You would think that after the shit-show that is Brexit, people might learn their lesson about this kind of crap. But evidently Kylie and Eve have not.

I'll get my AI to talk to your AI.

If there is one disappointment about this Government that really rankles, it's its talent for sleeping walking into crises, many not of its own making but brought about by the Tories. The World Service is a critical project of 'soft power'. It should be cherished. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"There's this big yellow thing that appears in the sky here, it's wonderful"

More generally, ride along with a megaphone is a thing you do in two scenarios: when you have massive majority and want to show face quickly (Rosindell was a big fan in Romford), or you don't have ground resources for a proper campaign but have money and a candidate with an ego.

It *literally* does. Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.

2/2 what you intended to do in Government is absolutely unforgivable. Labour hardly ever wins elections. This is negligence on a grand scale and Starmer is fully culpable. Disqualifying. I’m apoplectic. 🤬🤬🤬

But have you seen the extended version of the Marseillaise scene? youtu.be/CbWgOpG1988?... (

I'm not especially opposed to driverless cabs, but I'm fucked if I'm giving up my ancestral British right to cross the road anywhere if it's safe for me to do so. "Jaywalking" isn't a thing or a crime here, techbros, so your magic cars will have to learn to deal with that.

Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”. Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law. Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.

On the lines of this story, does anyone remember an anecdote by someone on The Bad Place of someone meeting an old gay guy who said he was 3 shags away from a Russian hussar who fought Napoleon's army in 1812?

Maybe we really are creating a more French economy of insiders/outsiders

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

(This is what George Galloway used to do)

I remember some 'this is bad news for Labour' polling that went along the lines of 'how would you vote if we included a hypothetical party led by Jeremy Corbyn?' that had Hypothetical Party on about 12% IIRC. Currently they might get 1.2% if they make it to the elections at all.

The Texas / 2nd Amendment flag is a particularly unhinged touch seeing as the protest was in Poole

I'm old enough to remember when the Prime Minister promised that using drones would stop this.

Thank goodness that through our faith we banished that bright yellow orb that haunted us all through yesterday and have returned to life-giving water falling from the sky.

Like nothing gives it away as people triangulating between things as "ok, I'm not willing to say climate change isn't real, but doing anything about it just isn't something serious people talk about". Political philosophy of babies.

Realism as a vibe rather than any suggestion of being connected to reality (what could be more 'realist' than "extracting oil and burning it makes the big co2 line go up")

anyway, this one is QUITE LITERALLY within the M25 so our rulers may notice this time

“State sovereignty today is no longer determined solely by military strength and the ability to enforce law and order domestically, but by the ability to steer, control and further develop digital systems and infrastructures and to be in charge of state data storage.”

"“They’re going on marches with placards saying ‘Deport the immigrants’, but also ‘Save the glass centre’,” one person connected to the university said."

It's a real issues that despite running on an unachievable platform of increased spending without tax rises and spending his time in office pushing for cuts to immigration that undermine his own growth plan he still gets credited as bringing "economic realism."

What would be super cool is if people stopped inventing apps and training robots to ruin our lives and instead invented a type of cat food that doesn't squirt ungodly gravy all over my wrist when I open the package it comes in.

Current mood

OTD in 2022 George Galloway released one of the absolute, all-time classics. He has yet to delete it, show humility, or confirm/deny if this means he in fact being paid to act like an idiot, or if he just does it free. #JustAskingQuestions

We bought Article II of the United Nations Charter with the blood of a hundred million human beings, and less than a century later, it's being sold for nothing by people who don't even understand what they're doing.

Nothing has brought this home for me like debating the electoral college online over the last decade. There's literally no contemporary justification for the EC that makes any sense that isn't "the cities and the people who live in them shouldn't be given the keys to the presidency."

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This is disgracefully biased reporting, BBC News! Surely you could have got Nigel #Farage to give the Kremlin's point of view? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Polostan" is fine as far as it goes. It's short and kind of sub-Pynchon (well, of course, all Stephenson is sub-Pynchon!). I suspect by the third volume it will have got to the bits @celestialweasel.bsky.social wants about the Mid-West college towns in the 1950s

for all you map-porn loving nerds

Okay I just read through this list and I'm convinced that this is epic trolling, which I applaud. Yes, you all should _definitely_ watch IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES, an extremely sexy movie that will leave you feeling extremely sexy and happy by its extremely sexy ending.

14 new Stations Of The Cross appear, each with a "?" graphic

There's a short video clip of Pinker and Epstein on the plane and a girls voice says "where are you taking me" and this is the still from it. So I don't know what he's talking about.

I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.

A great summary of a new risk caused by using vibe-coding platforms. I'm not sure I'd agree that this is a new class of attacks... maybe "vector", but also I think I'm being pedantic. A key point in here though, how few staff these operations have, so security issues just fester unremedied.

Yet more evidence that almost every Cabinet Minister of the Johnson-Truss-Sunak Conservative era was a fucking dickhead

FuckAroundNow up to their tricks?

Amazing.

Motherfuckers got a Time Machine and they go “what if we got Dr King to not become a civil rights leader” and not “what if we beat James Earl Ray with as many baseball bats as we can swing earlier that fateful week when he’s least expecting time traveling bat wielding teens to send him to the ER”

I know about a deep dive into esoteric issues of time-travel and quantum mechanics in contemporary SF if she's in the mood for love.

These people are so lost.

No, you still have to work at it, phone people up, make appointments. If you're uncertain about vaccines then you don't do anything and nothing happens. Nobody calls, nobody knocks on your door, nobody reaches out to persuade you, you just have unvaccinated children.

In my sleep I came up with the name "Fay Clad" for a female-to-male drag artist. Which doesn't make sense as a drag name, but isn't a bad pun for a subconscious brain.

I don't believe this is the case for children. Incredibly easy to get them vaccinated, and reminded when it needs to happen, and a great big red book with all the jabs they need laid out and explained.

I am aware that there would still be conflicts between the health and social care sectors and it would be constitutionally difficult. Perhaps the NHS and regional water authorities should be allowed their own militias

This person has not in fact yet got the problem sorted out, and he told me of another example today of the NHS being unhelpful "oh, we didn't prescribe it (*) so we won't write you a letter saying you need to carry it onto the plane" (*) due to the 4 groups not speaking to each other mentioned