A Manchester school used AI to deem which books to ban their children reading, then reported their librarian as a safeguarding risk. The list of books banned is absolutely ridiculous, as is the idea that books shouldn't be upsetting.

If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.

[me telling my story how I successfully led a commando raid on a cargo ship that was breaking sanctions] it was crazy [friend who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the grinch the grink] was it onboard the grink?

"young men are far right" may or may not be true in other countries, but it's just demonstrably not true in britain. they're to the left of every demographic except young women.

I'm so glad to see this video reach bluesky. I love to see people reacting to it for the first time

exciting to be living in an era where "full automation is here rendering most forms of work obsolete" and "legitimate citizenship can only be achieved through work, even if you're disabled" are not only concurrent ideas, but actively embraced by government.

"from Ealing to Birmingham" isn't even 100 miles

People out here sucking Satan's cock and justifying it by saying their mouth is a decentralized network

starting to look like purée day 2025 might actually be back on the menu

It does kind of look like BBC staff are all shitting their pants in molten terror, every time some awkward guest says something that departs from the approved narrative, doesn’t it.

cats have decentred productivity from their lives and, in this way, are animals existing outside the capitalist mode

We have a Labour MP that battered a constituent on camera and managed to have his conviction downgraded to a suspended sentence and yet ask your MP why they do more for a foreign state than your own voters and you get the full treatment from South Wales Police and the courts.

Why does President Cookie Monster not simply criminalise chocolate biscuits

of course the service trying to pitch comedy in place of mental health services groups its events into "greater london" and "rest of UK" lmao

I've just returned home from filming some b-roll of a pond. now my head is cold so I need to win a free hat. I can only do that by participating in fishmas. twitch.tv/grgrsmth from 7pm GMT

🎣 🎣 HAPPY FISHMAS🎣 🎣 Welcome to the dawn of fishing. On December 22nd, I am holding a competition: if you stream to twitch playing Miracle Jim No Bassing Beat (1998) (PS1) between 7pm - 9pm GMT and catch the biggest fish of all competitors then I promise to send you a free Fishmas Hat That's it

could you imagine if they struck oil at ground zero and all the mourners started jumping around like cowboys. My god i want some of that oil

once we got over the audio issues, Purée Day 2024 went pretty well

this was the peak of any attempt at journalism I ever made, and it's just a long quote with a photo that says more than any editorialising ever could