we were hoping our gov might guard against the excesses of all this private data collection rather than take inspiration from it

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Please! Go to BBC4 right now. Especially if you're deep in a #Newsnight doomwatch.

Boardwalk Empire is 15 years old! 😳

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This, my dear friends, is the speech of the leader of the free world. Deputy Prime Minister Sikorski - always among the few who hold the line. Full 4 mins speech ⬇️.

This can’t be bettered. Thank you 🙏🏼

I shall be blocking "coupled with" from henceforth.

#Fungi Pleated inkcap, maybe.

FFS

1 October? Is this a joke? It wouldn't surprise me if you meant 1 October 2026. Way too slow. Less talk. More action before it's too late.

For once, the Americans are just behind us. #stagflation #sagflation #potahto #tomayto

Things are so bad white people noticed.

You can watch the big ‘Together for Palestine’ concert here in Wembley Arena, London, at 7pm UK time/2pm ET. Some big names speaking and performing from Benedict Cumberbatch to Florence Pugh to Damon Albarn to Mos Def to Riz Ahmed to Guy Pearce. (And me.) www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...

The irony of a higher standard required to sign the petition than to stand for Parliament.

🐾 Sami reminding me that Outside tastes so much better.

More bad news for the rain forests of Brazil.

I miss moderate centrists, who don’t claim to have all the answers, who don’t ascribe to either extreme ideologies or supposedly god-given rules to try and control other people, and who try to work together to settle problems aware of their own limitations. Where have they gone?

Mixed ideology actors are often lethal when they act, but they are dangerous for another reason: They allow anyone looking at them to identify them as whoever you don't like. And it is that belief which will only beget more violence.

⚡️Romania scrambles jets, Poland closes airport over Russian drone alerts. "Russian military personnel know exactly where their drones are headed and how long they can stay in the air," Volodymyr Zelensky said, commenting on the attacks. "This cannot be an accident.”

The thugs have hit the pubs and opened their phones. It's block o'clock, people.

Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons. Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.

Russian drones seem to have entered Polish airspace again.

I wonder how many arrests there have been at This peaceful celebration of culture.

I'm sorry, when did the MET start advertising where opposing groups of protesters would be?

The Met says it isn’t using facial recognition technology on the Far Right rally which seems a missed opportunity. They could probably clean up half the crime in England in one fell swoop.

Jesus, people. DR STRANGELOVE was a satire!

Raaaaaaaaargh!!

Raaaaaaagh

Snerdle Saturday it is then.

#totp I'd rather watch the Reynold's Girls. 😐 www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6VB...

Lmgtfy wurde 2008 gelauncht, also ganz neu ist das Problem nicht... blog.lmgtfy.com/2016/10/the-...

You can dream about that, and you can want that to happen but if you think a major political candidate on the left can - especially like Mamdani - can say anything but what he said tonight... you need to realize that you're checked out from reality.

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

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In the UK, there are about 22 firearm homicides per year. In the USA there's an average of 50 every single day.

Three high scool kids were shot in Colorado today.

🇩🇪 German Foreign Minister Wadephul: With drone incursion into Poland, Russia has accepted an escalation. Russia is not ready for diplomacy, so we will give a strong response.

Russia dropped a bomb on a Ukrainian village yesterday that murdered at least 23 elderly people.

Apologies. #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFlies

Can we all give Sam Leith a big hand for reading this new #DanBrown so we don't have to? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

IT WORKED! #EMERGENCYALERTS

“A friend of mine just pitched something to a studio and the executive said, ‘That’s great, but nobody is buying anything with a point of view right now’” was an anecdote I saw recently and grain of salt but it rings true if you look at what’s getting made So what can classic films tell us instead?

Anti-fascist themes and praxis in Ernst Lubitsch’s “To Be or Not to Be” (1942), a movie that is one part resistance heroics, one part sex comedy, and one part gorgeous photography by Rudolph Maté. #filmsky toobeautiful.substack.com/p/anti-fasci...

#SlowHorses season 05 incoming. #spyfy #thriller #tvsky #watchlist m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfkv...

Persepolis. #WatchList