I dislike having a cold.

It’s not big and it’s not clever.

I really enjoyed the call from my wonderful daughter, tonight.

Nice. What a great bunch of guys.

This is the creature Wes Streeting thinks should be trusted with your medical data.

❤ #CirleofLoveForWombie

It’s going to be a deeply unpleasant country if Reform ever gain power. All sense of compassion, decency, solidarity and humanity will be destroyed. It will be Thatcherism on speed and we need to stop it from happening.

Hacked

Wondering where you went wrong often leads to the conclusion that you didn’t. I wasn’t offered a job when I really needed one, but the founder subsequently snuggled up to Nigel Farage. Dodged a bullet there.

Where did all the warmth go? 😳

Proper cold, this morning.

If BBC News was a hotbed of left-wing wokery producing *systemically* biased coverage Jeremy Corbyn may well have been elected Prime Minister in 2019. It’s not. He wasn’t. And we got Boris Johnson instead.

Perhaps Starmer could offer Trump the opportunity of an unedited interview with Emily Maitless, as right of reply 🤔

They suspended Sarah Kendzior. That’s sinister.

It was a simpler, more innocent time.

Just as with pretty much everything else, we should expect the Labour government to learn exactly the wrong lesson from the BBC fiasco.

When the history of this time is written, this will probably be the moment there was no return. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #musk

@chatrinao.bsky.social true?

Something I learned, through direct observation, while working in heavy industry, is that capitalists are perfectly willing to exploit you to death, then pay corrupt professionals to cover it up.

Not a lot to say.

Republicans want to go back to a time in America when black people were slaves, Indians were openly slaughtered, and children of poor worked long hours in factories

Good morning ☀️ Another day to say that the anti-migrant hate agenda is just dust in the wind because history is clear that immigration is a major pillar of advancing civilisations.

The wellness industry is suspiciously like white supremacy in yoga pants.

Listen, don’t watch. Appearances can deceive.

No Kings was great. Now actually get rid of your king.

Now that Blair has admitted meeting Epstein in 10 Downing St, when he was PM, there must be: 1) correspondence on the arrangements for the meeting; 2) minutes of the meeting and 3) presumably some sort of security/background check. We should ask that this be placed in the public domain immediately.

I stopped sounding the alarm and issuing dire warnings when I realised we’d arrived at precisely where I feared we were heading. And here we are.

One of the first things I can remember learning, as a very small child, is how utterly interesting some things are. Lately, mostly what I’ve learned is how utterly evil a lot of people are, yet they still expect to be respected. Being very small was better.

Goodnight

Summary of this morning’s BlueSky timeline: the evil dudes are still doing their random evil.

I feel like I used to be clever, 20 something years ago.

I also found a free workaround for the paid-for Riverside software bug that interrupted my work, this afternoon.

Amusing half hour, this evening, with the chaps from Amazon’s Kiro AI team in the US, via Zoom. I feel I was able to demonstrate the egregious flaws in their software. Let’s see what they come up with.

Dug out my old preliminary patent application documents from 2003-2004. So much stuff I had forgotten. It feels like I’m reading with fresh eyes.

I had about three days worth of work to do planned for today. I did a third of it.

The powerful people behind the scenes pulling the strings appear to be in the grip of a serious psychosis.

It was great to have lunch with my brother from Australia, who I haven’t seen in 10 years.

The difference between a millionaire and a billionaire is near enough a billion dollars.

Social media has led to arguments and polarisation of such magnitude that this is threatening social unrest which could be a pretext for the establishment of an authoritarian state with unprecedented levels of surveillance. But you are such a lovable bunch of scamps. I can’t stay angry with you all.

I still feel guilty for not doing stuff today. I hate colds.

The good souls are losing. Badly.

I’ve had a lovely day. There was steak, port, cheese and the very best company.

I got birthday greetings from a girl who still remembers the time we sat on her back steps talking, on her 5th birthday. Another from a girl who was born on the same day, in the same ward, in the same hospital. My bandmate, from when we were 10, also wished me a happy birthday. Happy times.

Name the artist: “The frustration is not really just about the fact that she, as an individual, is failing to speak. The frustration is that she is the most successful product and producer of a culture that systematically rewards the refusal to see, name, or disrupt systemic harm.” 1/2

When somebody can still proudly declare they are a friend of Israel and will always be a friend of Israel, they have shown you exactly who they are. These people want your votes. That’s when you get to show who YOU are.

I wish I could believe that the culpable will be brought to justice. Unfortunately, over sixty years (or more) of history amply proves they never are. And yet, without justice, progress is impossible. That’s where we are.

Thinking sane, rational thoughts has been criminalised.

If that ID card thing has been cooked up just to enrich the Blairs by a few billion, just give them the money and leave the rest out of us out of it.

It says something when 467 citizens from 46 countries can be illegally taken into custody from International Waters and the worldwide media say nothing, absolutely nothing at all. Radio silence. And we all know why.