"Google, give me example of a man making a second poor career life choice in a row"

Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication.

points deduction for the pitch invasion #thefootball

One of the biggest mistakes by the government was to tolerate and pander to this group. Far right extremist thugs posing as patriots, who should have been clamped down on from day one www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

It would be a real shame for this to sneak out unnoticed late on a Friday night so please be public spirited and spread the word. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

David Attenborough: “Here in a suburban cul-de-sac, a curious gathering unfolds. The Waymos, drawn by an instinct we are only beginning to understand, converge in silent ceremony. Headlights flicker. A solitary horn calls into the night. A mating dance begins”

I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote

Another good one for you @actualnames.bsky.social 😉

sad to see the spectator ran simon heffer’s deliciously provocative article “it’s time to uncancel enoch powell” instead of *my* deliciously provocative article, “it’s time to exhume and behead enoch powell” it’s almost as if they don’t want to be TOO deliciously provocative

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

A new far-right terror attack in the UK has been confirmed in court. Alina Burns, then 18, tried to behead an Iranian refugee who was standing outside a barber's shop in Bristol with an axe The attack took place on 2 August 2025 but a judge did not rule on 'terrorism connection' until today

2017: Nigel Farage in the European Parliament complaining about perceived foreign interference in Brexit 2026: Nigel Farage saying that foreign based crypto billionaire gave him £5,000,000 as a reward for campaigning for Brexit

I think this maybe the most niché bit of trivia I’ve ever heard.

"I've learned from my mistakes and I believe I can repeat them exactly." Peter Cook.

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

An app that uses AI to analyze photos of your poop and give a "daily gut health score" is now trying to sell that dataset of annotated photos of peoples' poop. Highlights the underground sale of highly sensitive, app-collected user data for AI training www.404media.co/ai-poop-anal...

BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News.

Well, that Express headline was always going to raise a few eyebrows!😳 Starmer is responsible for embracing polygamy to appease Muslims, and so he's increasing their benefits?? That's the implication. After all, this "started in April", right? Wrong! 🧵1/25

Quick reminder that Meta was founded by douchebags who made an incel app to rate women's attractiveness. These glasses are just following the douchey DNA

"I said it seems unlikely that Nigel Farage would take £1 million to throw an election then another £5 million to become an MP. What did I say Roy?" "You said he definitely did because the grifting little shit would do anything for cash"

Skeletor really looked after his teeth. The government should use him to advertise the benefit of flossing, brushing, and mouthwash.

Something very striking in the fact the markets - and I know they're different markets - are freaking out about the idea of Andy Burnham as PM, but entirely blase about the situation in the Strait of Hormuz and the fact we're about to run out of oil.

Not sure how I feel about that

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

The Daily Star have bought another lettuce 👀

It's been 16 months since I left X, and I feel so much better for it. I hadn't realised just how big an impact the daily tsunami of hate, trolling, sealioning and strategic incomprehension was having on my state of mind. I cannot understand why anyone who values their mental health is still there.

A rare perfect work of satire. “We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More Crackpots“ www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

Well this aged terribly

This tweet from Ian Murray is being shared widely by MPs who are supportive of Keir Starmer. The point about a "small 0.25 basis point increase in UK government gilt yields costs £17bn a year in interest payments alone" is a wild overstatement.

Hard to argue with him here.

The most obvious indication that no Starmer relaunch will ever work is that he's had several opportunities to use normally unprecedented global events as a platform to reframe the government's agenda and has refused to do so.

Racism is reliably dumb. But it's especially stupid to say that the Dublin Rose is not Irish enough. Half the contestants in the Rose of Tralee are American, and I don't recall any astroturf social media campaigns against them.

Iguana be your lover.

this looks like an extra tough captcha test

Starmer needs to start work on growing the beard now wp.me/p15p2Q-gJh

Well, they do say that you can pander to the anti-immigration crowd but you can never satisfy them

The perfect visual representation of the UK

Britain "at the heart of Europe", 2026 edition:

“Something rather unusual is happening right now inside Russia.” My dispatch for BBC Radio’s From Our Own Correspondent.

Farage has 3 key weaknesses on which the other parties should be laser-focused: - His insatiable appetite for money, and his willingness to prostitute his party to billionaires, crooks & tax-dodgers; - His subservience to Donald Trump; - A nasty temper, which he struggles to hide under pressure.

Europe’s best title race is in Scotland: Explaining Hearts, Celtic and a decisive week

caught bowled leg before wicket run out

An extraordinary essay linking opportunity, UBI, Einstein and microtonal rock, by @scottsantens.com. Featuring @anginedepoitrine.bsky.social, who have criminally few followers on Bsky.

The government's cowardice in failing to aggressively respond to X/Musk after the summer 2024 riots and the 2025 Grok CSAM scandal are illustrative of why it finds itself struggling even with ideologically sympathetic voters.

it’s such shibboleth of modern politics to blame politicians for failing town centres when the primary driver is - surely - all of us buying more and more stuff online

As a casual observer of our neighbours politics this is very surprising. From all the breathless coverage you'd swear they had swept all before them

A reminder that there are already a lot of European alternatives in place. Always worth exploring european-alternatives.eu when looking to buy or switch.

feels like we’re entering the phase where things MPs would have liked if the PM said them a few months ago - get closer to Europe, find a fancy way of borrowing for defence spending - are now just exasperating them. It’s like the stage of a relationship where even their breathing annoys you.