I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

“…that Sora is being used for stalking and harassment will likely not be an edge case, because deepfaking yourself and others into videos is one of its core selling points.” Far from an edge case, it’s the primary use case.

This is amazing; I very much agree with the how the report calculated value to society here: www.gov.ie/en/departmen... But for people excited about a *literal* profit machine, note that the real net fiscal cost was almost €72M. It made €146M due to the estimated value of gains in mental wellbeing.

And just like that, in less than 24 hours I went from photo 1, to photo 2. From holding my own live on the BBC to getting straight back under the floor fitting central heating 🙌🏻 Elect people who live in the real world not those who set out wanting a career in politics just to stroke their ego!

Shocked to learn that the world’s preeminent transphobe is also a genocide apologist.

🚀 @greenparty.org.uk has grown from 58,000 members in December to 86,000 today. Six years ago, consistently polling around 2%. Now, above 10%. Green councillors leapt from fewer than 200 to nearly 900. Green MPs from one to four. This is the beginning. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A major new peer-reviewed Australian report warns that the UK’s Cass Review is fundamentally ill-suited to guide care for trans young people — and should not be adopted as a benchmark in Australia www.starobserver.com.au/news/new-rep...

“The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, does not give credible evidence‐based guidance. We are gravely concerned about its impact on the wellbeing of trans and gender‐diverse people” www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

We are living under an aspiring fascist regime that has not yet fully consolidated. This is not difficult to understand unless you get paid to muddy the waters.

Athletic Club Bilbao hosted Palestinian refugees at San Mames Stadium in a moving tribute followed by a standing ovation.

A Green government would proscribe the Israel Defense Forces as a terrorist organisation. The forces currently actioning war crimes and genocide upon the people of Gaza on behalf of the Israeli government. This must not be allowed to continue. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 @greens4palestine.bsky.social

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Talk of Badenoch's incompetence is entirely superfluous at this stage. In fact, foregrounding her incompetence and lack of future prospects only detracts from how dangerous she is, right now, as leader of the opposition. That is the real issue. That the leader of the opposition is far right.

i think it’s actually completely okay to say an algorithm is not a real person

I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists." The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!

My latest research on LLM grooming, co-authored with @ninajankowicz.com and @garymarcus.bsky.social, found that OpenAI's so-called "reasoning" o3 model cited Pravda network content 26.8% of the time in response to specific prompts. This research got cited today in a column by the Financial Times:

IMHO, the posters for After the Hunt look like ads for Marks & Spencers' autumn range.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "I think its really problematic if someone is trying to weaponise the attack that happened yesterday to try and silence protest in this country against the genocide. They're separate issues.. we need to be clear what this govt is doing"

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

This guy is so fucking stupid, man. This is straight up caveman wisdom

This is a particularly dangerous falsehood. People tend to seek asylum in countries where they have existing ties. Considering France and others actually provide higher levels of support, people are not coming to the UK because it is "generous". 6/

"We absolutely need to stop the boats,” Polanski said, “but let’s stop the boats by offering safe and legal routes to asylum and not having people clinging on to dinghies for dear life.* www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...

"hidden"???

Abuse of detainees amounting to “disgraceful, criminal misconduct”, racist & misogynist comments, & support for Tommy Robinson… The good old institutionally racist, sexist & homophobic Met that keeps Londoners safe is in fine form I see. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

You should have a word with your home secretary mate she’s introducing free forced labour for migrants

Victoria Derbyshire: "How significant is the fact that Tony Blair's involved in discussions about a post war Gaza?" Ash Sarkar: "Well, I guess it's because Satan was unavailable."

Im proud to be English and even prouder to be British. But these flags right now are not showing patriotism- they are a show to intimidate our communities and cause division. If youre actually patriotic... Come and help make this country better. The organisations below (continued....)

This is working very well for Bella in Brighton and Hove, where the last two councillor by-elections have been won by the Green Party.

i love this part and i think it very much shows the difference in depth of thinking between someone like Klein, desperately fighting in the here-and-now and arguing to win a battle with compromise, versus Coates' position that he is a soldier in a long war.

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For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Mandatory ID cards result in multiple intersecting forms of discrimination and oppression, and will marginalise several communities already under assault from the government. These kinds of facile gimmicks do nothing to address issues, but will materially make life worse for many, many people

Unless the government introduces PR, there will be a far right government in power in 2029. And like the compliant liberals they always were, the Labour party are building the administrative tools to help those fascists round you and your friends up for deportation. Frightening.

I'm curious why the owner of GB News might keep trying to take relentless pops at me. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Italy was on strike in solidarity with Palestinians last Monday. Hundreds of thousands demonstrated blocking roads, ports & railway stations. In Rome, many drivers found themselves stuck in traffic — & were happy about it, saluting demonstrators & condemning Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

A BBC investigation finds asylum seekers trapped in dilapidated hotels, spending years in administrative limbo, indebted to criminal gangs and yes, moved arbitrarily so that they have to take taxis across the country for routine GP appointments. Government response? Stop the taxis.

Would it be too much to ask for a journalist who gets this sort of access to ministers to question the underlying assumptions in this statement? The suggestion that the UK has “uncontrolled migration” is absolutely false. Not questioning these falsehoods is what is “feeding far right rhetoric”.

It’s not clear what these changes will concretely consist of but this is an appalling proposal from Mahmood, ignoring the challenges that asylum seekers face in accessing legal advice and undermining protections for trafficking survivors

In the UK, the @ippr.org and @cmmonwealth.bsky.social concluded that "large companies appear to have preserved or even expanded profit margins during inflationary times, thereby amplifying the inflationary shock." www.ippr.org/media-office...

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”. So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong

I of course welcome the recognition of the state of Palestine. And there won't be a Palestinian state left if government's continue enabling Israel's unfolding genocide. Labour can't credibly support Palestinian statehood whilst also continuing to arm Israel.

this exists it is called thinking

Or, instead of getting caught up in all that needless "sexist boys club" turmoil, why not just join @greenparty.org.uk and help support an already existing party that’s genuinely left-wing, democratic, and grassroots-led? 👉 join.greenparty.org.uk

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

@fisherandrew79.bsky.social : "If my timeline & my WhatsApp messages are anything to go by, a lot of people have decided, 'I'm not bothering with that I'm joining the Greens'" Same.

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The Greens winning seats and beating the Tories, beating Labour, beating Reform… it’s a great day to join @greenparty.org.uk and get involved. join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens win Queen’s Park seat in Brighton from Labour with massive 24% swing We’ve had Cllrs in this ward before but we’ve never achieved a vote this high Grn: 48% Lab: 31% Well done @bhgreens.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk