Somebody needs to do a study on the number of Leeds supporters on Bluesky. Is this platform radicalizing football fans?

Why does confidential data often mean being subjected to the worst user experience imaginable? Surely there are better options than a janky remote Windows installation. #databs

Yesterday I bought the dip and became an American citizen.

Peter Mandelson was either going to be sacked or the first president of a new American republic. Let's see how this plays out.

Good column on its own terms but the way out of this crisis isn’t through the traditional political horse race.

This is a colossal waste of resources.

I have talked to these people. They’re terrified fools whose mental schema of public opinion is worse than you could ever imagine, who cling to consultant reports because they don’t know what to do and it feels safer than trying to fight back. As bad as you think they are they’re worse.

Democrats are actively refusing to treat Trump’s military campaign against American cities as a crisis, because they’re in thrall to a bunch of idiot pollsters who tell them to only ever react to Trump across a tiny range of kitchen-table issues. The Democratic Party is a huge part of the problem.

90% of elected Dems do not know how to fight, do not want to fight, did not run for office to fight, and are not smart enough or principled enough to fight. They entered office so they could fiddle with policy and feel important, they want to hide until it blows over, and will find excuses to do so.

The resignation was probably inevitable. It's been done very efficiently and sensibly. She'll be back I hope.

She showed that a single mum from a council estate can become deputy prime minister, while vaping and going clubbing. She's a threat to their narrow-minded buttoned-up classist bullshit.

Rayner is absolute class. She's been a bit silly in organising her taxes, but that's not why they hate her. They hate her because she did not know her place.

Trump

I've got a blog out today on @alpsblog.bsky.social about flipped learning: why and how I do it, what the students think and a bit of advice on how to go about it. Let me know your thoughts! Thanks to @roberttalbert.bsky.social for the prompts! activelearningps.com/2025/08/11/f...

It looks like one of those dead privately owned "public" spaces.

reminds me of those grey floor home remodels

I was very surprised to receive a "pre-read" from someone's AI transcription service today. I happened to be in an earlier meeting with this person's bot, I didn't opt-in to receiving anything from the service. #ai #annoyance

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

One-note.

Spotted in Washington, DC.

Hugh Muir recalls the response of London Mayor Ken Livingstone to 7/7 from Singapore. I agree that, despite his flaws & failings at other times, that this was an important message www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When did the term “fan activation” leave the marketing planning meeting to become the public-facing name for things? I’ve noticed it most around sports events but I’ve also seen variations used to refer to municipal events. It feels really cynical.

Balancing moderation and ideological goals is important and not simple. But it’s hard to run a healthy political party when your major donors and congressional leaders hate their voters and get most of their political worldview from Twitter.

This will be a disaster. Governments at all levels have far too many political employees as it is, they operate in a repeating series of electorally mandated coups d'état.

I hadn't considered this possibility until now. 👍

My unoriginal comment is that this will not end well. Easier to start wars than end them, let alone on your terms. (As Hamas found out). Unforeseen consequences. What’s the Israel/US strategy for the day after? Do they even have one? I have zero confidence in Trump’s national security team.

I think about this figure a lot.

Thank god that’s all over with. Now we can move on with our lives

[Martin Tyler voice] And it’s live! #TheIranWarDidNotTakePlace

Churchillian.

FIFA Club World Cup followers = crypto-Trumpers

I haven't followed the detail of this legislation, but I'm happy this has passed as I support the principle of assisted dying. It is important to afford people their dignity and humanity in their final hours.

Brunch, football, migrating from fish back to zsh. Sunday.

Oh? You’re a protestor? What’s your three favorite pepper sprays?

It is very very funny that one of the few genuine ways we have diverged from EU law since Brexit is VAT on private schools. Karmic punishment for Telegraph readers.

absolute bollocks, some of them can’t even see over the steering wheel

This was painful to read. Replace the writers.

So, does @duckdb.org have stickers? 👀

A person apparently climbed on the broadcast tower that services WAMU 88.5, the D.C.-area’s NPR news station and a number of other area broadcasters, on Tuesday afternoon. A police spokesperson called the situation “still ongoing.” buff.ly/rFL7kLP

I encourage everyone to post a Father's Day card to Boris Johnson with the message: "Hi Dad! Guess who? I've only just found out. So excited. Looking forward to meeting you soon, and so is my lawyer.”

Don’t miss Washington Spirit vs the North Carolina Courage today at Audi Field. Save some dollars and avoid traffic and rideshare by taking Metro. We’re ready for you!

Is there an easy way to import datasets from Hugging Face into R using the "hf://" url? Perhaps a package? #databs #rstats

Oh look, he's already in the greatest hits phase of government. Next he'll stare directly into the sun and tell people to inject bleach. #uspol #politics.

Someone in Downing Street is watching with great interest. #ukpol

“Reform is right, vote for us.” Another typically brain dead take by Blue Labour. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... #ukpol #politics

This explains so much about why MS Outlook is the most trash software…

The in-person exhibition of student work from the Visual Writing module was a huge success and you can now see the students' work exhibited online: visualwriting.org/exhibition/ 🧑‍🎨🖼️