Probably the best thing Rachel Reeves has ever done.

Farage thinks he can make an investigation go away by briefly standing down, but he hasn’t read the standing orders.

I'll tell you the other thing about physical discs, you can wrap the fuckers up for birthdays and christmas. "IOU one copy of Lego Batman" doesn't have quite the same childhood-making memories and I suspect sales will suffer as a result.

I am this cat

If the pope is working for the Chinese, Thiel is working for Satan himself.

"There is no such thing as society": still very much the ethos binding the UK political and media class together

Rewind back to an interview between Zack Polanski & the Day Time TV presenter known as "Ed Balls" who took exception to Polanski calling him a “Labour politician” and accusing him of bias. "I lost my seat in 2015 & I’ve not been a Labour politician for 10 years" lamented soon to be Labour Lord Ed.

YOUR REGULAR REMINDER THAT THE UN DEFINES GENOCIDE AS "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a group... [including] Causing serious bodily or mental harm.. .. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part..." Yes.

Reminder: it is still *illegal* in the UK to rip a legally bought and owned CD to MP3 on your computer. But Google will likely convince the UK govt that every creative endeavour should be available for it to remix and regurgitate, entirely for free. One rule for the public; another for megacorps…

Basically "we thought we could just ingest data and design happens". If you ever wanted to know why AI will fundamentally fail at doing the things CEOs want it to do, it's because CEOs that haven't come up through the field somewhat recently are generally fucking clueless about work.

Once again, for all the warm words coming out of Manchester today, a key indicator of whether he really wants to change the way this country is run is going to be whether he sacks Mahmood

Weird how the right both believe Thatcher's council house sale is the best policy in history and that anyone who benefitted from it is bad and wrong.

theyre not “predictors” theyre gamblers, hes trying to get 18-34 year olds addicted to gambling

Editors, a tip for your style guides: instead of ‘devout Christian’ use ‘member of an extreemist Christian sect that hates gay people’. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Instead of removing trial by jury, fix shit like this.

this is ...totally intentional, friends. and next he's going to start casually mentioning in passing that literacy tests for voting weren't the worst idea and he also has been thinking about separate water fountains a lot lately

Microsoft blaming the rising costs of computer components after spending $146 billion dollars on AI investments

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

I’ll take a guess it’s not to advise on how to implement effective lobbying regulation.

The Norwegians have the right idea.

All future consoles may cost a bare minimum of $1000 but at least you can ask chatgpt if it's raining outside

In the end, there were just a lot more human rights abuses than I was expecting from the human rights lawyer.

I'm open to being corrected but my perception from abroad is that there is very little Keir Starmer did during his tenure that could not have been a Rishi Sunak policy. If you sweep away a wildly unpopular government and then emulate it, you will eventually inherit their unpopularity and then some.

Bored of all these stories about the hot weather. Summer this, heatwave that... You'd think the whole world revolves around the sun.

‘Keir Starmer condemned the attacks, saying the suspect appeared to be motivated by "anti-Muslim hatred". "My thoughts are with those who are injured and I thank the police and the emergency services for their response,"’ he posted on the anti-Muslim hate web site. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨 New research by us! 📣 Most British drivers don't know how dangerous SUVs are to other road users, but adding information to SUV marketing materials seems to do almost nothing to change people's plans to buy SUVs Here's a 🧵 on why harder action is going to be needed 1/10

It wasn't just framing. It was who got to speak. As coverage turned, trans voices in the stories dropped sharply while opponents of trans rights rose. By 2026, opponents were quoted more often than trans people themselves. Trans people were spoken about, not to.

Some pretty stark graphs in here.

In accordance with ancient tradition, our next Prime Minister is announced to the nation while standing between a furry and a man with a bin on his head.

My main worry is that we’re banning social media for kids but not AI. So you can’t speak to real people online anymore, kids, but you sure can talk to your fake artificial friend who weirdly loves to talk about taking your own life!

Accurate.

Group of teenagers lurking outside a Curry’s trying to bully you into buying them an iPad so they can go on Pinterest

Palestine Action is not like the suffragettes, it’s true. Because one suffragette threw a hatchet at the prime minister, while another bombed the chancellor’s house.

'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'

Kudos to the Verge calling it as it is. Their boss Nilay Patel @reckless.bsky.social has been also surprisingly one of the biggest AI industry sceptics and calling it essentially a scam for a while now. Exactly the energy we need rn.

Hi! I'm Bret Rhett Chet, here to tell you why you should buy and hodl SpaceX stonk. For a mere $135/share, you get pro forma tangible book value of $7.85/share, an immediate 94% dilution. New investors are putting up 48% of all capital ever invested in SpaceX in exchange for 4.2% of the shares. /1

I remember when the manual of our first ISP said it was considered poor netiquette to have an e-mail signature of more than three lines.

It does take quite a lot for me to want to be on Keir Starmer's side, but a bunch of warmongers having a tantrum because we won't give them welfare money to spend on tanks will certainly do the trick.

Elon's father is in Moscow with Tommy Robinson right now as he incites these pogroms. bsky.app/profile/esqu...

The Germans have the right idea.

What vexes me most is people who don't understand that reference libraries are entertainment

'Faking the moon landing is a good step toward faking a Mars colony, but it’s not a good step toward actually putting astronauts on Mars.' www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

I’ve always wanted to be Rupert Giles when I grow up.

So the police force accused by Nigel Farage of "anti-white racism" is over five times more likely to target black people for stop and searches than white people The figure is higher than the average for England and has got worse over recent years www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Did he post that on the official Labour account that is still running on X or his own Personal account that is still running on X?

Reminder that Klingons say TRANS RIGHTS BRING HONOR TO YOUR HOUSE

I think about this a lot.