If you see this article and think “Ah well, it's just a bunch of rich famous comedians, surely they can wait a bit longer!” Here's a little thread about that common misconception. 🧵

Sorry has the entire Westminster apperatus lost its mind again; this leadership contest is imaginary, as is Burnham's ability to stand in it. Oh, and uhh... Burnham doesn't have a god-given right to be an MP either, he has to win... an election...

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great interview

It was me

Not the classic GPT tell 💀

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find a workable coalition on Birmingham City Council.

Remember the Northern Independence Party? *sigh*

Once again suggesting it is an actually quite sickening insult to Jo Cox's memory to have a phrase from a speech *about immigrants* attached to a think tank and pollster that appears to view its role as encouraging everyone to simply accept anti-immigration politics are inevitable

I remember when Manchester City Council didn't have an opposition. Or it's opposition was one councillor. But hey... maybe the Council might actually think about it's strategy for a change...

I'm still thinking about the FT profile of the Reform voter who hates left-wingers but wants net-zero emissions and water company nationalisation.

good morning to me and my new green councillor

Would be nice if Labour could realise how much it's fucked it with one of its most historic constituencies over trans rights - a thing it costs literally *nothing* to be more reasonable on - but I don't have much hope on that any time soon

How many boilerplate “why is spending down across a number of general categories” pieces can a newspaper run?

linux user stereotype undefeated

The country’s worst airport strikes again!

This table on the BBC Sport article is blowing my mind... what materially is different between a couple and two friends? Is it that they aren't sharing a hotel room? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Happy May Day. A better world together.

Note how they’ve turned off the comments on this one because the commenters would be roasting Hinsliff for this.

If I did a YouTube video essay it would be about the life and times of this tragic creature

This was entirely's OfS' MO from the beginning. Uni execs were absolutely terrified of getting on their bad sides and would point to case studies (rather than stated policy). A terrible way to run a regulator.

Im gonna clip this just for u guys but I have real tears in my eyes

more people should point out that a news presenter being the spouse of a senior government minister is journalistically compromising but hey ho

I mean, the troubles did certainly touch the mainland. Half of Manchester’s city centre was blown up…

firstly: okay, now *that’s* funny… secondly, how do you start your argument with ‘let them get pissed’ before your more reasonable argument that Parliamentary business should end at the same time each day. Slightly undercuts your point that this is just Hannah being a stupid woman again…

Morning.

Survived conference. Found hotel. Now to figure out dinner 😭

The correct and sensible answer is ‘I would not subject any innocent person to this’ and yet, this ghoul is unable to appear human for more than a minute apparently…

Not to be mean but I fear the tube strikes are not the reason you cannot plan ahead of a 2 hour flight...

what a diva

Okay let me switch the intent then: If my company had a vetting process for new appointments and I ignored that entire process because they were my friend, I would be sacked for gross misconduct.

rip Tim Apple, whose nickname from Trump was my first big SCOOP my first year as a full-time tech journalist www.theverge.com/2019/3/6/182...

brb registering the isstarmergoneyet.co.uk domain...

Many voters who use big, old platforms may rarely see age verification practices and not be aware of invasiveness, as such platforms (Apple already does) use age of account as a proxy and never check more. Younger users get no such benefit. good for data minimisation, but keeps people in a bubble.

New speech regulation at Universities? Must be a day ending in Y.

boyfriend is making us dak bulgogi... honestly, life could be worse...

That this is the way the head of product does business here probably should indicate this website is not all that serious

Sorry but we’ve been through this with Stonewall before. They lost a lot of relevance with gay people because they were not touching trans policy and they’re *doing it again*

Did not know that the BBC had Bundesliga games so uhh... that's my Fridays sorted I think

the stretcher 😭

fell down a rabbit hole, apparently the most thorough guides for Baldur's Gate 1&2 are written by a woman who has been thoroughly blogging all her video game opinions since the 1980s. she gave Baldur's Gate 3 a 2.1/10 rating and scathingly calls it a reddit RPG lilura1.blogspot.com/2024/01/Redd...

Wait wait, do they not have alcopops in the US?

A policy for exactly one woman’s vote is certainly the choice, huh?

I wanted a way to explore Unicode by visual similarity, not just by name or codepoint, so I built Charcutrie. It lets you browse characters that look alike, search across scripts and symbols, and even sketch a shape to find matching glyphs. (pretty badly for now :D) charcuterie.elastiq.ch#U+221E

It’s kinda wild how these festival companies make loads of money and still can’t hire a PR agency to advise their clients to not start a statement the way Benn does here…

Happy Easter