surprised they get any business tbqh

to quote the old bernard righton joke ‘what a fine example of an intergrated community’

This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.

Drones now breathalysing whales www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

Putin is out to destroy the UK and Europe. If we don’t accept that, we’re doomed. Some Boxing Day cheer from me in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/luke-mcgee-p...

The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

We love #joy and #savor every moment, The 10th Noel Carnival in #Syria.

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and please complete your mandatory e-learning by 31 December.

This has made me cry - such an uplifting story

Merry Christmas

Kyiv on Christmas Eve. I film these moments to show you our strength. We haven’t lost our spirit in this long war.

The US is not our friend.

He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.

This is what sand looks like under a microscope. Amazing.

Immigration salience has less to do with aggregate Immigration numbers than - visibility of boats & asylum > visas - general vibes about integration - elite cues from media & political discourse in shaping public perceptions This is more true when immigration is falling then when it is rising

Thanks to both @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social and @lewisgoodall.com for having this conversation and not limiting it to solely male influence. There are plenty of toxic people both male and female (& AI) skewing young minds.

How bad is it for Russia on the frontlines? They launched an attack on Dobropillia today, led by men on horseback, followed by motorbikes and quads. Ukraine’s 1st Azov Corps wiped them all out in 2 hours with artillery and drones, as well as a bunch of armoured vehicles. It’s the horses I feel for.

Quite a good read. Even if think you're not particularly interested in the early history of PC hardware, it's worth it for the people aspect. In that sense, it reminded me a bit of Heinlein's "The Man Who Sold The Moon."

“The last-minute christmas rush at the bookshop.” - my latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

the two genders: melee and ranged

Happy solstice, everyone

"Results indicated that LLMs often proposed inferior treatments when patient race was explicitly or implicitly indicated, though diagnostic decisions demonstrated minimal bias."

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

Reform’s Chris Parry doubts the Britishness of Sir Lenny Henry too

FOR SALE: picture PRICE: 1000 words

...and about time too...

Just completed final watch through of the finished ROGUE TROOPER film… 25 years of pestering @2000ad.bsky.social to let me give it a shot, 3 years of production to make the thing & now… it’s DONE! Can’t wait for you to see it. So, so proud of our team. We’ve made something a bit special. ❤️

Suspect some female Tory MPs are quietly dying inside at this. When you’re so desperate to get in a bit of gratuitous foreigner-bashing that you find yourself arguing *against* preventative strategies that try to prevent sexual violence, ffs, what have you become?

Must read thread by @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social .

Watching Chris Hoy doc on TV and first 3 minutes echoes so much with me. #fuckucancer

Uh, Kemi, I went to a secondary with three non-white kids in it and when I was 11 I was regularly surrounded by all but one of the boys in my class, shoved up against a wall and groped. Of course it is possible that British boys’ behaviour has improved since the late 80s. I hope so!

Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.

Welcome to the UK where a right wing academic seeks to defend a man who wrote: 'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.' By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"

A lot of this is because Google is absolutely NOT a source of traffic for publishers now. It hoovers all their content up and recycles it out as AI summaries. Then people don't click through. It's another dimension of Big Web eating itself.

95% of people never agree on anything looks like we've found something to bring us all together across differences

The BBC getting screwed over by the Far Right they empowered is a depressing example of consequences.

Three days ago Starmer was arguing that the UK shouldn’t think about rejoining the EU because it would unpick all these great US trade deals.

Keir Starmer needs to stand up for the BBC against Trump's outrageous $5bn lawsuit and protect licence fee payers from being hit in the pocket. Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.

Reskeeting with alt text Yeah this has become the utter pain of what we once had. Used to be you'd run to Google for a trusted and quick search and now I try to avoid it when I can Legit ruined their own product to the point of being unrecognizable

“Europe faces an existential choice: build genuine technological sovereignty now, or accept governance by platforms whose architects view democracy as an obsolete operating system.” Labour needs to wake up (and treat Palantir like the plague).