Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Remember - Net migration rises: The government has lost control of the borders Net migration fails: The government has trashed the country so badly that no one wants to come here

Excellent advice but 20 is wrong. You need to send an International Reply Coupon (or maybe 3?)

🇩🇪 Merz: We are not victims of external circumstances. We are not a plaything of great powers. Our hands are not tied. Let us not listen to the fearmongers and the doomsayers.

But the Radio Star - who did *not* die …

Now we’ve finally recognised the government has absolutely fucked it, we need to confirm they have *very specifically* fucked it in their pandering to the far right, who need to be relentlessly opposed with everything in the arsenal of democracy. I welcome people recognising this, and joining in.

A pithy summary of Labour’s strategy.

Ha ha ha. Literally laughing my head off at LBC and some Reformage person moaning about a migrant camp being opened up near him. Why did Labour think shutting down hotels and opening up camps wd win them a single RW vote?

Got a take on this - rebranding machine learning as AI is good for attracting funding/sales, but bad for reputations. Fundamentally, it is fine to use data driven mathematical modelling to predict changes in demand and if this A&E stuff was framed like that then there would be fewer complaints.

This reminds me tangentially - when my employer was acquired by Swedish venture capital (an American fund) they got McKinsey in to do a "full potential plan". I imagine they didn't pay well as the geniuses looked at our CRM (probably oversold to them as being useful) and came up with the genius

I dug behind the industry paywall to find out, what *are* the geniusly clever things that AI can predict will increase NHS A&E pressures? You’ll never guess - Flu - Winter - Icy weather - Friday nights - Christmas - New Years Eve Jeez, Dom’s old mates at Faculty AI (o yes) really saw Wes coming

Right, when you realise the actual question is “why do more people dislike this person than Rishi Sunak?”, if you are remotely reasonable or fairminded, it is not a hard question to answer.

People my age will have been in college in MTV Europe’s heyday and will have many fond memories of it. But it also put Russel Brand on the telly, as a reporter from EuroClubs quite convincingly blending into a scene drugged to its ears as he interviewed other clubbers.

I want my MTV (back)… 😭

MTV *is* off the air! We did it, Jello, we did it! bsky.app/profile/worl...

We will also not be able to fund the public services we need through a smorgasboard of tax rises, this seems more urgent...

Nepo baby says what?

Fascinating thread but I don't feel it's that complicated? This is what happens when you go out of your way to performatively kick your own coalition in the hope of impressing voters who never liked you to start with.

as usual, complete Omerta on Local Democracy Reporting Service, currently most of local reporting

On the loathing level I have some sort of vague media theory about the “we’re all in this together for the tough times” messaging copied from Cameron being wildly unsuited for a nation of tired strung out post-pandemic people watching endless TikTok videos of dickheads doing coke in Dubai penthouses

Exactly! He can’t do his job as Shadow AG and take this case. How could he be SAG and recuse himself every time sanctions policy was discussed or debated?

✅ First act is canning winter fuel allowance ✅ Came to power in same year algorithmic video became the true mainstream media ✅ Now wants to block the sun

Morning Star instinctively backing the Russian position, muscle memory overriding ideology

"simplistic solutions to challenging problems that just don’t stand up to scrutiny" .... Oh, sorry, you weren't talking about Labour's approach to migrants and refugees then?

a useful holding position perhaps, has UK done the same?

Just like Will Straw's success with the Remain campaign

Son of Harriet Harman Joe Dromey? Nepo baby

I just saw the comment “For me, the Boris Johnson government was far too left wing for my liking”, and now I have to spend the rest of the day screaming in a cupboard.

It's the dimming the sun, and the strangling the alpacas! ☀️🦙

But I did meet Mr Dressup once! He was a patron of an arts org I used to work for. We only had a few seconds, but he was lovely.

I got Sky Digital a few weeks after launch, and on seeing some lovely offkilter shows put out for the viewing hundreds on BBC Choice, UK Play et al, I foolishly thought "wow, how many great shows like this will be on when *everyone* has digital TV?". Nope. Same ten sitcoms and gameshows forever.

The Telford Independence Movement didn’t last beyond 1985

my toddler is crying because he has doggy hair in his mouth and I mean yes okay corgis do shed a lot and it’s an uncomfortable sensation but also, kiddo, you just licked the dog

It never ever ever matters if it's a left wing Jewish person

a molecule is a group of non-monogamous moles

eric adams corruption ai randomizer

But they barely ever showed it.

I had a dream about a musical called "Faculty Meeting" and weirdly it was good? The first number is about someone objecting to approving the minutes without unanimous consent but not offering a correction. This is how we meet The Parliamentarian, our narrator.

I recently met a new friend who found out he is allergic to cats after adopting one. It turns out the cat is allergic to humans. They get complimentary allergy shots. I want someone to make a webcomic about them.

Too much fighting on the dance floor

This town Is coming like a ghost town All the clubs have been closed down

Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.

Ah, Islington...

phaser burn treatment perineum

Lying about a beloved celebrity.

Always makes me chuckle at how pissed off he must be that he appears to have been deemed completely irrelevant by Epstein.

Competitively priced for loo roll, but not soft or absorbent enough. The perfect punctuation mark to my choice for who had the worst year on @quietriotpod.bsky.social.

Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person that remembers Toby Young was just relatively recently a social pariah after he was booted from an appointment to a state position when it was revealed he was involved in a secret white supremacist eugenicist conference at UCL, and also creepy sexist tweets