Really very impressed by this swift response by the Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party. *holds finger to ear* Oh, hang on a moment, I'm just being informed of something...

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

One of my biggest regrets is letting my wife convince me to throw away my CDs 5 years ago as I only used Spotify. I'm now increasingly anxious that at some point in the next decade big tech is either going to delete all of the music, or somehow hide it away out of reach.

The best word in any language is the Dutch word for toaster: Broodrooster Thank you, and good night.

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

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I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

oh also simply love that every story or anecdote about Robert Redford is basically: "do you know the super hot guy? Who was famous for being hot? He was actually even hotter than that" and everyone is like yes

This is very good and I wanna see much more of this, but you really ought to have cc'd in at least the Greens and the SNP too.

I wonder if the Prime Minister might have anything to say today about how the world's richest man urged a huge fascist mob to effect a change in government and incited them to violence, because I feel like that's not something we should encourage

I mean, call me a Loony Lefty if you want, but it *is* starting to look a bit weird arresting disabled pensioners protesting peacefully one day and telling coked up bellends attacking you to “calm down” another day the same month. Obviously, just my opinion. I might have got it wrong.

Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief

“I often call for myself to be killed at home while I’m watching the football”

In which the richest man in the world tries to incite turmoil, fear and loathing in my city from the safety of his fortified home thousands of miles away. The pathetic little coward. Also why are these patriots being directed by an American? Can't they organise their own fist fight?

This is actually what it means though.

That three major British newspapers jumped on the poorly sourced (ATF to Steven Crowder to WSJ) line about the bullets having ‘trans’ symbols (actually a, wait for it, Helldivers 2 code) is such a tell on what they really care about. They really need to apologise (they won’t)

It’s almost like letting young white men marinate their brains in an algorithm-driven toxic stew of nihilistic hate 24/7 and giving them ready access to guns is a bad idea

Trying not to be too tin-hatted about this, but it really feels like the BBC has swerved not just to the right, but also away from it's previous high standards of precise journalism (HI CHRIS MASON!)

If we're not careful there could be a hefty amount of sane-washing of Kirk and his team on the horizon. There should be absolutely no tolerance of it from interviewers and commentators and strong push back.

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All social media sites have horrible/unhinged people on them. The difference with X is the owner is horrible and unhinged and is actively trying to push users towards his views.

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

Gosh look, isn't anti-Reform comms unbelievably straightforward. Please take not @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk (@greenparty.org.uk, you seem to be all over this.) Also, @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social, this seems like something worth covering. Y'know, for BALANCE.

If the head of ITV was publicly promoting violent racism, the government would leap on it. Yet with Twitter, the government stays silent.

It’s a real test of Ofcom. Is the Online Safety Act worth anything, other than handing huge amounts of our data to American porn companies and banning kids from Wikipedia? Here’s some actual online harm.

I know that anyone attending a Reform conference is already fairly detached from objective reality, but surely a platform of giving standing ovations to anti-vaxx doctors and threatening to deport women back to Taliban torturers will cut through and harm their electoral support.

Dismayed by the "I loathe Gl**ner but his arrest should scare us all" takes. The bar for arrest over a social media post *should be extremely high*, but a guy who's harassed trans people 19 hours a day for 8 years, telling his 600k fans to attack any trans women they see, clears that bar v easily?

Very important info for eg women in violent relationships who maintain a secret phone. Please pass along.

Honestly, come on @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk @libdems.org.uk @snp.org @plaidcymru.bsky.social: ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK!!!!!!

Being pro paying the Taliban to commit rape and murder should result in the swiftest exit from professional politics in British history. Just need a news media that reacts to blatant obscenity the way they react to a Labour politician being a woman and working class.

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

Rayner resigned. Your move Farage.

I suppose Rayner can now sell her posh flats in Glasgow, her Chelsea mews house and £19m London townhouse, plus her yacht, while she works out how to get the National Crime Agency to unfreeze £75m of her assets. My bad, that's Michelle Mone.

If Rayner has to go by the letter of poltical law, fine I suppose... But can the media now please send their attack dogs after all Farage's dodgy tax stuff? Or will they do that after they've crowned him PM when it's too late?

Robert is a wise and judicious fellow and his analysis is superior to the bitter rant I might be tempted to write.

I'm not a fan of Labour but the pressure put on a working class woman to resign when she broke no laws has been astounding compared with the fact that Sunak and Johnson both broke their own laws and continued to be PMs and cabinet minsters.

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You say nmnmnf and I say potato You like nmnmnf and I like tomato mnmnnf, potahto, mnmmnf, tomahto Let's take the ball gag off.

A tricky day for the self-employed as we discover low-level self-loathing is legally sound.

Breaking news on the Beeb: Wills and Kate are expanding their kink palette beyond pegging. Fair play.

This is the face of a cartoon cat who is being confronted by its human owner when it still has the live goldfish swimming around in its mouth

This is pretty good, but can someone explain why we've had to outsource nailing Farage to the wall to Congress?

He’s always so shit in the face of decent questioning. Absolutely amazing how rarely it happens.

The great thing about actual bound dictionaries, is that if you look up a word online you learn one word, but when you look something up in an actual dictionary you notice all sorts of other words on the page too. All those wonderful words!

Words are magic

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should