the truth.

The nurses are pissed

James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

The residents of Peach Trees had more due process than the people of Minneapolis.

I'm on the Streets of Rage diet. You can only eat roast turkeys you find in phone boxes you've smashed to bits. I'm fucking starving.

For Jim Moir/Vic Reeves' birthday, a reminder it's thirty years this year since this advert.

I keep being reminded of the Paul Merton sketch where he’s the Chancellor of the Exchequer and he announces that he’s put all the budget on a horse in the 2:30 at Chepstow called ‘The Stumbler’

Been absolutely level for weeks but the thought of travel for work in a couple of weeks has started to destabilise sleep already. Wtf body you're ridiculous

Found this in some old photos: the cartoon that got my biggest twitter numbers

The New Yorker wanted this but I said I’d put it up on Bluesky at half 8 in the morning instead.

Reminded by neighbour this morning that about 10 years ago I used to do Yorkshire superhero Batleyman for daughter, a crime-fighting butcher with a strong regional accent and an array of stunning chops.

Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

Yeah Bad Manners are best forgotten with this shit. One of those songs that just shouldn't be played in public again, you can switch to the test card #totp

She might not feel the benefit but if the sprinklers come on she's sorted #totp

Most of the 80s gays were pretty critical of heterosexual music #totp

They say "Visage" and you're expecting faces but it's all nipples #totp

Tender is the worst Blur song don't @ me #totp

I don't mind One Week, mostly as competitive karaoke. Shout out to the late Mark Longair with whom #totp

Is this ep entirely Blatant Hanson Cash-ins Differentiated Only By Three Years In Age? #totp

How Ian Brown had a career in music is absolutely beyond me #totp

Obvious Hanson cash-in. DRINK #totp

omg I tune in and it's Debbie Harry who at this stage has still very definitely Got It #totp

"Norwich has been named among the East of England's best places to live in The Sunday Times Best Places to Live 2024 guide." 2026:

Happy 40th birthday Pixies

Arrrgh can we please stop this "hovering over profiles gets you a window with an unfollow button in it" nonsense in the year of our lord 2026

yeah no giving most of my earnings to a big robot whose cost will probably get even worse: not a great pitch replacing me with the big robot which still needs expert guidance *of some kind* in order to do useful work, also not a great pitch