So, Trump's so annoyed by Zelensky saying that Putin's started WW3, that he's trying to steal that credit!

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

I would guess that schools adopting more "active" uniforms is now being reported because it's just happened at a school where a BBC reporter is a parent. My daughter's school did this about 35 years ago! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Massive own goal by Government. They've just made Reform look like champions of democracy - which they aren't. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great report here on Zack Polanski pointing out all the broken manifesto pledges from Starmer's government. From tuition fees to supporting genocide, it makes a strong case for a broken election mandate. #votegreen @zackpolanski.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk @cheltgreenparty.bsky.social

This Saturday at 8pm(UK) there's a live telling of H P Lovecraft's influential short story, "The Outsider." Just click hereL youtube.com/live/X1mkYpO... It's free-to-view, and available to watch anytime after the live broadcast. But... 1/2

Here’s what the UK Labour govt got in exchange for providing military, weapons & logistics support to the far right Israeli govt, in their genocide* in Gaza. Maybe all those Labour MPs, who get financial support from the ‘friends of Israel’ lobby groups**, might reconsider?

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

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I'm constantly revising my list of reasons why we don't use AI in my class. This one is specific to a first-year writing intensive. Free to borrow/adapt! 🙂

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Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

OK, this is amazing. An automata of Gormenghast. youtu.be/v3fyV06D1gk?...

Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

I know this petition has much more support than it currently has. Please share far and wide. Petition to require generative AI to carry a watermark and to make it illegal to use a person’s likeness in generative AI without permission. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Labour is proposing to go back to PFI to fund the NHS, effectively privatisation. This is uneconomic in the long term, even the Tories ended PFI.

Farage: epic grifter

@redstarneil.bsky.social Just seen this. Any comment?

Thought for the day: We don’t make the world less hateful by responding to things with anger and hate

Trump wanted the Nobel peace prize To honour his hate and his lies But Norway said no Which just goes to show That they are incredibly wise

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Never, in the field of UK politics, has a government made such continuous and determined attempts to alienate and criminalise people who used to be it’s natural supporters. How on earth do Starmer and co. think then can ever win back the people they treat with such contempt.

The Stockton and Darlington Railway, the world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, opened on this day 1825. Its first line linked collieries near Shildon with Darlington and Stockton. (Painting of opening day by Terence Cuneo, 1949, National Railway Museum.)

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

I will not vote for any party that doesn’t have ‘undo Brexit’ as a manifesto promise.

On the same day in the Telegraph:

I'm genuinely disturbed. I'm living in a country that is passionate about defending the 'free speech' of those who would incite violence against minorities, but equally passionate about arresting people for calling a genocide a genocide.

It's very simple. The people costing all the money, are the people with all the money. Not the people with hardly any money. It really shouldn't need explaining.

This Petition on media bias and the real need for Freedom of the press and fair coverage should be signed by millions, not 7,500!! Get off your arses folks if you don't like #Farage!!

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Clean up your links before you share them with others. It's a small and simple piece of operational security that anyone can integrate into their practice.

Someone eventually manages to get 30 “gender-criticals” (apparently most of them over 65) together for a hate-rally in Scotland. In contrast, London Trans Pride with 100,000 people of all ages. About 3,330 trans people and allies for every transphobe.

UK Homelessness minister threw out her tenants - then increased rent by £700 a month. Rent increased from £3,300 to £4,000 a month, 21% increase. As Mahatma Gandhi said: "Be the change that you wish to see in the world". archive.ph/Pcl6U

Could you help us out? It's been one of the quietest months in a decade, and partly I believe it's because people don't know we exist! Hi! I'm Annie! I run Bad Squiddo Games! We hand sculpt & hand cast 28mm scale models of women, critters, scenics & occasionally a man! www.badsquiddogames.com

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

I don’t know who made this, but it’s very cool

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

No one who voted for Labour voted for this. Peaceful protest is our hard-won historic right. Getting arrested for holding up a non-offensive sign is something you expect from Putin's Russia. There's no difference here between Yvette Cooper, Suella Braverman and Priti Patel. Totally undemocratic.

ITV are putting all of Ivor the Engine up on YouTube! Just been watching it with the baby. Well, she was asleep but I'm sure it was doing her some good subconsciously. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPae...

Proscribing seems to be the legal trickery that turns a non-terrorist supporter (yesterday) into a terrorist supporter (today) Truly sickening, politically tone deaf and ill-considered abuse of law. Possibly a new UK low but this seems to be how thick some prominent polititians have become.

What's this!? An online conference!? Dedicated to the ghostly and weird tales! Celebrating 100 years of M R James 'A Warning to the Curious'? With fantastic authors! Incredible panels! Writing workshops! Fantastic keynote speakers! Check it out!! buytickets.at/romancingthe...

Definitely a story to be written here. It explains so much!

🤬 Thames Water has paid nearly £2.5m in bonuses to senior managers from an emergency loan that was supposed to be used to help keep the failing company afloat. 💸 No more evidence is needed. Privatised water is a scam. 🤝 Water needs to be brought back into public hands.

Yesterday I went on a tour of Tower Hamlets Cemetery with @cemeteryclub.bsky.social . He introduced us to a number of people, including James Nelson who sailed on HMS Investigator to try to find the Franklin expedition. I stupidly forgot to take a photo! @finger-post.blog