"The newly appointed Minister for AI is expected to meet with the Minister for NFTs, Lord Blockchain and the Secretary of State for Pogs this afternoon."

American Food Discourse? A) American food safety standards are insane (1 maggot/250ml of fruit juice) B) The only lettuce they eat is Taco Bell.

Andy Burnham's plans to 'find common ground' with other parties will go down well with Ken Skates' Welsh Labour. They've already started voting with Reform and the Tories.

The Bench of Bishops of the Church in Wales has today released a statement about the EHRC Draft Code of Practice. Mae Mainc Esgobion yr Eglwys yng Nghymru wedi cyhoeddi datganiad heddiw ynglyn â Chôd Ymarfer Drafft yr EHRC. www.churchinwales.org.uk/en/news-and-... #ChurchInWales

We can but dream.

Mae Llywodraeth y DU wedi dod â Dur Prydeinig i berchnogaeth gyhoeddus. Roedd hyn ar ôl iddyn nhw weithredu ar frys i achub gweithfeydd dur yn Scunthorpe y llynedd. Ond cofiwch, ni wnaethon nhw'r un peth i Bort Talbot. Cymunedau Cymru sy’n talu’r pris am safonau dwbl Llafur.

The Americans are using native kids to train their sex robots.

Just a quick reminder of how completely fucking batshit the National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO) definition of "Left-Wing, Anarchist and Single-Issue Terrorism" (LASIT) is.

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

I think High America will be remembered as a plane culture. Invented them, fights with them, President lives in one, etc. GRRM recreates this in fantasy

"One Day in Manchester", our report on the violent policing of the anti-fascist protest against 'Britain First' in Manchester on 18 April, launches today

Steve Reed declares that transparency is important when it comes to political donations The same Steve Reed who helped co-found Labour Together, the organisation which between 2017 and 2020 broke electoral law by deliberately not reporting £740,000 of donations.

Sloppy, arrogant, entitled, disrespectful. And wholly unsurprising. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Famously a deeply caring family man, our Nige.

It's almost like trying to retrofit a presidential system onto San Steffan makes it seem "ungovernable" and results in repeatedly replacing the quasipresident, or something.

Well Well Well, Guess Who Wishes They Used More Alt Text Now, Huh?

Moonbuilding Weekly Issue 115 is out now and it's a good 'un. moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-115-...

In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services. Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt. While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn. That's how privatisation 'works'.

Lately, there’s been a lot of worry over game discs. But did you know there’s one disc that will never let you down? That’s right: I’m talking about Aten, the disc of the sun— the only god you’ll ever need to worship.

Burnham is Labour’s version of Boris Johnson Crowned PM without winning a general election. Hailed saviour of a party having a breakdown. Playing the man of the people. Trading on vibes not policy. And all about his curated image. Like Johnson it’ll end in disaster In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

My favourite bit of political gossip is that since the Senedd election the Green and Reform MSs are having to share a kitchen. The Green MSs have been filling the fridge with stereotypically Green Party items like oat milk and hummus because they know it annoys the Reform MSs.

Also working-class autodidacts didn't just read alone - they read in groups, set up libraries and reading rooms, and battled for Mechanics' Institutes (many long ago merged into unis) to teach music, history, and politics. They built the public adult education infrastructure that's being destroyed

NEW: Andy Burnham's Scotsman article pitching to Scottish voters is a "tartanised copy and paste job" of yesterday's statement complete with major errors about Scotland, it has been claimed Let's take a look ...

Andy Burnham has advocated for decentralising power from Westminster to “the regions”. But Wales isn’t a region, we’re a country. Plaid Cymru will ensure Wales is treated with fairness and respect, and continue to fight for powers over rail, the Crown Estate and justice and policing.

As someone who very strongly believes in thorough reform of local (& regional) govt in Scotland, from powers to structures to local taxation, those are questions for Holyrood. Not necessarily the (presumed) incoming PM, whose party were hammered in Scotland a month-and-a-half ago.

We have a new 'could be worse' cartoon :) www.facebook.com/CouldBeWorse...

Ok. He's had years to think about how the devolution settlement works and he comes up with: 1. Open a govt office in Manchester 2. Take powers from the Senedd and give it to councils. No mandate. Imposed top down from the centre despite 2 referendums mandating the Senedd. 1/2

Hilarious to see a week's worth of discourse about "devolution" when they mean English local councils.

Some help required. Daughter lost her very special to her Coraline Cat (pictured) at the Kneecap Crystal Palace gig on Saturday night last. Incredibly long shot but means a lot to her. Any and all help very welcome. Pictured at the gig and previously visiting Big Ben.

Quite a lot of people lost someone, maybe an elderly relative, during the heatwave. My Aunt Barbara, very ill with advanced dementia, died yesterday aged 91. She was unmarried, no kids and I had been taking care of her affairs for the past few years. That’s the least interesting thing about her. 1

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

Now, this is the stuff I'm on bsky for.

Last of the Salute stock of our Antifa Love Minis shirts are in the webshop now. We will be reprinting later in the year but these are available to ship now!

All packed for UKGE! I'll be booth gremlin for The Wonder Burrow at 4-T16 (along the entrance side wall) but I'm hoping to slip out more than once to engage in mischief.

nice to see that everyone's former shining hope of parliamentarism and his party mate complaining about his sexist clique can put their differences aside to put in for this year's rape cult festival

Aargh, why didn't I think of office air conditioning yesterday? This is like an icebath. I'm not leaving.

I like @stephenking.bsky.social's analogy. Talent is how big your knife is. Craft is how sharp you can make it. Robert E. Howard had a honking big knife but had to smash things instead of slicing them because he hadn't sharpened it much.

Happy Threads Day from Sheffield, where I’m sure nothing bad is about to happen.

Squamous is a rules lite cosmic horror TTRPG with everything you need, including a scenario, in just a few pages. Consider throwing in a donation if you feel like it trollish-delver-games.itch.io/squamous

OK, but the Pope citing Gandalf is a very clear and specific "fuck you" to Peter Thiel specifically.

clipping the new encyclical to farm engagement

Merry Whitsuntide!

My rabbit is fed a steady diet of dan-delly-ons from the garden.

It was kind of Robert Jenrick to set me up for an obvious joke at his expense.

Aldi has some cheap painting accessories at the moment

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade and Grogu.

It is IMO not much more complicated than: when the financial crisis obliterated Thatcherism as a viable model of governance, our ruling class chose Johnson, Starmer and finally Farage as infinitely preferable to admitting what they had done to the public.

Caroline Lucas and Andy Burnham were in the closet making proportional representation and I saw the proportional representation and then the proportional representation looked at me.

All this six genders stuff is silly. There are essentially three genders plus a 4% chance that you have one of fifteen much rarer genders.