The US withdrawal from the World Health Organisation is the clearest sign that the UN needs urgently to find a new HQ in a stable democracy.

The BBC really has gone so far downhill in news. The answer here is no. The question is why are you framing it like this? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Isn't this a telling aspiration? To want robots to look after your kids, so you can do stuff, rather than robots to do stuff, so you can spend time with your kids? The darkness inside these shrivelled men must be like a gaping unfillable void.

This seems like a horrible time for the Dutch to be contemplating letting a US company take over vital infrastructure. Just as the EU is making strides to create it's own payment platform to remove that risk the Dutch are considering allowing a US takeover of DigiD nos.nl/artikel/2599...

I mean this seems as good a reason as any to not have a ring camera or to use Amazon. futurism.com/future-socie...

“Please save us, your lovable friends in Big Tech. No hard feelings about all the data harvesting and enshittification, right? We’re your cool computer pals”

I appreciate that The Verge keeps chewing on this bone

I know there are more important questions right now but why is Macron wearing sunglasses?

RIP James Somerton you would have loved stealing someone's take on Heated Rivalry and then slagging off straight women who enjoyed it.

I feel like it's probably time for the UN to be looking for a new headquarters. New York and the US seem like a weird place to be based now.

Seeing a whole new generation fall in love with synth-noir via the Heated Rivalry OST is a joy. Peter Peter channeling 1980s Jean-Michel Jarre with that atmospheric emotional electronic sound. It’s a reminder of the cultural overlap between France and Canada that the rest of the world often misses.

100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY format.

The BBC breathlessly treating a non-consensual porn network having thech issues like a breaking news story is embarrassing www.bbc.com/news/live/cp...

Virgin Active decided to restrict changing room access based on 'biological sex'. We're acting for, and financially supporting, a non-binary transmasculine person and a trans woman who are suing it for breaching the Equality Act. We've published the Letter Before Action.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

DHL really up there with the worst shipping providers. Yes we had snow last week but even now they have delayed my parcel for another random amount of time. Almost a week to travel around 50km.

Amsterdam has power again!

I just got the NL-Alert for a power outage but right now we have power in our neighborhood in Amsterdam but assume it's close by for the alert to be sent. Anyway phone is now charged just in case.

I'd watch @euronews.com more often if they would remove the half screen promotion for Elon Musk's non-consensual porn platform X. As it is now I just assume their agenda is driven by that platform which seems a bit ick.

Rachel Reid’s Heated Rivalry doesn’t quite capture all of the nuances of a gay male relationship. Jacob Tierney’s adaptation does. 👉 Read the full article: theconversation.com/why-the...

I love that some geeks have made a more visual version of the very text heavy wikipedia page. Warning spoilers for #TheTraitors

I can't believe they didn't tell us if there is a deal with Matthew on #TheTraitors These cliff-hangers and new twists have made it a great series.

Just a boy, in a church, pleading to be seduced... #TheTraitors

This is Minneapolis: Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city. Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.

X is breaking the law: on fakes, nudification, misogyny + failing to stop racist abuse too While it is in the "sin bin" -maybe Lionesses, WSL stars & male counterparts should suggest a time out: suspend activity while govt & Ofcom try to bring it back within law. Try to build healthier spaces

Sport England are leaving X/Twitter. Chris Boardman explains it is because it has become a toxic environment - exemplified by the unlawful stripping & harassment of women and girls But also one where effective & useful communication is less and less possible www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen, "Now we are faced with a geopolitical crisis, and if we have to choose between the USA and Denmark here and now, we will choose Denmark" "We choose NATO" "We choose the Kingdom of Denmark" "We choose the EU"

Acting against X and Musk looks like the biggest open goal for Keir Starmer it's possible to imagine

"One thing must be clear to everyone. Greenland does not want to be owned by the United States. Greenland does not want to be governed by the United States. Greenland does not want to be part of the United States." Jens-Frederik Nielsen Greenland's prime minister. www.bbc.com/news/article...

subtweeting quite a few people who follow me: if you're going to crosspost to here and X, for God's sake tweak the posts so that the ones for here use the right handles of people you're mentioning, not the X handles. And while you're at it, stop posting on X anyway. Especially if you're an MP/peer.

MPs: “We absolutely don’t want any emails in our inboxes from people who live even a metre outside of our constituencies, thank you” Also MPs “We MUST engage with the views of anonymous randoms from all over the world on the CSAM-image generator site”.

NEWS! New Tesla feature to automatically create explicit images of pedestrians it passes on the street newsthump.com/2026/01/13/n...

guys stop telling people London is safe we have enough sourdough bakeries we don't need people coming in opening any more ffs

Vital communication with voters here. Democracy would die without his 5 likes from staffers. It's worth being on the nonce nazi site for this critical reach.

If the only way you think you can communicate with your voters is to use X, you’re an incompetent politician.

One reason I have zero tolerance for transphobia, why I've come to find it completely disqualifying, is that it is in the nasty, tedious forefront of all right-wing rhetoric. Anyone who still thinks this prejudice is compatible with being on the left or being a liberal is not someone I have time for

A network of social media accounts posing as Scottish independence supporters has fallen silent once again, closely mirroring a fresh shutdown of internet access inside Iran.

Dear UK people setting up here just in case Elon Musk's kiddie porn platform gets banned in the UK, spare me your hot takes on what needs to change for Bluesky to be successful.

One of the few things that might actually get some kind of reaction from Musk would be the government and all MPs simply leaving X. This doesn't require regulatory or legal action. There are no barriers. They could *and should* just do it.

Malaysia and Indonesia become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, after authorities said it was being misused to generate sexually explicit and non-consensual images.

This I simply do not believe because men also can be trafficked for sex and abused. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The new ad campaign for X is nothing if not honest...

I'm visiting the UK and every other app on my phone has asked for some form of age verification. Lol. The internet is basically unusable.

Now only paying subscribers can make violent non-consenual sexual imagery of women and children - Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Previously, several of these companies, like Apple, IBM, and Disney, have paused advertising on X in response to antisemitic content. But antisemitism on X never slowed, sexual abuse imagery increased, and all of these companies quietly resumed advertising anyways. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...

Hello Tim Cook I worked at Tumblr when you gave us 48 hours to get rid of all the consenting, adult boobs. Up all night at your whim, out of the blue. But you're still cool with Twitter and its CSAM and revenge porn and whatever the fuck this is? Why do you even HAVE guidelines?

Dear BBC let me help you out here. Log into X and then check the replie to Grok and then you know that it's not 'appears'. That's like reporting on someone saying it's raining outside and not going outside to check. Grim. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I love how this station is still called 'international' even though there are no international services and haven't been since 2020. Why on earth celebrate this? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Stroomstoring op Schiphol, diverse aankomende vluchten geannuleerd

It has become increasingly clear that X - a platform now actively producing explicit and abusive material against women and children - is not an appropriate platform to be using for our comms. I will keep pushing for action from the govt & relevant authorities in this area.