You probably don't hate tech companies as much as you absolutely should do

Sam Neill. A great actor and also seemed to be a great human. Remember that program about space he presented for the BBC? I haven't seen it since I was a kid but it stuck in my memory cos he was great in that. And I loved him and his wee duck. RIP the world is a poorer place without him in it.

Dawn Foster died five years ago on this date. I really miss her and I think about her every day. If you’re new to her work or want to introduce it to someone, this was the best tribute written about her: tribunemag.co.uk/2021/07/in-m... Dawn Foster Forever

I only knew Dawn through Twitter; she was one of life's good ones, was so intelligent & witty, & sadly departed way too soon. She knew the measure of the Tories & their cruelty,& the danger of Farage & his ilk. I would love to have read her thoughts on the Labour Party, & the UK as it is now.

Evil Hat organizes RPG charity bundle in support of Rae Nedjadi www.rascal.news/evil-hat-org...

"America’s extreme right wing is by far the country’s big problem, and it’s hard to address that problem when powerful elites insist that the trouble is with “both sides.”" newrepublic.com/article/2125...

ok this one got me

This is why cities need trees. Hard surfaces and parked cars can reach extreme temperatures, while shaded grass and tree-covered areas stay dramatically cooler. This is the urban heat island effect in one image: hard surfaces absorb and radiate heat, while vegetation and shade reduce it.

So far I've only seen Rashida Tlaib take a stand. Andy Ngo gave a snarky reply and his minions are following it up w a ratio. FOX News reported her statement in shocked tones.

The peak temperature in 1976 was 35.9°C That doesn't even make the top 10 of UK record temperatures. The 1911 record stood for 79 years The 1990 record stood for 13 years The 2003 record stood for 16 years The 2022 record may be broken this week, after 4 years 2/

Let's start by saying: Yes, it was very hot in 1976 Yes, it lasted for several weeks Yes, it was accompanied by a drought that lasted many months Yes, it was an extraordinary event Which is why it has stuck in the British consciousness BECAUSE it was so unusual And yet...

Commentators who gush about a ‘King of the North’ softie will not remind us that James Purnell tried to scrap the interest free element of the crisis loan to leave people in dire straits paying 20% interest. You hire people like that to inflict pain. bsky.app/profile/poli...

Do be aware that Stanley is incapable of walking back from a blunder. Angry centroid

Turned on 5Live this morning to find Nicky Campbell insisting *to a random member of the public on his phone-in show* who was mad about Starmer hiring Mandelson, that the appointment had “not cut through outside the Westminster bubble”. UK political media discourse is wild

If you read the thread, you'll note that actually, many replies overlap quite consistently. It's funny how unaware he is that he's demonstrating the problem that people are trying to explain to him. A problem Upton Sinclair articulated pithily some time ago.

Then came a new flashpoint: the "islands of strangers" speech. Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters reacted strongly against it, with Starmer losing net positive favourability among 2024 Labour voters for the first time, while receiving absolutely no credit from voters on the right.

Truly amazing that Israel worked their asses off to oust Joe Biden (probably the best friend they’ve ever had in the White House) in favor of a guy who would follow a bee out of a penthouse window if he thought it liked him.

One second from every scene in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace.

"what did teens do before social media!" My group mostly got drunk, high, smashed random things up, caused a nuisance in Tesco, loitered around car parks and set fire to our hands. Pretty sure parents don't want their kids to be doing that too

Using the BoE inflation calculator - my dad bought an ex council house for £40k in 1988. It should be now £115k according to that website. The last valuation was £650k.

Mandelson helping Epstein make a killing at the expense of this country is symptomatic of a wider malaise among leading Labour politicians.

Jake here would have been totally in support of slavery, of tom crow, of apartheid, of the Holocaust, by his own logic. Sadly I don't think logic ever comes into it with these guys. They take whatever position allows them to feel good and superior and everything else falls in behind.

