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A picture is worth a thousand words…. And most of them here are unpublishable… But if anything sums up what is utterly rotten, contemptuous, corrupt, unprincipled, traitorous, idiotic, incompetent and deeply dishonest about our politics… and particularly Reform… this photo is it.

i hope the first one works because i just don’t think i can fit a second one in there

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist. Thomas Dolby, Dominion Theatre, Tottenham Court Road, 1984.

on this day exactly 25 years ago, I pointed at a beautiful woman across the street & said "that's the girl I'm gonna marry one day,” but it turned out to be a lamppost

"Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter." In an age of cowards, it's great to see the FT simply bodying these clowns.

I recall a meeting at a previous job where the team leader suggested changing our name from Editorial to Content and literally everyone said no, we hate it. But they went right ahead and made it Content anyway. Might as well have gone with "Space Fillers" or "Blah Blah Words etc" team.

NYE suggestion: In memory of the great and beloved Rob Reiner (and his wife Michele, his meeting of whom forced him to change the end of the movie) we're watching When Harry Met Sally this evening, starting the film at 10:30:27 so that the chime of the New Year bells line up exactly with tonight's.

In my New Year message I will apologise for being a racist bully at school, launch an inquiry into Russian influence in Reform, publish my tax returns and details of the purchase of my house in Frinton. Just kidding!! I'll talk a load of shit-stirring old bollocks as usual.

Hate freeloaders who join in the New Year's Eve countdown for the last 10 seconds. I've been doing this all year. Where were you back in May

c.1990, I saw actress Eleanor Bron walking along Broadwick St (Soho, London) with a Victorian-style shopping basket on her arm. As she approached Berwick St, I saw actress Cheryl Campbell approaching on a collision course. Seconds later, they met delightedly at the corner in a blizzard of DARLINGs

Insurance companies can fuck all the way off. Beat the renewal price by £1300 with a tiny amount of shopping around. Never accept the renewal quote without checking!

Man who bought up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax and moved his business to Singapore after the Brexit he voted for wants your sympathy.

Whoever put the palace Farage sticker up in the LWR Holmsdale toilets , fuck off out the club! #cpfc

Some people do my head in. This arse is one of them. Why TF would we care about his business…? Did he care about all the SMEs bankrupted by Brexit? Does he feel any anxiety or shame about just how much that stupid idea has cost our country and many of us personally. No. He can absolutely do one.

I always use AI to write Christmas cards because otherwise they’d be Chrstms crds.

James Cameron: "I have an idea for a movie the message of which is that colonialism could have been thwarted if natives just let well meaning white people appropriate their culture, bang their women, and lead them into battle." Studio: "Here's a trillion dollars so you can make it seven times."

What's your new year's resolution? Mine is 3840x2160

Dear AI bros, it's not AI itself we have a problem with, the kind that can detect cancers early or help people walk. May that continue. It's the content generation slop you foam at the mouth defending that we hate. It's theft and will never, EVER replace actual human creativity.

AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re- BEASTIES: MORSE AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of Beasties: COURSE MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy BEASTIES: MOOCHER MCA: We’re Christmas Past MIKE D: Christmas Present BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE

Your usual reminder that the UCKG is an extraordinarily shady outfit. It is not clear what the money they collect is for or where it goes. They are collecting all over London today. Avoid.

Should Boris Johnson "go home" to the United States, where he was born and a citizen, or does Reform's rule only apply to people of colour? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Astonished at the number of creative intelligent discerning people who casually use “I asked Chat GPT” when talking about their daily lives. AI is bad, the work of bad people, who hate you, normalised with bad intent. You wouldn’t say “I wrote to the Daily Mail” I wish people had more shame.

And now I find out that The Salt Path wasn't even published by a real penguin.

A mini-story to cheer you up this morning. The other day my teenage son returned to his locked bike to find the back wheel nicked. We went back yesterday to rescue it - and found this note taped to the frame. We have the wheel again. A very happy Xmas to Ollie and his note-writing other half.

Just seen this, love it, and from where else but Bromley, the spiritual home of English Punk! Well played people, well played.

I don’t use social media to argue about politics with strangers. I use social media to talk to people about fish. When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish. When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish.

I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

Daily Mail tragedy in 3 acts 22 June 2016 (day before referendum): Pro-Leave editorial. One reason: too many immigrants from Eastern Europe. 24 June 2016: Brexit vote outcome means many Poles will decide to return home 13 December 2025: Oh no, where have the Poles gone? All the signs were there!

Sharrrron Davies being made a peer for her campaigning on women’s rights is like giving Harold Shipman an award for services to the elderly.

Can we stop using the euphemism “women’s rights activist” for ardent transphobe?

So we've gone from "he never said anything Nazi" to "well he might have said something Nazi but not in a hurtful way" to "well okay he probably did say something Nazi in a hurtful way, but didn't we all?"

Decision in the Sandie Peggie case. She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...

“Partial victory” is such an upbeat way of saying “almost every part of this case was dismissed except one bit”

"If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more." Los Campesinos:

Shamina Begum must be held accountable for her actions when she was 15. Whereas I should not, because I was a mere child.

It’s the lack of imagination that grinds me down. The inability to see that people could change, or be more than they might at first seem, to understand potential, to look properly at all. Not-rich people aren’t a burden for a country. They’re an opportunity, if you don’t just try and crush them.

It's revealing about taboos around racism that the visceral bullying racism of schoolboy Farage cuts through while the much more consequential thinly veiled racism of adult Farage doesn't. Many people need that veil and flinch when it's removed. You can advocate racist policies but not say the words

My Spotify wrapped summary is that my band took all our music off Spotify because the company’s CEO invests the billions which he doesn’t pay artists on AI drone weapons tech. Ditch Spotify. Pay artists. Redistribute wealth. Stop war. Happy Christmas!

You'll be amazed to discover that a bunch of anonymous people that Nigel Farage says definitely do exist, have confirmed that he didn't say any of the things that lots of other people say on the record that he absolutely did

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist

🚨Now at almost 85,000 signatures. Let’s keep going! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Somehow this got missed off the "Benefit Street" front pages today

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine. But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires? No.

Reeves says the government is “freezing Russian assets”. But she does not mean Nigel Farage, she says.

Hot take maybe but I actually don’t give a shit about benefit fraud. I give a shit about multimillionaires and billionaires existing and not paying tax on their actual wealth.

“I often racially abuse people, but never in a hurtful or insulting way”