Boomer targeted AI slop will be the death of us. (Also, I worked in a Walmart in 1994 and am not even a little bit nostalgic for that shit.)

Bendigedig!

The old line “I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas puts one of them to death.”

Every five years, as mandated in its founding regulation, the European Environment Agency (EEA) publishes a state of the environment report www.eea.europa.eu/en/europe-en...

The Sheffield Local Plan hearings have started today with the city council facing a number of questions about green belt housing plans #Sheffield www.thestar.co.uk/news/politic...

"Heathrow, it's me, I'm Cathay"

Reform UK are pushing immigration hard as an issue in the Caerphilly by-election. Just for context, Caerphilly has the THE LOWEST, immigration rate of all Wales' 22 councils. 97.1% of people there were born in the UK. Only Cardiff and Newport have move that 10% born overseas.

Bendigedig! nation.cymru/culture/wels...

Andy Burnham sat in the front row of a fringe on electoral reform with about ten snappers taking pictures

Endless screaming. leftfootforward.org/2025/09/if-t...

Phew. The intellectual heft that KemiTrails needed has finally turned up.

DiL *really* concerned for what's coming for her family back home.

Hint, hint, America

This only happens to you once

Patrick is absolutely right that Labour lacks a sufficient intellectual culture - but instead of reading race-war Whatsapp essays from anonymous crackheads, Labour MPs should subscribe to @renewaljournal.bsky.social for serious and informed strategic analysis and argument

The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has pleaded guilty to bribery charges relating to statements in favour of Russia in the European Parliament

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It finally happened

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

FULL TEXT: Unofficial transcript of remarks delivered by China's president Xi Jinping to the UN climate action summit, including the outlines of China's 2035 climate pledge docs.google.com/docu...

I’m not going to rant endlessly about this but Labour came into power on a vague ticket to improve northern rail connectivity and over a year later is still wondering what it means on.ft.com/4pAIfaJ

A nostalgic look back to the Sheffield of 21 years ago, as 18 pictures sum up 2004 www.thestar.co.uk/heritage-and...

"TEACH-THE-CONTOVERSY!" Can "journalists" start hammering this imported christofascist dishonesty, please?

Nothing in this acknowledges the economic reality of why many brownfield sites don’t get away as housing: they’re not financially viable unless someone (usually us, in some form) pays for them to be cleaned up and made ready

It was obvious when EU citizens had the terms of their settlement here retrospectively revoked that a precedent was being set and that, in time, the argument would move on to other categories of migrant, always tending towards a purity test of who is ‘indigenous’. Unless resisted.

And this is why Ed Davey has to make announcements on log flumes - how can he compete when Farage lobs a hand grenade into the political debate and everyone seems to try to discuss it like it’s reasonable, not just bigoted hatred dressed up as an immoral and impractical policy.

Nigel Farage and Reform are running almost as scared as Kemi Badenoch and the Conservatives. Reform is an unprecedented threat on the Tories’ right flank. But Reform and Farage are under pressure too: from Rupert Lowe, Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk. Farage is running rightwards, and fast.

Hash browns are the grey squirrel of the breakfast world. An American import that's driven out the native and noble fried slice.

This is why it was completely insane for Dems to laugh off the Twitter purchase. We created a forum with practically every single political and media elite all in the same room together hearing the same things, and then we turned it over to a far-right oligarch

From ‘croglins’ to ‘clust jwg’, rediscover the lost language of food across Wales ✍️Carwyn Graves

A welcome - and long overdue - step. But while it’s necessary, it’s deeply insufficient - and must be accompanied by urgent action to help bring an end to the genocide in Gaza, including boycotts, sanctions and an end to all arms sales to Israel.

Frequent in sources it privileges. Privileges opaquely.

I wrote about the noticeable Vibe Shift around Keir Starmer's viability as PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Dang, that's crazy. Anyway, we moved our annual refugee resettlement fundraiser to Bluesky this spring, after running it entirely on Twitter for over a decade, started with ZERO followers, took our "shrunken" audiences and beat last year's total by $200,000 in a time of massive economic upheaval

Misspelt "have". Usher will need explaining, too

Really thought-provoking. Particularly given the future Newport us seeking to make for itself

Paul Embery and Lord Glasman sounds like a trance duo featured on Pete Tong

Fantastic piece. This graph particularly caught my eye. What is going on here?

It’s easy to scoff at this, but Oxford generating artificial intelligence is how the British Empire was run

I’ve seen other people express this far better than me. But if, like me, you’re finding the ‘free speech’ hypocrisy of the right unbearable, you have to remember they know what they are doing. It’s not that they haven’t realised how illogical and hypocritical they are. They know,they just don’t care

Dazza, "be grateful."

Went back to Rhyl today. All going swimmingly

BREAKING Jeremy Miles has announced he will be standing down as an MS at the Senedd election. This means that both the men who ran to replace Mark Drakeford as Welsh Labour leader will no longer be MSs after the next election. Letter from Mr Miles & Eluned Morgan's response below:

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

wrote a little about the inspiration for Frank Herbert’s Butlerian Jihad (Samuel Butler and his novel EREHWON), as well as Luddism & democratic governance thetechbubble.substack.com/p/on-the-ori...

Y’know, there’s a middle ground between banging on about replacing Starmer and considering it counterproductive to criticise him. The way for Starmer to save himself - and save the country from Farage - is for him to change tack *now*. How do we persuade him to do this?

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I maybe have too free of a morning.

Rachel Reeves should sack both Andrew Bailey and Huw Pill..because as the FT reports, rather than leaving gilts on its balance sheet to mature, the BoE plans to accelerate Quantitative Tightening, compared to the last 12 mths.

This is one of the most important posts of the day.