It's almost certainly a cover-up and I hope it comes out just how they managed to get their printer to pretend it was their fault.

How many national flags have overt political symbolism? They didn't ban the hammer and sickle back in the day did they?

Really sad to hear that First Monday is shutting down after 30 years. It was one of the first journals devoted to internet research & fully open access: no fees, no paywalls, and authors retained copyright. My very first publication was there in 2004. End of an era. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

If the voters of Denton genuinely want change, the only vote is Green. Until the established parties see there are votes in community, unity, humanity, empathy, respect and decency, they'll continue drifting to the right wing, chasing the votes of bigots.

Such a great thread about privilege. It is not strictly in this thread but what I take from it in part is ask yourself regularly "how should I behave so that people would like/respect me if I didn't have the privilege characteristics I do?"

This is one of the most ambitious wealth tax proposals I have seen - payment would start at roughly $10m of wealth. To be clear - this is an excellent idea @greenparty.org.uk could be more ambitious here...

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Everyone so excited by the Apple Lockdown mode in WaPo reporter story tends to skip past "So they unlocked her Mac and read her signal conversations there" part.

An important read: 1) to learn in detail what this government intends to do to people wanting to live in the UK permanently. 2) To help you think through the nasty consequences of these proposals 3) To help you craft an effective response to the government consultation www.gov.uk/government/c...

This is a fantastic listen. If you didn't know it, it's because it's a fragment only recently agreed to be his work from within a larger co-authored play. It definitely deserves to get more of an audience! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Tho...

Where I live now, a single inner city golf course (crazy, I know!) is being redeveloped to potentially allow 1,246 housing units (and that's not at v high density). That's 16 years worth of housing (at current building rates) www.engagestjohns.ca/100-logy-bay...

"...golf courses in England [cover land area] slightly smaller than housing... The architect Russell Curtis has calculated that the average hole on a golf course [...] could accommodate 100 homes. Building on the capital’s golf courses [= housing for] 345,257 people” observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Kent found unsurprisingly you can't find much wasted money in a local government system starved of resources for more than 10 years...

Location: near Tesla's flagship London store in Tottenham

@deadder.bsky.social nails it. Democracy dies in darkness indeed. Although there is still some light...

this administration is nothing but fucking wreckers.

There's a one hour special on Nigel Farage and Reform UK, and whether they are ready to lead, on BBC2 Presumably, there will be a similar one hour special on Zack Polanski, and whether The Greens are ready to lead, as well?

maintenance mode

Like I said before, turns out that misogyny and racism were the actual “conspiracy” all along

TIL via @jimmywales.bsky.social on @economist.com they were able to run a tool that checks whether an ISBN is real across Wikipedia to check for AI hallucinations. What a great tool that would be for teachers too! Is this built into academic misconduct checkers? shows.acast.com/theeconomist...

Of all the things in the history of the world that definitely did not happen - this is the pinnacle.

"We want to stop them bleeding people dry." The Green Party want to see stricter regulations on gambling to reduce harm. Nigel Farage thinks gambling shops are great places for lonely people to hang out... What do you think?

Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know. I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro. 1/8

Mistake I see most dem elected officials making on social media is acting as journalists and telling us about the bad things done by this regime. Not their job. Their job is to tell us what they are DOING about it (specifics only) and tell us what they need US to do to help them fight.

Sadly this idea that immigrant people should be used, then discarded when the state no longer wants them is becoming the norm in Canada and the UK as well. Even when newcomers agree in advance this is gross exploitation.

This is about where I would sit if I was in the US. Violent revolution would be giving Trump what he wants. Instead confront the American public and elites with the horror of what Trumpism means, make it impossible for them to use the levers of state oppression then do a "second reconstruction".

I think it is OUTRAGEOUS that people are LEAPING to the conclusion that some our post prominent Americans are child rapists when it is EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE that they are simply indifferent to whether other people are child rapists so long as those other people can offer them access to power.

Really this is such idiocy it hardly merits a takedown, but if you are looking for one you can use to swat this down next time it come up, may as well bookmark this thread...

Had to smile in an otherwise gloomy @volts.wtf podcast to hear @michaelhobbes.bsky.social explaining reactionary centrists seem to think "you have to let ordinary people be a little bit racist as a treat". Cathartic to hear a rant from the *actual* centre. www.volts.wtf/p/all-about-...

Becoming increasingly convinced that humanities academics need to clean up our own house before admins or students will listen to us about AI in the university. LLM text in publication = automatic reject. Using AI to grade or lesson plan = major ethical breach. People should lose tenure for this.

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V disappointed with @dalevince.com at @ecotricity.bsky.social calling heat pumps “shite” when each new one installed displaces decades of fossil gas emissions. Other green electricity suppliers are available. www.thetimes.com/article/6f45...

The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.

Turns out that Bari Weiss's all hands at CBS today is to announce she's bringing on some anti-vax guys and Niall Ferguson. www.axios.com/2026/01/27/b...

How tf is "student barred from the local cos people them annoying" a paper of record national news story level event. It is wild how the Gender Critical lot in the UK are just playing on easy mode with the press, all the time, and yet persistently claim to be oppressed.

🔴 NEW: Amsterdam Defies Last-Minute Lobbying to Become First Capital City to Ban Fossil Fuel Ads www.desmog.com/2026/01/23/a... 📝 @ellen-ormesher.bsky.social

Outrage spilling over outside the usual spaces when ”Normie” Americans learn they can’t avoid politics anymore (better late than never)! Though the real and terrifying crime is the repeated immediate and unsubtle application of the “big lie” from the top down to continually justify these actions.

Was hoping this would be from the NYT Editorial Board. Not yet?

Really want the academics and think tanks to start churning out pdfs on what tribunals and truth and reconciliation commissions look like. Political leaders are absolutely not going to come up with this on their own. Would happily take time to help write and edit any of that, too.

Thinking more about this and it's not just the stakes of the moment, but about what comes next. So many people think things will eventually return to normal. They haven't come to the realization like so many of us have, that we need Nuremberg trials, Truth and Reconciliation, and Reconstruction.

I think I see an opportunity for a reprint. If not a reskinned 4th edition. Board games have their own parts to play!

It has gotten so bad that the @nytimes.com has stopped using the passive voice to describe the violence.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

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It's not exactly the 30s again, but history rhymes. Rising fascism. Environmental disaster. The 1% hoarding wealth and the 99% struggling. Democratic socialism is the answer: we won medicare, pensions, public housing.  We've got plenty more popular ideas today. We're gonna start winning again!

Not really @matthewlbishop.bsky.social 's fault but still entertaining - shows how impossible it is to predict Trump's mood. This AM in his Observer Davos Diary a bank CEO at Davos is jealous that JP Morgan is "untouchable". This afternoon Trump sues JP Morgan for $5bn. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/22/t...

ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door. It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!