They aren't bringing ID cards in to make people's lives easier, they are specifically bringing them in to make certain people's lives harder.

It'll be flags.

I agree. Also, it was probably intensely stupid to have spent a decade portraying Britain’s anti-racism campaigners as terrifying, treasonous, totalitarian extremists while at the same time saying racist views about migration are what everyone thinks, and disagreeing is shitting on the working man.

Culture Cargo Cult's focus is on CC and Public Domain visual art and design but there's a whole rich world of sharing beyond that too. Here's one of my favourite musicians ever who shares all their work under #CreativeCommons licenses. Absolutely sublime music imo. #folk #indie #freemusic #singer

You can find original designs @republicoflondon.bsky.social but this is a range of public domain and Creative Commons designs I find, love and decide to share as t-shirts, hoodies and accessories.

Viktor Orban needs to shut the fuck up.

Surreal moment where a load of kids tried to start on me for wearing a Palestine shirt. Central London, Northern Irish accents, one can of vodka and sprite between them, not one over the age of 13. Mad stuff.

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Guaranteed not to be true.

The eternal 'Far Right masses' narrative gets on my nerves. There is no attendance count yet and, at a guess, they'll be very lucky to match the average national Palestine march. Certainly from footage there aren't that many yet. But hype narrative wins out due to useless hacks.

Far Right apparently starting as they mean to go on, giving out abuse the second they arrive at the train stations. Going to be a long day if you're working in central London.

I worry about the counter march tomorrow, ime SUTR doesn't organise with self defence in mind, just a-b walking. Far Right are also rallying at Waterloo, which will absolutely be somewhere a lot of people have to travel through to reach the counter march in Russell Square. Fash should never have

Feels like a genuinely old man grumble but - London buses talk too much these days. I'll stand up, not hold the rail and hang around on the stairs whenever I want to, no incessant recording will tell me otherwise.

Shirt of the day, seems fitting given how this century's going so far. Available @ peoplesrepublicof.london as always ✊ #alertaantifascista #alwaysantifascist #anticapitalista #antifa #antifacist #fuckfascism #antifacista #antifascismo #antifascista #antifascist #antifascists #charliekirk

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

A few academics and chronically online Lefties aside I don't know anyone who's heard of Charlie Kirk. Don't doubt he had some insidious influence in the UK (and the Turning Point attempt here was shambolically notable) but enough for PM condolences? No chance, he was a nonentity.

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Seem like some appropriate ones given how the decade's going...

Artifacts of my pre-academic life - flogging t-shirts on markets, which I'm still doing, only with less standing outside. All available @ peoplesrepublicof.london

Not sure 'political violence has no place here' really works in the context of a country more or less defined by it.

I refuse! 😂😂😅

Always wonder why Russia would widen the conflict or risk bringing more NATO/EU attention given how long and how hard it's been for them to get even as far as they have so far in Ukraine. It's not like they've steamrolled an easy victory is it?

Trump called Jeffrey Epstein a "terrific guy." So we know he'd want to remember him properly on his Aberdeen Golf Course

My own focus biases me but do find the speculations on ethical or worker or 'progressive' AI a bit wearing. When you come from a position of complete disempowerment against an economic and political model entirely opposed to you what's the point of daydreaming about reform or mediation? If you don't

Big uni news in Southeast England: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....

This is the malignant, insidious AI that will linger long after the bubble bursts. Less obvious than the slop of GAI but ploddingly and unceasingly harmful. Palantir shouldn't be operating anywhere, never mind around the most vulnerable.

Who says crafting and fiber arts arent important to resistance and liberation? Also just joyful??? 🧶 #yarnsky #craftivism #crochet

Get the feeling this still won't end his political career, amongst our ruling class no one actually cares about this stuff, it's friendships and alliances that count.

Can well understand the speculation on the AI bubble bursting but not sure how much can be expected of that beyond the potential (devastating) economic effects. It isn't the tech that'll disappear, it's investments and jobs. Governments will still use predictive AI to punish and surveil, GAI may

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Are the British media desparate to radicalise people to the Far Right because: A: Seems like an easy narrative. B: True believers. C: Corruption. D: Massive incompetence. E: Laziness. F: All of the above. I genuinely don't know at this point.

Doss anyone know if they're still processing Palestine Action arrestees near parliament or have they moved people to police stations?

I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪 The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs. That is *pure fantasy*. Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.

Trying to convince a kitten that every move, object, breath, thought and assembly of atoms isn't something that needs attacking is... tricky...

sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this

As someone who was functionally 'unschooled' by the age of 13, although not for any ideological or positive reason (I just stopped going) the debate on it and homeschooling is... weird. Just weird. Not sure what I think beyond that.

I guess the main point here is something that's been true since ~2013 which is that "acceptable mainstream politics" has become hyperfocused on small time stuff. Whatever you think about the policy, having the *Prime Minister* lead on it, is embarrassing.

Britain - We won't fund higher education, just rinse out foreign students. Also Britain - Fuck those foreign students. Genius.

Study aid.

catGPT, why won't you answer my query

Written something short on this too @ dorchard.substack.com/p/ai-slop-an...

Chicago keeping art alive:

I'd say facial recognition breaking clothing was a noble thing (if it works) but £500 for a top? £113 for a basic t-shirt? This is a prop for the rich and nothing else. www.capable.design/collections/...

Incentivised punishment. Given Labour's mad fetish for AI I'm sure it'll be here soon too.

Proudly from and living in the wastelands beyond this bizarre West London belt which, for reference, is absolutely soulless and joyless for the most part anyway.