It took ~9 months for Farage to go from disavowing mass deportations to promising them, and then 25 days to go from promising them to expanding that promise. At this rate I really dread to think where this policy will be by the next election... bsky.app/profile/sund...

Also: how on earth can university staff encourage their students to steer away from the bland generalities of AI if they are required by administrators to reduce their own feedback to the same AI slop?

Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Email the Home Office now: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...

If I was Manchester United I would simply not implode spectacularly for the amusement of others

Update: Cooper now says she “agrees with local communities that all asylum hotels need to close”, but in an orderly way. Once again telling racists their concerns are legitimate, offering a prissy technocratic solution which won’t satisfy them, no word of solidarity with refugees affected. Abject.

The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.

We wanted change - and this is what we got. Labour will leave Government, after only one term, having achieved nothing beyond delivering the country to Reform

I'm not going to repost any of the insane antisemitic conspiracy bullshit that grok is spewing today, but it highlights how absolutely essentially is that we not let LLMs become a form of epistemic grounding for our society.

No other investigative platform solely dedicated to football. Would be a shame to lose these guys. Roll up. josimarfootball.com/2025/06/03/a...

Josimar needs another 1000 subscribers to stay afloat Its remarkable staff/contributors consistently chase down stories that others can't or won't If you really want to stick it to the crooks, spivs and hucksters running football, click here 👇https://josimar.no/campaign/straffekonken-er-i-gang/

So one of the things that really really keeps me up at night is you know all those climate agreements? The ones whose goals we aren't hitting? The ones meant to limit warming to a survivable couple degrees? They all assume we develop a way to do this economically at scale, predicated on nothing.

When he became Labour leader, I took Starmer for a cautious, pragmatic, tough-minded person; a man of principle, just not mine. But I was wrong. He's a bullshitter - a weak man, unanchored by a set of beliefs and values, who has already abandoned anything but short-term headline chasing.

So, a two thirds decline in flying insect numbers in UK since…2021. If corroborated, then holy 💩. It’s happening, right now. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

Screenshot from here, the most terrifying article I've read recently, which is really saying something: www.cbsnews.com/news/bee-dea...

Yeah it shouldn't be on Bleeding Cool to keep this in the public eye, there should be constant media pressure about it. It's not a hard story for them to get behind. bleedingcool.com/comics/briti...

Stunning new visualization of global temperatures since 1940, from @hausfath.bsky.social www.theclimatebrink.com/p/visualizin...

Wow. "The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has appeared in court accused of accepting bribes in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament that would benefit Russia, a court has heard."

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!