And I’ll tell you what would shock *you*, reader, is how often somebody gives you their honest opinion on weighty topic (x) and it’s just the last thing they read or heard about it repeated almost verbatim, as if it was their own deeply considered view. Hell, I catch *myself* doing that, sometimes.

Can I just ask (please be gentle with me, I’m genuinely just asking) why has this not really been getting much coverage or discussion? It’s an absolutely appalling story, and it shouldn’t take a Zack Polanski retweet to highlight.

There are no COBRA meetings and meeting leaders. Starmer didn’t use the word “racist” in his statement. Andy Burnham promises exactly the same. The dereliction of duty, mealy mouthed responses and victim blaming towards the UK’s 10 million Black and brown as we march towards fascism is devastating

In case you hadn’t seen, yesterday afternoon, a 4 pages long list of extremely detailed addresses to target started to come out of far right pages. We have all come to PPR’s conclusion: where we’re told is just pure chaos, is actually coordinated, organised and directed violence. It’s terrorism.

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

The reluctance among media outlets to specify that these pogroms are the work of far-right loyalist thugs is particularly weird, given that they sign their work! The LVF spray tags on the houses of the people they burn out, whether Catholics, migrants or refugees. They've done this for decades!

Strangely, this attack failed to provoke nationwide anti-white arson and pogroms, nor did multiple MPs express their concern. Happened just around the corner from me.

Cool story lads, let’s take a quick look at newspapers in the year 2015, shall we

I will point out that the Prime Minister felt that the assassination of an American YouTuber required him to release a formal within 30 minutes of it happening at 11pm on a Friday night. But race riots in the UK itself aren’t worth his time

Jess Phillips always more eager to get on TV than to actually understand literally anything

Hate march Protest 👇 👇

These Star Wars Chess animations on the SEGA CD are freakin' wild. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEH6...

My favourite part about this affair was when the article’s writer Tom Newton Dunn tried to delete all reference to this from his Wikipedia entry and pretend it didn’t happen, only to fail miserably

"In one recent poll, respondents judged Blair less worth listening to than Boris Johnson. No, his sole audience, the sole group of people who consider his counsel valuable, is the political and media classes." Good piece by Aditya Chakrabortty www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's notable that when the left, even the mildest democratic socialism, might gain power liberals immediately swing into action and tirelessly implement an intricate strategy to stop it. But when fascism is at the door it's, alas, utterly utterly hopeless.

A racist instigates a race riot on BBC and receives no pushback, other racists conduct a race riot and get fawning coverage in the UK papers, while non-white Brits with left-wing politics are excluded from the BBC and left-wing protests are demonised in the media. This is a two-tiered society

If you suggest police officers shouldn’t kick people in the head, you’ll get the chief of the Met condemning you on national television. If you say the police are institutionally racist against whites and suggest people should riot, you’ll get invited onto a BBC couch to expand upon your theories.

I find it hard to believe that Hasan Piker is a more immediate danger to civil order in the UK than Israeli football fans who incite race riots wherever they go. Just one of those things where you look at who's getting preferential treatment and wonder What's Going On.

This chart is bonkers. I think there's two possible explanations for why the UK runs so far ahead of other European countries – neither of them good. And the annual April price jump speaks to a wider issue. For more detail, see my column in this weekend's Observer. observer.co.uk/news/busines...

For the U.S. “regime change” always was about changing an “anti-U.S.” regime into a “pro-U.S.” regime, not an authoritarian regime into a democratic regime.

The lines around NYC fill me with an ancient, primordial rage houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/stop-the-m...

amazing this is not a skit

"The Truly healthy body will respond to a gunshot as you or I would to an orgasm" Masterpiece

One of those "[Group] would like to be like everyone else and just have to think about making ends meet" things, where the problem is not [Group], but the people making them scapegoats. And as so often, at the moment, those people include the Cabinet.

HELL YEAH!! Sending all my love and support for the workers at Dark Horse Comics. Most of the comics I've worked on have been published by DH and none of it would be possible without the highly skilled workers seeing these projects through to the end.