Idea: Trojan Horse your grant applications. In the grant mention something about mining asteroids for gold, or how you will be dissecting a live immigrant to prove they are evil, or whatever else aligns with the views of a manchild-dictator.

Rupert Lowe's X post mistaking charity rowers for asylum seekers sparked a large number of angry responses on X, including several calls for violence against the asylum seekers www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

For Lowe to try and virtue-wash this as "being vigilant for his constituents" is despicable. He's wasted police and coastguard time and resources, and stirred up alarm and anger by broadcasting baseless nonsense via social media. That's not serving his constituents.

A short paper worth reading - What's Left of Responsible Innovation After Gaza? Ecocide, Epistemicide, and Genocide in Occupied Palestine by Mario Pansera. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sleeping Man Flanked By Laptop, Phone, Earbuds Like Egyptian Pharaoh Buried With All His Treasures

The full list of all 18,500 children killed in Gaza, in video form. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Public reminder that the Wayback Machine is handy in times like these: web.archive.org/web/20250711...

Disgusting people. I hope they're all dragged to the Hague.

Been doing an audit of the kinds of clients I've been working with over the past few years, and couldn't help but notice that they're all fairly short (I reckon 5 ft 5" or less). Couldn't figure out why - and then it dawned on me!!

PS: You may have read this story already. The BBC ran a version of it yesterday We shared our FOI docs with their reporter and press office. Their response? To publish the story - our story - without even notifying us. A £6bn public broadcaster selling out a tiny investigative newsletter. Nice. 😔

As much as it pains me: If this law annoys big tech enough to flex its political muscle; then I’m behind it even more so. Time to draw the line on big tech

Marx with glowing eyes etc

Idea - we implement the Truman Show on Trump. Make him pretend he is still in the real world. It's all just a fiction though. As a bonus we can all tune in on some secret website and continue to watch his madness unfurl.

I am *quite* surprised at the number of alternative, radical-thinking people and movements which have happily made use of Substack as their web platform of choice. (FWIW - I'd go for Ghost if I had to recommend an alternative).

I think it really should be emphasised that what happened here is a tall woman approached a 14 year old to ask if she needed help, and the mother, not the girl, freaked out and is now calling for a ban on trans people being allowed to work with kids.

I've been doing some work recently for an investigative environmental journalist platform - and I can't help but feel a little like detective Jack Frost. (I even went through a phase of looking to buy a 2nd hand Volvo 240 Estate on eBay) 🙂

There is a new Chotiner interview that really underscores what is unique about Israel's genocide in Gaza: it would be very easy for the world to stop it if only a few countries wanted to.

It’s almost as if Brits elected a centre-left party who enacted far right policies [penalising ppl with disabilities, banning protest, persecuting Queer ppl & making the Equalities Commission into an anti-minority star chamber]. Fun fact - 9% of the population are Queer & 1 in 5 ppl has a disability

Brass Eye Noel Edmonds vibes here (someone should check on Clive Anderson)... 👀

If you have a website that publishes content that might be deemed political - or could harm someone's reputation - you might want to check the Removals tab in Search Console to keep an eye out for 3rd party removal requests (see Outdated Content tab). This is based on a very cool article I read...

A toi! - A moi! - A toi!

Charlie Hebdo cover from a few days ago featuring Benjamin Netanyahu: "Honey I shrunk the kids" is the headline. I saw this on Reddit (very briefly) on the frontpage yesterday - I do believe that finally some content acknowledging the genocide of Palestine is filtering through, very slowly.

Think about every pro-Israel person who denied this was the plan for the past 22 months; who gaslit you; denied this to you; pretended this wasn't the plan. And then never believe those liars about anything ever again.

The entire population of Gaza facing imminent extermination or expulsion – Western governments must finally stop collaborating and act

I learned about a new variety of Avocado at the weekend called Avozilla... and I think finding and growing this variety will be my next lifelong mission 😎

WHEN IS IT NOT SMALL BOATS WEEK THO?? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 When is it wealth inequality week, eh?? WHEN DOES THAT COME AROUND?

Quite enjoyed this one 😊

This what Israel has done to Gaza. Forbidden pics by a Washington Post photographer whose Jordanian air crew didn't pass on Israel's order to only photograph aid being dropped. City, suburbs, schools, people: bombed to rubble. People being starved in makeshift camps on road roundabouts. #Genocide

I know they're fluffing coal here, but trust me when I say that this PR is sexist and rape-y. It codes resources as female, to be used and exploited. This is not love. It's "grooming." And to hell with whomever gets hurt, right?

Mildly interesting: one of the most viewed (and edited) pages on Wikipedia during June? 📅 - Zohran Mamdani See: pageviews.wmcloud.org/topviews/?pr...

Recently there was a great article on how Google search had been exploited to censor certain content - this was covered by journalist Jack Poulson but also the Freedom of the Press Foundation. I found an interesting cause/reason why this "bug" worked, which has since been fixed 🧵...

Whatever my own views on all this proscribed organisation stuff, I am more than a bit uneasy about the argument - which I'm seeing EVERYWHERE - that basically amounts to "They can't be terrorists, they look just like me".

‘The path to solving hunger, disease and poverty is Al and robotics’

it feels almost cruel to actually check the claims from these guys bc it's like hunting dairy cows with a sniper rifle, but it's important imo bc a surprising number of people read and re-share the stuff they put out thinking that it's good progressive, pro-climate stuff (it is DEFINITELY NOT)

New: Palantir's CTO and several early employees are raising money to launch Founders Films, a film and TV production studio that aims to "say yes to projects about American exceptionalism, name America’s enemies, back artists unconditionally, take risk on novel IP.” www.semafor.com/article/07/2...

Growing avocados at the moment (first time my tree has beared (born?) fruit!) Since noticing tiny fruit this took around 2 months, and there's still more growing to be done. The tree is around 5 years old (an estimate). Purchased pre-grafted, Hass avocado on an unknown (likely) Mexican rootstock.

Nida' Ibrahim reports on the dehumanisation of Palestinians in Israeli politics, media and society in the context of a report published by Btselem this week describing what Israel is doing as genocide.

So in the UK, there's a new report from the NESO - their national grid operator. Looks like they expect a ~3x growth in data centre demand by 2030 (!).

Just another reminder that Elon Musk is a white supremacist.

Via Defend Our Juries just now: High Court Grants Full Legal Review of Palestine Action Ban in 'Blow to Yvette Cooper' Full legal review set for September. High Court cites ‘recipe for chaos’ if legality of order isn’t reviewed as soon as possible, according to Defend Our Juries

Did Google Search Console always just show "Overview" as the title tag (any SEO's remember?) - might be handy to show the domain/property URL here too...

The moment I knew Remain campaign was in a bad way when I was invited to a “get out the youth vote” meeting in Downing Street with tech bros/yoof media. Cameron walked in to ask ideas and an older person started shouting in a very posh voice… “GRIME ARTISTES! DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY GRIME ARTISTES?”

Learned I have been blocked today by a hero of mine 🫠 Never really understood people who block (surely just mute if you're bored of whatever they've been saying?) I know I go on about Palestine but... rather speak about it than ignore it 🤷‍♂️

“Israeli army officers have been allowed to study at a British military academy in central London throughout the Gaza genocide” At least 2 Israeli colonels have attended the Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS) since 2023. One of the soldiers only graduated a fortnight ago.