#Ukrainians show how their lives have changed over the past five years. 📷: chorna_lyudmyla / Threads

I've written in Health Service Journal today: Not another protracted Labour government U-turn. Wes Streeting must act now and cancel the Trump/Mandelson Palantir contract. NHS workers are voting with their feet and refusing to take part in this national disgrace. www.hsj.co.uk/technology-a...

Good read, although the point is succinct. AI currently cannot replace workers. That's not the reason for the layoffs. There are two reasons. 1. CEOs want to make it look like they've replaced workers with AI for credibility in the tech. 2. AI costs money. So do people. CEOs are picking one.

If only they had some sort of clue that he might not exhibit Christian values before they voted for him. www.themirror.com/news/us-news...

Like Farage, these people have no problem influencing the elections of other countries whilst building political capital on telling foreigners to keep out of theirs. www.bbc.com/news/article...

They are absolutely terrified aren't they? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If you thought the KitKat heist was bad, you should hear about the McVities one. It really takes the biscuit.

I'll start worrying when Microsoft Teams starts working.

Why is it that the parties/governments that call themselves Christian are almost always heartless, ruthless and indifferent to human suffering? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The Ikea chatbot is intolerably bad. Like... pre-LLM bad, and it's definitely using an LLM.

Well that's all well and good Keir Starmer, but maybe a person would be more effective.

I mean it's cute that they're trying.

The other day the vet put my cat in a straitjacket to take a blood sample and honestly I thought it was a bit much. Today I tried administering his new medicine orally via a syringe and I've now decided he needs full Hannibal Lecter getup.

Still stuck on ADVGA. 🥲

Looking at tech news, company leaderships have evolved from "everybody should use AI to do everything" to "tokens are expensive, be careful what you use them for". I suggest engaging with developers better. To facilitate that, maybe exude less excitement that you might be able to replace them.

No matter how hard I try, my brain will always think "Bussen" is the German plural for "Bussy".

For context, last night I saw the cops blue lighting themselves all the way from Motzstr down to my street in order to... stop some teenagers celebrating too loudly. Really super glad my taxes are going to something so important. 🙄🙄🙄 www.rbb24.de/panorama/bei...

The draft-dodger has opinions huh? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Is it because they're gutless, unprincipled, and finally terrified that their moderate voters will leave them? www.bbc.com/news/article...

The only real restaurant option at the airport I'm changing flights at has meant I'll forego a proper meal till I get home tonight. Probably severely unhealthy spite levels when it comes to Jamie Oliver, but there we are.

Proposal to all airlines: If you board by boarding group and a large number of people create a queue beforehand that makes this process impossible, that queue gets penned off and boards last.

Wenn Friedrich #Merz von gemeinsamen Anstrengungen spricht...

I've been in Romania now for 1.5 days and I want everybody to know I'm a slut for Papanasi ❤️❤️❤️

Meanwhile, in Berlin... 🫠

Fuck he's good.

I really don't understand the Chalamet hate. Like, I've genuinely got no skin in that game, but it sorta felt like everybody was waiting for him to slip up and say something dumb so they could pile on. Is there something I missed?

And time for Haribo to rebrand to "fat boiled off the remains of the bones of a dead animal".

If plant-based foods must be more 'honest', let’s do the same for meat – fancy some ‘cow-muscle tissue' or 'pig belly'? By Deirdra Barr www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NGL, I'm done going on anti Nazi demos to stand alongside people who are doing little more about this whole situation than turn up to demos. And it sorta bites that I'm still waiting for the German state to grace me with the right to vote after nearly 9 years of living here. Leckt meine Eier tbh.

That's the problem with dick-waving contests. When you actually get your dick out, people see for themselves that it was nowhere near as big as you said it was.

*slaps buzzer* People you 100% would never want to come to your defence. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

"Live every day as if it's your last" is actually really bad life advice.

18 year olds being put under criminal investigation for a mild insult on a protest sign. Accusations of dirty campaigning simply because someone surfaced an actual video of the politician in question using his own words. You will never find a thinner skin than that worn by a CDU/CSU type.

Fuck no. Absolutely not. Cut disability benefits but give tax dodgers a get out of jail free card?

Still one of the only legislatures in the world to give automatic seats to senior members of a religion though, right? Abolish the whole rotten institution.

Are we sure it wasn't for coke. (Source: Guardian)

NGL, the way the CDU is right now, I wasn't entirely sure it was satire until I checked the source.

Having one of those months where I really need to convince myself not to move to Canada.

Blair's at the age now where it's practically impossible to get erect without an illegal war.

Is this the galactic equivalent of "she's probably trying to call me"? www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Die FDP in Bawü gerade

Can anyone remind me how much taxpayer money Liz still regularly gets for the matter of weeks she served disastrously as PM?

Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

This is the Surreyest article I've seen in a while. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ugly American stereotype in living color:

Wondering if the media would've chosen "honored" as the verb if Obama had saluted fallen soldiers in a fucking baseball cap