At some point, for the love of God, will someone ANYONE at long last take the council funding crisis seriously?!? Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.

"People who have money are spending money. I am an economist."

This man won one of the largest majorities in UK electoral history, is a white guy who was a prosecutor and prior to the election was beloved by basically all sections of the press. The fact he's been unable to use any of this to achieve anything is incredible.

Mamdani built a mass movement in NYC around actual progressive policies. Meanwhile, establishment Democrats (who refused to endorse him) are praising a mass murdering war criminal.

“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!

Its 2017. Centrists are crying about Corbynism It is 2024. Centrists are crying about Corbynism I am now in November 2025. Centrists are crying about Corbynism.

Edinburgh Jazz Fest have put a bunch of concerts online to watch for free this month! ejbf.co.uk/pages/ejbf-o...

Your regular reminder that if you love audiobooks you don't have to support Amazon or Spotify to get them. Xigxag and Libro FM both exist, with the latter even sharing profits with independent bookshops.

For fucks sake, can people just quit it with their addiction to Amazon, Kindle & Audible? (I know AI is going to be a big part of this too, you shouldn't be using that either).

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

My rough view of fascism's rise 🧵 There are always reactionaries, in every human society They disproportionately benefit from early phases of new media technologies because mis/disinformation helps them and institutional and cultural antibodies haven't been developed

Look, it's not corruption if it's in the global north; that's just sparkling malfeasance. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is what Israel is. And so long as we arm and otherwise support them, this is who we are as well.

Lads, I don’t think “We were fooled into doing genocide by mean fascists who outwitted us effortlessly” is a winner

Apparently our newest Nobel Peace Prize winner wrote to fucking Netanyahu for help in overthrowing the government of her own country dawg

"A library in every school" may conjure up a library, but (as usual): £132.5mln / 1700 primaries = ~78k per school. A starting school librarian earns ~£21k a year, and you haven't (re)built a space or bought books or an inventory system. So not a library then, just some shelving and books.

He’s fine where he is, regional mayor getting Manchester more choo choos. Nowhere’s really a safe seat anymore for Labour on this polling so he can’t just parachute in either. Sounds like these dipshits should’ve planned a little bit harder than “people like Andy”

I've been quiet for a while. It's been due to a number of factors, the most prominent of which is poor health. I need surgery, and I'm stuck in limbo. Please help. www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

this is an absolutely staggering dereliction of journalistic duty by @zsk.bsky.social and the BBC. It poo-poos away all the criticism of AI hype and the downsides of data centres in favour of breathless, unfounded predictions by every booster. You're making people dumber www.bbc.com/news/article...

Keir Starmer is the most shameless cowardly I think I have ever seen hold public office. An utter disgrace.

Belligerent bullies & peddlers of any half arsed anecdote that match requirements of their bigotry have always been given much time and many platforms but it just gets worse - what the hell is this “assassins bullets we’re pro trans” bullshit (times, telegraph, sun front page)

Rob is back from Big Mountain and therefore this week's recording will feature many many pages of shownotes and will make you beyond mad at the British state, councils, and their deliberate inability to stop people from getting cancer. Because that would mean Doing Something.

I assume that all UK energy suppliers are some flavour of shit, but does anyone have recommendations for slightly less shit ones?

Can you imagine how hard he's going to go in on poppies this year. He's going to have such a big poppy.

Okay, yeah, not heading Stateside any time soon.

I know you love him madly so let’s journey far in to yesternow and help me decide which ten releases - live, studio and archive - should be included in @mojomagazine.bsky.social’s How To Buy Electric (era) Miles (Davis). Best comments, as ever, will be included in the mag.

a reminder

What are these tiny mics that everyone's using now? They look ridiculous

not trolling I think unfiltered internet access should be a fundamental human right and countries that violate that should be charged

The second phase of the Leveson Inquiry was going to investigate corruption and collusion between government, the press and the police. It was cancelled by the government under pressure from the press and the police. It should be crystal clear what happened, who runs things and how, in Britain.

It's actually very important that the press hail this woman as a hero, otherwise people might be discouraged from committing hate crimes and that simply would not do

A common technique of Holocaust deniers is to look up Red Cross statistics for disease in the concentration camps, and insist this proves that Jews and Romani were not deliberately murdered.

The U.K. Online Safety Act was (avowedly, as revealed in a recent High Court case) “not primarily aimed at protecting children” but at regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”

🎬 Sneak Preview Alert 🎬 This week's episode is Like This because of @sanitarynaptime.bsky.social, heat madness, and quality British journalism- in that order but it is David's fault mostly

If you're fucking with that mid wizard book shit, you're directly funding the attempted extermination of trans people the world over. So, maybe don't do that. 🤨 Commie Link: archive.ph/m5oy1

Boycott M&S, how dare they apologise to fascist weirdos because they have LGBT staff?

The Online Safety Act has only been in effect a few days and all it's accomplished is pissing off adults who want to access the internet, made Wikipedia threaten to shut off the UK and hasn't demonstrably protected a single child. Labour has the political instincts of cold McDonald's french fries.

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hope @piercepenniless.bsky.social doesn’t mind the screenshot from the other place but obviously true thread addresses a lot of labour bluesky nonsense too

Hulk Hogan and Harry Potter have a lot in common * Very meaningful when you were a kid * Changed the landscape in many ways * Continued to be bankable way past their prime * Critical analysis of the work finds it surpassed by so much more in the same field * Legacy ruined by massive bigotry

Ayesha Hazarika, Matt Chorley, Helen Lewis, Marina Hyde, Polly Toybee, Rafael Behr, Iain Dunt, Dorian Lynskey, to name just a few - all "liberal political experts" smugly shouted down people who warned them that Starmer was a reactionary. None of them get to launder their personality.

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yo did those "finance professionals" like maybe do something like 15+ years ago that made all of us mad or something? Maybe demand credentials? Don't think the newts actually once crashed a global economy by making idiot bets on the housing market?

Not just a PFI - it's £500 million over 10 years. There's 4.5mln kids in poverty in the UK so this flagship initiative that gets a rollout in the Guardian means about £11 per child per year, assuming all of it is spent on kids and not on contractor fees. I.e. less than £1 a month per child.

Child of Omelas? That’s thinking too small. What if like eight billion people suffered so a few dozen guys could live lives so insane they convinced themselves it’s more likely they’re inside a computer simulation