neither of these will live up to my game, 1990s Hacienda Simulator, where you play the poor sod of a business manager trying to make one of the most popular clubs in the UK profitable while everyone from the bartenders to the bands is using it as a personal piggybank and the mob controls the doors.

in related news i'm excited to announce that i'm selling sam altman's house unless he asks me not to

Straight up copying Reform at this stage. New rules are hideous and discriminatory as they are. To apply them retrospectively shows complete contempt for those already building lives here. No wonder people don't trust politicians. This is simply wrong on every level. inews.co.uk/news/new-rig...

Apparently all it takes to convince someone to spy on themselves, their family and friends, FOR THE BENEFIT OF A TECH COMPANY, is to add "kitten ears" to the surveillance device. Our privacy is worth the cost of two plastic nubs.

This is not actually how copyright law works. I don't need to opt out, copyright is automatic and you can't just use* my stuff without asking But it *is* how the UK government is proposing to change the law, to benefit AI firms instead of creatives *For a given, currently debated, meaning of "use"

Here y’go:

We found (or rather, conclusively identified via a wonderfully strange new method) some Denisovan skulls, recently. We did that. Did you know that? Did popular news even tell you? Or were they too busy with some other balloon juice techbro horseshit designed to give shareholders boners?

Inspired by the interactive AI Stan Lee at Comic Con, I've been working on an interactive Wrong Joey and Aveline Boswell to appear at the ReformUK Conference. It uses more electricity than the whole of Birmingham to power it unfortunately, but I'm sure nobody in Birmingham minds sitting in the dark.

Polar scientists meeting at @royalsociety.org in London this week are issuing a stark warning: dramatic and extreme changes in Antarctica are happening faster than expected, with consequences that will affect everyone on the planet. www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/a...

Hi! I borrowed $300m from the worst people in the world to buy your favourite thing! Now your favourite thing owes me $300m and sadly it looks like it can’t pay me back so I’ve taken it out back and shot it. Anyways, just wanted to ask… what’s your *second* favourite thing?

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system! Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

Just do it. Now.

Someone finally says it. You'd think given who's in charge, this gov't should know that courts only interpret law, and if that law turns out to be flawed, its MPs who have the power to change it rather than just shrug.

This is a beautiful piece of writing - because it’s so clear and fundamentally about being human, together. South African friends who grew up under apartheid have said the same. Call it out, name it, shame it- the hateful rhetoric and the actions that follow. @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

How is this not front page news? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION YET? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

casual remarks like this i think are a data point for capitalism having died of natural causes sometime in the last ~30 years

Is Starlink unable to provide many users with internet access? Yes. Is Starlink enabling organized crime? Yes. Is Starlink making a mess of low orbit? Also yes. It remains way past time to shut down this scam. www.satellitetoday.com/connectivity...

Mark Zuckerberg is introducing a feed that's just 100% AI slop. No pesky creativity from real people to get in the way. Eat up little piggies

Clearly labour have never employed people. You dont simply hand over a NI number when you get a job, there's a LEGAL requirement to give photo ID and have that verified by a GOVERNMENT checking service. They're so fucking stupid it hurts

cybertrucks look like they make big metal sheet wobbling noise. you know the one

Chotiner: and then you didn't send him to jail, and he ran again? USA: I mean yes but we do have pretty robust institutions, you know, the supreme court and so on Chotiner: I see. So they were able to stop the worst of it? USA: Well now it um the thing you have to understand

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Thank you for the reminder of the time Jason Manford issued a notes apology because his tribute to Brucie being under the Palladium unintentionally sounded like he is in Hell.

Megasheds the size of 12 football pitches, surrounded by barbed wire and flashing lights, that make lots of noise and potentially disrupt local energy supply while creating a handful of jobs are not going to be a source of local renewal - all that Nvidia money isn't going to show up on high streets

You can just make up anything these days and the media will call it "unproven" rather than "a load of utter bollocks"

[new Isaac Chotiner interview]

Yep. Anything to keep it going. Andreessen said that "any deceleration of AI will cost lives," and called slowing down AI "a form of murder." These billionaires are so entitled — and so terrified of their own inevitable deaths — that they frame any limits on their own power in apocalyptic terms.

This is such horrendous science communication from the Guardian I almost don’t know where to start. The appropriate takeaway from this is that the SRY gene is a poor proxy variable in isolation. It isn’t that there were 50-60 people who were secretly “biologically male”

Really don’t think there’s a way out of this that doesn’t involve smashing a lot of computers if I’m honest

I did the artwork for this piece in @wired.com !

shut the fuck up god damn i'm so sick of everybody just quoting this guy as he tells ridiculous lies again and again

The same bs they're spewing about autism and tylenol is the same bs they're spewing about trans people's healthcare. It's the exact same playbook and the fact that the media can see through one and not the other is a damning indictment of how complicit they are in the attack on trans lives.

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

"I trust doctors on *this*, but not on other trratments." What other treatments, Wes? "Oh, you know the ones."

Black and White Guardians origin story #doctorwho

Hahahah amazing. Billions in imaginary money and real finite resources thrown at this egomaniacal cult project instead of using those resources, OUR RESOURCES, for the mutual benefit of people and planet. They have committed untold environmental and social harm to make a Dishonesty Engine.

Is this appropriate? I feel I need more information…

You want slaves

At the Frankischer Volksfest in rural southern Deutschland… @alfsplaining.bsky.social

We're back with our thoughts on The Brain of Morbius, part of a Frankenstein inspired pairing with The Haunting of Villa Diodati next time. Join @themindrobber.bsky.social, @mrpaulmorris.bsky.social, @gswrites.bsky.social & @richardjsmith.bsky.social somethingwho.podbean.com/e/episode-11...

It's only just occurred to me that this is a curiously appropriate cold open for our Frankensteinspired double-header...

So those Samsung fridges with ads will end up not letting you get the milk without watching an ad…

Oh. That doesn’t seem right

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

The absolute garbage from Colossal continues, this time it's Dodos. I won't link to the article, because Ben Lamm their CEO is quite open about their intentions. Instead read my sweary takedown of the dire Wolf claims from earlier in the year. arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer

This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.

Some more direct incitement from Musk This man burned his sheep's clothing a long time ago and is now fully leaning into his right wing white supremacist nationalism