the right to peaceful protest (even when you don’t like the cause or the protestors or how often they do it) is not a gap in the law, it’s called living in a free democratic state.

somewhat related: I was talking to a guy who works in healthcare while waiting to fly to VB2025, and he said they're worried about what looks like a growing number of multiple AI generated profile responses to paid medical / psychological trial adverts

This is an amazing thread!!!

Oh look! It's Jenny Jones aka Baroness Jones of Moulsecoombe This is what I mean about the Greens needing to bin the old guard

wake up babe, a new (old) paper on "artificial intelligence" just dropped! it's got that extra tasty vintage typography too (1976) fulltext: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

TIL

I promise: nobody read “waffles” as a lighthearted inside joke w/ the team about upcoming moderation systems. If folks are hurting your feelings, making you defensive or making things un-fun, *say that*! You can be vulnerable. But don’t fuck up the potential with petty shit when people are hurting.

There's a really great MinutePhysics video about the aesthetics- and physics-based reasons for the number of wind turbine blades: youtu.be/pgqkti7yePk

Omg I missed this lesbian lore

🔥 Cori is running. #mo

You’ll note Keir hasn’t even bothered with a throwaway statement how disabled people should be treated with dignity

Yup. And with Ramsay and Chowns it would have been the same radio silence that we had before. Zack is making waves.

All four of these Bonds look like they're cruising

This this this

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

I'm pretty firmly in the "there are no right and wrong answers when it comes to moderation policy" camp, but there is definitely a right and wrong way of handling that responsibility and well

please enjoy this helpful guide, which makes a lovely companion to our episode about Tom Mitford. also, one of them recorded a kazoo cover of right said fred with maya angelou but we won’t tell you which one til you listen to the episode m.youtube.com/watch?v=d4TL...

Squeeeeee - cannot wait! Loved it in NYC earlier this year

And this is why you never ever give them an inch. Migrants deported for crimes > Reform suggesting fly tipping is enough. Reform of ECHR > leaving ECHR. Removing citizenship for dual national criminals > removing for a UK national only They will never be satisfied

the marketing of this book is WILD once you see which Mitford it is

This is why social media is good (for all about it that is bad).

Here’s a thing I’ll add, as someone who’s been there: if you’re the CEO of a platform with millions of users, you don’t get to have as much fun on that platform, period. And your job is to eat shit every time a legitimate critique of policy comes up. That’s the gig. Don’t sign up if you aren’t game.

Keir Starmer seems to forget that even before the internet and social media people could compare and contrast the different messages he gives to different audiences

Remember this from Jack Straw. Classic. 2009.

Ladies and gentlemen, I commend unto you the potato duck so magnificent, it's almost a swan

No, you see when I said it was racist I was talking to you. When I said I was going to make migrants suffer I was talking to them. You're listening to the wrong bit! That's not for you. Of course you're not going to be happy if you listen to the bits that aren't for you.

I know to the media and politicians it’s policy and words and a rather one sided debate but here’s a reminder of how all this anti migrant rhetoric makes people feel

There is no such thing, as Starmer well knows, as a "golden ticket of resettlement and family reunion" for people who have been granted refugee status. This is meaningless guff aimed to play to populist fantasies that refugees get provided with everything. 1/ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

🚨 UPDATE 🚨 The news is in, and it’s good 🚫 GWD, the anti-trans lobby group led by four disgraced expelled members, has been denied a platform at Autumn Conference They tried to strong-arm the party with legal threats in order to spread their transphobic agenda But the party stood firm 1.

"You'll be alright, what are you complaining about" first of all, I am allowed to be concerned for others, thank you very much, second of all, what makes you think I'm safe?

this was *exactly* my point yesterday when i said don't get too excited about starmer's novel anti-racism schtick. the conference plays to the labour core, not to daily mail readers. so we got what he thought *they* wanted to hear. then he walked off stage and resumed copying reform's homework

the UK is ranked 55 out of 56 nations for family reunion rights for "other migrants to the UK" because the *government* did that. do i need to buy starmer a hot dog costume www.mipex.eu/family-reunion

It’s almost as if - HEAR ME OUT PEOPLE - British politics continues to prioritise eloquence over reality. One of my favourite observations is that a lot of Lobby journalists - the FT’s being honourable exceptions - are like dogs. They respond to tone but not to content.

I hope this catches on and becomes his legacy

An important thing that is often ignored about Mamdani: he's cheerful! Taking the city's (and country's) problems seriously doesn't have to mean projecting nothing but darkness and rage. His positive vibe is an unbelievably effective way to make the tent bigger. As is fun/dorky stuff like this.

If he replied saying "mr pope is my father" I would convert to catholicism

Loving that @thehighsign.bsky.social has @princecharlescinema.com shoutouts on the culture gabfest for the second week in a row!

Tomorrow! www.theonion.com/badpedophile

And let me just add that you should come to Manchester and study with me and my excellent colleagues

YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH I DELIGHT IN TELLING PEOPLE THIS IS THE SAME DUDE There's always equal numbers of 'pfft, everyone knows that' replies to 'WHAT??? THEY'RE WHAT?????' and I think that's lovely!

farage has repeatedly made claims that people with permanent residency can bring "aunties and uncles", that international students could bring their mums etc, even after he'd been told they couldn't. that seems straightforwardly racist to me

I was reminded yesterday that Bill Burr once did a bit in his stand up, a long time ago admittedly, calling Beyoncé out for doing gigs in Saudi Arabia. What I’m liking about this situation is all these men can just shut the fuck up if they ever mention “woke” ever again.

That Boris Johnson fucked up is no surprise but Vallance and Whitty not taking note of what other countries were doing smacks of extreme arrogance

Oh really? I’m SHOCKED

Wait I thought he wasn’t racist anymore after that one speech?!

You also won't stop Reform by not calling their supporters racist, and it is a lot less characters than "gullible xenophobic pricks". Yes, people feel disadvantaged, and have good reason to feel that. If you support clearly racist policies though, don't get the hump if you are called a racist.

I was furloughed from HHS in the 2013 shutdown, and the language we were permitted to use on websites and in email autoresponders was studiously neutral. Not even a hint of a whisper of blaming one side or the other for the shutdown. That’s what the Hatch Act required. And it’s still law.

The English in 1685: ehhh Americans in 1776: absolutely not Katie Miller:

it is so important to Anthony Kennedy that everybody be nice to the Supreme Court justices who are simply doing their part to consolidate white wealthy Republican rule and there's no need to get snippy about it ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...